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I'm sure you watch every team in the league to form your opinion.
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A roller that Larnach actually had to run to get to is so obviously not the Jeffers line drive that the RF (who generally has a better arm) had before Miranda was even beginning to round 3rd. Any semblance of objectivity would be great.
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Twins are above average at preventing steals compared to the rest of the league. League context is always important.
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not even a remotely similar play hahaha
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*shrug*
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holy hannah this defense
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or at throwing to first I guess
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Pitchers are not doing our catchers any favors being this slow to home with runners on
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Why didn't Wallner catch that?
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Not buying it, sorry.
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Just setting up the triple play...
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And maybe they'll be easy outs in key situations again in a couple of innings
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I don't believe for a second that if he was thrown out by 15 feet, like he would have been, that you'd say anything other than how bad Tommy Watkins is at sending runners.
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maybe next time Wallner and Larnach will look good against a lefty!
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Give me a break lol
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Miranda would have been thrown out easily on that one.
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Sure thing, man!
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What specifically are you questioning? His desire to play the game? That's an objectively stupid question when it comes to Byron Buxton and, again, makes me question how much you've actually followed his career.
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Why would you believe that Twins players would ever read the comments on this site? Weird to think that.
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Yes, that kind of "asking questions" is loser stuff. Particularly so if you're questioning the desire of Byron Buxton to play the game of baseball. If you seriously believe what you wrote, it sure seems like you haven't paid attention to his career at all, other than looking at the 'games played' section of his baseball reference. Injuries happen, it sucks. When it happens every year it f***ing sucks. I guarantee you that Byron is 1000x more unhappy than you are that he's not out there. How much has rushing back to the field helped him in the past? What you are doing is toddler-esque, loser behavior, plain and simple. What's pretty weird to me is taking it personally when an athlete gets injured and making it out to be some kind of moral failing when you (obviously) don't know any of the details on the why he's not back playing yet.
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For "fun" I looked up every season in MLB with a strikeout rate above 40% and over 150 plate appearances. Unsurprisingly, each of the 15 such seasons have come in the last 10 years (Javy Baez was the first in 2014 - 229 PA at 41.5%). Only 4 seasons had an above average production by wRC+. 2021 Patrick Wisdom - 375 PA, 40.8 K%, 117 wRC+ (.823 OPS) 2022 Keston Hiura - 266 PA, 41.7 K%, 115 wRC+ (.765 OPS) 2023 Joey Gallo - 332 PA, 42.8 K%, 103 wRC+ (.741 OPS) 2020 Miguel Sano - 205 PA, 43.9 K%, 101 wRC+ (.757 OPS)
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I love the Eeles/McCusker storyline. Two guys who couldn't be more opposite ball players (and a 15 inch height difference), both signed out of Indy ball and have crushed it in their own ways all year. The system is in a really good place.
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RHB are not platooned as much as LHB because there's a much less severe dropoff for them facing same-handed pitchers. Platooning is really a lefty thing, and it's been done since Earl Weaver and Tom Kelly. Max Kepler has a career OPS against LHP of .655. Nick Punto had a career OPS of .654 against LHP. He's had some good years (2019 is a big outlier), and some very bad years.
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Closest I see from a starter is Randy Vazquez who averages 3055 RPM on his sweeper. Lucas Sims' sweeper is the fastest spinning non-curve at 3149 RPM. Jax is #4 in MLB at 3052. Among curveballs Seth Lugo is tops at 3282, followed by Ryan Pressly at 3256 and Sims again at 3245. For sliders Corbin Burnes averages 2983 and then it's 3 relievers above 2900 with Austin Adams, Peter Strzelecki and Bryan Abreu. Anything over 3000 would be outlier territory even as a reliever. Unheard of for a starter.
