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  1. nicksaviking
    These guys have to know their manager is on the hot seat, yet they still play like.....they don't care? That probably says all we need to know about this team right now.
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    Wait, I'm not watching the HS game right now on Friday night?
  4. nicksaviking
    Fingers crossed, I'm still hopeful of all of them, but this team has had that caliber of offensive prospects in the system for about a decade and it's not paying off. I'd like them to keep at it until it does. By them, I mean generically the Twins; I don't need the same people running the show making the same decisions any longer.
  5. nicksaviking
    With the sorry state of this team's offense, I'm really not thinking about rankings because rankings are going to take positional adjustments in to play. A CF or a Catcher who can stick at the position but has a lesser bat will get a boost in the rankings. I know no one wants to go back to the corner-bat frenzy days we had about five years ago, but this team desperately needs a perennial .850+ OPS (really .900+) hitter. And really, outside of Wallner, does this team even have corner players anymore? Runs, runs and more runs please.
  6. nicksaviking
    Golden is a decent ways away from Coors Field. Tons of craft breweries in the area though. Really good ones too. I'm a foodie and like craft beer (did I mention that?), so I like the River North (RiNo) district northeast of the stadium. Also, there is an absolutely gonzo interactive modern art attraction called Meow Wolf over by Mile High Stadium. Kids will love it, adults will be amused by it, and adults who partake in the types of consumption that Colorado has become known for, will likely enjoy it the most.
  7. nicksaviking
    The Twins don't have a specific position of need, they have specific lineup spot needs. I know they've tried and failed with many picks, but this team absolutely HAS to start finding middle of the lineup bats. And they need them for more than just the middle of the lineup. I don't think this team can be cute trying to draft a position they want, they have to draft the best hitters. And I know that's not a popular sentiment. But they aren't winning anything meaningful until they can start to put together a lineup other teams dread facing.
  8. nicksaviking
    Whether he's basing the decision on 100 pitches or basing it on three times through the order, he's not 'using analytics' to make this decision. This is just rote memorization of conventional wisdom. Either traditional (100 pitches) or more modern (3x through the order). You don't use a computer to count how many times Bobby Witt Jr has been to bat, you use an abacus.
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    I think it was Mike Sixel who used to share posts from other sites regularly in a similarly named thread. It's been awhile, and this one tickled my inner Schadenfreude, so let's play this game again. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/after-fumbling-away-a-playoff-berth-last-year-the-twins-continue-to-bumble/
  10. nicksaviking
    Nope, still not even close to your business. How would it be? Are you paying his salary? Are you his ride from the airport or watering his plants while he's away? Yeah, I know, everyone shares too much on social media these days and randos feel like they have the right to know everything about everybody all the time. You don't. Sorry, it's on YOU to deal with your impulsive need to know, not Byron Buxton.
  11. nicksaviking
    They've scored three runs or fewer eight of their 13 games. And they didn't even attempt to improve the offense this offseason. I just do not understand why they think they can be cute and try to improve the defense or pitching and think it will matter. It will NEVER matter meaningfully if you don't score more runs. It's like the league deadened the ball after 2019 and the Twins said, 'Oh we'll show them, we'll find a way to win some other way!' Meanwhile, MLB history continues to have never had a game where a team won while scoring zero runs......
  12. nicksaviking
    I really dislike the suburban sports stadiums. I know owners back in the day liked them because land was cheaper, and owners now like them so they can develop around them. Give me a stadium near the downtown hotels, bars and restaurants so I can walk to and explore the local flavor before and/or after the game. And find somewhere to grab a beer while I wait out traffic.
  13. nicksaviking
    I still think a pass-catching speedster is still desperately needed as a RB option on this team. Without the threat of someone being able to break big plays out in the flat, I think the other teams will continue to be able to cheat and stuff the box and blitz at will.
  14. nicksaviking
    I'm not sure about that. Keirsey has been on the MLB roster since day 1 and got his first start yesterday. If Baldelli doesn't want you to play, you're not going to play, and based on last year, it sure seems he'd prefer Martin not to play.
  15. nicksaviking
    Right, their marketing philosophy is insane. They're trying to sell tickets to out state people who live off the kinds of news programs that tell them to never go to Minneapolis or they'll be kidnapped and murdered, meanwhile the highest density population in the state, which also happens to be amongst the wealthiest populations in the state is in their backyard; walkable and full of young professionals with disposable income because they are largely without children and other responsibilities.
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    Pretty sure we as fans are screwed either way. If the prospective buyer(s) are willing to pay 1.5B but playing hardball going up to 1.7B, I we can all but be guaranteed that these are prospective owners we do NOT want running this team.
  17. nicksaviking
    I hope you're right, but I'm skeptical. Maybe it's just because of the team I follow, but I don't see much evidence that anyone in charge cares about the long term health of this league. Everyone seems to only care about immediate gains.
  18. nicksaviking
    Is it stable though? These extreme payroll disparities suggest contraction will need to be on the table within the decade. There's no way a healthy league can't have 300M payroll teams and 70M payroll teams.
  19. nicksaviking
    Baldelli does not manage by computers. He's more of an old-school gut-manager than Sparky Anderson and Earl Weaver. His gut just isn't very good.
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    I'm sad to see that I'll never be able to retire, but I am enjoying watching the people who are mentally incapable of ever admitting they were wrong realize that they can't complain about these moronic tariffs, so the only way they can now save face is by saying, 'Money and the economy aren't everything! Don't you all feel ashamed that this is all you care about?!?!'
  21. nicksaviking
    I am mortified. Didn't everyone get the memo that we are not to say these kinds of things out loud?!?!? What god are you trying to tempt into cursing Buxton and Twins fans this time?
  22. nicksaviking
    It sounds like the Twins abundance of debt is a Twins-specific issue, likely due to ownership dumping their real estate debts on Minnesota Twins LLC. So the Orioles did not have that baggage. Also, it's the East Coast. Despite it being a 'small' market for the East Coast, that market still has old-money prestige and more national exposure simply because they are constantly playing and being discussed with their big market division rivals. But agree with Jocko. Twins current ownership has been really, really bad at marketing and doing TV deals. While most of the league is struggling with these things, the Twins being at the bottom of these metrics should indicate there is financial gain if new owners merely emulate their peers.
  23. nicksaviking
    Real estate? Sure, good choice Alex.
  24. nicksaviking
    I'm not sure, I don't think they are fully on the same page. As this article points out, there may be some pre-game analytics used to explain the fluctuation of the bottom of the lineup. Likely a collaborative effort. But once decisions have to be made in real time, Baldelli just uses surface level insight to make his calls, which likely is straight out of 1970, but to make it modern, he doubles down on those efforts. If a young left handed hitter is up against a left handed pitcher, he's getting swapped out because that's what the numbers say. But Baldelli doesn't (or won't) take into consideration that his right handed pinch-hit option is Christian Vazquez, not Nelson Cruz. It's all the same to him. It's not 'what does Vazquez do against this pitcher, in this inning, with this many base runners, with this many outs, in this month', that's too complex and detailed. It's just simply, 'right handed hitters are better against left handed pitchers'.
  25. nicksaviking
    For all the commotion about Baldelli being too analytical, I don't think he is in the slightest. All of his 'analytical' decisions are basically just old conventional baseball wisdom that is supported only by surface-level stats. Left handers can't hit left handed pitching. Trust veterans over young players. Pinch run your fastest player late in the game, no matter the score, number of outs or which hitter is standing on 1B. There's no method here, he just does to the extreme what managers have been doing (often incorrectly) for a hundred years.
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