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  1. dxpavelka
    Hopefully not full-time at DH. Maybe a combination of DH & 1B. Takes a certain mindset to just be a DH and a young player may struggle in solely in the role.
  2. dxpavelka
    Funny. I named SIX managers who didn't go by your book. But you obsess on ONE. Also funny: You chose 1987 to make your point. His first year as a relief pitcher. His FIRST year as a reliever. A role in which he had yet to establish himself as one of the best ever. A season in which he had less than half as many saves as he AVERAGED for Oakland. How many other seasons did he pitch 10 times in the 4th inning? Or 7 times in the 6th inning? Or 7 times in the 7th inning? I'll wait.
  3. dxpavelka
    How many times did Eckersley come in other than the 9th? Not very often. Sure other guys got saves. But not because Eck pitched earlier in the game but because Eck was not available that particular day. There's your facts.
  4. dxpavelka
    yawn
  5. dxpavelka
    the POINT is that if your best guy is not available for the 9th somebody's gotta write articles like this one. LaRaussa's best guy was ALWAYS there in the 9th. End of discussion.
  6. dxpavelka
    LaRussa is known for Dennis Eckersley. How many times did he come in before the 9th?
  7. dxpavelka
    To answer you question, ANALYTICS. Gardy, TK, Billy Martin, Tony LaRussa, Tommy Lasorda, Joe Torre, et al would NEVER have made this move. Have the 7th and 8th innings gotten more demanding over the last few decades, to the point that a manager needs to use his best guy in the 7th or 8th? Not really. Are today's manager's, with the aid of analytics smarter than the old time guys? Hell no. Were the old time guys smarter? Not necessarily. But they knew what worked for them and had done so for decades before them. As one of those guys above one mentioned, "analytics is an excellent way of predicting the past." Of course the game isn't played in the past.
  8. dxpavelka
    Let's be honest, Twins fans can get pretty butt hurt even when we make the playoffs.
  9. dxpavelka
    You don't often throw out a name I've never heard of but you got me this time.
  10. dxpavelka
    P.S.: Eventually we'll hate you. A very large portion of our fan base doesn't remember the joy we felt when current ownership purchased the outfit from THEIR predecessors. They have heard of but don't really comprehend the fact that we won the World Series twice before the ink on the purchase agreement was 8 years old. Nor do they comprehend that BOTH ownership groups made significant contributions to said titles. They don't understand that MOST new ownership groups DON'T win so much as one title within the first 8 years much less two. So buckle up. You'll be expected to win one very shortly. You will read on sites like this one that the only way to do so is to spend money like drunken sailors. ANY free agent signing with ANY other team will be because of the fact that YOU are cheap bastards. You'll have a couple of years grace. By year three if we haven't had to build a designated parade route for all of the World Series parades you'll start to hear rumblings that maybe you're not in this for the right reasons. Just want to use your billion dollar plus investment to make more money. By year four we will be screaming for the manager we screamed for you to replace Rocco with to be fired. But don't forget, we're Minnesota Nice.
  11. dxpavelka
    there might be a reason for that
  12. dxpavelka
    Is it possible that all the "experts" on this site who wrote him off after a couple hundred plate appearances might be, dare I say, WRONG?
  13. dxpavelka
    I think it feels like the more of these guys they add to the roster the more games they seem to win. Just sayin
  14. dxpavelka
    As soon as I read "He has around a 48% Chance of getting injured early in the year during the rest of the career" I realized that this article and a quarter could get me a cup of coffee. Not the good kind but the crappy kind you get for a quarter.
  15. dxpavelka
    Nice turn (actually turn plus-seven games if you can hold your nose a little bit at Paddack's last start) thru the rotation.
  16. dxpavelka
    And he likely won't get that attention until or unless they decide to place him on the 26 man. I don't claim to know all the ins and outs of the Rule 5 Draft rules but would have to believe he's still a couple of years from HAVING to be on the 40 man to avoid the Rule 5 draft. France is leading the team in RBI so it would seem he's not going anywhere. Larnach is one back and on fire of late and would seem likely to be asked to grab a mitt if France were to falter. Not to mention a potential handful of other guys who might be ahead of McCusker in the pecking order. (Miranda, Lewis, Lee, Castro, Julien. McCusker MIGHT be the next BIG thing and he MIGHT be a AAAA dude.
  17. dxpavelka
    turns out nobody really cares what you're calling for
  18. dxpavelka
    They almost had to do that against the White Sox & Angels. They were the teams on the schedule, thus rendering doing so against any other team(s) highly unlikely.
  19. dxpavelka
    He was stealing bases. It's not the baseball gods. It's the analytics gods.
  20. dxpavelka
    YOU have actually hit on the issue far better than this piece did. The issue was that the kid was stealing bases. The ghost of Billy Beane has spoken. The kid got lucky this time. The arm injury was just a warning. Next time it will be something in the lower body that will permanently impair his ability steal bases. Stop on his own or Billy and Bill James and the gods of baseball analytics will stop it for him. Maybe it's a hamstring. Or a quad. The way he was going they just might have to make his leg fall off. Listen up kid.
  21. dxpavelka
    Our AAA affiliate the years he shuffled between Minnesota and the minors was in Portland. Hence the "affectionate" nickname Mark Portland.
  22. dxpavelka
    Pretty sure that had he stayed his salary would have been more than $20k. Say what you will about the $20k number but by rule it was not below the league minimum for a 3rd year player and not terribly far from the 1977 norm for a player not eligible for arbitration or free agency.
  23. dxpavelka
    He was never traded. It WAS up to him. He left as a free agent,
  24. dxpavelka
    Isn't short-sightedness a pre-requisite for being a Twins fan? And a keen understanding that THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!!!!!!
  25. dxpavelka
    I was thinking .300 guys who hit 30 home runs, steal 30 bases, drive in a hundred and score a hundred but, sure, that'll work too.
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