GAME THREAD: Minnesota Twins vs. Houston Astros; 04/09/2023 Easter Special, 1:10pm Central Standard Time

[cHawk]

Hello friends, pleased to be with you, and Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it. Today the 6-2 Minnesota Twins will look to sweep the first series with the 3-6 Houston Astros this year. RHP Tyler Mahle will take the mound today for the Twins, facing off against RHP Hunter Brown of Houston.

[Dave The Dastardly]

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[Squirrel]

Glad to see Wallner out there. But no Gallo again, hmm.

[stringer bell]

Welcome back Matt Wallner! Not Buxton, but Correa gets a day off. For the complainers, yes Solano has hit third, fourth and fifth in the lineup in recent games. 

[Squirrel]

29 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Welcome back Matt Wallner! Not Buxton, but Correa gets a day off. For the complainers, yes Solano has hit third, fourth and fifth in the lineup in recent games. 

Correa needs to sit, imo. As long as Solano hits, I don’t care where he is in the lineup. As long as they all hit, I don’t care where they are in the lineup 🙂

[wabene]

Up the middle bench players pushed into action early. Nothing new around these parts, but man there is a difference this year. GG center fielder, a real life MLB short stop and G Cinco at second. Ok Nick Gordon is not considered great at second and is off to a slow start. I do believe he is major league caliber. That's the thing, not every player is going to start off hot. Guys like Farmer and Donny Barrels are established major leaguers and give the Twins the luxury of plugging in a player who has hit the ground running. It also allows them to hit the reset button on Correa. 

 

This is completely different than when we faced these guys last year. Let's get the sweep! 

[Richie the Rally Goat]

2 hours ago, cHawk said:

Hello friends, pleased to be with you, and Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it. Today the 6-2 Minnesota Twins will look to sweep the first series with the 3-6 Houston Astros this year. RHP Tyler Mahle will take the mound today for the Twins, facing off against RHP Hunter Brown of Houston.

Lineups are TBA.

Happy Easter, Kosher and Joyous Passover, and Ramadan Mubarak!

this is a holy month for those that celebrate.

and baseball for all of us!

[CRF]

Happy Easter to everyone out there in TD land. Hope that you all have a very nice day with your families....and that we can all celebrate a sweep of the Stros later too!

[PseudoSABR]

The starting pitching gives a chance to win every game.  What is this feeling?

[USAFChief]

Abreu, Bergman, Pena, Tucker...they don't need days off.  Why does Correa? Why does our management purposely hold our best players out of the lineup?

 

Maddening, and I'm never going to agree with it. Other successful teams don't do it. It serves no purpose other than to intentionally weaken the team. 

[PseudoSABR]

1 hour ago, USAFChief said:

It serves no purpose other than to intentionally weaken the team. 

You don't really think they are intentionally trying to weaken the team, do you? You can disagree with load management but it does have a purpose, even if you reject it.

[RickOShea]

I don't disagree with giving guys a day off, here and there.  But, I disagree with giving some of the 'star' players off on days where attendance is usually higher.  How many fans schedule to see a game on a weekend?  They want to see their favorites, regardless of how they are currently going.  Look out into the crowd and see how many jerseys of star players are purchased.  And we can't reward them by playing them on days, that provide an opportunity for greater exposure.

[USAFChief]

7 minutes ago, PseudoSABR said:

You don't really think they are intentionally trying to weaken the team, do you? You can disagree with load management but it does have a purpose, even if you reject it.

I don't believe it serves any purpose. "Load management" doesn't prevent injury, doesn't increase performance. It just increases the amount of time out of the lineup. 

[USAFChief]

All that said, let's get the sweep!

[Squirrel]

3 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

I don't believe it serves any purpose. "Load management" doesn't prevent injury, doesn't increase performance. It just increases the amount of time out of the lineup. 

Well, with the way Correa is hitting maybe sitting out a day will help him get redirected

[Parfigliano]

4 minutes ago, RickOShea said:

I don't disagree with giving guys a day off, here and there.  But, I disagree with giving some of the 'star' players off on days where attendance is usually higher.  How many fans schedule to see a game on a weekend?  They want to see their favorites, regardless of how they are currently going.  Look out into the crowd and see how many jerseys of star players are purchased.  And we can't reward them by playing them on days, that provide an opportunity for greater exposure.

This.  Hold them out in a road game.

[USAFChief]

3 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

Well, with the way Correa is hitting maybe sitting out a day will help him get redirected

Maybe so.

[SwainZag]

I absolutely love the radio broadcast not going to commercial between the first two half innings now.

Edit:  It's only for the first break apparently

[mrtwinsfan]

Ask the kids who love to see Buxton and Correa and cant during School time and  the folks who plan the weekend  from out of town,  Yes   even more so early in the year   wait till during the Week !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mrtwinsfan]

blinked  ?  they skip the 1st 

[IndianaTwin]

8 minutes ago, Parfigliano said:

This.  Hold them out in a road game.

Which leads to, "The Twins are only in my town for three days every other season. Play the stars on the road."

I think it's pretty rare that managers take fan preference into consideration when setting their lineups. 

[Nine of twelve]

I'm glad I didn't wait until the listed 1:10 PM Central Standard Time to tune in.

[IndianaTwin]

Today's the day -- just nine days left to do my father-in-law's taxes. 

 

[IndianaTwin]

Just now, Nine of twelve said:

I'm glad I didn't wait until the listed 1:10 PM Central Standard Time to tune in.

You'd have probably beaten the daylights out of the web content person. 

[SwainZag]

6 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Ask the kids who love to see Buxton and Correa and cant during School time and  the folks who plan the weekend  from out of town,  Yes   even more so early in the year   wait till during the Week !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guys are going to get days off, it's just how it is.  I'd rather see Carlos get the day off today than later this week in the Yankees series.  It's not like he's hitting the cover off the ball, maybe the day off will help him turn it around.

[Nine of twelve]

2 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

You'd have probably beaten the daylights out of the web content person. 

I'd have needed to beat the daylights INTO them.

[Robert Floren]

Farmer definitely should not sit.  He's been hitting.  Glad he's in the lineup again.

[rwilfong86]

Let's get the W and the sweep

[USAFChief]

4 minutes ago, SwainZag said:

Guys are going to get days off, it's just how it is.

Why? Why isn't Bregman sitting today? Tucker? Aaron Judge?

 

 

[Parfigliano]

3 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

Which leads to, "The Twins are only in my town for three days every other season. Play the stars on the road."

I think it's pretty rare that managers take fan preference into consideration when setting their lineups. 

Twin fans from other MLB cities vs. Twins fans from Twins Territory.  I side with Twins Territory everytime.