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  1. DJL44
    The Twins ran themselves out of the game with their aggressive baserunning. Did you want them to lose more games by making more outs on the bases in May and June?
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    This is the longest time between expansions since the 1950s contraction when the Negro Leagues folded. MLB is pulling in more international talent than ever. More pitchers throw in the upper 90s than ever. Maybe if we expanded and watered down the pitching a little the league’s batters would hit above .240 as a group.
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    San Antonio over all of them. You can visit Pee-Wee's bicycle in the basement of the Alamo. All kidding aside, San Antonio + Austin = 5+ million people within driving distance. No other site has numbers like that. Ranking by potential media market San Antonio + Austin (similar to Phoenix, Atlanta) Charlotte, Portland, Nashville (St Louis, Pittsburgh, San Diego) Salt Lake City (Kansas City, Milwaukee, Cincinnati) I doubt MLB will want to bring in another revenue sharing recipient in SLC. Charlotte and Nashville would be revenue neutral. Charlotte would capture all of North Carolina's attention (11M people) and Nashville would get all of Tennessee (7.3M). Those numbers are significantly higher than Oregon (4.3M) or Utah (3.5M).
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    I could see SLC using public money to build a stadium. They spent big to get the Olympics. One other fun part with expansion is it means adding 3 minor league teams and 2 spring training complex teams for each MLB team. I am expecting Oakland will get AAA baseball soon.
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    AL South: Houston, Rangers, SAN ANTONIO, KC AL West: LAA, LVA, SEA, COL NL South: Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, NASHVILLE or CHARLOTTE
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    Making those games commonplace and boring instead of rare and unique. The Twins can't sell tickets in Minneapolis right now. Do you think Brewers fans are going to drive to Minneapolis for 14 games a year? The A's are headed to Vegas. They broke ground in June. The Rays will get a new stadium in Florida by playing Tampa, St. Pete and Orlando against each other. Since you brought up stadiums, that's the leading indicator of where the expansion teams will end up. I think it's far more likely that San Antonio gets a team than Portland, OR. Texan politicians love to spend their tax revenues on sports stadiums. Nashville is possible, but not Vancouver. Charlotte is another possibility, but not Montreal.
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    So you want to bench Brooks Lee and play Culpepper at SS? You want to have him skip AAA and start his service time clock because this team has become boring to watch in a lost season? Sabato has been a mediocre AAA hitter. Fedko has only had a few plate appearances (against mostly bad pitching) in AAA. Eeles has also been mediocre at the plate. Pretty much everyone in the minor leagues is exactly where they need to be to keep them sufficiently challenged. Culpepper and Jenkins could move to AAA, but they promoted Gonzalez to AAA and he's not dominating despite seeing pitching that has been pretty lousy. If you're bored and want to watch the minor leaguers play, it's easy to watch those games instead with your TwinsTV subscription.
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    Matt Wallner has a 927 OPS since the All-Star break, but you want to bench him for James Outman?! Outman is what he is, and he strikes out 40% of the time.
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    Or, counterpoint, the average runs allowed in the PCL is 6 and Round Rock is giving up 5.7 runs per game. Their starting pitcher last evening has an ERA of 7.16. You have to be very careful when looking at AAA stats to adjust for the run environment.
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    Putting two teams from the same geographic area together in the same division is a very stupid idea. It guarantees one team wins the market and the other becomes an afterthought. Why would MLB want to have only one of the Yankees or Mets in the playoffs when they could have both the Yankees and Mets in the playoffs instead? I think we will see geographic realignment to 4-team divisions, but we don't need to blow up the American and National Leagues.
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    Byron Buxton was leading off last evening.
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    There are no infielders in AAA who look like they deserve a promotion. Do you want to call up Jonah Bride or someone who is hitting worse than Jonah Bride?
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    Keaschall has no arm at all. I hope it’s due to the surgery and he can recover.
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    That’s almost certainly a software bot
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    The As have better bats
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    Win/Loss record. The standard deviation in win percentage is lower in baseball than it for all of the major sports.
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    Because they're charging $30 for the "cheap seats" on weekends in the summer. This is simple supply and demand.
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    Go look at Joe Torre's record as a manager before he got hired by the Yankees. Now look at how Dusty Baker did before he turned 50.
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    True, but there's also not that much difference between managers at the professional level. They all run the same batting and fielding practices. The differences are subtle and there is rarely a truly incompetent manager at the MLB level. If the Dodgers swapped managers with the Twins, would either team notice?
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    Correa was often one of the players giving less than 100% effort. It's hard to call people out when you don't lead by example. Then everyone just thinks you're a hypocrite.
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    I'd much rather pay to watch the Twins games than to watch Hulu. I have been very satisfied with the $100 I spent on Twins TV this season. I have mostly not watched the Twins for several years after cutting the cord on cable.
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    Seven more revenue sharing teams lost a World Series in those 20 seasons. That adds up to almost 25% of the teams in the World Series. The Cardinals and Tigers are basically revenue neutral and they made it.
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    Worth reminding people that baseball has the most parity of any major sport. The Brewers have the best record in baseball.
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