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  1. LakesPibble
    If Royce was an 8th round pick, no one would care. The league is full of players who burn brightly for a season and fade away. I think that's what he is. He may be a slightly above average player but I don't think he is what we all thought 2 years ago.
  2. LakesPibble
    Here I was wondering if we'd get to 70 wins. Now I'm wondering if we get to 67.
  3. LakesPibble
    Why pull Pablo?
  4. LakesPibble
    Good to see Royce beating out infield singles. That's why we've all been so excited about him after all. Pro tip: the last 3 numbers should generally increase from left to right. I'm old and crabby but I can't get excited about him as anything but an average starter at this point, which on this team is actually pretty good.
  5. LakesPibble
    On the bright side, he did say (supposedly) that he's started looking at scouting reports, so that should only help.
  6. LakesPibble
    Short answer to the question in the heading - No.
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  8. LakesPibble
    The slog,er, drive for 70 continues.
  9. LakesPibble
    Honest question - if he goes to free agency, can the Twins offer him less than that or can only another team do that?
  10. LakesPibble
    If you're a below average defender you need to be an above average hitter. I think WAR is a useful tool. But also some guys just have a little "it" that makes them more valuable than their raw numbers.
  11. LakesPibble
    It's like he's still on the Twins.
  12. LakesPibble
    Can we all accept that Royce is an average (at best) hitter now? I keep hearing folks say how he's improving (which he is from his .550 OPS) but all these time spans hover right around .700 OPS. I like the kid, but he ain't the cavalry.
  13. LakesPibble
    One of these teams has to win this game. It's the rules. It's also unfortunate.
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  15. LakesPibble
    Biggest bummer for me is we're wasting what may be Buxton's pinnacle season.
  16. LakesPibble
    The sausage was weird but it's a fun little thing, and the players seem to be into it all around the league.
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    Both.
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  19. LakesPibble
    Remember when the White Sox signed a promotional deal with 7-11 so their games started at 7:11?
  20. LakesPibble
    I don't know that I can remember any player ever so consistently hitting meaningless home runs as Wallner this year. Most likely recency bias.
  21. LakesPibble
    There was discussion about clubhouse culture recently, and of course none of us know what it's like. But I don't think the idea of "You're a pro, just do your job" is realistic either. I'm guessing some of us have jobs, and those workplaces have cultures. Some are high energy, some are apathetic, some are negative, etc etc It's very hard to change a culture, and sometimes it's very hard not to be affected by the culture. From the outside, it appears whatever the culture is in the clubhouse isn't working, because it doesn't seem that there is much improvement going on recently, at least among batters.
  22. LakesPibble
    I've been thinking about this for a while. Who has improved as a hitter on the Twins in the last 2 or 3 years? I'm going to say nobody.
  23. LakesPibble
    But the way you get those sweet sweet stats is by doing something differently when your OPS is in the .600s. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but what do you have to lose when what you're doing isn't working? You'd think he'd have learned his lesson about saying the quiet parts loud when the baseball gods slapped him down for the last 14 months for saying "I don't do that slump thing"
  24. LakesPibble
    Saw this quote from Royce in an mlb.com article about last night's game. This mindset is concerning to me. "It's also hard to make a full in-season adjustment,” he said, “because you can try that and those 30 at-bats of trial goes toward your stats. Do you really want to sacrifice that? And if doesn't work, then you go back to what you were doing before. It's always hard.”
  25. LakesPibble
    This 100%. I've always felt like there is a lot of value for humans in knowing where they will slot in the lineup every day, what position they are committed to long term, etc.
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