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  1. PDX Twin
    There's a difference between "already injured" and "previously injured," no?
  2. PDX Twin
    Well, at least they are trying something. Now if they can just quit acquiring already-injured pitchers.
  3. PDX Twin
    Wow! One of my favorite non-Twins players.
  4. PDX Twin
    He might stay at SS but, if not, this old-timer remembers a pretty decent thirdbaseman named Brooks ...
  5. PDX Twin
    Someone inclined toward mathematics might call it a Gio-metric paradox.
  6. PDX Twin
    The thought of Julien and Arraez drawing 100 walks each at the top of the lineup should make Buxton and the other middle-of-the-lineup hitters giddy!
  7. PDX Twin
    IMHO: Not worth it. My (selective) memories of Correa with the Twins are from the July/August period when we were desperately clinging to the division lead, and Correa made weak outs in close games with runners in scoring position time after time after time. His statistics ended up pretty good for the year, but he was not Kirby, who always seemed to come through in his most important at-bat. And as for his clubhouse presence, the Twins clubhouse in September was about as ugly as any I remember. And this was not a bunch of jaded veterans putting in their time. It was a collection of young, impressionable rookies desperate to make a good impression. Nelson Cruz made everyone else on the team better; if Correa did, I can't see the evidence from where I sit. I'd be happy to get him for $20m/yr, but someone is going to pay him more than that, so I'll be satisfied with the Twins' standard "we tried" effort.
  8. PDX Twin
    Why would he want to come here and surely get injured? ?
  9. PDX Twin
    Lots of stinky statistics in there! I doubt that most are as bad as that, but there certainly looks like a lot of potential space on the 40-man roster.
  10. PDX Twin
    It had not occurred to me until reading this that the Twins now have batting champs born in Panama, Cuba, and Venezuela, in addition to the more mundane Minnesota and Illinois. Next country would figure to be Dominican Rep.
  11. PDX Twin
    I had a similar reaction. I enjoyed a peaceful, baseball-free late afternoon and evening. I looked in to check the score and it said 2-2 in the 6th. I said, "OK. 3-2 loss. I don't want to watch." They are so predictably awful in clutch situations.
  12. PDX Twin
    Rocco would be a great bench coach, using his analytics to help inform the manager, who makes the decisions taking that into account along with the human and tactical elements. He could be totally empathetic with the players. Just don't let him make the decisions.
  13. PDX Twin
    If I'm remembering correctly, Megan Rapinoe had two ACL ruptures early in her career. (I vividly remember watching from the stands as she limped off after the first.) She went on to be an international superstar in a sport that is much more physically demanding than baseball. It's probably all about how the individual heals, but there is hope.
  14. PDX Twin
    This is one of the places where Win Probability Added fails. Thielbar rather than Gordon got the demerits for the latter's grievous error that lost the game.
  15. PDX Twin
    What if the added velocity leads to arm problems and more time on the IL? The solution could be more of the problem.
  16. PDX Twin
    And Eddie.
  17. PDX Twin
    This seems inaccurate. Perhaps Ryan's last start?
  18. PDX Twin
    By that metric, Judge must be worth $100m and Ohtani $150m?
  19. PDX Twin
    Lost in the recriminations about the lost season: Rocco managed the bullpen well last night!
  20. PDX Twin
    IF (a big IF) history is any guide, these guys will all miss most of next season with injuries. This is the Twins, after all. ?
  21. PDX Twin
    Nick, I appreciate both the content of the article and its presentation. Highly professional writing, which is not always the case on this (or any) blog.
  22. PDX Twin
    I agree with this. They are putting in the time, collecting their paychecks, and waiting for October, when they can resume their non-baseball lives. Remember Eddie Rosario firing up Buxton and Kepler with their three-man jump balls to celebrate a catch or a win? Eddie is long gone, Buxton is in the hospital, and Kepler is just going through the motions. Most of the team is kids who are trying to learn how to behave as big-league players. They are being taught (by example) that a hand-shake and a smile is all they need to do to celebrate success and that failure is just "Oh well." There is no fire! They are being taught to suppress the emotions of the game, whether joy or anguish, that they felt in college and high school and probably still have inside of them. Eddie is long gone. Kirby is (sadly) long gone. Maybe the whiz-kids in the back room can re-program Rocco's laptop to tell him to "CHEER" when someone does well or "RANT" when someone makes an inexcusable mistake. But I doubt it. He is who he is, and he reflects the "scientific" rather than "human" approach to the game that seems to dominate our front office. That's why I don't really expect this to change. It's the "organizational culture." (And one that many on this site welcomed.) Boring-ball is, I fear, here to stay.
  23. PDX Twin
    You mean after losing three must-win games in a row (after losing three must-win games to Cleveland last weekend), there are more must-win games. If they were literally must-win games, then nothing more would matter after losing them. And that's where we are. They are seven games out with 17 to play and two teams ahead of them. There is no chance that they win the division. On the other side, our magic number to clinch third is down to 3!
  24. PDX Twin
    He's paid to sound optimistic. I would expect that he is wrong if "this thing" is the Twins' hopes for the season. I would hope that he is wrong if "this thing" is his Twins' career.
  25. PDX Twin
    Maybe, as the son of a coach, he will already know how to bunt and hit to all fields, skills that the Twins seem unable or unwilling to develop in their prospects.
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