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And his blown saves are very efficient, usually just a handful of pitches.

I saw the title and couldn't help myself.  It is like driving past a car accident.  I mean I know this article is just trying to wring every last drop out of the Pagan discussion clickamania, but I just couldn't help myself...

We don't have enough bottom of the order slots for all of our bottom of the order hitters.

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?

If just would have postponed Pagán from blowing up the game until the 8th.

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.

Winnable game until you know who came in to pitch  ...
I laughed  when  pagan came into the game,  WHY would he be your first choice  in  winnable game , WHY is he even on the team ....

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. 

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?

Heartless, gutless baseball. Things won't change for this team until large-scale changes are made in the dugout and/or the Front Office. The longer we wait, the worse this will get.

I noticed the Bluejays have a strange batting approach.....they hit the ball.

He's not very close to being an ace.
I'd say he has another $15M-$20M/yr to go before he gets there.

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.

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.

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.

Technically eight homeruns up? They are averaging 1.95 per game, so isn’t that just under four games up?

Technically eight homeruns up? They are averaging 1.95 per game, so isn’t that just under four games up?

Should happen easily, the lowest monthly total this year is 49.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.