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  1. terrydactyls
    I think "fleecing" is not the correct term. That implies that Buxton mislead or deceived the Twins. I'm pretty confident that he fully hoped/intended to play 150 games. But on another note, I think the entire plan of scheduled "rest" days is a failure. I can almost accept four or five a season, but these players are supposed to be trained athletes, not beer league softball players. Cal Ripken didn't take a rest day for over 13 years! Twins' players can't make it a full week? And, despite all the rest days, they still had 37 guys on the IL and finished the season with no life or energy. It sure looks like scheduled rest days did not do any good.
  2. terrydactyls
    Why should a front office get all the hype for Cleveland's pitching pipeline? What about Cleveland's minor league pitching coaches? Shouldn't they get most of the credit? They are the people that actually molded these pitchers into major leaguers. Maybe the Twins' minor league pitching coaches just suck!
  3. terrydactyls
    I have no comments today about the current team, 2023, or whether Correa stays. I just have two items. 1. Calling Royce Lewis accident prone is disingenuous. His first ACL injury came when a Texas guy wanted to see an ice storm close up. He wasn't familiar with the "shuffle your feet" method of propulsion that Minnesotans find to be second nature. I lived in Texas over 20 years and winter is an enigma to them. He really has only had one baseball injury. 2. A lot of people talk about exit velocity. Has anyone measured the speed of the ball when Correa throws? Personally, I don't think I've ever seen a SS throw with such velocity. Reminds me of some of the great right fielders like Roberto Clemente and Dwight Evans.
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    I would also like a Lewis/Lee combination on the left side but with Lee as the SS and Lewis at 3B. I think Lee is the better fielder of the two.
  5. terrydactyls
    It might also be possible that his poor play at SS is affecting his batting. With Lewis and Lee both ahead of him at SS, it's time to move him to another position and see if his hitting improves.
  6. terrydactyls
    I noticed that Francona several times during the extra innings employed a new and unique strategy. He instructed the batter to intentionally lay down a bunt to move the ghost runner closer to home plate. How long has that been a legal maneuver?
  7. terrydactyls
    If spin rate is such a positive thing, why do names like Archer, Bundy, and Smetzer appear in these lists and Duran does not? I guess Duran is all smoke and mirrors?
  8. terrydactyls
    Jaylen Nowlin pitched in relief yesterday for Cedar Rapids and is going to start today's game?
  9. terrydactyls
    According to this very article to which you are responding, Greinke did only last four innings. So maybe the coaching was there after all.
  10. terrydactyls
    Wow! Same old, same old. It seems like an article similar to this one is written several times each week. And if not, several articles on other topics will spiral off topic and these same old arguments will be rehashed.
  11. terrydactyls
    If this question has asked and answered previously, I apologize. What is the reason for Wallner hitting in the leadoff position?
  12. terrydactyls
    Good article, Nick. And I'm glad you stated right at the beginning that the injuries did not absolve the managerial staff or front office from blame. Too bad all the posters ignored that statement and chose to turn it into another opportunity to dump on the managerial staff and the front office.
  13. terrydactyls
    I get you missed the smiley face. ?
  14. terrydactyls
    Not on topic? It's about Lee, isn't it?
  15. terrydactyls
    Getting back to the actual topic, I can see the front office trading Lee for an often injured but controllable starting pitcher or a "used to be good" reliever. ?
  16. terrydactyls
    And just for clarification, please list some of the "lot of people that would be a better manager than Rocco".
  17. terrydactyls
    I know I'm old and don't understand the new analytics of today's game but, technically speaking, .230 is below .233. Ergo, the statement by the OP is correct.
  18. terrydactyls
    Does anyone know for sure if the organization's philosophy is that starting pitchers cannot pitch past the fifth inning? It is only a couple weeks until the end of the minor league seasons and I would think that the pitchers should have stretched enough by now to pitch in to at least the 7th inning.
  19. terrydactyls
    This list would have looked much better if the front office had not succumbed to Twins Daily pressure and traded away Steer, Encarnacion-Strand, Hajjar, Gibson-Long, Povich, and Cano (plus some lower level guys that may turn out to be major league players) in a futile attempt to strengthen a team that had no chance of going anywhere in the postseason (in my humble opinion). To many of you, the chance to possibly win one playoff game was more important than building a World Series competitive team.
  20. terrydactyls
    Rocco tries to save his bullpen for the next two games and gets criticized. If Rocco had pulled Bundy, he would have been blasted for overusing his bullpen. He just can't please the Rocco haters.
  21. terrydactyls
    If the third base coach is watching the play develop before signaling the runner whether to stop or continue, then down the line and away from the line is where he should be so he can be seen by the runner.
  22. terrydactyls
    If Torrez would have flown out, then there would be no complaining about Varland being pulled. 20-20 hindsight management would be wonderful but it ain't real. HOWEVER, I am an old fart and I believe that starting pitchers should last until at least the 7th inning. The current method of short starts followed by four more innings by relief pitchers boggles my mind. To do that effectively, you need ten solid relievers to make it through a season. Because the front office hasn't done a good job of bringing in solid relievers, then the current method is doomed from the beginning.
  23. terrydactyls
    I agree 100%. It seem to me that all the metrics freaks use them to rationalize their opinion of what is important. And if none of the current metrics prove their point, they create a version that does. OPS becomes OPS+. WAR becomes FWAR. The list goes on endlessly.
  24. terrydactyls
    I would be willing to bet that all the Fortune 500 companies have a large group of statisticians helping Upper Management with business plans.
  25. terrydactyls
    So as I am reading this, you agree with the data saying that facing hitter's for a third time is bad but the data sample is small. Perhaps this is a Catch-22 situation in which a manager pulls his pitcher before he gets too deep into the third iteration which, in turn, guarantees a small sample size? With the limited sample size, pulling the pitcher seems to be the most advantageous thing to do.
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