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  1. Woof Bronzer
    I was struggling to find it when I posted the comment but just needed a little better googling: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/the-measure-of-a-fastball-has-changed-over-the-years/
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    I think there's a difference between Falvey/Pohlad brazenly lying to fans about the trade deadline, and Lewis expressing an opinion about contract structures. I'm glad Royce speaks his mind, and I wish more players would do it. That doesn't mean he is exempt from criticism. And I'm sorry, a millionaire using "contract anxiety" as an excuse for not performing is absurd. My old neighbor was ex-NHL and his philosophy was, focus solely and totally on being the best player he could be, and the money and all the rest would work itself out. His agent negotiated all his contracts, and he had a financial guy manage investments and set him up for the future. He just played hockey. If Royce discovers a bit of humility, stops worrying about his contract and stats, puts the work in, and starts performing at a high level again, the money will follow. He has the talent.
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    I'd be really interested in a league wide study on this. Does velo have a correlation to injury rates? How do pitcher injuries today compare to the past? My gut tells me pitchers get hurt more often these days but if I'm being honest I probably WANT this to be true because I think the decline of the starting pitcher and rise of openers/piggybacks/etc has hurt the game (baseball needs stars). But I just haven't been able to find any comprehensive study/data on this topic.
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    I don't think this is quite right. Pitchers are definitely chucking it harder today, but part of the velo increase is literally due to improvement in radar gun technology. There was a really interesting study done a few years ago that showed that an 85 mph fastball clocked on a gun from the 80s would register as 93 mph with today's gun technology. (Which makes the fact that Nolan Ryan was clocked at 100 back in the day even crazier. He almost certainly threw harder than anyone pitching today.) So, in the 70s an 88-90 mph fastball would clock in the mid 90s today - pretty typical, worthy of a long career, etc. I don't think there's as big of a difference as many people are claiming. What I do think has changed is teams are asking guys to squeeze out another 1-2 mph by going max effort. Back in the day teams were more focused on starters going longer - duration vs max effort. But again the idea that everyone throws so much faster today is a bit more complicated than people make it out to be.
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    That attendance chart seems to indicate a correlation between winning and attendance. If more attendance = more profit for the Pohlads, it would follow that there is a positive correlation between winning and profit. It took me 2 minutes on an internet blog to come to this conclusion. 40 years into their reign the "business savvy" Pohlads have somehow never understood this.
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    Interesting point to make when the best team in baseball is 19th in home runs. But yeah, no need to let facts get in the way of sabermetric conventional wisdom.
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    Remember, according to Derek Falvey the trade deadline sell off was an intentional effort to make the team better.
  8. Woof Bronzer
    Haha more ranting and abuse. You sound like a Trump cabinet member. Whatever went wrong in your life, to make you spend your time belittling internet strangers - I hope you find peace and happiness someday. Free bit of advice - maybe instead of working through your anger issues online, try doing so in a therapist's office. There are resources out there and therapy can help. Peace and be well.
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    White Sox 12, Twins 3: Woof. Hey leave me out of this!
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    Wow you sound like a pleasant person. I hope the rant made you feel better, but you don't really state any facts or useful information whatsoever, other than that you seem to have some anger issues you may want to work through. In fact it seems to me that for all your baseball genius you don't understand the difference between baserunning and base stealing. And you didn't address my point that teams didn't invent base stealing in 2023. Why, in your godlike brilliance, do you think that plenty of teams decided to steal bases prior to that? For example, the As stole 341 bases in 1976. What was the size of the base, O Holy One? And why, milord, would the As choose to do this?
  11. Woof Bronzer
    Thanks for linking. That chart is very illuminating. I know there's a correlation between payroll and winning but the chart is even more stark than I would have guessed. The problem is worse than I thought...
  12. Woof Bronzer
    No thanks. When you use the emotionally based evidence like some guy yelling "Let's Go Mets," to make your case, but demand that others use cold hard facts, you are arguing in bad faith. I get it, your team benefits from the current system and you don't want that to change. Have a nice day.
  13. Woof Bronzer
    Oh great, you made a point that you gave zero thought to, and now just dismiss it as irrelevant. Nothing says "good faith" like "I'm just spitting out words, don't expect me to defend them." Also, some rube yelling "Let's Go Mets" has me convinced: the game is in fabulous shape and we don't need a salary cap. Great job all around, no notes!
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    Shockingly, a Yankees-Dodgers Series had more viewers than an Oklahoma City-Indiana NBA championship. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I'll need a little more evidence than that to show that baseball's in great shape. Can you share a comparison between the 2023 World Series viewership and the 2024 NBA finals? I'll patiently wait. There's a name for cherry picking data to support your own beliefs and ignoring the data that doesn't...prop...propag....ack, I'll think of it...
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    The dude is a METS fan? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha it all makes sense now.
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    Uh, you care, you made the point and you are screaming at all us idiots who dare to disagree. You can't possibly make the argument that the MLB has a ton of parity while hand waving away the data point that 1/3 of teams in every season have almost zero chance of winning a series. Maybe your definition of parity is different than mine, but the last thing I'd call a league where 1/3 of the teams have no chance and 5-6 of them make no effort to try to win in any given year a "king of parity". And it's not "literally true". I know we live in a world where people think something is true just because they want it to be, but that isn't how things work. There's no formula for parity so there's no objective truth to be had here. You are an expressing an opinion; I'm expressing my own opinion that suggesting MLB has more parity than the NFL is absurd.
  17. Woof Bronzer
    I get your point, but no need to use misleading data to support it. How many of those World Series appearances were teams in the bottom 1/3 of payroll? One team with a payroll in the bottom third has won a Series since the Twins' last title (Marlins). In the NFL the smallest market team in professional sports (Green Bay) happens to be one of the more successful franchises. You can say caps benefit owners, which is true, without falsely claiming that there's as much parity in MLB as the NFL. Come on man.
  18. Woof Bronzer
    Don't get me started...
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    You mean the guy who once opined that the Twins were a possible landing spot for prime-career Alex Rodriguez isn't credible? Knock me over with a feather!
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    This is almost certainly untrue. The $400m has nothing to do with an ownership stake. (Note that the Pohlads have never used the phrase "minority owner" but rather "limited partner". This is intentional.) The $400m is conveniently the amount of the debt. The Pohlads found some hedge funds or private equity to pay off the debt for a certain ROI. The 20% thing is just the Pohlads again trying to artificially pump up the value of the franchise. They did this through the media throughout the "sale" process by feeding things like "buyers are interested" and "a sale is imminent". Stop believing Pohlad propaganda folks.
  21. Woof Bronzer
    Matthew, I hate to break it to you, but according to the last couple Wallner articles, if you criticize Wallner you don't know anything about baseball. Sorry bud. Seriously - good piece, you took a cold scientific approach to this and let the results shape your opinion, rather than start with an opinion and cherry pick stats to support it (and belittle fans who dare to feel differently). Thanks for this!
  22. Woof Bronzer
    Charley Walters was one of the many guys in local media who uncritically printed Pohlad propaganda around how "a sale is imminent" and "there are interested buyers". Once it came out that the Twins were not selling and a sale was never imminent, I would have hoped that these "journalists" would have a moment of self reflection and realize that they were just being used by the Pohlads to generate fake interest in the club to try to drive up the price, and that maybe - just maybe - they should stop printing whatever the Pohlads feed them. It appears that self-reflection did not happen. I refuse to believe a single word attached to the Pohlads. And I really, really wish we had a media willing to challenge them, rather than just carry their water in exchange for "access".
  23. Woof Bronzer
    The title of the article is "Do Twins Fans Know That Matt Wallner and Trevor Larnach Are Different People?"
  24. Woof Bronzer
    Fair enough, we must be looking at different articles. For what it's worth I understand that Wallner and Larnach are different people.
  25. Woof Bronzer
    The Twins went 73-89 in 2021.
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