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  1. Riverbrian
    A long time ago... Someone walked through the Big Lake Minnesota Area and said "That Lake is Big... Let's call it Big Lake". Whoever named it BIG lake obviously hadn't seen a larger lake or they got really excited and lost perspective at the moment. In the past 30 days: The Twins are ranked 10th in team ERA with a 3.65 Year to date the Twins are ranked 11th in Team ERA with a 3.78 Last Year the Twins were ranked 26th with a 4.83 Yet... Every morning... our pitching staff is horrible, brutal, a nightmare. If these are your adjectives... you shouldn't be allowed to name any lakes.
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    I'm not a fan of rewarding playing time to a player who is struggling big time and doing so for a significant time frame but yet SHOULD be performing better. The highways are littered with these guys. It is perhaps the biggest mistake that any organization can make. It will damage your team in the present and bottleneck your team for the future. That roster spot could be used to find someone both better today and better tomorrow. No organization should ever reach the point where it believes that it can't find anyone who can perform better than Pagan has.
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    Flexibility becomes a necessity when a team has actual depth. Fitting Bell in is easy, you take a little tiny bit of playing time from everyone. Multi position players are tentacles that reach out to the entire roster for the sharing of playing time across the entire roster so you can fit in a new impact bat in at any position. We currently have a bunch of multi-position players playing 1B. Kirilloff also playing OF means that Kepler (for example) can give up a little playing time to fit Bell into the lineup. Miranda also playing 3B means that Urshela can give up a little bit of playing time to feed to Bell. It all adds up to Bell getting playing time and nobody losing a tremendous amount of playing time to accommodate. Bell adds an OPS of .895 to the squad Kepler OPS .732 Urshela OPS .728 I like Kepler and Urshela but they shouldn't stand in the way of picking up a .895 OPS bat. Now admittedly... it becomes much much harder to fit Sano in.
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    It's never as simple as the things the Twins did wrong. Maybe the White Sox did some things right. Over on White Sox Daily. It's never as simple as the things the White Sox did wrong... Maybe the Twins did some things right. The other team always has something to say in the equation of what happened but the other team is usually ignored as a possible X factor in the fans analysis of the aftermath. Apparently the Twins are masters of their fate. With that said. The opposing teams are doing a lot of things right against Pagan lately. ?
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    I agree that Boston will be looking and I'll raise that to everybody in contention will be looking for bullpen arms.
  6. Riverbrian
    I'm asking for 3 but you've always been more optimistic than I. ?
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    You are saying Bundy third time through the order is better than a 2nd inning out of Jax. I'll take the 2nd inning out Jax every time knowing that it won't work out every time.
  8. Riverbrian
    Zavala was the 9th hitter in the White Sox lineup last night. Zavala was the last hitter that Bundy faced. (He struck him out to end the 5th Inning). That is exactly two times through the order and 18 batters. Bundy got this done in 58 pitches. Jax was on the mound to face leadoff hitter Tim Anderson to start the 6th inning. Teams usually stack the best hitters at the top of the order. Pitchers typically pitch worse third time through the order. Dylan Bundy has the worst numbers in our rotation. Jax has been our 2nd best bullpen arm. Jax didn't throw during the entire Orioles series so he was fresh. It's a high leverage situation with a slim 2 to 1 lead. You want Rocco's gut to do something different?
  9. Riverbrian
    I've got a section in my backyard that has been over run with thistles. It took a long time to dig them out yesterday. After that I mowed the lawn. Didn't sleep well last night because my body was pretty sore. This is what tired feels like.
  10. Riverbrian
    That's Fixable
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  12. Riverbrian
    You man not need to make that decision. Often times the decision is made for you with an injury. If it was today and my decision. It would reluctantly be Garlick. It would be Garlick because he has an option and he is playing less than others on the roster. Now... I don't personally believe that Garlick should be playing less but that's another subject.
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    There will clearly be the need to make a decision on Sano in the off-season. It doesn't look like they will pick up the option because of options inside the organization and cheaper just as productive options outside the organization. But... for the rest of this year. When he is ready to come off the 60 day. A Strotman or a Godoy will come off the 40 man to make room and Sano will return to our dugout. He will share playing time with others. Nobody will have to sit extensively to work him in and if he gets on one of his hot streaks, we will sing his praises. If he stays on a cold streak... we have others to turn to. I am looking forward to his return.
  14. Riverbrian
    That's the beauty of his line. @jorgenswest If he is serious... I agree with him. If he was joking... It was very funny.
  15. Riverbrian
    I typically have a cup of coffee in the morning. I've done this for decades. To be honest, I don't really have a loyalty to any brand and if I'm really honest... I can't tell the difference between Folgers and Maxwell House so I just buy whatever is on special and that becomes my brand for the next 24 days. I decided to do a taste test. I bought two brands (Tim Horton's and Folgers) and made a cup of each and tried both side by side. After the taste test, I can tell you without question that I prefer a Twins Walk Off to the Twins getting walked off. Still not sure on the coffee, maybe the Tim Hortons. Maybe.
  16. Riverbrian
    You have to fix the issue in the immediate short term and longer term. In the short term... Calling Winder back to the big club is absolutely a solution that could also help longer term. The searching shouldn't stop there. ?
  17. Riverbrian
    https://www.draysbay.com/2021/10/7/22703079/tampa-bay-rays-story-of-modern-baseball-power-starters-middle-relief-aces-collin-mchugh 1400 plus innings need to be covered in a season. Workloads are managed. Young pitchers are not going to go from 100 innings to 200 innings from one year to the next. Pitchers coming off major injury are not going to throw 200 innings upon return. The pitchers who are left that can throw 200 effective innings? A handful and they are going to sign with the Yankees or Dodgers. We all know this. Now do the math. You can't look at a bullpen or starters like you looked at them in the 80's. If you do... you will just continue to scream at a bus stop when the bus is long gone and not coming back. Bullpen guys need to throw multiple innings and bad bullpen arms can't be hidden.
  18. Riverbrian
    I blame HR (both human resources and home runs)
  19. Riverbrian
    Help Wanted - We are looking for 3 bullpen specialists able to start immediately. Qualified candidates must be able to: * Travel extensively 6 possibly 7 months over the course of year. Passport required. Vaccination optional. * Pass random drug tests with the ability to read and understand the labels listing all substances contained in over the counter products. * Lift (and throw) objects roughly the size of a baseball. Candidate can be either right or left handed Minimum Salary is $600,000 Yearly Health Insurance including dental and vision 401K 5 Months of PTO Sign-On Bonus of $35,000 Application can be found at: 1twinsway.com
  20. Riverbrian
    I’m not going to debate this in the extremes like there is nothing between Taylor Rogers and terrible. You and I agree that the bullpen is vital. Especially in this age of managed pitch counts and trips through the order. If starters are going to throw less innings and they are… the bullpen needs to fill those extra innings and as a result the bullpen workload is also going to be managed including Taylor Rogers if he was still on the roster. The bullpen needs to be aggressively rostered from top to bottom. I’m not as concerned with the top as I am with the bottom. The bottom is what is killing us. Taylor on the roster is absolutely an improvement because it should knock someone off the bottom, but we are still talking about one spot. Not having Taylor Rogers doesn’t mean we have to tolerate what Pagan is providing like there is nothing in between. Taylor Rogers is just one guy. Who replaces Taylor Rogers? Not my call… that job is on the front office. I can throw names out there but that would be meaningless. However, let’s not pretend that the mere presence of Taylor Rogers fixes this bullpen. He improves it if he stays healthy, but he is just one guy and the Taylor Rogers trade didn’t cripple the bullpen by his not being here. The arms in the current bullpen are crippling the bullpen and we’ve had months to make the assessments. The options to fix that come in all shapes and sizes in between great and terrible. You and I both know that. We agree the front office hasn’t done enough in this regard. July starts tomorrow. It’s time… they must get to work and make those phone calls and get bullpen serious.
  21. Riverbrian
    This makes him like almost everybody. People are fickle by nature. I'm sure he believed what he said in 2019 and I'm sure he believes what he is saying in 2022. Context, attitudes, perceptions, memories will adjust multiple times over the span of 3 years and they change for all of us. I have hired many people who told me they were looking for X because they didn't like Y only to leave 6 months later because Y wasn't so bad and they don't like X.
  22. Riverbrian
    You are absolutely right. The Twins overcame themselves to put themselves in position to win it in the 10th. It's still a team performance in the end. Well it's a team performance with Pagan a part of that team. ?
  23. Riverbrian
    Thornburg and Moran were fresher. Before you replace Pagan in the bullpen... you have to replace the guys who the manager feels is worse than the guy who has blown 3 games against your closest competitor in a short period of time. Silver lining? I'll give it a shot. The front office has to know that the bullpen is beyond priority now. That might be a good thing.
  24. Riverbrian
    Dear Rocco, I'm still in your corner but I can't help you here. I imagine that there are times when a manager needs to show a struggling player that you still have confidence in them. However... Pagan had blown 3 games against Cleveland in the span of 8 days. Make that 4 over the span of 9 after last night. How is his confidence now? Not good and that extends to his team mates and yes the fans. If anybody else in the bullpen would have blown that lead in extras... you'd have a leg to stand on, because the blame could be shouldered by the bullpen as a whole instead of focused on the one that you have exposed by allowing him to drop 4 games in a short period of time against the team that is closest to you in the standings. Rocco... you have to wear this one. Tomorrow/Today is another day. Go get em! Sincerely, Riverbrian
  25. Riverbrian
    Of Course I can. Trading Rogers doesn't mean you can't replace Rogers. Maybe the replacement isn't as good but just cause you trade Rogers... it doesn't mean you are forced to roster crap in his place. Also... I think it's fair to point out that Pagan can also be replaced and this is perhaps where the Twins are really failing at the moment because the Paddack trade was months ago.
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