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  1. PDX Twin
    One might have said: "Joe Record came on in the ninth to slam the door however, and grabbed his to RECORD his first save of the season while striking out the side."
  2. PDX Twin
    I turned off the Twins in disgust and switched over to the Blue Wahoos against the Jumbo Shrimp. (Gotta love those MiLB nicknames!) I thought I was in a time warp. The Shrimp had the bases loaded with no outs and the Wahoos' pitcher proceeded to hit the batter to force in a run, cutting a two-run lead to one. They managed to get out of it but only because the next batter swung and missed at a 3-2 pitch above his eyes. Wow, maybe the Twins just needed worse Mets.
  3. PDX Twin
    I guess he's had too many major-league innings to be a "prospect," but has everyone completely given up on Romero? Over the last two years he has been the "next big thing" and now all of the sudden I don't see any mention of him.
  4. PDX Twin
    It looks like maybe you reversed the score in the Cedar Rapids headline. I saw it and was thinking "sweep"!
  5. PDX Twin
    One thing that hasn't been said: Why was he playing so shallow at that point in the game? I think I remember that it used to be a cardinal rule for centerfielders to play deep enough that they could get back on any catchable fly ball. This would be especially important late in a close game where the defense is trying to prevent extra-base hits. Yes, he should have played the ball off the wall for a double given that he couldn't get to it. But shouldn't he have been positioned deeply enough to make the catch?
  6. PDX Twin
    After today, it looks like Romero needs a league with a bigger plate. Or maybe just one where walks don't matter, like AAA. I'd pencil him off the roster until he gets it together.
  7. PDX Twin
    I can't say I'm surprised at this finding. My nickname for him is "The Big Whiff." I have a feeling that I'm not going to enjoy watching this year's Twins very much: K, K, BB, HR, K ... in a good inning.
  8. PDX Twin
    What makes me toward Oliva is that a strongly suspect (though I don't recall the exact nature of his injuries) that the medical knowledge of 2019 (or even of 1989) could have rebuilt his knee and allowed him to run again. Does anyone with a medical inclination have more information about (1) exactly what he did to his knee and (2) how successfully these problems are treated now?
  9. PDX Twin
    "And we all know that if a hitter doesn't have his lower half, he doesn't have much, which is how a guy with Miguel Sano's ability puts up a .228/.320/.417 slash line in 99 games between the majors and Triple-A in his age-25 season." This makes me appreciate all the more what Tony Oliva accomplished after his debilitating injuries.
  10. PDX Twin
    And Dozier always insisted on batting lead-off, which Molitor indulged...
  11. PDX Twin
    This is the key, for me. There are few players who are legitimately "difference makers," either on the field or in terms of attracting attendance. For everyone else, a rising prospect is a "cheap" and close substitute, so it's not worth paying a lot more than the basic wage. This is basic economics and I think that some of the analytics have demonstrated this to GMs. The players can rant and rave, but they can't really change the economic laws of nature any more than Ford or Chrysler can return to the days of the 1960s when there were no substitutes for their unreliable gas-guzzlers.
  12. PDX Twin
    I have a hard time working up a lot of sympathy for someone who wants $350m rather than $300m. All MLB players earn very high salaries, period. If there is a problem it is with the minor-league players.
  13. PDX Twin
    Downside of an academic schedule: It's hard to travel except in mid-winter and summer. Upside of impending retirement: Not any more!!!
  14. PDX Twin
    Some rational economic reasoning here. Extrapolation is very risky. I recall a wonderfully humorous article on this subject in the Economist's holiday issue a decade or so ago. One of their examples was that, if one extrapolated the trend at that time, by 2100 everyone in Chicago would be murdered every year!
  15. PDX Twin
    I'm guessing that the Twins are pushing on all fronts: Rosario, Berrios, Kepler, and maybe Sano and Buxton, and that Polanco is simply the first for whom terms have been agreed. Others are likely to follow if they can get to an agreement, or not.
  16. PDX Twin
    We get Seattle games in Oregon, and I believe that they go out to Idaho and maybe Western Montana and parts of Utah as well. Their region seems comparable to the Twins'.
  17. PDX Twin
    It must be the shift. Play 4 firstbasemen and pitch the lefties inside.
  18. PDX Twin
    Interesting, but many/most of these contracts are for more than one year, so it is pretty harsh (especially for situations like Darvish) to count the entire contract $ but not the entire contract-period wins.
  19. PDX Twin
    Funny. I just remember getting what seemed like a dozen Jerry Lumpe and Diego Segui cards before I finally got a Harmon Killebrew!
  20. PDX Twin
    Yes. It's easy, but dangerous, to forget that all of the numbers that we crunch are the result of human activity, controlled by adolescent and post-adolescent brains that are not always perfectly rational.
  21. PDX Twin
    I hear this a lot, and not just with Buxton. There's an assumption hidden in here that may not be valid: that it is easy for players to learn to bunt. Is that really true? We never hear anyone say "if he would learn to hit like Rod Carew." We never hear anyone say "if X would learn to field like Ozzie Smith." Is it true that bunting is a learnable in a way that hitting and fielding are not?
  22. PDX Twin
    A name that Dick and Bert will constantly mispronounce?
  23. PDX Twin
    And this, it seems to me, is the job of the new manager. Whatever happened in the Molitor era is water under the bridge. It's up to the manager and coaching staff to help make sure that players get the right kinds of support, encouragement, or discipline to make the most of their physical skills. Based on what I've read about Mr. Baldelli, I'm cautiously optimistic.
  24. PDX Twin
    I remember a few years ago Byron Buxton wore (and preferred) the number 7. It's at least possible that the quick retirement of that number was a response to a request from Buxton to switch his number to 7. I suppose that they could have just told him "No, we're saving that to retire later on," but if you're doing that then you've de facto already retired the number, and why postpone the celebration?
  25. 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.
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