Gleeman & The Geek, Ep 583: First Place, but....

[John Bonnes]

Aaron and John discuss how the Twins can "Find a Reliever", Byron Buxton's knee injury, and more about the "drunken bar fight" series versus Cleveland. You can listen by downloading us from iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio or find it at GleemanAndTheGeek.com. Or just click this link. 

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[Yawn Gardenhose]

The flaw of the "it's the front office's fault for giving Baldelli a bad bullpen" argument is that Baldelli, through his philosophy, has made the bullpen worse that it already is by overtaxing it. By choosing to have your starters go 4 innings in half of the games, by choosing to pull a cruising Bundy after 60 pitches last night - these unforced decisions create unneeded strain on an already strained bullpen. Now, the front office and Baldelli are simpatico in this philosophy - overthinking pitching staffs and baseball in general are in Falvey, Levine, Baldelli, and Johnson's DNA - so it's maybe a moot point after all. But the mere idea of letting Baldelli getting any extra benefit of the doubt in this argument is a flawed one. He's actively turning a 3/10 bullpen into a 1/10 bullpen through his very intentional decision-making of turning the starting staff into a glorified collection of openers.