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  1. DJL44
    Maeda might not be good enough (healthy enough? young enough?) to start anymore. A move to the bullpen might be the only way he can contribute to this team. I'd love to see the Maeda of 2020 again but that guy might not exist anymore.
  2. DJL44
    It was good to see Correa produce an RBI double. He's one of the missing middle of the order bats. I'm hopeful Royce Lewis is able to be at least a league average offensive contributor.
  3. DJL44
    Every team loses winnable games. It happens every day. It's disappointing but there was nothing wildly unexpected or unusual about the results.
  4. DJL44
    Do you think players are headed to the plate thinking "I bet a strikeout will help here"? They're trying to hit the ball hard in the air somewhere. That approach leads to strikeouts. A "contact" swing where they meet the pitch is a lot more likely to cause a double play.
  5. DJL44
    Apparently you didn't notice that the other team is allowed to try to win even when the Twins have a lead (especially when it is a small lead). Did you notice that the other pitchers are trying to strike out the Twins batters? 0 for 10 with the bases loaded is frustrating but considering MLB batting average is around .230 expectations should be 2 for 10 with the bases loaded. That doesn't move them from 2-4 to 5-1. You can re-read that if you want. Your favorite team should fail to get a hit with the bases loaded more than 75% of the time.
  6. DJL44
    Trying to hit the ball in the air leads to more strikeouts. There is a reason GIDP and Ks are negatively correlated.
  7. DJL44
    Mostly no, I went to bed. I read the box scores and watched the game highlights in the morning. I listened to a couple games on the radio. I'm not sure how watching the games in real-time is going to give me more information than the recap, box scores and the highlights. What exactly did I miss? Be specific. Tell me something you saw that wasn't in the box score and highlights.
  8. DJL44
    A Twins offense with Arraez starting means Gallo is not signed or Kirilloff is on the bench. Which one do you want to subtract?
  9. DJL44
    The Dodgers are leading their division. They aren't going to roll over at home. The Twins went up against Ohtani on Sunday - were you really expecting them to win that game? A Sunday win would have been an upset.
  10. DJL44
    The Twins are league average at grounding into double plays. Problem solved. BTW - the antidote to GIDP is usually swinging hard, which creates strikeouts. The people here who want fewer strikeouts are asking for more double plays.
  11. DJL44
    You can stop now. It's like complaining about the Matt Capps trade.
  12. DJL44
    Player OPS+ Luis Arraez 153 Alex Kirilloff 191 Joey Gallo 146 The Twins don't really miss Arraez at all.
  13. DJL44
    No, good teams generally go .500 on a road trip or 3-3. They go 4-2 at home. That's a 94 win pace - win half your game on the road and 2/3 at home. Your expectations are completely unrealistic - you're expecting a 135+ win pace.
  14. DJL44
    It's so dismal that he's been above average both offensively and defensively compared to his peers at his position.
  15. DJL44
    Take out the 5 highest scoring games for any team and their average runs per game will fall. If I take out their 5 lowest scoring games their average runs will go up too. Removing data from the sample makes it less representative, not more.
  16. DJL44
    The "putrid" offense that is 11th out of 30 teams in scoring runs? I don't think people here have a clue about what is happening around baseball. Every team has a ton of strikeouts. We're seeing the highest rate of strikeouts in 150 years of major league baseball. The teams that strike out the least are the 20-27 Nationals and the 20-26 Guardians. They also hit the least home runs and are 24th and 28th in runs scored. Swinging for the fences is the way teams score runs in major league baseball. People pine for Luis Arraez but don't notice that Miami has the worst offense in the league. They're not going to win every game or every series or even every homestand but they are a good team. I am really tired of the constant whining here win or lose. Every game someone will rant about Buxton's injured knee, or strikeouts, or Pagan (whether he pitches or not) or how the coaching staff sucks or (the most ridiculous) how this team "lacks courage" or "doesn't know how to win". It's a west coast road trip against two playoff contenders. They're not going to sweep the teams.
  17. DJL44
    He's not "soft". He has a knee injury he's been rehabbing all season. I'm having Joe Mauer deja vu.
  18. DJL44
    Thank you. Jax needs to use the whole strike zone, not just one corner. A slider down and away is a good pitch but it can't be your only pitch.
  19. DJL44
    They found a spot for Solano on this "clogged" 40 man roster in March. I understood not adding anyone in January but I was bewildered why they didn't when the 60 man IL spots opened up.
  20. DJL44
    They should have kept Danny Couloumbe. He's been effective and he's dirt cheap.
  21. DJL44
    The problem with Julien is the spot he's most likely to help this team is DH with Buxton moving to CF.
  22. DJL44
    Miranda to AAA is exactly this kind of move and we're all hoping Royce Lewis is a top of the pile addition.
  23. DJL44
    3B has been moving up the spectrum for 15 years. Fielding chances have declined faster for other positions due to the rise in strikeouts.
  24. DJL44
    The commonly accepted defensive spectrum aligns with positional adjustment values in WAR. If you look at the difference in average offense by position that's the way it lines up. It hasn't always been static. In the 1920s there was a lot more bunting and fewer double plays so 3B was more important than 2B. With the defensive shift 2B was trending lower in importance but it's gained that back this season. Position Player WAR Calculations and Details | Baseball-Reference.com 2B, CF and 3B are close on that list.
  25. DJL44
    This is not correct. CF is in the middle of the defensive spectrum right next to 3B and 2B. A player who can field and hit at any of those positions is worth about the same defensively. C, SS, 2B, CF, 3B, RF, LF, 1B in that order. 2B and 3B get to turn double plays and CF generally does not.
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