41 thoughts on “August 10, 2016: Fielder”

1. This cherry-picked selection made possible in part by whatever weird stuff is going on with b-ref's database right now. I had to rely on memory for likely playing time/fragility/old player skills comps.

2. Not far off what b-ref did on FB yesterday for players with 300+ HRs. Ryan Howard's contract is the disaster.

   1. Oooh, there's a good Sporcle -- name the ten ballplayers with 300+ HRs who played on the Twins at some point in their career.

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         Killebrew, Allison, Nettles, Gaetti, Baylor, Davis, Ortiz, Sierra, Thome...and ?

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         I feel worse about Battey'ing Dave Winfield than I do about the other guy.

         1. Allison: 256 HR

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            And you should

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         Killer, Thome, Winfield, Gaetti, Ortiz, Hrbek, Nettles, Hunter, Oliva, and, um, Bret Boone

         1. Hrbek: 293 HRs
            Oliva: 220 HRs
            I won't grace that last one with an answer.

            1. I will!

               Bret Boone: 252 HR. Obviously better than Oliva.

               1. I'm hoping you mean his HR total is obviously better than Oliva's, and not that he was obviously better than Oliva

                  1. I'm pretty sure that he means Bret Boone was the obviously superior player.

                     1. You know me well

               2. Tony Batista: 221 HR

                  Waiting for the Twins to retire #77.

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         Killebrew Winfield Ortiz Nettles? oh, man....I am stumped. Blyleven? 🙂

         1. Good lord. I'm embarrassed that I so easily forgot

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            G-man and Baylor and Thome

            . Less embarrassed that I forgot

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            Hunter

            because I have tried to forget.

   2. Ruben Sierra collected all of his WAR by age 26. He played for 14 more years and just kept losing WAR.

   3. Can't believe Raul Ibanez has over 300 home runs. He had 15 career HRs through his age 28 season. I bet he has the fewest at age 28 of anyone on this list by a long ways.

      1. Imagine combining Sierra (ages 20-28) & Ibañez (ages 29-42) into one player, Rubén Raúl Sierra Ibañez:

         Dude	G	PA	AB	R	H	2b	3b	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	IBB
         Sierra Ibañez	3499	14360	13040	1838	3548	718	109	514	2128	181	1128	2173	.272	.328	.462	.790	6026	293	164
         Sheffield	2576	10947	9217	1636	2689	467	27	509	1676	253	1475	1171	.292	.393	.514	.907	4737	235	130

         1. magine combining Sierra (ages 20-28) & Ibañez (ages 29-42) into one player, Rubén Raúl Sierra Ibañez
            Oooh the diacriticals!!!

3. Question for the nation's musicians: without Googling, do "circus" and "Stars and Stripes Forever" mean anything to you in combination?

   1. Not really, but as I think about the song it does kind of sound like marches I've heard played at three-ring circuses.

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         No, I haven't seen any circus disasters.

   2. T.I.L.

      1. If anyone knew, I figured it would be you.

         1. *thinks of several jokes re: circuses or clowns, shrugs*

            1. Or, you know, brass music.

4. It looks like we're set to close on time. If the bank comes through before the end of business today we may be able to close early(!). I'm a little stressed out.

   1. Sending positive energy.

      

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   3. As the banner says, doan fret, da sticky bun gon' come soon.

   4. aaaaaaaaand the appraiser screwed the pooch by not reading the offer sheet correctly. Almost would have delayed the scheduled closing.

5. May to the DL with more back issues. Chargrois called back up. Hopefully, he'll get more of an opportunity to pitch this time with "just" a 12-man pitching staff.

6. Sports Illustrated's gallery of teams with World Series droughts of 25 years or longer. My first two thoughts:

   "Man, that's a sharp toque on Manny Sanguillén. ... Wait, when did B. J. Honeycutt play for the Orioles?"

7. Carlos Gomez designated for assignment...

8. Ex-Twins news: Carlos Gomez was designated for assignment by Houston.

   1. I wouldn't mind if the Twins picked him up ... could be fun.

      1. No thank you. We need more relievers on the big team, not additional bench players.

      2. The 2013-14 Gomez would be good to have. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be who he is any more.

         1. he was 286/362/452 in 94 PA this June, but otherwise turrrrrible this year. .396 BABIP that month might suggest he was getting pretty lucky. By the same token, his .226 BABIP in July (and 189/241/324 in 80 PA) might suggest he was pretty unlucky (or playing hurt).

            1. His hip scared the Mets away last July.

9. ugh.

   If she is who I think she is, her father was preznit of Hormel when I was in high school and jr. high.

   1. Correction: sister-in-law of the former preznit of the company.

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