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  1. PDX Twin
    Davis is on an amazing run. It's tempting to start a "Free Jaylin" thread, but freein' and jailin' are a contradiction.
  2. PDX Twin
    So we'll have to trade Buxton to the Yankees for a back-up catcher, right?
  3. PDX Twin
    Others have described Arraez as simply "a ballplayer." I couldn't agree more. In addition to being a hitting machine, he does the little things well most of the time and makes the occasional unexpected play. It seems like he doesn't have the most talent on the field in terms of speed, throwing arm, strength, etc., but he uses what he has at maximum efficiency to be a very good major-league player. We need a few of those sprinkled in with the (often underachieving) uber-talents!
  4. PDX Twin
    Maybe someone with more knowledge can help me out on this one: Why is it no problem at all for a starter to throw 100 pitches every 5th day, but a reliever cannot throw 20 pitches every day, adding up to 100 pitches every five days? I get that something will be lost to warming up 5 times instead of 1, but the starter throws warm-up pitches every inning but the reliever only once or twice per appearance, which should mitigate some of that. But these days it seems like it is viewed as abusive to have a pitcher throw even 3 20-pitch outings in 4-5 days. Is it just empirical observation that RPs' effectiveness declines over the year with that level of usage? If so, would that be the case for all RPs or would some have more endurance than others? Is there some physiological basis for the difference in 5-day pitch counts? Help me out!
  5. PDX Twin
    I remember a lot of us having great debates about Garver vs. Stuart Turner, who was drafted in the same year. I think the Twins got this one right.Turner's career MLB average is .134 in 37 games with the Reds in 2017. This year he's hitting .163 with the Reds' AAA affiliate.
  6. PDX Twin
    I remember that in the 1950s they were still being called the "Redlegs." Maybe that was deemed politically incorrect...
  7. PDX Twin
    Nit-picking: The box score says that the Red Wings' score was 11-4.
  8. PDX Twin
    The application of this simple idea to monetary policy won the Nobel Prize for two economists, one of whom was from the U. of Minnesota.
  9. PDX Twin
    Agreed. Neither team looked like a quality team last night. Both made enough mistakes to deserve to lose. Rogers was the difference.
  10. PDX Twin
    E'town v. Birmingham? The box score says Burlington...
  11. PDX Twin
    I guess it's redemption for Blankenhorn and Kirilloff in the 10th. They came up with the bases loaded and no outs in the eighth and couldn't get a run home. They'll fit right in with the Twins.
  12. PDX Twin
    If we give Rooker a game, will he get 10 HR?
  13. PDX Twin
    The last couple of weeks the Twins have been about what most of us thought they would be before the season: Solid but inconsistent. Most forecasters had us at ~85-90 wins, not 95-100, and that's consistent with what's been happening. It seems that we were deluding ourselves if we thought that the team could keep winning two out of three. But the great start gives us a cushion to challenge to win the division, rather than just squeezing into a wild card spot, if we can play at the expected, solid, pace for the rest of the season.
  14. PDX Twin
    Just to rain on the 4th of July parade: Wahoos get 21 hits ... and Kirilloff is 0-for-4. Including the DSL, the Twins' affiliates' run differential on the day is -24.
  15. PDX Twin
    Maybe it means that he *is* working on his swing and is still not quite comfortable with the changes.
  16. PDX Twin
    Only in this country. I can't bring myself to call it that any more...
  17. 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.
  18. PDX Twin
    Don't they say that good bitching beats good hitting?
  19. 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?
  20. PDX Twin
    He'll get it one of these days. Just needed a couple more innings.
  21. 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!
  22. 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?
  23. PDX Twin
    Well, to extend the pun of my previous comment, he could just put ____enhorn.
  24. PDX Twin
    I guess this means that his manager won't be able to fill in the Blank on the lineup card.
  25. 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.
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