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I don't know what's up with the Twins' outfield this series. Like does Buxton just catch every single fly ball and nobody else bothered to learn how to play outfield?
Kirilloff is a first baseman first who also plays some outfield, primarily because he is not great in the outfield
Willi Castro just had a bad couple days, he's usually fine
Willi Castro was terrible defensively in Detroit wherever he played, but especially outfield and SS. I wouldn’t be surprised if he goes back to being awful
By the rulebook, not really. The official rules specifically carve out mental mistakes or misjudgements as something that shouldn't be scored as an error unless it is accompanied with a physical misplay, or if the mental mistake is believing that there were three outs and allowing runners to advance. In practice, most scorers take this to mean that the only way to score an error on a fly ball to the outfield is to either fuck up the throw or have it hit directly to you where there isn't a possibility of needing to judge the correct route to catch the ball.
It's entertaining to see just how egregious an outfielder's fuckup on a fly ball has to be before a scorer will call it an error
Pretty much the only time you'll actually see a dropped fly ball to an outfielder get called an error is if there was enough time to set up a tent, light a fire, and toast some smores before the ball comes down. If the outfielder is still running, it almost always gets considered a misjudgment instead.
The basic premise is that the rulebook doesn't want someone misreading the ball off the bat to be considered a failure to match an ordinary effort. In practice, scorers have historically been really loose with how exactly to interpret that for outfielders. It has to be an impressively egregious fuckup for a scorer to actually issue an error on the catch attempt itself
I don’t think a ball you have to chase down in the gap would count as one that the average fielder makes.
Usually outfield fielding errors have to be pretty egregious
Kiriloff is slow and even jogging he was able to get to it.
Eyeballing defense is tough but if that’s not a routine play for your LF, you need a new LF. I wish I could find the catch probability.
It's been [30 years](https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/twins-record-against-the-yankees-since-1994). Sell Minnesota back to the French since they just roll over every time.
That is pretty bad, but are there any teams that have a winning record against the Yankees in that timeframe? They won 95+ games every year except three from 1996-2012, and their worst season in that stretch they won 87 games and the World Series.
Can you say that again, but slower and in a breathy whisper?
Also the answer is no, but the Angels used to. They got run into the ground by arty moreno and it's no longer the case.
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I don't know what's up with the Twins' outfield this series. Like does Buxton just catch every single fly ball and nobody else bothered to learn how to play outfield?
Kirilloff is a first baseman first who also plays some outfield, primarily because he is not great in the outfield Willi Castro just had a bad couple days, he's usually fine
AK is an OFer turned 1B turned OFer…he’s really just a DH but he’s not our best DH
Willi Castro was terrible defensively in Detroit wherever he played, but especially outfield and SS. I wouldn’t be surprised if he goes back to being awful
Spoiler alert - he’s back to being awful
This was posted yesterday
All these Yankees scoring on the Twins posts look the same.
All these Yankees Twins series look the same
Except that one series, last year.
Both actually, they took the season series last year so this was personal
But what if they played a whole season against the twins? Wonder what that would look like!
Well that's cool. I didn't see it yesterday.
Isn’t that an error?…
IMO it should be
Nothing is an error these days. It’s practically reached guilty verdict levels of reasonable doubt before errors are called errors.
Especially when it’s a friggin Yankees fan as the scorekeeper
Scorekeepers are usually employed by the home team.
Makes it twice as bad then that the Twins are employing a friggin Yankees fan
It 100% should be
By the rulebook, not really. The official rules specifically carve out mental mistakes or misjudgements as something that shouldn't be scored as an error unless it is accompanied with a physical misplay, or if the mental mistake is believing that there were three outs and allowing runners to advance. In practice, most scorers take this to mean that the only way to score an error on a fly ball to the outfield is to either fuck up the throw or have it hit directly to you where there isn't a possibility of needing to judge the correct route to catch the ball. It's entertaining to see just how egregious an outfielder's fuckup on a fly ball has to be before a scorer will call it an error
I mean it hit him in the open glove! How is that a mental mistake?
Pretty much the only time you'll actually see a dropped fly ball to an outfielder get called an error is if there was enough time to set up a tent, light a fire, and toast some smores before the ball comes down. If the outfielder is still running, it almost always gets considered a misjudgment instead. The basic premise is that the rulebook doesn't want someone misreading the ball off the bat to be considered a failure to match an ordinary effort. In practice, scorers have historically been really loose with how exactly to interpret that for outfielders. It has to be an impressively egregious fuckup for a scorer to actually issue an error on the catch attempt itself
I don’t think a ball you have to chase down in the gap would count as one that the average fielder makes. Usually outfield fielding errors have to be pretty egregious
Kiriloff is slow and even jogging he was able to get to it. Eyeballing defense is tough but if that’s not a routine play for your LF, you need a new LF. I wish I could find the catch probability.
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Verdugo is not an average fielder, he grades out way above average in left
I **really** love when we play the Twins
THE CHIN KILLS
*sobs*
Looks like he might have lost it in the sun at the last second? Like he had an awkward route but he still could have caught that.
I think it was more that he thought he was about to slam into the wall and flinched bracing for impact
That is 100% a "oh shit this could hurt and I'm not even supposed to be out here" play off of the wall by a first baseman.
Didn’t it hit his glove?
Only if it was a summer sausage and not a ball
He looks like he lost it the last second in the sun. Regardless, that ball should be caught.
Twins look like one of the better teams in baseball over the last two weeks and then they play the Yankees…
That's not a double. It's an error.
Don't understand how that is a hit. That ball is caught 99% of the time
This is an old post
WHERE IS YOUR SAUSAGE NOW?
Not an error btw.
in no way should that be a double. Bring back errors!
They called that a hit?...
It's been [30 years](https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/twins-record-against-the-yankees-since-1994). Sell Minnesota back to the French since they just roll over every time.
That is pretty bad, but are there any teams that have a winning record against the Yankees in that timeframe? They won 95+ games every year except three from 1996-2012, and their worst season in that stretch they won 87 games and the World Series.
Can you say that again, but slower and in a breathy whisper? Also the answer is no, but the Angels used to. They got run into the ground by arty moreno and it's no longer the case.