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  1. jkcarew
    Twin’s aren’t a 40-45 team. They’ve had one very long duration (going back to last year and into May of this year) where they were MUCH worse than that. Then 2 weeks where the pitching staff was insanely hot. Followed again several consecutive weeks of being MUCH worse. The streak was the worse thing that could have happened. It makes for the annual “we’re in it” excuse for this spineless organization to once again do nothing. Groundhog’s day, over and over.
  2. jkcarew
    It’s ironic to me that in the year where they finally just cut him loose…no DH silliness, no excessive rest days, letting him go on the basepaths…that he’s having his most consistently effective AND healthy year of his career. (knocking on wood, with fingers crossed).
  3. jkcarew
    My takeaway: Tarik Skubal is nothing special.
  4. jkcarew
    Klein would be a great story. Great body/frame to work with as a pitcher.
  5. jkcarew
    Culpepper deserving. Meanwhile, Gabriel Gonzalez is outperforming him…narrowly, but at a higher level…and is a full year younger than Culpepper. Yes, not at a premium defensive position, as is Culpepper. Still, odd he wouldn’t get a nod. ERod has been injured as usual, but I wouldn’t say his performance this year makes a compelling case for him to get the honor. Although, I guess prospect ranking has more to do with selection for this particular event than do current-season results. Probably why Gonzalez was not selected.
  6. jkcarew
    The total combined career bWAR for players signed by the Twins in the 2015 draft sits at 4.1. 4.8 of that is tied up in LaMonte Wade. 😶
  7. jkcarew
    All we can do is pray that he clears waivers.
  8. jkcarew
    No runners left in scoring position! Nice to see.
  9. jkcarew
    Fun with really weird numbers… I noticed today that Gabby Gonzalez already has 43 hits in 31 games with Wichita. And 5 RBI. That’s right…FIVE. The hits include 14 XBH, although no HR. That’s a full-season pace of about 215 hits and 25 RBI. For context, in 1972, Carew won his first batting title without hitting a home run. He accumulated 170 hits, with 50 RBI. That’s with a PITCHER batting in front of him. It’s not like Wichita can’t score runs, either. I don’t know how 5 RBI on 43 hits is even possible. Some combination of leading off an inordinate number of innings (he’s typically 2 or 3 in the lineup)…and having really really bad luck with RISP. He rarely strikes out making it even more odd that he hasn’t stumbled into more than 5 RBI simply on sac flies and fielder’s choices.
  10. jkcarew
    Should I be worried that Em Rodriguez struck out in 3 of 4 at-bats in the Florida Complex League on Thursday, and then has disappeared again for a couple of days? I mean, the 3 of 4 K’s in the Florida Complex League is one thing…but it’s the disappearing that I’m wondering about.
  11. jkcarew
    Not to mention the discomfort issue caused when I put a death-grip on both arms of my captain’s chair every time he releases a pitch.
  12. jkcarew
    Hello darkness, my old friend.
  13. jkcarew
    Can we end the apologizing for the Prielipp hiccups, please. The start was bad. Period. The error notwithstanding, he allowed 9 of 18 batters to reach…with a HR and double mixed in there. He struck out 1 of 18 batters…1 of 18 makes Randy Dobnack look like Nolan Ryan. The lengths we go to to preserve the ‘dominant’ narrative for some prospects often approaches the absurd. He’s a 24-year-old guy with a very good arm, and a significant injury history, who’s still in AA learning to pitch, and build up as a potential starter, at the professional level. He hasn’t been great, he hasn’t been dominating.
  14. jkcarew
    I’ll say this about Rocco…he’s never tanked a game any worse than Wilson tanked that game for Seattle. Somewhere very early in the bottom of the 6th (2-0 to start the half-inning)…he decided he really, really, REALLY wanted a rested pen for his game tomorrow against their division rival. Just sat and watched Pop throw batting practice. The regulars followed suit the best they could with one and two-pitch at bats (at least until there were 2 out in the 9th). It was comical how bad both teams wanted to be on the plane by the top of the 7th.
  15. jkcarew
    Oh, THAT’s what Lewis is doing. Also, let’s not forget about the changes…according to TD…that the staff made with Festa this spring. If not for that article, I would have thought that Festa had taken a significant step backward…simply because of his lower K-rate, higher BB-rate, higher EV, and much higher ERA. Ignorant me. Getting guys out is overrated. Apparently, so is taking what you’re good at and refining command. Much better to take a guy who’s had almost nothing but success, wait until he’s on the verge of breaking through at age 24-25…and then retool him. The logic is airtight.
  16. jkcarew
    You rarely see players in both dugouts groaning when another batter reaches base. You did today in the 9th.
  17. jkcarew
    Fair points, but TK is the last guy I’d pick for an analogy with Rocco. When TK had bad talent, they lost a ton of games, but they still played with some sense of a standard for doing things fundamentally correct. It was expected and demanded. Didn’t matter if they were 20 games under there would be consequences for poor preparedness and mental lapses. He would also call out the FO when they gave him —it to work with.
  18. jkcarew
    One lame duck doing another a solid? Malpractice? Incompetence? Sabotage? Indifference? All of the above? Any fan should be extremely unhappy if even one of the owner, FO, or manager are in place come November.
  19. jkcarew
    There are no more “crushing” losses to be had this season. That ship has sailed. None of them matter…nor do the wins. The rest of the season consists of incidental losses, and the occasional incidental win. Solidly bad, and rudderless.
  20. jkcarew
    It could be considered building a pipeline…but it sure isn’t development. And the narrative has centered on development. Festa, Matthews, etc, absolutely could come to fruition…but they’re 25 and still haven’t arrived. The development narrative was build on things like spin rates and/or velo of mid-round prospects in AA…everything except actual major league results…or even major league arrivals. I’ll give them credit for the Ryan and Lopez trades. Can you imagine the situation without them, or without Gray as well.
  21. jkcarew
    Seattle’s starter tonight was taken in the same draft and same round as Travis Adams. Reject the asinine (is and always has been) narrative that this organization knows anything more about identifying and developing major league pitchers than the average franchise…if that. However much you despise this organization right now, you don’t despise them enough.
  22. jkcarew
    Well…That’s what it looks like. Makes me even more desperate for a sale to happen.
  23. jkcarew
    I agree with the contemplation of a Buxton deadline trade THEORETICALLY. But do you trust a lame-duck admin to make the right deal for the franchise’s future? Or are they not really lame-duck? What a mess.
  24. jkcarew
    Aside from the home runs, the Twins scored 3 runs on 13 hits and 3 walks. Yep. 3 runs from 16 base runners…and even including a Buxton stolen base. So even in a game where the bats completely break out, you still see how awful this team is at moving runners and baserunning. And then, there’s the pitching.
  25. jkcarew
    In other news, the US Geological Survey has just renamed the Marianas Trench, the Marianas Rut.
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