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    Memorandum To: the Board of Minnesota Twins From: Minyue Wu Date: November/19/2016 Re: The Sabermetrics Approach and the rebuilding of the Twins ____________________________________ Introduction After Chicago Cubs winning the World Series for the first time in 108 years, people have witnessed Epstein succeed in his team building strategies for the second time, while the first time is when he brought the first success in 103 years’ period to Boston Red Sox. The “sabermetrics” approach of Epstein is effective in building the team with lower cost and better player performance. While the Minnesota Twins has the worst performance in MLB in the year 2016, the board of the Twins has an urge to reform this team. In order to better rebuild the team,…

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    Wilson or Rawlings, the debate of the baseball world. Both have dominated competition for decades. Both are highly sought after. Best of the best gloves, so they claim. Both buying Horween Leather. But, they come from very different roots, one, an American story of brothers, the other, created by a meat company. These two companies are rivals through and through. Wilson’s headquarters is located in Chicago, IL, while Rawlings’s headquarters in located in St. Louis, MO. Wilson first provided…

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    Contemporary Research In what is perhaps the most famous twin study, the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart (MISTRA), Bouchard, Lykken, McGue, Segal, and Tellegen (1990) studied more than 80 sets of MZ and DZ twins who were separated as infants and raised in separate environments in order to determine the heritability of psychological traits, including intelligence. The participants completed approximately 50 hours of assessment, including personality and occupational interest inventories,…

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    Thomas Bouchard, a former American psychologist of the University of Minnesota, is considered to be one of the most influential researchers of the century due to his numerous experiments involving identical twins separated at birth, as well as his striking discoveries regarding adoptees and biological parents. Some of his surprising discoveries have sparked debate and controversy among a number of different psychologists, but, nonetheless, have proven the personality traits among twins to be…

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    to develop. The Minnesota Twin Family Study (MTFS) was established in 1983 to test twins through longitudinal examination. The main goal was to test personality by comparing over 8,000 twins. All twin which were born in Minnesota during were invited for the study. The MTFS looked at same sex twins in pairs…

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    Twins: Born Together, Raised Apart Twins often have similar characteristics that go beyond physical appearance. What would happen if a set of twins grew up apart; would their characteristics change based on their surroundings or would their genes keep them alike? The question is, "What is it that makes us who we really are: our life experiences or our DNA?" (npr.org) Through the years, scientists have done many studies on twins to see how much DNA affects personalities. Even though most…

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    Medina, Minnesota, “a prosperous, suburban edge City” is the place I call home. Now, living in the 82,575-person college town of Bloomington, Indiana, makes my quaint little hometown of 5,221 seem irrelevant. Being away from home for the first time in my life makes me appreciate the state of Minnesota more than I ever expected; I can even say that I miss my little area of the world, Medina. Initially when presented with this project I thought I would focus on Minneapolis, a city of 400,070,…

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    because the siblings have grown up in the same environment. Measuring IQ in siblings that are twins reveal similarities in the scores recorded. It seems that the environmental elements are more significant than the genetic component. To be sure, special studies done on twins expose genetic evidence that exists in both individuals even when separated shortly following birth. Some of these characteristics include personality type, sexual orientation and even religious affiliation. Studies show if…

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    notion is the Minnesota Twin Study. This psychological study assessed 402 sets of twins, both monozygotic and dizygotic, in which some had been reared together and others apart (Grivas and Carter, 2010). Despite having been reared separately, these sets of monozygotic twins were still alike and displayed high correlations on nearly every personality trait that had been investigated. (Grivas and Carter, 2010). Furthermore, the results obtained from adoption studies also support the notion.…

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    The article ‘Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota study of Twins Reared Apart’ includes the studies of Bouchard, Lykken, McGue, Segal and Tellegen which reveals psychological differences between monozygotic twins who were nourished separately and together. This study is derived from the Minnesota study which has conducted research over monozygotic and dizygotic twins from around the world since 1979 (Bouchard, Lykken, McGue, Segal, Tellegen, 1990). The monozygotic twins are…

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