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  1. ScrapTheNickname
    The Pirates TV announcers just said that "legend" has it that the MLB logo was modeled after Harmon Killebrew. I'd never heard that. Anyone?
  2. ScrapTheNickname
    But buses don't come with safety belts. And neither do the Twins.
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    Danny Santana is an ice-water-in-the-veins kind of player, therefore I expect him to buck the odds and show that 2014 was no fluke. .315 / .350 / .475 / .825. Defensively though he doesn't appear to have a soft glove, but I'm looking forward to seeing more of him at SS. (Also, I realize the BABIP issue, but for reasons of April Optimism I choose to ignore it.)
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    Mauer doesn't seem like the type, but he performed a seance one night recently in which he invited Ted Williams' cryogenically frozen head to appear and give him advice. And Ted did. He said, in his irascible way, "Come on, Joe, all you gotta do is hit the ball. They're shifting ya, okay, now make 'em pay!" Not sure if the story is true or not. [Just tuning up my game for the Daily Thread ...]
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    I wrote this in response to another article recently, but it bears repeating. Each MLB team in 2014 on average used 9.6 starters. So who starts the season is not as relevant as it may appear.
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    And over the past 3 years he has hit .302 ... and falling.
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    Regarding attitude Fine analysis. It is true that players have motors. There are places within them that are stirred by emotion which brings out the best in them. I'm thinking Puckett and how I'm sure others played better at times by taking some spirit from him. Players in a 7-month grind of a season have lows and highs and are mostly in between somewhere. How to get "the shout" out of them on game 6 of the year which appears to be meaningless, but is no more meaningless in actuality than a game in September. Anecdotally, I experienced this as a high school player. I grew up in a small town that was the smallest town in the conference, so we lost a lot of games, but during my Senior year we rallied during the playoffs or whatever they were called, and we rattled off three victories in a row, and we were on the improbable verge of going to the next level (whatever that was called) but for a hit to the outfield that went through one of our fielder's legs, so we were down by a run going to the bottom of the 7th. I'd never hit a homerun, had never had the strength and knowledge of how do it. I said to the batter who came up before me, get on base and I'm going to hit a home run and we're going to win this thing! He made an out, sadly, but I hit a home run! (What a difference a surge in attitude=belief, desire, anger, etc. can make)
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    I liked the beard. He looked relaxed. And he was saving money on razor blades and shaving cream for his early retirement years.
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    "Do you want to know if you should be going to spring training? Here's the litmus test: do you read Twins Daily? If you do, then you should be going to spring training." COL. (Chuckle out loud)
  11. ScrapTheNickname
    Okay. I don't disagree with you. I guess the word "respectable" was a little hazy to me. Thanks for the input.
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    .700 seems low to me. In 2014, in the American League alone, 57 batters had an OPS of .700 or above. Maybe .750 is a more reasonable benchmark? But even 32 AL batters did that. .800? 13 batters. Source: http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/league/al/sort/OPS
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    Thanks for the memories. I hated those 5-game series after a 162-game slog-fest. The Orioles were pretty good though. I had the Strat-o-Matic game from that year so I became quite familiar with all the playoff teams.
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    I hang my head in shame for having misread that. Thanks!
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    I enjoy the conversations you had with the players; great stuff. Chuckled out loud when I read AJ Achter's comments on the Gophers and the NIT.
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    I missed it. Who's the middle infielder who put up a .390 OPB?
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    9.6 starters per MLB team in 2014. 289 total.
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    I think you're so high you'd better land'er. Sorry, I really am. No, really, his stats so far look great. Also, I see that his friend from ABQ, Blake Swihart (same age as Garver but didn't go to college) is the #1 rated catcher in the minors at this time. Perhaps the Twins need to draft a catcher with their first pick in 2015?
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    I can't get my head around a lot of Sabermetrics stuff, but I can visualize "IS%" (percentage of inherited runners scored). The Twins relief staff in 2014 allowed 31% of inherited runners to score (league average 28%), which was 22nd in the entire MLB. And another one I can get my head around is SV% (Save %). The Twins saved 66% of their tries (league average 69%), good for 20th in MLB. I don't know what to make of this little input, but it's interesting (to me). I was hoping to show that Perkins was performing poorly, which he was, but his Save% was 83 (not great, but okay).
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    I have come around to believing Mauer is going to be moved to the outfield. There may be no chatter about this from The Twins but they resisted for years any mention of any possibility of moving him to first base, too.
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    I had some pictures framed once, and they did a 7 out of 10 good job, above league average.
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    Who on the 2015 coaching staff is an expert in catching, or was a catcher? I don't know the answer. Not being snarky. Anyone?
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    I think Jordan Schafer will bad lead-off a few times this year. Who knows, maybe a lot. He has an incredible ability to steal bases. Who knows if he can hit well enough. But I'm hoping he can.
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    I curse the strike-shortened year of 1994. Kirby was on pace to hit 30 HRs, and knock in 160 RBI.
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