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  1. Otto von Ballpark
    Telis was added a couple days ago, when Riddle went on the COVID IL. This was likely just because Telis was on the taxi squad in Oakland (and may have been the last position player left on the taxi squad at that time?). I would expect Telis to be removed from the roster today.
  2. Otto von Ballpark
    Normal roster rules usually apply to isolated COVID IL replacements. COVID IL players don't count against the 40-man, so it's easy enough to add replacements, but you have to DFA/waive those replacements to remove them, just like normal. However, this year, MLB said if a team is dealing with a COVID "outbreak", then those 40-man additions could be subsequently removed from the 40-man without being waived when the COVID IL players were reinstated. They didn't publicly define what constitutes an "outbreak" but I'm guessing the Twins would qualify now, with multiple postponements and players affected. Here's an article from March explaining it a bit: https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2021/3/31/22359475/reminder-on-2021-mlb-playing-rules-and-covid-protocols Since that article was written, the Nationals apparently qualified as an "outbreak" and did this with one outfielder on their roster, but other individual COVID IL replacements have just been treated normally. Not that I would expect Riddle, Telis, and Farrell to have any trouble clearing waivers!
  3. Otto von Ballpark
    The poster doth protests too much, methinks. “Alas, poor Garlick! I knew him, Astudillo: A fellow of infinite OPS.“
  4. Otto von Ballpark
    Helps not to play the field, I imagine.
  5. Otto von Ballpark
    Astudillo played CF a tiny bit in 2018, I think.
  6. Otto von Ballpark
    But Cave actually scored the tying run in the 8th, in a sequence when Cruz would have been unlikely to do so. So if you left Cruz in, we lose before it even goes to extras.
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    I think this is just like the other MLB injured lists. Players on the MLB 26-man roster who are placed on the COVID IL should continue to receive MLB service time, salary, and benefits until they are activated.
  8. Otto von Ballpark
    Riddle didn't test positive. From the Strib: https://www.startribune.com/jt-riddle-twins-covid-list-oakland/600048540/
  9. Otto von Ballpark
    I think you are looking at the wrong row -- Cave's wRC+ is actually only 16 right now. (I notice Fangraphs lists Astudillo just before him on the Twins page and he's at 88, so I suspect that is what you were seeing.) It's true that Rosario's not doing much at .224/.281/.397 (.678 OPS), but I shudder to think what kind of league offensive environment would make Cave's .136/.224/.159 (.384 OPS) into an 88 wRC+.
  10. Otto von Ballpark
    Not quite. Because Kirilloff is already on the 40-man roster and on optional assignment to the minors, the “Kris Bryant” date doesn’t quite work for him — we need to keep Kirilloff in the minors for 21+ days to secure the extra year of control. We should hit that threshold Thursday this week.
  11. Otto von Ballpark
    Actually, I wouldn't expect any active players to support these changes. They have no real interest in restoring the balances between pitching/hitting, and between strikeouts/balls in play -- just a self-interest to keep doing what they are doing. (Some may benefit more than others from the changes as you note, but I wouldn't expect that level of reflection, at least not yet.) Which is another reason why MLB has to collect data on these proposals in the minors first -- not that I expect players will buy-in once they see the data, but they may drop their reflexive opposition if the data shows the changes are generally benign for the players themselves.
  12. Otto von Ballpark
    I think you misread that post. It specifically said that they can't realistically play their first 10 games on the road every year, not that they can't do their current schedule. I'm not really interested in quibbling with that.
  13. Otto von Ballpark
    Kirilloff needs to spend 21+ days on "optional assignment" this year in order for the Twins to secure an extra year of control. He's very close, at 18 days already. And those days are cumulative, not consecutive -- so when he came up for the doubleheader last week, it just paused the count for a day rather than reset it. So right now, Friday April 23 is the magic day when they could call him up after securing the extra year of control. If they activated him for the doubleheader today and returned him to the minors after, that magic date would simply be pushed back to Saturday April 24.
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    Yes, and they largely already do this. There have been 12 MLB seasons since Target Field opened, and the Twins have been scheduled to open on the road in 9 of them -- and 8 of those, they opened with two consecutive road series. (One of the years they opened at home was due to a scheduling conflict with the Final Four.) The past 4 seasons have seen our home opening series on a Thursday-Saturday-Sunday too, all day games, with the Friday kept open for a potential postponement. The post to which you originally responded was itself responding to this claim: "Twins should not have any home games the first 10 games - weather." By your own comments, it seems you agree that is not practical or realistic, so I'm not sure what you are arguing here.
  16. Otto von Ballpark
    I'm under no illusions that our proposed rule tweaks will "make more young people watch baseball on TV". For me, it's just about restoring some of the historical balance between pitchers and hitters, between strikeouts and balls in play, and making it a little more pleasant for me to watch. I'll gladly admit that I have a self-interest here. I think May could make these suggestions without denigrating those efforts -- nothing here is mutually exclusive with what I wrote above:
  17. Otto von Ballpark
    I agree with this, which is why I pointed out upthread that BSN already had 3 Wild and Wolves broadcasts scheduled for evenings during the Twins - Red Sox series. Which probably made the decision to play baseball during the day a bit more palatable to them too. (Even though I doubt that this too was a primary factor driving the decision.)
  18. Otto von Ballpark
    That's a very different question than what the league faces. The Twins are not "all but forced" to do this. They've never done it before that I can recall. I suspect the scheduling of the Red Sox series last week was a confluence of factors. Weather was not likely a motivator for the decision, but may have been a secondary factor that made the decision more palatable.
  19. Otto von Ballpark
    The difference in average weather over 2 weeks doesn't mean much, in this context. Average high in Minneapolis is 50 on April 1, 57 on April 14 -- that's meaningful to climate scientists but not to a baseball league planning a schedule months in advance. The actual variability of day-to-day weather will wash out those average pretty easily. Snow and 42 in Minneapolis today April 19, below freezing overnight; meanwhile, it was in the 70's each day from April 3-7. Add to that the reality that TV and season ticket sales are the biggest revenue sources for teams, and neither are particularly affected by weather. It's honestly not worth the effort to push a few games 2 weeks later.
  20. Otto von Ballpark
    That is what they said initially, but it sounds like they are backing off that statement now: https://twitter.com/DanHayesMLB/status/1383656194301067265?s=20
  21. Otto von Ballpark
    They did even more insane makeup schedules last year — the Cardinals and Marlins spring to mind. But they also left a few games unplayed, as long as those games didn’t affect who made the playoffs. (Those games weren’t made up if they only affected playoff seeding.)
  22. Otto von Ballpark
    I think if an initial test comes back positive, they do a rapid re-test to confirm right away before making any decisions or announcements. So by the time the game was called off and the player’s name was disclosed to the media, the possibility of a false positive for Garlick was already ruled out.
  23. Otto von Ballpark
    I noticed that on Friday night. Free TV still wasn’t enough to make me interested in watching the Wolves. I am sure it is unavoidable on some days with 3 seasons overlapping, but it doesn’t necessarily mean BSN prefers that arrangement.
  24. Otto von Ballpark
    Looks like the Washington Nationals added one non-40 man roster guy during their COVID outbreak earlier this year, then removed him from the roster later — OF Cody Wilson. But they had 4 positive tests and 11 total players unavailable due to protocols. Hopefully the Twins don’t get to that point! https://www.mlb.com/nationals/roster/transactions/2021/04 04/09/21 OF Cody Wilson returned to Nationals Alternate Training Site from Washington Nationals. 04/06/21 Washington Nationals selected the contract of OF Cody Wilson from Nationals Alternate Training Site.
  25. Otto von Ballpark
    If the league defines it as an outbreak, technically any call-ups will be added to the 40-man in place of the COVID IL players. But those players won’t have to be optioned or waived to be taken off the 40-man when the COVID IL guys are activated. But, that’s only if MLB calls this an “outbreak”. Not sure if 2 (Simmons and Garlick) would meet that threshold. Single cases haven’t so far in 2021. https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2021/3/31/22359475/reminder-on-2021-mlb-playing-rules-and-covid-protocols
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