GAME THREAD: 5/11/21 Minnesota Twins @ Chicago White Sox, 7:10 PM CDT

[wsnydes]

3 minutes ago, bighat said:

I thought we had future aces Joahn Duran and Jordan Balazovich waiting to dominate?

The Braves call up 19 and 20 year old pitchers and hitters all the time and they turn into All-Stars. Meanwhile the Twins wait until their prospects are weathered old grandpas before they even let them sniff the bigs.

What's to lose by letting Duran or Balazovich get a shot here? A year of control? There is literally nobody else, like you said, except Captain Clownshoe & co.

I'm all for trying different things, but calling up guys for the sake of calling up guys isn't really a solution either.  

[Mill1634]

100ish pitches for 12 outs. yikes

[Brock Beauchamp]

9 minutes ago, h2oface said:

I live out here in LA for the last 10 years... and I watched him pitch pretty poorly and inconsistently often.

He had a 105 ERA+ with the Dodgers. 
 

Going into today, and it’s only gotten worse, he had a 79 ERA+. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

2 minutes ago, Danchat said:

I think Roy explained it aptly during the 2nd inning, his command is gone, and he was very reliant on his sequencing to fool hitters in 2020. There does not seem to be a velocity issue, at least. He was never this bad for the Dodgers.

Agreed. 

[cHawk]

3 minutes ago, Danchat said:

I think Roy explained it aptly during the 2nd inning, his command is gone, and he was very reliant on his sequencing to fool hitters in 2020. There does not seem to be a velocity issue, at least. He was never this bad for the Dodgers.

Is he fixable then?

[twinbythebay]

6 minutes ago, bighat said:

I thought we had future aces Joahn Duran and Jordan Balazovich waiting to dominate?

The Braves call up 19 and 20 year old pitchers and hitters all the time and they turn into All-Stars. Meanwhile the Twins wait until their prospects are weathered old grandpas before they even let them sniff the bigs.

What's to lose by letting Duran or Balazovich get a shot here? A year of control? There is literally nobody else, like you said, except Captain Clownshoe & co.

This was a valid criticism for the Terry Ryan era Twins, but they have been much more aggressive with promoting their prospects under the Falvine regime (see Arraez, Jeffers, Kirilloff, Larnach...)

[LaBombo]

2 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

0-0 game, fellas

 

make it happen tonite 

Ok, but you have to be the one to tell Polanco his HR didn't count...

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Damn, that looked was hard hit 

(will have to check statcast in a jiffy)

[h2oface]

Some teams get a walk and a HBP, and those are the runners that score. They make you eat those runs. But the 2021 Twins? Just place holders for futile stats.

[bighat]

A 3-ball count again right out of the gate. Lucky to get that guy to fly out.

Oh Randy Dobnak, we need ye!

[h2oface]

Smalley calling Maeda "his (Baldelli's) ace". 2 months and Maeda is an ace. Those are some optimistic standards.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

5 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Damn, that looked was hard hit 

(will have to check statcast in a jiffy)

94.6 MPH off the bat

hard hit, but not smoked 

[Aggies7]

Buxton catches that

[Mill1634]

Byron Buxton makes that catch ?

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

So let’s use Kepler in center and keep Cave as the fifth OF option?

[Rigby]

3 minutes ago, bighat said:

Oh Randy Dobnak, we need ye!

May not want to look at tonight's Saints game...

[Mill1634]

Not great

 

[Rigby]

1 minute ago, Mill1634 said:

Byron Buxton makes that catch ?

From his hospital bed...

[bighat]

Twins are tied because Luis Arraez threw out a guy at home from the outfield, and Max Kepler robbed a homer in center. Not to mention a line drive double-play turned in the IF.

Could very easily be 5-3 or worse.

But it's not. So let's give the defense credit where it's due and hope the offense can score a few more off Cease.

[Aggies7]

Just now, Mill1634 said:

Not great

 

Dobnak, never bought the hype

[LaBombo]

It's my first go with the new site, and it seems... nice.  Some of the new features are cool, and I appreciate the fact that a lot of work and thought went into it.

That being said, somebody mentioned that we should say something if we're seeing a lot of ads.  If that was a joke, I get it now, and well played.

If not, well, I'm not complaining, I'm just sharing a classic gif that seems relevant...

 

 

Don't get me wrong, though... it's cool that the changes have led to Aggies hitting the home stretch of his exotic female companion search.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Onion headline tomorrow:

Guy who never strikes out striking out with more and more frequency 

[cHawk]

Great AB Simmons

[Aggies7]

Simmons, what was that?

[h2oface]

There's a hole in the bottom of the lineup

There's a hole in the bottom of the lineup

There's a ho-ole, there's a ho-ole.....

There's a hole in the bottom of the lineup

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

4 minutes ago, bighat said:

Twins are tied because Luis Arraez threw out a guy at home from the outfield, and Max Kepler robbed a homer in center. Not to mention a line drive double-play turned in the IF.

Could very easily be 5-3 or worse.

But it's not. So let's give the defense credit where it's due and hope the offense can score a few more off Cease.

By the same token, they made a stupid fielding mistake and caught one of our flies at the fence. I’d call it even at this point? 

[Aggies7]

I’ve....seen better innings

[wsnydes]

Encouraging inning...

[Mill1634]

I know Jeffers was really bad this year, but I'd much rather see him taking these AB's that Rortvedt is getting. He is lost at the plate.

[bighat]

Twins don't even put the ball in play in the inning.

We've seen this movie before, and it's not going to get any better tonight folks.