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  1. The Great Hambino
    It worked!
  2. The Great Hambino
    I think it's Polish for misery This guy's gonna be a problem, assuming his UCL doesn't explode
  3. The Great Hambino
    I'm willing to give him a pass on the comebacker, looked like the bat messed with his transfer. But, yeah
  4. The Great Hambino
    Ballgame
  5. The Great Hambino
    This looks like an intrasquad scrimmage with these unis
  6. The Great Hambino
    Does the ballot have you vote for outfielders LF/CF/RF separately, or does it have you vote for any three outfielders?
  7. The Great Hambino
    My first thought on Castro was no, but after looking at the 2B field in the AL ... woof. He has about as good a case as anyone. For fun, here's the Twins on the ballot with their current positional AL rank on the ballot in OPS 1B: France - 11th 2B: Castro - 1st(!) 3B: Royce - 14th SS: Correa - 11th C: Jeffers - 4th OF: Buck - 2nd (now within 300 points of Judge!), Bader - 17th, Wallner - 22nd DH: Larnach - 7th Besides Willi, I was surprised by how high Jeffers and Royce ranked at their positions
  8. The Great Hambino
    Nice Lonnie Smith impression by Castro on the bases ... lucky the throw was high
  9. The Great Hambino
    I'm not ready to address the emotional trauma Elly has wrought upon me these past 18 hours
  10. The Great Hambino
    Are we sure this isn't just a replay of yesterday's game? Buck leadoff homer, give up two in the bottom half, defeated looking Twins pitcher with long hair, Reds pitcher named Nick
  11. The Great Hambino
    Unfortunately I don't think it even matters at this point. What team out there would have the desire to assume his contract straight up, let alone give up value for him? His contract alone eliminates all but like 6-8 teams from consideration. And he isn't performing anywhere close to the level that would help the remaining teams in any meaningful way. Short of a rich contender ending up with a long-term emergency (as in, the cupboard looks bare for multiple years) at shortstop (or maybe 3B if they're really desperate), I just don't see any sort of trade market for him unless he figures out how to hit again for a sustained amount of time. The other option would be for the Twins to eat an enormous chunk of his remaining contract, which kinda defeats the purpose of the trade. I don't think he's going anywhere any time soon
  12. The Great Hambino
    You can't spell Lodolo without LOL
  13. The Great Hambino
    Fitting that he finds his efficiency with rain approaching to make sure this becomes an official game
  14. The Great Hambino
    I just flipped on the Saints, and the first thing I see is old frenemy Manny Margot moonlighting as a Mud Hen! I think I should just stop watching baseball for the night
  15. The Great Hambino
    Hey, it might get Brewer fans excited for the series. They buy tickets too, and Joe P's haircuts don't pay for themselves!
  16. The Great Hambino
    If they're gonna get lit up tonight, at least let Elly go off so at least my fantasy team can benefit
  17. The Great Hambino
    REALLY!?!?! I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!!!!! Two different teams that aren't the Twins have benefited from elements of a less than three year old trade. Like I said, I could've worded it better
  18. The Great Hambino
    I don't think the Reds were too disappointed with his 2023 season
  19. The Great Hambino
    Reds and Rangers ... I could've worded that better
  20. The Great Hambino
    You know a trade didn't work out for you when it's less than three years old, two teams have benefited from the trade, and you're not one of those teams
  21. The Great Hambino
    Given the presence of 10 CBs on the roster (11 if you count Tavierre Thomas listed as DB) and Flores' affinity for positional flexibility, my money is on them doing exactly that
  22. The Great Hambino
    Isn't GWRBI the GWRBI of metrics? Seriously though, the ignoring of defense bothers me because they don't have to ignore it. They have metrics that show the percentage chance a batted ball is converted into an out. They could use this to allocate the WPA change on a play between pitcher and fielder. Say the batter's out on a batted ball that's an out 95% of the time, a pretty routine play. 95% of the change can be allocated to the pitcher, and the balance to the fielder. On the flip side, if the fielder makes an outstanding play on a ball that's an out only 5% of the time, then only 5% gets allocated to the pitcher and most of the credit goes to the fielder. As it is, all the credit goes to the pitcher either way. Not sure why they don't do it. Maybe it isn't a huge difference in large samples, maybe the underlying % chance metrics aren't reliable themselves, maybe no one sees it as worth the time since it's not predictive. But it would be a better, more interesting statistic if they did.
  23. The Great Hambino
    It's strange how this grace given in comical amounts when catching the ball, but not when throwing it. Like you said, only the most basic of fielding mistakes gets called an error, but a 200 ft laser on the money from the outfield that happens to clip the runners foot and skip away is an error every time. It's enough to make me discount, if not disregard completely, any error-based metric for fielding.
  24. The Great Hambino
    They certainly have found a very schizophrenic way to be average What exactly do they think will happen if they let Coulombe go out for another inning after throwing like four pitches? Will he spontaneously combust?
  25. The Great Hambino
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