Twins 14, Athletics 4: Twins Crush Oakland, Secure Series Win

[dex8425]

13 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

Sorted by fWAR on FanGraphs. Fun fact, 14 catchers are hitting above .250 and only 1 hitting above .300 this season. 

Where is Yasmani Grandal? How much is CWS paying him again? Interesting that Jeffers is higher than Sanchez and both are higher than Garver. 

[roger]

2 hours ago, mikelink45 said:

This morning I have some internet and some time - I am on Martha's Vineyard and heading to Newport Rhode Island.  But I feel I let Vanimal46 down because of my short but sincere post so here is a longer more detailed post.

It was the perfect team for Sonny Gray to start against - their team BA going in was 199 and he did what was expected of him and most important went 6 innings - let's make it 7 next time.  12 hits for the A's from our 4 pitchers is too much, but that is the only negative I can find.

Arraez did what we all love and is not batting 323 after 3 hits in 5 ABs.  Love his approach.

Welcome back Correa - the rest seemed to do you well, although Lewis might have also given you some incentive to get the bat going.

Two stolen bases - hallelujah small ball still makes sense. 

Celestino has really found his groove and I am really pleased for him. 

Miranda is lost - I would like to ask the obvious, why Lewis and not Miranda, but I won't - you didn't read it here.

That's it - make sure Vanimal46 knows I wrote this. 

Am jealous, Mike.  Have never been to the Vineyard, but love Newport.  Enjoy!

Agree with everything you said, including omitting the second last comment...enough has been said.

[jorgenswest]

21 minutes ago, dex8425 said:

Where is Yasmani Grandal? How much is CWS paying him again? Interesting that Jeffers is higher than Sanchez and both are higher than Garver. 

It is sorted by fWAR which gives a negative defensive run value for time spent at DH. Sanchez’ actual defense at C has been fine with a slightly positive framing number. The defense runs part of his WAR takes a hit because of time at DH. I wouldn’t have sorted by fWAR when trying to compare catchers.

[USAFChief]

11 minutes ago, jorgenswest said:

It is sorted by fWAR which gives a negative defensive run value for time spent at DH. Sanchez’ actual defense at C has been fine with a slightly positive framing number. The defense runs part of his WAR takes a hit because of time at DH. I wouldn’t have sorted by fWAR when trying to compare catchers.

I wouldn't use fWAR to compare anything. 

[Alex Schieferdecker]

Twins hit so many times to the opposite field I started to wonder if it was something they have been working on.

[Squirrel]

4 minutes ago, Alex Schieferdecker said:

Twins hit so many times to the opposite field I started to wonder if it was something they have been working on.

Yeah. Just Kepler alone this year compared to last year. Wonder if they’ve finally found a replacement for Rowson? (Wait, we do have a new hitting coach this year, yes?)

[TwinsDr2021]

The A's are not a good team and the Twins did exactly what they needed to do. That is awesome!

They did the same against the Cleveland. 4 - 2 is a good start to a very important part of the schedule.

Do the same the next two series 2/3, and then 5/6 of 9 to end the month.

[mikelink45]

3 hours ago, Squirrel said:

Okay, I’m LOL’ing this comment. Seriously? You think how Lewis did had any effect on Correa? Dude, come on. Correa was heating way up when he was hit by a pitch. Correa is twice (and probably a lot more) the SS than Lewis will ever be … that’s just how good Correa is. And Correa has been encouraging to and cheering on Lewis this whole time.

If anyone on the team could/would be affected on how well Lewis did, it would be Urshela, Miranda or Gordon, and maybe Kirilloff, too. Correa needs no incentive as there is absolutely no worry about him being supplanted by Lewis as long as he remains a Twin, whether that’s 1 year (or, wishful thinking) 3 years and beyond. The others I mentioned, that could happen this year one way or another

No I am not serious except to welcome him back!