Game Thread: Twins vs. Angels 5/14/19, 6:40pm CST

[MNT1996]

Can we clone Rodgers like 5 times please?

[70charger]

 

 

 

"WooOOoo, look at meeee, I'm 70charger and I grew up somewhere besides Stearns County!"

 

I ...I did not.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Flip Cron and Schoop in the lineup and get this clown out of the 5 spot.

That “clown” has an .800 OPS and has been absolutely mashing for the past couple of weeks.

 

I swear to god, it’s like this entire game thread is gaslighting me.

[Aggies7]

Lame hit

[twins_89]

 

Flip Cron and Schoop in the lineup and get this clown out of the 5 spot.

 

I'm expecting Sano to take over the 5 spot in the order at some point in the next week.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Twins clutch hitting has been pretty awful this home-stand. In the 6 games (including tonight) the Twins are hitting 9-47 (.191) with RISP.

It has been extraordinarily ugly, that’s for sure.

[Brock Beauchamp]

He's on pace for 36 home runs. That's not average. His OPS is about .800, which is not great, but it's certainly above average.

Thank you for remaining sane.

[LVTwinsfan]

He literally pitched an entire season of 120 ERA+ baseball last season. Better than Berrios.

#4 starter in this rotation, that’s not horrible, not great either

[LaBombo]

 

Gibson is the same as he always has been , rare flashes of brilliance that keeps us all hoping, he’ll never be anything more, would have shown up by now

 

He's never gonna live up to the front end starter hopes that the Twins had for him when they took him in the first, but if he can post another 2.8 WAR season again this year... at the very least, he won't be one of the guys who's holding the team back from contending. That's several steps up from when he was bordering on being left for dead after the arm problems.

Edited May 15, 2019 by LaBombo

[jtkoupal]

Major tip of the cap to Rogers for going out there tonight after going 2 innings yesterday. He looked gassed out there. Should have had a 1-2-3 inning, but the Angels just keep catching breaks...

[70charger]

 

That “clown” has an .800 OPS and has been absolutely mashing for the past couple of weeks.

I swear to god, it’s like this entire game thread is gaslighting me.

 

Back to back losses seem to do that. The worst is bad game during a losing streak.

 

I think you could capture some interesting qualitative information on how people react to noise over signal in the short term just by watching these game threads. Any sociologists/Talebian statheads/behavioral economists/whatever looking for a mediocre thesis topic?

[Aggies7]

Ffs with the 0-2 hits allowed

[Nine of twelve]

The Angels are paying Pujols $28M this year. And $29M next year. And $30M in 2021. And they owe him an additional $10M personal services contract after that.

[Brock Beauchamp]

#4 starter in this rotation, that’s not horrible, not great either

So Berrios is the fifth starter?

 

Again, I’m not sure why it’s so hard to understand that Gibson has been good for something like 300+ innings now.

[Aggies7]

Wow

[Mill1634]

BUXTON!!!!

[70charger]

Helluva throw!

[70charger]

Oh god, not Garver...

[Aggies7]

****

[Nine of twelve]

That was great, but that doesn't look good.

[LaBombo]

Buxton reminding us he's also got a pretty good arm...

 

And humble too, since he could have probably run the ball to home plate and recorded the out himself.

Edited May 15, 2019 by LaBombo

[Brock Beauchamp]

He's never gonna live up to the front end starter hopes that the Twins had for him when they took him in the first, but if he can post another 2.8 WAR season again this year... at the very least, he won't be one of the guys who's holding the team back from contending. That's several steps up from when he was bordering on being left for dead after the arm problems.

The thing is that no one ever profiled him as an ace except beleaguered Twins fans. He was a first round steal at the back of the round because he broke his arm.

 

But he never profiled as an ace. Never. He’s basically hitting his projected ceiling right now; a very good starting pitcher, a 2 or 3 depending on year.

[Aggies7]

Someone reminded the sports gods that the team is indeed from MN and the good things couldn’t possibly continue unabated

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

Back to back losses seem to do that. The worst is bad game during a losing streak.

 

I think you could capture some interesting qualitative information on how people react to noise over signal in the short term just by watching these game threads. Any sociologists/Talebian statheads/behavioral economists/whatever looking for a mediocre thesis topic?

That flew over my head but I agree with you.

[Aggies7]

A weak 45 footer and an 0-2 hit led to the garver injury. Baseball stinks sometimes

[Aggies7]

Like do teams still fine pitchers for 0-2 hits? I’ve seen 3 in the last 3 innings

[Aggies7]

Is the shine off the shell of la tortuga?

[LaBombo]

 

But he never profiled as an ace. Never. He’s basically hitting his projected ceiling right now; a very good starting pitcher, a 2 or 3 depending on year.

 

And that's why I said "front end starter" instead of "ace", the same phrase that, if memory serves, Deron Johnson used when we drafted Gibson. It didn't play well with some fans.

Edited May 15, 2019 by LaBombo

[70charger]

 

That flew over my head but I agree with you.

 

Well that's what matters, right?

[mrtwinsfan]

a BB BY B.B.