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  1. dxpavelka
    Is there an age limit?
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. dxpavelka
    There are only two ways DeGrom goes ahead of Ryan: 1, he dominates June and or Ryan tanks. Possible? Sure. Likely? Not so much. 2: He gets it as a lifetime achievement award. Doesn't really happen so much in baseball at least among pitchers where there is no fan vote. DeGrom ahead of Pablo & Ober? Sure. But not Ryan. Accept it folks, Ryan has become an elite level starting pitcher. Top 7 in the AL. It's ok. This is NOT against the rules. Enjoy it.
  6. dxpavelka
    90% of this game is half luck.
  7. dxpavelka
    Yes, I understand that. But, by the same token, there are seven guys hitting .300 in AA and the highest average in AA was .331. So by your logic, in a few years, the highest average in the majors will be .231. I'm not buying it.
  8. dxpavelka
    So you're telling me that to expect a guy to hit .300 in the big leagues he's gotta hit .400 in AA?
  9. dxpavelka
    Nice to have three of the top 20 (15?) starting pitchers in the league and at least two potential Cy Young candidates.
  10. dxpavelka
    Well sure, but dammit, Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger.
  11. dxpavelka
    "By moving the best hitter to the second position, teams guarantee they hit in the first inning," I am by no means an expert but I tend to think that the guy in the third position will get a LOT of 1st inning at bats as well. Am I missing something?
  12. dxpavelka
    Really? You write a whole article about Rick Dempsey & nary a mention of his rain delay antics?
  13. dxpavelka
    So the return for "the biggest success story on this list", four years after trading him is two guys who remain parked on the wrong side of the river. Got it.
  14. dxpavelka
    "Here are the team’s best pitching prospects of the 2000s." ~~Radke was a rookie in 1995.
  15. dxpavelka
    Not to mention, has there been a Twin, other than Sano since Kirby retired, that made you stop whatever else you might have been doing when he came to the plate, turn off the lawn mower, stop doing the dishes, the laundry can wait, put the broom down, turn off the power saw, stop working on the car, let the kid cry, the guy might strike out but he also might hit it 498 feet and ya gotta see that.
  16. dxpavelka
    I'm appalled. That you can write an entire article about Kodys with a K playing for the Twins and nary a mention of the word Funderburk. Classless and irresponsible journalism. Could have even thrown in a paragraph about the original Funder for the Twins, Mark Funderburk, the first player ever to hit two home runs in the same inning in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.
  17. dxpavelka
    How many $20 Million first basemen are out there who can mash and play solid defense AND still be worth $20 Million by the end of the lengthy multi-year contract that a $20 Million first baseman is going to command?
  18. dxpavelka
    How does THAT work out for you
  19. dxpavelka
    who said anything about HOPING a Twins player gets injured. My point was / is that if you continue to coddle them they will end up being Matt Canterino
  20. dxpavelka
    Suffice to say they've gotten more out of him than 90% of the articles and comments on this site prior to the season thought they would. I'm sensing a trend. Donovan Solano, Carlos Santana, France. It's almost like they know what they're doing.
  21. dxpavelka
    There hasn't been a pitcher throw a hundred and half pitches at any level of baseball since your grandmother was in the big leagues.
  22. dxpavelka
    Wanna bet he ends up there anyway?
  23. dxpavelka
    You're probably right. It's not like his resume or career body of work is screaming can't miss. But he MIGHT be a fun story for a bit.
  24. dxpavelka
    Even guys who debut at 26 don't tend to have long illustrious careers.
  25. dxpavelka
    Feels like every pitcher in the minors has had multiple serious arm injuries. Might be from being coddled. If they don't want to throw the damn ball pick up a first baseman's mitt.
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