Twins (Matthews) vs. Pirates (Ashcraft): 5/31/26, 12:35 pm CDT

[Patzky]

3 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

Hey let’s give up more home runs boys  

Each with a free man on base for a cherry on top. Roger is jolly indeed.

[karcherd]

Just now, mrtwinsfan said:

Lewis is a lost cause ,  he wants to be released or traded ,   please oblige !!

Lewis will not be released, 

[krink]

Just now, mrtwinsfan said:

Lewis is a lost cause ,  he wants to be released or traded ,   please oblige !!

He’s .163 down there - making even Wallny look good…

[Aggies7]

Man, the Red Sox must be ****ing terrible 

[Patzky]

Just now, Aggies7 said:

Man, the Red Sox must be ****ing terrible 

They are indeed .

[thelanges5]

5 minutes ago, Patzky said:

There goes the quality start. His first HR

Minnesota nice. We gave Mangum his first yesterday. 

[jaimedude]

Just now, Aggies7 said:

Man, the Red Sox must be ****ing terrible 

Agreed. Pittsburgh and Chicago White Sox have been drafting at the top of the draft for a long time. It should eventually pay off for them with right manager and staff, development staff. Kind of like San Antonio Spurs in NBA, they have accumulated promising young talent. 

[USAFChief]

To be called haiku 

You must follow a pattern

Five, seven, then five.

 

Same for Twins pitchers 

Shelled for a 5 spot one day

Then seven, then five.

 

[Patzky]

When Josh Bell's two singles is the highlight of the day..

[karcherd]

1 minute ago, jaimedude said:

I can see that 100% but the  Pohlads keep people like Falvey around to the point of excess or staleness.  Once Lavine left, they should have overhauled Front office and scouting. Joe Pohlad was a meddler behind the scenes, with limited baseball knowledge.  SoundS like Tom at least try's to let people do jobS without micromanaging. All the injury's suck but even fans knew this is a poorly constructed roster, lacks depth,  to start the season even. Twins didn't do much if anything to supplement the roster. 

I agree 100%, I think the problem was Joe actually worked in the marketing department and had an office at Target field.  I think he developed a relationship with Falvey from that time working with him as more of a peer and it became a blind spot to evaluating his performance.  And that is where I blame the Pohlad family for not having a clean handoff to the next generation because it has set this team back.

[Blyleven2011]

🧹🧹🧹 us out the door , depressing  ...

No life in todays twins game ...

[karcherd]

3 minutes ago, krink said:

He’s .163 down there - making even Wallny look good…

Lewis has been hitting over .300 since being sent down, might want to look at your source again.

[jaimedude]

Man Larnach does not want to be with Twins any longer. It shows at the plate. He's wasn't staring at so many hittable pitches last year and just watching them go by. 

Edited 2 hours ago by jaimedude

[krink]

1 minute ago, karcherd said:

Lewis has been hitting over .300 since being sent down, might want to look at your source again.

Good catch, misread the lines. That was when he was up here. .318 in AAA

[Patzky]

1 minute ago, jaimedude said:

Man Larnach does not want to be with Twins any longer. It shows at the plate. 

I see it too. Half assing it but enough talent for the occasional big hit. 

[Patzky]

Just now, krink said:

Good catch, misread the lines. That was when he was up here. .318 in AAA

Might be he'll be back in time for Royce Day. I miss Pablo Day. Maybe we could still have one.

[jaimedude]

This whole season started with a black cloud when Pablo Lopez hurt his elbow in Spring training all these starting pitching injury's piling up effect bullpen, defense all of it. Ready to start seeing some of what the younger guy's in rhe Saints have to offer. Even if they are not fully ready. Nice inning by Matthews in the 4th. 

[krink]

2 minutes ago, Patzky said:

Might be he'll be back in time for Royce Day. I miss Pablo Day. Maybe we could still have one.

Pablo Lopez Sling Day August 25th

[Patzky]

Just now, krink said:

Pablo Lopez Sling Day August 25th

Still could do better than... Never mind. At least Zebby stopped the bleeding temporarily.

[mrtwinsfan]

11 minutes ago, karcherd said:

Lewis will not be released, 

maybe in 2029 ??   i get it

[Patzky]

1 minute ago, jaimedude said:

This whole season started with a black cloud when Pablo Lopez hurt his elbow in Spring training all these starting pitching injury's piling up effect bullpen, defense of it. 

Agree. He is indispensable to the team. 

[Vanimal46]

Nice bounce back inning for Zebby 

[Twindy]

Lucky we missed Skenes on this trip. He would’ve no-hit us, and struck out 20.

[Patzky]

I don't feel any such comeback is happening today.

[Patzky]

Just now, Twindy said:

Lucky we missed Skenes on this trip. He would’ve no-hit us, and struck out 20.

Somehow I'd be ok with that..

[MMMordabito]

This team has regressed to a background screensaver for the rest of the season. Lineup sans Buxton can't hit and every pitcher not named Ryan either gets hurt or implodes after a few appearances. No healthy exciting prospects either.

[thelanges5]

1 minute ago, Twindy said:

Lucky we missed Skenes on this trip. He would’ve no-hit us, and struck out 20.

Offense has looked pretty good until today. Defense and pitching cost us the last two games.

[stringer bell]

2 hours ago, Aggies7 said:

Ok at what point is it ok to question wtf the twins are doing that every pitcher is going on the IL and we’re not even close to the halfway point? wtf is happening here this is absurd 

Atlanta went through a similar run last year. The Yankees and the Orioles had similar runs of starting pitcher injuries. It is basically a cost of maximum effort hurling in the 2020s. Actually, I'd rather have the injuries occur so now rather than in August so that the Twins aren't fooled about being contenders. 

[Twindy]

It’s nice that Buxton gets a day off to rest. I’m sure DH is very tiring. Or at least it would be if you get on base very often unlike what Buxton has done as a DH.

[hitterscount]

21 minutes ago, jaimedude said:

My issue is still losing all these  games with fringe MLB players  an 4A guys. There is no development happening with key prospects being hurt, or being kept in the minor leagues for service tine. Twins ownership the Pohlads  are notorious for keeping service time clocks in check, and controlling players as long as possible at minimum salary's. There is littlr to zero value on rostering MLB players like Alex Jackson and James Outman.  They are not enough of difference makers even in 25th to 26th spots. I get all owners do the control thing, but Twins do it to the point of excess, and guys get stale playong AAA ball for longer than sometimes they should. They also hang on to guys beyond the point of redemption. 

At some point development stops in the minors if not being challenged by consistent competition. AAA pitchers are nowhere near as good as MLB pitchers, it’s like the G-League in basketball…. when you’ve done everything you can in the minors the overall philosophy has to be to bring them up, if there’s a need or spot to play, I don’t care about their age, it’s meaningless. I ran into brewers player from the 80’s  team who is still connected to the team , we talked ball over a few beers and the topic of manipulation of players service time to maintain control….he fully believed that it does more damage than good,, when you’re performing and being held back it can have adverse effect, you can either play or you can’t… when your first big league chance comes at 25. 26 or older it put a ton of pressure on perform immediately1) to stay up 2) to be around long enough to get a contract that sets them up financially. We have players that could help this lineup, we choose not to. Watching this uninspiring lineup is depressing.