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Plus Canterino.

13 unique starters used his year. 16 the year before that. You are right to look past the skin deep 5.

Injuries happen every year. Front offices including the manager need to prep for the fact that injuries happen every year. The question becomes... how many injuries can a front office properly prepare for? I don't know the answer to that one but the Twins MUST HAVE been near or past whatever injury level is reasonably expected to plan for. With that said: I remain a supporter of the front office but... whenever you stop on a .666 OPS and give that OPS an every day job and stop looking for someone better. You make yourself vulnerable to NEEDING that player to perform in a pennant race. Stopping on a player with a .630 OPS because it's a back up role and not looking for someone better leaves you vulnerable to needing that player to perform in a pennant race. Restricting a player to the short side platoon AB's for 4 years... leaves you vulnerable to needing that player to all of sudden hit right handers in a pennant race when you've been busy giving those AB's to guys performing at .666 and .630 levels. The organization had to know about the above 3 things in July.

Congratulations to you and your kind.

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Gordon is playing well but currently needed at 2B Kepler (Injured or not injured) hasn't performed at an acceptable level this year and did not perform at an acceptable level last year Jake Cave did not perform at an acceptable level last year and has not been performing at an acceptable level this month. Celestino is not performing at an acceptable level this year Garlick is now on the 10 day and hasn't been allowed to Right Handed pitching in 4 years None of the options bolded above are performing strong enough to keep the team from trying someone else. Matt Wallner should be that someone else. I have no idea if Wallner can step in and contribute but someone else needs to try and contribute because Kepler, Cave, Celestino and Garlick are clearly not. This OF production problem has been going on too long at a very very very critical time. I think Wallner should have been up a couple of weeks ago. Today... With Garlick going on the 10 day. There is really no reason to not have Wallner in the lineup tonight... Unless he is injured or something. If not Wallner... Someone Else Please!!! and that someone else will be Contreras who has been on a roll in St. Paul lately. Go Get Em Mark... Stay Hot... We need you. Hope you go for 3 for 4 tonight. .

I have no idea but I came away with the impression that its the type of dish that would have a fairly large variance based on how long they let it become what it is. I have no idea and nothing to compare it with but the stuff that I had (I assume) was powerful.

A recent Gallup Poll revealed that 84% of 1,000 random respondents didn't trust Gallup Polls. Plus Your is much better because there is no danger of a Cheetos Lip Gloss product launch afterwards.

To those who are angry, You know he wasn't going to throw 130 pitches under any circumstance. If you don't know that... your anger doesn't matter.

Correa, Miranda, Gordon. Take a look at the stats for the last 30 days. Correa, Miranda, Gordon are the only hitters with regular AB's that have hit acceptably over the 30 days. Arraez and Urshela have been OK for the last 30 days. Neither is leading us to glory nor keeping us from it. Kepler, Celestino and Cave... Look at what the entire OF is doing over the last 30 days. Cave wasn't supposed to be here so you can't blame Jake, the front office knew who Celestino was by the trade deadline and then there is Max. Another bat... A rental... a good one... should have been acquired at the deadline.

I'm just asking for a clarification. If they are drafted by the Terry Ryan regime... Are they Terry Ryan's players? Kirilloff for example was drafted by the Terry Ryan regime but spent the majority of his development time under Falvey. Who gets Kirilloff credit?

Now that we know that. You are officially to blame. You had the chance to talk him off the ledge and you failed!!! ?

Terry Ryan and Ron Gardenhire had some crappy years. Andy MacPhail and Tom Kelly had some crappy years. Falvey, Lavine and Rocco have had some crappy years. I've never met any of them but apparently... Two of the three groups are smart baseball people?

If the President of Baseball Ops, General Manager, Asst GM's, Minor league Director, Analytics staff, major and minor league coaches and all of the players are set up to run a certain way while Rocco is managing a different way. That discrepancy would take care of itself because the front office will replace the person who isn't executing the game plan. Rocco isn't managing a video game by himself. He has part of a team. The analytics staff hired by the front office is producing information... If the manager hired by the front office ignores the information produced. The front office must replace the manager or fire the analytics department because they are obviously not necessary with a manager that is allowed to just ignore them anyway. Yet, we have people on Twinsdaily who like to tell Rocco to put the spreadsheets down while calling for his head. If the front office brings in high speed cameras and monitors and the pitching coaches ignore the cameras and monitors. The coaches will be gone. If the coaches are allowed to ignore the technology... you might as well sell the cameras and monitors and go back to being a caveman. All you have to do is think about it for a couple of seconds and the obviousness should hit you right between the eyes. It seems that many haven't thought about that for a second or two because many still insist that Rocco is the reason for the short starts and is guilty of the crime of looking at a spreadsheet produced specifically for his information.

Injuries happen every year. Yeah... This year has been bad. Perhaps the baddest of all of them. But Injuries were bad last year and the year before that and the year before that. My personal feelings are: Injuries are never a valid excuse.

Choosing lesser players will consistently kill your team. I don't know if Wallner is a better player but you have to find out because based on actual performance with the chips down, the players in front shouldn't be in front of anyone. Louie Varland pitched very very well in his debut. He should be making his next start tomorrow night or Wednesday night at the latest. He won't because we have committed to multiple pitchers with ERA's over 4 (by quite some distance) instead.

13/8 = 1.62 162/1.62 = 1 error every 100 games 22/3 = 7.33 162/7.33 = 1 error every 22 games While you wait 22 games for that Wallner error to occur. Max Kepler is hitting .227 while slugging .348 Jake Cave is starting in CF Kyle Garlick hasn't been allowed to hit righthanders for 4 years Gilberto Celestino... during a pennant chase... can't remember how many outs there are despite being one of the rare baserunners that the team produced during an awful offensive stretch... not to mention Celestino somehow has a lower OPS than Kepler, which is hard to do. Wallner is 24.7 years old. Wallner will need to be added to the 40 man in December The law firm of Hamilton, Hamilton and Palacios are on the 26 man roster and none of them are playing during a time when we are desperate for ANYONE to PLAY DECENTLY. Obviously we have 26 man space plus 40 man space. AND... AND... It is important to note that they were just swept by a team featuring 7 rookie hitters out of 14 hitters on the roster. In conclusion... Defense better not be the reason.

Fuzzy is specifically vague.

I believe that I understand your post and If I do I agree 100%. How often does that nearly impossible to quantify, know it when I see it "Baseball IQ" actually come into play over the course of a game, a week, a season. It is something that can manifest itself in many ways, A player can take an extra base because he noticed the OF wasn't set up correctly for a throw and gain a base and get credit for a high baseball IQ and that would be correct in my view point. The next day he can run into the same situation only to have the OF make a great throw to nail him and the player is deemed an idiot for attempting such a thing. Same scenerio different result based on the opponent performance. You are right... Definitions are going to individualized to every single person watching and making assessments from their living room or even in the dugouts and they are based upon their own experiences and influences over the course of their lifetime and in the end it collectively adds up to everything being expected of everyone... every time. This same thing is the very cross that managers and front offices must bear. A manager can have two people wanting him fired. One because he pulls pitchers too quickly and the other because he leaves them in to long. It's two down votes at the opposite ends and the manager can't really do much about it. What is an Ace? It's a pitcher that makes people feel better... that would be my definition. Calling a pitcher an Ace or a 1 or 2 or 3, 4, 5 or Quad A. I don't personally do that... I reject such designations out of hand because the margins are so incredibly thin. In a nutshell. There is no correct answer so therefore... your personal definition is the correct answer.

If all those If's happen. You are still tethered to a boat load of other "Ifs" that would require a much longer article to cover. Ifs that also include each opponent and the boat load of their own Ifs that they bring with them. Can they be as good as anyone in a short series? If... things go right for them... Yeah! ?

Ifs occur in any article that is set in the future. ?

I think Davey is touching Mickey, which has led to Mickey touching Peter. Michael has a hat on.

Infinite Amount of Monkeys with an infinite amount of time making infinite amount of gifs. gif

He's good I hope he stays healthy and remains in the rotation for a long time.

I just want to applaud the typing of "Rimshot gif" instead of... you know... attaching a gif.