Game Thread Twins @ Yankees 3:05 ET 9/7/22

[Battle ur tail off]

He made up for mistake with a great play to get the out. But Rocco putting him in here is just more to add to his resume. I like the kid playing, but why are we putting him in cold with very little MLB experience in this tight game?

[LVTwinsfan]

That would have been the game

[USAFChief]

Just now, Battle ur tail off said:

He made up for mistake with a great play to get the out. But Rocco putting him in here is just more to add to his resume. I like the kid playing, but why are we putting him in cold with very little MLB experience in this tight game?

He's in the game because for some reason Billy Hamilton was in the game, causing a PH by Kepler who can't play the field apparently, meaning someone had to go into the game. Gordon to the OF, Palacios to 2b.

[Mike Sixel]

1 minute ago, Battle ur tail off said:

He made up for mistake with a great play to get the out. But Rocco putting him in here is just more to add to his resume. I like the kid playing, but why are we putting him in cold with very little MLB experience in this tight game?

Because there aren't other options, given Kepler's health? Not sure why Kepler is on the roster at this point, but that's not on the manager.

[RpR]

I am on gamecast, did Sanchez throw badly or fielder not stop the ball.

There have been too many cases of poor fielding with the catcher getting the blame.

[Aggies7]

Duran pitching himself out of the tenth 

[USAFChief]

Just now, Mike Sixel said:

Because there aren't other options, given Kepler's health? Not sure why Kepler is on the roster at this point, but that's not on the manager.

It's still on the manager. Why was Hamilton in the game in the 6th inning?

[LVTwinsfan]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

I am on gamecast, did Sanchez throw badly or fielder not stop the ball.

There have been too many cases of poor fielding with the catcher getting the blame.

Bad throw, ball hit the runner

[Aggies7]

JFC the guy was hitting .045 and he almost won the game 

[CRF]

HELLUVA play by Carlos...too bad the guy is all field-no hit!

[Cap'n Piranha]

11 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

I'm not sure what the National League has to do with it, but yeah. If he gets few opportunities, then he can contribute by cashing a good percentage of the opportunities he gets, driving himself in, and getting on base a lot. Running the bases well.

 

I fully understand there are many componants to a good offense. But at the end of the day. only scoring runs matters. And it's tough to consistently score runs if you don't have guys in the lineup who drive them in.

It's also pretty hard to consistently score runs if you don't have guys in the lineup who score them (by getting on base).

[Danchat]

Correa may not be living up to his pay at the plate, but he sure has defensively. Heck of a play!

[CRF]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

It's still on the manager. Why was Hamilton in the game in the 6th inning?

All part of Rocco's "master plan".

[Cap'n Piranha]

19 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Right.

And some players take advantage of the opportunity, often, and some don't.

OBP in an RBI situation is pretty overrated. 

The object of the game is to cross home plate. That doesn't happen very often unless someone drives in runs. At the end of the season, I'll take RBI as a contribution to winning games over any other offensive stat. Any. Other. Offensive. Stat.

So in 2019 AND 2020, you think Eddie Rosario was a superior offensive player to Mike Trout, since Eddie had more RBI than Trout in both years, in fewer PAs.

[umterp23]

let's blow through our supposed closers in a tie game in game one.  Game two a throw away game.  I guess Pagan will take the L in the 10th

[Beast]

This should be interesting.

Sure would be nice to have Hamilton on second right now.  Although, he’d probably get caught trying to steal third.

[USAFChief]

Just now, Cap'n Piranha said:

It's also pretty hard to consistently score runs if you don't have guys in the lineup who score them (by getting on base).

This is true. I like guys who get on base. But someone still needs to drive them in. At the end of the game, they decide who won based on who crossed home plate the most, not who got to first base most.

[Mike Sixel]

Just now, umterp23 said:

let's blow through our supposed closers in a tie game in game one.  Game two a throw away game.  I guess Pagan will take the L in the 10th

Who should pitch in a close game they might win? Because I'm pretty sure the site would think it was stupid to bring in most anyone else in a close game. Who should have come in?

[IndyTwinsFan]

Hoping we score here, even though my gut feeling is that we won't. 

[KirbyDome89]

I'll never understand why guys slide in 1B. 

[CRF]

I absolutely HATE this runner on 2nd in extras garbage. 

[h2oface]

Just now, Cap'n Piranha said:

So in 2019 AND 2020, you think Eddie Rosario was a superior offensive player to Mike Trout, since Eddie had more RBI than Trout in both years, in fewer PAs.

I think that Rosario knocked in more runs. And that was in itself, very valuable. As for the strawman Trout in this question, who is superior? Some may be for a spell, but seriously....... that is a hell of a strawman. But you didn't ask me......

[SwainZag]

1 minute ago, umterp23 said:

let's blow through our supposed closers in a tie game in game one.  Game two a throw away game.  I guess Pagan will take the L in the 10th

What exactly do you want to do?  Use the lessor guys in a winnable late inning game and hope they get lucky or hope your offense can do anything in the 10th and have Duran out there in the 10th to close the door?  The game now hinges on the top of the order driving in 1+ runs with a runner on 2nd.  

[Aggies7]

Absolutely f-ing horrendous. Horrid

[Vanimal46]

You’ve got to be kidding me. What a horrendous decision to send him home. 

[notoriousgod71]

Dear fing god

[SwainZag]

WTF....why!?  

[USAFChief]

2 minutes ago, Cap'n Piranha said:

So in 2019 AND 2020, you think Eddie Rosario was a superior offensive player to Mike Trout, since Eddie had more RBI than Trout in both years, in fewer PAs.

Rosario didn't have more RBI than Trout in either of those years.

[RpR]

Time for Celestino to go back to AAA.

[rwilfong86]

And today's baserunning blunder. This team is atrocious.