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  1. USAFChief
    Do SOMEthing. They've already had too many bullpen games.
  2. USAFChief
    There were no outs when Kepler got rung up. I hate the idea of an automated strike zone, but MLB has to do its part too. Jerry Meals can't be an umpire. His umpiring that inning, including missing an easy K in the bottom of the inning, completely changed the game. I also do not understand the Twins refusing to call up starting pitching. They're in a stretch of like, 34 games in 35 days or something. They get precious few innings from the starters they DO have. Why are the intentionally doing bullpen games? Just unnecessary stress on your best relievers.
  3. USAFChief
    I'd like to see him scrap the 2 seam and throw the 4 seam almost exclusively. He can't command the 2 seam. It gets him behind in counts, or it wanders to the middle and often gets hit hard.
  4. USAFChief
    fair enough. Except the part about Ramos.
  5. USAFChief
    Sloppy. Sloppy baseball. Wild pitches, passed balls, stolen bases nearly uncontested. Godawful 0-2 pitches. Indifferent ABs. Some really bad baseball. Garver in particular is really playing poorly behind the plate.
  6. USAFChief
    I'm not a big fan of using hindsight to judge trades. I understand things can change, but it's hard for me to give credit for things that happen years from now. I think you judge be what's known at the time of the trade. I wouldn't hold it against the Twins if Alcala gets hurt, you can't know that in advance. But I also am reluctant to give a whole lot of credit if he turns into a valuable reliever. You can't know THAT, either. Judged by how it affected the teams at the time of the trade, and the year or two after, it was a pretty awful trade, IMO. Unnecessary, also.
  7. USAFChief
    This trade was one of the few clear failures of the Falvine regime. Made no sense.
  8. USAFChief
    The offense has had trouble putting anything together since the opening weekend.
  9. USAFChief
    concur...and from an 0-2 count. You also can't just let him take second and third with the Twins seemingly barely noticing.
  10. USAFChief
    It's an embarrassment to MLB that Del Poso is on a roster. 16 BBs in 11 career IP. That's not major league baseball.
  11. USAFChief
    the Rockies are in first place in the NLW.
  12. USAFChief
    they'll just have every team get in as many games as they can, and determine post season spots by winning percentage. And I'm fine with that. There was no great plan to be had. We have baseball. Let's just enjoy what we get, and not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
  13. USAFChief
    10 runs over 4 games? Sounds like three of four to me!
  14. USAFChief
    Among the many things Twins management deserves credit for, turning the pen into a legit strength comes in at the top for me. I'm a big believer in the importance of relievers to winning and losing. And both the FO and the field manager seem to me to have made it a priority. I want to give Rocco special credit for another thing...he's really good at not only using relievers by situations rather than innings, he's also way more proactive in getting his pen into a game than previous managers. I strongly believe in the old "lose a game early, its on the starter, lose a game late, its on the manager" saying. Rocco doesn't often lose games due to waiting until his starter has blown a lead and THEN trudging forlornly out to the mound to summon a reliever--AKA a "Molitor". No manager is perfect, but Rocco is light years better at taking his starter out before that happens.
  15. USAFChief
    Huh? The strike zone last night was incredibly good, and consistent. There were less than 5 possible missed calls, by my count. One would have been a called 3rd strike for Dobnak, but resulted in only one more pitch, a ground ball out. Umpiring was not a factor at all.
  16. USAFChief
    Thats not my takeaway. My takeaway is a K on a pitch that bounced.
  17. USAFChief
    I blame those godawful blue uniforms.
  18. USAFChief
    the thing is, at your age, you ARE an underrepresented minority group.
  19. USAFChief
    What now?
  20. USAFChief
    yes. Of course.
  21. USAFChief
    On the bright side, we can expect a local eatery review from LENIII any day now.
  22. USAFChief
    Source?
  23. USAFChief
    Well, sure. Ownership could take an even bigger loss than projected. I dont think that's a reasonable way forward. Keep in mind, like many industries, I expect baseball will take several years to fully recover from the damage done by covid. Things wont just magically return to previous levels in 2021.
  24. USAFChief
    but they're not getting the full revenues from other sources. If they have an 82 game schedule for example, they'd be getting half of that 25 percent from central revenue. TV isnt going to pay for a full season, when they're only getting half. So half of 25 = 12.5 percent, plus 11 percent local tv, plus 5.5 percent sponsorship, plus 2 percent other. Plus zero percent on stadium. Add that up, and for an 82 game schedule, MLB revenues should be roughly 31 percent of preseason estimates. You cant take in 31 percent of revenue, and pay 50 percent of player salaries. Doesnt work.
  25. USAFChief
    I dont need to see any "books" to understand that ownership's revenue, with zero in-stadium revenue, will not be half of what it would be with fans on the stands. So I dont need "books" to know that paying players half their salaries is not feasible for ownership. I also dont need "books" to know that ALL the financial risk is on the ownership side. I know that I want MLB to return, and that it will be ownership who makes that happen, not the players. Neither side caused the pandemic. But only one side--the players--are preventing the resumption of play. Screw them. I hope this causes the eventual collapse of the MLBPA. Would serve them right.
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