Game Thread Twins vs Evil Empire June 9, 2021 7:10 CDT In A Galaxy Way Too Close To Home

[LaBombo]

8 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

I can’t believe the randy dobnak/Aaron judge matchup hasn’t gone our way 

Okay, sure, Judge got the better of him this time... and yeah, maybe one or two other times.  But that still doesn't make it alright for Judge to approach Dobnak before the game and ask him to be his pitcher for the AS Home Run Derby.

[USAFChief]

I'm about as big a Twins fan as you're likely to find. But there are limits to what I'll watch. Dobnak is on the wrong side of that limit line. 

 

 

[Aggies7]

5 years, $9.25 million

 

[wsnydes]

2 minutes ago, Cap'n Piranha said:

Like Eugene O'Neill long?

(tip of the cap to Tony Stark)

O'Neill is actually a fairly good reference.  I've had better days.

This game isn't helping...

... though I fully expected that it wouldn't.

[SanoMustGo]

Just now, LaBombo said:

Okay, sure, Judge got the better of him this time... and yeah, maybe one or two other times.  But that still doesn't make it alright for Judge to approach Dobnak before the game and ask him to be his pitcher for the AS Home Run Derby.

Well, Dobnak beat out stalwarts like Judge's Mom and Grandmother.

[Irishman]

24 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

I literally cannot believe we extended dobnak. Just appalling 

Real bad signing!   FO must be dumbest. If I am GM, I would not extend Dobnak.    

[wsnydes]

2 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

I'm about as big a Twins fan as you're likely to find. But there are limits to what I'll watch. Dobnak is on the wrong side of that limit line. 

 

 

I'm keeping score at home. That makes 3/5 of the rotation that is on the wrong side of that line, correct?

[Dave The Dastardly]

Okay. Let's say you can cut one and only one of the following Twins pitchers:

Colome, Shoemaker, Happ, or Dobnak. Who goes and who stays?

[SanoMustGo]

1 minute ago, Irishman said:

Real bad signing!   FO must be dumbest. If I am GM, I would not extend Dobnak.    

Well, this FO has a fine track record with pitchers.

[Irishman]

11 minutes ago, SanoMustGo said:

Just like I said with Shoemaker's last start, leave Dobnak in there for at least 4 or 5 innings. 

Dobnak and Shoemaker must be long lost twin brothers.

[wsnydes]

1 minute ago, Dave The Dastardly said:

Okay. Let's say you can cut one and only one of the following Twins pitchers:

Colome, Shoemaker, Happ, or Dobnak. Who goes and who stays?

The guy that signed them goes.

I'll live in that vacuum for a bit.

[SanoMustGo]

Dobnak and Shoemaker

They were siamese twins.  They were separated, and they each got 1/2 right arm.

[wsnydes]

Hip hip!!

[BlackducktoSeattleDennis]

Greetings from the Emerald City....

Can someone please post pitching ERAs with Starting Catchers????

Dobnak and others for whatever reason do not match up well with some Catchers behind the plate (this is a trend that I have noticed goes back the past couple of years). In the past our aces always had their special catcher often only on the team for them.....

Dobnak and Jeffers and other batteries seems to be an awful matchup often related to a couple of pitches I have noticed from heatmaps and I hope other stat people have noticed the same....

[Aggies7]

2 minutes ago, Dave The Dastardly said:

Okay. Let's say you can cut one and only one of the following Twins pitchers:

Colome, Shoemaker, Happ, or Dobnak. Who goes and who stays?

Shoemaker because he’s older and seemingly done. Dobnak could be used in long long relief when we’re down by 6+, which is going to happen a lot going forward 

[Aggies7]

Donaldson, less talk, more production

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Donaldson sure showed him.

[wsnydes]

I'm guessing that Donaldson was hoping for a better showing this evening.

[Dave The Dastardly]

2 minutes ago, wsnydes said:

I'm guessing that Donaldson was hoping for a better showing this evening.

We all were.

[BlackducktoSeattleDennis]

I watch statcast, etc. seems our catchers are not ready to mentally call games at times..... And our fundamentals have gone downhill as well.....

 

[Aggies7]

3 minutes ago, BlackducktoSeattleDennis said:

I watch statcast, etc. seems our catchers are not ready to mentally call games at times..... And our fundamentals have gone downhill as well.....

 

Or ya know, the twins pitchers could not all be terrible 

[Game7-91]

24 minutes ago, Dave The Dastardly said:

Pitching coach: What happened?

Dobnak: I threw the ball in there and he hit the Sh*t out of it!

PC: Try to avoid that.

Dobber: Good advice. You need a ride home after the game?

"If Dobby does it wrong Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower Harry Potter."

[Game7-91]

21 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

5 years, $9.25 million

 

It's known as "Forward Thinking"

[BlackducktoSeattleDennis]

Their is no doubt that the ball has been doctored this year and past years as well. The ball is breaking more than is possible based on my physics classes in UG/grad school.....

You can exert some serious spin if your willing to have a short career but right now I believe in today's game 300 game and even 250 game winners will become rare....

Maddux, Glavine, and the rest would never last in today's game (even Moyer the master of the changeup would have trouble).....

[BlackducktoSeattleDennis]

I have had to stomach the mariners for a long time so I know bad baseball.....

 

[Aggies7]

Third home run allowed on an 0-2 pitch. Third.

[Vanimal46]

I’m trying to see the stats for Dobnak’s ‘revamped’ slider that sparked the extension... I’m not a Baseball Savant savant, and would appreciate someone that is to satisfy my curiosity. 

[SanoMustGo]

make him finish this inning

 

[LaBombo]

8 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

I can’t believe the randy dobnak/Aaron judge matchup hasn’t gone our way 

Okay, sure, Judge got the better of him this time... and yeah, maybe one or two other times.  But that still doesn't make it alright for Judge to approach Dobnak before the game and ask him to be his pitcher for the AS Home Run Derby.

[Longdistancetwins]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

Third home run allowed on an 0-2 pitch. Third.

Yikes, really?  I got a phone call and have been spared much of this.  Now I’m off the phone and have to decide whether to continue listening.  But I don’t think I can listen to Sterling and Waldman at this point (but I agree that they are not homers as much as claimed).