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Monday, May 20, 2013

Mackey: Quality of Twins’ defense has garnered mixed reports

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posted 2 days ago by Repoz to sabermetrics, twins | 2 comment(s)

Wonder if this includes yesterday’s gripping Trevor Ploof…

But those numbers don’t tell the whole story.

Advanced defensive metrics tell us what our eyes have likely suggested all season—that the Twins’ defense, for the most part, has very limited range.

It’s true that Twins fielders, collectively, don’t make many errors on balls hit to their range radius—but that radius is not very large. And it’s impossible for a fielder to make an error on a ball he can’t get to.

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1. Shooty is in the Trust Tree

posted on September 30, 2011 at 11:40 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

But in 2010 it was balls!

2. JoeHova posted on September 30, 2011 at 11:49 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

What is this "flat-out" #### that dumbass hicks are always saying?

3. The Long Arm of Rudy Law posted on October 01, 2011 at 12:18 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Also, the Twins need to re-evaluate their medical staff, including team doctors and therapists, as well as their strength and conditioning program. We've got players out for months with what should be fairly minor, treatable injuries. We're talking about muscle pulls and back strains.

Doctors? What the hell do they know?

4. Eugene Freedman

posted on October 01, 2011 at 12:22 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Minor injuries like numbness and partial paralysis of legs and concussions.

5. Walt Davis posted on October 01, 2011 at 01:39 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Currently, the players and their agents are in charge. They decide when to play, when to train, when to seek medical advice and how to rehab an injury.

Also, the Twins need to re-evaluate their medical staff, including team doctors and therapists, as well as their strength and conditioning program.

Ummmm ....

6. zachtoma posted on October 01, 2011 at 02:45 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

What is this "flat-out" #### that dumbass hicks are always saying?

It means "emphatically" or "definitively". For example, "After he hit .216/.270/.340 in his age 26 season, even his staunchest defenders will have to throw up their hands and admit that Brandon Wood flat-out sucks".

Off topic, but I only posted that because I've been looking at season-end statlines today and Wood jumped out at me. It's remarkable that the Angels produced two of the flat-out worst hitters in recent memory - Wood and Mathis - pretty much simultaneously... and what's more, they both looked like decent to good hitters as prospects.

7. boteman posted on October 01, 2011 at 07:00 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I don't care what nobody says, that Michael Cuddyer can flat hit!

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Mackey: Quality of Twins’ defense has garnered mixed reports

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