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  1. USAFChief
    The hitters of past eras would also have grown up, and learned to hit, in a higher velo environment. They'd hit today.
  2. USAFChief
    Lots flamed out. I don't think it's any more than today.
  3. USAFChief
    Grady Sizemore named interim manager.
  4. USAFChief
    Yes.
  5. USAFChief
    More bad injury news.
  6. USAFChief
    I think that's mostly true. I certainly agree teams place much less value on defense today. It also, to me, points out the problems of using WAR as a measure of ability. Belanger has 41 career bWAR.
  7. USAFChief
    He didn't return a top 100 prospect, so yeah, the Twins could have gotten that done, and it wouldn't have taken Lee or Walker. That's not realistic. He didn't even return a top DBacks prospect. Numbers 14 and 30 in their system, by MLB's measure. https://www.mlb.com/news/aj-puk-d-backs-marlins-trade Keep in mind Puk has 2 more years of team control as well.
  8. USAFChief
    I'm going to continue to believe Tony Oliva could hit in 1967 and he could hit in 2024. If he wasn't 80 years old of course.
  9. USAFChief
    I can't read the Athletic article, but the Driveline clearly doesn't state what you claim.
  10. USAFChief
    Can you point me to that science? As for getting outs, I'm not sure what you think is happening, but teams have always gotten 27 outs. The object is to prevent runs. And current pitching ain't preventing runs at any kind of rate better than history. Here's MLB ERA going back: 2023: 4.10 2013: 3.86 2003: 4.39 1993: 4.18 1983: 3.86 1973: 3.74 1964: 3.46 If anything, ERA is gradually going up, not down. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/pitch.shtml
  11. USAFChief
    Quick question: how are you related to Morris? Dad? Brother?
  12. USAFChief
    Focusing on Nolan Ryan as some sort of workload unicorn is my pet peeve. Starting pitchers routinely threw 200 plus innings/year for decades. 250+ if they stayed healthy. And lots of them DID stay healthy. At least as many as do now, and I'd argue more than now. And it's not like they were less effective. Hell, MLB had to lower the mound in 1969 to get more offense into the game. Baseball needs to start moving back to having pitchers pitch. The current model isn't doing a single solitary thing leading to better health. All they're doing is intentionally getting less and less from their pitchers.
  13. USAFChief
    It was a JOKE, Van. Relax.
  14. USAFChief
    Have the Twins pitched out in Rocco's tenure?
  15. USAFChief
    And why were both Buxton and Lewis out AGAIN??
  16. USAFChief
    He has as long as needed to warm up, right? If Winder can't be used in a relief role, even when he has unlimited warm up time, why is he in the pen? How long did he warm up for his eventual appearance? I mean, it's a bad situation, I agree. But inserting a short reliever just seems an odd choice.
  17. USAFChief
    I don't think the Twins management cares much about stolen bases, on either side of the ball, so I'd imagine they won't.
  18. USAFChief
    Correa won't be back this weekend.
  19. USAFChief
    I'm curious ... which one?
  20. USAFChief
    Hahaha. Good one!!
  21. USAFChief
    You have BONBONS??
  22. USAFChief
    I've got tickets for both halves of Friday's doubleheader. Feels like a sweep is needed.
  23. USAFChief
    She had plenty of dead time to fill.
  24. USAFChief
    Somebody could stand to mix in a salad once in a while.
  25. USAFChief
    Just a little reminder of who we have in Thielbar.
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