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  1. Dantes929
    Along those lines, I thought Smalley was spot on in a lot of his commentary last night. He said he wouldn't give Abreu anything good to hit with 1st base open and Gibson grooved the first pitch. The next guy got on with an error by Arraiz but still. That pitch pretty much cost the game and it was one Smalley had just cautioned against.
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    I was already thinking along the same lines. My math says every team pretty much goes with a 5 man rotation. 15 teams times 5 pitchers means 75 starting rotation spots. His ERA is slightly better than league average but worse than the Twins ERA which is still somehow in the American League top 5. Given how they have been for the last month I am surprised that the Twins are still 5th best in the AL in run prevention. Better than the Yankees. Anyway, we are defending Gibson but just against unfairness. I had much higher expectations for him than what we have seen so far this year.
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    His walk rate in the minors has been a very respectable 2.7. I care more about run prevention and he has been very good at that. I have been on his bandwagon for a while now. I really hope he lives up to the hype keeping in mind every one gives up runs..
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    If we had lost close I was gonna be really mad at Cave. Nice lead and no outs in the 2nd and he misses the cutoff by a mile (the runner wasn't going but even if). The batter goes to 2nd on the overthrow. Next guy strikes out, then Chu grounds into what would have been an inning ending double play if Cave had hit the cutoff but instead the ground out scores a run and then Santana hits a 2 run homer. I get kind of disgusted when high school kids miss cutoffs unnecessarily but no where near as much when the pros do it. Sano's error was questionable. Cave's was all upstairs. .... By the by does it seem to anyone else that every former Twin hits like Josh Hamilton when facing the Twins? Same with the pitchers.
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    "The Twins hot start this year coincided with Jorge Polanco's. Since Polanco has fallen back to earth the Twins once "insurmountable lead" has turned a division front runner into a division contender." The hot start coincided with every one on the team being hot including the pitchers with the exception of Gonzalez.
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    According to baseball reference his 1st inning ERA is 4.94. 13 earned runs in almost 24 innings. Powered largely by giving up 5 runs in the 1st inning in his 2nd start of the year. His 6th inning ERA is 4.26. Pretty sure your stat didn't include last night's game. In his career the 6th and 7th innings haven't been very good. Of course in last night's game I thought he should have been pulled a batter sooner and might have avoided those two runs. Not just hindsight. I thought it was a key moment in the game and that Rogers could have gotten him and then pitch one more inning. Thanks to Schoop it wasn't disastrous.
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    I told my wife in the 6th that Rogers needed to come in to face Mazara. Partly cuz Odorizzi was at the end of his usual stint and also because Smalley said Odorizzi's outing was fantastic only allowing 1 run in 6 innings. Havven't he and Dick every heard of jinxes. Or about counting chickens before they hatch? Really glad we came back to win that one.
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    On pace for 44 homers. Could make a fair case for team MVP. Kind of interested to hear what you think exploding would look like.
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    If the pitcher admitted it I would say throwing a ball at someone at 93 mph should result in assault charges. Only slightly kidding here. At a minimum the pitcher should have been kicked out of the game. No, my opinion wouldn't change at all if it were a Twins pitcher. Being mad at someone for swinging at a 3-0 is so asinine it is mind boggling. Not quite as ridiculous as CC throwing at someone cuz they try bunting for a base hit but it is in the same ballpark. I don't think too many people agreed with Dozier in some of his rants in the past about unwritten rules. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23005962/brian-dozier-take-baseball-unwritten-rules-silly-brilliant-same
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    Easy solution. Get Joe out of retirement to platoon with Cron and as late inning defensive replacement. Career .868 OPS against right handers. Cron career .818 against lefties.
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    I don't think it changes anything all that much. I think platooning makes a great deal of sense. If you have 7 players that either switch hit or have good splits from both sides, having a platoon at a couple spots makes sense cuz some guys just hit lefties or righties way better. A 3 or 4 player bench allows you to platoon a couple guys with guys like the Turtle or Adrianza able to cover any late inning emergencies. If Cron faces a lefty a couple times and then a righty comes in get the left handed hitter in there. Of course a lefty might come in later but you have still added an at bat of optimal matchups.
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    This unwritten rule stuff is just tiresome. Why not swing on 3-0? Still likely to make an out which would speed up the ending to a lopsided game. If I was the pitcher I would want him to swing on 3-0 rather than throw more pitches to walk him. Maybe a very little tacky but hardly worth a retaliation bean ball pitch which I don't care where it is placed has the potential to seriously injure someone. . I didn't see the game but don't know if I would call Smelzer's outing a rough one. He pitched one fewer innings than Pineda and gave up the same number of runs but with a pretty big lead. He walked one guy but otherwise threw strikes which is what I want from a long relief guy with a large lead.
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    I agree its extremely doubtul he maintains his current BA or OBP because his current pace is better than Rod Carew or Tony Gwynn. At every level he has hit at least .318 with at least a .365 OBP and his career average is .331 and .385. If he develops power then great but I think there is still a place for a high on base top of the lineup 2nd baseman. ...................... We can differ on our opinions of Punto and I have nothing to back it up but observation. In 2006 Tony Batista was our Opening Day 3rd baseman and Punto was our utility guy. When Batista was either hurt or cut Punto was the place holder. He hit .290 and was one of the piranha's and lived up to the name. He was a battler and a tough out. When he was named the 3rd baseman in 2007 I could see almost immediately that he was swinging way harder than the prior year. He was hitting more fly balls and striking out more. It was only speculation but I imagined that as a third base man he thought he needed to hit for more power. Its just not who he was. He was valuable as a .290 .352 OBP guy and had little value as a small guy trying to hit home runs. If Arraez can hit .300 with a .360 OBP or better I won't consider him a flawed hitter. I will consider him a good guy to have in the lineup.
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    I was thinking with a little more clutch hitting and base running we could be 7-1 in that stretch. Hitting, rotation, relief and defense. If I had to assign blame to this one it would be to defense and relief. We had lots of different chances to win but lead off routine error is a dagger. But then Romo has to step up. I guess you gotta give the Brewers a little credit also. That lineup just feels dangerous.
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    As long as its a natural add but I really don't care if he adds it or not as long as he gets on base a lot. Worse thing Twins did for Nick Punto IMO is make him the regular 3rd baseman without telling him they didn't want him trying to hit for power. He started swinging for the fences and hit with neither power or average. I think the same happened with Ben Revere. .320 and OBP over .360 is very valuable. He doesn't need to be Kirby Puckett. Rod Carew would be just fine.
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    His last two months his average has been a very very good .321 and .325 with OBP around .400. That is the line I think could be sustainable so I do expect his current line to fade some.
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    I hadn't seen Dyson pitch and thought he was on the Il and just kind of hoping he would help us after another week or so. Then I saw him come in and looked like all we hoped for. He really looked good. Romo looked great also aside from hitting the guy. That made me nervous cuz the next guy had a lot of really good cuts at the ball. Bullpen is definitely appears to be new and improved.
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    I don't see Gonsalves either for this season. I think his stuff would play just fine and while I am not convinced strikeouts are the be all end all, a guy like Gonsalves just has to have better command and cannot walk that many guys. Boy, Duffey, Romo and Dyson looked good tonight. Add in Rogers and Graterol with some May and we might be all right.
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    Short term vs mid term vs long term. If it is felt that he can pick up some velocity by skipping a turn then I am all for it once Pineda comes back. Odorizzi, Thorpe, Gibson, Pineda and Smeltzer. I fear putting more effort into throwing harder is counter productive and injury causing. People keep talking about how he is 3-8 in his last starts but aside from the Atlanta clunker he has pitched extremely well. We are 25-25 in our last 50. If we subtract that 3-8 we are 22-17 in games he hasn't started which tells me we would maybe be ok without him for one start. Of course ask him to be honest about how he is feeling. I am fine with keeping him in the rotation or giving him a break.
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    Blown leads

    Dantes929 commented on mikelink45's blog entry in mikelink45's Blog

    Well, as far as blown leads 2006 was pretty memorable. Twins were down 12.5 at one point and were down 10.5 on August 7th. Came back to win the division title on the last day of the season. Helped by the Tigers losing 5 in a row including 3 in a row to the 100 loss Royals at home to end the season. Just to show how quickly things can change in a week, the Twins were favored by many to win it all that year and the choking Tigers weren't given much chance as the wild card. Twins got swept and the Tigers smoked the Yankees, swept the A's that had just swept the Twins and then fittingly lost to the 83 win Cardinals in the WS.
  21. Dantes929
    Berrios, Odorizzi and Pineda. None are aces but all have had stretches where they pitch like one. Almost every playoffs has unheralded guys coming up big and stars folding. Maybe this is the year the Twins set the all time record for runs scored. Maybe it goes the other way. Odorizzi was certainly up to the challenge of Verlander in their first meeting. Sometimes it is happenstance. A guy gets a great nights rest and throws a shutout but if it were the next day he doesn't make it through the 2nd inning. SSS. Berrios throws a shutout and we win game one. Odorrizzi gives up a run the 2nd night and we win by one. Pineda gives up 3 runs but we score 7. You don't throw out stats but games aren't played on paper. If we go by stats the Indians and Twins have identical records and so are even but Cleveland has been playing a lot better. Doesn't mean they will be in October.. Of course it is tougher against tougher teams. Doesn't make it impossible.
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    Man, back on my soap box. I agree with you about using him however we can and right now it is looking like relief but I really hate that innings limit things. 60 one year followed by 80 and then 100 and so on. As far as I know this way of building endurance was made up by some guy out of thin air since I have never found anything to support it empirically. First of all innings aren't created equally. Secondly, throw 60 or 80 innings ore whatever, then take 6 months off, then build up arm strength again, how did what happened the previous year build anything up? Thirdly, teams that baby their pitchers and teams that don't have about the same amount of injuries or does any one think the Twins have dealt with fewer arm problems for their pitchers than anyone else? Fourthly, Bert Blyleven threw over 220 innings at age 19 and didn't throw under 230 innings for the next 10 years..
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    I have no problem relying on guys that have talent that have thrived at the lower levels. Knoblach, Mauer, and countless other unproven prospects have been plan A and it worked out just fine. White, Herr and countless other proven veterans have tanked. Graterol being called up in September for relief was not my plan A. My plan A was for him to be called up as a starter in July.
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    Just talking about the possible trades, I speculated that the Mets fans probably didn't want to trade Thor unless the return was astronomical because they just picked up Stroman and had a rotation of Thor, Stroman and DeGrom for next year and were not out of it for this year. Well, as of today they are .5 games out of the wild card. I think management kind of felt that way also and once they had Stroman were never really serious about trading Thor.
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    Exactly. If you are relying on Shawn Mendes then you might want to rethink your plan...... Sadly I had to google famous 20 year olds and didn't recognize a single name on the list. On second thought, maybe not so sad.
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