Cubs (Stroman) vs Twins (Varland): 5/14/23, 1:10pm

[Parfigliano]

Thats the Correa we need

[IndianaTwin]

Correa continues regressing!

[Parfigliano]

Hanger Buck missed on strike 2

[stringer bell]

Close 3-2 pitch. 

[Jocko87]

Stroman auto corrects to stroganoff. 
 

Also Stroman appears to be celebrating Mother’s Day with the mom walker 3000 shoe. 

[Squirrel]

I really don’t like the Cubs announcers.

[rwilfong86]

Come on Farmer, let's blow this one open

[Squirrel]

Great at bat there

[Squirrel]

Damn. At least it wasn’t bases loaded no outs

[rwilfong86]

Argh, Farmer first pitch swinging against a pitcher having control issues. Rally over.

[CRF]

It doesn't matter who comes up...the bases loaded curse endures. 

[Parfigliano]

Bust it open here...or not.  Guy on 2nd no outs to bases loaded 3 outs and no run out of it.  Again.

[PDX Twin]

1 minute ago, Jocko87 said:

Stroman auto corrects to stroganoff. 

Better than "Dear Jacques" correcting to "Dear Jackass," which happened to me. (I did catch it before sending.)

[Squirrel]

Just now, rwilfong86 said:

Argh, Farmer first pitch swinging against a pitcher having control issues. Rally over.

But that was a good pitch to hit. He should just stand there? And if he gets out anyway after taking a few pitches, someone here would complain that he didn’t swing at that first pitch

[Brock Beauchamp]

Correa’s OPS on the verge of starting with a “7”. 

[Nine of twelve]

I could tell Stroman is not tall, but per the Cubs web site he's only 5'7", 180 lb. It's really rare for a MLB pitcher to be that short. It's a big disadvantage because tall bodies have better leverage, making it easier to impart more momentum to the ball.

Edited to add: tall people also stride closer to home plate, another advantage.

[IndianaTwin]

Just now, Squirrel said:

I really don’t like the Cubs announcers.

TV or radio? 

Pat Hughes is doing TV play-by-play. He's normally their radio guy and is quite good there. He paints a wonderful visual picture of what's happening, and I think he's more comfortable on the radio side. The regular TV guy is Jon Sciambi, but I'm guessing he has ESPN duties today. 

Jim Deshaies, doing color on TV, has a very dry sense of humor and will have some good puns over the course of the game.  

[rwilfong86]

1 minute ago, Squirrel said:

But that was a good pitch to hit. He should just stand there? And if he gets out anyway after taking a few pitches, someone here would complain that he didn’t swing at that first pitch

You look at context, previous batters walked. Pitcher can't hit the zone and it increases the pitch count. Swinging at the first pitch there was the wrong decision. Not rocket science.

[Squirrel]

Wow, Varland looking good.

[Squirrel]

Just now, rwilfong86 said:

You look at context, previous batters walked. Pitcher can't hit the zone and it increases the pitch count. Swinging at the first pitch there was the wrong decision. Not rocket science.

Sorry, I disagree. And I think Farmer knows better than either of us what he should/shouldn’t be doing

[rwilfong86]

1 minute ago, Squirrel said:

Wow, Varland looking good.

Varland's development is the primary reason I hope the Twins don't make a move to extend Mahle.

[Squirrel]

2 minutes ago, IndianaTwin said:

TV or radio? 

Pat Hughes is doing TV play-by-play. He's normally their radio guy and is quite good there. He paints a wonderful visual picture of what's happening, and I think he's more comfortable on the radio side. The regular TV guy is Jon Sciambi, but I'm guessing he has ESPN duties today. 

Jim Deshaies, doing color on TV, has a very dry sense of humor and will have some good puns over the course of the game.  

TV. They don’t exactly have the Twins info correct. Just find them a bit nasal

[stringer bell]

1 minute ago, Nine of twelve said:

I could tell Stroman is not tall, but per the Cubs web site he's only 5'7", 180 lb. It's really rare for a MLB pitcher to be that short. It's a big disadvantage because tall bodies have better leverage, making it easier to impart more momentum to the ball.

That was the rip on Berríos, as well. Berríos is listed at 6’0”, but might be a bit shorter. 

[rwilfong86]

2 hours ago, Squirrel said:

Sorry, I disagree. And I think Farmer knows better than either of us what he should/shouldn’t be doing

Disagree all you want. I couldn't care less. 

[Squirrel]

1 minute ago, rwilfong86 said:

Varland's development is the primary reason I hope the Twins don't make a move to extend Mahle.

I don’t want them to extend Mahle, either way 

[rwilfong86]

Just now, Squirrel said:

I don’t want them to extend Mahle, either way 

It's been discussed, a similar extension like they offered to Paddock, but I hope they just move on from him.

[stringer bell]

2 minutes ago, rwilfong86 said:

Varland's development is the primary reason I hope the Twins don't make a move to extend Mahle.

I don't think you can have too much pitching. Both the Twins' starters this year and bullpen so far bear that out.

[Nine of twelve]

1 minute ago, rwilfong86 said:

It's been discussed, a similar extension like they offered to Paddock, but I hope they just move on from him.

Paddack autocorrects to Paddock for a lot of people.

[Squirrel]

1 minute ago, rwilfong86 said:

It's been discussed, a similar extension like they offered to Paddock, but I hope they just move on from him.

It’s what I said, I don’t want them to sign him either way 

[Craig Arko]

Marney!