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  1. beterday
    I think it is very predictive that one of the guys who needs to have a breakout season is pinch hit for with the game on the line. I am still able to remember getting excited when Royce Lewis came up to bat and then he did not disappoint. The Twins season depends on Royce having a good year and then Derek pinch hits for him in the 9th and the tying run on base? Tell us you have no faith on the first game of the year? How many teams pinch hit for their lead off hitter based on righty-lefty matchup?
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    I have been watching the Twins with the knowledge that we have no bullpen. Me and my 12 year old grandson have as much chance as what Rocco has to choose from when the starters go down. After the trade deadline, I watched Michael Tonkin come in to save a game and he was successful, but I know what Michael Tonkin is, I've seen this movie before. The players they picked up - Kriske and Hatch - are not worse than, but certainly not better than, the leftovers from that deadline - Funderburke and Topa. We are not rebuilding we are a place for minor league baseball players to find work for a couple months. Are we afraid that putting some younger players out there will ruin them for any future. What about the few major league players we have left? Ryan wasn't sick from a physical cause, but from the mental anguish and disgust he feels for watching this. We are getting a good look at what we have for next year and if we are discerning, we've got Buxton and Keaschall, and maybe Royce Lewis and Brooks Lee,(maybe not). I think we are watching baseball history being made here.
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    Thank you for the honest article. I have stopped watching an unwatchable team play baseball, but still turn them on when I am in the house or in the car. I'm paying $254.00 per month for cable just to get the Twins and that will stop this year.... But what I do hear and see is incomprehensible. Mistakes that are unexplainable, Bader losing sight of catching the ball in trying to get a good throw to home, Castro with a lead-off double with tying or go ahead run, then getting thrown out going to 3rd on a grounder. Shake your head kinda stuff. Since the Houston series, muttering, "this is how good teams win games". Time to give some new blood a chance, including Rocco gone.
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    This is the first time management has done anything about it. I have yelled at the screen to "Send him down" a hundred times to Julien and then he went down. Career shot in Minnesota - now that Brooks Lee has arrived - and he can take his stubborn attitude of "I can tell when a pitch is 1/4" outside" somewhere else. Maybe Buxton won't become the next Sano!! And Wallner will have to quit striking out or he, too, will remain in St. Paul.
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    Who would not have predicted a better team with the addition of #1: Buxton fully healthy and playing center field. I suspected, but hoped against, his creating a competition with Sano for the worst hitting approach and most predictable strike outs in the major leagues. #2 Of course we would get a full year out of Royce Lewis. Nobody is so unlucky as to keep losing season after season to injury; #3 Julien is not going to regress, his going to become Tony Gwynn or Rod Carew, not continue to beat his head against the wall trying to prove to umpires he can see a pitch as 1/4 inch off the plate and then have the umpire call him out on strikes; #4 (probably #2) Correa is going to be healthy after an entire year lost to Plantar Fasciitis; #5 Alex Kiroloff is a hitter. After being injured throughout his career "he is fixed" and becomes a mainstay on-base-with-power guy. Griffin Jax says everybody is pressing and its easy to see why, everybody is lousy (Webster def: extremely contemptible or nasty) and its hard to be confident when the whole team sucks.
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    This trade is really about Polanco for Julien. If Polanco stays he blocks Julien and what he might become. Julien needs to be more than a DH or he gets traded next. Nobody might turn out from Seattle, but there is a chance on everybody they got and now Julien starts at 2nd base.
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    I keep wishing I could quit caring, but when Carlos Correa swings and misses on a pitch 3 feet outside, I still scream, "Why do you swing at that"? And then he looks at a called third strike right down the middle that Roy Smalley doesn't even bother the tell us, "He doesn't miss that very often", causes double the frustration. Day game yesterday, still working so I had to miss game, and first thing I checked was the score and my heart sank when I read they lost. Herb Carneal, Halsey Hall, (wasn't the third guy Ray Scott?) in the front seat of a Nash Rambler in the early 60s and I'm still cursed with a passion for the Twins - has lead to a most unsatisfying year, but still hoping.
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    That play by Taylor in center is a benching worthy offense. Duran pitched great and Milwaukee hitter did better, getting a bat on that pitch. Correa would have swung and missed by 4 feet, then looked at the umpire.
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    Turned on the game with Sonny throwing a no-hitter and got to watch bases loaded, three strikeouts in a row debacle. After the three runners getting on - I love that Kepler can hit again - I told my wife that they would strikeout three times in a row here, and she told me I was a pessimist. I have enough history to be able to make these predictions correctly and not call it pessimistic. My hope was that Royce would be different. More of the team molding the same kind of hitter as the rest of the team or just not gonna be that clutch guy either.
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    I was excited for this season with the Correa signing and, for all I knew, Buxton being healthy. How anyone could predict the abysmal way that those two have performed this year is beyond me (nobody did predict it, that I read) . Vasquez was another bad surprise. Signing Gallo was a huge mistake only because they continue to play him. Keeping Kepler may not have been that bad of an idea. We need Royce Lewis back and now for Polanco to hit. I think the blame for the most part is on the players for under performing so horribly.
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    Miguel Sano became helpless against the low, outside breaking pitch to the point where I, as a fan, could predict the pitch sequence - fastball down the middle to get ahead, 1st breaking ball, low and outside, for swinging, strike two, then one, or two, fastballs high and inside, before finishing the at bat with another low and outside breaking ball. Sometimes eliminate the waste pitches, just go for the 3 pitch strikeout. Buxtion is now the same hitter. Watched him swing at, at least, two pitches a foot outside and breaking low and yet he also took at least one fastball down the pipe in each at bat. A foul ball is the best we can expect. Confidence has to be in horrible mode to celebrate that emotionally on drawing a walk - still took a fastball down the middle. Dan Gladden says, "He won't miss that pitch very often" when an opposing player hits a home run off a Twins pitcher, but it is never mentioned when Buxton misses one such pitch each at bat. Start with moving him to the 9 hole, not as punishment, but as a confidence builder.
  12. beterday
    Reading Twins Daily this morning and have decided that the trade failure is forgivable, however, two or three comments on hitters being "directed away from their strength for more power" is concerning enough for me to jump on the bandwagon of "get rid of 'em". In the profit/cost evaluation of strikeouts, nobody has spoken of the fans KNOWING Buxton is going to strikeout, or KNOWING Jeffers is going to strikeout with loaded bases costs the fans.
  13. beterday
    This must be historical!!! Never in my 63 years of Twins fandom have I witnessed as "talented" a lineup be this bad. Where are Lew Ford, Bernie Allen, and Nick Punto? And Jake Cave must still be out there somewhere. Robbie Grossman, for ....... sake is raking for the Rangers. I watched the futility last night in its entirety and felt like I was watching a movie of 9 (at least) baseball careers ending. Kepler not going to second (and his not hustling for the foul ball earlier in the year) shows he would rather be painting sceneries in Italy. Lastly, Garlick for Kiroloff when the lefty comes in, this can't be happening.
  14. beterday
    Can someone here explain hitting to me. I played baseball as a high schooler and couldn't hit very well; bunting, and opposite field punch shot, and run like crazy. But I grew to be able to see a strike vs. a ball. I don't understand the twins batting woes. Seems to me every batter gets the "one pitch to hit" and 100% are either taken for a strike (72%) or swung on and missed (28%). Ninety three mile per hour fastball "middle - middle", as Dan Gladden would say, and nobody hits it, except the other team. I've seen a lot of hitters put together a really good at bat where they foul off "nasty pitches", but those hitters are on the other team. Farmer is typical, he shakes his head at a pitch 1/2 inch outside being called strike three and then next at bat swings at a curve 3 feet outside. What is the conversation between Buxton and the hitting coach when he strikes out over and over again. Is he really another Sano?
  15. beterday
    I was ready to see Pagan rather than Jax who has been losing games lately. I think he is also not a high leverage guy anymore, if he ever was. Hope I am wrong about him, but I don't think anybody is wrong about Pagan. It is time to let him go and bring up Balazovic.
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    Sano showed a total inability to adjust to the situation and the ball/strike count. He struck out on a low, outside, breaking pitch 1000 times and usually that was after getting a fastball close to or down the middle of the plate. This happened over and over and .... If Gallo shows the unwillingness or inability to adjust, he should be gone quickly. Kepler is the same deal. He refused to hit the ball to the wide open left side of the infield, continuing to stubbornly try to hit a ground ball into the shift. Being long-term Twins maybe they deserved (they didn't) the extended chance, but Gallo needs to change or be gone.
  18. beterday
    Thank you for this article, NIck, I agree 100%. When this signing of Correa thing was going on, I trusted the front office was making a reasonable, well-thought-out offer, based on the medical information and the evidence they had accumulated over the year he played for the Twins. Then the offers from the Mets and Giants came in and the Twin Cities media was mostly disgusted with the FO for "not even being in the ball game". "They must know they are not in the game with that offer" was a refrain I read and heard often. Well, maybe they did know more than what they were credited with, maybe they were less impulsive than the others the first time around. The fact that they continued in the discussion and, I believe, legitimately cared about Correa as a person more than about where he landed were instrumental in the final outcome. The Twins FO did not go to the default position of anger and vitriol of comments like, "we were his third choice", or "he really didn't want to be here", without mentioning the millions of dollars involved in Correa's decision. I enjoyed the drama of the signing and now I will look forward to the Twins season, my 62nd season as a Twins fan (I still remember sneaking out to the Nash Rambler - it did not run very often and had no reverse - but it had a great radio, at 10:30 PM with my cousins and listening to Herb Carneal and Halsey Hall describe Harmon Killebrew's at bat in the bottom of the 10th) instead of finding other pursuits like I did at the end of last year when we were playing a AAA lineup.
  19. beterday
    Is Rocco really making the decision to pitch Pagan again in a game winning/losing situation; I remember yelling at the TV several times this summer over that decision. Isn't this because Falvine has made that decision by not dropping Pagan by May or June. If it was Rocco, I believe he would have been fired at the end of the year if not sooner, earlier in the summer. I certainly would have fired him. Bundy and Archer met expectations, the team just didn't have the relievers to fill 5-6 innings every game they pitched. Was Rocco making the decision to pull the starters by the 6th inning regardless of how they were doing? Why did Ryan get to pitch later into games, often left out there to clean up his own mess of a bad outing into the 7th inning? The third time through the order philosophy. Was that Rocco? Without the front office on board he would have been fired by June. Is Rocco like Sonny Gray and hoping he gets a shot at making these decisions for a different team, or is he fully onboard? These decisions have to being made at a higher level than Rocco.
  20. beterday
    My wife and I are watching the game on two different tvs; she's in the bedroom and I am in the living room. There is wind and what appears to be a storm brewing outside. The game is entering the bottom of the 9th and the electricity goes out. Waiting for it to come back on and I get my phone and tune in on the Bally App; 13% charge left on my phone. My wife can hear the game from upstairs and comes down to join me on the couch. We are watching the end of the game, 8% charge; will we get to the end? When the Twins win, we are yelling, "Yea, the Twins beat the Yankees, the Twins beat the Yankees," like it is the 87 World Series
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    The Twins have 3 major leagues starting players in the line-up today - Arraez, Correa, and Miranda. Urshela and Gordon should be reserves, but probably can't even get on the field for the Dodgers, which the Athletic today says are the best team ever. With no money constraints, I could care less about the Dodgers and how "great" they might be and I might watch the World Series to see them get beat, but I doubt I will have any interest. For me, it is hard to figure if it is Baldelli's fault when he is working with the pieces he has to work with. Celestino gets thrown out going to second base because he is admiring a home run that doesn't become a home run? He should appreciate every day he gets to play in the majors and play like Jake Cave; he should be on a bus to Witchita!
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    Please don't compare Miranda to Cave; that is a curse worse than anything. I like how Jake plays the game, but him being on the major league club is the story of the 2022 team, injuries, injuries, injuries.
  23. beterday
    Looking at a three game sweep when Twins go to Houston, Then the same when we go to NYC. That's 6 games; if Chicago and Cleveland are at .500 through those games that puts us 5 games back going head-to-head (.500 against Boston -even with competition). To much to make up at that point and I don't see this team capable of a winning streak.
  24. beterday
    Tenth inning, ghost runner on second, Thielbar leaves a pitch in the middle of the plate, an absolute bullseye and Texas guy gets a line drive hit. Morneau comments: "He got a pitch you don't expect him to miss and he didn't". Twns come up in the bottom and Buxton and Miranda both get pitches, again right down the middle, 86 and 87 mph, straight as an arrow and they both look at them. Morneau says, "Well, I guess you want to make them throw a strike there". Have some confidence and swing the bat!!!!
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    It wasn't the number of strikeouts that was so, well striking, it was how they happened with the same three pitches, ending with the low and outside pitch. How a major league player with all the tools available to him could be so consistently hopeless against any pitcher who could throw those three pitches was always amazing to me. Is it really that hard to recognize a slider that is going to end up a foot outside and a foot low?
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