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Dave Winfield's strike zone was a bit bigger than Jose Altuve's strike zone.
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A few thoughts, it's nice that Delabar is admitting to it it but he gave it with a few caveats. He claims that there were trace amounts of the banned substance and it was in an over the counter supplement. He then says he's never tried to use supplements. So, eh. From the milb wite up of his suspension: Delabar, 33, tested positive for Ostarine, a performance-enhancing substance in violation of the program, according to MLB. Ostarine, also known as Enobosarm, is considered a "selective androgen receptor modulator," or SARM, which was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2008. It's used in the treatment of muscle wasting and osteoporosis, and several professional athletes have been linked to it, including former IBF super-middleweight boxing champion Lucian Bute and UFC fighters Tim Means and Tom Lawlor.
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No, the stakes are far less for some idiots in a pick game of basketball. Their competitiveness level is far below professional players.
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It happens in every single sport. Players hit, punch, yap, bark, bite, throw things, swear, threaten etc. This is by no means only a baseball thing.
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I'm not betting on self driving cars. I think we can get there but I think we're farther away than what is being implied in this thread and I'm not sure it's as needed as some think. Remember, the zone is supposed to be different for every player. I think this is the official definition in the rule book - "The STRIKE ZONE is that area over home plate the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants, and the lower level is a line at the hollow beneath the kneecap. The Strike Zone shall be determined from the batter's stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball."
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If Polanco finishes the year with a 108 OPS+, more walks than strike outs, solid defense at short, 5 WAR and another 5 years of team control, his trade value will be much, much higher than today. But right now, I think the Twins should wait to see where things are. I do think they'll trade Santiago and probably Santana. Berrios should be up soon. I'd rather the Twins try and trade Dozier again though and let Polanco grow with the rest of this young nucleus.
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Actually, a lot of boys were told to punch back and not be a ****** but i digress. But, again, I am always stunned by your naivety on this. These are athletes playing at the highest level of competition in incredibly stressful circumstances. Yet you expect them to act like office workers at a HR firm or something. Hell, you've complained about Bumgarner barking at opposing teams. Yet you go to your local YMCA and you see grown men pushing and shoving in a simple pick up game of basketball. I honestly cannot understand what you think a professional athletic environment must be like. But it's nowhere close to reality.
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Nor was there any old testament retaliation. So we're all good.
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I think a computerized zone would actually be very hard to do. While Fox track or whatever has a pop up plane and brooks baseball has a similar plane, it's important to remember that the strike zone isn't a plane. It's a fairly large rectangular area and if the ball crosses any point - either the far front of the plate or nixes the bottom edge, it's supposed to be a strike. For example, I don't know how to post pictures but if you look at this fangraphs article of the CB Bucknor strike out of Werth and compare it to the picture on the below tweet, you'll see a few things: https://twitter.com/MarkBullockNFL/status/854496081060691969/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwinsdaily.com%2Ftopic%2F25625-kurt-suzuki-pitch-framing-god%2F First, fangraphs has the third pitch as a strike while the Nats' strikebox has it as a ball. So we already have a problem with how pitches are graphed by two of the more common methods we have. Second, in the fangraphs piece, you can see a gif of the second called strike. Brooks has it as a ball. But it moves a lot from the pitching side to the LH hitter's box. I'm not entirely sure it didn't nix the very front edge of that plate. We already know that brooks and fox view pitches differently so I'm not sure that Bucknor was wrong on that pitch either. I'd love to see a direct overhead camera of that pitch.
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Sure, I get that. But we as Twins fans are more upset about McCann's glove than Haley's pitch. Tiger fans are, unsurprisingly, the opposite. Twins fans say the pitch was an accident and even most Tiger fans agree. Tiger fans say McCann's glove touching was accidental at best although Twins fans are less inclined to believe that. Tigers think some retribution should happen for Haley's pitch, Twin fans disagree. Twin's fans think some retribution should come from McCann's action as well, Tiger fans probably disagree.
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Don't have a ****ty pitcher throw up and in? Don't hit our players? I mean, everyone thinks McCann escalated the Sano situation but McCann's glove accidentally touched Sano's face. It wasn't purposeful. Yet we, as Twins fans, are enraged. The Tigers saw a teammate get cracked in the mouth.
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Who was the other season ending injury?
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I suspect the Tigers only care about that one at-bat.
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Yeah, it's early but there hasn't been much good news in the minors so far this season. I suppose Gordon and Berrios both look good and Burdi and Melotakis have yet to give up a run but that's about the end of the good news. Fortunately, we have a lot of season left to see some improvements.
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Nope, you're right, I remembered wrong. Here's mlbpipeline's review (they had him #14 on their list). "Though Turner stands out most for his top-of-the-scale speed, he's more than just a burner (they gave him an 80 grade). With his wheels and ability to make contact and control the strike zone, he has the tools to become a quality leadoff hitter at the Major League level. The key will be toning down his swing, which can get long, and his approach, which can get a little out of control."
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I'm not sure it's "unfair" in the sense that's how it works. I mean, yeah, it sucks for Sano but baseball has been played like that for 120 years. Sure, it's not always like it has been. Pitchers used to pluck hitters if the hitter in front of them hit a home run. And maybe in five years there will be no more pitchers hitting batters. But paying the other team back for a hit in the head has been around long enough that everyone knew someone on the Twins team was going to pay for it.
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I think Turner represents a third problem in drafting - he is what he is. There isn't anymore room for projection. He's mostly a finished product who does a few things well but nothing great and might get nixed for a few question marks. Both Turner and Benintendi had questions about not being able to play defense (at short and CF respectively) at the ML level and were more or less physically developed where teams didn't see a lot of room for development. So Turner wasn't sexy. He didn't have a big hit tool or tons of power. He wasn't going to grow into the next ARod. He had good baseball instincts but wasn't that fast. So the question marks pushed him down a few slots (he was still a top 15 pick and Benintendi was a top 10).
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But isn't Faedo recovering from surgery? I mean, I believe he was a top HS arm with a firm commitment to Florida. Last year's Gator team had 5 pitchers drafted in the first four rounds - including AJ Puk at #6 - and Faedo was the best pitcher on that staff. Coming into the season he was at the top of all lists with Greene and Kendell.
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What happens in the locker room, stays in the locker room.
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That said, recently a few teams have overthought it and spent too much on fast risers. Rodon was the clear 1/1 going into the draft season but he had a slightly down year and teams let themselves get fooled by HS prep arms Brady Aiken and Tyler Kolek. By the draft Rodon was such a well known commodity that it was a lot of nit-picking on him and he wasn't the shiny new toy. So Rodon fell to the Sox at #3 (although he did get the highest signing bonus of the draft). I wonder if Wright and Faedo's struggles are similar.
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Is it fair for your batters to have to stand in against someone who can't control his pitches? At the end of the day, Haley put their starting CF on the DL by hitting him in the head. I can see why they'd be pissed. And I can also see why they don't want the Twins to do that again. I can also see Sano's side. I wonder if Molitor had told him "you're going to get drilled in the butt" if his reaction would have been the same.
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I'm not sure this is the same. I don't know beans about Gore but I imagine he's rising on boards because teams are seeing something in the games he is playing right now that are enticing them. Fast risers in football tend to go up because of the combine, which isn't quite the same thing as playing your senior season of baseball.
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https://thebaseballcodes.com/2017/04/25/message-delivered-detroit-baits-sano-into-disastrous-reaction/ Turbow wrote the great book - The Baseball Codes - that discussed the changes in baseball's unwritten rules over the years. It really is one of the more entertaining books I've ever read about baseball. He has a blog where he continues to discuss it and in this article he discusses Sano and the Tigers. "Whether or not one agrees with the concept of retaliatory pitches in baseball, one must accept the fact that such things exist, and understand that an appropriate response will go a long way toward maintaining general sanity on the premises ... Prevailing notion holds that even innocent pitchers who can’t control their stuff shouldn’t be throwing up and in. Should they do so, plunking a teammate in response issues a powerful deterrent for similar pursuits in the future." Basically, the Tigers are angry that the Twins rule v pick hit one of their batters up and in. Interestingly, another rule v pick, J.R. Graham broke a Royal's hitter (Alex Rios) hand a couple years ago. After Graham hit Rios, Molitor didn't use him nearly as much. And now Haley went to the DL for a time out as well. So Molitor probably understood things but didn't explain it to Sano. Turbow argues that Sano should have understood that a pitch was going to come for him and not escalated the scenario. By doing so, Sano ended up thrown out of that game but also getting a suspension.
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Thanks. He was #28 on mlbpipeline's list. Interesting to see where he is after they update next week.
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Link on the Gore thing?
