Game Thread: Twins v White Sox, 4/22/24 @ 6:40 CT

[Hrbowski]

The White Sox broadcast has amazing mics and you can hear everything that's said at the plate.

[wabene]

1 hour ago, Hubie29 said:

Nothing like a HUGE dose of false hope offered up by the Chicago White Sox.  Can't wait to get back to reality after this series. 

These games count too, thankfully.

[Parfigliano]

7 minutes ago, wabene said:

These games count too, thankfully.

Rather it counted two

[jkcarew]

17 minutes ago, wabene said:

These games count too, thankfully.

And to be fair…KC, DET, and CLE have all built their current records with the benefit of having played one, if not two, series already against this club.

KC has won 3 games against +500 teams…CLE 6.

[Linus]

Henriquez with almost 40 pitches. The Uber to take him to St Paul is idling outside Target Field. 

[Aggies7]

Is it ever easy lol

[Tlaker]

Winner

[Aggies7]

Imagine being 3-19

[SD happy]

Nice to finally have a game like this.

[Parfigliano]

Mets v SF time

[Vanimal46]

So the White Sox might actually challenge for the single season loss record. Cool, cool.  

[Dave Borton]

2 hours ago, jkcarew said:

Just like the stock market…it won’t bounce until everyone has sold!

...and don't try to catch falling knives.

[KirbyDome89]

32 minutes ago, jkcarew said:

And to be fair…KC, DET, and CLE have all built their current records with the benefit of having played one, if not two, series already against this club.

KC has won 3 games against +500 teams…CLE 6.

I don't disagree that KC and Detroit probably aren't going to stay above .500 and Cleveland likely isn't as good as their record suggests either, but 6 of the Twins' 8 wins have come against KC, Detroit, and Chicago. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.

[Dave Borton]

1 hour ago, jkcarew said:

Is Robert injured? Moncada? He was actually off to a good start.

He dove for a ball against the Guardians, landed on his shoulder, and took a ton of time to get up. I believe he finished the inning but came out of the game shortly thereafter.

[Dave Borton]

1 hour ago, Parfigliano said:

A's are 9-14

A's kicked Yanks in Der arse. 2-0. Excellent game broadcast on Free TV MLB today.

Dallas Braden did the color for the A's. He is excellent (try their podcast, "Baseball is Dead").

Aaron Boone got tossed; ump heard what he thought was Boone. It was a fan! Boone went crazy; Braden dropped a bunch of one liners at that point. Hilarious.

[Squirrel]

1 hour ago, Aggies7 said:

Imagine being 3-19

And they’ve been shut out for 36% of games

[David HK]

1 hour ago, stringer bell said:

Seven innings for Paddack. I don’t think we’ll see many outings where he gives the Twins seven IP. 

Unless he faces the White Sox a couple more times.

[David HK]

Winner! 👍

But it's the Sox, so...  here's some chicken from the local 7-11 anyway.

 

[wabene]

6 hours ago, David HK said:

Winner! 👍

But it's the Sox, so...  here's some chicken from the local 7-11 anyway.

 

Mmmm what an appetizing presentation! Chicken worms, yum.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Its a win. Have to start somewhere.

[Hubie29]

12 hours ago, wabene said:

These games count too, thankfully.

They will allow us to get to 60-70 wins is all. 

[wabene]

Just now, Hubie29 said:

They will allow us to get to 60-70 wins is all. 

Feeling pessimistic, eh? In spite of this start I'd be surprised in they finish with less than 82 wins. If Kepler is going to produce a .800 plus OPS that number goes up. Get Duran, Correa, Lee and Lewis healthy. In the meantime Martin, Larnach and Miranda get a chance to make tough decisions for the front office. The only way this season tanks as you describe is if their rotation suffers long term injuries to Pablo, Ryan and or Ober.

[Hubie29]

6 minutes ago, wabene said:

Feeling pessimistic, eh? In spite of this start I'd be surprised in they finish with less than 82 wins. If Kepler is going to produce a .800 plus OPS that number goes up. Get Duran, Correa, Lee and Lewis healthy. In the meantime Martin, Larnach and Miranda get a chance to make tough decisions for the front office. The only way this season tanks as you describe is if their rotation suffers long term injuries to Pablo, Ryan and or Ober.

Feeling optimistic are we? Yes, you could say I am pessimistic. Didn't like the team out of spring training, and didn't like their off season moves.  They have proved me right so far.  You are correct about the pitching, one injury will definitely derail any positivity in this squad. I think the line up is going to have consistent injury issues, when have they not? Depth is not there and poor decisions by management linger and linger.  We cannot compete with the average teams much less above average teams. We will see I guess. 

[wabene]

16 minutes ago, Hubie29 said:

Feeling optimistic are we? Yes, you could say I am pessimistic. Didn't like the team out of spring training, and didn't like their off season moves.  They have proved me right so far.  You are correct about the pitching, one injury will definitely derail any positivity in this squad. I think the line up is going to have consistent injury issues, when have they not? Depth is not there and poor decisions by management linger and linger.  We cannot compete with the average teams much less above average teams. We will see I guess. 

I'm not so sure how optimistic I am in the moment. Luckily for me I was in Florida last week and could only see one game, a victory, lol. For me the poor decisions fall on ownership, but was anybody excited about Santana, Margot or DeSclafani? It would have made more sense to put what meagre budget they were given solely to pitching, the rotation first then bullpen and supplement the lineup with young in-house talent. Nonetheless this core played well against the best of the American League last year and without major setbacks they could do it again.