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  1. jkcarew
    I don’t get it. If you believe the club has a shot in the postseason, you try to put a thumb or two in a couple of leaking dikes. If you don’t, you sell…at least some. Doing absolutely nothing, is just conceding to the status quo. For the record, I think they win the division with anything other than a big sell off. So, IMO, there was an opportunity to get a win/win with some selling.
  2. jkcarew
    Completely miss the point. I’m not reacting to this week, or even this year. I’m reacting to the status quo. Years. And where did I say fire everybody? Where did I say fire ANYBODY. Straw man. If you’re happy with ALC division titles, that’s your right…great. I’m not.
  3. jkcarew
    Here’s the problem I have with the “hey we’re still in it”, “chip and a chair” crowd… You’re rewarding mediocrity. You’re playing right into the hands of an ownership and FO that sell this as ‘success’…year after year. En mass, you provide no incentive for real change, real progress. The club is still in the ALC race and could still very well win it. I hope they do, and I’ll be cheering them on. But it won’t necessarily mean I think it was a “good” season. Taking advantage of a terrible division year after year to ‘compete’, and hoping that lightning strikes in the postseason is not a plan…it’s a shell game. Honestly, I’m to the point where I wish the club was playing in a different division,…I’m guessing that might be the only thing that would light any kind of fire under this organization.
  4. jkcarew
    Pitching RACING back to the pack. Kepler wRC+ of 132 since the break (higher after tonight). Helps if you’re trading him…but makes it less likely, I suppose…since we’re in the “race”.
  5. jkcarew
    I have a higher expectation of the club. Two or three chips maybe. 83 wins in this division and this year, is not a chip and a chair. It’s a lottery.
  6. jkcarew
    In storybooks and movies, anyway. The ALC is 8-22 in the postseason since 2016 when Cleveland had the dominating pitching staff. One series win in that time…a wild card series. And how many series consecutively have the Twins lost? Every one against a better team. You need to be good.
  7. jkcarew
    Roh-roh…Fangraphs has our pitching staff at 20th in the league since the AS break…the best club we’ve played being offensively challenged Seattle. Add starting pitcher to the list of needs for the epic run to the AL pennant.
  8. jkcarew
    Nice comment. Are you worried about the Poland’s 2023 income? And why do you equate selling some veterans and clearing playing time for the younger players with quitting? Have you given up on the young guys?
  9. jkcarew
    Currently combing the wire for the next Sam Dyson.
  10. jkcarew
    But now is the time to decide, right? I agree that one loss to a bad team doesn’t mean much. But there’s a pretty substantial body of work out there that would say sell. The only thing that's saying buy is the lousy competition in this division. I say sell, anyway.
  11. jkcarew
    True. It’s more the recent lack of command that is concerning rather than the one HR.
  12. jkcarew
    Defense will always have value…but it has less value in the modern game…fewer balls in play, fewer balls on the ground. It’s a roster trend league wide…not just the Twins. In an era of small parks, and fewer balls in play, there is nothing that a defensive specialist like MAT can do out there to justify 300+ PA against right-handed pitching over the course of a season. There just isn’t. Even the Twins are admitting utter defeat by rolling Gallo and/or Castro out there against right-handed pitching.
  13. jkcarew
    What blasphemy is this!!? What if a sinkhole opens in the outfield and swallows him whole? What if it makes his agent crabby? Much better that we stay the course toward an assured and sustainable state of mediocrity. After all, you can never have too many ALC pennants.
  14. jkcarew
    No. He has not “emerged”. He’s survived. So far. And at that, only in the context of massively lowered expectations.
  15. jkcarew
    He has no idea where any of his pitches are going. FB was all over the place as well.
  16. jkcarew
    Tough loss. I still like our chances if we see the Royals in the postseason, though.
  17. jkcarew
    What if a ground ball had glanced off of him?? As usual, Rocco way ahead of you.
  18. jkcarew
    I think, in time, we’ll fondly look back at his one-run outings.
  19. jkcarew
    The more I watch this club, the more I’m convinced they’re better than the Royals.
  20. jkcarew
    For the life of me, I’ll never understand why Weaver didn’t move him to DH. After ‘73
  21. jkcarew
    Yet another single by Gallo wasted.
  22. jkcarew
    Exactly. Or 4.
  23. jkcarew
    Had to look it up…Singer averaging about 8 K’s per 9 innings.
  24. jkcarew
    Usually used as a gauge for batted ball luck. League average is usually around 290…this year 293 (new shift rules haven’t done much). Anything under is considered ‘luckier’…over, ‘not so lucky’. The more innings you pitch, the more your number will trend toward the 290-ish number Pagan’s was 320 last year, 246 this year. Only Moran and Balazovic have had better luck this season with in-the-park batted balls resulting in outs.
  25. jkcarew
    I doubt moves are made based on anything other than major league active roster needs and nothing else. Frequency not impacted by proximity of the AAA club. The only impact is the player is sometimes (when both clubs are home) immediately available to play…which is a good thing for the player and the clubs the club.
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