Game Thread: Twins vs Red Sox, 6/18/19, 7:10 PM

[Aggies7]

Hate watching Parker,

 

I’d rather watch this Parker to be honest

[Graig Nettles]

One bad sign is that other teams have NO fear of Sano. The Red Sox pitched around Keplar to get to him, with great success. They will get nothing of value in trading him now, meaning they'll hold on to him way too long. 

[drock2190]

Parker leaves it over the middle of the plate, got lucky

[Aggies7]

One bad sign is that other teams have NO fear of Sano. The Red Sox pitched around Keplar to get to him, with great success. They will get nothing of value in trading him now, meaning they'll hold on to him way too long.

 

Didn’t a team recently pitch around Adrianza to face sano? Or was it that they pitched to sano with a base open because Adrianza was on deck?

[Squirrel]

 

Uh, oh, Duffey...

Oh oh, Parker

[Aggies7]

Jack just misspoke and called Brock Holt, “Guac Holt”

[nicksaviking]

The last few games it seems like the HPU's have been going off of intent instead of where the bat and wrists end up, and taking personal affront at the desire for an appeal.

Well one of those was Angel Hernandez, so yeah, it will definitely skew that way.

[David HK]

 

Sano' K% is up to 40% right now. Incredible.

That's 4 K's tonight.

 

I wonder if they still have the sombrero in the clubhouse, or did I hear that Gladden destroyed it that one time?

[70charger]

 

I thought he swung, too.

 

It's not just as easy as "swing or don't." It goes back to pitch recognition. He recognizes, too late, the ball won't be a strike. 

 

Oh, I fully agree that the issue isn't whether or not he swings, in a vacuum. Pitch recognition is the ultimate problem, and it manifests itself as a way, way too many terrible checked swings. My personal thought on the matter is that there is no way he is doing all he can to understand the pitcher's tendencies and strategies, or his own situation within the at bat. And how do you change that without addressing the checked swings?

[Aggies7]

Great play

[LaBombo]

 

Hate watching Parker, 

 

The comma at the end of that makes it look a little like you were just certain that you were going to come up with something good to say about him to balance it out, but finally realized it just wasn't gonna happen. 

Edited June 19, 2019 by LaBombo

[nicksaviking]

Polsnco at short is growing on me.

[USAFChief]

 

Didn’t a team recently pitch around Adrianza to face sano? Or was it that they pitched to sano with a base open because Adrianza was on deck?

KC intentionally walked Adrianza with one out to fill the bases, with Schoop due up. Schoop grounded into a force out, Kepler flied out to end the inning.

[nicksaviking]

The comma at the end of that makes it look a little like you were just certain that you were going to come up with something good to say about him to balance it out, but realized it just wasn't gonna happen.

 

I thought it might have been followed by something he feared would get him banned from the site.

[Aggies7]

KC intentionally walked Adrianza with one out to fill the bases, with Schoop due up. Schoop grounded into a force out, Kepler flied out to end the inning.

No, no, this was several weeks back. I said recently but it was weeks

[David HK]

 

The comma at the end of that makes it look a little like you were just certain that you were going to come up with something good to say about him to balance it out, but realized it just wasn't gonna happen. 

Heh...

 

I wish I weren't at work right now, that comment deserves to be accompanied by a shot of Old Overholt, there, Buttermaker.

[a-wan]

KC intentionally walked Adrianza with one out to fill the bases, with Schoop due up. Schoop grounded into a force out, Kepler flied out to end the inning.

That ginkgo is really helping with the memory.

[USAFChief]

Please don't let Christian Vasquez beat us.

[LaBombo]

 

That's 4 K's tonight.

 

I wonder if they still have the sombrero in the clubhouse, or did I hear that Gladden destroyed it that one time?

 

In any multiple choice Twins trivia test, I'm gonna go with

 

C. Gladden destroyed it that one time.

 

without even reading the question.

 

 

[Jham]

Is Fernando rodney available for league min?

[USAFChief]

 

No, no, this was several weeks back. I said recently but it was weeks

He has only 1 intentional walk this year.

 

Which is way above the pace you'd expect, but still, only the one IBB.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Oh, I fully agree that the issue isn't whether or not he swings, in a vacuum. Pitch recognition is the ultimate problem, and it manifests itself as a way, way too many terrible checked swings. My personal thought on the matter is that there is no way he is doing all he can to understand the pitcher's tendencies and strategies, or his own situation within the at bat. And how do you change that without addressing the checked swings?

Agree, he may always be this way. He’s young (but not that young anymore) and I’m guessing he would have figured it out by now. He can still be a very good player and streaky in the good way, too.

[Jham]

I feel like Blaine parker is all the FRE with none of the entertainment value.

Edited June 19, 2019 by Jham

[LaBombo]

 

Polsnco at short is growing on me.

 

You can try a little apple vinegar on that if you don't have any Compound W handy.

[Aggies7]

I feel like Blaine parker is all three FRE with none of the entertainment value.

Or arrow shooting

[Squirrel]

Anyone have any fingernails left?

[USAFChief]

 

That ginkgo is really helping with the memory.

Memory like an elephant.

 

@$$ like one, too.

[operation mindcrime]

Thank God!!!!!

[David HK]

Achhhh... Parker....

 

He just jogged my memory. I was catching one time, decades gone by, and probably being a little too gymnastic in my stance on the low ones- and the Ump said, "Catcher, you're jumping around like a fart in a box. Makes it tougher to call those pitches. Calm down, son."

 

A fart in a box.

 

That's my new Parker image.

Edited June 19, 2019 by David HK

[a-wan]

Anyone have any fingernails left?

I found it helps to stay young by moving on to my toenails.