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  1. PDX Twin
    Only in this country. I can't bring myself to call it that any more...
  2. PDX Twin
    Your point about all the teams not trying to win is a great argument for a relegation system as in football. In Europe, the teams at the *bottom* of the table are trying desperately to win every game possible to avoid relegation. Makes life much more interesting for everyone except the "comfortable mid-table" teams who have little to gain or lose from moving up or down a few places. It's probably impossible to re-build the minor league system, so I'd set up the 30 major-league teams in three divisions, with relegation and promotion of 2-3 teams between divisions at the end of every season. The playoffs/World Series would be the top 5 teams from Division 1 (out of 10), the top 2 from Division 2, and the top 1 team from Division 3, seeded in that order.
  3. PDX Twin
    Don't they say that good bitching beats good hitting?
  4. PDX Twin
    "WPA of +0.1: Kepler .847, Littell .288, Magill .288, Duffey .288, Rosario .263, Pineda .235, Rogers .144, Parker .144 "WPA of -0.1: Harper -.129, Schoop -.161, Cave -.165, Cron -.228, Garver -.240, Morin -.289, Polanco -.294, Sano -.433" Wow! Kepler (et al.) giveth and Sano (et al.) taketh away! Here's a question for someone with more energy than I: The WPA for the whole team (in a win) adds up to 0.5, increasing from an initial 0.5 to 1.0. Adding up the absolute values of just these players yields 4.142! Adding in the other players not shown here gives 4.349. This must be close to a record, but does anyone know what the record is?
  5. PDX Twin
    He'll get it one of these days. Just needed a couple more innings.
  6. PDX Twin
    Thanks for the report. This is probably the experience of a lifetime for a lot of these players. Even many of the stars on AA teams don't end up seeing much time in the majors, so despite their hopes and perhaps expectations, these occasions often turn out to be career highlights. Good luck to them tonight!
  7. PDX Twin
    To change the subject slightly (or perhaps to return to the original topic), isn't it next year that rosters expand to 26? If that's the case, then every team will have an extra slot on the MLB roster to "stash" a Rule V pick. It seems like that would make it more likely that a marginal player would be selected, no?
  8. PDX Twin
    Well, to extend the pun of my previous comment, he could just put ____enhorn.
  9. PDX Twin
    I guess this means that his manager won't be able to fill in the Blank on the lineup card.
  10. PDX Twin
    But Rochester wasn't working for him either. If he needs confidence, maybe a short vacation in Pensacola or even Ft. Myers would be useful. Let him have 5-10 appearances down there and see if he can get the ball in the strike zone, keep it in the park, and start to find a groove. If so, then bring him back to Rochester and see if he can keep it going. Then, maybe, back to the Twins. Remember, this guy was at the top of our prospect charts a couple of years ago. He's not a Rochester-shuttle/AAAA-filler player. If we are going to realize benefit from this asset, we really need to groom him for the long term.
  11. PDX Twin
    FWIW, I think I could strike out Stevie Wonder (assuming I could find the strike zone).
  12. PDX Twin
    Could also be an A-, which often counts 3.7.
  13. PDX Twin
    "In the fourth round they targeted Write State third baseman Seth Gray. Gray was teammates at Write State with Twins 2018 pick, and 2019 Midwest League All-Star, Gabe Snyder." Wright State? Orville and Wilbur would not be happy.
  14. PDX Twin
    And part of that may have been the instability of the zone itself. I don't remember a game in which there have been more pitches on which the umpire disagreed with the TV tracker.
  15. PDX Twin
    A pitcher of legumes. Interesting...
  16. PDX Twin
    "In his second rehab game with the Miracle, DH Nelson Cruz finished 1-for-3 with a strikeout. It’s looking likely he could rejoin the Twins in Cleveland. Lewis finished 2-for-4 and stole his 10th base of the season." Gotta start reading more carefully. I skipped a line and thought it said that Cruz had stolen his 10th base, which would be pretty good for two games at his age.
  17. PDX Twin
    Yup, gotta hate the IRS!
  18. PDX Twin
    Harsh on Larnach! But I can't disagree. This is one of the things not to like about rankings: there are times when two or more deserve the prize (and times when no one does).
  19. PDX Twin
    I would hazard an outsider's guess that more than half of most MLB rosters would qualify medically for the IL for one reason or another at any point in time. That leaves a lot of room for strategic "injuries" (and also for players to "gut it out" or fail to inform the club of their maladies in order to try to boost their stats).
  20. PDX Twin
    From the Chicago Sun-Times: How cool is it that other teams are starting to think they should emulate our Twins and putting them together with Boston and Houston?
  21. PDX Twin
    Did Kaat ever do a game with Vin Scully? I'd watch that just for the commentary!
  22. PDX Twin
    Injury did not look good. I just hope he is back for September.
  23. PDX Twin
    I wonder if it matters that Detroit has Hildenberger's former pitching coach (and manager). Would they have any insights on his gimmicky delivery that might not be generally available and would help their hitters?
  24. PDX Twin
    Must be "regression-to-the-mean" day (as well as Mother's Day). Slumping Gonzalez and the bottom three in the order went 9-for-14. The rest of the team---the guys who have all the gaudy stats so far---went 1-for-23.
  25. PDX Twin
    "That was followed by the fourth home run of the season, a grand slam that gave the Wings a 6-3 lead." Did I miss the part where you told us who hit it?
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