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  1. IndianaTwin
    Check.
  2. IndianaTwin
    I so much prefer when Royce jogs around the bases.
  3. IndianaTwin
    Went on vacation this winter. Visited the Van Tropp family homestead. Visited the maintenance shed, where I saw there was an unused tool attached to the work bench. It was an idle vice.
  4. IndianaTwin
    Lewis’s OPS dropping like crazy. EDIT: Like Ash said.
  5. IndianaTwin
    Much-maligned Margot batting 1.000.
  6. IndianaTwin
    Bad as it is in the other 49 states, do people on this site know that it’s actually illegal to laugh loudly at Chief’s jokes when in Hawaii? It has to be a lo “ha.”
  7. IndianaTwin
    And not sustained.
  8. IndianaTwin
    But of course, Royce.
  9. IndianaTwin
    Tolkien?
  10. IndianaTwin
    So if you operate under the assumption that pretty much everyone is going to get at least one start in the opening series, would you propose giving Julien and Wallner the start against the lefty today and Farmer and Margot the start against one of the righties they will see Saturday or Sunday?
  11. IndianaTwin
    Opening Day should be a national holiday. I feel like Chuck.
  12. IndianaTwin
    Yes.* *Actually, probably not either, but "yes" was the required answer.
  13. IndianaTwin
    I’ll disagree. 😀 I’m sure it’s driven by that summer being the heyday of my childhood collecting, but this is my all-time favorite set. I like the multicolored bars and the positional silhouettes. Though this isn’t Twin-specific, I also like the “All-Time Greats” subset, since it was the 100th anniversary of the NL and 75th of the AL. That’s probably the only way I will ever have Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig cards, for example. It also has some cool “record breakers.” AND, the Traded Set extension has Oscar Gamble. It may be the best set in history for that card alone!
  14. IndianaTwin
    Here's the update from MLB.com on Sano's (and Adrianza's) likelihood of making the team: https://www.mlb.com/angels/news/angels-remaining-roster-decisions-ahead-of-opening-day
  15. IndianaTwin
    It’s definitely a positive omen that when I pulled a random bottle from my collection of vintage pops a few minutes ago, it was a Jic Jac strawberry soda. But yeah, not overlooked unless you’re in the national media and are comparing to Correa/Buxton/Lewis.
  16. IndianaTwin
    Over the last two years, a 1.15 WHIP and 2.26 ERA, with a K/BB of 3.85 and K/9 of 10.2. If he can do that again, he’ll be one of the most effective guys in the pen. As @Hheimer said, low-risk, high-reward, particularly after a couple injuries.
  17. IndianaTwin
    Resulting move being DeSclafini to the 60-day IL?
  18. IndianaTwin
    I agree — this is one of my favorite sets as well, even though I don’t have many cards from this year. The silhouetted player for the position indicator is the key. I like the 1976 set for the same reason. I don’t recall seeing the Kaat card with him as a hitter. That’s almost an impossible standard to beat. It’s splitting hairs to get to this, but the size and placement in the center of the card has me giving a tiny edge to the Oliva autograph.
  19. IndianaTwin
    https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/twins-reassign-dinged-up-top-prospect-brooks-lee-to-minors-camp-r15868/
  20. IndianaTwin
    When people talk about the Rays starters averaging fewer innings than other teams, they don't take into account the Opener effect. If you use a two-inning Opener 15 times over the course of the year, your innings per start number is going to drop by about 0.3. It's a little hard to see how often the Rays used an Opener last year, but they had 17 starts on three or fewer days rest, which points to an Opener. They had 20 games when a starter didn't pitch to any batters a second time. A starter could have been shelled, but more often that's an Opener. So it looks like they used an Opener at least 15 times. It's not unusual an Opener goes less than two full innings, but even you use the 15 x 2 figure and add 0.3 to the Rays' 4.9 average, voila, they are above average at 5.2. Eflin, Glassnow and McClanahan combined to average 5.6 innings per start. The Rays don't "pull their starters early" -- they just use an Opener more often than other teams.
  21. IndianaTwin
    Yeah, I've noticed that too. And is it just me, or does it seem like every time the starter sucks, the Twins don't let him pitch the third time through the order? Amazing how that works. 😃
  22. IndianaTwin
    Possum?
  23. IndianaTwin
    For the record, I've now listened to four Buxton at bats over the course of two spring training games, and he's hit for the cycle.
  24. IndianaTwin
    On the pop fly to short right, Atteberry wondered if the multilingual Kepler called off Julien in French. Reminded me of a story from the early days of the Mets. Not sure if I've got the positions right, but it was something like they had a Spanish-speaking shortstop. Pop fly to short center and the outfielder comes in yelling, "I got it." He gets clocked by the shortstop coming out, who didn't understand what the center fielder was calling. To address the situation, the team decides to teach the center fielder a few key Spanish phrases. Sure enough, there's a pop fly to short center and the outfielder comes in yelling, "Yo lo tengo." Annnd, he gets clocked by the second baseman.
  25. IndianaTwin
    Without pictures, it didn't happen.
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