Game Thread: Twins v Royals, 4/27 @ 6:40 CT

[rwilfong86]

1 minute ago, RickOShea said:

Yeah, the only difference is about $90 million.

Touché. 

[RickOShea]

Correa is going to have to start doing some groundwork, to help cover his pay.

[mrtwinsfan]

4 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

Dick said Oakland's ERA is 7.97, and they gave up 8 runs this afternoon.

Isn't that exactly what one would expect?

Dick and ROY ? Couple of intellectual  Giants 

[RickOShea]

If Catfish and Brian had a kid, they'd name it....................................?

[RickOShea]

Here comes a mini-implosion.

[LewFordLives]

Correa 's poor offense is now affecting his defense.

[RickOShea]

If robo umps took extra time in making a call, would that be referred to as 'buffering'?

[USAFChief]

3 minutes ago, RickOShea said:

If Catfish and Brian had a kid, they'd name it....................................?

Probably. I mean, most people do.

[RickOShea]

In all my years, I don't think I have ever saw Jackie Bradley, Jr. get a basehit.

[USAFChief]

12 minutes ago, RickOShea said:

Yeah, the only difference is about $90 million.

And quality defense 

[stringer bell]

13 minutes ago, jmlease1 said:

Some nice baserunning from the Twins to start the game. Nice to see guys going first to third like that, and Gallo did a nice job legging out that double and scoring on the groundout.

Yeah, I can live with almost no stolen bases, if they take the bases they can like that.

[Nine of twelve]

3 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Yeah, I can live with almost no stolen bases, if they take the bases they can like that.

Concur. The most important thing about base running is not to make an out.

[mrtwinsfan]

12 minutes ago, RickOShea said:

In all my years, I don't think I have ever saw Jackie Bradley, Jr. get a basehit.

How does he keep getting chances ???

[RickOShea]

Just now, mrtwinsfan said:

How does he keep getting chances ???

Well first, his forte is above average defense, and secondly, I exaggerated.

[h2oface]

At the start of today's games, there were 175 batters that qualified with enough PAs to be in the Stat list of MLB.

Only 4 Twins qualified, and the default stat for ordering is now OPS. You had to go to the 4th page of 7 to find the first Twin, Larnach, at #85 and .746. Taylor was the next on the 5th page of 7 at #107 and .705.  Then Miranda on the 7th page, #152 at .628, and Correa at #159 of 175 and .608. No other Twins' hitters had enough PAs to even qualifiy,  

[stringer bell]

Evening up the lefty-righty splits.

[mrtwinsfan]

3 minutes ago, RickOShea said:

Well first, his forte is above average defense, and secondly, I exaggerated.

I  checked he has made over 47 million  and is 10 year tendered,  Good for him 

[wabene]

I'm probably a little delayed, but it looks like Mahle's velo had creeped up striking out that last batter at 94. Good deal 

[RickOShea]

2 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

I  checked he has made over 47 million  and is 10 year tendered,  Good for him 

And his vehicle of choice is a Kia Forte?

[Nine of twelve]

That called strike was way suboptimal.

[mnfireman]

2 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

That called strike was way suboptimal.

Greinke's been getting that call all night. Twins just finally decided to call the ump on it.

[Nine of twelve]

OK, Buck, get to him here.

[stringer bell]

3 minutes ago, mnfireman said:

Greinke's been getting that call all night. Twins just finally decided to call the ump on it.

Big zone for both pitchers. I don't think the ump has missed a ball in the zone, but he's called a lot of them out of the zone.

[Nine of twelve]

Just now, Nine of twelve said:

OK, Buck, get to him here.

That'll do.

[mnfireman]

1 minute ago, stringer bell said:

Big zone for both pitchers. I don't think the ump has missed a ball in the zone, but he's called a lot of them out of the zone.

Not for Mahle

[lecroy24fan]

11 minutes ago, wabene said:

I'm probably a little delayed, but it looks like Mahle's velo had creeped up striking out that last batter at 94. Good deal 

 

Well Stewart is up in the bullpen so I'm worried maybe Mahle threw it too hard.

[RickOShea]

Now that's a line drive.

[Nine of twelve]

Wouldn't surprise me if this is Greinke's last season. And he's getting $8.5 M this year.

[stringer bell]

Correa and Buxton back-to-back. They were both due,especially CC.

[RickOShea]

You know, I miss Harmon's moon shots into the left field seats at the Met.