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Game Thread: Twins vs. Phillies, 12:10 pm CT, Thursday 6/23/2016

Shane Wahl

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I must say the game thread intros have maintained a much higher level of quality than the team on the field has.

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This make sense.  The MLB probably thought offering a game with two teams who might potentially meet again in October for the ring would entice new subscribers.

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This game.   http://i.imgur.com/qi9zWa2.gif

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Grossman can DH some, Mauer can DH some sliding Kepler to 1st.  I think I'm on board with the people who say Buxton's proven he can hit Triple A, so he just needs to keep learning here.  I guess Park hasn't proven he can hit AAA

Buxton only has 129 ABs at AAA this year & 59 ABs at AAA last year. I don't think 188 ABs is enough to say that he has proven that he can hit AAA. He still strikes out too much & had a BABIP around .400 at AAA. That level of BABIP doesn't seem sustainable.

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Yikes. Seems as if two players that played today won't be around much longer. Or shouldn't be anyway.

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On the replay, it just looks like the ball was just out of his reach to me.  Not sure the route mattered since he was still there in time.  I'm also watching that on my phone, so there is that.

That's my question too. I am watching on my phone so the replay is small.

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100% agree, but it seems like Buxton has missed a number of deep plays that I would have expected him to make based on the reputation that precedes him. How is he rated by the defensive metrics?

Ball and glove hit wall at same time but ball was a couple inches higher than glove at least the way I saw it.

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*logs on to Twins Daily*

*sees that a game is going on right now*

 

*checks game thread, anticipating 12 pages of comedy relief*

instead.... 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_h4tLF5wFv0Q/TEDSzDAMA9I/AAAAAAAAHNA/-gaw7NFYtLw/s1600/tumbleweed01.jpg

Welcome the day-game threads. Sadly, the only kind I can really participate in.

 

It's almost like some people are working. Lame.

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100% agree, but it seems like Buxton has missed a number of deep plays that I would have expected him to make based on the reputation that precedes him. How is he rated by the defensive metrics?

I prefer DRS, especially this early (but really always).  He has 3 DRS, which if extrapolated would put him top 5 if not higher.  The CFs with more have way more innings.

 

He's also made 21 plays Outside of zone in only 293 innings this year which, if extrapolated, would put him top 5.

 

I guess it depends on what you prefer more

 

P.S., his actual UZR is -1.4.  That -6.2 UZR quoted earlier is actually his UZR/150.  UZR/150 is only good to use at the end of the year when comparing players for mostly full seasons since some players fall a bit shorter on innings played than others.  UZR/150 means nothing at this point.

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Kevin Jepsen has made a huge impact this season. Of the wrong kind. 

I hated the trade when it was made, because of whom we gave up.

 

I never imagined I would come to hate it with the burning heat of a thousand suns because of whom we got, though.

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Aggies7

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Welp, we all know how it feels to lose 9 games in a row, so a small part of me is ok with this. We won the series when we easily could have lost all 3

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I hated the trade when it was made, because of whom we gave up.

 

I never imagined I would come to hate it with the burning heat of a thousand suns because of whom we got, though.

Who did we trade again?

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Buxton only has 129 ABs at AAA this year & 59 ABs at AAA last year. I don't think 188 ABs is enough to say that he has proven that he can hit AAA. He still strikes out too much & had a BABIP around .400 at AAA. That level of BABIP doesn't seem sustainable.

I'd be fine with that too.  More importantly though:  Kevin Jepsen DFA

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