With the increase in interleague play coming (at least, I think it'll end up being a net increase with a 15/15 split), I think they should switch to a position player ROY and a pitcher ROY, both MLB-wide.
I enjoyed the analysis of the identification & classification process:
"Apply this standard to mammals and dogs and cats would be lumped together."
King Philip's Cat or Fox Got Sick.
Reminds me of another one we invented in Differential Equations for the Wronskian:
Happy People Dance While Climbing In Applies.
H - homogeneous
P - partial derivative
D - derivative
W - Wronskian
C - constants
I - integrate
A - constants (A, B, C)
This was a while ago, so forgive if I have butchered the maths.
the off season is not off to a good start
Darren Wolfson @DarrenWolfson
Cubs press release: they sign Scott Baker. #mntwins
I loved seeing this and that Air Bud will be out for 3 months after surgery back to back when I refreshed my Tweeters.
$5.5 million base salary plus $1.5 million in incentives on a one year deal. I guess I'd probably go up to $7-8 million after incentives if I were running the team, but I'd probably want a lower base and an option for 2014. I wonder what happened here, I assume the Twins just weren't in the same ballpark with money. He's going to a team way less likely to make any noise next year in a more hitter friendly park. Frown. Go get McCarthy and Marcum and someone else, Terry.
From Joe C:
Two weeks ago, Baker said the sides were making progress toward a new deal. But, according to the person familiar with his new contract, the Twins insisted on the deal including an option for 2014. Baker, 31, wanted a deal that would let him re-establish his value and then test the market again next fall.
Considering that next season itself doesn't mean a whole lot for the Twins, I can see why they'd hold out for an option.
Now who will we hassle about keeping the ball down? In all seriousness, I hope he bounces back. Despite my sometimes pejorative descriptions of his hangdog expression after a rough batter/inning/outing and the occasional use of "Moon Shot Scott", I thought he was a good pitcher and teammate and a seemed to be a likeable guy.
I know I ragged on you for it before, but "Moon Shot Scott" is about the worst nickname available for a guy who normally wasn't near the "top" of his team for home run rate.
I am guessing Baker is perceived to give up a lot of homers because homers was about the only way Baker would get hit. Same with Blyleven and Schilling. If you weren't hitting homers off of them you probably weren't doing much.
It's amusing, though understandable, that Blyleven has the home run reputation. I will have to look up the original rWAR page, but for his entire career except for two years (guess which two!), he was better than league average in home runs given up. Those two years alone were so bad they made him below average for his career (barely) and stuck him with that moniker.
it doesnt help his reputation that he refers to his HR giving up prowess about 7 times every game he telecasts
Ah hah, found his rWAR page. -17 for his career, stemming from a -29 in 1986 and -19 in 1987.
Baker is 42 innings short of appearing on the active leaderboards. For his career, he has given up 123*9/958 = 1.1555 HR/9, which would rank him 70th on the active list, between Aaron Harang and Gavin Floyd. FWIW.
for the old school people, Baker's 63 wins is the 11th most in Twins history
That's depressing. He was never an "ace", but he was a solid major league pitcher, and the Twins don't have very many of those.
True, but how well is he going to come back next year? As we saw with Liriano, coming back full strength after elbow surgery is not a given, especially in the first year back.
A legitimate concern, of course. I just don't know that the Twins have five or six better options.
It might be a better use of playing time to sort through younger pitchers with potential who might contribute beyond 2013, even if those pitchers are worse than Baker in 2013.
That would be a good plan, if (other than Gibson for some of the year, and I guess we still hope Hendriks) the Twins had any of those kind of pitchers.
I'm for sorting through Deduno!
The Torii Tour (tm) makes its way through Detroit today. I'm sure they'll be pleased to hear how much he wants to play there.
I, for one, hopes he signs with the Tigers.
sure, let's keep the annoying players in one convenient location
IIRC, Del's services weren't retained by the Kitties.
IIRC, no one wants Del's services
I drove a Zamboni today. I feel awesome.
your day is 1000% cooler than mine.
Secondy-second.
Did it have a speedometer?
Just you wait for your Oyster to arrive. Speaking of, send me an e-mail with a place to send this delicious beer.
You've got mail. I'm joking. But seriously...you've got mail.
Skate on that post-Zamboni-ice if you want to feel awesome. Mother's milk.
can the Commisioner give the Wolves a roster limit exemption so they can actually field a lineup with substitutes?
That's bad, but if the Wolves can somehow limit the injuries and get a few guys back, he'll be back in time for the last six weeks of the season and the playoffs.
So, it turns out that a colleague of mine went to high school (and actually knew) Mr. Patraeus's paramour.
It boggles my mind...I still can't believe that people, especially really bright people, actually think that these sorts of things won't blow up in their face.
Petraeus had real potential as a former general turned politicotalk-show host on a right-leaning newsreelshill from the Rand Corp.Plug for a greener Arab worldSwiffer promoter, in the bigger sense. Army veteran.
Kevin Garnett has scored more NBA points than Allen Iverson. Next up: Patrick Ewing.
with a healthy season, KG can move into the Top 15 in games played
I was listening to the Celtics radio team the other day and the color guy was lamenting how the C's have a habit of playing really well the first five minutes and then going completely flat. The pbp guy asked him who came out after five minutes.
"Kevin Garnett."
"There you go."
I always get a sad when I think of KG and the Twolves. Just surround the guy with 2 other competent players and a decent coach and start collecting hardware. The fact they could only do it one time out of a 12-year stint at Minnesota is practically criminal.
Edit: I totally blew this one. I should have said AP is no ham sandwich.
hey, west coasters: jane's in san diego and offered to pick up some beer to bring back. what should she be grabbing that i can't find back here?
San Diego means Stone, but distribution seems pretty broad on that. I would recommend that she take a trip to at least one of the Pizza Port locations for pizza and beer, then acquire as much Port Brewing beer as she can carry. Get an Old Viscosity and a Santa's Little Helper, at least.
I'm surprised you didn't mention AleSmith , doc. Their IPA is really, really delicious.
oy, yes. AleSmith is da Bomb. Also, respect for Green Flash.
Also, once upon a time I may or may not have frequented this place with regularity. They used to have 10-cent wing night, plus excellent beer brewed on premises. The cheap wings are gone and the beer is brewed elsewhere, but the reviews suggest that it is still a decent tap room/sports bar sort of place in Mira Mesa.
I want to point out that hj can probably get Port brews where he is. I picked up a bomber of Santas Little Helper on Friday in South Beloit (and you are tight, excellent).
Wow.
Jon Morosi Jon MorosiVerified @jonmorosi
One source told me Johnson, Buehrle, Reyes, Buck and Bonifacio are all going to #BlueJays. I am working to confirm this. @MLBONFOX
Johnson would be Josh Johnson. The Marlins know how to blow things up, don't they?
the AL East....whoa
also, good luck Mike Redmond
So, Jeffrey Loria is a giant scumbag huh? "Build us a stadium so we can spend money!"
And then trade everyone the next year. Wow.
This is ridiculous.
But not unexpected.
Loria should be forced to sell the team.
People will make jokes about there are no Marlins fans to be upset but the political issues alone should be enough to make the people of Southern Florida be irate.
This is unbelievable for too many reasons to count.
pretty much all reactions i've seen has been universal condemnation (with one noting that, all in all, it's not a terrible trade).
No one has been mentioning:
John Buck, back in the AL!
2013 is gonna be Toronto's year!
As frustrating as it can be to be a Twins fan, think how much more frustrating it must be to be a Miami Marlins fan.
A year ago, Marlins sold a total rebranding to the MIA market -- a publicly funded park, uniforms, players, whole thing. Now: All torn up.
Are there any rules about NBA teams signing players before they're eligible for the draft?
Once they are one year removed from high school they are eligible for the draft.
They can play in Europe, go to school, or as the article suggests, just take a year off. I think the writer makes a great point and I can see the last of those options happening more often in the future.
But what about an NBA team signing a player before that?
Negative. I am not sure of the exact age but I think you have to be 5 years removed from high school to just be signed, I think that is the case for international players as well.
if the NBA would invest more into a true minor league system instead of the half-hearted NBADL, it would give a chance for these kids who dont want to go to college a chance to maybe learn some basketball skills from pro coaches and improve draft position (if needed)
I can't imagine the players would be D League eligible if they are not NBA eligible.
To the surprise of
everyno one, Mike Trout wins the AL ROY. Over in the NL, Bryce Harper narrowly edges Wade Miley for the ROY.Pat Borzi has a vote???
With the increase in interleague play coming (at least, I think it'll end up being a net increase with a 15/15 split), I think they should switch to a position player ROY and a pitcher ROY, both MLB-wide.
Finally, science has turned to the ultimate frontier of burning questions.
I enjoyed the analysis of the identification & classification process:
King Philip's Cat or Fox Got Sick.
Reminds me of another one we invented in Differential Equations for the Wronskian:
Happy People Dance While Climbing In Applies.
H - homogeneous
P - partial derivative
D - derivative
W - Wronskian
C - constants
I - integrate
A - constants (A, B, C)
This was a while ago, so forgive if I have butchered the maths.
the off season is not off to a good start
I loved seeing this and that Air Bud will be out for 3 months after surgery back to back when I refreshed my Tweeters.
$5.5 million base salary plus $1.5 million in incentives on a one year deal. I guess I'd probably go up to $7-8 million after incentives if I were running the team, but I'd probably want a lower base and an option for 2014. I wonder what happened here, I assume the Twins just weren't in the same ballpark with money. He's going to a team way less likely to make any noise next year in a more hitter friendly park. Frown. Go get McCarthy and Marcum and someone else, Terry.
From Joe C:
Considering that next season itself doesn't mean a whole lot for the Twins, I can see why they'd hold out for an option.
Now who will we hassle about keeping the ball down? In all seriousness, I hope he bounces back. Despite my sometimes pejorative descriptions of his hangdog expression after a rough batter/inning/outing and the occasional use of "Moon Shot Scott", I thought he was a good pitcher and teammate and a seemed to be a likeable guy.
I know I ragged on you for it before, but "Moon Shot Scott" is about the worst nickname available for a guy who normally wasn't near the "top" of his team for home run rate.
I am guessing Baker is perceived to give up a lot of homers because homers was about the only way Baker would get hit. Same with Blyleven and Schilling. If you weren't hitting homers off of them you probably weren't doing much.
It's amusing, though understandable, that Blyleven has the home run reputation. I will have to look up the original rWAR page, but for his entire career except for two years (guess which two!), he was better than league average in home runs given up. Those two years alone were so bad they made him below average for his career (barely) and stuck him with that moniker.
it doesnt help his reputation that he refers to his HR giving up prowess about 7 times every game he telecasts
Ah hah, found his rWAR page. -17 for his career, stemming from a -29 in 1986 and -19 in 1987.
Baker is 42 innings short of appearing on the active leaderboards. For his career, he has given up 123*9/958 = 1.1555 HR/9, which would rank him 70th on the active list, between Aaron Harang and Gavin Floyd. FWIW.
for the old school people, Baker's 63 wins is the 11th most in Twins history
That's depressing. He was never an "ace", but he was a solid major league pitcher, and the Twins don't have very many of those.
True, but how well is he going to come back next year? As we saw with Liriano, coming back full strength after elbow surgery is not a given, especially in the first year back.
A legitimate concern, of course. I just don't know that the Twins have five or six better options.
It might be a better use of playing time to sort through younger pitchers with potential who might contribute beyond 2013, even if those pitchers are worse than Baker in 2013.
That would be a good plan, if (other than Gibson for some of the year, and I guess we still hope Hendriks) the Twins had any of those kind of pitchers.
I'm for sorting through Deduno!
The Torii Tour (tm) makes its way through Detroit today. I'm sure they'll be pleased to hear how much he wants to play there.
I, for one, hopes he signs with the Tigers.
sure, let's keep the annoying players in one convenient location
IIRC, Del's services weren't retained by the Kitties.
IIRC, no one wants Del's services
I drove a Zamboni today. I feel awesome.
your day is 1000% cooler than mine.
Secondy-second.
Did it have a speedometer?
Just you wait for your Oyster to arrive. Speaking of, send me an e-mail with a place to send this delicious beer.
You've got mail. I'm joking. But seriously...you've got mail.
Skate on that post-Zamboni-ice if you want to feel awesome. Mother's milk.
Budinger out 3-4 months
can the Commisioner give the Wolves a roster limit exemption so they can actually field a lineup with substitutes?
That's bad, but if the Wolves can somehow limit the injuries and get a few guys back, he'll be back in time for the last six weeks of the season and the playoffs.
Forbidden Zone, but awesome.
face lifted.
Better Butter. I love it.
So, it turns out that a colleague of mine went to high school (and actually knew) Mr. Patraeus's paramour.
It boggles my mind...I still can't believe that people, especially really bright people, actually think that these sorts of things won't blow up in their face.
Petraeus had real potential as a
former general turned politicotalk-show host on a right-leaning newsreelshill from the Rand Corp.Plug for a greener Arab worldSwiffer promoter, in the bigger sense.Army veteran.Kevin Garnett has scored more NBA points than Allen Iverson. Next up: Patrick Ewing.
with a healthy season, KG can move into the Top 15 in games played
I was listening to the Celtics radio team the other day and the color guy was lamenting how the C's have a habit of playing really well the first five minutes and then going completely flat. The pbp guy asked him who came out after five minutes.
"Kevin Garnett."
"There you go."
I always get a sad when I think of KG and the Twolves. Just surround the guy with 2 other competent players and a decent coach and start collecting hardware. The fact they could only do it one time out of a 12-year stint at Minnesota is practically criminal.
It seems that no one can get Adrian Peterson down.
Edit: I totally blew this one. I should have said AP is no ham sandwich.
hey, west coasters: jane's in san diego and offered to pick up some beer to bring back. what should she be grabbing that i can't find back here?
San Diego means Stone, but distribution seems pretty broad on that. I would recommend that she take a trip to at least one of the Pizza Port locations for pizza and beer, then acquire as much Port Brewing beer as she can carry. Get an Old Viscosity and a Santa's Little Helper, at least.
Sadly, her timing was just a week off.
I'm surprised you didn't mention AleSmith , doc. Their IPA is really, really delicious.
oy, yes. AleSmith is da Bomb. Also, respect for Green Flash.
Also, once upon a time I may or may not have frequented this place with regularity. They used to have 10-cent wing night, plus excellent beer brewed on premises. The cheap wings are gone and the beer is brewed elsewhere, but the reviews suggest that it is still a decent tap room/sports bar sort of place in Mira Mesa.
more on the SD brew scene.
I want to point out that hj can probably get Port brews where he is. I picked up a bomber of Santas Little Helper on Friday in South Beloit (and you are tight, excellent).
Wow.
Johnson would be Josh Johnson. The Marlins know how to blow things up, don't they?
the AL East....whoa
also, good luck Mike Redmond
So, Jeffrey Loria is a giant scumbag huh? "Build us a stadium so we can spend money!"
And then trade everyone the next year. Wow.
This is ridiculous.
But not unexpected.
Loria should be forced to sell the team.
People will make jokes about there are no Marlins fans to be upset but the political issues alone should be enough to make the people of Southern Florida be irate.
This is unbelievable for too many reasons to count.
pretty much all reactions i've seen has been universal condemnation (with one noting that, all in all, it's not a terrible trade).
No one has been mentioning:
John Buck, back in the AL!
2013 is gonna be Toronto's year!
As frustrating as it can be to be a Twins fan, think how much more frustrating it must be to be a Miami Marlins fan.
So it's back to the old unis and Stadium, too? Blue Jays got everything!
Alternately: Publicly funded uniform and players?
ESPN actually does something awesome.
I almost didn't click that thinking it must have been a Rick-roll.
That's pretty fantastic.
In case you needed another reason to despise Rick Reilly
Dr. Dog is about to go on at Tipitina's. Y'all are missing out.
Jealous. Have fun.
Speaking of concerts I'd love to see, Jeff Magnum tickets go on sale Thursday. I'm gonna be so upset if I don't get to go.
jealous
Nothing a beer won't fix.
...
i hate you.
Oh you
A really interesting article concerning the future of college basketball recruiting.
Are there any rules about NBA teams signing players before they're eligible for the draft?
Once they are one year removed from high school they are eligible for the draft.
They can play in Europe, go to school, or as the article suggests, just take a year off. I think the writer makes a great point and I can see the last of those options happening more often in the future.
But what about an NBA team signing a player before that?
Negative. I am not sure of the exact age but I think you have to be 5 years removed from high school to just be signed, I think that is the case for international players as well.
if the NBA would invest more into a true minor league system instead of the half-hearted NBADL, it would give a chance for these kids who dont want to go to college a chance to maybe learn some basketball skills from pro coaches and improve draft position (if needed)
I can't imagine the players would be D League eligible if they are not NBA eligible.