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The singular and the plural are both RBI. It is Runs Batted In, not Run Batted Ins
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Oliva and Kaat's Long Cooperstown Journey Concludes
DJL44 replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
He admitted to betting during his playing career. The Dowd report was correct. -
Oliva and Kaat's Long Cooperstown Journey Concludes
DJL44 replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Pete Rose was gambling on baseball while managing and during his playing career. That can't be forgiven. Inducting Pete Rose would be an insult to players like Oliva and Kaat. -
He batted .348/.423/.826 in AAA - which is better than any other player this season including Garlick and Kirilloff. He needs to come up, if only to showcase him to other teams.
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Is there value in winning a playoff round?
DJL44 replied to jorgenswest's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
There is clearly value to the Twins in winning a round of playoffs. That's more revenue to the team selling expensive tickets and getting new season ticket holders to sign up. Each sellout playoff game brings in an extra $5-10M in revenue. It's also more tickets sold in September. Realistically, no team has a good shot at winning the World Series, especially if they aren't the 1 or 2 seed. 3-6 seeds have at best a 6% chance of winning it all. No team should mortgage it's future for a 6% chance but it's definitely worth going to the playoffs for the extra $20M in revenue. I'll put it another way - winning a playoff series 3 seasons in a row is nearly as lucrative as winning one World Series. -
Oliva and Kaat's Long Cooperstown Journey Concludes
DJL44 replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I don't want to be a downer here but Kaat, Hodges and Oliva weren't even the best unelected players from their era. I agree that the Hall of Fame needs to update the process to get players inducted faster. Too many posthumous inductions. The 75% vote threshold could be 66% and the players they have inducted wouldn't change much at all (almost everyone who has received 66% of the vote has been inducted later). -
Ugh, Winder with shoulder problems again. Sano looks like he could contribute. Get him up and playing on Tuesday.
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The Twins Bullpen Is Bad, But Not Unfixable
DJL44 replied to Matt Braun's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
The return of Archer and Ober should help the rotation. The bullpen would be better with Smeltzer and Winder pitching there instead of in the rotation (or AAA). The biggest problem (which was apparent before the season) is they are relying on too many mediocre vets and rookies. Rookies are going to struggle even if they're talented. Mediocre vets will struggle especially if they are injured. "Cheap, but deep" seems to be how they approach assembling a pitching staff.- 9 replies
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There is no need to try to be entertaining anymore. Revenue sharing guarantees a profit even if there are no fans in attendance. Non-competitive teams just need to slash their budgets to the minimum and cash revenue-sharing paychecks from the successful large market teams.
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The league needs to change the rules to make sure that winning baseball is entertaining baseball. That starts with a pitch clock.
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Twins 2, White Sox 12: Twins Crushed in Game 1 vs Sox
DJL44 replied to Sherry Cerny's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I actually attended last night's game. The Twins honored my daughter's state champion softball team on the field (too bad TV didn't pick it up so my dad could see it but sponsors pay the bills). The girls were thrilled to see Buxton in the dugout. Sonny Gray was not good, even from the start. Chicago was not hitting the ball hard but they were finding holes in the defense. The game changed completely when Gray took the comebacker line drive off his body. I was pretty sure Rocco was going to pull him, especially when he couldn't throw a strike with his warmup pitches. 20/20 hindsight says that was the last chance to compete in the game. After the grand slam the pace of the game slowed down even more. I didn't think that was possible given how long the game had taken to get to that point. It was brutal. The pitchers stand on the mound forever, the batter steps out, the pitcher gets more rosin. Cueto was (understandably) irritated when the batter called time as he was in his delivery but he had paused so long I was wondering if he had fallen asleep waiting. I was sitting in a section with the other state championship teams for softball and baseball. These are parents and kids who live baseball - competing or practicing year round spending almost all of their free time and money on the game. The dominant discussion was how unwatchable and boring major league baseball is now. The pitchers take FOREVER to throw a pitch. A leadoff triple in a close game gets turned into nothing with one batter striking out looking. Rocco challenges (and loses the challenge) on a play at the plate trailing 7-1 in an ugly blowout loss. Kirilloff lays up on a ball in LF instead of attempting a sliding catch. 6:40 game start didn't help us get home before 11:00 even though we left during the 7th inning stretch. The only people who seemed to be having fun that night were the people hanging out at the bar and ignoring the game. All for the privilege of spending $32 per seat for tickets (we were nearly in LF in section U) and godawful prices for food. This was my first game back at Target Field since before the pandemic. I'll stick to attending my daughter's softball games and go back to the following the Twins on the radio and highlights on the internet.- 25 replies
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Twins 2, White Sox 12: Twins Crushed in Game 1 vs Sox
DJL44 replied to Sherry Cerny's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
This is a situation screaming out for a bunt down the 3B line. Get the runner home.- 25 replies
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How Badly Do The Twins Need Catching Help?
DJL44 replied to Ted Schwerzler's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Nobody should worry about Jeffers CS%. Major league baseball teams only run when they have a 75% (or better) chance of being successful. An average big league catcher will throw out 25% of baserunners. If Jeffers throws out the next two runners who attempt a steal he'll be right at league average. Looking at it a different way, he's allowed 3 bases above league average to runners on steal attempts or about 1 every 150 innings caught. That's it - 1 extra base allowed every 150 innings.- 54 replies
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How Badly Do The Twins Need Catching Help?
DJL44 replied to Ted Schwerzler's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
He's 6 foot 5- 54 replies
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There are 60 other shortstops in AA and AAA. Is Wander Javier the best one who won't be on a 40 man roster? Probably not.
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How Badly Do The Twins Need Catching Help?
DJL44 replied to Ted Schwerzler's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Catchers have become more responsible for run prevention as strikeouts increased and balls in play decreased. Most of the game is the defense standing around watching the pitcher and catcher do all the work.- 54 replies
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I still think Canterino might be the highest ceiling but he's also a huge injury risk.
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.966 OPS in his last 28 days. He might be ready for a new challenge after spending every summer since 2019 in Cedar Rapids.
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Wallner is going to sell a bunch of Saints tickets later this year
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Jake Cave is hitting .281/.374/.520 at AAA this season. Sano should have to outperform Jake Cave if he wants a roster spot.
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So far, he's 1 for 7 at the lowest level of the minors. At least he only has one strikeout.