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  1. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    He sucks on and off the field, get over it.
  2. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    He was the 3rd best starter on his team last year and is pitching in a league where Robinson Cano (.373 OPS in his last MLB stint) is far and away the best hitter in the league. Even from a purely baseball perspective it would be a bad idea.
  3. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    Duran gave up all 3 runs on a fastball, 1 to Marsh for the long flyout and the other 2 on the Castellanos double. Nothing was working for him tonight but that pitch gave up the damage. A 50% strike rate isn't exactly inspiring for a fastball.
  4. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    Way too much team control for the Marlins to consider trading him, or the Twins to consider trading for him.
  5. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    Not this year, not even close.
  6. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    Of all the guys to blame, this is one of the worst you could choose.
  7. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    And that's why Jax should be the closer.
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  9. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    Had MAT not lobbied for a 2-year deal before settling on the same amount of money the Twins are paying Margot, he almost certainly would have been back before they made that trade (which ended up being a boon for the Twins).
  10. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    Those are the results, not the approach. "Trying to get clutch hits" isn't a philosophical change they've made, as if they just weren't trying to hit in clutch situations before? The Twins are seeing 3.81 pitches per plate appearance this year (26th in MLB), compared to 3.96 last year (5th) and 3.91 in 2022 (11th). They are making contact 74.6% of the time (18th), compared to 71.6% last year (25th) and 75% in 2022 (11th). They are hitting flyballs 28.8% of the time (2nd), compared to 27.9% last year (5th) and 27.5% in 2022 (7th). You keep repeating and repeating and repeating about some "all or nothing HR approach" that you cannot define and for which there is no proof in the data other than strikeouts, which ballooned last year largely because of the personnel in Gallo, MAT, a hurt Buxton, and Wallner and Julien having more playing time. All I'm asking is for some actual proof of concept if you're going to repeat the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over......
  11. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    You've yet to ever specify what, specifically, changed about their approach. Any detail would go a long way here. They improved the CF situation by simply having Buxton be healthy with no good defensive backup?
  12. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    I guess this means the season is back on! Whew!
  13. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    Can't believe they're losing to the worst manager in the game and a AAA lineup!
  14. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    That's why they left him in, sure thing!
  15. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    Julien in as a defensive replacement, "punt" lineup beating the best team in baseball, tough night for the narratives.
  16. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    Julien defensive replacement tonight really hurting the obviously false personal vendetta.
  17. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    How much they baby a player like Julien? You're really only proving that you have a personal vendetta against him. However, I must thank you for linking an article that agrees with what I've said regarding fielding percentage. Re: that last point, making conclusions based off a little more than a month's worth of games in AAA is poor data analysis to go along with a poor choice of data.
  18. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    There are hundreds and hundreds of balls and strikes called in each game (and yes many umps are bad at their job - regardless of how hard it is). This is not the case with errors, each singular call is much more significant and that a ball misplayed so badly that it doesn't hit the glove is almost never ruled an error seals it for me. Fielding percentage is a worse measure of defensive ability than the eye test. And I specifically put "essentially" in that sentence, odd that it's being ignored. Fielding percentage would have you believe that Kyle Schwarber's 2018 or 2022 (0.995) was better than any professional season Steven Kwan has had defensively. That's an essentially worthless stat in my book.
  19. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    I don't see anything that really rates Jorge highly on defense. The methodology of what is classified as an error is inherently flawed, which means it's essentially useless.
  20. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    MLBAM has this really cool thing called Baseball Savant that they put out and display on broadcasts now. Just because a stat exists doesn't mean anyone "uses" it. Not a very complicated concept, when is the last time you saw fielding percentage on a broadcast?
  21. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    Right, and fielding % is based on errors which are an objectively awful way to measure defense. No one even tangentially related to baseball uses fielding percentage any more. It's 2024, you can find a less erratic measure of defense if you wanted to.
  22. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    RpR just can't see past the absolute worst method of measuring defense - errors.
  23. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    Having a hard type typing this comment under the intense pressure of the sky falling!!
  24. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    He was below average until July or so, after which he improved to be an above average or even a good second baseman by the end of the year. The numbers and the eye test support this.
  25. CCHOF5yearstoolate
    The free options are very easy, for what it's worth.
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