Twins (Woods Richardson) vs Guardians (Lively): 5/1/2025, 12:10pm

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Cleveland just has a charmed life.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

If that's Buxton and Larnach, the ball drops, Buxton is stretchered off in traction, Larnach's out for the season and the batter scores an inside the park homerun.

[RpR]

5 minutes ago, William K Johnson said:

But how would you justify the $10 mil contract then?

Because they needed some one better than run-at-will Jeffers behind the plate.

[Patzky]

Step Lively now.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

3 minutes ago, KirbyDome89 said:

Idk if their rotation really has a "toughest," starter. Maybe Bibee? It's not a good group. 

And yet....

[shortround81]

2 minutes ago, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

Cleveland just has a charmed life.

The Cuyahoga River would like a word

[Aggies7]

Why did you downvote my Vazquez comment RPR? He’s hitting my high school weight and I was a little shrimp 

[William K Johnson]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

Because they needed some one better than run-at-will Jeffers behind the plate.

Give me Jeffers any day over Vasquez

[RpR]

Too bad the bomba squad Twins team is gone.😆

[Patzky]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

Why did you downvote my Vazquez comment RPR? He’s hitting my high school weight and I was a little shrimp 

He's full of 👎s

[The Great Hambino]

3 minutes ago, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

Cleveland just has a charmed life.

Congratulations on being the first person to ever utter this phrase

[Patzky]

Just now, RpR said:

Too bad the bomba squad Twins team is gone.😆

Too bad Max is gone. He liked hitting here

[thelanges5]

Just now, RpR said:

Too bad the bomba squad Twins team is gone.😆

Even that team only went 7-6 against the Guardos in the season series. 

[Patzky]

France just hits.

[RpR]

2 minutes ago, William K Johnson said:

Give me Jeffers any day over Vasquez

That is what Cleveland hoped for yesterday, a ran the bases at will.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Signs of a mentally weak team...

Miss out on an opportunity to score runs early in the game and then completely go in a shell.

Have success early in the game, take your foot of the gas, and wind up losing a winnable game.

More often than not, that's the 2025 Twins.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

If France can keep this up another 6-8 weeks, the Twins can flip him at the deadline for a lottery ticket prospect.

[thelanges5]

Just now, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

If France can keep this up another 6-8 weeks, the Twins can flip him at the deadline for a lottery ticket prospect.

Maybe Bader and Paddack too 

[NYCTK]

10 minutes ago, KirbyDome89 said:

Because they haven't needed a solid bat? I'd be happy with a bat only corner OF and Bader not getting 2/3 of his PAs against RHP. 

Point being, you ain't getting a solid bat for $5M. Unless you're spending that on lottery tickets like Ty France and one of them hits. And even more to the point, you're not saving an offense with a veteran role player hired on the fringes. You need to spend at least twice that if you're going to get a legit offense boosting bat in Free Agency, a la Goldschmidt. 

Signing Bader was a great, and I do mean great, use of resources and I'm gonna gloat over that for the rest of the season. 

[Aggies7]

2 minutes ago, RpR said:

That is what Cleveland hoped for yesterday, a ran the bases at will.

Vazquez is 2 for 12 on stolen base attempts this season for a solid 16.7% average

[thelanges5]

6-2 in hits. Too bad that doesn’t really count.

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

lol the look of utter despair on the batters' faces...

[shortround81]

1 minute ago, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

If France can keep this up another 6-8 weeks, the Twins can flip him at the deadline for a lottery ticket prospect.

True. The Twins notoriously have been the slumlords who launch penthouse careers for players on other teams

[NYCTK]

Just now, thelanges5 said:

Maybe Bader and Paddack too 

And Coulombe. Coulombe easiest to trade even. Every team is looking to bolster the bullpen in the second half.  

[thelanges5]

As it stands right now we have out scored them 13 to 9 and we are going to lose three out of four. That takes a special kind of talent.

[Parfigliano]

8 minutes ago, The Great Hambino said:

Congratulations on being the first person to ever utter this phrase

Not true "Charmed Life" is a Boom Town Rats song

[Patzky]

A bunt? Is that permitted here?

[Patzky]

2 minutes ago, thelanges5 said:

As it stands right now we have out scored them 13 to 9 and we are going to lose three out of four. That takes a special kind of talent.

Eleven was a bad sign.

[The Great Hambino]

2 minutes ago, Parfigliano said:

Not true "Charmed Life" is a Boom Town Rats song

Hmmm.  I don't know, sounds made up

[jkcarew]

6 minutes ago, Twins_Fan_in_NJ said:

If France can keep this up another 6-8 weeks, the Twins can flip him at the deadline for a lottery ticket prospect.

If France keeps this up for 6-8 weeks, THEORETICALLY you have a lineup of Lewis, Correa, Wallner, Buxton, France, and have guys like Lee, Larnach, and Jeffers in the bottom of the order. They probably win enough to do what they always do at the deadline….neither buy nor sell. Sigh.