Yankees 5, Twins 1: Sheriff Overpowered by Big-City Bullies

1 hour ago, Parfigliano said:

Playing the Yankees you have to go with your best.  Margot and Farmer starting are not TCs best. The R-L platoon strategy to start the game is basically playing with 21 outs because those guys are auto 6 outs at least.

Margot singled in his first AB

1 hour ago, USAFChief said:

Castro was awful, and the Twins can't continue to run Martin out there.

In the same way Julien picked up his defense at second base, those two fellows need to learn their outfield positions.

Stuffed into a locker at home on the opening game of a big series.  Twins now 1-6 against the Dodgers, Orioles, and Yankees. 

A 12-game winning streak is nice but the results sure look different when the Twins aren't playing the Eau Claire School for the Blind for a change. 

How can this team can expect to win any game with Margot, Vasquez and Farmer all in the lineup at the same time? 

The Twins can't DFA all three guys, but it's almost June. At this point it's almost certain they are going to be forced into making a decision on at least one of them. 

It looked like amateur hour out there. Paddack deserved better. You just can't put Martin, Castro, and Margot in the outfield together, in the same game.  

9 hours ago, USAFChief said:

Tonight's outfield play by the Twins was not major league.

Castro was awful, and the Twins can't continue to run Martin out there. 

To top it off, tonight's lineup was about as weak as you'll ever see from a MLB team. 

 

 

I want them to keep Martin up.  They need to see what he has.  

1 hour ago, bighat said:

Stuffed into a locker at home on the opening game of a big series.  Twins now 1-6 against the Dodgers, Orioles, and Yankees. 

A 12-game winning streak is nice but the results sure look different when the Twins aren't playing the Eau Claire School for the Blind for a change. 

How can this team can expect to win any game with Margot, Vasquez and Farmer all in the lineup at the same time? 

The Twins can't DFA all three guys, but it's almost June. At this point it's almost certain they are going to be forced into making a decision on at least one of them. 

The Twins were playing their worst baseball - in years - when they played the Dodgers and Orioles. They are better teams, but I think if they played them now, the Twins would be far more competitive. Even last night, if Buxton is in centerfield, the game looks dramatically different.

The game turned on misplays and mental mistakes in the field - and the bats went ice cold - essentially, last night was a carbon copy of what the Twins have done against the Yankees more or less for the last 20+ years. I'm not going to take too much from it.

9 hours ago, USAFChief said:

Tonight's outfield play by the Twins was not major league.

Castro was awful, and the Twins can't continue to run Martin out there. 

To top it off, tonight's lineup was about as weak as you'll ever see from a MLB team. 

 

 

Almost makes a person wonder why Martin played SS for years in the minors when everyone knew he would never play there in the bigs. 

My concern was the mi or league starting lineup put up by Rocco at a home game.  You need to play your best players against the best teams.  Forget the lefty/righty bs.  Plus the Twins are 24 out of 30 in home attendance.  The fans shelling out big bucks at home deserve better.  The outfield put out there was strictly minor league.  This is why Rocco is not one the better managers.  He may have some decent analytical insight but has very little game management.  It appeared right off the bat that he had little interest in winning the game or even being competitive.  Chalk up another loss by Baldelli.

Paddack pitched a great 1st inning but he is still a work in progress. Rodon against this lineup last night is tough. Jeffers started us out well but the well went dry. Happy that Margot got a single but still can't figure why he's was place so high in the lineup. Really missed Buxton in CF, if we had him & Lewis we'd win that game. We can still win the series. Go Twins

Just like they last loss it isn't the end of the world, they are going to lose another 50 plus games this year. But even Rocco had to realize this was going to be a very tough game to win when he was writing out the lineup card.

At some point don't they have to do something with Vazquez (maybe a injury)? Since going 7/12 in a three games at the end of last month he is 1/28 with 11 K's. Actually if you take out those 3 games he is hitting .103 for the year. Having him, farmer and Martin hitting back to back to back is giving the other team's pitchers a relative break.

Instead of trusting analytics, Rocco needs to trust his players. Kepler, Larnach, Julien should have been in the lineup last night. Would it have made a difference? No one knows, but give yourself a puncher's chance.

Just now, Karbo said:

Actually, the 3 of Margot, Farmer, and Vazquez did what was expected, which is almost nothing. Taking 1/3 of your top players out and putting in guys that haven't hit at all in their place kind of starts them out short handed on talent from the start!

Yup, no lies told.

Tough game for Castro last night.  Catch that ball in the first inning and two Yankee hitters don't come to bat.  That changes the game going forward.  Also would be 9 less pitches thrown by Paddach.

And Buxton catches that ball in the fourth inning without any problem.  That's two less runs.  Yes, Castro has been a fine utility player, but not last night.  As for Martin.  Really like what he has done and will do in the future.  But I believe he needs a good part of the summer playing left and center in St. Paul.  He can be a special offensive weapon, just needs some time learning in AAA.  Expect that move will happen later this week when Buxton comes off the IL.

Pen pitched well shutting down the Yanks