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  1. ScrapTheNickname
    Throughout the minor leagues and during his brief stint in the majors, Hicks has thrown out 47% of base stealers. 47%! Also, it he looks like he hit fine throughout the minors. An overall OPS of .734. I like this pickup and look forward to seeing him in action.
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    Nick, do you know anything more definite about the condition of his knees? He has had multiple surgeries and was forced to retire because of them. I would think the Twins did their due diligence (as they say) on this subject. What can we expect?
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    Nice to see you taking your early spring training swings, Chief.
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    There's no way around it. One reason last year was possible was that we had 3 above average outfielders. Now we seem to have 1, maybe. Rosario in not a lock to repeat last season, let alone improve on it. Santana has not proven that he is a mediocre defender and an inconsistent hitter. It seems for the time being the Twins OF has regressed badly. Bring on Kepler and Buxton, when and if they're ready, and things may change in a hurry.
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    Randy Johnson didn't figure it out until he was 29 years old, and he became a Hall of Famer. That is very amazing. Then again, as Kwak implies, how many hundreds of pitchers with blazing stuff, have not ever figured it out? Truthfully, we just saw Meyers take a sip of very sour coffee and spit it out last year with the Twins, so all I can say is that I want to see him pitch again, whether as a reliever or a starter. Perhaps how he pitches going forward will solve the issue.
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    Thought-provoking is right ... Could it be that the pool of MLB-potential players has risen (for various reasons: International players, concentration of one-sport players in the USA, etc.) and with the rise of sabermetrics a player's prime productive years has focused into his early-mid years (say 24-30), thus mediocre and older (and higher paid) players are being squeezed out. Makes me think of the way that the minor league system used to be run a long time ago (I don't exactly when it changed, off hand); older famous players and popular players who were AAAA types would continue playing past their prime for the entertainment value it provided the minor league cities. In other words, at one time minor league teams weren't merely feeder systems to the big leagues.
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    These are his career numbers. I would also like to see him start again.
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    Albeit, a small sample size, but the stats so far bear out that he has performed better as a reliever. (Source: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=maytr01&year=2015&t=p) As a starter: .290 .327 .445 .772 ERA 4.43 WHIP 1.380 SO/BB: 4.06 As a reliever: .250 .305 .392 .697 ERA 2.87 WHIP 1.213 SO/BB 4.63
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    I was thinking the same thing! In HS I usually grounded out to the second basemen, and when I asked the coach what I should do differently, he said just keep doing what you're doing. (The sadness in a small Minnesota town when the History teacher was forced to coach baseball.)
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    I love your post. However, the guy from Korea has some meat on him.
  11. ScrapTheNickname
    I would say, based on evidence, you are making more than a bold prediction. You are making an insanely unfounded prediction. That said, I do hope you are right, and a religion will be named after you.
  12. ScrapTheNickname
    I took a look at Ryan Sweeney's splits. As a left-handed hitter, over 70% of his ABs have come against right-handed pitching. Over his career he has hit a measly OPS of .613 against lefties. In other words, he's almost exclusively a platoon player.
  13. ScrapTheNickname
    $3 million a year? Nick Punto made $4 million in 2009. Something doesn't add up. Do both sides expect mediocrity? I guess you add on the signing fee and it comes to $6 mill a year, but still ...
  14. ScrapTheNickname
    Actually Sipp has been very good the past two seasons. In 2014: WHIP of 0.888 with 11.2 Ks and 3.0 BB per 9. It would appear that he has figured it out, and he's only 32, and he's a lefty. I might sign him to a 3-year-deal. What do you think, Seth? [i wrote my comment before I read that others had responded to you ... 1) Nevermind, or 2) Mind.
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    I like that. New definition of "no brainer." No brain. Har, har.
  16. ScrapTheNickname
    That was very funny. I chuckled. No, I laughed out loud!
  17. ScrapTheNickname
    Great may be an overstatement, but I agree with your sentiment.
  18. ScrapTheNickname
    No one can predict the outcome of individual baseball games. This one or any one. The margin for error just is too small, and there are too many bounces and lucky breaks to account for. The Twins are down 3-1 (perhaps they'll be down further in a minute). It is what it is.
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    I'm not.
  20. ScrapTheNickname
    The math on this is beyond me, but it would seem that on average there would be more teams bunched near the middle (mediocre records) than teams bunched at the top or at the bottom, therefore the second wild card will result in more ties or even three-way ties.
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    15.
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    What do you rinse with? Scotch?
  23. ScrapTheNickname
    Maybe tonight we'll set the all-time Twins Daily record for number of posts, which is?
  24. ScrapTheNickname
    Could Dozier win a Gold Glove? (I seriously haven't compared second basemen. How about somebody smart chiming in.)
  25. ScrapTheNickname
    E.g. if the Twins get eliminated, Kepler and Buxton both start. It happens.
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