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  1. 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?
  2. PDX Twin
    From a Jay's blog ("BlueBirdBanter") in discussing the Twin's 7 runs in the first three innings: "Suffice to say that y=2^x-1 (where y is the other team’s runs and x is the innings) is not a winning formula, even if it it’s it doesn’t extend to the fourth inning." I guess math isn't banned on their site!
  3. PDX Twin
    You must be very young. Back when baseball was men against men instead of tactics against tactics, I wouldn't be surprised if some team went most of a season without a start shorter than 5 innings.
  4. PDX Twin
    You didn't mention that Sr. Sano was 0-5 with 2 Ks. Average is now at .091.
  5. PDX Twin
    Would the title of the article be better as "Perez imperezes"?
  6. PDX Twin
    You can get SP5 at an ATM? I can only get $20s.
  7. PDX Twin
    Is the score reversed on the CR game? The headline says that CR won.
  8. PDX Twin
    How can there be an answer to that question? There are situations where we need him for a key out against a lefty and there are situations (such as yesterday) where we need him for two innings. One of the fine arts of managing is recognizing game situations and using pitchers to maximize wins, while still balancing the load so that everybody stays fresh.
  9. PDX Twin
    "Lettuce" hope that he continues to excel! It would be fun to have him on the same team as Kohl (Cabbage-in-German) Stewart some day.
  10. PDX Twin
    One of the things I like a lot about this squad is its depth. The hitters can make a positive impact 1 through 9. The pitching staff less so, but if Gibson gets going and Odorizzi figures out how not to be wild after 4 innings, there are at least four guys who should give you a chance to win. Although the average quality in the bullpen could be better, we are not dependent on a Joe Nathan to clean up every game. Winning games like yesterday's and today's makes a big difference at the end of the season. Two losses and we are .500. Two wins and we top the division.
  11. PDX Twin
    And the exact opposite was true in Pensacola, where the broadcaster (Joe Garagiola's grandson!) couldn't remember a game with such a strong wind off the bay, against the batters. Popups to shortstop were ending up 5 rows back in the seats behind the dugout.
  12. 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."
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. PDX Twin
    It looks like maybe you reversed the score in the Cedar Rapids headline. I saw it and was thinking "sweep"!
  16. 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?
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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?
  20. 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.
  21. PDX Twin
    And Dozier always insisted on batting lead-off, which Molitor indulged...
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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!!!
  25. 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!
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