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  1. IndianaTwin
    I changed the rules. Instead of a single 26-man roster, I chose a favorite Twin and a favorite non-Twin. C: Butch Wynegar -- Thurman Munson 1B: Kent Hrbek -- Albert Pujols 2B: Rod Carew -- Davey Lopes SS: Jerry Terrell -- Robin Yount 3B: Gary Gaetti-- Mike Schmidt LF: Larry Hisle -- Lou Brock CF: Kirby Puckett -- Amos Otis RF: Tom Brunansky -- Bake McBride DH: Tony Oliva -- Paul Molitor RHSP: Bert Blyleven -- Bob Gibson LHSP: Frank Viola -- Steve Carlton Setup: Juan Berenguer -- David Robertson RP: Joe Nathan -- Mariano Rivera Oliva and Hrbek get the overall nod as favorite Twins. As a kid, my favorite non-Twin was Brock. As an adult, it's got to be Rivera. Thousands of people yelling and screaming. No need to bang on a trashcan, because everyone knows it's going to be a cut fastball. Then he throws it, the bat gets sawed off, and he walks off like it was just another day at the office.
  2. IndianaTwin
    Pablo Sanchez and Kenny Kawaguchi beg to differ.
  3. IndianaTwin
    To play devil's advocate, Killebrew flirted with 50 homers on multiple occasions at a time when there had been roughly the same number of 50 homer season as there had been .400 seasons, and isn't power a part of being a good hitter? Wouldn't someone who hits .300 with 30 homers, 40 doubles and 100 walks be considered a better hitter than a .300 hitter with 5 homers, 20 doubles, 50 walks? If so, then the next question might be, which is better -- .280 with 30 homers, 40 doubles and 70 walks vs. .310 with 10 homers, 30 doubles, and 70 walks. And so on. I think the definition of "best hitter" does take power into play, as well as the good eye that generates walks. That's where OPS is helpful. It blends the combination of getting on base and demonstrating power in a way that values both. Similarly, isn't someone who hits .300 in 1968 in the American League, when .301 led the league, better than someone who hits .300 in the 1930 National League, when the league average was .303. Context matters. That's the advantage of an indexed number like OPS+. It allows comparing across eras. It says that when you take the season, the league, and the ballpark into effect, Killebrew was on average 48 percent better than the average hitter in the league. Great as he was, Carew was "only" 37 percent better than the average player. Because of his power, Killebrew was being more effective with his hits, and he was doing it in a slightly harder context. Don't get me wrong -- I'll take a lineup of nine Rod Carews any day of the week! I just think I'll score more runs with nine Harmon Killebrews.
  4. IndianaTwin
    There's at least two issues with using Offensive War in comparing Carew with Killebrew, however. First is that Offensive WAR includes baserunning, where Carew is going to gain significantly on Killebrew. Second is that there is a position adjustment. Two of Carew's four years on this list had the advantage of being at 2B, whereas Killebrew was playing a lot of 1B in his best years.
  5. IndianaTwin
    I'm 53 and just missed Allison. I get the sense that folks my age and younger dramatically underrate Allison. If you use just the Twins years as was done for Killebrew and others above, his OPS+ is actually 131 over 10 seasons.
  6. IndianaTwin
    My gut reaction was to easily agree with you, but then I discovered that Hrbek had an OPS+ of 128 in 1747 games and Mauer 124 in 1858 games. In fact, in OPS plus, Hrbek's 128 is even above Puckett's 124. Looking at OPS+ in Twins years only gives us Killebrew (148), Carew (137), Oliva (131), Hrbek (128), Mauer and Puckett (124).
  7. IndianaTwin
    He's Chief's younger brother.
  8. IndianaTwin
    Is overlooking Odorizzi and Chacin intentional?
  9. IndianaTwin
    I’m partway through reading “Summer of ’68: The season that changed baseball and America, forever.” It’s one of a series of books that have walked through a season. As someone who was born just a couple years earlier, it’s been a helpful American history lesson and has done a good job of putting the season in a context. I recently read “The Tigers of ’68: Baseball’s Last Real Champions,” which did much the same in a Detroit-specific way. By contrast, “Stars and Stripes” is merely entertaining. It was more of a recitation of game stories and highlights of the 1976 season and bicentennial year. I enjoyed it, and it was a good recap, but didn’t have the kind of critique/analysis present in the former two.
  10. IndianaTwin
    “For Love of the Game” as a movie was pretty universally panned, but it’s one of my favorites. By now I’ve seen it enough times that I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to give the book a fair shake.
  11. IndianaTwin
    Know your ‘staches, people. Rollie Fingers had a handlebar. Al Hrabosky and Randy Dobnak have a Fu Manchu.
  12. IndianaTwin
    Thanks for the suggestion. It indeed looks amazing. I’m going to start with the Top 100 Metrodome Moments. Uh, and we’ll see you tomorrow night.
  13. IndianaTwin
    Chief has moved to Massachusetts.
  14. IndianaTwin
    Great thread idea. I went looking to see if the Rod Carew Game (6/26/77) is on YouTube. It’s not, but there’s some cool Carew stories there. And as a bonus, I discovered that that day also was Elvis’ last concert. I travel a lot for work, so today I had to cancel two trips. I spent about 75 minutes on hold with Delta, waiting to get a refund on travel, before giving up because I had a Zoom call beginning. I interact with churches in my work, and I’m part of a faith tradition that puts a high value on “community,” so there’s been a fair amount of discussion about how to do that in a time of “social distancing.” One of the ideas we’re going to try in lieu of some canceled dinner meetings on said trip are “virtual potlucks,” where we’ll invite people to join a Zoom call over supper in their respective homes. Who knows how it will go, but I think it will be fun to try. I’m also hoping that the cancellation of March Madness will serve as the great equalizer in my fantasy league. See, normally I’m the guy who skips watching March Madness to bone up on my draft strategy, but it never works. I’m hoping that with the other owners not being able to watch hoops, they’ll fritter their time away preparing for the draft as well, and perhaps they’ll overanalyze themselves down to my level.
  15. IndianaTwin
    Give Odo a bonus! As in, go back to him and say, "We'll bump you up to $22MM for this year if you give us two more years at $16.6MM each and a $1MM buyout on a $15MM contract for 2023." That's like giving him 3/$56.2MM now, which is slightly better than three years at his $18.7MM QO. Plus, it's guaranteed and slightly front-loaded, which helps him from an investment perspective* and it's slightly beneficial to the FO for planning purposes as other guys move up the arbitration calculation, etc. *Past performance is no guarantee of future results (particularly in this market) yadda, yadda, yadda...
  16. IndianaTwin
    Do we know if Chacin has an opt out? And if he would accept a minor league spot if it came to that?
  17. IndianaTwin
    Indeed. Though I live in Indiana, I’m an Iowan and cut my teeth on games on WHO. I was in the southeast quarter of the state.
  18. IndianaTwin
    And miss the Game Thread? You’ve got to be kidding!
  19. IndianaTwin
    Think how Chief must feel...
  20. IndianaTwin
    Yeah, did anyone else go here?
  21. IndianaTwin
    Check it out, folks, it’s just a month and a day until Opening Day! Thank goodness this is Leap Year. Otherwise it would be a month and two days.
  22. IndianaTwin
    Get a clue.
  23. IndianaTwin
    Okay, this photo isn’t fair. I’m stuck in a Rodeway Inn in central Kansas on a work-related trip, and you show me this picture looking out over the gulf.
  24. IndianaTwin
    Only checking over lunch, of course. -Illinois Twin
  25. IndianaTwin
    Hablo solomente un poco Espanol, pero bienvenido a todos.
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