Toronto (5-11) @ Minnesota (8-4) -- April 15-18

[So_Fresh]

It's not only the one game. He's been playing well in AAA as well.

He was okay in AAA over 9 games. A hitter with as much experience as he has should be at least that good, probably better.

For the sake of it: his career AAA line is .299/.387/.415. His career major league line is .239/.309/.316. He's pretty much the definition of a AAAA player.

That's all fine Scad but there's no denying he is the better hitter and deserves a look and stay with the big club. Even though it's a small sample size. Soogard had a strong spring as well.

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[Lateral Quicks]

Good to give Thornton a lead to work with. See if he can recover from his rough start last game.

[BigLeagueChew]

No Astudillo, fire that coach.

[Schad]

That's all fine Scad but there's no denying he is the better hitter and deserves a look and stay with the big club. Even though it's a small sample size. Soogard had a strong spring as well.

I am denying that he's the better hitter. There are very few players for which it's true that Eric Sogard is the superior hitter. In fact, even including this year's numbers, Brandon Drury has been a much better hitter at the major league level.

[So_Fresh]

Thornton sucks! Nice pickup Shatkins. smh.

[So_Fresh]

That's all fine Scad but there's no denying he is the better hitter and deserves a look and stay with the big club. Even though it's a small sample size. Soogard had a strong spring as well.

I am denying that he's the better hitter. There are very few players for which it's true that Eric Sogard is the superior hitter. In fact, even including this year's numbers, Brandon Drury has been a much better hitter at the major league level.

I could care less about past stats Scad. Soogard is the better hitter right now. I want him playing on this team. Drury hasn't shown us anything and we're almost 20 games into the season. This is all a moot point anyways once Vladi is called up. So who cares.

[Schad]

Sogard was the better hitter as of yesterday and yesterday only. That does not make it likely that he will be a better hitter tomorrow. This is an example of recency bias at work; baseball is a high-variance sport where players routinely have periods of success and failure. If you make roster decisions on that basis, you're going to consistently make the wrong decision based on bad information.

Similarly, Thornton was excellent for two starts. Now, he has been bad for two starts. He's a young pitcher in the majors for the first time; this is not uncommon, and it doesn't mean he sucks.

[So_Fresh]

I make roster decisions on who is playing better and who has the hot bat or pitching well at that time. I'll guarantee you I will have better success winning games if i continued with this approach.

[Schad]

No, no you won't. That's the point here. You will be forever overreacting to singular events, and those events will not be indicative of their future results.

[Schad]

Here's an example: through 13 games, this player is hitting .191 with just 1 HR (he's supposed to be something of a power hitter). His teammate's hitting .320. You have to DFA one. Which one do you keep?

If your answer was "keep the guy hitting .320", you just DFAed Jose Bautista a day before his breakout, in order to keep Mike McCoy's hot bat on the team.

[Black Watch]

Exciting way to end a ballgame

Defense wins championships.

Oh, sweet summer child.

[Fairview4Life]

Lol

[Skin Blues]

I make roster decisions on who is playing better and who has the hot bat or pitching well at that time. I'll guarantee you I will have better success winning games if i continued with this approach.

Your guarantee isn't worth the the digital paper you wrote it on. This is a terrible approach that no GM would ever use to run their team.

[So_Fresh]

Let's stay on topic and focus on the series at hand. Don't like to make it personal and get off-topic and into the back and forth with members (who think they know it all.) on this forum. Thanks.

Eric Sogard (L) 2B
Freddy Galvis (S) SS
Randal Grichuk (R) CF
Justin Smoak (S) DH
Teoscar Hernandez (R) LF
Rowdy Tellez (L) 1B
Brandon Drury (R) 3B
Billy McKinney (L) RF
Danny Jansen (R) C

[Fairview4Life]

Don't like to make it personal and get off-topic and into the back and forth with members (who think they know it all.) on this forum. Thanks.

You were so close.

[BigLeagueChew]

Sogard > chris davis

[Brinbe]

One of the better offensive days so far... 8-12 isn't so bad considering that terribad offense in the first twenty games.

[So_Fresh]

Nice win. Soogard with a big hit to score 3 runs. Could have been 3 hits for him today if it wasn't for the diving play in the 1st inning.

[Lateral Quicks]

8-12 thru the first 20 games. A 40% winning percentage seems about right. The offense is showing some more life recently, and with Vlad on the way things looking up (relatively speaking). Should be a little more watchable, at any rate.

[So_Fresh]

Anyone feel free to the make the next game series. I think i'm going to take some time off this forum.