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  1. Platoon
    Teams based on hitting have always seemed more streaky than those based on defense and pitching, both of which are more easily replicated day to day. Hitting teams are like offensive basketball teams. When the hits (shots) fall in you win, when they don’t you lose. It’s that simple. As for those who think that last years Bomba assault was going to be a yearly occurrence? You just don’t get career years from that many players in one season. More all around teams can fall back on other aspects of the game. While I can’t define how many of the teams losses were defense related the recent White Sox series included one for sure. Regardless of a definitive number of losses tied to the glove, this isn’t a good defensive team at all. As for pitching, both starters and pen have had moments, but really, 5 ish innings from starters just ain’t gonna cut it.
  2. Platoon
    Baseball is played by people not numbers. Sometimes the numbers suffer because the people are put into situations they are not suited for. My eyes tell me that when Glenn Perkins was put into a non save game situation he didn’t seem as sharp as when in a save one. Lack of focus? Hard to say. Numbers tell us that Rogers doesn’t pitch as well on back to back days. Yet seemingly Rocco has used him in that context more often, which will not help Rogers. Now it would be great to have a rubber armed every day "closer", but trying to make a player something he isn’t generally doesn’t work. So in the Rogers situation is it him who is having a poorer year? Or is it the guy in the dugout sending him to the mound in situations he doesn’t seem compatible with?
  3. Platoon
    I always thought Bert was at his best when the games were out of hand. He was more entertaining than analytical, it’s not that he didn’t know the game, it’s that he seemed to enjoy the witty repartee more than the X’s and O’s.
  4. Platoon
    I guess if one thinks it’s just about a game none of this makes any sense. But It is if you think it’s about the players feeling empathy and using their status and visibility to make a statement. And as is obvious by this post, other posts, and media attention keep the issue front and center in the public eye. The players and owners can’t change years of systemic racism, but they can use their fame and name to help move the country to make that change.
  5. Platoon
    I think he meant fiscally irresponsible act?
  6. Platoon
    These sound like those despised counting stats I hear about. . It stands to reason, the more you run, the more you get caught, numerically. But I am one who agrees with the "speed kills" theory. Pitchers Look over too often, shorten their delivery, lose their focus. Catchers set up higher and out of position, and IF cheat toward the bag opening holes. Defenses focusing on the runner, is good news for the batter. More fastballs!
  7. Platoon
    No one has mentioned that there was an entire family of identical sextuplets sitting in that section. And not one lifted a paw to save him? Or her? It’s hard to tell.
  8. Platoon
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/22/baseball-unwritten-rules-fernando-tatis-jr/
  9. Platoon
    It never would have occurred to me that the dropped third strike was so controversial. But shows what I know. For that matter I don’t think that’s the most important or beneficial rules change for catchers as far as Twins Territory is concerned. I think that runners shouldn’t be allowed to advance on balls to the backstop. Nor leave the base till the pitch crosses the plate. Like they do in little league. Then we could finally transition to catchers whose only claim to talent is to hit. No glove responsibilities at all. That would then make them similar to the criteria for middle IF that we now employ!
  10. Platoon
    You must have missed all the posts that 1B defense isn’t important?
  11. Platoon
    I wanted to read it also. Not all Twins news is good, but it still may be interesting. It also may bring up that Rogers seems in a tough stretch. Btw, I see that advancing Buxton to third via an out, albeit without a bunt, can be productive? Who’d a thunk it?
  12. Platoon
    Turn the warning track into an 8’ deep moat. When he hits the water at 22 mph, he will slow down quickly but safely. Btw, before you call in the backhoe, someone ask Buck if he can swim. An additional benefit to this approach is that the next time Jake Cave dives for a ball that he has no chance in getting to, he won’t tear his uniform pants, and can simply dog paddle after the inside the park HR. (Do baseballs float?)
  13. Platoon
    Well it certainly wasn’t the greatest series of balls strikes in recorded history. Nor am I in a position to evaluate Meals as a MLB umpire based on this game. But, and there is always a but. The second pitch was the epitome of what we have been calling for Twins catchers to do for years. Framing, pulling, or stealing a pitch to influence a strike. And the third wasn’t much different. Just turned out their catcher was a little more adept at it. The other is that if Meals zone was large, then what is a left handed hitter doing taking a low 0-2 floater? Finally umpires have bad days, just like players. Some days the strike zone is as easy to read as Anne of Green Gables, some days it’s War and Peace and the game takes just as long as the book, or seems to. Finally, the Twins aren’t what? 1-5 recently because of the umpiring. They are either hitting HR’s or nothing. And that’s not a sustainable approach, despite last years euphoria over Bombas. Throw in a rotation that’s a flaming mess, and you have identified the issues. But it wasn’t Meals strike zone, or Keplers AB.
  14. Platoon
    So are the Twins sitting on their prospects because the players clock will start ticking? Ticking in a season which is already an aberration, and may not come to conclusion? I am not advocating that concept but it would be in tune with the rationale many pro sports decisions, which is, follow the money!
  15. Platoon
    Garvers hot bat covered his cold glove last year. While I am not sure if his one kneed catching stance is getting us more called strikes, it’s definitely getting Garver more exercise running to the backstop. With runners on maybe he needs to return to a more basic stance. Neither his glove or his arm are good enough for him to crouch as he currently does. He is 28? 29? years old. His bat may return, but he will never be a decent defensive catcher.
  16. Platoon
    While I don’t know all the fine details that have been agreed on to resume baseball, I can tel from watching that most of those I do know of are not being followed with any consistency. Lots of high 5’s. Spitting. Lack of masks. Social distancing? That must be off camera. And that’s what we can see. As for sharing a locker room, well I will leave that to your imagination. They may somehow muddle through this, though I highly doubt it. But no matter what, it’s not MLB, it’s simply a string of games played by talented players. There are no statistical races to track, no season long comparisons for players or teams, hell we won’t even get to see which manager gets fired first. But we may get to see which one gets sick first?
  17. Platoon
    I wonder why one day someone won’t figure out that it’s not a good idea in the era of the Covid to get together in groups and share rooms with showers, and dugouts. Masks? Very few seen. No spitting? Really? Distancing? Yah right! The people who study this for a living keep telling us what to do. We keep not doing it. Then we are astounded when what we were told would happen, happened. It doesn’t have to be MLB either. MN amateur baseball is hell bent on having a state tourney this year, come hell or high Covid. On Friday the New Ulm city council decided 5-0 to refuse to allow the tourney at its two parks. The State Board is undeterred. They are looking for other sites. It’s apparent from watching all this unfold over the months, some just either don’t get it, or just don’t care!
  18. Platoon
    It still grates at me that pro sports resumption is predicated on consistent and frequent testing and the resulting protocols, when few others can access those privileges. And yet, with all the wealth and leverage which is obvious to anyone, they still can’t get it right. Add to that the sad comparisons of people waiting for 8 hours in AZ for a test, or LA testing sites running out of tests in "minutes" after opening and I question the whole concept and feasibility of this process. I have been a baseball and sports fan all my life, but I would think that we must have a better use of the resources consumed by this attempt to normalize life in a time when normal isn’t even a word anymore. The only thing real here is the money. The stats, the standings, even the game itself isn’t really real. It’s an asterisk waiting to happen.
  19. Platoon
    When someone says "but", after the phrase "I know you are a man of integrity", they know you really aren’t!
  20. Platoon
    The rumors of your demise were greatly exaggerated! Or so it seems? Btw, I learned more about the music licensing business in your OP than I ever did.
  21. Platoon
    Kaat is absolutely one of the best!
  22. Platoon
    Since I doubt the season will ever roll to a finish, I wonder if individual stats will accumulate? Regardless, any stat or any team achievement accomplished during this season will be lucky to have only one asterisk attached to it. Say someone hits .400? Does Ted Williams have to get off his pedestal? The best way to watch this season seems to be in a semi delusional state. We can pretend it’s real baseball. All we have do do is ignore the goofy schedule, the lack of things like the AS break, the meaningful impact of the trading deadline, and some of the rules changes. And while I don’t dispute, or disdain the need for social distancing and the need to reduce the amounts of people who congregate, the whole idea of watching and hearing a game in an empty amplification box will be weird, especially if they put cutouts in the seats, and tracked crowd noises. The good news is if a Joe West or Angel Hernandez blows another all, all they have to do is crank the "boo" dial to 8! Heck, they could even bring back "bat day". They could give pretend bats to pretend customers, who would pretend to bang them on anything they could reach, including the pretend guy in front of them!
  23. Platoon
    I am sure there are lots of other teams radio guys who lack this and that. But we have our own right her in MN. Disco Dan Gladden. If you want to listen to a game, and want to know the little things, like the score, the inning, who’s playing, and maybe the day of the week or what city they are in, you better have to go at least 100 miles minimum...
  24. Platoon
    I don’t know if the season will even got out of the gate either, but I am pretty sure it won’t finish. But, as long as it goes on I do like the idea of listening to the home teams broadcast team. I know MLB is trying to make a mole hill out of a mountain, but this whole thing seems a bad idea in both practice and principle. And very lastly, economics.
  25. Platoon
    So "a few" Twins players have already tested positive recently? Who’d a thunk it? Speaking of baseball, MN Amateur Baseball Board has voted to move ahead, play a few games, and have the State Tourney despite the Covid. But, if you enter a park at the tourney for ANY reason, whether municipal grounds keeping employee all the way to umpire, you need to sign a waiver. Nothing says, "don’t worry folks" like a waiver!
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