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Thanks for clarifying.  Didn't mean to be too vigorous with the ping-pong, either.
Your ideas are always top-notch, so we do hope you'll keep 'em comin'.
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Your specific counters on the M's org philosophy are substantive.  Snell was beyond fixing, though it drove me batty that they insisted on having him try to pound the knees.  To me he was exhibit A or B as to the FB stubbornness.
It does seem like you can rule out RRS and maybe Vargas, but the team still ranked #2 in fastball percentage, right?  The guys who were not real high in FB% were still considerable, and the total team effect was "tons and tons of fastballs."
It may well be that my complaint doesn't hold up under (your) serious scrutiny .....
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Still, the 30,000-foot view is that here is an org that rabidly believes in throwing tons of FB's ...
#2 in 2010 and #1 in 2009 ...
and yet it is doing so with a staff full of finesse pitchers.  Hard for me to get away from the intersection of those two things.