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  1. dxpavelka
    But if that happens who is gonna challenge the team strikeout record?
  2. dxpavelka
    MIGHT a good idea to not move on from a guy until you are certain that the replacement(s) can perform at a level at least the same as the fella you're moving on from. Three years out on Rosario and our LFs are nowhere near what he's done since or before he left. On a positive note, at least Gallo has missed enough time with injuries that he likely won't break the team strikeout record. Unless he goes on a surge.
  3. dxpavelka
    I remember a few years back when we felt that Eddie Rosario was finished. Now all he does is win.
  4. dxpavelka
    1975. Disco Danny Ford hit .280 with 15 home runs and Lyman Bostock hit .282. Nobody really noticed them as Fred Lynn & Jim Rice finished 1, 2 in the ROY race and nobody else got votes and Lynn & Rice also finished 1,3 in the MVP voting that year. Jim Hughes won 16 games as rookie SP, besting Bert Blylevin by one for the team lead. If you're not old you won't remember any of that.
  5. dxpavelka
    Great talent can overcome a crappy clubhouse but most teams don't have great talent.
  6. dxpavelka
    FUNDER
  7. dxpavelka
    At least we didn't follow it up by also trading Duran
  8. dxpavelka
    If this article had been three paragraphs shorter it wouldn't have had the word "Gallo" in it. SO CLOSE!!
  9. dxpavelka
    New school says bring in your best reliever in the 8th. Old school says you're screwed for having done so. Got ya.
  10. dxpavelka
    Martin Maldonado
  11. dxpavelka
    But at least now we can be excited when we are bringing them. Some of those guys 8-9 years ago were terrifying at just the thought of them coming up. And I'm not saying we don't have a way to go yet. The mere fact that you used the word Garlick cements that.
  12. dxpavelka
    Yes. Turns out that maybe, just maybe, the guys that get paid to make the decisions actually know more than those who wish they did.
  13. dxpavelka
    and yet we still ended up calling up guys like bernier, albers, mastroianni, burton, fryer, achter, schafer, light, granite & busenitz over the next half decade. Just feels like we're at a point where calling guys up seems like positive rather than scary thing.
  14. dxpavelka
    actually I never said not to use the new stuff but merely point out that overlooking the tried and true is fools road. and yes advanced analytics ARE an excellent means of predicting the past
  15. dxpavelka
    the old school stuff is math too
  16. dxpavelka
    And one title to show for those 15 years. Almost like they had Aaron Rodgers as their ace pitcher. ZERO for the rays.
  17. dxpavelka
    analytics doesn't seem to care about them
  18. dxpavelka
    Use whatever you want. But the old school stuff is important too.
  19. dxpavelka
    hasn't done much for us. should I care about others?
  20. dxpavelka
    The difference between this team today and Twins teams 5-10 years ago is the what they have on the farm. Every year fans spend the whole spring wondering what the opening day 26 is gonna look like. We've over a month to go in the season and already nineteen guys not on the opening day roster have played on the big league club. Now look at the names. Guys like Julien, Wallner, Lewis, Varland and Balazovic. Now go back and look at the guys getting big league action 5-10 years ago. Names that would scare the s#@! of you: Bobby Wilson, Nik Turley, James Beresford, Tim Stauffer. We once got excited about Chris Collabelo. Night and day. We now bring up guys we look forward to seeing. And best of all, we have to go to Philly to see Jake Cave.
  21. dxpavelka
    Yep. Analytics that anyone can calculate. None of this MIT b#@!%#@.
  22. dxpavelka
    Haven't really won anything since "analytics" became a thing. Now Tampa Bay, that's a team that lives and dies by analytics and they've won--oops, nothing. But wait. The Dodgers. HUGE on the analytics deal. More money to spend on payroll than God. One (Covid tainted?) World Series win. A wise man once said that advanced analytics are an excellent means of predicting the past.
  23. dxpavelka
    I never said it is a "bad" stat just said that I don't have much use or time for it. Probably because I spend too much time attending all of the Twins parades since they've become so ensconced in the advanced analytics game. Or Tampa Bay parades. Can't forget the Dodgers parades since they've fallen on the altar AND had more payroll money than God. Bottom line is the bottom line. Advanced analytics are an excellent way of predicting the past.
  24. dxpavelka
    Carew, also, slightly.
  25. dxpavelka
    yawn. don't pretend to tell me what I "should" know. I don't give a c@!# about players "trying to create runs" what I care about is players "creating" runs.
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