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July 9th, 2008.   via jessenoller.com This is what happens as soon as you get used to winning.  Darth Vader shows up on vacation in Boston, buys a Red Sox hat, has a steak or seven with David Ortiz and suddenly he's using the force to blow Ron Gardenhire's bullpen management skills all to hell.  Then, once Vader goes for a leak and Gardy's free to do the right thing, he'll ... [link]

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What Brian Bass Can Teach Us About Sabermetrics
Published 7/13/2008 by David Wintheiser (noreply@blogger.com) at The Al Central Blog
... , Ron Gardenhire brought reliever Brian Bass into a scoreless tie with the Boston Red Sox, in Boston, in the eighth inning. Bass gave up a ground-rule double to Dustin Pedroia, got J.D. Drew to ground out, then gave up the go-ahead run on a single by Manny Ramirez in a game the Twins eventually lost 1-0. The Twins went on to lose all three games in the Boston series, and to read the blogosphere you'd have thought the sky was falling. Local blogger Stick & Ball Guy ...

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Three in a row! Minnesota has pulled off their third straight one-run game, but it still goes a long way to re-proving to me that the Boston series was a fluke. Baker had a very solid game, going seven innings giving up only four runs. Behind the hot bat of Brendan Harris, who went 3-3 with four RBI. Harris homered, as did Mauer, who had the other two RBI. The bullpen did a good job again, ...
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