Yankees 5, Twins 1: Sheriff Overpowered by Big-City Bullies

[Doctor Gast]

Pen pitched well shutting down the Yanks

[jmlease1]

I hate the Yankees. I've always hated the Yankees. I hate losing to the Yankees. I hate tuning into a national baseball broadcast when the Twins are playing the Yankees and they spend the first 14 minutes of the pre-game only talking about the Yankees, and then give the Twins 6 minutes (and show they don't know very much about the Twins either, spending more time on Carlos Santana than Ryan Jeffers). Last segment was a dumb betting angle, and of course 2 of the 3 bets were about the Yankees. I now hate TBS almost as much as I hate the Yankees.

not a good game for the Twins. Castro was really rough out there and the whole OF defense was unimpressive. Paddack was disappointing; just too hittable and struggled to finish guys off. The bullpen did well to give the team a chance, but the offense was very meek.

I'm increasingly concerned about the Twins inability to draw walks; we're bottom 5 in baseball in BB/G and we need more baserunners. Not getting a single walk last night really hurt. I hope the easy grounders and fly balls were more aesthetically pleasing enough for people, but I'd rather draw some free passes and start filling up the basepaths

[DJL44]

11 hours ago, VivaBomboRivera! said:

In the same way Julien picked up his defense at second base, those two fellows need to learn their outfield positions.

I thought Martin was a natural outfielder and playing him in the infield at SS meant he would be fine when they inevitably moved him to LF like everyone expected.

[USAFChief]

4 minutes ago, DJL44 said:

I thought Martin was a natural outfielder and playing him in the infield at SS meant he would be fine when they inevitably moved him to LF like everyone expected.

Martin has been among the worst outfielders I've seen in my 60+ years of watching the Twins. Inconceivably bad.

[RpR]

7 minutes ago, DJL44 said:

I thought Martin was a natural outfielder and playing him in the infield at SS meant he would be fine when they inevitably moved him to LF like everyone expected.

The only place Martin has good defense numbers is at Second Base; send Julien to the outfield.

[Hubie29]

5 hours ago, bighat said:

Stuffed into a locker at home on the opening game of a big series.  Twins now 1-6 against the Dodgers, Orioles, and Yankees. 

A 12-game winning streak is nice but the results sure look different when the Twins aren't playing the Eau Claire School for the Blind for a change. 

How can this team can expect to win any game with Margot, Vasquez and Farmer all in the lineup at the same time? 

The Twins can't DFA all three guys, but it's almost June. At this point it's almost certain they are going to be forced into making a decision on at least one of them. 

The Twins front office/owners goal was to spend just enough money to make the playoffs. Even if it was as a wildcard. That should appease the fans for another year. And guess what, looks like they might have accomplished that goal. How else do you explain the Paddack/Gray rotation swap and the complete disaster of a trade for DeSclafani and the disaster Varland trial.  Add to that the Margot, and Santana, (although he has been ok) signings for cheap, you get what you pay for. 

[jmlease1]

41 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Martin has been among the worst outfielders I've seen in my 60+ years of watching the Twins. Inconceivably bad.

Compared to Delmon Young and some of the other nonsense (Willingham and his 4 feet of range!) we've run out in the outfield, I'm not worried about Martin.

[David Maro]

Same old Twins in awe of the Yankees.And Rocco putting together a AA outfield in the lineup.When you play the Yankees it has to be your best in the lineup.This lineup had too many automatic outs in it.I guess Rocco is OK with giving games away.

[DJL44]

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Outside of Gabriel Gonzalez, Minnesota’s Jorge Polanco trade looks like an absolute disaster.

It looks a lot better when you see that Polanco is leading the league in strikeouts and has been mostly worthless this season. Neither team is getting any MLB help from that trade in 2024.

[Aggies7]

1 hour ago, USAFChief said:

Martin has been among the worst outfielders I've seen in my 60+ years of watching the Twins. Inconceivably bad.

[USAFChief]

2 hours ago, jmlease1 said:

Compared to Delmon Young and some of the other nonsense (Willingham and his 4 feet of range!) we've run out in the outfield, I'm not worried about Martin.

Small sample size, but Delmon Young is easily better than.what Martin has showed.