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  1. jkcarew
    Since May 24, the Royals have more wins than the Twins (as do teams such as the Reds and the Diamondbacks.) 2022 Twins are 655 win pct against the Royals and Tigers… 462 against the rest of the league. But, if we can just find a way to come back and win this one…
  2. jkcarew
    How’d we win 18% ???
  3. jkcarew
    Silver lining: with these lineups, Rocco can plan for the staff to only cover 8 innings on the road. (It’s a bold strategy, Cotton.)
  4. jkcarew
    Yep…couldn’t throw the slider where he wanted at all the entire game. Change up only ok. IMO, it’s a testament to how good the FB is (movement/delivery) that he can scuff along as well as he does sometimes.
  5. jkcarew
    I like Ryan…still high on him. But…assuming for a moment that my view is the ‘correct’ assessment…whose pipeline would he represent? ?
  6. jkcarew
    That’s 18 innings of Twins scoring with one swing of the bat for that bad guys.
  7. jkcarew
    Aaron Judge has more than twice as many SB as any Twin? Don’t they know it’s not worth the injury risk?
  8. jkcarew
    I feel like this season I’m in the film Groundhog’s Day. Every day we lose painfully. But every day I wake up, we’re only a game-and-a-half out of first.
  9. jkcarew
    1987 is irrelevant. Even if we assume there is the equivalent of that team’s talent currently on this team (probably a stretch)…1987 is still irrelevant based on the difference in playoff format. There’s a huge difference between getting hot and beating one superior opponent vs sustaining that and beating 2 far superior opponents….just to get to the dance. But you still want the Twins to get there because you need the players to get a taste…even if it means winning zero or 1 games. Plenty of new potential leaders on the club who you want to have that opportunity who haven’t had it before.
  10. jkcarew
    As a Twins fan, I hope he’s managing that club next year?…but, yes…mostly just hoping he gets the health things figured out.
  11. jkcarew
    Their best players are hurt…at least 3 guys the Twins would love to have not in the lineup tonight. Although it doesn’t explain the pitching issues as much. They’ll probably be around in 2023…undoubtably with a new mgr.
  12. jkcarew
    Not buying it. We’re talking rookies. Hrbek was a rookie in 1982. He was also 22 years old in his rookie year.. Miranda is 24. Again, not really that close. Doesn’t mean Miranda won’t be as good or better than Hrbek some day. Could happen. But it does mean Hrbek’s rookie year was very very impressive not withstanding the 73 PA he got in ‘81 at age 21.
  13. jkcarew
    He’s had a tendency to struggle mightily in August’s. Struggles moderately in all other months.
  14. jkcarew
    He’s limited defensively (to be kind), he’s limited on the bases, he’s posted a 320 OBP with a 17/73 BB/K ratio. And in doing so, he has shown signs that he could develop into a very dangerous hitter. But in one short article, he just went from underrated to overrated. Fwiw…Miranda’s OFFENSIVE season (if he finishes strong) will compare with the rookie campaigns of some Twins greats…and also the likes of Marty Cordova and DANNY SANTANA. Not really close to Hrbek’s 1982, and not in the same universe as Oliva’s 1964.
  15. jkcarew
    We need to retire the “but prospect x is y years younger than the ave competition” thing. It has limited relevancy in the lower levels, but egregiously irrelevant at the AAA level where the majority of players are the opposite of prospects…they’re certified replacement-level players, (or less). Balazovic is giving up a run per inning to the Tim Beckhams’s and Mark Contreras’s of professional baseball. Should it really mean anything that he is younger than them? The most troubling thing is that he’s been consistently horrible all year…really no flashes, followed by a few catastrophes. Just outing after outing of alarming ineffectiveness consisting of control issues AND lots of home runs. The hope is that it all goes back to control, because nothing’s been working.
  16. jkcarew
    Then he’s due!
  17. jkcarew
    OBP going into tonight… Kepler .327 Gordon .314
  18. jkcarew
    I was looking for 160-180 BA and 550-570 OPS. Can’t believe he’s underperforming. Think of where we’d be with a HOT Sandy Leon.
  19. jkcarew
    Miranda’s already batting cleanup, so…my point would be “guys who’ve been hitting more consistently” don’t really exist on the active roster.
  20. jkcarew
    Is it possible Cleveland is still sending Leon a check once a week?
  21. jkcarew
    Who did you have in mind? Me?…I’d go with Aaron Judge…unless it’s too late to add him to the 25-man.
  22. jkcarew
    Milb is more conducive to a ‘traditional’ functioning union than is MLB, where the union has done little more than negotiate on behalf of the star players for 50 years now. It’s hilarious because more money going to the minor leagues is the LAST thing the current MLBPA really wants to see. But the political ball is out of the bag, and the number of affiliated teams and players have been cut way back…so, it’s finally going to happen.
  23. jkcarew
    No tune, but against the Giants… You could tell by the way we used the walk We’re a contending team, no time to talk
  24. jkcarew
    Still, there’s something to be said for having a veteran guy like Pagan in the back of the pen who knows what’s it’s like to give up 3 runs late to blow a game, but then can come right back in the next big spot and only give up 1 or 2.
  25. jkcarew
    Pagan is what we used to call, before all the data…”not good”.
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