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  1. LeatherAntenna
    Is there an advanced stat where by it is measured in how few of pitches a pitcher during the same half inning gives up 2+ runs? I’m relatively certain he’d excel under this metric, if it is kept. Seems with him, just a handful of pitches and the next pitch leaves the yard. Other relievers who blow up a game, it’s drip, drip, but Pagan, it’s why waste the time throwing any extra pitches?
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    If just would have postponed Pagán from blowing up the game until the 8th.
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    There was that story on this site by Taylor earlier in June about his 5 worst blown saves. You could add last nite thought not a blown save, but just change the story title from ‘blown saves’ to games he ‘blew up’ , usually with just a handful of pitches. He is very efficient in that regard.
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    Add number six, June 26, blew up in Atlanta.
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    I get it, you are an optimist or writing a hopeful article. I like to think at times I am optimistic, but also a pragmatist, and the harsh or not harsh reality is that this team is just a .500 club, an absolute joy at times to watch, other times a teeth gnashing affair to watch.
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    Now I suppose we can have a tomorrow article title predicting a 3 win 1 loss series, and then after tomorrow we can have another article predicting a series split?
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    This vaunted offense is truly to be admired!
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    Plus 100.
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    Let me see if I understand this. He will work in low leverage situations until you trust him in high leverage situations. Then you put him in high leverage situations and he blows them. Put him in high right away. Why not find that out he will melt down early in the season when games and the standings are a little less important?
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    Warm weather and the virus- what I’ve read is that some viruses don’t seem to be hurt by warm weather, and they don’t know about this one yet. But it is generally believed that all viruses swell in warmer air which can then hamper transmission to a host.
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    If Buxton gets injured again this year as much as we love the guy why extend him? He is at this time a frustrating figment of baseball imagination and continuous injury eventually tells us MLB baseball much longer may not be in the cards for him.
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    Kepler, without a doubt has blossomed into something special. I see next year another jump into elite MLB company.
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    Technically eight homeruns up? They are averaging 1.95 per game, so isn’t that just under four games up?
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    good thought that if the Twins enter a “we can take it easy” mode and rest people, but my guess the guys when they get in will be swinging “bombs away.”
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    Should happen easily, the lowest monthly total this year is 49.
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    well, I guess a tired arm perhaps.
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    Could Berrios be hurt? Just wild conjecture but what else would explain the velocity drop?
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    And the next record, 4, 5 or possibly 6 with 30 HRs. There are six who could do it but Cron is obviously the longest shot. But the way Cron is hitting ....
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    . 2018: Home runs are dramatically up in MLB this season and that means some home run history will inevitably be made. The Dodgers fulfilled that idea Wednesday, entering the history books with a booming homer from Matt Kemp in the second inning of their game against the Rockies. Kemp’s solo shot bumped his season total up to 20 and gave the Dodgers their seventh 20-homer hitter on the season, tying an MLB record for most 20-homer hitters on a team in a single season. The Los Angeles group now includes Kemp, Cody Bellinger, Yasmani Grandal, Enrique Hernandez, Max Muncy, Joc Pederson and Yasiel Puig. The Dodgers came close to such a mark last year with six players reaching the milestone, and they managed to hit seven this year without three of the hitters from last year (Corey Seager, Chris Taylor and Justin Turner). Moderator edit: This passage comes from the following Yahoo Sports link. Please don't lift quotations verbatim without attribution. https://sports.yahoo.com/dodgers-bash-way-mlb-history-record-seven-20-homer-hitters-051853742.html
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    . Last Year the Dodgers tied the MLB mark then with seven.
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    Love this thread, thank you! Imagine that you were itching to get it out. Seven days ago I thought it impossible the Twins set the record in August.
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    True Championship contenders? I like your optimism but that is one heck of a leap for a team that has mostly been playing sub 500 ball for a long long time.
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    By my California math as Bert would say, if in 2009 Mauer has just 1 more hit every two weeks that season he bats .400+ for the season.
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    Count me as change of heart guy. I’ve always been suspicious of that 29 home run year followed by the big contract and then the lack of power that followed. Not anymore. It started this year as I for some reason isolated him more watching games. It hit me that the way he carried himself this year and perhaps thinking it could be his last year while playing on a struggling team was done in a very very professional way. In September I started to read anything about him I could find. Some stories from this web site reminded me that i’d Forgotten how special his 09 season was. Especially batting over .400 the one month, and very near .400 another month. He really wasn’t more than 2 hits more a week batting .400 for the year. His drop in power after signing the big contract may have been the toils of catching all the years and then concussions on top of everything. I now believe had injury not started to derail his seasons that perhaps some other bigger HR years would have occurred. It doesn’t matter now about HRs. If the double was his last big league hit, the hit was a textbook bookend to a solid career. Did he only take one pitch as catcher as part of the script, or did his emotions cause him to lose his composure and pull a Lou Gehrig? I kind of want to believe that both happened.
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