29 thoughts on “May 15, 2017: NBD”

    1. neighbor kid just graduated from Berklee. His commencement speakers: "Lionel Richie, Lucinda Williams, Todd Rundgren, Neil Portnow, and Shin Joong Hyun."

  3. Twins minor league moves: Engelb Vielma (.286/.362/.328 in Chattanooga) promoted to Rochester; Tanner English (.129/.236/.194 in Chattanooga) sent to Fort Myers; T. J. White off the disabled list to Chattanooga; Ryan Strausborger off the disabled list to Chattanooga.

    1. I wish Strausborger's first name was, like Steve, or something, so we could say we have our cut-rate Strasburg. Or our non-union German equivalent.

  5. Now, fielding percentage is obviously a dumb, flawed, mostly meaningless metric.

    Still, it's pretty great that Sano has the highest fielding percentage among all AL third basemen.

    1. Leads in put outs too.

      More notably, his Range Factor is 2.74 (Longoria is 5th among 3Bmen at 2.87). Not too shabby (but UZR has him worse, I think?).

      1. I don't get range factor so I need runs. UZR has Sanó at +2 runs this season. For his career he's at +4, or a +8 UZR/150. And he can hit a bit.

  6. Defensive WAR
    1. Dyson • SEA 1.0
    2. Cain • KCR 0.9
    3. Kiermaier • TBR 0.7
    4. Polanco • MIN 0.7
    5. Castro • MIN 0.7
    6. Kinsler • DET 0.6
    7. Buxton • MIN 0.6
    8. Iglesias • DET 0.6
    Merrifield • KCR 0.6
    10. Simmons • LAA 0.5
    Odor • TEX 0.5

      1. Castro hasn't had a good season at bat since 2013. He was signed to be a good defensive player, and I think most would agree that he has been. Anything we get from him at bat is a bonus.

        1. Oh yeah, for sure. I'm just reminiscing about the first week or two of the season when he was un-sustainably an on base machine.

  7. At each position in the AL (according to Fangraphs):
    C: Castro is 7th
    1b: Mauer is 1st
    2nd: Dozier is 8th
    SS: Polanco is 4th
    3b: Sano is 2nd (tied with Machado)
    LF: Rosario is 4th
    CF: Buxton is 1st (by a wide margin)
    RF: Kepler is 8th

      1. Q: Wait, we're actually calling it a turnaround!?!

        A: For batters, I generally think of 100 plate appearances as having moved out of the SSS arena - could argue that correlates to ~33 games.

        Thoughts?

        1. we're talking defense here and how it applies to the pitching, and you can definitely call the pitching a turnaround, particularly from the starting pitcher standpoint

          1. Yes!
            Sorry, I didn't mean to impugn the idea that we're witnessing a turnaround - I'm willing to step into the void and say we are - I was just wondering if everyone else in the basement thinks 20% of the season provides enough info to step with me.

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