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  1. jkcarew
    Are the Marlins REQUIRED to have a Conine on the roster?
  2. jkcarew
    You are correct, Sir! 😢
  3. jkcarew
    I don’t know if they’ve quit…maybe a few have. Hard for me to distinguish between folding under the pressure/stress, just plain failing, and giving up. The sheer completeness and all-encompassing scale of the collapse suggests almost everyone is experiencing at least one of the above…but impossible for me to tell who falls where. I get the frustration, that’s for sure.
  4. jkcarew
    IMO, there’s a rational argument to be made for those that DON’T want the Twins to make the post season at this point. And it has nothing to do with getting clobbered in the first round…as likely as that is. It has to do with the incentive for change. If they stumble in, is it an excuse for validation of the organization’s leadership? A cause for celebration…”look what we did despite the injuries!” ?? Something that can be sold to a largely casual and gullible fan base? If they fail, does it force the org to come clean on a significant sliver of reality? I don’t know, but it’s a legit question, IMO.
  5. jkcarew
    It’s the kind of thing that gets written when having to cover a non-serious baseball team day in and day out. Right up there with “Randy Dobnak has a good chance of controlling the Yankees” in game 2 of a playoff series.
  6. jkcarew
    To be fair to the Twins, Miami came in with 40 wins against +500 teams…one MORE than the Twins. Now they have 2 more than the Twins. A couple of evenly-matched teams. Twins battled well and just couldn’t come up with the big blow. Perspective is everything.
  7. jkcarew
    That ball would go further if Buxton would hit it to the right side.
  8. jkcarew
    Why was Miranda hitting there? Brings one of his 4 available left-handed bats off the bench (Wallner), then leaves Miranda in to K. Dart board analytics?
  9. jkcarew
    Although, anyone would seem able to improve on what we’ve been seeing lately, Polanco has been bad…slightly better in the 2nd half, but the numbers are still very ugly.
  10. jkcarew
    I think he’s probably the next most deserving behind Eeles. Fwiw, Eeles was better than Keirsey at St. Paul….higher OBP, even a higher SLG. And Eeles is 3 years younger. Keirsey probably much more valuable defensively, though? Great season for Keirsey…don’t want to take anything away from him. He’s been grinding it out for some time now.
  11. jkcarew
    Why would they do that?? A complete mystery.
  12. jkcarew
    Eeles… 111 G, 114 H, 19 2B, 8 3B, 12 HR, 67 BB, 68 K, 41 SB, 307/435/497 (932) …and this after starting the season with Southern Maryland of the Atlantic League (independent) I’m not positive the Twins consider him a prospect…although I would think they do at this point. It’s not like he’s 28 (he’s 24). One indication would be if they give him Minor League PoY. Nobody as deserving. Anyone with comparable/better numbers missed large parts of the season with injuries.
  13. jkcarew
    Yes, we’re all capable of understanding that good decisions don’t always lead to good results. And bad decisions don’t always lead to bad results. This was a bad decision. You leave Matthews in…or you bring Sands in. If Sands gives up a 600 foot blast to the lefty, the game is tied, it’s the 5th inning, and you have a guy who has a good chance of getting the subsequent right handed batters out. Duran is NOT going to win the game for Boston by hitting a game-tying home run in the 5th inning. A desperate and risky move is not warranted. And the move is VERY risky because of what Irvin is (or, more accurately, what he isn’t)…and because of the 3 batter rule. If Sands sucks in that situation, you probably have a million people saying Rocco should have left Matthews in. But, I guarantee you not one sane person would be saying he should have put Irvin in (or Thielbar, either for that matter).
  14. jkcarew
    That’s the spirit!! 😅
  15. jkcarew
    Rocco so terrified of losing the game in the 5th inning…that he lost the game in the 5th inning. The horrible offense has turned Rocco from a guy who makes questionable bullpen moves into one that makes delirious bullpen moves.
  16. jkcarew
    Wait. Margot essentially just pinch hit for Jeffers!!!!??? How can Jeffers play catcher with 10 broken fingers and 2 broken wrists?? Because he must not be able to swing a bat, right? (Not to mention Julien…or one of the pitchers.)
  17. jkcarew
    That reminds me…Raya going for the Saints tonight.
  18. jkcarew
    Thankfully, Boston lost yesterday…making them an “under 500” team. Now, Twins should take at least 2 of 3. If the Red Sox had won yesterday…no chance. Huge break for the Twins.
  19. jkcarew
    Dick Fitts…sounds like some kind of physical disorder. I think I’d stick with Richard as well.
  20. jkcarew
    Correa’s 2023 was almost completely due to BABiP. He hit the ball hard all season…as he has this season…with a 72 percentage point improvement in BABiP. Buxton’s been having his most consistently productive offensive season ever, IMO. But when you have discomfort…
  21. jkcarew
    For those scoring at home… Cleveland….not tired Detroit…were tired, now not tired Kansas City…starting to get tired Minnesota…battling a special and unique type of fatigue that fans just can’t understand (it’s particularly debilitating when facing average or better pitching) Chicago White Sox…completely exhausted since late March.
  22. jkcarew
    Baltimore is 3-7 in their last 10…which is worse than Boston…even worse than the Twins, somehow (thanks to the LA of A).
  23. jkcarew
    At the end of play on August 17, the Twins were 10.5 games up on the Tigers….with a +75 run differential relative to the Tigers. Now, they’re tied, and the Twins are -6 run differential relative to the Tigers. That was 33 days ago.
  24. jkcarew
    This started a long time ago. It’s pretty easy to argue that the Twins played a little better overall in this series than they had been. Were 9-17 in their last 26 games headed into the series. Consistently losing series to all types of teams, and nothing working well. Ironically, we’re relatively healthy…back end of rotation making baby steps…and SHOULD be capable of digging out of it. But 10-20 (in last 30 games) is a long time of being really bad, and time is running out.
  25. jkcarew
    I wouldn’t have gone with Henriquez, but I don’t get the pining for Alcala. He’s been awful…not shakey…awful…for some time now.
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