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  1. DJL44
    Alex Kirilloff and Austin Martin will probably end up in St. Paul some time this season.
  2. DJL44
    If you're actually comparing to great Saints teams in history the late 1940s are probably the peak. The Saints were a Dodgers farm team and briefly had Roy Campanella on the roster.
  3. DJL44
    That's actually a terrific sign for the catching. Nobody is even attempting to steal.
  4. DJL44
    Why not Gallo in RF, Larnach LF, Gordon 2B, Solano 1B?
  5. DJL44
    Given his history of shoulder injuries it is better to try to get useful MLB innings out of him now than it is to waste his limited number of healthy pitches in AAA. His career might not last much past age 30. Pitchers have an expiration date. The team also has a lot less depth in the bullpen than they do in the rotation. Winder is behind Ober, SWR and Varland for a spot in the rotation. He's probably ahead of Sands for a spot in the bullpen.
  6. DJL44
    Humans are adaptable but professional hitters already are unable to control the entire strike zone. Making it bigger makes it more difficult, especially since you are adding places that are better for the pitcher (up and in, low and away) to get batters out. You'll also be adding strikes that barely cross the zone at the front of the plate and dive into the dirt before they get to the catcher. Every adjustment the umpires make when they don't strictly call the rulebook strikezone is favoring the batter. Imagine if they rounded off the corners of a hockey goal. Do you think that would help the shooters or the goalie? Now consider if they increased the size of the goal by two inches in each direction - would the goalie "adapt" to the larger goal?
  7. DJL44
    The corners are rounded off by umpires. The robots would call the corners. This increases the effective size of the strike zone which is never going to help batters.
  8. DJL44
    Strikeouts are already at all-time highs, which means many of the pitches batters see are already unhittable. I guess if you want someone to win the batting title with a .150 average that's your prerogative.
  9. DJL44
    Dobnak is correct here. The rule book strike zone allows for unhittable pitches that are currently not called strikes. I'm not sure we actually want something calling the rule book strike zone with 100% accuracy. Do we really want more strikeouts and fewer balls in play?
  10. DJL44
    Umpires generally do call the pitch a ball if the catcher is moving their glove a lot. It's about receiving a pitch to make it look like the pitcher hit their spot, not about moving the back into the strike zone.
  11. DJL44
    So gamblers and gamblers care about transparency when it comes to injuries. Everyone else can figure out that a player on the injured list isn't playing tonight.
  12. DJL44
    If they get rid of the pitch clock for the postseason expect to see a bunch of advertising during at-bats. I'm sure you'll enjoy that a lot more than a fast paced baseball game.
  13. DJL44
    Expect to see Kirilloff play on this team as well.
  14. DJL44
    Polanco is on the injured list. He isn't playing.
  15. DJL44
    Polanco would be a better choice than Kepler. Julien is on the 40 man roster. We'll see if he forces his way onto the 26 man roster.
  16. DJL44
    The reason for those rules is so athletic trainers aren't selling information to bookies.
  17. DJL44

    NFL Mock draft 1.0

    DJL44 commented on rgvtwinstalk's blog entry in rgvtwinstalk

    I'm interested in astronauts but you don't see me posting articles about astronauts on TwinsDaily. There are plenty of existing places to talk about the NFL. This is a baseball website.
  18. DJL44
    There's another angle here. Top draft pick bonuses keep independent leagues from starting. Remember the USFL?
  19. DJL44
    The only people who need clear updates on sports injuries are the players, management and people gambling on the games. There are no issues with the first two interested parties and I don't know why the team should care about the third party.
  20. DJL44
    First, all players get paid on perceived value. Edwin Diaz just injured himself and is out for the season. Is that "fair"? It matters a lot if the top players say to hell with it, play independent ball for a year and sign big free agent contracts with the Yankees and Dodgers when their draft rights expire. It matters if players drafted by the Pirates (knowing their pay is the same no matter when they get drafted) decide to go back to school for a year and re-enter the draft hoping some other organization drafts them instead. It makes the draft pointless. That would kill the main way small market teams acquire talent.
  21. DJL44
    The big bonuses for top draft picks are because those players are perceived to be worth much more than the bonus. Why take money away from the players perceived to be the most talented and give it to less talented players? In order for the union to work you need to take care of the star players as well as the scrubs. Top talent has choices. Some will play a different sport. Some will go to college and get paid through NIL endorsements. Some may go overseas. Some will play independently until their draft rights expire and sign a free agent deal. Some will choose to play another year of college instead of taking the bonus.
  22. DJL44

    NFL Mock draft 1.0

    DJL44 commented on rgvtwinstalk's blog entry in rgvtwinstalk

    What does this have to do with baseball?
  23. DJL44
    This is absolutely a good thing but it looks like it was paid for by cutting 450 spots for minor league players (15 per team). MLB does seem to want to shrink the minor leagues further, though I'm optimistic MLB expansion will bring baseball back to many communities.
  24. DJL44
    One reason they have not been developing homegrown pitchers is they are far below average at signing international free agent pitchers.
  25. DJL44
    I expect them to give a qualifying offer to two of those pitchers, perhaps all three. One of them might accept it.
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