Riverbrian

Yep And the opportunity to demonstrate it.

Rocco: Riverbrian wants you to get a chance. Here ya go.. you get 1 game against a right hander. I'd like you to go 5 for 5 before we send you back down on Tuesday. Kyle: What if I go 5-5. Can I stay? Rocco: Of course not.

You didnt list the number of times a player can be sent down. 5 is the answer My response: Well if all you are looking for is a 2 day call up. That is all you will get. We may need more than that. Personally I dont think this offense is strong enough to take that approach. My follow up question: Is Wallner not allowed to be better than Larnach? Are you 100% sure Larnach is better than Wallner? Im only asking because you've called up a 2 day rental? Larnach is apparently the remedy.

Garlick starting today against a right hander. All that careful planning.

This is getting confusing. Ok. who starts for Larnach?

If Garlick goes down... Who will pinch hit for Larnach?

I dont believe we draw McClanahan. However... The Rays can throw 3 portsiders at you out of the bullpen. However... with the addition of Garlick we are down to two pure left handed hitters period. With the addition of Garlick we were able to smother Logan Allen with nothing but righthanded hitters... we didn't win the game but we won that matchup thing and it is obvious.... the hand the pitcher throws with and what side of the plate the batter swings from continues to be the most impotamt thing on earth. Our lefty hitters facing left handed pitching appears to be the scariest thing of all scary things because Garlick was called up to give us 9 pure right hitters, two switch and 2 pure lefties. 9 Right handed hitters doesnt appear to exhibit fear of our right handed batters facing right handed pitching... other than KYLE GARLICK facing right handers of course. To be clear... OUR lefty hitters not the other teams lefty hitters is the fear. Because we cant deploy our best hitter because he is left handed.... YET... we only have ONE lefthander in the pen and no lefthanders in the rotation. So its our lefty hitters exclusively who cant matchup because if the data says lefties cant hit lefties... we would have more lefty arms. We dont... so its Kirilloff and Wallner who cant hit lefties. All the other lefty hitters in the league. We can get them out with right handef pitching. Right handers throw 70 to 75% of the time and we called up a guy who will only play 25% of the time. I continue to ask... WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!

You are correct. It is a long ass season. I was part of that half the posters that you are referencing. Speaking for myself. I wasnt reacting to a single game then and I wont react to a single game now. I am capable of breaking out the stats that show its June 3 on the calender and therefore already a long ass season for some of our players. Ill stand by my comments!!!

Marlin Perkins doing Color: This is the American third baseman in it's natural habitat. Third basemen are fiercely territorial as they tend to hunt and defend small tracts of land that they claim for themselves. This guy here with the number 23 clearly visible on his back, is powerful, fast and capable of amazing feats of athleticism as he waits for his prey to come flying through at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour. Let's watch what he does here. That's impressive. He took Jim Fowler down with such ease and has now eaten him. I will notify Jim's family but WOW... This is an impressive specimen.

Under normal circumstances... I would agree with you. Correa is a tremendous defensive SS. Correa in years past is also an offensive force that will help teams win. Sadly, circumstances are not normal. It's June 2... The Alarm Clock on my patience rang yesterday. I have none left. Correa has been no help at the plate. He's given us 9 walks and a couple of doubles in the past 15 days. his OPS in the past 7 days is .431 -- just 3 singles and 3 walks. I'm going to say it... Our comeback last night was in part possible because he got out of the way so the players capable of bringing us back could. Sometimes injuries make us better. It's June... Cleveland is in town. LET'S GO

There's a United flight leaving Buffalo at 10:50a that arrives at MSP around 2:16p with an hour layover at O'Hare. Flight is listed at $246. Wallner should be on that plane. I'll pay it. It honestly doesn't matter to me who they D.L or if they even need to be placed on the D.L. The front office has 3 to pick from. Great comeback by our Twins. Cleveland did that to us last year and it ended up being their year. Maybe this year can be the Twins. Back to Wallner. He's still as hot as hot can be. Adding a hot hitter to Polanco?, Lewis, Kirilloff, Castro, Solano and Jeffers just might cause a problem for Cleveland, Yes... I listed Castro, Solano and Jeffers. Let's recognize who brought us back last night and who on the roster has been actually hitting the ball like they belong in the majors. D.L. someone and bring Wallner up.

Context... It sure surrounds those managers a little thicker than us mere civilians in the peanut gallery. 😎

How does he do when he is afternooning out the workload?

Agreed Bullpen needed some breathing room. They have been pitching with no margin of error for too long. I don't understand the debate here. It was 8 Zip. Pull Varland and save bullets for his next start. On the other side Baker pulled Tucker and Maldonado to get them off their feet.

I'd like to see him take about 1,000 ground balls a day in AAA. His bat is going to be fine. That swing is a thing of beauty.

Lopez has to figure it out with the big club. Bullpens are so volatile.

Yes I would... I would acquire hitting. On July 31... Being in first place is a great measuring stick for being in position to make the playoffs. 😎

De Leon can fill the long man role in the interim.

I'll be honest... If my front office ever looked at a team in contention and ignored it because they didn't believe it. I'd want them gone.

Yeah... I'd keep the starting 5 off limits although I would consider a 6 man rotation to see how Kenta Maeda measures up with the other 5. June is a good time to give an extra day of rest before the stretch run. Roster Spots? Sands for sure Pitchers with options are: Duran, Moran and Jax Duran and Moran are not candidates in my opinion. So you are down to Jax optioned or Deleon DFA because Brock Stewart shouldn't be Designated we are going to need him and a Lopez DFA would be way to reactionary. Probably De Leon... He's been decent but... what are you gonna do?

With Polanco up and Julien sent down. The offense is healthy. Larnach is still on the IL but he is probably sent to St. Paul when he clears. Gordon of course is down but Lewis has taken his roster spot. This is it... We are healthy. These are the chosen ones.

No Correa, No Buxton, No Lewis. 8 Runs and a Victory Baseball is played terribly on paper.

I loved that show... I've learned a lot watching Breaking Bad. Apparently with fulminated mercury. If you smash it on the floor. Apparently the contact with the floor causes an explosion strong enough to blow up the entire third floor but not kill the 4 people who occupy the blown up third floor. After blowing up a building in downtown Albuquerque, apparently, you can just get in your car and drive away. After watching Breaking Bad and what happens with fulminated mercury... I have much keener insight into what happens with a pitch thrown by Emilio Pagan.

This allows me to dredge up one of my favorite points. The margins are razor thin. The difference between Miranda and Steer is probably miniscule. Front offices have to to walk up to the window and place their bets on near coin flips. They are not choosing between Ronald Acuna and Ronald McDonald where the difference is obvious. These are young players that are capable of being major league players and also capable of working in a car wash in two years. Any illusion that any front office for any of the 30 teams have these razor thin decisions perfected down to a science is incredibly impossible. Every front office makes mistakes on these coin flips and they make them often. Does anyone think the Rays trade Joe Ryan for a DH rental if the Rays knew what Joe Ryan would be doing in 2022 and 2023. I think its safe to assume that they don't make that trade, they probably offer Brandon McKay instead who was rated higher in the system at the time of the trade. If the Twins knew what Ryan was going to become when trading Cruz to the Rays do you think they needed Strotman added to the deal? They would have agreed to Ryan and called the commissioner before they got off the phone with the Rays. Front offices know that they are going to make mistakes. How often do they make mistakes. Often... they are easy to find for all 30 teams. Just pull up any roster at random and look at who is doing what and ask yourself... was that the plan? Angels - I don't believe the plan was to sign David Fletcher to a 5 year deal only to send him to Salt Lake City so they could call up a SS who was drafted last year. Astros - Abreu? A's - They didn't start the season with Rooker penciled into a starting position? They didn't plan for what he did? They took a flyer to fill out the worst roster in baseball. Jays - Do the they trade for Berrios if they had the chance to do it over? Are the Twins still insisting on Martin if they still do? Braves - Michael Harris was the greatest thing on earth last year. I have to believe that his current .526 OPS was not the plan. Brewers - They did not pursue a 2B in the off-season. Do they still just hand the job to Turang or did they make a mistake? Cardinals... Do you think they sign Wilson Contreres to that contract knowing his OPS would be .663 in June and that he would have to be removed from the catcher position for a spell. Cubs... Isn't it possible that they break camp with Morel if they knew what he was going to do. Is it possible that Mancini or Hosmer isn't necessary if they break camp with Morel. I'm going alphabetically and I'll stop now but there are ton of mistakes being made in the baseball world far away from 1 Twins Way. The Margins are thin... these decisions are hard. Mistakes are inevitable... it's what you do after is what is important.

I knew a guy named Brent... He was a pretty scary guy and he has done some pretty scary things but once I got to know him. He wasn't that scary to me. Shoulders also scare me but perhaps I just need to get to know them better. I assume that the front office has people who have spent some time with shoulders. Dinner, Movie, fishing trips... you know... hanging out with shoulders type thing. I was sleeping during med school but a strained right shoulder typically doesn't need Tommy John surgery. So... are we talking about two separate injuries or one big one that spread to his elbow. You can turn that question around and present it to the front office... they might give you all the details... they might not but I think it's incredibly unfair to suggest that they rolled through a stop sign right in front of all those police officers that they have to answer to. If your 13 year old ran that stop sign... you'd sit down with him/her and say... did ya think you were going to get away with that with all those cops around? Why do we just assume that front offices are that naïve?