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  1. tarheeltwinsfan
    Are Mauer's rankings of fielding percentages as a catcher (fifth) and as a first baseman (eigth) among Twins' players only or for all MLB? If all MLB, when you add that to being the only MLB catcher to win 3 batting titles and a .306 lifetime batting ave,....well, that clearly says HOF to me.
  2. tarheeltwinsfan
    Seth, I really enjoy your write ups about the Twins minor league prospects. Thank you.
  3. tarheeltwinsfan
    No comment.
  4. tarheeltwinsfan
    I realize that many are drafted, but few excel. However that does not mean that the draft is merely the luck of the draw, does it? I would contend that sabermetrics are not very helpful in predicting the future major league success of a high school or college baseball player. So I ask, what information most accurately predicts future success in the major leagues? Can it be quantified?
  5. tarheeltwinsfan
    I am going to celebrate Joe Mauer this week, whether he chooses to retire this season or not. He is a superb baseball player, a class act, an involved family man, and from all accounts, a good man. All of us should all be so lucky as to have that said about us when our time to "retire" comes. When he does retire from actively playing, I hope he remains part of the Twins family for a long time. Thanks for the memories, Joe, and best wishes for a long, healthy life.
  6. tarheeltwinsfan
    Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
  7. tarheeltwinsfan
    Kiriloff and Lewis are ready. Gatorade is going to make the jump. It's time for you to get excited.
  8. tarheeltwinsfan
    OK, OK. I have now read Fan Graphs' definition of and explanation for WPA. In my previous comments I have successfully exhibited my ignorance of WPA to all the readers of TD. Perfect! I will now change my name and join the ignorant posters protection plan.
  9. tarheeltwinsfan
    Please explain more. This seems to give a pitcher credit for something he has no control over, i.e. his team's lack of ability to score runs/ The less his team scores, the more credit the pitcher gets. What am I missing?
  10. tarheeltwinsfan
    Bunt some Buck.
  11. tarheeltwinsfan
    What?
  12. tarheeltwinsfan
    Please compare Gonsalves WPA of .157 with last night's WPA of Ordorizi (.240) and then compare the innings pitched, hits, BB, SO, earned runs, etc. and explain to me why Ordorizi's WPA was so much higher than Gonsalves' WPA today.
  13. tarheeltwinsfan
    No one else may agree with this, but I would put Lewis at SS and leave him there.
  14. tarheeltwinsfan
    I hope to see Chris Williams and Junior Severino in this list next year.
  15. tarheeltwinsfan
    I agree 100%.
  16. tarheeltwinsfan
    Mathew Kory is correct. Whatever it was the Twins have tried with Sano and Buxton, has not worked. I'm not pointing fingers, I'm just saying: try something different with Sano and Buxton. These two prospects were either over rated, injured, not trained properly, at fault themselves, or late bloomers. .Or maybe a combination of some or all of these. We can't blame it on ourselves, as Twins' fans, for having expectations which were too lofty, because unbiased national talent guru's also expected much more from both Sano and Buxton. It is sad for the Twins...but even sadder for two players named Sano and Buxton. "For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been"".
  17. tarheeltwinsfan
    I saw an interesting exercise at Spring training last year and again at Elizabethton last month. There were a half dozen plastic tubes, about 4 feet long with what looked like tennis balls on each end. They were "homemade" with tape on the ends.There was some weight in the poles (maybe sand) so that the pole would"bounce up and down" while being held in the middle and the arm being moved up and down. I was told it was a new exercise. Does anyone know what this is? How about our Florida Chiropracter, Bob Sacamento?
  18. tarheeltwinsfan
    Yes, you are the only one.
  19. tarheeltwinsfan
    My question is who moves to 1B next year if Joe Mauer retires? Austin, Rooker, Garver, Kirilloff, Weil? Where will Kirilloff play? Is he a good enough OF to force Kepler or Rosario to another position...or does Kirilloff need to buy a first baseman's glove?
  20. tarheeltwinsfan
    Gordan loves to slide while making catches, even when it may be unnecessary. But he can play left field on my team any time.
  21. tarheeltwinsfan
    I'm sure most would agree that the Twins have the SS of the future at Ft. Myers. I may be wrong but I say promote Lewis to the big leagues in March 2019. Yes he is young, Yes he is inexperienced, but he is a special talent. He is a player who appears to encourage others. He will light a fire in a cold Minnesota dugout. He appears to have the personality that won't go into a depressed funk when he has slumps, which come to all baseball players every season. Sink or swim? I say Lewis should swim in Minneapolis in 2019.
  22. tarheeltwinsfan
    Outstanding post about an outstanding Twin.
  23. tarheeltwinsfan
    Did the Twins first base coach remind Astudillo that there was one out just before Astudillo was doubled off of first base? Quoting Struther Martin in "Cool Hand Luke" : "What we have here is failure to communicate."
  24. tarheeltwinsfan
    I like Molly, but I must agree with you.
  25. tarheeltwinsfan
    I knew we were in trouble in the bottom of the first inning when Kansas City players showed the Twin players how to move a player, who had hit a lead off double, to third base by hitting the ball on the ground behind the runner on second, thereby advancing the runner to 3rd base and then hitting the ball on the ground to the same location, so the runner on third could score. The Twins had looked pathetic in the top of the 1st inning in failing to advance Mauer from his lead off double. This is elementary baseball 101.
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