My only comment is that I wish this discussion would not come up every two weeks. Its a tired debate. It happened 7 years ago, time to let it go.
This will also be my response when it comes to baseball season and David Ortiz hits a home run and the discussion will turn to "the Twins should have never let him go". Because you know it will, it happens every single year.
It would be interesting to see an estimate of how many HR Ortiz might have hit had he spent his entire career with the Twins, taking into account park factors and such. I'm assuming his totals would be lower, but that's based on some very simple, broad and quite possibly invalid assumptions. Not sure how you would go about modelling that.
He may have also had better living through chemistry in Boston than he had in Minnesota. Different instruction, more lineup protection. /hides
I call that "working with Manny's trainer."
I love the story about the Red Sox bringing in some doctors who gave the team a lecture on "If I was going to do steroids, this is how I would do it." Which frankly isn't too far from "hey kids, don't have sex, but just in case, this is how you use a condom," but I still find it funny.
A friend of mine used to work for the Twins. He said he talked to Terry Ryan about Ortiz and asked whether working with a new organization was what helped him so much. Terry replied, "It was either that or he started using steroids."
My friend was quick to point out that Ryan has a very dry sense of humor so he had no idea if he was joking or not.
That would kind of fit with their insistence on being old school and not being terribly introspective about how they might have done things differently in the past, since they already do things "the right way."
On the other hand, it would get old always hearing you werected holding him back if the real answer is something else entirely.
For sure.
Is there a plan for the book post this week?
Does this constitute a plan? March 8 Pepper: A it turns out . . . yesterday was first Monday. Who knew?!
Do you have anything? Do you want me to try to throw together something later today?
DG: Holy hell, it was. I didn't even think of it.
Um...
I can write something up tonight, but probably not during the day.
Pepper: Works for me--I doubt I could get to it any earlier.
March 9 DG: Ha. Guess what I completely didn't do?
But, but...I read things!
No worries, I was just checking since I finally finished a book. 🙂
It's going up after last month's movie post.
Wait... we talked about movies last month!?!
Apparently because there is a book post now!
Watching Trey's Little League team last night, one of the kids pitching kept losing his cap. I told Junior that's what it would be like of Eduardo Nunez pitched.
Too often, baseball players are deconstructed into simple math problems. The math said that Jacoby Ellsbury would slug better with the Yankees, that James Shields would yield fewer homers with the Padres, and that Yasiel Puig would get better after his stunning rookie season. The same math says that Miguel Sano, who hit 18 homers in 80 games as a 22-year-old rookie for the Twins last season, will smash at least 35 this year.
But it also feature Torii speaking favorably of Mauer (and including him in the same breath as Trout), so... that's nice.
Plus, the quotes in the article seem to give some kind of insight into the expectations of Sano and the Twins as a whole. Not defending the framing of the piece by any means, but if you can get through the tired old "Math; what is it good for?" routine, it was at least worth reading.
I'm sort of fond of the Molitor quote about why they moved Sano instead of Plouffe or Mauer.
Baseball. It's a very simple game:
“I hit a home run when the pitcher makes a mistake, and sometimes the pitcher makes a nasty pitch. This is baseball.”
And speaking of David Ortiz, Verducci's eagerness to give up on Puig seems crazier than the Twins waiving Ortiz. Yeah, he had a rough season last year, but his 2013 and 2014 season lines are both outstanding.
And for that matter, I worry less about Sano showing up with a little extra weight at the beginning of camp than if his weight trends the wrong way during the season. Most players lose weight as the season grinds them down.
Hannibal Buress just announced a second show - this time Friday at 5pm. It'll probably sell out quick again.
So this is making the rounds today
My only comment is that I wish this discussion would not come up every two weeks. Its a tired debate. It happened 7 years ago, time to let it go.
This will also be my response when it comes to baseball season and David Ortiz hits a home run and the discussion will turn to "the Twins should have never let him go". Because you know it will, it happens every single year.
It would be interesting to see an estimate of how many HR Ortiz might have hit had he spent his entire career with the Twins, taking into account park factors and such. I'm assuming his totals would be lower, but that's based on some very simple, broad and quite possibly invalid assumptions. Not sure how you would go about modelling that.
He may have also had better living through chemistry in Boston than he had in Minnesota. Different instruction, more lineup protection. /hides
I call that "working with Manny's trainer."
I love the story about the Red Sox bringing in some doctors who gave the team a lecture on "If I was going to do steroids, this is how I would do it." Which frankly isn't too far from "hey kids, don't have sex, but just in case, this is how you use a condom," but I still find it funny.
A friend of mine used to work for the Twins. He said he talked to Terry Ryan about Ortiz and asked whether working with a new organization was what helped him so much. Terry replied, "It was either that or he started using steroids."
My friend was quick to point out that Ryan has a very dry sense of humor so he had no idea if he was joking or not.
That would kind of fit with their insistence on being old school and not being terribly introspective about how they might have done things differently in the past, since they already do things "the right way."
On the other hand, it would get old always hearing you werected holding him back if the real answer is something else entirely.
For sure.
Is there a plan for the book post this week?
Does this constitute a plan?
March 8
Pepper: A it turns out . . . yesterday was first Monday. Who knew?!
Do you have anything? Do you want me to try to throw together something later today?
DG: Holy hell, it was. I didn't even think of it.
Um...
I can write something up tonight, but probably not during the day.
Pepper: Works for me--I doubt I could get to it any earlier.
March 9
DG: Ha. Guess what I completely didn't do?
But, but...I read things!
No worries, I was just checking since I finally finished a book. 🙂
It's going up after last month's movie post.
Wait... we talked about movies last month!?!
Apparently because there is a book post now!
Watching Trey's Little League team last night, one of the kids pitching kept losing his cap. I told Junior that's what it would be like of Eduardo Nunez pitched.
An article I wish practically anyone at SI other than Tom Verducci had written – "Will Twins' Sano be the next Staton, or the next Puig?" It begins:
But it also feature Torii speaking favorably of Mauer (and including him in the same breath as Trout), so... that's nice.
Plus, the quotes in the article seem to give some kind of insight into the expectations of Sano and the Twins as a whole. Not defending the framing of the piece by any means, but if you can get through the tired old "Math; what is it good for?" routine, it was at least worth reading.
I'm sort of fond of the Molitor quote about why they moved Sano instead of Plouffe or Mauer.
Baseball. It's a very simple game:
And speaking of David Ortiz, Verducci's eagerness to give up on Puig seems crazier than the Twins waiving Ortiz. Yeah, he had a rough season last year, but his 2013 and 2014 season lines are both outstanding.
And for that matter, I worry less about Sano showing up with a little extra weight at the beginning of camp than if his weight trends the wrong way during the season. Most players lose weight as the season grinds them down.
Hannibal Buress just announced a second show - this time Friday at 5pm. It'll probably sell out quick again.
Chumlee, say it ain't so!