Twins (Ryan) vs Pirates (Keller): 6/7/24, 5:40pm

[Craig Arko]

30 minutes ago, Jocko87 said:

I get paid pretty well to do it so, yes, I'm a professional. Fire away with your questions, always happy to help.

Astounding how comfortable folks can be with words like corrupt. I'd let the courts sort out whether it's libel, slander or defamation. It gets tricky and I'm not that expert.

Maybe best to avoid that kind of lunacy.

Since it’s written it would be libel.

Although since it’s being applied to a class of people I suppose it might qualify as hate speech. Have to bug a lawyer friend about that.

[Irishman]

21 minutes ago, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

Tired of excuses. This is an unserious team.

Count me in.  They are definitely terrible right now.    Very depressing and embarrassing!

[hitterscount]

53 minutes ago, OvertheHill said:

I’m dreaming I know but I’m hoping for some big, old fashioned move in the coaching staff to light a fire under this listless franchise. 

The first move should be the manager.... That's not happening so any other coaching staff move is pretty much irrelevant. This team is an offensive train wreck.

[Jocko87]

46 minutes ago, Craig Arko said:

Since it’s written it would be libel.

Although since it’s being applied to a class of people I suppose it might qualify as hate speech. Have to bug a lawyer friend about that.

I just wish I would have realized he said massage instead of message.  My bad, a massage for all the umps out there!

[IndyTwinsFan]

24 minutes ago, hitterscount said:

The first move should be the manager.... That's not happening so any other coaching staff move is pretty much irrelevant. This team is an offensive train wreck.

To put it kindly.  My real viewpoint would be strong enough to earn some demerit points from the moderators.

[Schmoeman5]

28 minutes ago, Jocko87 said:

I just wish I would have realized he said massage instead of message.  My bad, a massage for all the umps out there!

Saw that too. Chalk it up to spell check. Maybe. 😄 

[howeda7]

Fire the hitting coach. Put Castro lead-off and let the first 5-6 spots in the order bet set for awhile. Stop the constant platooning BS except for the 8th/9th spots. 

[BiggestRoccoFan]

This team plays like its manager manages, With no pulse and it's contagious. We play inconsistent baseball because of the way we are managed and if you don't agree you are blind. How can anyone on this team get into any kind of grove with Rocco? One day hitting 3rd, Next day off, Next day batting 9th. Next day lifted in the 5th for the worst hitter on the team.

[Patzky]

9 hours ago, cmoss84 said:

Keep this in mind...9 teams above .500 in ALL of baseball. We are one.

That is pretty incredible. It's a weird year with so many teams with really excellent records.

[CRF]

Ryan deserved better. He's easily been our best starter this season, and probably will be going forward. The sad thing is...when this team wins, we win despite the way it's managed, not because of it. 

[MABB1959]

Umpiring may be bad but they could try swinging at some of the good pitches and battle the close ones. IMO there is more watching good pitches going by. 

[Doctor Gast]

13 hours ago, Schmoeman5 said:

They've developed good pitching. They just couldn't pay them.

Very true they couldn't pay them but until a couple of years ago they couldn't develop them. The constant outflow of pitchers, those pitchers dramatically got better after leaving. To name a few Glasnow, Cole & Musgrove were so-so SPs with PIT but became elite SPs with other teams. Archer was a very good & promising SP before PIT & was terrible after,

In the last couple of years PIT has upgraded their pitching development dramatically, As we saw last night

[Schmoeman5]

2 hours ago, Doctor Gast said:

Very true they couldn't pay them but until a couple of years ago they couldn't develop them. The constant outflow of pitchers, those pitchers dramatically got better after leaving. To name a few Glasnow, Cole & Musgrove were so-so SPs with PIT but became elite SPs with other teams. Archer was a very good & promising SP before PIT & was terrible after,

In the last couple of years PIT has upgraded their pitching development dramatically, As we saw last night

Gerrit Cole was a star in Pittsburgh. He was one of the best pitchers in baseball. He was traded to Houston or he was walking in free agency for Musgrove.  Musgrove and Glasnow both had electric stuff but were often injured. Keller Jones and Skenes won't be there long either.