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  1. PDX Twin
    Ervin Santana, Jake Odorizzi, Michael Pineda, Phil Hughes. The Twins HAVE had success acquiring veteran starting pitching. But they have to buy carefully, avoid long-term contracts, and leave enough room for the promising youngsters to rise when they are ready.
  2. PDX Twin
    This new M is pretty awful. I actually liked the old M that they used in the early 1990s. I have and still wear a Portland Beavers cap with a like-styled P from when they were the Twins' AAA affiliate.
  3. PDX Twin
    No no no no no no no no no! We have enough left-handed striker-outers!
  4. PDX Twin
    I'd be looking at starters rather than minor-league relievers. I don't know all the details, but most of the key recent internal relief stars that I remember were starters in the minors and even in the majors to begin with: Rogers, Duffey, May, Nathan (with Giants), Duran, Perkins, etc. The minor-league relief aces were either never given a chance or didn't do especially well: Burdi, Chargois, and few others that I remember TD posters begging to see in Minneapolis.
  5. PDX Twin
    In the good old days, there were a couple of "swing men" on the pitching staff who could do spot starts but mostly did 3-4 inning relief appearances when the starter crashed early. A 4-inning relief stint saves two 2-inning or four 1-inning appearances and keeps the bullpen fresh, especially if the game is not close. Is this not a possible model today, where everything seems totally scripted and there is little flexibility. I thought this might be where the team was going with Winder on the roster as a 6th starter who was not actually in the rotation at the beginning of the year, but it didn't seem to work out that way.
  6. PDX Twin
    Will a pitcher ever win a batting title? Seemed like a totally stupid question until Ohtani came along.
  7. PDX Twin
    So, another one headed for surgery to remove the chip?
  8. PDX Twin
    The Bay Area? Are you referring to Mission Bay? Or have the Padres moved a few hundred miles north?
  9. PDX Twin
    There's a difference between "already injured" and "previously injured," no?
  10. PDX Twin
    Well, at least they are trying something. Now if they can just quit acquiring already-injured pitchers.
  11. PDX Twin
    Wow! One of my favorite non-Twins players.
  12. PDX Twin
    He might stay at SS but, if not, this old-timer remembers a pretty decent thirdbaseman named Brooks ...
  13. PDX Twin
    Someone inclined toward mathematics might call it a Gio-metric paradox.
  14. 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!
  15. 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.
  16. PDX Twin
    Why would he want to come here and surely get injured? ?
  17. PDX Twin
    Unlike, say, the Twins and Angels, whose advanced analytics have them battling to stay out of the cellar? A blend would be nice. Use the analytics to suggest, not to decide. Let the manager read the players and make decisions taking the analysis into account, but also thinking about what he knows/thinks about the player and situation. Then if the manager fails, it's his fault and he can be fired. As nearly as I can tell (and I'm NOT an expert), these algorithms are usually simple, deterministic, and based entirely on history. Any deterministic algorithm always gives the same answer, so we never bunt or steal. Because we never bunt or steal, and our opponent knows that we never bunt or steal, they can set the defense to counter what we are going to do without worrying about those possibilities. It's great to have our hitters know what pitch that particular pitcher/catcher/manager is likely to choose, but then let the hitter read the pitcher and the defense, using the historical knowledge but also observing the current situation. It seems obvious to me. Analysis is a tool, not a religion.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. PDX Twin
    This is the kind of blowout win that can trigger a long winning streak. Oh, wait. ?
  21. PDX Twin
    What I miss about baseball during the offseason is its daily nature. I'll be following English football and the World Cup, but those don't happen every day. I don't watch every Twins game of every inning of the ones I do watch, but I really enjoy having it (and all of you!) there every day.
  22. PDX Twin
    Buxton catches that. (And collides with Wallner and misses 2023.)
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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