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  1. PDX Twin
    Is Buxton out of options now?
  2. PDX Twin
    The Twins have a seemingly endless list of young starting pitchers knocking on the door. A couple may turn out to be viable (or better) starters, assuming that they don't abandon the concept of a starter. Why not use the rest in the bullpen? Throughout baseball history most relief pitchers (even the good ones like, as mentioned above, Nathan) were "failed" starters. There are a lot of cases of AAAA starter --> successful MLB reliever. Surely some combination of May, Mejia, Gonsalves, Thorpe, Stewart, Romero, Slegers, Littell, De Jong, etc. could become a formidable relief corps. Some will turn out to be stars, some will flop, and some will actually make the starting staff, but the "problem" of too many almost-there starting pitchers might be a solution to the bullpen --- and a cheap one.
  3. PDX Twin
    Thanks for giving some thought to the impact of attitudes and team cohesion. It's probably less important in baseball than in other sports because so much of baseball is individual, but having a group that wants to win for the team and for each other can make a big difference. We spend so much time looking at raw numbers that it's easy to forget that these are humans producing the numbers, and human performance depends a lot on the mind-set of the players involved.
  4. PDX Twin
    Did you mean this to come out the way it did?
  5. PDX Twin
    This being the era of manic shifting, I'm guessing that they have a secret plan to use two firstbasemen.
  6. PDX Twin
    This is what worries me about moving him to first. I can just see two or three balls a week skipping past him for throwing errors (not his). We've been really spoiled the last few years...
  7. PDX Twin
    It will be interesting to see how the veteran pitchers on the roster respond to someone with no pro coaching experience.
  8. PDX Twin
    What could Sano do if he got into shape like Astudillo?
  9. PDX Twin
    Pretty amazing numbers at every level. How is it that he didn't get more love in college recruiting or in the draft? Is there something that scouts wouldn't have liked?
  10. PDX Twin
    This situation sure makes me appreciate all the wonderful things I read (here) about the good "character" of young players such as Lewis, Kiriloff, and others. I agree with the comment much earlier that it is getting harder and harder to cheer for MS, and there is increasingly less that warrants a cheer on the field or off.
  11. PDX Twin
    Wonderful! Is there any way that TD could create an index to these player profiles? It would be great when a little-known player does something later on to easily be able to go back and read the background again.
  12. PDX Twin
    Maybe the Twins can arrange a package deal for Mauer and Oliva. Both, in my opinion, deserve to be in the Hall and would be first-ballot selections if not for debilitating injuries. It would also be interesting to know what Oliva's last 10 years would have been with today's medical procedures for rehabilitation of injured knees!
  13. PDX Twin
    Do I remember some discussion that Hildenberger was tipping pitches earlier in the season, or was that someone else? If that's the explanation, it sure seems fixable.
  14. PDX Twin
    I was thinking about this conundrum as I was reading the piece. You might think about a variation to the ranked voting idea: Have ten ranks for your eight choices. In your case, you would rank the top three #1, #2, and #3 (10, 9, and 8 points). Then leave #4 open to indicate a gap in your assessment, putting your next two in as #5 and #6 (6 and 5 points). Another gap at #7 leaves your "6A, 6B, and 6C" as #8, #9, and #10 (3, 2, and 1 point). It's probably not worth the confusion it might cause, but it would allow a voter to express that not all ranks are equally spaced. If you felt really strongly about the top candidate, you could even leave a double gap at #2 and #3 and rank your second-best candidate at #4.
  15. PDX Twin
    Shocking: Allowing 2 hits and 1 run to the Yankees was not even the best pitching performance in MLB last night. There were at least two that were better! I happened to look over the scores at bedtime and, in addition to the Twins' effort: The Athletics allowed no runs and just 1 hit against BaltimoreThe Rays allowed one run and just 1 hit against ClevelandThe Red Sox allowed no runs and 4 hits against TorontoThe Mets allowed no runs and 5 hits against MiamiWow, what a night for the arms!
  16. PDX Twin
    Carrot cake with white-chocolate cream-cheese frosting!
  17. PDX Twin
    On a different topic: How did Stewart play pointy-ball with an insulin pump in his hip pocket? Did that have something to do with him choosing baseball?
  18. PDX Twin
    Jinx?
  19. PDX Twin
    "Entering play on Monday, the Cedar Rapids Kernels will have a shot at clinching the second-half championship. The Kernels are 40-23 in the second half and sit 3.5 games up on the Peoria Chiefs. In the second half, the Kernels are the only team in the entire league to win at least 20 games at home and on the road." They've really taken off since they unloaded those clowns Kiriloff, Lewis, and Graterol!
  20. PDX Twin
    Do this more often!
  21. PDX Twin
    That's appropriate for two terrible teams, no?
  22. PDX Twin
    As an old-timer---it hurts to type those words!!---I experienced both Harmon and Kirby in their primes. I'd have to give the edge to Puckett because he was a complete ballplayer. Killebrew hit tons of homeruns, but he also struck out a lot, rarely hit much over .270, was a liability in the field wherever he tried to play (1b, 3b, lf), and was not the slowest player on the Twins teams of his prime only because Earl Battey was truly molasses incarnate. I remember that in the late 1960s, before injuries brought him down, I thought that Tony Oliva was a better player than Harmon. Puckett on the other hand was an outstanding defender at a premium position, regularly hit well over .300, and was always a threat to steal or take the extra base, even though his power did not approach Killebrew's numbers. Both were great players, but Kirby was great in so many dimensions that I just have to give him the edge.
  23. PDX Twin
    Ha! The Onion ran a headline a few years back announcing that The Economist had decided to stop publishing for a month to let subscribers catch up.
  24. PDX Twin
    Games like this one are the reason we should just let draws stand instead of playing extra innings...
  25. PDX Twin
    But climate change is more like slow play: there are no *automatic* incentives leading to emission reduction (unless consumers decide they don't like products that produce carbon emissions). The incentives in that case require something like a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system, which is not an automatic adjustment.
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