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  1. wsnydes
    1: I voted 3-4, but think it's 4 or 5. I voted 4 because 4.5 wasn't an option. 2: Bullpen and quality of opponents 3: bullpen, bats gaining consistency and production from youth. 4: they're going to bring in a few bullpen arms, perhaps a starter. they can probably use a bat, but I don't think they'll get one
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    This is kind of along the lines of my thought process as well. The issue I run into is that I think that they're a better team now than with Good Sano, generally speaking. I also don't know who'd be sent down. I'd lean Miranda only because he's an infield corner guy. He doesn't really deserve it, but could probably benefit some time in St. Paul to polish a few things defensively himself. Kirilloff can play the outfield and a good 1B and his bat is taking off. And as you touched on, how long do you ride Good Sano until he turns back into a pumpkin? Best case scenario in my mind is that Sano has a really good rehab stint that the team showcases and deals him, likely needing to eat the salary. I think he can still be a serviceable major league player, but I don't think it'll be here. And I'm at the point where I don't think it even SHOULD be here. The team has filled in pretty well without him.
  3. wsnydes
    This type of game is what I expected to see regularly this season. Not so much the losing part necessarily, but a slugfest. At least they took the series. Keep winning series, and they'll be hard to catch.
  4. wsnydes
    Be sure to do your pregame warmups and that wouldn't happen!
  5. wsnydes
    I bet he'd blend right in on the waiver wire.
  6. wsnydes
    A certain Moody Blues song comes to mind watching this game.
  7. wsnydes
    In fairness, that's not in their job description.
  8. wsnydes
    Oh, well, in that case, he's not even close to ready let alone doubly so!
  9. wsnydes
    Polanco with an even better, yet not quite as immediate, response! I like that as well!
  10. wsnydes
    Arraez with an immediate response. I like that.
  11. wsnydes
    This game is going to be back and forth all day, isn't it?
  12. wsnydes
    Finally...employees can now play Oregon Trail on their lunch breaks!
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    I like the odds of a sweep today. I'll take Ryan over Lynn almost any day. I'm going to dig a bit and say that Miranda has a big day.
  15. wsnydes
    You're missing the point. It's not about the pitch count. Even your own findings back that up. I've even given you the Bundy case as an extreme example. And that's because the pitch count wasn't relevant to the decision. You may not find an better example of the irrelevance of the pitch count than this one Bundy start. But every team is trending away from pitch counts to make the decision, which is what our argument has been. FYI I found many examples where a pitcher was brought out for the 6th with about the same amount of pitches, and sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't, and there many that the pitcher stayed good and finished 7 or 8 plus innings. Based on this sentence alone, I would imagine that if you kept digging into this, that the number of times that it doesn't work out is higher than the times that it did. And that's why Bundy didn't go out. Especially with a backend starter like Bundy, the times where it doesn't work out is going to be greater than the times that it does. Teams are simply leveraging the odds, not paying attention to the pitch count.
  16. wsnydes
    The article I linked, the ESPN article @chpettit19referenced and everything he's stated says that it is not. I'll even grant you that the Bundy case is an extreme one, but they're not looking at pitch count. And that's the point we're trying to make to you. And we've demonstrated that it's not just the Twins doing this.
  17. wsnydes
    Which is why we're also seeing more power in the top third of the lineup as well. It's not table setters in the 1/2 slot and then power, it's power at 1-5. Your best all around hitter may still be in the 3 hole, but the power has shifted towards the top of the lineup rather than the middle.
  18. wsnydes
    Between @chpettit19and the article @Riverbrianlinked last week here (linked once again), plenty of back up has been provided to you against your point. You keep dwelling on pitch count when pitch count isn't even the determining factor of when a guy is pulled. It is a factor, but it's not THE factor anymore. If anyone is lazy here, it's me for simply referring you to someone else's post from last week linking to an article written by someone else!
  19. wsnydes
    As others have said, it's really dependent on the individual player. And even then, there are so many factors that it's hard to really condense that down into any sort of "rule of thumb" process. I like the question though. Good talker, good subject matter to think through.
  20. wsnydes
    Nah, gotta be Rocco's fault.
  21. wsnydes
    Just checking in and I see that you guys have this under control. I'll leave you to it before I jinx something! Good work everyone!
  22. wsnydes
    I'd say Urshela played it correctly too since he was backing up the throw, but that's mostly because nobody else appears to be where they should have been that it played out as it did.
  23. wsnydes
    Just because a fielder isn't at 2B to field a throw doesn't mean that's not where the throw was going. Was it on line? No. It wasn't in line to 3B either.
  24. wsnydes
    Homer!
  25. wsnydes
    It's not just a Twins thing though. It's happening across the league. @Riverbrian posted an article last week on this very topic, here. So, to say that it's a Rocco thing simply isn't true.
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