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  1. jimmer
    grand salami time!
  2. jimmer
    There you go Rosario!
  3. jimmer
    Rosario doesn't belong at cleanup though, IMO. Him being cold as ice just makes it worse.
  4. jimmer
    That kind of sacrifice tapper making sure he makes enough contact so the runner moves up that Mauer did there drives me almost as crazy as sac bunts to get a guy to 2B. Playing for one run in the first inning is nuts. Prefer to have the guy who is hitting so well take a full swing instead of a safe swing where he just wants to make sure he moves the guy over.
  5. jimmer
    Rosario is about as cold as it gets right now so lets bat him 4th.
  6. jimmer
    Problem is, ERA doesn't measure only pitching. Defense is a vital influence on ERA. Scorers decisions are a vital influence on ERA. Heck, some parks are more helpful to ERAs and hurtful to others' ERA. And if a pitcher gives up 8 runs after an error is made cause out #3 not to occur, all of that is unearned, even though that pitcher (and the defense) certainly gave up all those runs.
  7. jimmer
    and if you don't care about ERA...
  8. jimmer
    All of this. I'd go so far as to say the same thing even if they barely miss getting the 2nd wild card.
  9. jimmer
    It's like fielders are being held to high school fielding standards nowadays. Think about this. Ozzie Smith is the best fielding shortstop of all time (no offense to Omar V), and yet he had 5 seasons in his career where he had 20 or more errors. In fact, in his first 6 seasons, he averaged about 20 errors a season. Last year only two shortstops had more than 18 errors.
  10. jimmer
    Well, yeah, that's why i said except Ozzie Smith :-) Though, in fairness, in Ozzie's day, a .262/.337/.370 was passable for a shortstop. Especially when he could play D like he did.
  11. jimmer
    Mauer is now 6th in AL BA and 3rd in AL OBP while playing GG defense. W/RISP: .321 BA and an 880 OPS.
  12. jimmer
    I wish I got why that isn't an error. Ball went in and out of his glove. But there are a lot of scoring decisions (in regards to what is an isn't an error) that baffle me. Back in the 80s and before, I believe that's scored an error.
  13. jimmer
    That's why my favorite players have always been the well rounded ones (well, except Ozzie Smith:-)).
  14. jimmer
    Since Aug 1st, Polanco and Mauer are 1, 2 in AL BA. Mauer is now 6th in AL BA and 3rd in AL OBP while playing GG defense.
  15. jimmer
    In 2009 he was an above average defender and he led the AL in BA, OBP and SLG%. When he did that, it was the first time that had happened in the AL since George Brett in 1980. Pretty sure he is still the only catcher to ever do it. He also led the AL in OPS+ and he led in wRC+ by 18 points. A pretty phenomenal year.
  16. jimmer
    The washed up slacker gets on base for the 4th time today.
  17. jimmer
    I think it's a lot harder to come in to pitch with runners on than it does to come into the game in the 9th inning with a 2 or 3 run lead.
  18. jimmer
    Imagine how slow Moustakas would be if he was 34 and had spent 10 professional seasons crouching behind the plate...
  19. jimmer
    Nifty
  20. jimmer
    This team has done surprisingly well this season. While he sometimes drives me crazy, I got to give Molitor a lot of credit for the team performing above expectations. Hopefully he gets an extension. He's turned into a fine manager.
  21. jimmer
    Castro defensive specialist
  22. jimmer
    You mean like how some around here would continuously compare Ryan's GM work to the Cubs' Theo Epstein even though Epstein isn't the Cubs' GM either? Those people would say it was about comparing the top dogs making the final call, and with the way many teams are set up right now, there's a President of Baseball Operations who is top dog and then a GM. Probably why people are talking about Falvey instead of Levine. The same way people wouldn't stop talking about Theo (or was that King Theo? I forget).
  23. jimmer
    That was the first thing I thought of when the asshat-in-chief was making that decision. I knew that argument was coming. Unfortunately, not sure the genie can be put back in the bottle.
  24. jimmer
    Morneau was very good and they need to get him in the booth permanently.
  25. jimmer
    exactly.
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