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Game Thread: Twins vs Red Sox, 6/18/19, 7:10 PM
BattleYourTailOff replied to Mill1634's topic in Archived Game Threads
Well it was a tight game but missed too many chances. Parker is in. Game over folks. Looks like we finally lost 3 in a row. -
The days of Terry Ryan created a lot of people who believed every prospect was a sacred gem even though the Twins minor league development/conditioning was not great for many (pitchers especially). Hopefully most of them have come around or at least switched sports.
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Yeah. Every indicator told me T Ryan was a GM that built his team to win the central and beyond that he left it up to luck and chance. His goal was always competitive, not dominant.
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Yeah but no reason to think that everyone is going to develop into a Berrios or a Polanco. I feel like if you’re on a potential championship team you take the trade off of giving up a player that may become a star if it nets you a World Series title. You can try to give up less but front offices aren’t dumb. Sometimes you have to “overpay”, and it’s not really overpaying it’s market value at the time of the trade.
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Overvaluing prospects is a crutch that hindered T Ryan when his team became competitive. I’m glad it seems the new regime is different.
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Hahahahaha. I’d love to see this. How many HR in a row would be hit I think they’d break the MLB record
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We are 100% a playoff team and a division winner. I see us “1 & done” as our roster stands now.
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I also think “overpaying” is necessary and justified at this point. Partially because they went into the season doing nothing to help the pen. They really need to take a bite of the turd sandwich now with giving up talent to improve this bullpen. Anything else would be a disservice to the season and the team.
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If we don’t get 2 solid relievers we FAILED with a capital F.
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Anyone else wanna pretend May hasn’t been lucky and is a solid option? Yeah. I thought so.
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I’m just glad the “old ways” of doing things seem to be in the rear view for the Twins. Talent aside we see how well ol Gardy & Rick & the boys have done with their brand of baseball in Detroit. By the time these kids make it the show they are usually all pretty mature. They don’t need to be treated like children or army recruits or guys with every name ending in “ysie”
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I demand they hit at least y homeruns but z would be best.
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Twins 2019, in sum (Also, I'm Back)
BattleYourTailOff replied to Shane Wahl's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Well ya know us damn kids with our batflips and haircuts and vidja games really ruffle some feathers. -
Hahaha. Crain Wreck was a great nickname. You’re right the bullpen does get that NFL kicker treatment from fans but we just remember bullpen failures past in the playoffs and would love to avoid that.
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it’s a good thing he’s high velocity cuz he misses his location really badly on a lot of pitches. That popout by Seager to end the game was supposed to be outside & he put it middle-in happy zone.
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I’m going to the game tonight. Hopefully get a chance for a few HR balls. I know Cruz hits him well anyway.
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Yeah... i don’t think that’s accurate. I’ll still take my chances with Sano it only to get him more experience in those situations. I don’t know if Adrianza will even be on the team in a year.
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Yeah man. August 18th is whatever. Hopefully we are rolling up on clinching shortly after then. I’m more thinking of our roster come the playoffs. If May is a high leverage guy in October it’s because he elevated his game to that level or we didn’t do enough to this bullpen. As of now. I don’t want him anywhere near high leverage situations against Astros or Yanks in October. That’s just me tho.
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Sano knows he can a mistake ball 500 ft so he will cheat a bit for that potential huge sportscenter highlight reel homer... especially earlier in his career. I believe he’s smarter in 2019 but I don’t know if he’s prepared to go all the way and take the temporary drop in power numbers to become ok against nasty pitching
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I love our regular season success to this point but it’s kinda odd to see how people forget how playoff baseball is played at another level than April-June baseball. Maybe it’s our lack of playoff appearances in the last decade that is causing amnesia.
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About the dedicated closer? Maybe maybe not. I really don’t care if the Twins have only lost 1 game after the 8th on June 12th. I care about them not Joe Nathaning in the playoffs against playoff teams. If someone can be “the guy” that gets it done. Bring him the eff in.
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We’re 100% on the same page then. I still want May on this team. Just not a 7th,8th,9th/high leverage option. And yeah it’s not a mortal sin to bring him in here in June. Past the trade deadline tho, definitely.
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It definitely is baseball. I think there’s better options than May we can add to this team in this game of Major League Baseball, would you agree?
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Yeah. That’s not a good trait to have on a team with our offense if you wanna be a high leverage pitcher. Or a high leverage pitcher in general.
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^ same. Even if May has a few “good” weeks starting now I hope the FO doesn’t think it solves a gaping problem. This is a new era post Terry Ryan after all.
