46 thoughts on “September 23, 2020: Robe Life”

1. How did the robes become a thing?

   1. Donaldson gifted players with them, and it went from there. I'm sure Manfred will find something illegal about them, though.

      1. Do they have the Nike swoosh?

2. Pictures of the ISS crossing the Moon or Sun are so blasé. How about crossing Mars?

   1. I thought for sure it had to have been astrophotographer Thierry Legault. That's pretty impressive, though.

   2. he created a video from which the featured 0.00035 second exposure was extracted.

      I've found this is the best way for me to capture lightning photos - take the video and then process an image from a single frame.

      Amazing picture!

3. 4th seed magic number is 4

   Yankees are 2:1 favorites at Toronto

   Division magic number is 6

   Sox are +142 underdogs vs Burger

   Twins are almost favored 3:1 +290 with Maeda on the mound.

   1. but the manager did reveal that those pitchers will make their final regular-season tune-ups Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

      Unsurprisingly, that means Maeda will start Game 1 on five days rest.

      1. The Yankees have not yet announced if Cole will be the starter for Sunday's final game vs Miami. They are probably waiting to see if that game will be meaningful for the 4th seed or not to decide.

         So game 1 might be Cole or Tanaka.

   2. Maximum Chaos!

      Cleveland wins the last two over the Sox
      Tigers beat Twins tonight
      Yankees beat Blue Jays tonight and tomorrow

      CHW 34-23
      MIN 34-23
      NYY 34-23
      CLE 33-24

      into the last weekend of the season.

      1. I normally root for this, but with COVID it feels less fun to root for more games

         1. I'm not finding it on a quick search, but I thought they weren't playing any extra games this year?

            1. could very well be

            2. no extras, but StL could end up playing one or both of their throwaway games against Detroit "after the season" should they prove important to the playoff spot.

               1. I root for maximum chaos in college football but it never materializes.

                  It will be a fun weekend and hopefully the Twins are at home vs whomever next Tuesday.

                  Oakland can't be lower than 3rd

                  Hou locked into 6

                  Min or Cle will be 7th.

                  1. I still want the Twins to go all 2020 on the Yankees' postseason. And any other team they go up against.

      2. The Twins do not come out well in any multi-team tiebreakers as White Sox own better division record and I believe Cleveland would have same div record (what is the head to head on Min and Cle?) and Twins lose tiebreakers to Yankees as their division record is better playing in that weak ass AL East. LOL.

         1. Twins were 7-3 against Cleveland. If the Twins lose tonight, they will be 5-5 against everyone else in the division.

         2. Well, if the goal is "best outcome for the Twins", those would be concerns.

            If the goal is "no one knows who they play in the first round until the last possible second", then we can probably mix Oakland into that and we'll have 5 teams that will be the 2,3,4,5,7 seeds in some order, but no one knows what that order would be until the dust settles on game 60. Which is its own kind of fun.

4. Gale Sayers

   1. I know it is popular to compare his running style to Barry Sanders but I think it's much more similar to Adrian Peterson.

      1. I didn't know Sayers beat is kids.

         1. Or had multiple fumbles in his most important post season games?

            1. Running style.

         2. Running style.

            1. so, you're saying "running style"??

               1. Yes. Apparently I needed to help two people with reading comprehension.

                  1. Maybe you could set up a zoom class.

                     1. I would be happy to join that class!

                        1. I guess I forgot to used my "snarky comment tag".

                           1. That will be covered in the Zoom class.

5. This one is a lot like the first one. Still great.

6. DBA group rolled out a change today, with no advance warning of course. Waste of a couple hours of my time, and now a pain in the butt inconvenience.

7. I just decided I'm going to a virtual Ashley Bathgate concert tonight (she's playing a Michael Gordon piece, so that's a combination that I can't resist)

   1. Did not expect the RATM cover.

      Good concert, though.

8. Byron Buxton is now your Twins bWAR leader

   1. 268/276/610

      What a line

      1. .327/.339/.800 in September

         1. .333/.354/.944 in the last two weeks, where he hasn't gone more than two games without hitting a home run.

      2. Take a pitch or two, young fella!

         That said, an .886 OPS Buxton is a glorious thing.

   2. BR's simulated stats through today have him at .278/.326/.455 but apparently with all-time fielding numbers to put him at 6.5 WAR.

9. Also, Taylor Rogers has the teams second best FIP on the relief corps (after Thielbar)

   1. I feel like this is an indictment of FIP.

      1. Honestly, it seems Rogers is pitching pretty well- just somehow any ball in play seems about twice as likely as it should be to find a hole in the defense or sneak through the infield. His BABIP is basically a hundred points higher than it 's been every other season - .411. That's pretty ridiculous!
         Other than giving up hits at a higher rate, his strikeouts and walks and homeruns per 9 all look normal for him, which is pretty darn good. In a normal season, I'm guessing this would stabilize and in another 60 games we would barely remember how bad his season has gone to this point.

         1. I don't know. His batted ball stats look pretty bad. Also, what is up with pitch type here?

            https://www.fangraphs.com/players/taylor-rogers/13449/stats?position=P

            1. Line drive percent is up quite a bit, especially compared to last year. SSST, but a clear problem.

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