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  1. Dantes929
    Maybe he can throw. Never appears to me that Correa is even average speed. Ripken wasn't fast either.
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    I haven't had time to follow as closely as some years so I might be dreaming. Has the Twins bullpen done a nice job against everyone but Cleveland?
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    No kidding. "The Minnesota Twins’ need for a starting pitcher is undeniable." I am denying it so ...... Smeltzer, Winder and Archer have been great. I have been waiting all year for a rotation of Ryan, Gray, Smeltzer, Archer and Winder. Worst ERA in the group is Ryan at 3.2 which is lower than Gallen!!!!!
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    Anyone else think Gordon was safe on the steal? We get that call instead of goes against us and everyone is talking about the nice win.
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    I do not understand these graphs. Are you sure they are recent? for example Miranda has 121 plate appearances. Is Larnach upper left and Urshella lower left.? Does not seem to have any correlation to what BR shows of their last 30 days.
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    Really weird. I double checked your stats and they are correct. However, in the American League the Twins are 4th in OPS and 5th in runs scored per game. The Guardians are the X factor in that they leap over the Twins in runs scored despite the lower OPS. Is there something unique about the National League in that they only have 4 teams with a better OPS but 9 teams with more runs scored per game? Really weird.
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    I've been wanting a rotation of healthy Ryan,, Gray, Ober, Scmeltzer, Archer with Winder waiting in the wings. Feels like they have been keeping it together with duct tape lately so hopefully we can go on a nice run with these guys. Miranda has hit .318 with a .894 OPS in the last month so hopefully he is here to stay. Ushela has been good the last month also. Larnach had a great start to the season before injury but has been pretty bad since he came back. He seems the most logical to send down to make way for Kiriloff.
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    Griffin Jax You could make the argument that Jax is Minnesota’s best reliever not named Jhoan Duran. Sure, that may not be saying much for a bullpen group that has struggled so mightily,......... Is this really a fair statement? Twins rotation averages less than 5 innings per start and the team out performs its Pythagorean W-L. Besides Duran and Jax, Smith has a 3.00 ERA, Pagan has a 2.45 ERA Coulombe, Cotton, Megilln and Moran have combined for 36 appearances and a combined 1.87 ERA. Stachak did ok also. When criticizing this bullpen aren't we really just talking about Duffey, Cano and to a lesser extent Thielbar? Even Thielbar has been really good since a rough April so it probably would be more accurate to say the bullpen has been just fine except for Duffey.
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    The average catcher right now is batting .210 with a .630 OPS. Jeffers career OPS is .650. I agree it is too early to make conclusions. Garver's batting .206. I believe Rortvedt has been hurt, plus I don't miss looking up how to spell his name every time I comment on him.
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    All of it is second guessing but your 2nd paragraph is on point. I was surprised to hear him actually say what we all knew he was thinking. It's what I was thinking also but gotta hurt for Duffey to hear that. Maybe it will motivate him.
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    Just read a couple of posts and I imagine the rest are more of the same. Baledelli makes too many pitching changes while also being too slow to make pitching changes.
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    Still waiting for the rotation of Ryan, Gray, Winder, Schmeltzer and Archer or Ober but I look at the near future and don't see any of those guys but Archer penciled in.
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    Lol. Yes that is true. Of course it is also true of the 1918 Spanish Flu, especially true of the lesser known 1917 Spanish Flu and the Black Death plague.
  14. Dantes929
    Any one else feel like, in good health, a Gray, Ryan, Ober, Smeltzer, Winder rotation could be really good?
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    Pagan has reduced his walk rate drastically since the beginning of the season. 2.12 ERA. I like the way he battles. Perkins and Nathan used to stress everyone out also.
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    I know Urshela and Sanchez only have a .5 WAR between them but it sure feels like they have contributed more than that. There is WAR as a statistical construct and I have faith in that in the long run but then there is WAR as an abstract and these guys seem to shine lately in that category. Two game winning hits in consecutive games does little for the WAR statistic.
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    Ryan and Ober with ERA's below 3. Sonny Gray, Winder and hopefully Balazovic. I would be fine going to the playoffs with this group, especially if the lineup has Polanco, Arraez, Correa, Buxton and Lewis in it. None of the pitchers named except maybe the last one would give me any more faith in the rotation than the guys we already have.
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    Is that a new rule that the game is continued today? I was hoping for a rainout so they would get a do over today? Is there a point where it would be a do over? If it was rained out after 5 innings would it be counted as a game or continued?
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    What closer in Twins history hasn't made Twins nervous? Key words are "getting out of the jam" He has a 2.35 ERA and a career 1.05 WHIP which is better than Joe Nathan's so maybe the aberration is the walks. . Of course you can't walk 2 guys an inning and be a closer but his career BB/9 is 2.5. His current SSS BB/9 is 10.6. Why assume he is going to continue at the current high rate rather than assume he will settle closer to his career norm? I like guys that battle and he seems to fit the bill.
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    I know these guys are all really good but as a former infielder I gotta believe the other infielders would prefer a 6'2" target (Miranda) rather than 5'10" (Arraez). If Lewis continues to mash I have no problem seeing him at third and having a super athletic left side of the infield. He can spell Correa or Buxton occasionally and with shifts for lefties will play in the shortstop position sometimes anyway. Arraez can DH. Buxton Arraez Correa Larnach Polanco Miranda Jeffers Kepler Lewis At some point that is the lineup I would like to see.
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    Miranda at first allows for promotion of Lewis to third and also giving Lewis a chance to spell Correa occasionally.
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    All depends on how you view greatness vs sample size. If you took the best pitcher in history (Koufax?) and only took his best 3 months would he be the best pitcher in baseball for those three months? If you only had Babe Ruth's best 3 months would you not agree he was the best player in baseball for those three months? If you extrapolate Buxton's 71 games over the last two seasons to a 162 game rate his 13 WAR would be 2nd in the history of baseball to Babe Ruth's age 28 season. I remember Morneau's monster half a season in 2010 where he batted .345 and was easily on track for MVP. His WAR extrapolated for 162 games was 9.4 or 3.6 less than Buxton's rate. I don't know how to data mine smaller periods but who else has had a 5.7 WAR over any stretch of 71 games? Maybe Trout. Maybe Barry Bonds.?
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    Twins have a pretty long history of guys playing injured to the detriment of the team. That always irritates me. However, when fans have ripped super stars like Morneau and Mauer for not playing when they are less than 100% its kind of hard to blame the players that try to play through their pain while also trying to get major league checks.
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    2020 and 2021 the norm? 2020? Probably shouldn't use a season where they win 60% of their games and win the division to make your case. If this opens up more at bats for Arraez it could be a good thing.
  25. Dantes929
    I am mostly with you. There shouldn't be any set formula or strict policy. I don't care for season innings limits. Pitchers should stay active and loose between innings and pitch counts in an inning is probably more important than for a game. Meaning 80 pitches in 4 innings is probably worse than 100 pitches over 7 innings. Pitchers definitely should have been working on arm strength and endurance during the lockout. On the surface though, Archer seems to be a poor poster child to support your position given he barely pitched in 2021. Plus, there is the flip side which is if Archer had gone out there for another inning and gave up a walk, a single and a dinger I would bet my house that someone here would be complaining about keeping him in too long.
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