Article: Game Thread: Twins @ Rays, 8/5 @ 6:10pm CT

[Riverbrian]

I'm satisfied with a Dozier who can go the other way. I'm gonna be nice to him for awhile. 

[jimmer]

Sano strikes out.  Who would have guessed it?  18 Ks in the last 9 games.  That includes today and the game is only in the 3rd Inning.

Edited August 6, 2016 by jimmer

[big dog]

Kepler and Sano haven't looked any better than Buxton tonight.  We gotta get this Snell guy.  Somehow.

[Aggies7]

Remember the other day when it was deemed preposterous that sano take a trip to Rochester?

[LaBombo]

 

BA's this year:

Buxton: .195
Hicks: .190
Span: .265

Just think how bad they'd be if they weren't all products of one of the top farm systems in baseball...

[Aggies7]

Just think how bad they'd be if they weren't all products of one of the top farm systems in baseball...

I love denard. Wish we still had him. I'm a bit partial though. He has the same premature goatee grayness that I do.

[ashbury]

Remember the other day when it was deemed preposterous that sano take a trip to Rochester?

I remember. Those were good times.

[jimbo92107]

Well, that's how you pitch Miguel Sano: 

 

1. Low and outside, swinging strike. Now Sano feels like an idiot early. He's gonna be careful not to - 

2. Called strike, middle in. 

- to look like a fool again. Whoops, probably should have swung at that one. This time...

3. Swinging strike three, inside in the dirt.

 

Rinse and repeat, over and over. 

 

This is the main reason Sano needs to spend a few weeks in Rochester. Pitchers have discovered a sequence to get him out. Outside low, inside high, inside low in the dirt. He's really a sucker for the low inside dirt pitch with 2 strikes.

[Aggies7]

I love this umpire. Anything remotely close on strike 2 you'd better swing. He has the Howard dean scream

[LaBombo]

 

I love denard. Wish we still had him. I'm a bit partial though. He has the same premature goatee grayness that I do.

Works for me. Part of the reason I liked Chuck Knoblauch was because he has a square head like mine which can be perfectly replicated with Legos.

 

Edit: And not one of those wussy Lego kits the kids have now that are basically snap together model kits. I'm talking about the generic Legos that you could make into anything at long as it was mostly square.

Edited August 6, 2016 by LaBombo

[jimmer]

Have to love Sano' s consistency in Ks.  

 

Last year, 335 PA, 119 K.

This year, 331 PA, 115 Ks

 

[ashbury]

This is the main reason Sano needs to spend a few weeks in Rochester. Pitchers have discovered a sequence to get him out. Outside low, inside high, inside low in the dirt. He's really a sucker for the low inside dirt pitch with 2 strikes.

Not sure the reasoning. AAA pitchers won't throw him sequences like this, in which case he doesn't get to practice against what's wrong? Or, they will, in which case how is this different than working on it against MLB pitchers?

[HitInAPinch]

 

Have to love Sano' s consistency in Ks.  

 

Last year, 335 PA, 119 K.

This year, 331 PA, 115 Ks

that's what practice is for:  consistency.

 

wait a sec.......

[Aggies7]

Haha a Scott baker sighting in that clip from 2010

[Riverbrian]

Sano looks like Rochester might do him good but I'm absolutely against it because...

 

 

I own him in my keeper league and I don't want to burn that roster spot... because I'm keeping him. 

 

So I'd appreciate it if the Twins did something for me. 

[Riverbrian]

 

Works for me. Part of the reason I liked Chuck Knoblauch was because he has a square head like mine which can be perfectly replicated with Legos.

I haven't read all the posts but this one has to be a candidate for post of the night. 

[Aggies7]

Sano looks like Rochester might do him good but I'm absolutely against it because...

 

 

I own him in my keeper league and I don't want to burn that roster spot... because I'm keeping him. 

 

So I'd appreciate it if the Twins did something for me.

 

What have you ever done for them that they should grant your request?

[D. Hocking]

 

Sano looks like Rochester might do him good but I'm absolutely against it because...

 

 

I own him in my keeper league and I don't want to burn that roster spot... because I'm keeping him. 

 

So I'd appreciate it if the Twins did something for me. 

 

Didn't Mauer start hitting again once you dropped him from your team?

 

I think you know what you have to do regarding Sano.  

[ScrapTheNickname]

Does anyone know why Evan Longoria has decided to play his career out in Tampa F'ing Bay?

[jimmer]

 

I haven't read all the posts but this one has to be a candidate for post of the night. 

There's a guy I work with whose top of the head is almost exactly flat.  It's freaky.

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

DOZIER TRIPLE !!

http://66.media.tumblr.com/469ceb2e40f1d739407b55815816b5a0/tumblr_ng8cohM9eA1qabj53o3_400.gif

Ah!

[jimbo92107]

Not sure the reasoning. AAA pitchers won't throw him sequences like this, in which case he doesn't get to practice against what's wrong? Or, they will, in which case how is this different than working on it against MLB pitchers?

Sano clearly is overmatched in most of his AB's right now. He's also been playing lousy third base. A few weeks in Rochester might clear up both of those problems. 

 

I'm not saying he will face mlb level pitching in AAA. Part of his getting better will be discussing his hitting plan with different coaches, and then getting his confidence back by smashing some baseballs. The main difference is that the AAA games don't count against the Twins W/L record. That takes some pressure off Sano, which hopefully will allow him to implement the changes.

[Monkeypaws]

• Haven't read the 6 pages to this point, but wow what a dismal atmosphere in that stadium. I saw an update while watching the MLB free game of the day, a day game, and it was a night game in TB. Grim, grisly, just awful.

Thank the powers that be for Target Field. I remember rare forays to the Metronome on beautiful May evenings and just hating the whole experience.

[ashbury]

I haven't read all the posts but this one has to be a candidate for post of the night. 

At the end of the season we need to do a "Guess What Possible Context On Earth" contest on game thread quotes like that one.

[Aggies7]

There's a guy I work with whose top of the head is almost exactly flat.  It's freaky.

[Riverbrian]

 

What have you ever done for them that they should grant your request?

 

Back in 1987... I was walking out of the players entrance at the Metrodome in the afternoon before a night game and I wasn't watching where I was going and I collided with Steve Buechele of the Rangers who was coming in and I knocked him flat to the ground. 

 

I didn't injure him but he went 0-4 that night. So Yeah... The Twins still owe me. 

[Aggies7]

Back in 1987... I was walking out of the players entrance at the Metrodome in the afternoon before a night game and I wasn't watching where I was going and I collided with Steve Buechele of the Rangers who was coming in and I knocked him flat to the ground. 

 

I didn't injure him but he went 0-4 that night. So Yeah... The Twins still owe me.

 

I hope this is true

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

Just think how bad they'd be if they weren't all products of one of the top farm systems in baseball...

Ben Revere is hitting .213.

[USAFChief]

 

At the end of the season we need to do a "Guess What Possible Context On Earth" contest on game thread quotes like that one.

OOOOHHHHH!  Can I be the one to guess on the context of the flat head reference?

[ScrapTheNickname]

Grossman would have had that.