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  1. gil4
    I hadn't heard of him before today, so forgive me if I hold off on agreeing until he has at least two at-bat's above low-A. For all I know, he just swung hard with his eyes closed and got lucky.
  2. gil4
    Every time he dove back into a base it looked painful. After he stole he base, I wasn't sure if he could get up. Maybe he was watching old video of Joe Morgan, who always looked like he was in too much pain to walk, but was great at stealing bases.
  3. gil4
    For some reason I'm picturing a Far Side-like comic with Falvey and Levine reading TD and doing just that - waiting just to mess with us and starting various rumors to make us crazy. (Correa for Soto sounds like their handiwork.)
  4. gil4

    75 RBI or 75 RBIs?

    gil4 commented on Greglw3's blog entry in Greg Allen

    Neither. I don't think anyone on the team is getting to 75. ? I am of the opinion that RBI has by common usage become the thing and not just the abbreviation for the thing. Therefore, I will continue to make the thing plural by adding an s, both when speaking and when writing. If it drives someone crazy, I consider that a feature, not a bug.
  5. gil4
    If MVP of an All-star game is meaningful, then RBI can be meaningful in determining it. Stanton's HR did go farther, too, which might have factored into the vote (which is also commentary on how meaningful I think the vote is.) Anyway, I'm not seeing the NY bias in that vote. I probably would have voted for Stanton too (unless I could find a pitcher worth voting for.)
  6. gil4
    Josh Winder pitched more, but the results in college were worse. But it was probably a good decision.
  7. gil4
    It appears his Friday night replacement at Alabama (and Twins 19th round pick) is returning to school. https://tide1009.com/bama-baseballs-garrett-mcmillan-chooses-to-return-to-tuscaloosa/
  8. gil4
    There is another possible factor, although the I don't know what the underlying numbers. OPS is just adding two stats together and is a good shorthand for calculating offensive value, but I don't think it's precise enough for what we are trying to figure out. I have heard that OPS undervalues OBP and overvalues SLG. Is the team OPS heavy on the SLG and light on the OBP? I don't know the answer, but that might be one place to look.
  9. gil4
    I hope the Rob Wilfong rumor isn't true, because the replacement level infielder tattoo needs to be Nick Punto sliding into first. Of course, we also need a pitcher, and there are so many possibilities.
  10. gil4
    It sounds like you missed a life-changing opportunity there. (Maybe not life-changing for the better, but still life-changing)
  11. gil4
    I have always considered age to be less of a factor for pitchers than for hitters. He's 25 and his arm hasn't fallen off - that alone puts him in the top 10% of pitching prospects in his age group.
  12. gil4
    Most of what I know about Gilbert was this play, and it wasn't his finest moment: It may look like a quick hook, but the crew chief said he had warned him already about arguing balls and strikes while he was in CF. (It takes a lot to get a ball/strike warning from CF,) If the Twins decide to draft him, hopefully it's after doing a bit of extra due diligence.
  13. gil4
    I got my nap in during the game today. Apparently the Twins did too.
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  15. gil4
    It worked for decades until it didn't work anymore, because someone did something else that worked better. We may get to a point where everyone has the same numbers ands same computer analysis, and the only tiebreaker will be one scout's eye test vs. another's. We aren't there yet (as far as I can tell), Of course, even the eye test will be video that's enhanced and analyzed by computers...
  16. gil4
    I think Bundy went on the COVID list. I would hope he didn't have symptoms during the game, although it's possible he was off enough to affect his performance. It's also possible getting shelled had no medical cause whatsoever.
  17. gil4
    Yeah, you might want to dig up one of last year's threads to post that. It's hard to believe this is the same site (or the same team.)
  18. gil4
    This might be the wrong site to post this, but Joe Morgan > Kirby Puckett, and it isn't close. Does that need to go under the "controversial baseball opinions:" article instead?
  19. gil4
    It would have to be a pitcher doing the pinch-running. The last I checked, we had two healthy non-pitcher subs. I think the next improvement at TF is going to be expanded bullpen seating.
  20. gil4
    I'm willing to try the bubble wrap. Maybe line the walls with the stuff, too. I prefer that idea to the DH suggestion.
  21. gil4
    From the article: "Thousands of fans cast their votes for their favorite name in September 2020, with Sky Carp edging out Supper Clubbers -- by less than 50 votes." I didn't care for the Sky Carp name either until I saw what the next alternative was. By comparison, Sky Carp is an awesome name.
  22. gil4
    And some definitely is. He needs to learn how to make catches at the wall without killing himself. He had another one early in spring training that made the ESPN highlights, but it showed he still hasn't learned. If he keeps hitting walls while in awkward positions, he will keep getting hurt.
  23. gil4
    Yeah, those Mariners fans are still upset they traded him. ? (Baseball Weekly had a short follow-up article on the name change with one of my all-time favorite headlines - "Player Really To Be Named Later." )
  24. gil4
    That is hard to believe. He looked like he didn't even know how to hold a bat last year. I was extra disappointed because I was excited when we signed him - he played his college ball in our small town in western Oklahoma.
  25. gil4
    When will he have to make that decision? November? He will likely have forgotten there even was a summer by then. (I probably should have led with the "you're crazy," but two weeks ago we would have said that about anyone who thought we would sign him.)
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