Game Thread: Twins (Lopez) @ Tigers (Olson), 6/24/23 @ 6:15 CT

[mrtwinsfan]

Arreaz ,  home run  today, avg at 401,     Go Luis !!!!!!

[Linus]

Julien is an absolute butcher in the field. This whole mess would be avoided if he just makes the routine double play. No infield in so the duck fart to center is caught. He’s brutal. No way he is a future second baseman for this club. 

[mrtwinsfan]

K K K K K,  ALREADY,  Which twin gets the 10th today and the inning,   My pick    Buxton in the 8th 

[Blyleven2011]

27 minutes ago, UpstateNewYorker said:

AJ just said the Twins are 5th in MLB in percentage of runs scored via the home run: 48%.

That why we are a 500 team because 50 percent of the runs comes by the homer ...

Walks , HBP , singles , doubles  and triples , sacrifice flies  and other ways to manufacture  runs ...

It's great we can get a homerun or two in a game  , but also need to manufacture runs other ways in the same game or really any game  ...

[Blyleven2011]

11 minutes ago, Linus said:

Julien is an absolute butcher in the field. This whole mess would be avoided if he just makes the routine double play. No infield in so the duck fart to center is caught. He’s brutal. No way he is a future second baseman for this club. 

He needs work on his defense  , I think he is still nervous  playing the field  and it shows , he out there at the 2nd base position  saying to himself  , don't hit it to me ....

Just my opinion and I hope he can improve or someone else needs to have the defensive position at 2nd  ...

[Parfigliano]

9 minutes ago, Blyleven2011 said:

That why we are a 500 team because 50 percent of the runs comes by the homer ...

Walks , HBP , singles , doubles  and triples , sacrifice flies  and other ways to manufacture  runs ...

It's great we can get a homerun or two in a game  , but also need to manufacture runs other ways in the same game or really any game  ...

Been saying that all year.

[jkcarew]

Bad luck, really…that the Twins keep running into stud pitchers.

Day after day of having to face guys, like this guy, that I bet were easily the best pitchers at their high school.

[notoriousgod71]

32 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Arreaz ,  home run  today, avg at 401,     Go Luis !!!!!!

Trade looks more ominous by the day.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

17 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

K K K K K,  ALREADY,  Which twin gets the 10th today and the inning,   My pick    Buxton in the 8th 

Buxton will pitch the 8th?

[USAFChief]

It's just really hard for me to like this team. 

 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

3 hours ago, Craig Arko said:

MissAmerica.

Sorry i got distracted by looking up side A of Portrait of PDQ...

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Royce is on base.

[Blyleven2011]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

It's just really hard for me to like this team. 

 

One day you smell the roses  the next day you get pricked by the thorns  ...

 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

5 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

It's just really hard for me to like this team. 

 

Don't they have a thumbs up logo in the lower right hand corner?

[mrtwinsfan]

3 minutes ago, Blyleven2011 said:

That why we are a 500 team because 50 percent of the runs comes by the homer ...

Walks , HBP , singles , doubles  and triples , sacrifice flies  and other ways to manufacture  runs ...

It's great we can get a homerun or two in a game  , but also need to manufacture runs other ways in the same game or really any game  ...

 

2 minutes ago, notoriousgod71 said:

Trade looks more ominous by the day.

Luis , would of never been able to do here , He also was considered  ?  as a everyday  player,  Looking at this years team, where do u play Luis if were healthy, , Marlins even moved a good player from 2nd to c,f, and told Luis 2nd base is yours,  Arreaz is thrilled to be in Miami and i hope he can be close to 400 at the end of summer

[CRF]

Gallo is really broken. I wouldn't mind seeing him on a DFA.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Lewis sadly still at 1st...

[Parfigliano]

1 minute ago, CRF said:

Gallo is really broken. I wouldn't mind seeing him on a DFA.

At this point him hitting a foul ball is a positive

[rwilfong86]

3 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

 

Luis , would of never been able to do here , He also was considered  ?  as a everyday  player,  Looking at this years team, where do u play Luis if were healthy, , Marlins even moved a good player from 2nd to c,f, and told Luis 2nd base is yours,  Arreaz is thrilled to be in Miami and i hope he can be close to 400 at the end of summer

You're right, the organizational philosophy of the Marlins plays to Luis' strengths and the team is built around that. The Twins philosophy of striking out trying for homeruns isn't a good fit for a generational contact hitter. The Marlins are the PERFECT fit for Arraez.

[CRF]

It's just amazing how we make these marginal pitchers like Olson, look like Cy Young material.

[USAFChief]

2 minutes ago, CRF said:

It's just amazing how we make these marginal pitchers like Olson, look like Cy Young material.

He's not even a prospect. Just a warm body.

[Blyleven2011]

2 minutes ago, rwilfong86 said:

You're right, the organizational philosophy of the Marlins plays to Luis' strengths and the team is built around that. The Twins philosophy of striking out trying for homeruns isn't a good fit for a generational contact hitter. The Marlins are the PERFECT fit for Arraez.

Sad but true ...

Arraez was a pleasure to watch hit  , and because he has a passion  for the game he would play anywhere you asked him to in Minnesota  ,,,

are you listening Kepler  ...

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I do like listening to AJ.

 

And Rocco hasn't been ejected yet?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Oh yeah, how's Beethoven sounding?

Edited June 25, 2023 by sampleSizeOfOne
punctuation shift has been banned.

[Blyleven2011]

4 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

I do like listening to AJ.

 

And Rocco hasn't been ejected yet?

Rocco's ejection last night hasn't  made any difference in any injection to the lineup  tonight  ...

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Correa!!!!

[Blyleven2011]

Just now, Blyleven2011 said:

Rocco's ejection last night hasn't  made any difference in any injection to the lineup  tonight  ...

Correction Correa just hit a solo homerun , we are on the board ...

[Parfigliano]

Solo HR no shutout

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Rock Lobster in the background....

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Kirilloff is on base.