Ok, Hocking's play at Fenway in 2001 was ridiculous. Mientkiewicz's sliding catch and pop up throw to Hocking was equally as impressive. That play epitomizes the resurgence of the TWINS as it was just heads up and miraculous from start to finish.
The fact that MLB managers have to resort to position pitchers pitching despite having 13 man staffs really show how inept they actually are.
MLB teams somehow managed to avoid this for 100 years using 9-10 man staffs but not it's more common place than ever. And with the constant roster shuffling no less.
Also the extra innings runner is a joke and I have refused to watch extra innings for the past three seasons because of it. Then again, most everything Manfred does is a joke so it shouldn't be a surprise.
It's only a heist if either of those two accomplish anything. If berrios is back to 200 innings and a sub 4 ERA next year and the prospects become suspect it's a heist in Toronto's favor.
I have always suspected MLB might use different balls when someone approached a record. The umpires would throw out normal balls and bring in "specially authenticated" balls whenever judge would come up.
Who knew it was actually true?
I would prefer they be the smartest in the room rather than mistakenly thinking they are. Even if they're the only two people in the room they still have the chair to contend with.
Someone should probably reevaluate WAR if Jeffers is a positive. He can't hit and he can't throw out base runners. But, hey, he can occasionally frame a pitch at the expense of turning everyone into Lou Brock on the base paths.
Vikings signed favre, Yankees clemens so it does happen. I would have no concerns signing Correa to a long-term contract if I knew it wouldn't prevent us from signing other players as well. But Correa eating up a third of the payroll doesn't interest me if that's the route they choose.
The skeptical twins fan in me assumes they'll draft the same guy at 5 that they would have at 13, which is the same guy that they'd draft at 37.
But it's definitely an odd feeling to be on the lucky side of the lottery after 30 years of the wolves moving down.
Arraez has more value to the Twins than any other team. We're not getting a Frontline starter for him. If we trade him for some 3 or 4 starter that gives us one more mediocre arm to go four innings while losing our best hitter.