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  1. Woof Bronzer
    I get your point and in this instance it was not apples to apples - you're 100% right. On the last sentence - is it actually a problem? Fans like talking about sports, and arguing about strategy, lineups, calls, etc - it's all part of it. Sports are messy and unpredictable and that's why they're fun. If everything always goes according to plan and the human element gets diminished I think the entertainment value suffers. And believe me, implementing robo umps won't give fans hours of their time back - they'll have no problem finding things to argue about. Get ready for complaining about robo strike zones, software issues, conspiracy theories about hardware that failed at an inconvenient time... it'll never end...
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    I took that walk :) Looks like pitch 2 to Dozier in the 1st was a strike but called a ball, and he also went on to hit a HR. But you don't remember that one of course....:) We can do this all day, and I guarantee you we'll continue do this with robo umps. "The strike zone the system gave Hitter X was a quarter inch too high" etc. And then we'll hear calls for, I don't know, lasers to scan players before every single pitch to assign them a "fair" strike zone. "We have the technology, why wouldn't we do it?" And on and on. It will never end, because arguing about officiating is part of sports and fans/teams will never stop looking for scapegoats.
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    4th inning I think? It resulted in a walk to load the bases. It's almost like the "umpire scorecards" are not an official thing, and there's more to grading umps than whether the 0-2 pitch that the Twins hitter stared at is a millimeter in or out of the zone. :)
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    Fans don't want fair umpiring. They want the bad calls that hurt them to go away, and they want the bad calls that help them to stay. Show us these studies that show how umpiring in the long run has benefitted certain teams at the expense of others. If you think 95-99% accuracy is "bad" please don't look into robo ump technology because it's NOT 100% accurate by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe it'll get there in time, but it's not there yet. The same pattern plays out in every sport: implement replay "to get the calls right". When it becomes obvious that replay doesn't actually do this, they open up replay to more and more things. The problem is never solved, and the game becomes less human - and less interesting - as a result.
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    The most egregious missed call in Game 3 was the foul tip strikeout that was missed and gave the Twins a free out. Could have changed the entire game/series. I don't think I saw a single poster in the game forum complain about it and screech about robot umps though. Wonder why. Whining about the umpires is such a loser's errand.
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    I agree that there are larger organizational issues at play here and starting pitching isn't at the top of the list. I also think the Twins would be foolish to roll into '23 with Joe Ryan as their #2 starter.
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    I think the problem we're seeing is the status quo isn't quite good enough for the playoffs. Two solid starters is great for a wild card round, but if you want to go further you need more depth. For how good the staff was this year we still had Bailey Ober starting Game 1 of the ALDS and Joe Ryan starting a do-or-die. So the challenge is how to not only maintain the status quo but improve upon it.
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    Altitude affects about 40% of the population as a whole. And the effects of altitude at 5000 feet are negligible - it's 8000+ where it starts to affect that 40% of the population (most of whom are not professional athletes). Altitude effects are acute, not long lasting, so anyone affected by the altitude would not have lingering symptoms. Professional athletes are the best conditioned people on the planet. There is a ton of research on high altitude athletic performance - mountaineering in the Himalayas, skiing in the Alps, etc. This is just silly.
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    This is absolutely not a thing.
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    Would be interested to see how many HRs come with 2 strikes. Every 10 Ks avoided will likely end up with 3-4 baserunners and with 2 strikes hitters should be changing their approach to focus on putting the ball in play.
  11. Woof Bronzer
    It's not a myth. Baldelli consistently yanked starters early last year (they were bottom 5 in the league for starter innings). He pulled Berrios early twice IN THE PLAYOFFS ALONE. Until this year he'd never let a starter go beyond 5 in the playoffs. It's encouraging that he appears to have learned from those past mistakes. But we don't need to revise history here and pretend it was never a thing.
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    I agree that Rocco will keep doing this - if I was the Jays I'd be tempted to throw out a lefty opener. At a minimum the first reliever off the bench should be a lefty. I don't agree that this is a smart approach, or that it works. If you clear out your bench in the 4th you're looking at a situation where your season is on the line and La Tortuga is at the plate.
  13. Woof Bronzer
    It's a bit odd to suggest that the team doesn't care about the streak and then quote a player promising to break the streak. They know, they care, and that's ok - they should care! No competitor wants to be part of a historically bad streak.
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    Yes, exactly. A business trying to maximize revenue and viewership, the horrors.
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    Lol so you are saying MLB intentionally schedules afternoon playoff games out of spite to ensure that a lot of fans can't watch therefore hurting their product? That's....quite the take.
  16. Woof Bronzer
    Not a great matchup, imo. Two similar teams but Toronto is just a bit better than us in almost every area: their starting 3, bullpen, lineup, and defense...that said we're not talking about huge advantages one way or the other. Plus we're at home. Plus it's the playoffs. The 2 keys to me are Lewis' health, and pitching in innings 4-7. Lewis as DH hurts the lineup and defense as a whole, and I sure hope Rocco lets his top 2 starters - the clear cut strength of this team - go deeper in the game than he has done in past playoffs.
  17. Woof Bronzer
    Yes. This is why he should not be on the roster. Has nothing to do with "moral failure" and everything to do with "too injured to play."
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    Julien has 40 ABs against LHP. That's not a meaningful sample size. Some of us have been clamoring for him to get at bats against lefties to see if he can handle it. Sure seems like it would have helped with a decision like this. I do not trust Buxton at all, and more than that, Julien is an important part of the future here. Show confidence in the kid and he might just reward you for it. As far as our hitting goes, it's the young guys' team now. Believe in them!
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    If I was the Twins opponent and couldn't line up my ideal starter due to the playoff push, I'd do what the Giants (??) did against us earlier in the year: start a righty opener and then switch to a lefty in the 2nd. (Or vice versa.) See if you could get Rocco to bite and empty out his bench.
  20. Woof Bronzer
    Considering he has been unable to play CF for a single game at any level this year, I think the question has been answered.
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    This also concerned me. We don't really talk about the fact that a lot of our young guys, who carried the team the year, not only have zero playoff experience but very little experience in big games. It's great that we ran away with the division this year but we played in almost no high stakes games. Playoffs are just different. If we face Houston, who has been through it before and who has been playing high stakes games for a couple weeks straight, I think this is a major concern.
  22. Woof Bronzer
    Couldn't disagree with this more. It's not just another 3 game series; their season is on the line. It'll be a 2 game series if they think like this. The Gardy years should have made it abundantly clear: the playoffs are a sprint, not a marathon, and it takes a different approach to winning in the postseason than in the regular season. You cannot afford to give up games, you have to play every single one as must win. Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. Tom Kelly understood this; Gardy never did.
  23. Woof Bronzer
    Does anyone have a link re: Lewis playing? I am highly skeptical that he will play. I tried looking online for a Grade 1 Plus strain, but it doesn't seem like that's an actual medical thing, which is really concerning. (I don't understand why the Twins do this with medical stuff - going back to the Mauer "bilateral leg weakness" which was also not a medical thing.) That leads me to believe it's actually a Grade 2 strain, which has a recovery time of several weeks. But the Twins either don't want to admit he's out or maybe they want Lewis to remain more upbeat by thinking it's not as significant? I don't know but I can't think of a positive reason for them to make up a diagnosis. I think Lewis is the key to this offense - I'd go as far as to say the Twins will go as far in these playoffs as he takes them. So it's huge if he can play.
  24. Woof Bronzer
    If they add him, it should be solely to be a last gasp pinch hitter very late in a game against a LHP when we need a home run. I fear that rostering him will tempt Rocco to DH him ahead of Julien, which would be a disaster. Not to mention playing him in the field which would be malpractice. I hope the club notices that the offense only came alive once the 2 strikeout-king black holes, Buxton and Gallo, took a seat. The '23 team is simply better without Buxton in the lineup, sad as that is to say.
  25. Woof Bronzer
    The team is middle of the road in offense, and was absolutely terrible for half the season, which could have cost the team the division if any of the other 4 teams were trying to win it. I find it very odd to point to this middling offense as proof that strikeouts don't matter. Yes, it would be much better if we struck out less. This, again, is fact: if we avoid the worst outcome, by definition, we will end up with better outcomes. In fact we'd hit MORE HRs if we struck out less. We'd turn HRs from solo shots to 2 or 3 run shots. And relying solely on HRs in the playoffs is a recipe for disaster. See 2019 for evidence of that. I'll ask again: if strikeouts don't matter, why don't teams fill their pitching staffs with pitch to contact guys? It would be so much cheaper, and equally as effective as high velocity guys since strikeouts don't matter.
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