Make it Official! Twins 6, Mariners 3: Hits Keep Coming

5 minutes ago, GNess said:

Paddack may prove to a super solid mid-rotation starter. He has been putting together some real quality starts.

I expect some bumps as almost all pitchers have in their first year after TJ surgery, but I'm happy so far. He is more like 1.5 years in at this point.

Is it just me, or is this team hitting a lot of triples?

Kind of a strange game from Paddack, who racked up the Ks and wriggled out of trouble, but also gave up a lot of hits. He certainly showed he could get outs, and if he'd been able to keep the pitch count down and finish off some hitters faster, I think he would have been able to get through 6.

nice to see the bats get some big knocks; Correa and Larnach going back to back was a fine way to start things out.

A good win. Be great to take the series!

Mar-got-to-find-a-replacement. Cannot keep doing this all season.

Duran an absolute beast! If he has durability in his career... HOF is not off the table (yeah... I said it!)

54 minutes ago, GNess said:

Paddack may prove to a super solid mid-rotation starter. He has been putting together some real quality starts.

He has the potential to be higher than a mid rotation starter. He might be the key to another playoff appearance. Nice to see him come out to start the 6th with where his pitch count was at. 

16 minutes ago, LastOnePicked said:

Is it just me, of is this team kinda fun to follow since late April?

There is a direct correlation between triples and fun, obviously.

1 hour ago, GNess said:

Paddack may prove to a super solid mid-rotation starter. He has been putting together some real quality starts.

He was the Twins best starter in 2022 before going down. I worry about the durability, but he's been solid.

2 hours ago, h2oface said:

Has Baldelli learned something? Can it be? At least he couldn't pinch hit Margot for Larnach tonight.

I give the game ball to Paddack. I will take just 1 run and 10 Ks no matter how many hits he gives up or pitches he has to throw. 1 run does the trick for me. That's 2 great starts, in my book, in a row.

This. A SP isn't going to have every start where he gives up only a handful of hits. There will be times where he gives up plenty of base runners. But if you can strand most of them it's fine! The only issue is the pitch count will rise rapidly like it did with Paddack. 

At the end of the day we scored 6 runs off 7 hits, they scored 3 off 10. That's what counts. 

My main concern is bullpen depth. If I were Falvey, I would seriously consider making a trade now. Topa could be out for a while yet and while Stewart may be back soon, his injury record isn't good. There are several teams who clearly won't be contending this year so why not pull the trigger on a trade now?

Much much much better then Monday night!!! Huge win!!! Let’s get win and take series today!!! Go twins!!

7 hours ago, hitterscount said:

He has the potential to be higher than a mid rotation starter. He might be the key to another playoff appearance. Nice to see him come out to start the 6th with where his pitch count was at. 

Yeah, if he keeps pitching games with that many strikeouts, and only walking one batter (or even none like he did last week), then I think he certainly could vault up the pecking order. I realize the Twins will try to limit his innings over the course of this season, but right now he's in a groove. 

Discouraging to hear the news on Topa. Is this dude going to be out for the year? That makes 5 pitchers off the top of my head (Paddack, Mahle, DeSclafini, Sam Dyson and Topa) that the Twins have traded for and who have all subsequently gone down with Tommy John or other major career threatening injuries almost IMMEDIATLY after being traded for. It's very clear that someone is not doing their due diligence. You can't chalk this all up to "bad luck", this is bad scouting and bad intel. 

Speaking of Paddack the Twins did a great job signing him on the cheap after his injury. Here's hoping we can get more of this type of outing from him this year. 

Hard to complain about the starting pitching so far: Lopez, Ryan, Paddack, and Ober have all worked out perfectly according to plan. With SWR seemingly finding his footing here as the 5th starter, it's encouraging to see. 

2 hours ago, Peter said:

Much much much better then Monday night!!! Huge win!!! Let’s get win and take series today!!! Go twins!!

I hope you mean Tuesday night. I kind of enjoyed Monday night's win.

10 hours ago, stringer bell said:

Pablo needs to go deep into the game. Funderburk, Sands, Jackson and Okert don't inspire a lot of confidence. I'm sure Jax is down and I don't know if Rocco will want to use Durán less than 24 hours after throwing 18 pitches. 

Twins tend to use up their high-leverage RPs all in one shot leaving none every other game. Although they preached a good sense approach of extending RPs they have been lax returning to limit RPs to 1 inning & extending Alcala when they shouldn't. Ober pitched a good game deserving a win the day before but relying on Jackson & Okert in a higher leverage situation was foolhardy. Here today we are left in the same situation having no high-leverage arms available, in what should prove as a close game.

I am here again to advocate the need for long relief. Especially w/o Steward, we need to extend Sands a little more & bring up Varland in that role & spot start if need be. Limiting 1 or at most 2 high-leverage RPs leaves us in a better situation to win a lot more games. If there is a concern of excess non-options RPs, trade them, there is some demand.

Nice win Twins.  I'm discouraged though that Thursdays matinee game may become one of Roccos throw away games due to the overuse of the bullpen.  Too many high leverage arms that may be unavailable.  Lopez needs to go deep in the game.  Go Twins!

10 hours ago, D.C Twins said:

Mar-got-to-find-a-replacement. Cannot keep doing this all season.

Duran an absolute beast! If he has durability in his career... HOF is not off the table (yeah... I said it!)

It will be interesting to see what the Twins do when Buxton comes back.  I hope Margot becomes a roster casualty.

I really wish they would cut Margot and bring up Keirsey Jr. Or send down Kiriloff for a bit to find his swing. I'm worried about our bullpen, especially with Stewart, probably our second best reliever hurt and now Topa probably not coming back anytime soon. Maybe we should stick Varland in the bullpen as long relief man for awhile to take some of the pressure off the rest of the BP. A trade or FA signing probably couldn't hurt either, as long as we stop trading for injured pitchers:(

7 hours ago, UK Twin said:

My main concern is bullpen depth. If I were Falvey, I would seriously consider making a trade now. Topa could be out for a while yet and while Stewart may be back soon, his injury record isn't good. There are several teams who clearly won't be contending this year so why not pull the trigger on a trade now?

Seriously? The bullpen has been excellent this season and is the deepest it's been in a really long time. And no one is giving away bullpen pieces right now except for stupid level overpays. Let not get too jumpy because the bullpen had a couple of poor games: no bullpen in the world shuts down teams every single night.

4 hours ago, jmlease1 said:

Seriously? The bullpen has been excellent this season and is the deepest it's been in a really long time. And no one is giving away bullpen pieces right now except for stupid level overpays. Let not get too jumpy because the bullpen had a couple of poor games: no bullpen in the world shuts down teams every single night.

So if Jax and Duran aren't available you'd be happy handing the 8th and 9th in a close game over to the likes of Funderburk and Jackson? Funderburk is not good against RH hitters and Jackson doesn't convince me at all. With Stewart out, we're lacking on set up guys. We don't need 3 lefties in the pen either. Funderburk should be in AAA. There's definitely space for another RHP. Of course that could be Topa if he can get healthy. 

3 minutes ago, UK Twin said:

So if Jax and Duran aren't available you'd be happy handing the 8th and 9th in a close game over to the likes of Funderburk and Jackson? Funderburk is not good against RH hitters and Jackson doesn't convince me at all. With Stewart out, we're lacking on set up guys. We don't need 3 lefties in the pen either. Funderburk should be in AAA. There's definitely space for another RHP. Of course that could be Topa if he can get healthy. 

I think Sands is showing something, and maybe we see how Staumont starts to look. Historically Thielbar has been much more than a lefty specialist and it's too soon to write him off; and Stewart isn't going to be out for the year. There isn't going to be a set-up man on the level of Jax available at this point; even if a team has already given up on the year there's really only 3 that are in that boat: White Sox, Marlins, and Rockies. ChiSox aren't trading Leasure for anything less than a King's ransom, Rockies don't have anyone that I'd be excited about, and I'm not seeing much of a fit from Miami even they are starting a fire sale. (Burch smith and his 1.5 WHIP? Pass)

And frankly, the back of the bullpen is always going to get stretched if you play 3 close ones in a row, especially if the starters are struggling to get through 6.

34 minutes ago, jmlease1 said:

I think Sands is showing something, and maybe we see how Staumont starts to look. Historically Thielbar has been much more than a lefty specialist and it's too soon to write him off; and Stewart isn't going to be out for the year. There isn't going to be a set-up man on the level of Jax available at this point; even if a team has already given up on the year there's really only 3 that are in that boat: White Sox, Marlins, and Rockies. ChiSox aren't trading Leasure for anything less than a King's ransom, Rockies don't have anyone that I'd be excited about, and I'm not seeing much of a fit from Miami even they are starting a fire sale. (Burch smith and his 1.5 WHIP? Pass)

And frankly, the back of the bullpen is always going to get stretched if you play 3 close ones in a row, especially if the starters are struggling to get through 6.

I'm with you on Thielbar. And I'm not saying we should overpay - just if any opportunity arises. Texas picked up Grossman for example so I do think teams are open for business for players on 1 year deals or in the last year before FA.