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That blows my expectations then .... I was expecting 7 shutout innings in game 7 of the World Series from Dobnak and six up/ six down via strike out from Graterol to finish it off ... Arraez can take care of the single run against Kershaw with a perfectly placed inside-the-park home run in the top of the 9th Anything less, and I'm never watching the Twins again.

Hypothetical, but highly possible situation ... 39 of 40 decisions have been made regarding the off-season roster (including how many spots to leave open for FAs) before the Rule 5 draft. Are the Twins protecting Javier or Celestino?

Let's hope Oakland is cold out of the shoot like this season.

Oakland and Seattle in March. At least someone was thinking.

He needs to move up quickly, since he'll need to be on the 40 already.

Gotta do something to justify adding talent to the 40-man ... These guys are going to get picked off left and right come Rule 5 time otherwise.

... and a .500 OBP for the top 4 .... Great day!

"Pineda and Jose Berrios both have ERA’s south of 3.20 since June 1st, and Kyle Gibson is performing well with a 3.97 mark. Throwing out his nine-run blowup against the Yankees, Jake Odorizzi owns a 3.18 ERA in his last 4 turns and was the ERA leader early in the season. Wanting a starter at the deadline was a fair hope for the front office and fans alike, but with only Marcus Stroman as a realistic option, opportunity was hardly missed by passing on guys like Mike Leake, Tanner Roark, and Jordan Lyles." Giving Berrios a pass on a terrible day at the park is OK, because he has been really good otherwise. The rest of this take is nonsense. Pineda is hurt again. How can the team realistically count on him when it's going to count? Anyone can throw out a terrible start and make numbers look better overall. That's misrepresentation with Odorizzi, because the guy can't go deep in ballgames and hurts the team in other ways by doing that. Sweeping his turd against the Yankees under the rug is a huge cop-out. Gibson only performs well against bad teams when nothing extra is asked of him. Needs some innings eaten up after an extra-innings marathon. Nope. Fail. Need to set the tone early in a huge series with your biggest competitor. Nope. Fail. Badly. You know what Mike Leake does well. He pitches deep into ballgames. Writing him off in sour grapes fashion isn't really fair. I'd much rather have him that Martin Perez or Kyle Gibson in the rotation. I would trade both for Leake today, if given the opportunity, and never look back. I'd even throw in another prospect to sweeten the pot for the other party. It's going to be very interesting this off-season right around the time of the Rule 5 draft. The Twins will have to expose some guys. They might even have to expose some guys that they traded for in 2018. If they get selected, that will be a big Falvine fail, because they made the bed by not properly utilizing the assets. If they couldn't get takers on those assets when there was a chance to improve the team, then they are bad salespeople and perhaps someone else should be in charge. Twisting the parts around to present a better picture is lame. Painting the pitching issues as not-as-bad-as-it-seems and then stating that the Atlanta series was only lost because of some clunker pitching performances is self-contradiction. Calling it like I see it ... One and done on October 2, or at best a series loss (3-1) at Target Field on October 8. This pitching staff just doesn't have the depth for anything more.

Done with Gibson. He's not a gamer. As loosely stated above, he never delivers when it really matters. I suppose one could argue that all the games are either worth one win or one loss, but there are times when the tone needs to be set or the team needs a pickup. Gibson never delivers in those situations. Don't even think about QO. Just let him walk and he can go disappoint a different fanbase.

Thanks for sharing! My brother is a Marlins fan, so we went to the first game at that stadium against the Cardinals a few years ago. It was hopping at the ballpark that day until ownership carted the shadow of Muhammed Ali out on the field. I've never been a member of a larger group of people in awkward silence. Kyle Lohse beat Josh Johnson. The Marlins had cheerleaders then. Do they still have them now? I haven't seen cheerleaders at too many baseball fields. The Bobbleheads were cool. Sound like you had a fun trip. Good stuff!

No kidding. Paging Ann-Margret!

Yeah ... this article : Not aging well at all

I liked that last pitch from a tall guy last night (8/5). Congrats to Colina! He seems to be well on his way to at least the top 20 prospects (two spots should be opening via Arraez and Thorpe soon). I'd once again like to get excited about Ober, but his knack for getting hurt gives me pause. It's the same type of pause that happens when I want to hope that we will all look back to August 5th, 2019 as the night that Trevor May became a true bullpen beast. Damn you, Molly Hatchet, and your damn song too.

Doesn't Arraez have enough MLB PAs now that he is no longer a prospect?

Eddie is just being Eddie. I'd like to see that final step in maturity, but, other than the current Cruz, there isn't another guy that I would want to have the ball or the bat than Eddie with the game on the line. I'd like to see the micro-tantrums after pop-ups and the sulks after grounders right at infielders on the right side stop, but I know that he is probably upset at himself for letting his team down. The Buxton situation is the one that concerns me. If this were the Yankees or the Dodgers, you just pay four starting outfielders. This isn't the Yankees or Dodgers, so you have to have a Marwin Gonzalez. My outside the box thinking is to approach Royce Lewis about being the Marwin Gonzalez replacement. I think he has the makeup for it and he likely has the ability to be a plus defender at many of the positions. Do that, and you can probably afford to pay Buxton and have a plan B for the yearly IL stints. By the time Lewis' control time is up, Buxton will be 32 or older. At that point, you can choose one to attempt to keep: an aging Buxton or a Boras-repped Lewis.

I agree, but they don't need Stashak to be a top four guy right now. They just need him to do what he did last night. Come in, pitch two innings and throw 15 of 18 for strikes when the game is all but decided. Don't make Rocco and Wes even think about warming someone else up.

The postgame Romo interview made me happy. Cruz and Romo will be invaluable during a playoff push.

Nice pickup ... Could have just used Andrew Vasquez and been in the same position

The Yankees getting nothing is the best part of this deadline event.

Maybe the Twins wanted Vallimont, but the Fish said, "Well, then you have to take Romo off our hands." "If we're going to take Romo, then you have to give us someone else ... One of these guys .... We'll give you a few days to think about it." Vallimont = Rule 5 Eligible 2021 Good move.

Hopefully, one of those three will be the Twins.