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  1. Aerodeliria
    I'd like to see the Twins experiment with a six-man rotation, especially considering that Baldelli seems very concerned about arm fatigue.
  2. Aerodeliria
    ...especially many a Twins team...
  3. Aerodeliria
    Yesterday's game was a nice poke in the eye, but today's game was much more significant to me. One of the biggest games for the Twins in the last 25 years (I'm not being a bit hyperbolic here). How many times have we come back against the Yankees while playing in the Death Star over the past quarter century? Contrarily, how many times have the Twins just given the game back to the Yankees in the bottom of the ninth? Or how many times have the Twins coughed up a three or four run lead over the final innings? Something to note here: One walk over the last 18 innings issued to the Yankees. Pitchers have to attack the Yankees' hitters. Great win. Now let's take the series outright! PS-Thanks to Carlos Correa for his fearless approach while in the Death Star. It looks like it is starting to rub off!!
  4. Aerodeliria
    1) Twins pitchers should take a lesson from Ryan. Just go after those Yankee hitters. 2) Also, I hope that Julien can stick. I love his approach. 3) Honestly, if I had heard the score was 9-0 when I flipped on the TV or turned on the radio, I would have turned it back off thinking the worst had happened. 4) Let's win this series, OK?
  5. Aerodeliria
    It's great to get 2 of 3 from the Chisox with very little clutch hitting and a ton of Ks (38 in 3 games!!). The pitching and fielding have been amazing. We're gonna have to hit better against the Death Star. Are we getting anyone back on the field for the series? (Highlight: Julien gets walk number one in MLB career.)
  6. Aerodeliria
    Agreed. Teams that play bad defense tend to lose tight games. The Twins have been pretty good so far on D overall. I think this is often overlooked as a factor for wins. Miranda has been serviceable at 3rd and we've been fine at SS. Second was a little shakey with Julien, but it could be jitters. All other positions have been fine or even great. To my knowledge, they haven't thrown any games away as of yet.
  7. Aerodeliria
    I have been very critical of Baldelli's use of pitchers, but today he left Lopez in to pitch the 8th, and I was super happy about it because Lopez was really on top of his game. Lopez has started the year by shredding hitters (but Arraez has also been shredding--especially in the game against the Phillies). So far, it is a win-win for Miami and MN. As for the hitting, I am still very concerned. .228 with RISP--ranking 25th? Luckily two of the teams with a lower BA with RISP are in the Central. We need Correa to start driving in some of those runners.
  8. Aerodeliria
    The pitching has been outstanding, but the Twins had better figure out how to score a few more runs--27 runs over seven games but 18 of those in two of the games. No runs driven in again today (except in the extra frame)...0-9 with runners in scoring position...maybe Correa shouldn't have given his bat away ;-)
  9. Aerodeliria
    I bet the grand prize is a snow blower!
  10. Aerodeliria
    I think Dozier connected with two HRs bigger than the one mentioned. The biggest for me was against the Guardians, late in the season. The Twins were struggling to stay in playoff contention because the Guardians were red-hot. They had won quite a few games in a row. The Twins fought hard in that game, but the bullpen squandered the lead and the Twins fell behind 7-5 (I think) at Cleveland. With two out and two on in the top of the 8th, Dozier blasted his 3-run homer to secure the Twins win. The other one, which goes unnoticed because of what happened, was his leadoff solo HR against the Yankees in the one-game playoff. The pro-Yankee announcers were saying how difficult it would be for the Twins to scratch any runs across because of the Yankees superior pitching. When Dozier hit that blast to straight-away center, it just shut them up for a few innings and we ran the Yankee starter out of the game in the first inning (but in usualy Twins fashion, the pitching let us down--especially Santana).
  11. Aerodeliria
    Tudor was one tough customer. I was very worried about the Twins even scoring again in the game when Baylor launched that home run to tie it. For me that was the biggest HR I every witnessed from Twins lore. Hrbek's HR was just the gravy. It was practically the only time during that series that he didn't ground out to the right side or K (up to that point and the entire series following this game, Hrbek was really an automatic out, which was why I was happy that he was walked in Game 7 to load the bases for the Gene Larkin story).
  12. Aerodeliria
    I was watching the Chunichi Dragons vs. the Yomiuri Giants in the opening game here on TV. Ogasawara threw 145 pitches and was disappointed to see the manager strolling to the mound in the 8th inning. One strange thing about televised games here in Japan is that the game has a scheduled time-slot (except for the playoffs and apparently the WBC), so the Dragons put the tying run on in the 9th with nobody out and we suddenly switched to the regularly scheduled drama. That's just the way it is here in Japan!
  13. Aerodeliria
    So this is the strategy. We used up a roster spot to replace the best defender with the second best defender, so the best defender doesn't have to defend, so the best defender can get injured running the bases instead of chasing a fly ball and the second best defender becomes the first best defender.
  14. Aerodeliria
    This is one of the more interesting reads on TD. I agree that Thielbar is likely at the peak, but he is left-handed and very tough on lefties. The gamble is a big one. Who replaces him? On a side note, what is extremely weird is that in the past week, I have encountered the Monty Hall problem twice. Prior to that, I think once in my entire life....
  15. Aerodeliria
    The Twins were also not 19 times worse than Cleveland even with the injuries. The Guardians just knew how to win every game that mattered down the stretch. I think they'll even be tougher this year, so the Twins will have to up their game.
  16. Aerodeliria
    Polanco is a bit of an enigma. When healthy, his calm demeanor at the plate means that he has been as good as almost anyone at crunch time. In the field is where the flaws appear and oddly at crunch time. I hope his defense has improved, but I have serious doubts about it. Who can fill his slot if he can't play? It could be a merry-go-round again... but let's hope not.
  17. Aerodeliria
    This is the elephant in the room. Bad defensive teams lose tight games by failing in critical situations. You can't outhit bad defending. Polanco is a negative defender and always will be. His ankle might improve, but his footwork never will. We hope Miranda improves but he is not a lockdown defender. Correa is the player I worry about the least. I believe he'll play better. Kirilloff at 1st is a mystery.
  18. Aerodeliria
    I guess it comes down to trust. They trusted Berrios even when he was getting hit hard. Do they trust who they have now?
  19. Aerodeliria
    Are they banking on this? I think we have had ad nauseum discussions ending up with a general concensus that they won't likely change the way they deal with starting pitching (i.e., twice through and then go to the bullpen...) regardless of who is in charge.
  20. Aerodeliria
    Yes! Thanks. There are two nostalgic Twins memories about Dave Goltz that are tucked away in the old gray matter. The first is the near no-hitter. I was listening on my transistor radio as I was prone to do. That was a great hitting Boston team that featured the dynamic duo of Jim Rice and Freddie Lynn. I was so disappointed when Rice got that single to left. The second is the knuckle curve. I had never heard of a knuckle curve before Dave Goltz, so I thought it was so cool that we had a pitcher that threw an 'interesting' pitch. (I suppose I thought it was more like a real knuckle ball, which I was quite familiar with as the Twins faced a few knuckle ballers in those days and usually fared poorly, especially against Wilbur Wood.)
  21. Aerodeliria
    I will remain highly critical of the Arraez trade. I think it is one of the riskiest trades the Twins have--maybe the worst since the Pressley debacle. Of course, I could be wrong, but there are gambles that are far less risky than trading away probably the hitter with the best eye in baseball, who led the league in BA and was an all-star to boot. I'm always skeptical of trading away proven talent for pitching...the Twins have a very bad record in this regard. (I'm always thinking, "What does Miami believe about upside and durability of Lopez that the Twins don't?") I hope I'm wrong, but I think it is a bad trade.
  22. Aerodeliria
    The old saying, "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," should be made into a monument and put up in centerfield. (They used have the monuments in Yankee Stadium. Although I am sure in the first game of the season, Buxton would collide with the monument and be out for 6-8 weeks.). We have a batting champion. His knees are not great, but he spent most of the season in the line-up. How long will it be before we learn the lesson that the pitcher we are putting all of our hopes in turns out be not quite the same as the promotional catalogue claims? The other thing is that teams with high OBPs tend to make the playoffs. Teams with poor OBPs tend not to. Just glancing at the numbers would suggest that there is a high liklihood that the there is a positive correlation between high OBP and making the playoffs. Certainly no team with OBP of below .300 made the playoffs in 2022. You can't score runs if you can't put runners on base, so if anything, we need more Arraez-like players not fewer. I imagine this trend will be exacerbated once we get the robo-umps. Also, saying Arraez's knees are 'ready to explode' is a bit hyperbolic. I hear very few people saying let's trade Buxton away because his entire body is about ready to explode. One player has a far worse track-record than the other regarding playing. Sure, Arraez's knees have not been great, but he has been able to play the field--especially at 1B--and has been more than serviceable in the field. Let's not trade away one of our few proven hitting assets. There are plenty of other bats/arms that should be in line for the auction before the name of Arraez appears.
  23. Aerodeliria
    Personally, I think there are three glaring problems with Baldelli's approach: 1) The numbers are not a sufficient substitute for preparation and being ready to play--focus supercedes all other psychological constructs; 2) the numbers do not necessarily reflect what is happening on the field; for example, a pitcher is at 75 pitches and facing a hitter for the third time, but the pitcher in that particular game has a better than his usual slider on that night; everyone knows it, but the numbers don't (it slices both ways; the next time out, he is getting hard right from the start; the numbers say leave him in, but everyone knows his breaking balls aren't breaking and his fastball has almost no movement), and 3) the numbers indicate typical trends for the situation at hand, but looking at the data is no substitute for assessing the intensity of the moment and reacting to it--call it 'instinct' as one Daily member did. Perhaps, I could sum it up in this way: Baseball cannot be reduced to a board game (even though I think I may have a version of APBA hidden somewhere among my unused treasures). Trends and data only get the manager to the 90th percentile so to speak, but it is at that point where good managing really begins IMHO.
  24. Aerodeliria
    WAR HOO, What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Well maybe not but winning in playoff games supercedes wins against replacement IMHO. Gagne was a very slick fielder and very durable. He has a ring for the Twins. You gotta get a ring here to be the best.
  25. Aerodeliria
    "...And I think with the core group that we have, the right guidance, the right work ethic, and the right just atmosphere in the clubhouse, we can we can accomplish those things.” As the team is basically the same as last year, this statement seems far weightier than it might appear at first glance (i.e., we didn't have the 'right' guidance, work ethic or atmosphere last year...)
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