Game Thread Twins @ Oakland 4/21/2021 2:37 PM CDT

[Cap'n Piranha]

 

It's the walk up song for that guy.

 

Huh.  That's an...interesting choice.

[RickOShea]

Maeda must have called out on days they did pitching drills in spring training

[Aggies7]

 

Not pitching great, but 1-1 with a 3.07 ERA coming into today doesn't say "broken". Heck if you're pitching like that on a good team you're 3-0 right now.

Let me rephrase...he looks nothing like he did last year. 

[Cap'n Piranha]

 

I can’t answer that without getting warned 

 

If one warning point is good, 2 must be better.

[Mill1634]

This is bad

[TwinsFanSince86]

 

I bite. How bad is he?

 

Couldn't think of a punch line through the tears. 

[bighat]

Jeffers stinks.

[Aggies7]

Are you bleeping kidding me? We look like an amateur club 

[stringer bell]

The team seems to have catching problems.

[MNT1996]

This team is just bad.

[cHawk]

fFfFuUuUnNnN

[TwinsFanSince86]

Rocco's probably planning on some days off and participation trophies. That'll turn things around.

[Twodogs]

Kenta is broken

He's at like 33 pitches, Rocco probably should give him some relief now. Want him fresh at the end of the year.

[Mike Sixel]

Does Jake Cave have compromising pics of Baldelli? Why do we waste our time with this guy?

Maybe ask the FO, not manager?

[RickOShea]

At this rate, the Twins couldn't even make it to Williamsport!

[TwinsFanSince86]

3-1 deficit. Feels more like its 13-1.

[Aggies7]

 

Rocco's probably planning on some days off and participation trophies. That'll turn things around.

When practice is voluntary and off days are handed out like free samples at the supermarket, this is what you get

[TwinsFanSince86]

 

He's at like 33 pitches, Rocco probably should give him some relief now. Want him fresh at the end of the year.

 

Fresh at the end of the year? For what? 

[Cap'n Piranha]

Watch this team just knuckle under, and do nothing on offense the rest of the game.  There is no heart, no fight, no fire whatsoever.  Just a bunch of schmucks collecting paychecks.

[wavedog]

How many sloppy plays can this team make?  Tired of watching the same old crap.

[Dave The Dastardly]

I hear the couch beckoning. Perhaps when I wake up I'll discover I've already been sleeping and this has only been a nightmare.

[Mike Sixel]

Watch this team just knuckle under, and do nothing on offense the rest of the game. There is no heart, no fight, no fire whatsoever. Just a bunch of schmucks collecting paychecks.

This is an unfounded, likely untrue, post.

[stringer bell]

 

Not pitching great, but 1-1 with a 3.07 ERA coming into today doesn't say "broken". Heck if you're pitching like that on a good team you're 3-0 right now.

Last year, Maeda's WHIP was under 1. This year in three starts, it was 1.70, I think that says more about his effectiveness than the ERA. 

[Twodogs]

Fresh at the end of the year? For what?

So he can tutor the September call ups.

[wavedog]

That was a Passed Ball in my book - Jeffers should have blocked it

[TwinsFanSince86]

Hindsight's 20-20 - and, when they made the decision to let Eddie walk, I wasn't too upset. But after seeing Jake Cave and Kyle Garlick and just the overall malaise of this group, I think the front office made a mistake. 

[bighat]

 

Last year, Maeda's WHIP was under 1. This year in three starts, it was 1.70, I think that says more about his effectiveness than the ERA. 

Last year was also probably an outlier. The guy was unhittable, if Bieber didn't emerge into Randy Johnson, Maeda would have won the Cy Young going away.

 

I don't think regressing a bit from a 2nd place Cy Young finish makes Kenta a problem for this team. It shouldn't.

 

Reminds me of when people started blaming last night's loss on Berrios. That's just nonsense.

[cHawk]

Ayy Arraez

[MNT1996]

 

Hindsight's 20-20 - and, when they made the decision to let Eddie walk, I wasn't too upset. But after seeing Jake Cave and Kyle Garlick and just the overall malaise of this group, I think the front office made a mistake. 

 

Eddie would not have made this team significantly better for the amount of money he was asking

[wavedog]

It is a joy to watch an Arraez at-bat - what a battler