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  1. USAFChief
    "Pulleth my finger."
  2. USAFChief
    Correct. The Saints moved from Lexington to Midway in the mid 50's.
  3. USAFChief
    I wouldn't extend Dozier. He's an asset, to be sure, but there isn't any need to do so. The Twins can simply take whatever risk arbitration presents, and avoid the risk of a guaranteed contract.
  4. USAFChief
    I'm not convinced anything needs to be done, but if something has to be, I would prefer using methods to speed the game that concentrate on eliminating the time between pitches. Relief pitchers entering the game don't need 8 more warmup pitches. Any visit to the mound counts as a coaches visit. Put a clock on pitchers...and hitters. I think the growth of bullpens, and corresponding pitching changes, will self correct as some smart manager finds a way to get by with a 10 or 11 man pitching staff and gains an offensive and/or defensive advantage that other teams then copy. You might even see a team with a big enough bench to try this thing called a "platoon."
  5. USAFChief
    My apologies for not being more clear. My take would be, while you can't ever be sure of anything in baseball, if anything Shafer has shown he's extremely unlikely to hit. He has 1200 MLB PAs...there's a reason he was freely available. I think expecting him to succeed as the LH side of a platoon, where he will get the majority of the playing time, is unlikely in the short term, and does nothing good for the long term. I'd prefer any option other than that one.
  6. USAFChief
    Shafer has shown he can hit??
  7. USAFChief
    My takeaway from this article: yet another confirmation of my long held opinion that the draft is an unreliable and unpredictable method of talent acquisition that needs to be supplemented by every means possible at every opportunity. I dont think the Twins are appreciably better or worse than other teams at drafting. I think they have relied too much on the draft
  8. USAFChief
    That is both deceptive, and non- factual. :-)
  9. USAFChief
    At two chances per game, wouldn't advanced defensive metrics be pretty questionable as well? Particularly those that estimate two balls per game cost 15-25 runs?
  10. USAFChief
    If enough "youths" would refuse to play minor league baseball, the pay situation would resolve itself. But I don't see any want ads asking for players to fill out minor league teams. I think in their own interests, teams will start providing proper nutrition to minor leaguers. Pay? Not so much. Not until they have to.
  11. USAFChief
    As for the DH, I like it, but I could live with it going away, too. I DO think both major leagues should play under the same rules, particularly in this day and age where there really aren't two leagues. There is basically two divisions in one league. Watching a team make the WS and play half the games under a different set of rules than they used to get there cheapens the competition, IMO.
  12. USAFChief
    Many Hitters are too prideful to lay down a bunt?? I dispute that, but if they are, that would have nothing at all to do with a DH rule, unless your point is that having a hitter in the lineup incapable of doing anything BUT bunting is a good thing. I also don't think many managers would have their cleanup hitter sacrificing very often, new school, old school, worried about what the SABR folks would say, or not.
  13. USAFChief
    "We can't give our players away."
  14. USAFChief
    Right, but in 2014, Mauer would have still been eligible at catcher in most leagues. Typically, position eligibility in fantasy leagues is based on the previous year, no?
  15. USAFChief
    One would think an article written in 2015 should be able to accurately predict the 2014 playing time of everybody. Real darn accurately in fact. ;-)
  16. USAFChief
    Are you sure you want this as the standard in your next job performance review? I don't know what you do for a living, but let's say you are a salesman, one of thirty. At the start of the year, your boss tells you your goal is to sell more product than the other 29 company salesmen. You finish 2nd. You're OK with him firing you, right? You didn't meet your goal...you were unsuccessful.
  17. USAFChief
    Concur. I think Dozier is a good player...buthe shouldn't be your best player.
  18. USAFChief
    Show your work, friend.
  19. USAFChief
    Jones was part of a MLB team that played Post season exhibition games against Japanese teams while I was stationed there. He and teammates (including Torii Hunter) made a visit to Yokota Air Base for a clinic for little leaguers. Jones could not have been more gracious and friendly to my two boys...of course, both boys were decked out in Twins gear, but he went out of his way to spend extra time with them and stayed late to visit. He seemed like such a nice man. I'm sure he'll make a great guest.
  20. USAFChief
    "...leaves a perfectly normal life." And enters a new, abnormal one?
  21. USAFChief
    I don't think it's safe to normalize chances for a double play. Just looking at the AL for 2014, Texas allowed 2015 runners via hit or walk, Oakland allowed 1675. That's around 2 more runners per game, which means a lot more DP chances. Nitpic, same subject: shouldn't you be using 162 games times 15 (2430) rather than 152 times 15?
  22. USAFChief
    The lifetime .344 BA had something to do with it as well.
  23. USAFChief
    He won't start a game in CF in 2015.
  24. USAFChief
    I can't imagine a scenario where either Dozier or Plouffe hit the waiver wire in 2015, much less both.
  25. USAFChief
    Not to derail this thread, but I don't think the people who wrote the constitution had today's weapons in mind in the late 1700s. I also don't believe governments always become tyrannical if the populace isn't armed. There are numerous counter examples to that theory. And if it came to it, no amount of personal firearms are going to be effective against the resources of the government, which includes the military. Thinking otherwise is pretty delusional, IMO.
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