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  1. USAFChief
    It's stupid baseball to hold the runner in almost every case. It's a hit to the OF. Send him. It's takes pretty much a perfect play to get any kind of decent runner. I don't even care if they DO make the play and throw him out. In the long run, you're waaaaay better off sending a runner from second on a hit to the OF EVERY TIME. You score more.
  2. USAFChief
    as expected.
  3. USAFChief
    Send the runner every time on a hit to the OF. Make them throw you out.
  4. USAFChief
    We get a hit with RISP...and don't score. sigh
  5. USAFChief
    I can't think of a benefit. Of course, I'm not smarter than you. Which is true in most cases of course.
  6. USAFChief
    And there's a lefty coming in. Will Rocco get played and take out Wallner and Larnach again? One PA each, like last night? edit: I'm pleasantly shocked. And Wallner had about the hardest hit so far.
  7. USAFChief
    Watching this offense is often a cure for insomnia.
  8. USAFChief
    And battle your tail off.
  9. USAFChief
    I generally have no problem with swinging 2-0. But as a leadoff guy, you better hit it hard. Not pop it up.
  10. USAFChief
    Those platoon splits make no sense...they show Wallner with more PAs against LH starters than LH pitching in total. What up, BBRef?
  11. USAFChief
    If I were a betting man, and I am, I'd bet Helman won't make it through the weekend on the 26 man roster nor make it through November on the 40 man.
  12. USAFChief
    Wallner has 88 career MLB PAs against LH pitching, spread across 3 seasons. Larnach 181. Neither has "established" anything. Y'know who DOES have an established track record? Manny Margot.
  13. USAFChief
    Which means Kepler to the IL has nothing to do with Helman, right? Unless they play with an unusable Kepler on the bench until Friday, then IL him. What they SHOULD do is activate Buxton today, and make the Kepler decision today.
  14. USAFChief
    They'll play shorthanded until Friday? I guess it's the Twins so that's certainly possible.
  15. USAFChief
    I'd assume Helman for Buxton. I'd guess Tonkin for Varland. He pitched last night, and is somewhere near the bottom of the bullpen pecking order. Edit: Ninja'd. Dammit!
  16. USAFChief
    And defense. Infielders in the outfield, a statue at 2nd base. Same slavish reliance on platoons, to the point Helman is in RF. Wallner and Larnach 1 PA each. Where's the flouncer?
  17. USAFChief
    You did miss something. It was Rocco who made out the lineup and filled it with the players who did fail to make the plays or drive in any runs. These things matter.
  18. USAFChief
    One PA each for Larnach and Wallner. Well played, Baldelli. Well played.
  19. USAFChief
    Seriously? Vazquez??
  20. USAFChief
    Lee just looks completely overmatched, running into one last night notwithstanding.
  21. USAFChief
    Tonkin maybe has nothing to do with the Twins, but the Twins do not ask their pitchers to use a slide step. They have come out and said stolen bases are a lower priority than the batter. No slide step, no pitchouts, little attention to baserunners. It's an organizational philosophy.
  22. USAFChief
    Farmer's range, measured via the same scale as glaciers, comes into play yet again. That's three already this game.
  23. USAFChief
    Put me down as in favor of removing Festa, no matter the result. Now about the lineup...
  24. USAFChief
    Better'n pine tar based mayo.
  25. USAFChief
    I don't even understand the "playing not to lose" theory. And of course Rocco has to get every RH bat in, for what? To weaken the defense? We have one run through 4. What good did it do to load the lineup with weak RH bats?
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