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  1. USAFChief
    Lindor doesn't get many days off either. He missed the start of the season. Nor Carlos Santana, Acuna, Albies, Semien, Solar, Merrifield, Freddie Freeman, Matt Chapman, Betts, Devers, Jose Abreu. All are over 140 games played (except Lindor), and that's just a quick search. Plenty of players still get few scheduled off days. Injuries are something else, of course.
  2. USAFChief
    I hate ESPN.
  3. USAFChief
    I'm not asking for Rocco to be fired. I'm asking him to change this particular management technique. I'm assuming, like most (successful) managers, he adapts and changes as he gains experience.
  4. USAFChief
    Well, you read all kinds of stuff on a fan board, that's for sure.
  5. USAFChief
    Uffda.
  6. USAFChief
    Really? Darvish has given the Cubs 157 innings of 108 ERA+ pitching, with a 1.13 WHIP and almost 11 K/9. 3.5 K/W. 2.69 ERA in the second half. I highly doubt the Cubs are looking to trade Darvish, but if they are, I hope Falvine are all over it. He'd be the Twins best or second best starter, now and probably next year.
  7. USAFChief
    Boy, you're just full of good news today, ain'tcha??
  8. USAFChief
    Hat tips all around. This place is pretty neat.
  9. USAFChief
    False. Eliezer Alfonso, Alex Rodriguez, and Raul Mondesi all had their initial suspensions reduced. Few, but not none. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_suspended_for_performance-enhancing_drugs
  10. USAFChief
    How is any of this relevant in any way to resting players?
  11. USAFChief
    See above.
  12. USAFChief
    Um, YES. He took the pills intentionally. Nobody slipped them into his morning smoothie. He said as much. The pills contained a substance that is banned. The substance is banned because it is a known masking agent. Everything in my statement is factual. I agree there's at least some room to consider he might have been taking the pills for reasons other than masking PEDs. However, that doesn't change anything about my statement. (And as an aside, it's a looooooong stretch to think he took them solely to lose weight. There are so many other ways to lose weight, and this substance is not an over the counter medication, so it had to have been obtained either illegally, or from another country, which is itself enough to call into question why he'd be taking pills given by a friend from another country. Irregardless, even if 100 percent through stupidity, it changes nothing about my statement).
  13. USAFChief
    Cleveland beat the Angels. 5 game lead.
  14. USAFChief
    the smiley face pretty much ruins this.
  15. USAFChief
    and there it is. All the rationalization and maybe-this's and maybe-thats amount to very little, when placed in this simple context. He's banned because he intentionally took a banned substance, banned because it's a known masking agent.
  16. USAFChief
    Congrats!
  17. USAFChief
    Just would like to say, this thread is great. Plenty of strongly held opinions, strongly stated, with evidence and logic on all sides, and nary a nose out of joint or insult hurled. Kudos all around. For the record, my opinion is, there almost has to be more to the story. I can't imagine firing Dombrowski a year after a WS title based solely on baseball reasons.
  18. USAFChief
    And I'd like the regulars to play 155 games, minimum. 158 is more like it, and truth be told, 162 isn't asking too much. It's never been out of the norm for players other than catchers. I highly doubt an extra day off makes any difference whatsoever in how they feel, or function. And I'd rather the regulars be in the lineup when available, since there's a really good chance they'll be out of the lineup due to injury at some point anyway. Why intentionally add time off?
  19. USAFChief
    They're all resting more than I would like. It's part of Baldelli's "style." Regular, scheduled off days. http://www.startribune.com/manager-rocco-baldelli-is-leading-twins-in-a-hands-off-manner/510596922/
  20. USAFChief
    No. I started the thread because I don't see any benefit to "resting" players. Sano/LaMarre had nothing to do with it.
  21. USAFChief
    How many times does Francona willingly keep Lindor out of the lineup?
  22. USAFChief
    Uffda.
  23. USAFChief
    so what you're saying is, we have the known knowns, the known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns?
  24. USAFChief
    I haven't forgotten what Lamarre has accomplished prior to and since, Spring Training 2018.
  25. USAFChief
    Or perhaps they've cheated themselves out of even better stats by not playing the players primarily responsible for accumulating them. Injuries are another story, of course. Although it's often a fine line there, too. But I generally defer to the manager, trainer, and players to know when to play through owies, and when not to. And it happens a lot, nobody goes through a 162 game schedule perfectly healthy all the time. But this business of scheduled days off? Folly, iyam.
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