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Yes, but these are all cliches, which yeah seem to work on about 30% of Americans judging by current polling. The question is how do you lead the other 70%?

All of those Twins home runs were no doubters at 400'+. I guess the Angels homer is OK at 375' though.

"Ser I'm not sure this is right either. "Servant Leadership" is a new(ish) leadership style and I think Baldelli uses it. Globally, we are seeing a shift to this style thank to IT teams moving to agile project management solutions. Let's face it, nobody likes hardheaded project managers who, much like modern HR departments, are just around to keep management from having to have tough conversations with people and having to be bothered to document and track anything. This article sums up the qualities of a good servant leader. https://www.skipprichard.com/9-qualities-of-the-servant-leader/

I have pulled the data. "Aces" are typically good 60% of the time. That's it. Conversely, the junky pitchers who manage to stick around a while are good 40-45% of the time. Most pitchers are good about half the time. The point is, aces will lay quite a few eggs during the season. We all have to realize this. Runs are scored in nearly every baseball game and all pitchers allow them. "Aces" have fewer bad games, but they still have them.

I imagine this team will be unable to hit the ball as well against a true ace or a top tier bullpen. This is why the Twins need some better pitching so they can still win some games when they only manage to plate a couple of runs. If the Twins ever get this -- either a very good bullpen or continued performance by the starters -- I will start to believe they can beat the Yankees in the playoffs.

Bert had a rubber arm and probably does not relate to people who can't keep up with that. Molitor had a similar issue, I think, though Paul was pretty rubbishy until the steroid era for the first half of his career.

I would call this piece a narrative more than anything else. Baldelli has great communication skills and he seems like a great guy underneath. From what I have seen of him so far, he would be a good manager regardless of the year he was born. He is very smart about baseball and the entire game that surrounds baseball too. Now, this stuff can go south very quickly. We have to see a lot more of him before we crown him as the next great Twins manager. Right now, we might simply be seeing that Molitor was worse than we thought (which doesn't mean Baldelli isn't good, mind you.)

As long as he is putting up RoY numbers, let him play. He is lucky he is coming up with the team firing on all cylinders. Knoblauch had the same luxury and ended up being the RoY. Coming into the majors has to be a hell of a lot easier when the team is competing.

Team OPS+ 98 Starter OPS+ against 107 Reliever OPS+ against 80

Sounds like a dumb move on the part of the manager. He'll figure it out sooner rather than later.

Astudillo won't be playing the field with only one other catcher on the active roster. Don't worry about it. This is a good opposing lineup for Pineda to have a good game.

I'm surprised you still trust social media.

Most of us had a boss or two who treat others as police officers treat anyone they meet on the street. We have all quit those jobs. This tells you all you need to know.

The Twins have just one extra innings game this year, and it went only into the 10th. This is great, keeps the team fresh. Number of walkoff wins and losses: zero. Also good when you are winning more than you are losing.

Cron has been massacring lefties and there have been a lot of lefties facing the Twins lately. He will settle down a bit. He will be a nice tool against the Yankees bullpen.

The 2015 Royals had a very good bullpen and mediocre everything else. If anything, this year's Twins team is the opposite of that. And don't forget -- the Royals were good for three years. The 2015 team did not come out of nowhere. Wade Davis was unhittable, and was used a lot, in both years the Royals made it to the WS. The Royals may have started the "power bullpen" era which other teams have since rode to success, but I think this era is ending.

He had a very nice swing in the minors. It's possible the Twins overcoached him and he simply went back to his old swing, which he knew worked. When has been hitting poorly it seems like he can't even see the ball.

Players are chosen primarily by voting. Thus, first you'd have to look at which Twins players people outside of Minnesota have ever heard of. Then you have to look at which Twins players people outside of Minnesota have heard enough about to either know they are good or follow them enough to know they are good now. Then you have to look at which Twins players fans would put above the players on their own teams or in their own divisions. Then you have to consider the position. Certain players check all of the above boxes and will always go.

Berrios had been on the bench for a LONG time with those back-to-back 5-run innings by the offense. I figured he would not be able to last 5 innings with the way the Twins were hitting.

My belief is just as it was before the season started -- this team can do a lot of damage. I still don't see a team that can beat the Yankees in the playoffs. Not with this bullpen.

This group reminds me a bit of the 2001 Twins who were 30-13 at one point and finished with 85 wins. Let's see how things look a bit after the all star break. The 2001 Twins were 56-32 before the wheels came off, so I would say for a team's first good year in an era, you want 100 games before you can trust what you are seeing. For a team repeating on earlier success you obviously don't need such a big sample. The 1970s, too, were filled with Twins teams who started strong and finished ... not so strong.

Give him at least half a year before moving him up.

The Twins did that a couple of times in 91. I was hoping they would do it in the WS.

Lesson learned for Cron. Keep your eye on the ball.

And you should realize that you are guessing just as you are accusing others of guessing.