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Perhaps Morneau is just an adult and got over it a long time ago.
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Article: Twins Can Pull Plenty From World Series
jimmer replied to Ted Schwerzler 's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Another thing about KC: They put emphasis on defense. Awesome defense helps the pitching staff and saves runs. They realize this is important to winning. -
Team must have bowed out when Gardy insisted on a job for Anderson and a roster spot on the 25 man for Punto :-) Do we know for sure Gardy was actually the runner up?
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I understand that losing Mr. Saunders was hard, but in what other way was it a tough week for Minnesota sports fans?
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I am glad you are so sure, considering how liberal that whole city is (like Portland and San Francisco). Three peas in a pod those cities are.
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Yeah, I doubt that's true. Seattle for one. Either way, it was a legitimate question.
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I'm saying back when these ideas were hugely popular, would 47% of MN agreeing with it make it okay? Did you know that until 1967, 16 states still had it on the books that inter-racial marriages were illegal? Alabama didn't take it officially off the books until 2000 and that over half a million voted against Alabama's repeal of the anti-miscegenation laws?
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I wonder what % of voters in MN back in the day agreed with people who thought segregation and slavery were a good idea too? Discrimination is discrimination.
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There was nothing wrong with Bernadino asked. He asked if Hunter thought his very public views may have affected his FA process. For example, would the Giants have even thought about getting him knowing the kind of backlash the fans might have given? It's a legitimate baseball question. And he used his celebrity to try and suppress the rights of a whole group of people. I have no such celebrity and if I did, I wouldn't use it to push a candidate that wants to discriminate against a whole group of people.
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Hunter came out and used his star power to endorse a candidate in part because the candidate was going to fight gay marriage. That wasn't a case of anyone asking Hunter his thoughts on a subject, that was him going out of his way to endorse a candidate that would attempt to suppress the rights of a whole group of people. So we can stop with the whole, 'if you don't want an answer don't ask the question' defense, because it hold zero water. People have a right to their opinion but when a person uses his influence to try and suppress the rights of people who don't agree with his point of view, that is something else. That isn't just having an opinion, it's actively trying to push his opinions onto others.
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Rios is a LOT younger. They likely bet on him bouncing back. They reportedly had a bid 2M less than what Hunter signed for. http://blogs.twincities.com/twins/2015/04/13/twinsights-how-close-did-royals-come-to-landing-torii-hunter/
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yeah, almost solely was an interesting thing to say. I'm sure, along with the things you mentioned, there was the 10.5M he was given. Doubt KC offered that.
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if you want to believe that means it wasn't child abuse, go for it.
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apparently murder is the line, child abuse isn't :-)
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Mike already said this to you like an hour ago 'Isn't that what I said? I still rooted for him to do well on the Twins.....doesn't mean I have to like his opinions or him. I looked beyond them while he was on the field.' Obviously, he was rooting for Hunter and doesn't seem close to stopping the cheering for a player because he said something he didn't agree with.
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There's a lot of things allowed and not allowed in the bible that I imagine people would have real issues with today :-)
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Article: Ryan On Suzuki: He Took The Post
jimmer replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Suzuki's wRC+ in 2012 was 63 Suzuki's wRC+ in 2013 was 67 Suzuki's wRC+ in 2014 was 107 Suzuki's wRc+ in 2015 was 66. Is he really somewhere between 2014 and 2015 or was 2015 the real him? This is a lot like Hughes FIP trend. Ryan got outlier seasons from Suzuki and Hughes and decided to sign these guys for longer because of it. They went back to who they really are this season. -
Article: Will Kurt Suzuki's Offense Continue?
jimmer replied to Parker Hageman's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Well, we had to hope he would at least. What should we expect from him going into next season? -
Article: On Phil Hughes And Regression
jimmer replied to Parker Hageman's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
This was interesting to go back and read, both the article (and it's conclusions) as well as the discussions about the conclusion. What was the unexpected change, if any, that had Hughes results revert back to what he was before 2014? Should we expect a bounceback this year? -
Of course.
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When trying to figure out what a player will do, one normally looks back at the last three seasons which were wRC+ of 63, 67 and 104. At least that's what I've been told and what I do. And it makes sense to me. How far back does one go before what a player did becomes irrelevant? 5 years? Does what a player did in 2010 really come into play when trying to predict what a guy will do in 2015? Rule of thumb seems three years. So, by doing that, I saw that going into 2014 he had his worst season and his 2nd worse season. Then he had his way out of character wRC+ in 2014. Seeing that, I figured it was more likely he'd go back to something much closer to his 2012 and 2013 then come close to what he did in 2014. And when his change in approach was pointed out as a reason he had turned around his offensive woes last year, I pointed out then that it seemed unlikely he could sustain that. He didn't sustain it and the fall started in the 2nd half. But we disagree on methods. I felt comfortable with my method, even moreso knowing how it worked out. Exactly how I thought it would. Same thing with Hughes.
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Yeah, when you point out that it was his 2nd worst season in his career, that's a bit misleading no?Technically it's true but it doesn't really tell us how much worse it was than his 3rd worst season does it? The difference between his 2nd worst season and 3rd worst season is a whopping 1 point difference in wRC+ so it's not like the dropoff from 2013 to 2015 was huge and, therefore, pointing out it was his 2nd worst season really doesn't mean much. Here are his wRC+ numbers in the last 4 seasons (which includes his worst, 2nd worst and 3rd worst offensive seasons). 63, 67, 109 and 66. One of those is CLEARLY not like the others (2014) and the other three (the ones that are his three worse seasons) are all within 5 points of each other. In other words, not much different at all and his 3 worst seasons have occurred in his last 4 seasons. In other words, they haven't been spread over his career suggesting his 2015 was out of the blue. From 2012-2015 we see his worst, 3rd worst, best by far and then his 2nd worst. But 2014, his best season ever, isn't the extreme outlier? If someone sees a over 30 year old catcher guy with a 63 and 67 wRC+ in his previous two seasons (his two worst seasons at the time), then he has a career year at 107 wRC+. which seems more likely to happen the following season when looking at magical regression? Most likely the next year is going to be way closer to the 63 and 67, no? And look what happened.
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Suzuki, like Hughes, went back to who they had been for a few years. Wasn't hard to see their 2014 were outliers nor hard to predict huge regression in 2015 (especially for Suzuki who started his regression in 2nd half of 2014).
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No, he may not, but he's carried an OPS+ over 110 in 3 of the last 4 seasons and 4 of his 6 MLB seasons. He gets on base over 35% of the time and his wRC+ has been over 120 in 3 of the last 4 seasons as well which puts him securely in the above average category. I'd take that any day when you also get his defense :-) He's the RF version of KCs LF A Gordon.
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Then you see that Bryce Harper had 7 defensive runs saved (4th), Carlos Gonzalez had 5 (T-6), Reddick had 1 (T-9), Markakis had -6 (13th) and Hunter had -8 (14th). And it's not like Markakis and Cargo have been considered good RF. In fact, it's Cargo's first year as anywhere near a full time RF and Markakis had one good year on defense this decade. There aren't too many good defensive RF in the game right now. It's why Heyward has so much value.
