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  1. USAFChief
    There's another kind??
  2. USAFChief
    I'd wager neither CJ Cron NOR Miguel Sano are in Twins camp next spring. 6 pack?
  3. USAFChief
    I don't concur he "pitched as well as ever for the last month." He got some outs. He was pitching terribly and the results weren't going to continue. Low velo, looping curve, poor command. Every time. We see position players throw a 1-2-3 inning sometimes too. That doesn't mean they pitched well or we should throw them out there again, based on small sample results. Duffey had nothing. All year. And he was pretty bad last year as well.
  4. USAFChief
    1st: thanks Lucas and Heezy for your great help here. 2nd: for either or both: assuming normal recovery and rehab times, is it likely he will meet the Twins "hopes" and be physically ready for spring training?
  5. USAFChief
    It was a bad play by the left fielder. That bad play contributed to the winning run scoring. I don't think that's controversial or even debatable. And there's nothing "unnecessarily negative" about pointing that out.
  6. USAFChief
    We can certainly observe that playing an infielder in the outfield certainly contributed to the play, since he took not one BUT TWO crowhops, costing not just a "split second" but enough time to make what should have been "out by 15 feet" to close enough to be screwed by replay. The popup was to very shallow left. It shouldn't have even been close. It was a poorly executed and thereby late throw. It doesn't make one a "bad fan" to recognize and acknowledge that. That we're playing an infielder in the OF doesn't make it better, either. It's a cause, perhaps, not an excuse. Bad defense shows up in many ways. We laugh when an opponent makes a bad play. We can't lament when the Twins do? We can't expect better?
  7. USAFChief
    The easy fix is to change the rule, so we don't have umps on the field OR off trying to interpret a poorly written bad idea and make a pure judgement call instead of easily defined, incontrovertable safe or out like it was for a century and a half, and still should be. Demand the runner slide, and be done with it. There are collisions at 2nd base all the time. Infielders block 2nd and 3rd with their leg. All the time. Yet we don't have some poorly written rules regulating that. For good reason.
  8. USAFChief
    Rocco is completely correct.
  9. USAFChief
    Absolute horsebleep call. First of all, the rule itself is stupid. Baseball should be played, not patty cake. 2nd, even considering the candy*** rule, it was incorrectly applied. Merrifield had a lane, and chose not to use it. Some faceless cowards in NY change the outcome of a game? What has happened to my favorite sport?
  10. USAFChief
    Complete BS.
  11. USAFChief
    More ******* bad baserunning. WTF is Kepler doing???
  12. USAFChief
    When did they stop playing baseball and start playing patty cake? What a crock of ****.
  13. USAFChief
    Nobody left. Leon is it.
  14. USAFChief
    Gotta admit I don't understand bringing in Thielbar to face Chapman.
  15. USAFChief
    3 to 2.
  16. USAFChief
    Which one?
  17. USAFChief
    I wonder how often draftkings offers a home team division leader at +160.
  18. USAFChief
    No Buxton, no Correa. Archer on the mound, likely 4 IP max. Bullpen scorched earth. Nick Gordon in the 5 hole. Got 'em right where we want 'em.
  19. USAFChief
    That's a shame. Hopefully fixes the issue and he's ready next February.
  20. USAFChief
    Haha, I showed THAT idiot. I'm typing rn on that very model!!
  21. USAFChief
    What situation is that? Called up to the big leagues?
  22. USAFChief
    I'd say no. But I'd also say, "wow. Didn't see that coming."
  23. USAFChief
    I'm still skeptical, but there's no debating Gordon has had a really nice 6 weeks at the plate. He's been really valuable. And the long side of a platoon is doable, for sure. A LH hitter can be protected from LH pitching. There's just not that much LH pitching. I'm not yet ready to believe he's a 120 OPS+ hitter, even platooned, but I've certainly been wrong before. He doesn't even have to be that good to be very valuable, given his versatility.
  24. USAFChief
    Winnah.
  25. USAFChief
    Not reviewable. I don't think that met the rule for interfere anyway. Has to affect the throw, not the follow through. .
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