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  1. Riverbrian
    If the Twins can score 10 runs a game from here on out. I promise to not complain about the offense for the rest of the season.
  2. Riverbrian
    That is true... there was some anti-Jeffers sentiment during the off-season... no doubt. Personally, I was concerned about Jeffers himself after last season and... and concerned about the set back in catcher development that would occur if they moved off of him. I was probably more concerned about the catcher development organization wide and therefore hopeful that they would give Jeffers another shot. Here we are in May and if it was my call. I'd reverse the current catcher rotation for the time being for offensive help no matter how little that help may be. Play Jeffers 2 out of 3 and Vazquez 1 out of 3. If Jeffers cools down and Vazquez heats up you can always switch back. I still hold a dream that the Twins can develop a Sean Murphy type talent with high trade value. Jeffers is a long way off from that but still the closest.
  3. Riverbrian
    Many veterans struggle in their 87th taste of the big leagues as evidenced by our current offensive predicament. Julien had 27 AB's. His OPS during that small sample currently ranks 6th on the club. If that is a first taste struggle... OK... let's say it is. What term are we going to do use for the larger sample struggles from our vets that are worse than that. Are his first 27 AB's an indication on where he would be if he had 130 AB's like Correa and Miranda have received? While I agree that it is probably too soon and too much to ask Brooks Lee to rise up and lead us where we need to be. We need someone to come from somewhere and we are not in the position to write off help from AAA. Rookies can also do alright for a stretch, even if they came down to earth later. We were just beaten by two of them with the Cubs last night. The Cubs didn't seem to have a problem moving a decently paid vet like Hosmer out of the way for one of them and Hosmer's 2023 numbers look a lot like our entire big league team. Who knows if they have staying power but some of them have helping right now power even if it's just a little bit of help.
  4. Riverbrian
    I'm not going to declare anyone an Ace in the sense that everybody uses the term Ace. I only care if they are good pitchers and Joe Ryan clearly is. However... in the sense that everyone talks about an "Ace". They were was a time when they were not an ace and then they become an ace. The Twins like all other 29 teams can grow an "Ace". If we want one or two of them... Growing one or two is the most likely path.
  5. Riverbrian
    Coming from me... of course it does!!!
  6. Riverbrian
    Gotta hang zeroes. 3.81 Bullpen ERA. 15th Ranked at the moment and that isn't going to be good enough. I'll bring more to the party. If Duran or Lopez hit the DL for 10 day stretch or two. How much fun will that be?
  7. Riverbrian
    I was sleeping in med school so I have no idea about the physical side of what they are doing with Buxton and I won't pretend to... however, YEAH... getting Buck into CF some of the time will open up the DH some of the time... to... I don't know who... anybody... I don't care who... someone who might help. They have to get off the script. The adaptive cruise and the lane assist isn't sufficient for a nap... grab the wheel.
  8. Riverbrian
    Agreed As a whole and in comparison to other teams... the bullpen is OK. The biggest problem the bullpen is going to face this year is... The offense. With this offense there is no such thing as low leverage. If low leverage is a rarity, there is no breathing room and the bullpen will need to be much better than OK from top to bottom. The offense is healthy right now. These contributors to the offense are in those off-season architectural plans that are laying on a desk or in a filing cabinet somewhere. Team batting average down to .218... 30th ranked. 367 team strikeouts now... 28th ranked. Oakland is 30th ranked with 5 more K's but they got a game in hand so... let's just say they are striking out more than everybody else because let's not quibble over a K or two as they battle with the bay area teams for the trophy. Team OPS down to .679... 23rd ranked Team Runs at 164 and falling fast to 23rd I don't believe, the front office, the scouts, the coaches, the players or the fans can use the term slump anymore. Last year in 2022, 25 different players swung a bat for our Twins, injuries were off the charts, we couldn't buy a hit in September with the chips down as 5 through 9 in the batting order were contributing absolutely nothing every single night. Celestino, Cave and Sanchez were being asked to bring us home and they didn't have a compass. Yet, we still finished mid-pack in almost all offensive team stats at the end of the year. I'm starting to feel like injury is the only thing that can help us out. I don't like this feeling.
  9. Riverbrian
    You are quickly becoming one of my favorite reads on Twinsdaily. I would like to propose that slumps need a new term after they eclipse 100 AB's. Actually they may need a new terminology after 50 AB's.
  10. Riverbrian
    I don't care. I'm not saying that to sound like a jerk. I'm saying it in a normal tone. I'll put an expressionless face emoji to indicate that I am saying I don't care with no emotion. 😑 I really don't care and I have no inclination to participate in dragging him further through the mud, This poorly reasoned article did enough of that. I was responding to an article that was titled "Donny Barrels isn't getting it done". An article that stressed 28 AB's over 19 games to make a poorly reasoned point. You want to get rid of him. OK... I'm not going to argue. I simply don't care about a short side platoon guy that the manager won't turn to when the 7 players on the strong side of the platoon have taken the offense to the very bottom of 30 baseball teams. I'm taking issue with someone who is slapping a guy who still has his warmups on, sitting on the bench, while Karl Anthony Towns doesn't pull down a single rebound for 40 minutes.
  11. Riverbrian
    When I said aim higher.That wasn't directed as Mahle. I was talking about free agents or vets that we might bring in via trade. Vets that may be added in the off-season. I like the youth that we have bubbling up now. I really like that we didn't Archer or Bundy this year to fill out depth. If we are going to add pitching and we probably will because we have 3 guys hitting free agency. I'm hoping that we think big. If they can't think big... OK... let's let the youngsters keep coming. I was OK with the trade when it happened. We needed to add for the playoffs. Steer I believe had to be added to the 40 man and we had 40 man decisions to make. I wish E-Strand wasn't part of it but... it's the cost of doing business. The trade feels a little worse because of the struggles that Jose Miranda is having but at the time of the trade the club was in position to win the division and do some post season. We lost the trade... it happens. It had my full support.
  12. Riverbrian
    Exactly
  13. Riverbrian
    A. We lost the trade. It happens, wasn't the first time... it won't be the last. The trade was made to improve a contending club. Buyers Buy... Sellers Sell. It's how it works. B. The future is what matters now... Steer and E-Strand have no bearing on weather Mahle is with us beyond this year. C. With his pending free agency after the season. Mahle should have been a light consideration in future plans before the injury. He should only be a minor league deal consideration now. Keep the farm pipeline clear of obstacles because it is starting to produce. The last thing we want is a veteran coming off injury that has to be released to dispose of. D. If you want to bring in a vet starter... Aim higher.
  14. Riverbrian
    Buxton has been doing alright in the DH role but the team hasn't. Buxton playing some CF will open up the DH spot for other considerations. This team needs other considerations,
  15. Riverbrian
    I have a friend with two boys. Toby and Butch are their names. Whenever he needs someone to run an errand... he always asks Butch because he thinks he's the better driver. He had just sent Butch to pick up some garden hose at Menards. On the way back Butch got in an accident and came back with significant damage to his car. With Butch standing right there... He yelled at Toby saying that Butch got into the accident because he couldn't send Toby. That's what is happening with this article. Solano is not the solution because management won't let him be the solution. They rode the same players into the ground and did not go off the script.
  16. Riverbrian
    I find it interesting that the team batting average free fall began once the team got healthy. We had Polanco, Kepler, Gallo on the disabled list. The offense wasn't amazing but it was functional. We get healthy, we face a boat load of right handers and the team offense craters. The past 15 days: Sorted by AB's Polanco - 50 AB - .220 BA Correa - 49 AB - .169 BA Kepler - 49 AB - .224 BA Buxton - 42 AB - .190 BA Gallo - 39 AB - .103 BA Miranda - 39 AB - .205 BA Vazquez - 34 AB - .118 BA Those are your 7 culprits. But let's get rid of Solano?
  17. Riverbrian
    I don't know much about Helman but... Speed, Power and he plays multiple positions. OPS over 1,000. If you are going to give a guy a shot... when he is hot is the perfect time. When we need someone... also the perfect time.
  18. Riverbrian
    OK You use his first 55 plate appearances. Ok... this takes him to April 18th. Solano was facing right handers and left handers and playing every day because of injuries to Polanco, Kepler, Gallo and Farmer which also led to Castro, Wallner, Julien and Garlick being called up to fill out the roster. After the April 18th game against Boston... he was sitting with a .756 OPS and a slash line of .314/.364/.392. This was over the course of 17 games. He made 14 starts. BTW... It Looks better after the April 15th game against the Yankees. 47 Plate Appearances. He was sitting with .815 OPS and a slash line of .341/.383/.432. He just went 1 for 7 during 8 PA's on April 16th and April 18th that took him down a tick before Gallo returned from the DL on April 19th. At this point Solano was back to the limited role he was probably signed for. Short Side Platoon dude. They have played 19 games during this stretch. He has made 7 starts - 28 AB's over those 19 games. That's 28 AB's over those 19 games. That is 7 starts and 5 games entering the game as a pinch hitter. Once again... Let me repeat... that is 28 AB's over 19 games. He has mustered up 4 hits over those 28 AB's over the course of 19 games which of course doesn't look that good when you pull it away from the rest of his work. Anyway... I thought everyone should know that your article is completing ignoring what he did... WHEN WE NEEDED HIM due to injuries to instead focus on a 28 AB period of time over 19 games... WHEN WE APPARENTLY DIDN'T NEED HIM. We have a team hitting a collective .219 and we have an article beating up the guy hitting .263 and not playing much while we are sending to AAA the guy who leads the team in AB's. Solano is not the problem. Right now I'd say play him more. By the way... we are 10-7 with 4 of our chosen starters on the DL and 9-10 with our hitters mostly healthy.
  19. Riverbrian
    I agree with your overall sentiment... but it was one ball... Doesn't make your point less valid. I'm just pointing out that the 4th pitch of the AB... the one that he grounded into a double play on... that pitch was dead center in the zone. The third pitch tho'.... Yeah... it was way outside with the count 2-0. He definitely didn't need to help Quantrill out in that scenario. He should have been 3-0 after that pitch. Unless of course the ump rings him up on it like he was doing during the game.
  20. Riverbrian
    If I were to guess. I believe he knows that they have to bring the pitchers back into the zone for better pitches to hit. If they keep swinging out of the zone... the pitchers are going to stay out of the zone. It's up to the players to stop doing that but we are into May now. We are now dealing with multiple slumps that have extended past 100 AB and they are still swinging out of the zone. 100 Ab's needs a new name... because it is past a simple slump. We have reached the point of wondering if the front office is just gonna keep drawing water from the same well.
  21. Riverbrian
    It's May... Little too soon to be declaring the summer over. 😄 But... Yeah... Today was bad. Can't put a bright whatever on it. It's a long season... plenty games to get happy and pissed about.
  22. Riverbrian
    Agreed and after watching him pitch today. I believe he threw a below average game. Worst 1 hitter I've seen in quite some time.
  23. Riverbrian
    Third pitch was a ball. Bad plate discipline for the situation for sure. However... the 4th pitch that he grounded into DP on was dead center strike. Miranda on the other hand... He didn't give himself a chance to DP on a dead center pitch. After watching HBP, BB, BB he swung at the first pitch. That first pitch was up and in. He can't seem to stop doing that. Oh Well... Nothing that I haven't seen before. Tomorrow is another day and so is the Tuesday after that.
  24. Riverbrian
    A couple of friends of mine... husband and wife... took a weekend trip up to the Northwest Angle to do a little fishing on Lake of the Woods. They got a little bit of money... quite a bit of money actually so they hired a guide service, invited a friend from the university and his daughters. The guide or guides plural because I guess there were two of them... were going to take them around the lake for about 3 hours but they had some issue with the boat, lost control of it and they end up beaching in on an island deep deep into Canada. Cell phones were useless in the middle of the lake. There was a big argument between the guides because one of them forgot to bring the emergency equipment on to the boat, locator beacons, flares... nothing and apparently this guide was always making mistakes like that because the other guide kept hitting with him his hat and saying that over and over. That group of lost boaters... spent a week on that island stranded. He was telling me the story and I said... that sounds just like Gilligans Island and he thought it was a terrible analogy. I thought his analogy standards were too high. Maybe it was me... His wife Lovey agreed with him. So what do I know.
  25. Riverbrian
    Betts was only brought up as an example of a player adjusting to team needs at the time they need it... much like my idea for Gordon in order to get a better bat onto the roster. It was an example for the purpose of implying a potential defensive down tick in order to keep a better overall lineup on the field. I don't know much about Luke Williams or Yonny Hernadez, they could be defensive superstars at SS but they don't appear to be offensive forces at the plate. Betts helping out in the infield allowed them to send sub .200 hitters like Williams and Yonny down to the minors instead of... I don't know... Trayce Thompson because they have a few extra outfielders while the infield is a little hospitalized. If Betts holds firm in the OF with no consideration whatsoever of playing SS or 2B. Now Williams or Hernandez have to stand a post. They are a better team overall if Betts can do this. The Twins could do the same thing and that is what I'm suggesting is possible. When we get into Gordon isn't as good as Betts. We start leaving earth. It's not that complicated in my head. Yet complicated getting it out of my head toward others it seems. It appears we have our answer. Larnach is going across the river. Kirilloff is here. Now we need Kirilloff to be who we are clamoring him to be. If Kirilloff is what he want him to be. Miranda not being who we want him to be... just might matter a little bit less.
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