June 23, 201412 yr Hopefully the season hasn't been expanded to 1,000 games by then. Well if they did, you'd think they'd finally have a few traditional double headers at least.
June 23, 201412 yr Well if they did, you'd think they'd finally have a few traditional double headers at least. They'd skip the traditional day/night doubleheaders and do Day/week dodecaheaders. Fuuuuuutuuuuure!
June 26, 201412 yr Ok, not Twins related, and nobody else will care, but too fun a number to pass up. And quite astonishingly impressive. Hank Aaron has an Erdős–Bacon number of 3. Contrast this with Carl Sagan's and Richard Feynman's values of 6 and Natalie Portman's value of 7. What this means: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_number
June 26, 201412 yr Ok, not Twins related, and nobody else will care, but too fun a number to pass up. And quite astonishingly impressive. Hank Aaron has an Erdős–Bacon number of 3. Contrast this with Carl Sagan's and Richard Feynman's values of 6 and Natalie Portman's value of 7. What this means: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_number we need one of these for baseball. Something that rolls off the tongue. Maybe the Orosco number?
June 26, 201412 yr we need one of these for baseball. Something that rolls off the tongue. Maybe the Orosco number? Punto number.
June 26, 201412 yr Octavio Dotel , Jesse Orosco , Mike Morgan are good candidates. Ken Brett for the 1970's. Tommy Davis for the 1960's. Currently active players LaTroy Hawkins, Jamey Wright (wait, is he still playing?), and Bruce Chen have all played for 10 different francshises. Hall of Famer Dan Brouthers played for 10 different teams spanning 1879-1904, so he's got the old timers covered... http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/leaders_most_franchises.shtml
June 26, 201412 yr Octavio Dotel , Jesse Orosco , Mike Morgan are good candidates. Ken Brett for the 1970's. Tommy Davis for the 1960's. Currently active players LaTroy Hawkins, Jamey Wright (wait, is he still playing?), and Bruce Chen have all played for 10 different francshises. Hall of Famer Dan Brouthers played for 10 different teams spanning 1879-1904, so he's got the old timers covered... http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/leaders_most_franchises.shtml It's good where you're going with this. See if you can calculate a few values, and then it may be fun for some of us fans to compute our own.
June 26, 201412 yr The other thing about 'Kevin Bacon' is that it sounds a little like the word "Separation," so Six Degrees of Separation became Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon... For baseball ... Six Degrees of Kenny Lofton? He played for 11 teams... For instance, Lofton and the 1958 Dodgers are just 3 degrees apart - Lofton was on the 1991 Astros with Jim Clancy (1 degree), who played with Ron Fairly on the 1977 Blue Jays. Fairly (2 degrees) played with Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Don Zimmer and others on the 1958 Dodgers (3 degrees each)... Or in the other direction, Lofton is just 2 degrees from The Marlins' Jose Fernandez. Lofton played in 2007 with Jarrod Saltalamacchia on the Texas Rangers. Salty and 21 year old Jose are teammates in Miami this year. If you want some Local connections, Lofton and the 1961 Twins are just 4 degrees apart. The same path to the 1958 Dodgers will get you 3 degrees to Elmer Valo, who played for the 1961 team with Killebrew, Jim Kaat, Bob Allison, Camilo Pascual, Earl Battey etc. etc. etc.
June 27, 201412 yr I feel like I'm flogging the Joe Mauer dead horse a bit here, but seriously, is there a health issue that needs some DL time to sort out? Back? Concussion hangover? Mauer's last 100 PA: 19-94, 6/18 BB/K for a .202/.250/.277 slash line That's beyond unlucky to me. Maybe he's busting out of it? Last 29 AB: 12/29, .414, 5 2B and 9 RBI. He has only walked once and K'd 5 times, but he looks more aggressive at the plate and the hits are falling.
July 7, 201412 yr A's 2014 run differential: 135, after just one start apiece by two newly-acquired pitchers with a cumulative 5.3 WAR this season. Total of all other division leaders' run differentials: 152
July 10, 201412 yr Phil Hughes (102) has more strikeouts this season than the 2013 co-leaders Correia and Pelfrey (101)
July 11, 201412 yr Not a Twins fact: Buster Olney @Buster_ESPN 11m Since Yadier Molina became a regular catcher, the Cardinals have allowed 240 fewer stolen bases than any other team. But wow, just wow.
July 12, 201412 yr After his first 4 appearances Burdi is averaging 27.00 strikeouts per 9 innings. If Guerrier pitches on the team through nest season he could move from 8th to 3rd all time in Games Pitched for a Twins career. Hughes has a 9.273 K per BB which is tops in franchise history including the Wasahington days. Next on the list is Silva at 7.889 Burton finally got his era below 5.00. with 3 more scoreless innings he will be at 4.50 and with 8 total more scoreless innings he would be at 4.00. Edited July 12, 201412 yr by Brandon
July 20, 201412 yr The Twins record with Aaron Hicks in the box score is 25-23 (21-20 in games started). I don't think any other position player is above .500.
August 1, 201412 yr Kurt Suzuki's PH double tonight was the first XBH Wade Davis allowed in 2014 (44 appearances).
August 1, 201412 yr Kurt Suzuki's PH double tonight was the first XBH Wade Davis allowed in 2014 (44 appearances).I found that stat incredible. Bremer listed the two guys that had pitched more in a season and not allowed an extra-base hit, one from the '20s and another from 1967. I hadn't heard of either one of them.
August 12, 201412 yr Dustin Morse @Twins_morsecode · 7m Fun Fact: The #MNTwins are hitting a major league best .293 in August.
August 14, 201412 yr Trevor Plouffe has the 13st highest career WAR of the 2004 draft. http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?draft_round=1&year_ID=2004&draft_type=junreg&query_type=year_round
August 14, 201412 yr Trevor Plouffe has the 13st highest career WAR of the 2004 draft. http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?draft_round=1&year_ID=2004&draft_type=junreg&query_type=year_roundThere are fewer productive draftees than I may have guessed off the top of my head. Looking at the 2002-2003 drafts, Plouffe would place the same or higher; he's a few spots lower in 2005-2006 but in that range. Of course, he's still well below the better players on these lists, but he's lasted 10 years as a pro so far, the last 4 as a regular in MLB, all in the same org -- that's an achievement.
August 14, 201412 yr Trevor Plouffe has the 13st highest career WAR of the 2004 draft. http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?draft_round=1&year_ID=2004&draft_type=junreg&query_type=year_round Well, the first round anyway.
August 14, 201412 yr Well, the first round anyway.Good catch. There are another 10 guys ahead of Plouffe from the 2nd and 3rd rounds, including Kurt Suzuki...
August 14, 201412 yr Well, the first round anyway. Ah, good catch. I thought that seemed really odd. But anyway, I think it illustrates just how poorly most draftees fare in MLB. And in Trevor's defense, he's trending up that list. If he continues doing what he's doing, he'll be one of the better draft picks to come out of 2004. A solid, but unspectacular, choice.
August 15, 201412 yr I spent some time poking around the list, and it was surprising how well Plouffe performed compared to, well, the vast majority of draftees. Sometimes I get so caught up in potential or lower-minors performance that it's easy to forget how hard the game is. Besides, it kind of looks like there were more 1st round draft picks than players better than Plouffe so far. So even if he were the last pick in the 1st round, it'd still be reasonable to pick him.
August 15, 201412 yr Basic message imo: prospects aren't MLB players, and are over valued by teams relative to actual, proven, MLB players........not everyone will agree with that.
September 7, 201412 yr Back on-topic of "fun" with numbers... Phil Hughes, after tonight, officially at an 11-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
September 7, 201412 yr For a little added context to the previous post... Best single season SO/BB ratios in MLB history. 1994 Bret Saberhagen 11/1 (143/13 in 177.1 innings)2014 Phil Hughes 11/1 (165/15 in 187.2 innings)2010 Cliff Lee 10.3/1 (185/18 in 212.1 innings)1884 Jim Whitney (really?)1883 Jim Whitney (really?)2002 Curt Schilling 9.6/1 (316/33 in 256.1 innings, yowsers!)2014 Hisashi Iwakuma 9.4/1 (132/14 160.2 innings) http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/strikeouts_per_base_on_balls_season.shtml
September 7, 201412 yr Twins winning pct by month, 2014: April, .522May, .448June, .429July, .423August, .379September (to date), .333 It appears the "rebuild" might need a new blueprint. Or a change in general contractor.
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