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great pitcher fielding play there.

Riley's on an oh for nine. Needs to snap out of it.

Baez 1st walk.

going to be a bad day for gripping the ball. Lets hope Carasco has trouble too.

that's an interesting question. I'd go as far as believing they think he will bulk out of the position soon enough it didn't matter if he could still play it for another season. I just don't know that we can separate how decision making about Keith was colored by their prognosis for Torkelson, and the availability of Torres to sign. It all wraps up together. In fact if they had landed Bregman early and not pursued Torres, do you think they would have tried to move Keith to 1st this season? They could have asked Javy to play 2b, but they didn't know, we still don't know, how Javy ends up.

He has a high usage rate on a team without a lot else going on, so Cade is going to have to be on a team that beats some other good teams in the playoffs before he get the cred his numbers otherwise argue.

that's too bad. Nido looked pretty consistently terrible in ST. Well, Dillon's just got his Wally Pip/Lou Gehrig moment.

I don't disagree with anything in this post. But I would comment that again, the only reason 'disabled' now has this more narrowed concept attached to it is recent usage. In the general sense of English semantics, if you are unable to do something, you are disabled wrt it, so an injured player is disabled. At 50,000 ft with no other social context, that is perfectly good usage. Again, it doesn't bother me to use IL instead of DL at all. I'm just amused by the way the wheel turns.

And does it even 'save face' in any meaningful way? If anything it's more to the forefront to see him struggle in the majors. That said, I think he's going to get more rope than this, he was a pretty good ball player through the 2nd half last year. I'd look to the example with Torkelson - last season they gave him 200 PA before they sent him down, my guess Colt gets at least 150 to find his footing. The exception would be if he just totally get the yips in the field, but I don't really think that's going to happen.

what amuses me about the whole "use this word not that word" merry go round is that the connotation attaches to the word by its use, not vice versa. You could decide to call disabled people 'bananas' and in a generation it would have the same connotation as 'disabled' and there would be complaints about calling hurt ball players 'bananas' because it was an insult to 'real' bananas people. To me it's an exercise in reality denial. Like the IEEE argument about master/slave control loops. Slavery is a word for a concept that reflects situations that exist in reality, you can't avoid the intellectual construct - it's there no matter what word you use. People have been cruel and inhuman to each other since forever, its real history - it doesn't go away if you call it something else. So that's my rant - but it's not a hill I'm going to die on, just bitch about.

It make so much sense I guess we have to believe it's the docs that say no.

Certainly appears true that Keith is not a 'natural' fielder like for instance Javy. There are guys who have/develop an innate sense of what to do in the field without having to think about it or learn the right technique because doing it right is what already makes innate sense to them. Colt isn't that guy. Certainly if they didn't have him working on both 1st and 2nd in the off-season to be ready for both, that was a mistake in hindsight, and maybe another measure of their pessimism about Torkelson. And TBH, a dozen games mean very little - we still don't know how Torkelson is going to play out.

the trick is understand what your system is and isn't doing (like is 100% really 100% or does "100%" already have a limit built into it, etc) and each manufacturer may put a different spin on it just to keep you confused. Especially if you are coming from a hybrid as I think most of them do not expose 'true' battery charge limits to the user.

LOL - the other similar example is that you have a 100% trade imbalance with your barber - same idea. It's a little bit of false analogy though because if you step back and look at all countries together (the equivalent of looking at your whole household budget) the US still has a huge trade deficit. There are other economic factors that make some part of that fine, but the argument is how much of it. The real problem is that China and its billion people have refused to run an 'ordinary' economy for the last several decades. They have structured their economy in such a way that they can't consume themselves enough of what they have to produce to keep their people employed and the net result is they run their economy by importing other country's industrial jobs (mostly ours AAMOF)- and sooner or later everyone else is going to get (has gotten) tired of it. Right now they are setting up to dominate the worlds automotive industry next. That is what is at the core of what is happening here. Adding the rest of world to his grievance list is just gravy for Trump since he hates everyone anyway - the argument is 95% over China. Since Bill Clinton the Dem position on this has been "well it will all work out because we can all become knowledge workers" but it turns out knowledge jobs are just as easy to export. That's a big piece of why the democrats economic message has failed - it's as much a failure as trickle down. And I also think there is a level at which the Dems are OK with what Trump is doing; first because he is doing it badly which helps their future prospects, but two, because if they get back into power Trump will have done some of the 'dirty work' for them they would have done but couldn't figure out how to do themselves.

geesh. He could at least have waiting until Vierling was ready to hurt himself.

I thought what I saw Gleyber say about it was a little more nuanced - he made it sound like he was refusing as much because they had given him no lead time to prep - they wanted him to go into a high stakes game at a new position cold. Of course that might be PR backfill, but he should also consider that if it's a payday he's looking for, he's a more valuable commodity as a 3B in today's game than a 2B. Still and all, the episode in NY has probably closed the book on the issue.

Colt had a shaky start last season also - but he also had a better excuse then - IIRC he was also hitting some balls hard but having some bad BaBIP luck, which is not so much the case now. Torkelson has made one error at 1b in 7 starts, there was a ball he knocked down that went for single that would have a double but OTOH someone else might have made the out on, he's also made a 3 or 4 of good catches on batted balls and started 4 DPs. I'd say he's holding his own, though statcast has him down one OAA already. Let's see if Gleyber plays any 3rd on rehab. Doubtful. Then again Baez is fine at 3rd if he keeps hitting - too early to tell there.

I would want a battery management system designed not to let you do that. Interesting that did that on the Volt but apparently not on the Bolt. Wanted to market max range instead of max battery life.

From opening day to July 31, McKinstry's OPS was 528. From Aug 1 to Aug 31, it was 955, from Sept 1 through the end of the season, 499. Then 1700 for 6 playoff games. Go figure.

Rain looking less likely in the forecast for Wed. Might get in all three. Ironically it should be very nice in Minneapolis for the next series, sunny and 60's.

I suppose it can get to a point where the player is messing up and getting so tight about getting sent down that the best thing you can do is send him down, then he can stop worrying about the worst thing happening and get back to playing.

WTF is wrong with Colt?

Beau can't seem to get any BaBIP luck here.

but still leaves them with a roster problem. Going back to the suggestion that lunched this sub-topic, if they let Margot go it could only be because they were willing to have Torkelson or Torres play some outfield. I'm not seeing that, but who knows what Hinch might throw out there?

No, I think if anything it's more about young players. They have been willing to move vets, but I think they think they can develop more out of any young player than their current trade value so they just don't like to move young players, and in this case all four players in the mix are young players still probably on the upside.