The Great Hambino
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Setting the no-trade clause aside, I don't put Buxton in the same category as vets like Ryan, Lopez, Ober, and Jeffers in thinking they should move them for the right price to avoid squandering their value and better align with a more realistic competitive window. For one, he is under control for longer, which means there's a better chance they return to competitiveness while he's still under contract. For two, he's the one I could plausibly see agreeing to a team-friendly extension, whereas the others are probably gone if they get to the open market. For three, his age and injury history might depress the value of the return they ought to get for someone of his ability level, at least relative to their other potential trade pieces. And finally, I just think it would be really cool if he had a one-team career Besides, I don't think Buck invokes the NTC unless a) there comes a point where he's thinking about retirement and they're out of contention at the deadline or b) Tommy P goes John Fisher on the operation -
Brandon Nimmo putting on a defensive clinic
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I've always thought of it as filling out a scorecard, nine closes the circle, so to speak. But I think I like your angle on it the more I think about it
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Never trust a Gregg with three G's
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I've always thought nine but I can be convinced otherwise
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Time to re-hash my favorite dumb debate: to bat around in an inning, do you have to send nine or ten hitters to the plate?
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He confused Buxton to the point of forcing him to run in a circle
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So it is possible for an outfielder to be charged with an error on a non-throw after all
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At least his back foot isn't halfway to the dugout. Progress!!!
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More like Kumar Rocked
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In his 6 starts this year has 4 quality starts (3 total HRs allowed) and 2 starts where he's given up exactly 7 runs (5 total HRs allowed). Hopefully Good Zebby can show up and keep the ball in the park tonight. Interestingly, he's thrown exactly 100 pitches 3 times this year.
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Agreed. One guy misses a grounder because he bobbles the exchange and a run scores, another guy misses a grounder because he has the range of present-day Derek Jeter and a run scores. One is an error and an earned run, the other is just an unearned run. But both runs were caused by ishy defense. Makes it harder to rely on ERA when the underlying measure is so arbitrary
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just saying its better to give them the option to choose the starter in this situation than to tell them they can't
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I feel like it would be really easy and logical to tweak the rule so that the starter going fewer than 5 doesn't preclude the official scorer from deciding that he was still the most effective pitcher and gets the win
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I'm not saying he shouldn't be batting near or even at the top of the lineup. He shouldn't be batting any lower than 2nd. I'm saying it shouldn't be held against him when it naturally supresses his RBI opportunities
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That means he's 7-22 (.318) with RISP since that awful start since he's 7-45 on the year. That's why we shouldn't overreact to small samples
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I'd argue that having the worst hitters in the lineup batting in front of you affects more than just your first at bat, especially when the numbers explicitly show he's getting fewer opportunities with runners on
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Yep, every single one. That's exactly what I said. It cannot be argued that he hasn't had disproportionately fewer opportunities to drive runners in given his number of times at bat. I know he had a rough stretch with RISP, but are we seriously thinking that he forgot how to hit with runners on? Or is it statistical noise in a small sample? Odd timing that it seems everyone has decided to start complaining about his low RBIs when he now has 9 in the last 9 games
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10% more RBI than the average hitter while having 15% fewer runners on than the average hitter and 17% fewer runners in scoring position than the average hitter
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It's almost like he's spent a big chunk of the year batting leadoff or something
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Not sure what was better in that sequence, watching another Buck bomb or learning there are nachos you can wear as a hat
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Well well well, checking in late and look who Bell got to drive in:
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Between the uncertain future this offseason holds and the surplus of mediocre teams that could convince themselves that they're in contention (there are six teams in the AL that have a losing record but still remain within three games of a playoff spot), I think we could be setting up for a wonky trade deadline where players could get overvalued due to the lack of sellers in the trade market. It's possible Bell's value could get inflated under those conditions, especially if he can extend his run of play with an OPS over .800. If I had to make the argument for Bell still having some trade value, it would look like that, even though I'm not sure I agree with it myself. The Twins might very well (foolishly, IMO) be one of those teams convincing themselves that they're in contention given the narrative established by ownership coming into the season. Or they could decide now is the time to kick off the youth movement in earnest, but that's tough to do right now given the general health of the prospects that are/should be knocking on the door. Somewhere in between those options, I gotta think there's a way to get enough PAs for Bell and Fedko (or Culpepper or Roden or whomever else can establish themselves as ready and healthy) over the next couple of months. I guess I'm not ready to completely write off Bell's potential trade value just yet, even though the likeliest outcome is they find no takers for him come trade deadline time.
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These Sorsby rulings are insane, but this has been the logical endpoint ever since they thought the argument that amateurism was a required element in their business model would be enough to win the O'Bannon case, and later the Alston case. Do you know how in the wrong you have to lose 9-0 in today's supreme court? And it wasn't even some procedural technicality? Their pigheaded insistence on preventing athletes from being employees well past the point where it was apparent that this wasn't going to fly legally has created an environment where state employment law or a hometown judge can supersede any rule they try to implement, and it will continue to do so until their rules are collectively bargained with the players. I don't think this has always been the only solution, but I believe iit s now.
