Game Thread: (Paddack) Twins @ (Bibee) Cleveland, 12:40pm cdt May 19th 2024ad

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Out  with old, in with the new.

By virtue of gettin g extra sleep during yesterday's game (and being on the east coast, and... um... just by having to get up in the morning for a parade), hopefully i'm early enough to write something interesting for a change. 

I know we score 4 runs in the last inning last night. Garbage time, some might call it. I know we may occasionally talk about more than we do. Trash talking probably evokes a more agressive edge to it than my casual way of putting things normally would indicate. But Denard Span, recently in the commentator's booth used to also say something about playing with a chip on one's shoulder, keeping an edge. 

So here's to a philosophic wet stone and maintaining that edge. Here's to Buxton being back. And the wonders one finds in the "trash"

Line ups to come. Rainbows and sunshine, as they got to be somewhere, even if not in Cleveland.

er... 5 minutes late... feel free to delete, if you want.

[ziggy]

Thanks SSOO,

I try to stay positive but when the team plays bad defense it seems the pitching and hitting goes bad also. And they have been playing bad defense lately. 

Attitude is everything and hopefully the players (and fans) can get upbeat and confident so the outlook isn't so drab.

Bibee is a heck of a good pitcher and since I expect the Twins to have to scratch for every hit and run they will score 7 today.

I like Paddock and feel much better about the trade that brought him here. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Sure would be nice to win a game or something.

[wabene]

Man what a mercurial year so far. The cold dark swings are unwatchable, turning into the light things get positively giddy. My enthusiasm is governed at this point. 

In a B Nightingale article at the Strib, he mentions Carlos Correa's idea to help umpires out. Have them wear the pitch com device. That's simply brilliant, they can set up knowing what to expect.

"If they had a device where it said slider and they're anticipating the slider and they know where it has to start and land for it to be a strike, then we would get so many better calls," Correa said. "The fact that they're over there blind, it's really hard."

[Squirrel]

[Schmoeman5]

Observed that Buxton who played the whole game yesterday is off today. The adventures of Willi Castro in cf continues. Hoping the Twins can right the floundering ship.

[wabene]

The broadcast crew just mentioned that since, I think it was 2017, Jose Ramirez leads all of baseball with 500 extra base hits. Impressive

[mrtwinsfan]

Julien,  MR PICKY,   Getting old , get him out of leadoff  

[USAFChief]

Off to a flying start. Julien watches strike 1, strike 2, and strike 3 without even thinking about taking the bat off his shoulder.

 

[OvertheHill]

Julien strike out looking…….man that’s getting old 

[USAFChief]

15 minutes ago, Schmoeman5 said:

Observed that Buxton who played the whole game yesterday is off today. The adventures of Willi Castro in cf continues. Hoping the Twins can right the floundering ship.

I had the impression watching him yesterday that Buxton wasn't anywhere near healthy. I think this would be confirmation. Needs a day off after ONE day in CF? 

[wabene]

Finally a swing on the fastball

[USAFChief]

Well this looks familier.

[mrtwinsfan]

1 minute ago, wabene said:

Finally a swing on the fastball

Larnch a.b.  ?  hit the change up hard , good sign ,  at least he didnt stand there like MR, PICKY

[Schmoeman5]

Just now, USAFChief said:

I had the impression watching him yesterday that Buxton wasn't anywhere near healthy. I think this would be confirmation. Needs a day off after ONE day in CF? 

Indeed. My thoughts precisely 

[USAFChief]

Nobody taking three pitches for strikes on this Cleveland team.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Welp. Two runs will probably be enough.

[stringer bell]

I think Buck played consecutive games on consecutive days in center field only once or twice in April. I didn’t have the privilege of watching last night, so I have no opinion on Buxton’s health. 

[RickOShea]

Deja Vu all over again

 

[mrtwinsfan]

6 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Well this looks familier.

KINDA LIKE YESTERDAYS 1ST INNING,  

[UpstateNewYorker]

This is still Cleveland's batting practice before the game starts, right?

[Schmoeman5]

Just now, stringer bell said:

I think Buck played consecutive games on consecutive days in center field only once or twice in April. I didn’t have the privilege of watching last night, so I have no opinion on Buxton’s health. 

He played a non Buxton type tentative CF

[USAFChief]

2 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

I think Buck played consecutive games on consecutive days in center field only once or twice in April. I didn’t have the privilege of watching last night, so I have no opinion on Buxton’s health. 

Huh?

 

[Irishman]

3 minutes ago, RickOShea said:

Deja Vu all over again

 

What do you expect?   I kinda of knew it was gonna happen again.   Nothing changes!   

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

I just don't understand their approach at the plate.

[RickOShea]

3 minutes ago, Irishman said:

What do you expect?   I kinda of knew it was gonna happen again.   Nothing changes!   

The weather?

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

You have Julien just sitting there watching pitches pound the zone. Then there's other hitters who are swinging at breaking stuff that is at least several inches off the plate.

[RickOShea]

It's gotta be our hitting coaches in the minors that are not effective with these young guys.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Just now, RickOShea said:

It's gotta be our hitting coaches in the minors that are not effective with these young guys.

But they do better when they first come up, then we see a regression.

[RickOShea]

1 minute ago, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

But they do better when they first come up, then we see a regression.

The opposing pitcher's books on these guys hasn't been developed yet.