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  1. ScrapTheNickname
    There is also Dylan's "He made it to Kansas City Twelfth Street and Vine Nothin' standing there High water everywhere" Sounds ominous for the first place Royals.
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    Fish sandwiches at the base of the Galata Bridge. Yum.
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    Yes, I did the math. He would have had to give up 41 runs. (I'm probably wrong about that, too!)
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    Oops. I got it straight off "Gameday." Don't believe everything you read, obviously.
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    Meyer's ERA is 221.6
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    Even the crickets have folded up their blankets and gone home.
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    "What's he doing?" And where did everybody go?
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    David Price in 2008 is probably the best performance in late-season relief of a to-be starter the following year.
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    What is the interest in Rogers? His stats in the minor leagues have been flat, and not outstanding. What do you know that the stats don't tell me?
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    Big league batters will make him throw strikes. I hope his initial innings aren't a repeat of May's work last year.
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    "Our defensive has absolutely sucked," said the Hawk.
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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)
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    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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