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Read more about Miguel Sano: Can a Staggeringly Huge Monster-Man Cut it in the Outfield?

Miguel Sano: Can a Staggeringly Huge Monster-Man Cut it in the Outfield?

Miguel Sano is listed by Baseball-Reference at 260 pounds. This LEN3 article has him at 263. If you've ever seen him up close, you know that Miguel Sano's true weight is probably something closer to thirty-seven billion pounds. It's also possible that he has no weight, but rather that the Earth's weight is measured in terms of the effect Sano's gravitational pull has on it. He's a large man, is what I'm saying. He's one scary, seriously oversized muscle with a face.   That's an unusual-enough t

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• Bill Parker
• February 29, 201610 yr

Read more about On the Twins' Cheapness and Showing Your Work

On the Twins' Cheapness and Showing Your Work

I want to talk about the Twins and payroll, and how we talk about the Twins’ payroll.   It’s been about a month since Jack Moore wrote the excellent and scathing The Minnesota Small-Market Con over at Baseball Prospectus Milwaukee. The points it makes are numerous and wide-ranging -- the most important, I think, is “f the billionaire Pohlads had been willing to take a short-term loss, they could have made their way out of the Metronome years earlier without taking the public for such a ride” --

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• Bill Parker
• February 22, 201610 yr