I posted yesterday on the utterly inane strategy that the Twins have taken with regard to Joe Crede’s health, namely that they have refused to put him on the DL to rest and rehab despite the fact that he has missed between 3 and 6 days every two-week period all season, excluding the last two [...]
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Beating a dead horse, er, Joe Crede, and the winter of my Cabrera discontent.
Posted in Blown Calls, Deep Thoughts, Game Wrap, tagged Alexi Casilla, Brendan Harris, Carlos Gomez, Joe Crede, Michael Cuddyer, Nick Punto, Orlando Cabrera on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lets talk about love / the bullpen
Posted in Deep Thoughts, State of the 'Pen, tagged Anthony Swarzak, Bobby Keppel, Francisco Liriano, Glen Perkins, Joe Nathan, Jose Mijares, Kevin Slowey, Luis Ayala, Matt Guerrier, Nick Blackburn, R.A. Dickey, Scott Baker, Sean Henn on June 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Twins’ bullpen has been long lamented by me and many others that write on the interwebs. Most of them are better at statistics than me, which is why I generally shy away from using advanced statistics to make predictions or to analyze the past performance of a pitcher. If you want someone to use [...]
Should Gomez Spend a Month in AAA?
Posted in Deep Thoughts on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No.
(That will be all.)
Hmm… Outrage doesn’t seem to cover it…
Posted in Deep Thoughts, On My "List" on April 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What do you get your beloved for your 62nd anniversary? Is it Gold? China? I know the 60th is Diamond, but I can’t think of anything better than that… There has to be something we can do! Oh, I have an idea!
Why don’t we have everyone in baseball wear your number for one day?! That [...]
The Sacrifice Fly – A Diatribe
Posted in Deep Thoughts on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As long-time readers of this blog can attest to, there is nothing in the rules of baseball that I despise more than Rule 10.08(d), which states:
The official scorer shall:
(d) Score a sacrifice fly when, before two are out, the batter hits a ball in flight handled by an outfielder or an infielder running in the [...]
