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  1. dxpavelka
    I don't think anyone is advocating HANDING him, or anyone else, the CF, or any other, job. But if the kid WINS the job (like he has the last 2 years) bring him north and pencil him in the lineup. I'd make the same statement about Jordan Schaefer, Eddie Rosario, Byron Buxton or any other reasonalbe option. Best player plays until he's not the best player. We want to be critical of how the player has been handled, but let's be honest, what could be more of a mishandling of this or any other player than to have him win a job and be told he still didn't do enough?
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    We're talking about a kid with less than 600 big league plate appearrances. Might want to give him just a bit of a chance to see what he can do.
  4. dxpavelka
    Nobody's dismissing the use of statistics. At issue is the attempt of so many to re-invent the wheel-insisting that the new stuff that's been around for 10 years is so much better than the tried and true stuff that's worked for a hundred years. Don't get me wrong. I was reading Bill James' stuff 30 years ago-when a lot of these youngsters were still in diapers. It was, and still is, interesting reading. But the game isn't played on paper it's played on the field. If computers could guarantee us winners we wouldn't need to use human players with flaws and intangibles that nobody can measure and all 30 teams would win the World Series every year. Wouldn't that be grand.
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    Baseball's a simple game. Advanced metrics are nice-especially for guys who live in their mother's basement, but bottom line is your players gotta out perform the other team's players. Advanced metrics MAY help with that but their ability to do so may just as as easily be overstated. Perhaps you need to develop a metric to measure that. It still boils down to hitting, catching throwing & running. If every team were run by Bill James 29 of them would still not win the World Series each year.
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    Again-useless paramaters.
  7. dxpavelka
    I'll give you Trout, Bautista, Brantley, Cruz, A.Jones, Cespedes, M. Cabrerra & Gordon. The rest do nothing for me. Sorry. You can use WAR all you want. But if I can't measure it myself by looking a box score, it's useless to me.
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    No one has responded to the challenge.
  9. dxpavelka
    IF at some point this year he's blocking someone who is not just an alternative but is a BETTER alternative that will be a good thing and will bode well for the future. Haven't seen that guy yet. Hope I do, but haven't yet.
  10. dxpavelka
    I also challenge anyone to name 10 American League outfielders who had better offensive seasons than Hunter did last year. Not to say that will translate to this year or that it might not hurt our outfield defense but could it be any worse than last year?
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    On paper that theory is 100% correct. However, I've learned that the games aren't played on paper. Just because a guy shows some pop from the leadoff spot doesn't mean he's going to do the same from a 3-5 spot with guys on base. He's likely to see different pitches. He may not react as well to a higher pressure situation. He may even be more likely to face a situational relief pitcher. It's not always an apples to apples comparison.
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    Mauer's not a horrible idea for the leadoff spot. Whitey Herzog batted George Brett, whose career numbers are not terribly dissimilar to Mauer's, in the top spot 132 times. His reasoning was that doing so got his best hitter to the plate more times than any other spot.
  13. dxpavelka
    Maybe he gets better with regular appearances. We tend to forget that he's only played 150 big league games and that in 2014 he raised his batting average 23 points and his OBP 82 points from 2013. I'm more concerned by his power drop in 2014 but would be less so if he were batting leadoff.
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    Which goes to show that nobody really knows and that all of this is just speculation and we should take it all with a grain of salt. In the end the only opinion that should matter to any of us is our own.
  15. dxpavelka
    We currently have a solid but not spectacular 3B. You could move him to OF or you could move Sano. We are thinking of Sano as a 3B because that is what we have been told that he is. My guess is that his best position will be AB. Just because one of the two guys may end up switching positions doesn't mean it HAS to be one or the other. Whichever move is best for the overall makeup of the team is the one that should be made. We are a long way from having any kind of clue what that move is.
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    And yet one of our biggest concerns is the lack of MLB quality outfield play.
  17. dxpavelka
    My god people. I know the man's a legend and is our hero and we're all Minnesota Nice but if we're going to take the time to write the damn article and comment on it we need to devote more than two sentences to the POSSIBLITY that there MAY have been some performance enhancing substances involved in this mystery. Did anyone notice that the scrawny 24 year old kid we all fell in love with weighed over 300 pounds when he died at the age of 45, 10 years after being forced to retire due to the loss of vision in one of his eyes. Don't tell anyone but exagerated weight gain and vision issues are common side effects of steroids. If we're going to have a discussion about Kirby's mysterious power surge we need to devote more than two sentences (one of which was more of a joke than a comment) to it.
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    If you want to limit something, limit the number and amount of times the batter can step out of the box.
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    Totally agree with your points that maybe the Twins haven't gottne their money's worth on the contract and that they may have gotten a surplus in his prime years. Would love to see somebody do an analysis on some of these supposedly bad contracts and factor in a value received before the big contract as well as after.
  20. dxpavelka
    The 5th spot should go to whichever guy takes the job by the balls and wins it. Not to Pelfrey because of his contract. Not to Meyer or May because of their potential. Not to Milone because of his experience. Not to one of them (or somebody else) who backs into the job by being the LEAST INNEFECTIVE guy. My gut tells me that when the dust settles Milone wins the job.
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    "MOST. PRODUCTIVE. OFFSEASON. EVER" Somebody get back to me when Offseason Production counts in the regular season standings.
  22. dxpavelka
    Or maybe we realize that Kepler's probably never going to be a centerfielder and thus is not relevant to the current discussion of the 2015 season.
  23. dxpavelka
    One MIGHT be able to make such a statement about the current state of the Nationals, but in reality, they haven't done anything yet. The last time a Washington baseball club won a Post-Season series, Walter Johnson was on the mound.
  24. dxpavelka
    "I think the biggest problem this team will have in 2015 is, there are too many starting pitchers under contract." Said no general manager or manager in the history of baseball.
  25. dxpavelka
    Pretty much the same story for every team in the history of baseball.
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