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  1. IndianaTwin
    You're now part of a minority of two. I only have opportunity to listen, so I haven't seen his defense. The OAA stat seems to suggest he's doing well. I don't get the comments about his hitting being significantly down. By OPS+, he's right at his career mark. His career average makes him a slightly below average hitter, but still solid enough for the No. 9 spot. His bWAR is on target for close to 3.0. But I was going to make the same suggestion on an extension, though I'd try to just extend one year for now. With the strong free agent class, Simmons could be attracted to not having to go against all the others, particularly given the way he had to wait people out last year. By signing him now to a reasonable additional year, you increase his value if the right deal comes along. And if the right deal doesn't come along, you've addressed a need that's going to be here in the offseason.
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    As I understand it, "Maid-Rite" is the chain that started having "loose meat sandwiches," so it's like Xerox, Frisbee, and Kleenex. I'm not that big on them. Maybe it's because I had them so often from my mom as a kid. To me, they're just crumbly hamburgers that fall out of the bun. Or sloppy joes without the sloppy. Now tenderloins. As a proud owner of an "I Conquered the Iowa Pork Tenderloin Trail" t-shirt, I can vouch for any of these on the list (and also provide other recommendations): https://www.iowapork.org/tenderloin-trail/ There's also a list of past winners of the Iowa Pork Producers Association's annual contest here, and I haven't gone wrong on any of those that I've had. https://www.iowapork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/T-loin-Winners-List.pdf
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    Gave it a "sad" face, because my name ought to be IowaTwin. I've only lived in Indiana for 35 years. I've been (and still am) an Iowan my whole life. Long live breaded tenderloins.
  4. IndianaTwin
    Yes to Teflon for naming the Negro League Basball Museum. It is outstanding. Aside from Cooperstown itself for its magnitude, I can’t think of a better non-stadium baseball experience that I’ve had. A few years ago, my wife and I did a Kansas City barbecue tour. Stops at five different restaurants, with ribs and something else at each, along with a stop at a manufacturer that specializes in small batches of sauce for people trying to get their sauce marketed. I don’t drink, but I suppose it would capture the analogy to call it a “craft saucery.” Along the way, our tour guides gave us a documentary style review of both Kansas City and barbecue history. The tour was a bit pricey, as I recall, but when one considers I didn’t need to eat for another four days…
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    I’m grateful the Orioles didn’t do an outline for Garver’s injury the way they did for Reafanyder.
  6. IndianaTwin
    It’s 26+5+9=40 starts, actually, in one full season plus 60 games plus 57 games. That’s really 1.7 seasons of team games at this point. The suspension kept him out, but he’s been healthy otherwise. He’s only missed four or five total starts when he’s been eligible, and never more than 13 days between starts. Put another way, he’s made 40 starts in the 219 team games he’s been eligible, which works out to 30 starts per 162.
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    I've only been somewhat facetious in saying, "Eliminate batting gloves." With no gloves to fiddle with, stepping out of the box wouldn't be any fun. As I watched games from the '60s and '70s being replayed on MLB Network all winter, that was the single thing that stood out the most as a difference compared to today's games. (Followed next by the immediate chucking aside of any ball that had hit the dirt.)
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    It's rarely as simple as Choice A vs. Choice B. For example, what impact did having an extra $7.5 million have in their ability to sign Cruz a week later? If signing Semien meant settling for Jay Bruce as the DH, it's a much different team.
  9. IndianaTwin
    This week: Shoemaker-Berrios-Pineda-off day-Dobnak-Happ-Shoemaker Next week lines up for: Berrios-Pineda-Dobnak-(Maeda is eligible to come back from what seems pretty minor.) Starting pitcher availability hasn't really been an issue and doesn't appear to be a big deal going forward.
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    Concur on needing patience. I think it's also important to recognize what is and isn't meant by a "pitching pipeline." Six Cleveland pitchers were named in the article -- Kluber, Bauer, Clevinger, Bieber, Civale and Plesac -- but it's worth noting that they debuted in six different seasons over a nine-year period. Six guys that good in nine years is impressive, but it's not like they averaging one or two new studs per year, which is how people seem to perceive it. Similarly, I'd note that during that string, though Cleveland was always competitive, they only won their division three times during that run, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Of those six guys, only Clevinger and Bieber debuted during the pennant-winning seasons, with Clevinger making 10 starts in 2016 and Bieber 19 starts in 2018. In other words, they weren't debuting new guys while they were winning pennants.
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    There's also this classic:
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    I didn't get to watch much, but the word on Ober seems encouraging. I'd be cautious about thinking he'll be up long, however. I'm guessing that his start wasn't so much about earning a promotion as it was being available. Dobnak pitched five innings on Sunday, so he wasn't an option. Thorpe pitched two innings on Sunday, so he was marginally available, plus someone is needed to pitch Game 2 on Thursday, which is currently listed as TBD. With the unexpectedness, that adds to the promise that he showed. Also, at the risk of being the jinxer, don't ignore the partial inning from Colome, coming in with no warmup to finish Duffey's inning. That's his sixth straight outing without allowing a run.
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    Just a thought on Thorpe, but pitching only two innings on Sunday likely makes him as available as a doubleheader starter as a 27th man on Thursday, no?
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    For what it's worth, Callis, Dykstra and Mayo agree on Chalmers: https://www.mlb.com/news/these-prospects-could-be-future-closers?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage. I think they all make sense for the reasons you describe, but I doubt we see them all at once. For now, Alcala, Colome, Duffey, Robles, Rogers, seem like locks, with Thielbar, Law and Anderson the other three. With their past histories, Duffey and Colome are going to have long leashes, and the latter has started to look better. With the 17 games in 16 days stretch they are in, I suspect we'll see heavy use of the Light Rail Shuttle. I wish they'd keep either Dobnak or Thorpe around for a time to serve as a true multiple inning reliever. When a starter goes five and they are still in the game, it would be nice to go to one of those and think that they might have a shot at finishing the game. Thielbar was so good last year, but with such a small sample in 2020 and his being 34, I suspect he's the next DFA candidate. If he continues to struggle to the point of being cut loose, I think it makes sense to go to Cano next, unless Stashak has bounced back to the point of getting another shot. And of course, an injury speeds up the tryout list.
  15. IndianaTwin
    If people were skeptical that last year’s shortened 60-game season didn’t represent his real self, it’s hard to get overly worked up about the 18-game start to this one, particularly given what illness and injury have done to the defense behind him.
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    The exception is Triple A West, which for some reason has its off-day on Wednesday.
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    Other good options are the weeks beginning May 25 and July 6, when the Saints play at Iowa and both Cedar Rapids and Wichita are at home.
  18. IndianaTwin
    Also 30 against Omaha.
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    I thought he was a starter too, but in his admittedly small sample of 15 starts, he has lasted an average of 4.4 innings per start and made it more than 5.1 innings only twice. Those lamenting the overuse of the bullpen may be disappointed if that pattern continues. I prefer the option Mike describes three comments above, starting the first inning after Shoemaker and Happ have been pulled, going 2-3 innings. To do that requires adjusting the rotation somewhere, however, since the two are now back-to-back. But they should be doing that anyway, since it also means Maeda/Berrios/Pineda (and thus the days the bullpen is most likely to be somewhat spared) are back-to-back-to-back.
  20. IndianaTwin
    I don't have a problem with how Rocco used the bullpen yesterday. I'm not completely clear on when you're suggesting he should have used Dobnak. First time through, I thought you meant use Dobnak in the 10th. If that's the case, I disagree -- I'd prefer not bringing him in to extra innings, since by definition he will start with runners on base. But if you are suggesting that Rocco go with him in the 7th, I'll sorta agree with you. In general terms, a tie game with multiple innings available could be a spot for him. In yesterday's case, with a rested bullpen, I'm fine with the approach he took. Rocco also always takes the long view, so I'm guessing he's looking to Shoemaker and Happ today and tomorrow as times he's more likely to need multiple innings from Dobnak. Which does lead me to another preference. I wish they'd align the rotation so that Maeda and Berrios, the two guys most likely to go long, weren't back-to-back. Three days of Pineda-Shoemaker-Happ is the starting combo most likely to tax the bullpen.
  21. IndianaTwin
    I'll take a season where we win all the nine-inning games and lose all the extra-inning games.
  22. IndianaTwin
    Seth, assuming no injuries at the MLB level requiring them to go beyond Maeda/Berrios/Pineda/Happ/Shoemaker and Dobnak, what would you project the AAA rotation to be? I’m guessing Thorpe and Smeltzer. Duran didn’t appear in a single spring training game, right? With that being the case, it seems like he’s likely to start at AA. Who would be the other three most likely to be at AAA?
  23. IndianaTwin
    An extra pitcher isn’t a viable option for the next two games. Having 12 hitters, one of whom is only a pinch hitter, means you have the backup catcher and two guys who can play defense.
  24. IndianaTwin
    Where's Mike Pelfrey when you need him, huh?
  25. IndianaTwin
    Well, one thing they see is the ability to play CF so they don’t have a defensive outfield of Arraez-Kepler-Rooker on days Buxton is off.
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