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  1. Dantes929
    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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    Like many things, I equate this to my golf game. If I am a 10 handicap and shoot a 37 on the front 9 but follow with my usual 41 on the back 9 i will be very happy with my 78 with just a little thought to what might have been. If I shoot a 51 on the back I will have blown the round. If I shoot a 46 I will end up with the score I expected before I started play but it will be disappointing. If you ever thought the Twins were truly a 40-18 team then I can see how you might look at their slightly better than .500 pace now and say they are blowing it. It might be mental gymnastics but its not to justify anything. If they win 95 games it will be a great season to me. I think the general consensus here was winning 84-87 games. Like my golf game after a great front 9 I would be disappointed if that is where they end up. In my opinion the blown lead has less to do with the Twins than with the Indians. Not even after the red hot start did I expect the twins to be 82-36 at this point which is what maintaining that lead would have meant given the current record. The only way I thought the Twins would have a 12 game lead at this point was if the Indians really weren't that good.
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    This. In theory the twins could end up 111-51 and still end up in 2nd place. I guess everyone has their own standards but in my opinion you can have a historic comeback without having a historic collapse and vice versa.
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    Ok, that is a rather misleading but interesting fact. I know for certain the Twins were 12 games back on July 15, 2006 and ended up in 1st place. Turns out it is factually true because the Twins were in 3rd place at the time. In fact. on August 7th the Twins were 10.5 games out of 1st place and still in 3rd place at the time. Makes me wonder if other teams were as far behind and in 3rd or even 4th place before making their come backs which would make this whole conversation a historical oddity rather than historic collapse. If the Twins, like the Tigers that year, gave up that big a lead but still got to the WS will we call it a historic collapse?
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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.
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    Kind of like "what would Elvis be doing if he were alive today?" Answer: Scratching and clawing at his coffin trying to get out.
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    But that's the thing. You didn't know his stats that year until the end of that year. He was a 36 year old coming off prior two seasons of 21-32 and an ERA of around 4.7. When his ERA crept back up over 4 as Riverbrian stated I am guessing you weren't saying this is the guy that is going to lead us to a world series victory and get into the HOF. More like,"well he gave us a good few months but stick a fork in him cuz he is done. Give us more Tapani and Erickson" Give Morris credit for what he did the rest of that year and the following year but at the time you didn't know what he would do. His year was basically where Berrios and Odorizzi and maybe Pineda are likely to finish. So, yeah, I would take another one or two of him. Of course these Twins might struggle to the finish and miss the playoffs. I said at the beginning of the year, all I ever want is meaningful September games and I think I will get that. Welcome to TD.
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    Lets stay within the realm of possibility here. Cave doing that would be about as likely as Max Kepler hitting 5 straight home runs against Cleveland all star Trevor B......oh wait. I guess that did happen. Can;t wait to see Cave in the next Cleveland series.
  14. Dantes929
    All your reasons are very valid but they are also the prevailing winds Riverbrian was talking about. Maybe in 3 weeks Cleveland starts to feel the effects of losing all of Bauer's innings. Maybe Buxton and Cruz come back and the offense ignites and the pitchers feel better about the defense. Winds shift. Then they shift again again, Then again.
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    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..
  17. Dantes929
    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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    I don't know why people have such a problem with this. The idea that it won't work because we only have 3 or 4 bench players is kind of silly. Its not like if Adrianza starts we lose a bench player. Polanco simply becomes that guy. For the record I was always advocating that Hicks would have great value as our 4th outfielder and as a sub for Rosario or Kepler when facing lefties because his minor league and major league splits were so much better from the right side. Keeping him in that role might not have been great for his career but great for the Twins. Partly because he doesn't hit the game tying home run and make the game saving catch this year. Also because he would be playing instead of Cave now. I am wrong as much as anyone here but I still think that would have been a better move.
  19. Dantes929
    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.
  20. Dantes929
    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.
  21. Dantes929
    Pizza Pit For the Loss: Over his last six starts, Clevinger has a 1.69 ERA with 49 strikeouts in 37 1/3 innings. Yikes. Over Smelzer's last game he has a 0.00 ERA. Over his last 11 innings he has a 0.82 ERA. For the season Bieber's ERA is 3.31. Smeltzer's is 2.28. Just sayin.
  22. Dantes929
    Huge series but the two extreme outcomes would still leave us with a pennant race. If we got swept I would not throw in the towel. If we sweep I would not write Cleveland off.
  23. Dantes929
    This reminds me of when I am golfing and say I am sick of bogies only to start making double and triple bogies. Dyson has already had a pretty big impact, just not the kind we wanted. I digress. From the point both are healthy and saying greater impact in a positive way, I would take that bet. Dyson has a two year history of being a really good reliever.
  24. Dantes929
    Mets and Twins relied way more on Blyleven and Gooden to win pennants than these Twins. Who cares what age he is? When thinking of this team at the beginning of the year I was relying on him being a starter for the Twins by August. I have no problem relying on him to come in relief.
  25. Dantes929
    Seriously? Berrios last 10 starts were 5 starts in June with an ERA of 2.06 and 5 starts in July with an ERA of 2.43. Game 1 gave up 1 earned run in an 8.2 win over Cleveland. Game 2 gave up 1 run in 7 innings to Seattle. Game 3 gave up 1 run in 8 innings in a 2-0 loss to Boston. Game 4 gave up 2 runs in 7 innings to KC Game 5 gave up 3 runs in 7+ innings to Chicago. His next 2 outings were so so and in his last 14 innings before tonight he gave up 2 runs. The record reflects either the Twins not scoring or the bullpen giving up runs after he left. He had a bad outing tonight. So what? He has pitched great for us. Saying he lost 7 games himself is absurd.
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