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  1. notin
    Most people took the under. Some saying they’d “be lucky to win 70”…
  2. notin
    It doesn’t matter whether or not Merloni is “the worst of the bunch”, which is a straight up opinion. You’re still ignoring him because he said something you don’t want to believe…
  3. notin
    I’m one of the minority who was optimistic in February and March. Not so overly optimistic as to predict a title. This team is struggling now but as people come back they will improve. They need to extend Pivetta, O’Neill and (as much as it irks me) Cora ASAP…
  4. notin
    So your defense is “I never mentioned Felger.” So you concede to Mazz. More important is the Congirmation Bias mentality. “The journalists who say stuff I want to believe are credible and know more than you. The ones who disagree with me - I will attack their credentials and therefore promote my position against their knowledge.” Got it…
  5. notin
    In fact, there’s a pretty good argument that the American League in the 1960s was probably the weakest for any baseball league in MLB history. They had a disproportionately low number of Hall of Fame pitchers, and the hitting was so bad they made the most radical rule change in professional sports history…
  6. notin
    I’m just saying it isn’t the worst Twins’ team of all time. For a guy who went out of his way to tell us Felger and Mazz know much more than we all do, you sure like pointing out how much more you know than Lou Merloni, who would tell you a million times over the league is deeper and more talented than ever. And the notion of “the stars of yesteryear are better” as proof of anything is always so weak because it involves forgetting about the rest of the league. Yes, Yaz had to face legends like Luis Tiant and Sudden Sam McDowell. But he also faced plenty of nobodies like Booby Locke and Jimmy McShittypitcher.
  7. notin
    It probably stacks up to a lot of Twins’ teams from the past, absolutely. Is your logic seriously “the Twins are winning but this isn’t the best Twins team ever so therefore baseball is watered down”? Please tell me that’s not it…
  8. notin
    That speech is right out of Grumpy Old Diatribes 101…
  9. notin
    And while Price sputtered out the final years in Boston and LA, his deal, while the largest in Sox history for a pitcher (to this day?) has been surpassed so many times. The thing is, I get avoiding free agents. They really are players in their 30s who want to be paid for what they did in their 20s for another team. Ok, avoid them. But sign your own guys!! And sign them early!
  10. notin
    You did say baseball is down across the board. So now that doesn’t refer to the talent levels of the players?
  11. notin
    Those guys are all well over 70. So, no…
  12. notin
    No, you get called grumpy because when things are going well, you complain about how the “old days were much better”, and base it on nothing except a strong desire to make sure no one enjoys a product you don’t like. Also you left out illiterate moron, but to be fair, that one isn’t age-related and solely focused on your inability to understand printed text…
  13. notin
    Fair point. In fact OBP is at its lowest since 2014 while BB% is the second highest it’s been in that range…
  14. notin
    Sure they do. Launch angles. They actually practice hitting the ball at the optimal angle for distance…
  15. notin
    A side effect of eliminating the 4-seamer. More sliders = more pitches catchers struggle with…
  16. notin
    Would you rather we called you the Hypocrite? Or the Guy Who Doesn’t Understand How Irony Works?
  17. notin
    It means the Red Sox are doing better than he expected, and doing it using the Black Magic of Analytics as opposed to hoarding star players.
  18. notin
    I somehow omitted Price, who was probably the worst one. Or at a minimum was the most expensive. And might have been the one that broke Henry…
  19. notin
    But if you look at the worst 5 contracts in team history, most likely Crawford, Hanley, Sandoval, Sale, and Story. And we can add Rusney in there. These deals span 12 years and 4 GM/CBOs. There isn’t one singular individual logic that leads to these signings. Is the Sox success rate with these deals better or worse than everyone elsewhere? I bet they’re par for the course with regards to these type of deals. And the reason is they all involve older players…
  20. notin
    Anthony is 20 and in AA ball…
  21. notin
    Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not. But I’m not sure why people think the Sox were stupid to sign the rarely-injured Giolito and also stupid to trade the frequently-injured Sale…
  22. notin
    I found it in interview someone did with his agent, a guy named Mike Seal…
  23. notin
    Uwasawa speaks English…
  24. notin
    Very valid point. I mean, who’s the biggest name that bunch? Snell? Bellinger? Good (not great) players but with histories that clearly emphasize the risk. And Chapman and Montgomery aren’t player you build around; they’re players you build around your core with…
  25. notin
    I was an engineering major and never took a single English class in college, and even I know a compound subject requires a plural verb, even if both parts of the compound subject are singular. “The Twins’ hitting and relief have been good.” Also a semi-colon connects two independent clauses, assuming you did not make a simple typo…
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