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  1. Doomtints
    Did you notice how yesterday's game was a bit like the last Twins wild card game? Yeah. There is plenty of time for the Twins to learn how to keep it rolling against playoff teams. Heck, maybe it happens today!
  2. Doomtints
    This team is starting to look like the 2016 Cubs in terms of dominance.
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    Graterol being only 20 years old and already at AA is huge. Him dominating at that level is more huge. And yes I would call what he is doing out of the ordinary to put it mildly. I was unaware FIP existed for the minor leagues, but Graterol's 3.14 FIP seems impressive if FIP is your thing. His low BABIP is an artifact of his dominance of right handed batters who ground out or hit weak pop flies to the infield. Lefties have a completely normal BABIP against him. I read an article some time ago that showed that "aces" are good because they induce more of weak infield outs than other pitchers do.
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    The only surprise for me is that he didn't break out two years ago, but that's true for everybody on the team.
  5. Doomtints
    Right now, the team OPS+ is 125 and the team ERA+ is 116. Pitching depth is a concern, esp. the bullpen, but right now if you are a front office you let the team keep rolling and don't change anything.
  6. Doomtints
    We have already overreacted to a couple of 2-game losing streaks, so yes.
  7. Doomtints
    Exactly once.
  8. Doomtints
    Or we are using different definitions. I count 10 mediocre games or worse (3+ runs or 5 innings or less). That's 70% -- the reason he was a Cy Young candidate. Are there any other aces you know of other than the best starter in the game for the past 3 years? Seems to me the rest of the league is a big drop off from Scherzer. A drop off to, what, ~60% by this definition maybe?
  9. Doomtints
    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%?
  10. Doomtints
    "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/
  11. Doomtints
    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.
  12. Doomtints
    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.
  13. Doomtints
    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.
  14. Doomtints
    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.)
  15. Doomtints
    Team OPS+ 98 Starter OPS+ against 107 Reliever OPS+ against 80
  16. Doomtints
    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.
  17. Doomtints
    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.
  18. Doomtints
    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.
  19. Doomtints
    Give him at least half a year before moving him up.
  20. Doomtints
    Like with the Vikings and their offensive line, we all knew what the problem was with this team coming into the year, and also like the Vikings this is going on two or three years now. Let's see if this team can figure it out before imploding and get some help. There is no shame in bringing in more talented players.
  21. Doomtints
    Attendance more than doubles when the Twins play well. Who woulda guessed? OK, maybe everyone would have guessed.
  22. Doomtints
    I don't know how the 60 day thing got brought up. The Twins don't even know the extent of the injury yet, so of course he's not on the 60-day IL. If the Twins have to make a roster move in a month and a half and Garver is still injured, then you might see him moved to the 60-day. Not today.
  23. Doomtints
    I think some people read the title of this article and went straight into typing a response. The article is pretty clearly not about what people are objecting to.
  24. Doomtints
    Maybe it's because we all saw Puckett do that fifty times.
  25. Doomtints
    Garver seemed unstoppable this year ... it seemed to me the only way he was going to be stopped was via injury. Hopefully he comes back and can still smack around the ball at will. Perhaps this is a good lesson in why GMs don't typically dump all of their cash into the catcher position, the position that is the most stressful on the body and also the most dangerous to play.
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