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  1. That wasn't even CLOSE to the worst game of the year.
  2. The Yankees swung through Berrios' low pitches in the first inning and then laid off them the rest of his outing. He only threw his offspeed stuff low and well out of the zone and lived off his fastball. He didn't adjust. Combined with the defensive errors, that's what lost the game.
  3. That’s not how this works.
  4. I would have used Schoop to start against lefties so I don’t know what the hell I’d do with him if that’s not the case.
  5. Someone should probably let him know that catcher defense is kind of important.
  6. Arraez over Schoop. Didn’t see that coming.
  7. That’s certainly feasible. I’m hoping that they’re so confident Max is healthy that they didn’t feel the need to add Wade.
  8. If Kepler can't play, I suppose they could just swap him for Wade in the ALDS. If the Twins advance, Kepler would then be unavailable for the ALCS.
  9. Extra rest, adrenaline, nerves... There are plenty of reasons why pitchers are often a little shaky going into the first postseason game.
  10. No, he's really not. The problem is that his best trait - framing - is largely lost on viewers. But Castro is a good defensive backstop. And given his .851 OPS against RHP this season, a good option to complement Garver.
  11. Huh, that's an interesting point, one I hadn't considered. But you're right. If Kepler is still banged up, it's hard to think they'd roll with Cave and only Cave as a CF option.
  12. For what it's worth, I totally read The Office bit as retaliation to that post as satire. It also made me laugh because Michael's sheer hatred of Toby is always funny, particularly that scene.
  13. I don't think he gets rest, he just doesn't start. The moment Paxton is gone, Schoop will follow, methinks.
  14. I can't help but wonder if the Twins are considering using an opener in front of Gibson for game four and then trying to squeak three innings out of Kyle, hoping that over a week of rest will give him enough oomph to get through a lineup once.
  15. Not 100% dictated but probably no less than 75%. My take is also "how Berrios goes, so go the Twins".
  16. Now you're getting it.
  17. For those of you wondering, this "_____ > Joe Mays" bit goes all the way back to the day of that game on the now-defunct ESPN boards. Somebody melted down after Mays' performance and typed "______ > Joe Mays" for the first time (did it start with him being compared to Sean Bergman?). From there, as the internet is wont to do, things only escalated and within a few hours, poor ol' Joe was being unfavorably compared to things like "Avian Flu", "Herpes", and "Carrot Top".
  18. No big surprises there. Gibson makes it, which I agree with... If you get into a pinch, at least Kyle gives you some chance of pitching a couple of effective innings, even in his depleted state. A bummer for Wade, though. That kid impressed me, even if his numbers don't really show it yet.
  19. Especially on a team that plans to throw two bullpen games in a five game series. Odorizzi and Berrios are needed to stabilize the bullpen and not burn the wick at both ends.
  20. I agree but Bemidji is roughly 80% larger than Thief River Falls. Who knows, MLB's cutoff could be somewhere in between those two populations (assuming subscriber rate across both populations are similar).
  21. Even better than that: the Twins have a bunch of pitchers, many of whom will not make the postseason roster. Have them pitch at game speed to some of the injured guys. I wonder if that's a thing MLB teams do? It makes a lot of sense.
  22. On regular rest, I want Odorizzi. Berrios is more sink or swim while Odorizzi is more of a steady performer, especially in the second half. It’s interesting to me how Twins fans look upon those two pitchers so differently when Odorizzi has been a slightly better pitcher in 2019.
  23. I get it, I wonder the same thing myself... but that's a gut feeling not based in reality. Any quick hook you give Dobnak, you can give Odorizzi. And who is the better pitcher? That's pretty clear. It's Odorizzi. The only thing that convinces us Dobnak will be good is his quick hook, not actual talent.
  24. $5/mo is not an inflated price if you already have the infrastructure built and in place, which is why I brought up MLBAM and MLB.tv in the first place. Or maybe you think MLBN gets more money than that by bundling into a $10/mo package with 12 other stations? Again, I don't think you appreciate how easy it is to pull in something like this to the MLBAM tech. They don't do it because they don't want to, not because it's not feasible or, god forbid, easy. They are sticking themselves in playing the existing game, which is a game of diminishing returns and user refusal. At some point in the near future, this is all going to implode. They could have gotten out in front of that but they're not. They continue to play this losing game of forcing users into doing things they don't want to do. Remember that MLBAM actually *broke* this idea in the early going with streaming tech in the first place (which is why they're a LEADER now), yet they're not pushing forward with it. Without MLBAM, where would we even be with sports streaming? And how many "bridges did they burn" by doing that? Do you think that networks just laid down and accepted that MLB would stream baseball games over the internet in 2002, completely circumventing the entire cable subscription network in the process? Yet MLBAM is doing just fine today, don't you think?
  25. I was waiting for someone to do it.
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