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  1. Nine of twelve
    There is a heckuva a lot more to playing shortstop than fielding ground balls. The decision-making ability, positioning, and teamwork required to play the position well can be acquired only by in-game experience.
  2. Nine of twelve
    We had this discussion already on another thread. But I'll say it again: The most important thing regarding Lewis is to advance his development as far as it can be advanced this year before Correa leaves. (Presumably.) That will not happen if he is on the major league roster. To those who say that he has earned a spot on the big club, I don't necessarily disagree. But truly, what he has earned most is for the team to support him by putting him in the situation in which he can become the best player he can be. Keeping him on the major league roster this season may give the team an extra win or two, but playing him at short every day, whether in the majors or at AAA, is what is best for Lewis and for this franchise.
  3. Nine of twelve
    Bingo. Sometimes the only way to learn is to learn the hard way.
  4. Nine of twelve
    If that's the case, how do you explain that teams were shifting the second baseman to the left side of the infield for Killebrew before there was even a team in Oakland?
  5. Nine of twelve
    It's possible, maybe likely, that it's your attention span that is the issue, not the game.
  6. Nine of twelve
    Last night was the second time recently that Pagan has loaded the bases in the ninth and escaped by the skin of his teeth. This is not acceptable. I realize we don't have a stereotypical closer on our staff, and maybe we don't need one, but right now my choice for save situations in the ninth inning would be not Pagan.
  7. Nine of twelve
    I'm not an expert, but I've heard many baseball people say that when a pitch is in the dirt and there are men on base the goal of the catcher is to keep the ball in front of him. Trying to glove it is more likely to result in the ball getting away, allowing runners to advance.
  8. Nine of twelve
    I've always thought the design of the glove logo was clever, even if it is kind of '70's.
  9. Nine of twelve
    I say they are on pace to win 154 games.
  10. Nine of twelve
    French toast. Waffles too.
  11. Nine of twelve
    I'm so late to the thread that this may not get many views, but I think I have a very significant point. One of the thoughts that I had when I watched last night's game-ending play was this: where the hell was the left fielder? (Austin Meadows.) Watching the replay revealed he was wandering pretty much aimlessly in deep left center field. A major league player should always--ALWAYS--act based on what he can do to contribute to whatever may happen to take place on the field of play. As soon as the ball was struck in the direction of right field he should have been running fast in the general direction of the left side of the infield. Then, as soon as it became apparent that the throw from right field was coming to home plate he should have put himself in position to back up third base. Hasse was obviously culpable for that brain cramp of a throw but had Meadows actually been using his brain instead of letting it idle he probably would have prevented the tying run from scoring and certainly would have prevented the winning run from scoring. Moreover, with Urshela's confounding advance to third base there would probably have been at least one out recorded on the play. It goes to show that errors of omission can be just as damaging as errors of commission.
  12. Nine of twelve
    I've been a Twins fan since the earliest years. I have only very vague memories of the 1961 season but started to pay more attention the following year. While my dad was a fan I credit my mom with making baseball part of our family's lives. There weren't very many televised games back then but she usually had the radio tuned in with Herb Carneal and the rest of the crew.
  13. Nine of twelve
    And that was on a 45° day. That ball goes significantly farther on a warm humid afternoon.
  14. Nine of twelve
    With this lineup this game could be the blueprint for a lot of games this season. Score a lot of runs with power, enough to provide a cushion for our pitching staff.
  15. Nine of twelve
    This is maybe one of the more recognizable sound blasts in regular rotation at Target Field but it's unfortunately only average in the level of obnoxiousness. Next time you attend a game there I challenge you to actively pay attention to how loud and frequent and unrelenting the blasts of sound are. It will be illuminating, but a caveat: it could potentially forever ruin the ballpark experience for you. I realized I had learned to tune it out when I attended a game in 2019 with a friend of mine who commented thusly: "I wonder what they would do if they had epilepsy awareness night at a Twins game." Now I can't not notice it. It's such a shame that I can't go to see my favorite team playing my favorite sport in a beautiful stadium without being assaulted by the PA system.
  16. Nine of twelve
    The problem is that the Twins organization itself is the one and only source of the overstimulation that this space seeks to shut out. IMHO, among other things the organization would do well to stop the loud and pounding music over the PA system after every pitch. (When I say after every pitch it's a slight overstatement. When I say loud and pounding it's a slight understatement.)
  17. Nine of twelve
    Agree on all.
  18. Nine of twelve
    And if two people do not concur that is concurrent concurn't.
  19. Nine of twelve
    The Yankees and their fans deserve it.
  20. Nine of twelve
    I do not believe that the Correa signing came out of the blue. That just doesn't happen when this much money is involved. My guess is that Falvey and Levine (and, of course, Pohlad), and Boras (and, of course, Correa) have been working on this for some time, possibly since before the lockout ended. The preceding transactions the Twins made were almost bizarre unless the FO knew that they had something solid in the works. That they were able to get this done with no one catching wind of it is practically miraculous. Edited to add: And if this season turns out to be a successful one for our favorite team Falvine will have guaranteed themselves tenure for a long, long time.
  21. Nine of twelve
    I've decided to try to convince myself that Correa wasn't directly involved in the cheating in Houston, that he only stayed quiet because he was contractually obligated to stay there and didn't want to make waves until he left, that he has completely rehabilitated himself, and that everything he does while in Minnesota will be totally clean and great.
  22. Nine of twelve
    There are two catchers here. Remove one of them and insert Arraez as DH. 1. Arraez 2. Buxton 3. Polanco 4. Correa 5. Kiriloff 6. Sano 7. Kepler 8. Urshela 9. Sanchez/Jeffers
  23. Nine of twelve
    Every silver lining has a cloud.
  24. Nine of twelve
    I don't have the time or desire to find this out on my own so I'll ask: Are other teams going this crazy or is it just us?
  25. Nine of twelve
    I'd swap Kepler and Kirilloff. I'd also put Polanco at 2B and Arraez at DH.
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