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  1. DJL44
    Except it isn't just subscriber money, it's also some of the best advertising rates in television.
  2. DJL44
    I am going to guess the Twins get a payment at 11:59pm on April 13.
  3. DJL44
    I have relatives just like him. I still wonder if he's a fictional character, a pastiche of interactions with north metro dullards or an actual person Stu has to deal with. Love how Stu added the self-own for Mr. Hanson with the Ted Williams reference.
  4. DJL44
    If the electronic strike zone allowed it you would see it 150 pitches a game
  5. DJL44
    The guy you want on the roster instead of Castro is Kyle Garlick. Wallner is not a good player to start against Luzardo.
  6. DJL44
    The catchers have to love the pitch clock. That's a lot less wear and tear.
  7. DJL44
    It is sad to see one of the best defenders in baseball only able to contribute as a DH.
  8. DJL44
    I don't think Wallner or Celestino would have caught that HR either. It was gone pretty far.
  9. DJL44
    The Twins replaced Steer with Donovan Solano at very little cost. Getting an above average starting pitcher for below average position players (especially when they are blocked) is a good trade.
  10. DJL44
    I didn't say every challenge took 15 minutes but when they do it is awful. The play that really irritates me is when the player leaves the bag on a slide by a fraction of a millimeter (which is only apparent because we can slow the frames down and analyze them for minutes) and they call the runner out. That runner has been safe since baseball began on that slide but now thanks to replay players have to change the way the game is played. They take two minutes to look frame by frame and actually get it wrong. Wrong, because a baserunner HAS to break contact with the bag in order to slide on top of it. Unintended consequences. I think it would improve replay if they could only review the play at the speed it happened - no slow motion allowed. If it isn't obviously wrong at game speed, c'est la vie.
  11. DJL44
    Which team has the advantage when officials are only 98% accurate rather than 100% accurate? I am okay with automating calls but I want people to realize there are unintended consequences and it isn't as simple as flipping a switch. And I find wasting 15 minutes to debate whether a tag happened 1/16th of a second earlier than it was perceived in realtime excruciating.
  12. DJL44
    You can't just reprogram the strike zone. You have to change the rule book. Umpires are calling the rule book strike zone the best they can. Instant replay was brought in to eliminate errors but it sucks aesthetically. If they bring in the automated strike zone no umpire thereafter should ever make the Hall of Fame. There won't be any notable difference between a good umpire and a bad one. Doug Harvey can be the last one.
  13. DJL44
    True. Bally's might not be broadcasting Twins games at all as soon as the Yankees series.
  14. DJL44
    Well, a year later neither of Steer or Encarnacion-Strand looks like a stud. If Mahle is gone next year he'll have turned down an extension and probably a qualifying offer which would net the Twins a compensatory draft pick.
  15. DJL44
    The Twins really should have the AAA team come over to Target Field and practice occasionally. Most days it's just sitting empty.
  16. DJL44
    Alex Kirilloff and Austin Martin will probably end up in St. Paul some time this season.
  17. 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.
  18. DJL44
    That's actually a terrific sign for the catching. Nobody is even attempting to steal.
  19. DJL44
    Why not Gallo in RF, Larnach LF, Gordon 2B, Solano 1B?
  20. 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.
  21. 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?
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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?
  25. 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.
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