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  1. dxpavelka
    If you think "it is always a guess" maybe it's just that you weren't good at it. Robot technology will just bring a different set of issues for folks to disagree with. Just like replay. If more than one person looks at a replay there is a damn good chance that there will be more than one interpretation of the outcome. I mean look at what we have right now. On every pitch we have a box on the screen that is "supposed" to represent the strike zone. Now pull up the rule book and read what is says the strike zone is really supposed to be. Not even close. Do umpires make mistakes? Sure. Will robots? **** yes. Whether you want to believe that or not. I still umpire slow pitch softball at the park & rec level. Just about the easiest level of umpiring you'll find. Do I get every call right? Nope. But I do the best I can do. Hell, if I walk off the field and both teams are pissed off at me because of one call that went against each of them I figure I had the best day of anyone on the field. Nobody's perfect. No umpires, not players, not coaches / managers and sure as hell not fans. If we're going to fix one of those with robots, why not robot players as well?
  2. dxpavelka
    I always tell folks who grumble about ownership to buy the team. Of course I know that's not logistically possible. I will tell anyone who says F the umpires the same thing. Become one. Easy to do. You can do it for baseball or softball. 7th 8th grade level or even JV to start. You can start at the youth level, 4th graders. You can do beer league or Park & Rec. If you wanna say F the umpires, BECOME ONE. See what it's all about. Hell, they'll even pay you to do it. If it's as easy as you must think you should be able to advance to the big leagues in short order. Probably even make more money than you make at your current job. Sack up.
  3. dxpavelka
    Or might have been dominant starter and worth FAR more on the open market. Pretty sure the competitor in him thinks that. He'll never re-sign here.
  4. dxpavelka
    Lewis 3 for 3. I slept well last night. Mostly because I was tired but seeing the kid hit the ball a little didn't hurt.
  5. dxpavelka
    good luck with that
  6. dxpavelka
    Understand that. But he should be back in the lineup by early July and if his performance takes any kind of uptick get him up. He gets on base better than Keaschall did on the other side of the river and Keaschall came up and we fell in love with him. Let's get him up here and in the lineup and maybe create the kind of excitement that was created when Keaschall came up. Keeping him down because of injury concerns makes no sense. Would be like saying that when Keaschall comes back we need to keep him down until he proves he can stay healthy in the minors.
  7. dxpavelka
    ALL teams hype their prospects and most flame out. A story as old as the game itself.
  8. dxpavelka
    We won't cuz we don't pay relief pitchers. HE realized that the day we made him a relieve at the big league level after being a starter in the minors. Cost him millions over the course of a career. Save this and throw it at me if he re-signs.
  9. dxpavelka
    Get Rodriguez up sooner rather than later.
  10. dxpavelka
    Don't do it. Yet. But, maybe in the off-season. You don't get better when your best players are playing for other teams. But, we will need to trade him prior to him reaching free agency. He will NEVER re-sign here.
  11. dxpavelka
    Speaking of underselling his bat, you posted this article 24 hours AFTER he hit home runs leading off BOTH games of a doubleheader giving him 8 for the season rather than 6.......
  12. dxpavelka
    We've been touting our arms in St. Paul for quite some time. Time to put up. Do I think they can? Yes. Do I think they will? That's why they play the games.
  13. dxpavelka
    Only because I have a life and am not going to spend it digging up **** that folks posted a month and two months ago. The angst was real.
  14. dxpavelka
    A month ago similar things were being said about him as they are about Lewis now.
  15. dxpavelka
    Some of the youngsters need to factor in at 1B
  16. dxpavelka
    Two months ago folks were having similar thoughts about Buxton. One month ago about Correa.
  17. dxpavelka
    Twins fans and "experts" spend the entirety of Joe Mauer's career ripping him for not pulling the ball enough. Heap praise on Buxton for not pulling the ball.
  18. dxpavelka
    Two months ago every rube in town was convinced that Byron Buxton was washed up and would never hit again. One month ago every rube in town was convinced that Carlos Correa had forgotten how to hit. Zero months ago every rube in town is convinced that something drastic has to be done with Royce Lewis......
  19. dxpavelka
    Step up. Make an offer. Buy the team. I'll come to a game.
  20. dxpavelka
    Got me again. Someone I have absolutely NO memory of.
  21. dxpavelka
    I'm not disagreeing with anything you are saying. Except your stance that there is an "expected" drop from AA to the big leagues of a hundred points of batting average and 200 points of OPS. The numbers don't say that.
  22. dxpavelka
    Is there an age limit?
  23. dxpavelka
    Why would a team with three starting pitchers among the top twenty in the AL and a whole bunch of questionable bats trade two or three of their best hitting prospects for another SP?
  24. dxpavelka
    Still not buying the expected drop of 200 OPS from AA to the big leagues. I did a random comparison of 26 players. Big names and no names alike. Ranging from guys like Aaron Judge & Freddie Freeman to guys like Alex Call & Taylor Walls. Five of 26 had a 200 point OPS drop. Max Kepler & Carlos Correa were interestingly enough in that group. Ten went UP from AA. The average was a 48 point drop. A FAR cry from your expected 200 point OPS drop. Even Royce Lewis went up 116 points.
  25. dxpavelka
    Not really shocking that a player in AA ball might not be good enough to hit .300 in the big leagues when 95% of the players IN THE BIG LEAGUES are not good enough to hit .300 What I'm questioning is your statement that if a guy's hitting .293 in AA he'd likely hit .193 in the big leagues. I don't see it.
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