Game Thread: Twins (Maeda) @ Brewers (Burnes), 8/23/23 @ 1:10 CT

[mrtwinsfan]

Brewers beat guy , talking about Mcgill last night --rumor that he was told  Throw that curve ball and it will be his last pitch as a Brewer,  Now thinking back it was his curve that always got him in trouble with the twins 

[Schmoeman5]

1 minute ago, Richie the Rally Goat said:

And yet no bullpen trade at the deadline. Unreal

What do you mean by no bullpen trade? They got sweep the Floro 

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, jkcarew said:

All right! Thielbar was 100% more effective than Pagan.

I'm tempted to say "50%" but that'd be dangerously close to math on a game thread.

[Cap'n Piranha]

6 minutes ago, HokieRif said:

Debatable.  Their offensive numbers are nearly identical at this point, and Taylor has been hot recently.

Sort of proves the point, don't you think?  MAT being hot for basically all of August, and he still has worse numbers on the year than Buxton.  What happens when MAT stops being hot, or do you want to argue that MAT is having an offensive breakout halfway through his age 32 season?

[mrtwinsfan]

1 minute ago, Schmoeman5 said:

What do you mean by no bullpen trade? They got sweep the Floro 

That was a Used car lot Swap,   not a Trade

[Aggies7]

How do other teams assemble these ridiculously talented bullpens and we can’t lol

[NotAboutWinning]

Just now, Aggies7 said:

How do other teams assemble these ridiculously talented bullpens and we can’t lol

That’s a rhetorical question, right?

[Muppet]

Before the AS break, I wouldn't have even had the opportunity to blame this game on the crappy bullpen. It would be 6-1 or 6-0. Now, since this team is actually turning around, this loss (if it turns out that way) is totally the fault of Pagan et al. What a luxury!

 

[jkcarew]

2 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

I'm tempted to say "50%" but that'd be dangerously close to math on a game thread.

The Pagan Theorem….

Emelio Pagan is alway the numerator.

[Aggies7]

Just now, NotAboutWinning said:

That’s a rhetorical question, right?

Not really lol

[HokieRif]

2 minutes ago, Cap'n Piranha said:

Sort of proves the point, don't you think?  MAT being hot for basically all of August, and he still has worse numbers on the year than Buxton.  What happens when MAT stops being hot, or do you want to argue that MAT is having an offensive breakout halfway through his age 32 season?

I'm going with the hot bat for now.  Buck was ice cold before he went on the IL.  If MAT gets cold, sure, insert Buck, but now is not the time.

[Cap'n Piranha]

I kept wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger.

 

Then it hit me.

[Danchat]

2 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

How do other teams assemble these ridiculously talented bullpens and we can’t lol

Other teams actually have pitching pipelines, to start.

[Schmoeman5]

1 minute ago, mrtwinsfan said:

That was a Used car lot Swap,   not a Trade

I agree. Floro was out in Miami and Lopez was no longer part of the Twins plans. But Falvey must have saw something he liked. No one else did

[mrtwinsfan]

Jeffers,   game is right here

[USAFChief]

Jeffers had nice fat FB to hit on the first pitch of the AB. Let it go by unharmed. End AB.

[mrtwinsfan]

3 minutes ago, Schmoeman5 said:

I agree. Floro was out in Miami and Lopez was no longer part of the Twins plans. But Falvey must have saw something he liked. No one else did

 But Falvey must have saw something he liked. No one else did,   And there is the issue ???

[Schmoeman5]

2 feet off the plate there Ryan 

[USAFChief]

4 minutes ago, Schmoeman5 said:

I agree. Floro was out in Miami and Lopez was no longer part of the Twins plans. But Falvey must have saw something he liked. No one else did

I think the entirety of that deal was getting Lopez off the team, not Floro ON the team.

Getting Miami to take him, and get him closer to his family, was a nice bonus.

[Aggies7]

5 minutes ago, Danchat said:

Other teams actually have pitching pipelines, to start.

Ours appears to be clogged 

[NotAboutWinning]

1 minute ago, mrtwinsfan said:

 But Falvey must have saw something he liked. No one else did,   And there is the issue ???

He saw a way to end the Jorge Lopez debacle!

[SwainZag]

Just now, mrtwinsfan said:

 But Falvey must have saw something he liked. No one else did,   And there is the issue ???

Isn't that baseball though?  Twins saw something in moving Brock Stewert to the pen as well and it seemed to work out brilliantly until he hit the IL.  

[Schmoeman5]

Just now, USAFChief said:

I think the entirety of that deal was getting Lopez off the team, not Floro ON the team.

Getting Miami to take him, and get him closer to his family, was a nice bonus.

I agree. I was just being nice. They didn't want to deal with Lopez and his issues

[Jocko87]

12 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Brewers beat guy , talking about Mcgill last night --rumor that he was told  Throw that curve ball and it will be his last pitch as a Brewer,  Now thinking back it was his curve that always got him in trouble with the twins 

Who says coaching doesn't matter?

[Mike Sixel]

More proof there is luck in sports....

[IaBeanCounter]

1 minute ago, SwainZag said:

Isn't that baseball though?  Twins saw something in moving Brock Stewert to the pen as well and it seemed to work out brilliantly until he hit the IL.  

What's the status of Brock?

[SwainZag]

2 minutes ago, IaBeanCounter said:

What's the status of Brock?

I have no idea, but he was great in the 25 games he got into this year.

[USAFChief]

THIS close to getting out of this inning on less than 10 pitches.

 

[Jocko87]

Suppose Devin Williams is amped for some payback?

[SwainZag]

Can they possibly beat WIlliams twice in one season?