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  1. Matt, I really enjoy your writing. It seems like you are able to turn a good phrase in every article. And for me, in this article, the phrase that pays "—brothers in alliteration—".
  2. To Matt's opening position of, "He may be right; I may be crazy." I reply: You just may be a lunatic I'm looking forTurn out the lightDon't try to save meYou may be wrong for all I knowBut you may be right Apologies to Billy Joel.
  3. Based on Schmoeman5's Ace definition of needing 200 IP here are last years pitchers that meet just that criteria: Nola - Phillies (205.0 IP) Alcantara - Marlins (228.2 IP) Cole - Yankees (200.2 IP) Mikolas - Cardinals (202.1 IP) Burnes - Brewers (202.0 IP) Bieber - Guardians (200.0 IP) Kelly - Diamondbacks (200.1 IP) Valdez - Astros (201.1 IP) And those that pitched over 190 innings: Manoah - Blue Jays (196.2 IP) Darvish - Padres (194.2 IP) Webb - Giants (192.1 IP) Perez - Rangers (196.1 IP) - certainly an outlier year for him! Data from Baseball Reference.
  4. Seeing Rocco in the above picture reminded me of this little ditty from my childhood.
  5. "...there’s a chance he truly experienced bad luck in 2022." To this I say: Fool me 20,000 time shame on you, fool me 20,001 time shame on me. I guess I've always had a hopeful spot for Nick Gordon and would like to see what he could do for a full year in one position. I think his defense improves and he has improved each year offensively. Shouldn't he also benefit from shifting limitations, just like 90% of all other players?
  6. Anytime you can work "pernicious" into your article you get a thumbs up from me. HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
  7. I guess I disagree with the premise of your article that "Rocco Baldelli has avoided designating any of his relievers as the team’s go-to closer." In 2018 the closer was Rodney, as you mentioned. In 2019 the closer was Rodgers with 30 saves, as you mentioned. I believe that had Colome and Pagan were given every opportunity to be the closers and had it worked out like the FO had hoped then they would have been the closers for 2021 and 2022. The change in relief philosophy is just as likely due to their combined two years of failure and the need to go to other guys to cobble a win together. Please don't give this FO and manager credit for seeing the light on how to use high leverage pitchers when it was forced upon them.
  8. The FO said they were inclined to piggyback starting pitchers this year. Glad to see them follow through in game 182.
  9. "...goon, who has a pair of sweatpants he calls “my going-out ones.” " Is this a disguised slight at Gleeman who got his one free pair of Mac Weldon's back in 2020?
  10. I agree with the guys assessment that getting Mahle out of Cincinnati will help improve his HR rate. ?
  11. Just listened and according to the show the five games lost to Cleveland the Twins had, at one time, a max Win Probability for each game of 92%, 98%, 82%, 95%, and 89%. Based on my third grade probabilities class doesn't this work out to the Twins have an overall chance of 62.5% to have won all five of these games. (0.92 x 0.98 x 0.82 x .95 x 0.89 = 0.625, 62.5%) Conversely, the chance that Cleveland wins all five games is 0.08 x 0.02 x 0.18 x 0.05 x 0.11 = 0.00000158, 0.000158%) Is there someone out there that can confirm, or correct, my math? Somehow I can believe the Twins should have one all five 62% of the time given the numbers, but Cleveland's chance is so miniscule I can hardly believe it.
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