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  1. Platoon
    100 games! 🥳 Wow! What next? Comeback Player of the Year?
  2. Platoon
    The Pohlads treat the team as a business, just like any of their other businesses. It’s true the Twins and MLB are businesses, but they are not like running a bank or an airline, or any of the other multitude of things the family has its fingers into. Owning a major league sports team is a highly visible occupation. While you want it to be financially successful and sustainable, it’s also a publicly competitive situation. Not every decision can be made based on ones P&L sheet. For years the Pohlads have seemed to be content with being competitive in the division, a relatively weak division at that, but had no interest in competing in the league. This concept wore thin after several years of division success followed by the inevitable wipeout in the playoffs, Then when along comes a somewhat interesting team, one who actually wins a playoff game or several and their is a spark of interest simmering along comes one of the Pohlad kids to squeeze the joy out of Mudville with the heriditary Pohlad tight fist, thereby cementing the long held belief that the Pohlads Twins franchise is simply another tax return to file at the end of the year.
  3. Platoon
    If you try and turn a high percentage line drive type hitter into a HR threat by increasing the sacred launch angle, you are likely to end up with someone who hits some magnificent fly balls…… to the outfielders. Not everyone can hit enough HR’s to make selling out his swing worth it.
  4. Platoon
    Scoring mostly via the HR is boom or bust….. and good opposing pitching often turns it to bust. The lack of respect for the RBI stat is misplaced. True, you need runners in front of you to drive in. That said you also need to do that driving in. Best way to retire the Twins this year? Walk the bases loaded, then let the next three guts screw themselves into the ground trying to hit a 5 run HR!
  5. Platoon
    Totally agree. In one post it was stated that 94% accuracy was an acceptable level for a MLB ump, that’s fair. It surely exceeds the success of players in most aspects of the game, not to speak of the front office in trades, drafts, etc. Frankly I wonder if 94% of the fans can remember where they parked their car after the game?
  6. Platoon
    Seriously, does everything have to be a conspiracy? Sheesh!
  7. Platoon
    The only thing Philadelphia and Pittsburg lineup have n common is the letter "P”!
  8. Platoon
    It’s doubtful that my technical knowledge would surpass that of anyone that works for TD, ergo my input would have any effect. I noticed a comment from someone else on here of the same iPad issue? Maybe it’s just iPads?
  9. Platoon
    It has become absolutely impossible to follow TD, not to speak of a GT on my iPad. Kicks me out, ads over flash during typing, sometimes it simply kicks me to the message, "something g went wrong"! Yesterday I had a paragraph typed, and it disappeared, this missive has been interrupted twice. It’s simply unusable. Ps: iPad shows me current on updates.
  10. Platoon
    That’s because you can’t understand a word they say!
  11. Platoon
    I think the FO has a little more input into on field decisions than would be normal on many teams. If that’s the case Rocco has my sympathies. If I am going to be the one getting the heat for lineup decisions then I want to make them myself. But I suspect in reality, he is just a good "team player"? Analytics have a place, but it’s possible the organization has gone in a little overboard. It’s 2023, not 2019. The baseballs don’t soar like they did 4 years ago, it’s time to cut down on some of the wild 2 strike swings? Lastly, if Rocco is doing such a good job, and who knows he may be, then why the secrecy of the extension? No press conference, no free cookies and coffee? And obviously no shouting from the roof tops in an attempt to boost ticket sales?
  12. Platoon

    Are we... TOO good?

    Platoon commented on Doc Munson's blog entry in Fantasy GM

    Thought this was a Randball article? I myself think we should continue to swing for the fences! Go for it! Nothing is more exciting than a solo home run almost every game, except the tension that builds when the Twins have the bases loaded with no one out. Will that medium deep fly ball get smacked (exit velocity 78, launch angle 120) with less than two outs? Or will it follow a SO and pop up foul of third? Tune in tonight.
  13. Platoon
    So far this season I have saw Buxton slide awkwardly on his back twice, once into second, once into third. Once again into second slamming his face into the ground. Now he runs into the second baseman on a ground ball. But I have never saw anyone do it that far in front of the bag. What the hell was he doing running in that spot? He woulda missed second by 6’.
  14. Platoon
    Getting more and more frustrated with replays in all sports. The college basketballs being the worst.
  15. Platoon
    This! Never understood pulling the ball either. If it’s a strike, you don’t have to pull it. If you do, it’s a ball. Now framing is a little different. Framing is catching the ball, with quiet hands, while exposing as much as the ball in your glove as possible. It also requires the pitcher to hit the side of the plate you sat up on. You can’t "frame" a pitch off the other side of the plate. It takes great hands, see Joe Mauer type hands, to successfully frame pitches. Soft quiet hands.
  16. Platoon
    Watch some YouTube videos of his Korean at bats. He feasted on big round hanging curve balls. Those pitches don’t exist in MLB. There are tons of guys like him in American baseball that can hit that pitch, but can’t catch up to the fastball, or the good slider. Someone in the Twins organization didn’t do their homework.
  17. Platoon
    "Jeffers has a classic backup catcher prototype, lots of power with little contact, and a good defensive reputation. However, the current and some inevitable rule changes could hinder Jeffers' value this year and moving forward." Not being able to throw and not being adept at blocking would seem non conducive to a "good defensive reputation". It takes a lot of framing to recover from a missed steal or a passed ball. And no one ever talks about the trepidation that pitchers have for throwing that down and out 1-2 slider with men on base to a catcher who is not adept at blocking balls. Don’t get me started on the one legged catching with men on base!
  18. Platoon
    Sadly TD only allow one like at a time! I never umped MLB, but balls and strikes are still balls and strikes. When a catcher "pulled" a pitch (pulling is NOT framing) and whined when not given the strike call, I would sometimes ask, "if it was a strike why did you pull it 6”?" Never got an answer to that question!
  19. Platoon
    A lot of people don’t appreciate Mauer as a catcher because he made it look so easy, sort of like sitting in a lawn chair! Unlike some of the catchers who have followed Mauer, a Twins pitcher could actually throw that 1-2 slider down in the dirt off the plate and have confidence that it wasn’t gonna hit the backstop. As for his abilities at first, pretend you are a Twins IF and have the choice of throwing to Mauer, or the likes of Sano, or any of the occupants of that position last year? Was he a traditional bat first IB? Probably not, but for quite a few years he was the gold standard at the catching position!
  20. Platoon
    I won’t argue dollars or cents or availability, but ooooh that’s a bad IF at first, second, and short. And yes, I am aware that ground balls are becoming passé.
  21. Platoon
    So based on this article Hell actually can freeze over?
  22. Platoon
    Aaron Judge couldn’t carry Garlicks athletic supporter! ??
  23. Platoon
    I knew if we would just show some patience our Twins would start hitting. This offense is to good to keep down very long. Woh be it to the rest of the teams on our schedule! What? Already? Well ???
  24. Platoon
    But can he lose favor with the ones who thinks he walks on water? This question is probably moot since Rocco has been shown that such a feat is analytically impossible, thereby removing it from his consciousness.
  25. Platoon
    "For another offseason, injury questions will surround Buxton even though he was tremendous during the 2022 campaign. Minnesota paid Buxton $9.14 million for the 2022 season, and FanGraphs pegs his total value this year at nearly $32 million. Some fans may say he isn’t providing value to the team on his current contract because of how often he is injured. However, he provided enough value this season to cover his contract for this year and next. " Does one also subtract/average out the WAR, any of the other abbreviated analysis computations, and defensive deficiencies of his replacements to find out what we are actually getting from his contract.
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