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  1. Littel will look really good in red and black...
  2. If they are proving something, I'm not listening (runs from room with hands covering ears).
  3. Has there been a Cruz sighting anywhere?
  4. I've noticed in the past when Perez gets in trouble the pattern has worked like this: One walk + one hit = Mound Visit (followed by one or two outs). Today it was: Two walks + one hit = Mound Visit (followed by meltdown). I'm not saying that would have mattered that much, but I just noticed it. Not to be argumentative, and I admit that Littell escaped the inning in which he entered, but I would hardly contend that he was effective. He gave up 10 hits and eight earned runs in just four innings. IMHO he was not effective until he had let the game get completely out of hand, and even then, he couldn't hold back the flood waters. He earned his boarding pass back to Rochester. PS-It's a good day to read the minor league report...
  5. Again, it is just 42 at bats. Let's see what happens over a five week stretch.
  6. I have no beef with any of what you have said, but he has played in exactly 11 games. And, I also don't care if he becomes Joey Gallo, BUT note that Joey Gallo takes walks--a ton of them. I don't think anyone thinks that Joey Gallo is going to be a batting champion, but he is going to drive in about 100 runs. My contention is that we let the dust settle before we say that Sano is now the most productive player on planet earth. Nobody wants the Sano that we had last year, including me, but I am taking the long road. Let's see how he is playing by the all star break before we crown him an all star.
  7. That means you must be a Chunichi Dragon fan like me. (My wife is from Nagoya!) Of course, since I am in Gunma, there are many Yomiuri fans. I watch as many of their games as I can--always hoping they lose. I've been here only 19, so you have me beat. Twins Daily is a great site. I love the discussions and info and even the back-and-forth banter.
  8. Thanks. It sounds scary enough. Let's hope for the best.
  9. Every other time I read these reports, it seems as if Hackimer has pitched X number of innings, gave up no runs, and struck out everybody. This guy needs a bump up.
  10. I noticed that all of the runs the Twins scored were earned...I thought there was an error on the throw to second that contributed to the five runs...it's a curious curiosity.
  11. The Polka-man also deserved a better fate. That was really something to remember. 76.8% strikes? Who throws that many strikes? I would have thought it was a 'typo' if not for MLB.com. Who does this guy think he is, Greg Maddux? I thought it was interesting that the competing pitchers were very similar in their approach. No one throwing 90+, but very little solid contact--keep throwing strikes and keep the hitters off-balance.
  12. I agree for the most part, but I haven't yet gulped down the Sano Kool-aid. Blasting a few homers in a couple of games does not a season make. There are signs pointing in both directions at the moment. As a sports analyst here in Japan recently said about Yokozuna (highest sumo rank) Kakuryu after he lost his bout, "Old bad habits have a way of re-appearing at the worst moments."
  13. Strike up the music the Polka-man has arrived in the big league!!
  14. It really a game of inches and even centimeters. Astudillo's line shot goes through and the Twins are sitting on six runs instead of stuck on four.
  15. Sure, hindsight is 20-20, but I would have liked to have seen a little bit more of Harper in that situation to be honest. He had just whiffed two in a row. Why not let him go longer? (I even mumbled this to myself when I saw "MOUND VISIT" appear on the screen at MLB.com.)
  16. I knew Sunday's game was a matinee, and I had predicted the Twins would sweep before I hit the hay last night. People are going to say, "Yeah, but it was the White Sox, so really?" The White Sox are nearly as good as the Indians (IMHO), especially now that the Indians are dealing with their "hard-to-swallow" injuries. The real tests are coming though; we start playing the beasts from the east this week. This will be a good test of the Twins' mettle.
  17. It's been great. I love the fact that they called up Littel instead of Stewart.
  18. Certainly Wade continues to amaze with the OBP, but he just can't seem to push his BA high enough to get over the last hurdle. This is his third try at AAA (I believe), but it's looking like the other two so far.
  19. Thanks for this. It's always appreciated. I hope I'm not jumping the gun, but it seems as if Kirilloff is finally starting to get it figured out this season.
  20. There are some perhaps subtle differences, which go over well with the players. I think his management style has less to do with dealing with millenials and more to do with simply respecting every player on the roster. Not trashing players in the media or anywhere else is simply wise managing skills. He has said that he has only two rules, "Have fun but respect the game." I think that notion gives rise to more relaxed players. He also sits players down, something I see very rarely in baseball. This idea that, "Player X is starting in right field no matter what unless he's injured and even then, we'll see how bad his injury is," is not a good long-term strategy IMHO. Look at last year. Morrison played almost every game even though we found out that he actually had a nagging injury. Rocco's style is 180 degrees away from this idea. In his world, rested and healthy players have more fun than injured and wearied soldiers.
  21. This home run thing is mind-boggling; all this without Garver and Cruz in the lineup. I have never seen anything even approaching this display of power by a Twins team--granted, I was too young at the time to remember the Killebrew era well, but I doubt it was anything like this, was it?
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