Game Thread Twins @ Rangers 8/16/19 7:10 PM CDT

[Richie the Rally Goat]

This ump ****ing sucks

Smalley agrees

[MNT1996]

Sano doesn't deserve an error for that

[Nine of twelve]

 

Lol, ugh ... auto correct ... Have I ever asked you about your avatar? 

There's an inside story to using that painting that I won't share here.

[yarnivek1972]

I'd leave him in up to Odor, at least.

Odor is actually better vs LHP this year.

[wavedog]

Nothing’s easy

[IndianaTwin]

 

Odor and Odorizzi gotta be next to each other alphabetically in the ol’ Baseball Almanac, no???

 

John O'Donoghue, Odor, Odorizzi, Lefty O'Doul

[FlauerPauer]

 

he’s their best reliever. He shouldn’t be confined to an inning or situation

 

Look baseball for the last 50 years have had a definite closer. I feel you need to have that defined role in the bullpen. Rogers lacks guts. He's a pretty good pitcher, but he lacks the ompfh that I want in the guy who shuts the door a la Nathan.

[DiscGolfer]

He doesn't deserve an error but it was a big missed opportunity.  If they give up a run here you can point to that play

[John Kelsey]

 

Odor is actually better vs LHP this year.

 

Didn't look it there. 

[MNT1996]

nasty pitch

[Don Walcott]

Nice job, Taylor!!

[Danchat]

Whew, just got out of there. I'd use Romo in the 9th now.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Not exactly pretty but I'll take it all day long.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

... never had a chance.

 

 

#pitching

#taylorrogers

[FlauerPauer]

Big time strikeout!

[operation mindcrime]

YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Don Walcott]

Good call by Roy.

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

I was joking, too. Chill pills for everybody!

NO YOU CHILL FIRST MAN

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

John O'Donoghue, Odor, Odorizzi, Lefty O'Doul

Spaces? Hmmmmm......

[yarnivek1972]

I’m going to have a big issue if Romo doesn’t start the 9th (barring a bunch of runs here of course). If Romo can’t get the bottom 3 of the Texas lineup, what did the Twins get him for?

[John Kelsey]

It's the 101 MPH cutter guy!!!

[MNT1996]

 

Whew, just got out of there. I'd use Romo in the 9th now.

 

With 3 right handers coming up? Yeah I think Romo should get the 9th too

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Dude is going to be a stud if he keeps improving.

I don't think there's much room for anything but offensive regression in Garver.

 

But that doesn't mean he can't be an extremely good player going forward. He simply won't be historically good, like Mike Piazza's bat with Joe Mauer's glove. That's basically the best catcher in baseball history, which is asking way too much of Mitch.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Sequence of pitches, that last at bat

 

 

* chef’s kiss*

[John Kelsey]

Nice of Dick and Roy to do their research and know nothing about this kid that all of baseball has been buzzing about past few weeks. 

[FlauerPauer]

 

I don't think there's much room for anything but offensive regression in Garver.

 

But that doesn't mean he can't be an extremely good player going forward. He simply won't be historically good, like Mike Piazza's bat with Joe Mauer's glove. That's basically the best catcher in baseball history, which is asking way too much of Mitch.

 

I was speaking more towards his defense. I don't think .265/.330/.460 is out of the question which would make him a really solid catcher.

[FlauerPauer]

This could be Graterol....

[John Kelsey]

"These guys aren't as bad at hitting as my generation was so the guns must be different" -Roy Smalley, basically

[MNT1996]

Adrianza is hitting .293...

[Richie the Rally Goat]

Look baseball for the last 50 years have had a definite closer. I feel you need to have that defined role in the bullpen. Rogers lacks guts. He's a pretty good pitcher, but he lacks the ompfh that I want in the guy who shuts the door a la Nathan.

Nathan is one of the best relievers in Twins history. I wouldn’t compare Rogers to Nathan. Rogers doesn’t have enough history.

 

Rogers has more multi inning saves this year than Nathan had for his entire career. He’s got plenty of grit