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  1. jkcarew
    The MASTER!!!
  2. jkcarew
    France in full retreat.
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    My bad. Cell phone connection is terrible where I am, I misheard. Apparently the money was coming into an establishment in VERGAS Minnesota (p. 354), not VEGAS Nevada. And it wasn’t $49.5 million, it was 49 dollars and 50 cents. Word on the street is, a couple of lads called the Karlsson Twins pooled their money for the Twins to score one or more at 10-1. Also sometimes referred to as the Karlsson Cousins, for some reason. But, I digress. PARTY IN VERGAS!!
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    Sources are saying a ton of smart money in Vegas has the Twins breaking out in the seventh.
  5. jkcarew
    The objective wouldn’t be to be better now, would it. Now is lost, and tomorrow doesn’t look any better.
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    At Tropicana it hits a stanchion. Must not have replaced it with Steinbrenner Field in the computer program. The other accepted answer is…Yellowstone.
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    At least we’re having the discussion we should be having. Sell. Not buy. I’m fine with almost all of the expiring contracts going for anything more than a bag of balls. Selling high (and healthy) on Buxton should be considered…but even for a spectator offer (which this isn’t, even taking into account the financial aspect)…this FO doesn’t have the spine to do that, if it meant winning even one less game in 2025. “We competing! We’re in 2nd place!” Besides, of all players, trading Buxton would scream the loudest: “We failed!!!” Not happening.
  8. jkcarew
    Funderburk takes on the Jonah Bride roll on the mound for a week. Although, he may be a slightly better hitter than Bride.
  9. jkcarew
    Yeah…Castro’s not being used as a reliever. He’s started 9 of the 14 games he’s appeared in…and piggybacked the other times. Good month nonetheless.
  10. jkcarew
    Two nice starts in a row for SWR. Way to go, young man! It was just a matter of time before the Marlins would succumb to the relentless pressure that is the Twins offense. Also of note: as I type this, the Twins are just a few outs on Chicago’s north side from absolutely blowing past the Guardians into second place in the ALC. I think I can actually hear Poland and Falvey patting each other on the back right now.
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    That was a ‘back-foot slider’ from SWR. It struck the back foot of a fan 15 rows up in the right field bleachers as he was engaged with a beer vendor.
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    Darn. I was hoping we’d follow up that first-inning explosion with more runs.
  13. 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.
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    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).
  15. jkcarew
    My takeaway: Tarik Skubal is nothing special.
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    Klein would be a great story. Great body/frame to work with as a pitcher.
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    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.
  18. 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. 😶
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    All we can do is pray that he clears waivers.
  20. jkcarew
    No runners left in scoring position! Nice to see.
  21. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
  24. jkcarew
    Hello darkness, my old friend.
  25. 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.
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