GAME THREAD: 5/14/21 Minnesota Twins vs Oakland A's, 7:10 PM CDT

[AceWrigley]

4 minutes ago, operation mindcrime said:

Where's T.C. Bear? I haven't seen him lately. I wonder if he killed himself?

Dropped a chalupa down the inside of his suit.

[Aggies7]

Just now, LaBombo said:

Nothing that drastic; just ducked out to finish off the blowout flask that makes the last couple innings go by a little faster/easier.

 

[HokieRif]

more curveballs like that, please

 

[HokieRif]

7 minutes ago, operation mindcrime said:

Where's T.C. Bear? I haven't seen him lately. I wonder if he killed himself?

Not T.C., but I imagine he's up to something pretty close to this

[AceWrigley]

The over the river and through the woods curve ball from Thielbar.

[MMMordabito]

Simmons and Cruz might be on Oakland's radar come July.

[Danchat]

Thielbar leads the pen in strikeouts, but I'm kinda done with him. 18 hits and 5 walks given up in 14 innings pitched so far. 

[AceWrigley]

This game has been so much fun I think I'll go clean the cat boxes after.

[Heinie Manush]

CBA experts. Sano has 5.06 years service time. I believe that he can be sent to the minors.   He’d have to pass through waivers which he would.  Am I correct?  Seems as if it would be the last chance. 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

9 minutes ago, LaBombo said:

 

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[Dan Engebretson]

It looks like the bullpen is unlikely to allow any inherited runners to score tonight.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

17 minutes ago, AceWrigley said:

Actually no, though that's where we were trying to go with it. Velo is measured off the bat so there really isn't any negative Velo.

Got it. So a foul would be a > 90 launch angle. Or <-90...

(Obviously not all fouls are such, but all such are fouls)

[AceWrigley]

2 minutes ago, Dan Engebretson said:

It looks like the bullpen is unlikely to allow any inherited runners to score tonight.

It's a miracle!

[LaBombo]

3 minutes ago, Dan Engebretson said:

It looks like the bullpen is unlikely to allow any inherited runners to score tonight.

No need to allow inherited runs to score when Shoemaker allowed so many outherited ones.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

26 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Once more into the batter's box!

Ohright. Home team. This is our chance to get bac kinto it.

[Aggies7]

I’m sorry, Roy, it is too late for us

[Mill1634]

Yennier Cano with another scoreless outing for the AA ballclub. 27 years old signed just a few years ago. 1.55 ERA, 6.2 IP, 12 K's. Get him up. Now. 

[AceWrigley]

So the runs that score from the dudes you put on base but the relief pitcher dinkus after you allowed to score, are those outherited runs?

[Aggies7]

Just now, Mill1634 said:

Yennier Cano with another scoreless outing for the AA ballclub. 27 years old signed just a few years ago. 1.55 ERA, 6.2 IP, 12 K's. Get him up. Now. 

Bring him up before he gets his AARP card

[AceWrigley]

oh yea, the 2-out base runner.

[Game7-91]

And now for thinking ahead. The kid from Wi might go #1 next year:

1. Connor Prielipp - LHP

 

 

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Bio: Height: 2-Jun Weight: 170 lbs Hits/Throws: L-L Hometown: Tomah, Wisconsin School: Alabama

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After dazzling in the COVID-shortened 2020 season, Prielipp enters 2021 as a must-watch arm for the 2022 class. He's added 25 pounds of muscle during quarantine, which has led to FB velocity at 93-96 MPH and has topped out at 97 this fall with command. His slider is firm and sat 88-90 MPH with late break and there's a developing change-up in the mid-80's that has promise. He's likely to be the first arm off the board in 2022.

 

[Aggies7]

“Id like to see Simmons get on base here”

 

yeah, Roy, it’s kinda important 

[Aggies7]

I’m looking forward to the 2027 twins. That’ll be the team!

[AceWrigley]

fizzle.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

That's the way it goes...

 

But every once in a while, it goes the other way too.

[LaBombo]

7 minutes ago, AceWrigley said:

So the runs that score from the dudes you put on base but the relief pitcher dinkus after you allowed to score, are those outherited runs?

Outheritance = urban dictionary for money a dad blows on hookers and booze instead of passing down to kids.

In baseball, it means to push your own baserunners allowed across the plate instead of handing them down to the reliever.

In a sentence:  'Shoemaker's outheritance was very generous tonight.'

But don't feel the least it bad about not knowing the baseball usage, since I just invented it 10 minutes ago.

[AceWrigley]

1 minute ago, LaBombo said:

Outheritance = urban dictionary for money a dad blows on hookers and booze instead of passing down to kids.

In baseball, it means to push your own baserunners allowed across the plate instead of handing them down to the reliever.

Shoemaker's outheritance was excellent tonight.

Somehow the urban dictionary definition seems most appropriate at the moment.

[HokieRif]

Really beginning to wonder the extent of the clubhouse presence guys like Rosario and May were providing.  Those two constants for the last few years seem to be a big gaping whole right now with the outfield being a makeshift effort every night, and the bullpen a grotesque disaster.

[Vanimal46]

I like this idea. What better time than now?

[Game7-91]

2 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

I’m looking forward to the 2027 twins. That’ll be the team!

Only 2,178 days to May 1, 2027, grabbing a beer and few bags of popcorn and waiting on the next crop of studs to graduate from Twins Academy......