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  1. Dantes929
    I hope they win at least half of their "must" win games this year.
  2. Dantes929
    Unfortunate that we didn't have some one faster to pinch run but that relay was a thing of beauty. Give Toronto some credit. They made some big plays. Giving up big hits and home runs hurt but it seems you can take any big inning by the other team and point to a walk or two that played a huge role in making it happen and twice more tonight.
  3. Dantes929
    No one notices relievers until they mess up. I remember Crain going 20 some games scoreless but then would blow one and the calls to run Crainwreck out of town were rampant. We now have 4 relievers with at least 5 appearances that have sub 2.00 ERA and one with a 2.84 ERA. The bullpen has helped hold onto games this season also.
  4. Dantes929
    Harper was fun to watch. I wonder who will have staying power. Harper or the Turtle. Both? Neither?
  5. Dantes929
    I kind of liked that he left Mijares in. Never quite understood taking guys out right after the damage is done. At least he saved the pen an inning. Next three guys were all righties and went down in order with two strikeouts. Timing. Anyway, all relieers give up runs. Tough one to lose but we were out hit 11 to 5. All or nothing swinging is great when its all. Not so great when it is nothing. Get em tomorrow.
  6. Dantes929
    Way too early.
  7. Dantes929
    Can't help but think Graterol is just wasting bullets in the minors. There's not even the usual red flag for guys like this of high walk rates. I want Knight up on the team just for the possibility of him doing that back flip at the end of a game.
  8. Dantes929
    Yeah, fair enough but relievers don't just magically appear. Milb success is still the best indicator and I don't think a lot of guys get out milb hitters as well as Vasquez has. As far as should he have been used in that spot, if he had done his job and gotten the guy out we probably aren't having this discussion.
  9. Dantes929
    He has a 1.5 ERA in 5 seasons in the minors and his rookie ball season was his worst. He was Twins minor league reliever of the year last year. Of course that's not going to translate to 1.5 ERA in the Majors but it should translate way better than infinite ERA. Taylor Rogers had a less impressive minor league career and had a 7.36 ERA after 3 appearances. I'm willing to give him more than just one chance.
  10. Dantes929
    Pineda has a 2.00 ERA. WAY too early to write off Odorizzi for the season.
  11. Dantes929
    After one start this year there was actually a post about Garver receiving so many negative tweets that he was going to avoid twitter. Just a couple games later he is a hero. May and Berrios and countless others have been written off at one point by fans. Of course there are others who have done just fine right out of the gate. Rosario on his first pitch comes to mind. Maybe breaking into the league by inches is desirable for some but not for everyone. These are presumably elite and confident athletes and this is the 2018 minor league pitcher of the year for Pete's sake. He has like a 1.5 ERA in his career. There is good reason to think there is at least a 70% chance he would get his guy out and only a 1% chance that he won't get an out or a ball in play. He's a professional reliever with a good track record so lets lay a little of the blame at his feet for simply not getting the job done. He's also a professional reliever with a good track record so lets not be so quick to assume he is not a good answer going forward.
  12. Dantes929
    Aside from the Turtle I didn't really see guys taking wild swings. I especially liked Garver saying he would take DeGrom to center. Twins in the past from Young to Valencia to Morneau to Dozier have gotten off track by trying to pull the ball keeping in mind there is a difference between pulling the ball (good) and trying to pull the ball (bad).
  13. Dantes929
    Fun with numbers . I was considering using a pitcher for the absurd like if Gibson makes 35 starts he is on a pace for an ERA of 337.35 but Davis presented itself.
  14. Dantes929
    First time I have seen a negative OPS+. He is -53 through 8 games so is on pace for a -1073 for the year.
  15. Dantes929
    Walk haunted and I would take my odds on that play at the plate. Definitely better than 50/50 but such is baseball. Yeah, de Grom and Syndegaard are tough but the Twins often have a tougher time against the soft tossers. Good sign that the only two times the Phillies have scored fewer than 5 runs were the last two. Forget Friday, you're not going to hold anyone down with 10 freebies and 3 errors.
  16. Dantes929
    That Pineda might be a good pickup? That Willians Astudillo is better than Bryce Harper? That Allen Iverson throws a baseball better than I thought he could? (still pretty bad though) That Buxton is really fast and needs to get on base more? That the umpiring was better than the refereeing in the Final Four ?(how was that double dribble not called?) Mostly what today's game showed us is that the Twins played better than the Phillies today. Hopefully tomorrow will show a similar result.
  17. Dantes929
    Its too bad yesterday's game showed how far this team is from being able to compete against high payroll teams. I might have felt pretty good about this win otherwise.
  18. Dantes929
    I did leave out a couple of quadrants in my analysis. It is quite possible that the guy that Cruz might have replaced for offensive reasons hits a 3 run jack while also possible that Cruz hits a cutoff that the defensive guy doesn't and that has an impact also. I honestly have no idea how good or bad Cruz is defensively, how much more likely he is to hit a homerun that the next guy or how much more likely there is to be a fly ball in between the range of the regular outfielder and the range of Cruz. I am guessing he is better than Sano in right field and just as good as Jason Bartlett in center and honestly, as good as Willingham was in left. Just thinking of those days makes me think, yeah keep the regular outfielders out there.
  19. Dantes929
    There are definitely 4 better defensive outfielders than Cruz and maybe more. There are no better DH's so in the AL it is a no brainer. Even if he is "passable" defensively it is better to put him at DH. In the NL you have to decide if he is a bigger liability defensively than he is an asset offensively. I tend to be on the defensive side as well and he is still an asset for hitting in the pitcher's spot in a high leverage situation. If he plays the outfield and gets 4 or 5 at bats he might hit a homer that decides the game and he might mess up a play that one of the other outfielders would have made and the difference loses the game. Because of the relative odds of either happening I am ok with that decision. Its baseball, you can make good decisions that turn out badly and you can make bad decisions that work out well. This would be one of those that is too close to call so I am not going to criticize it even if doesn't go our way.
  20. Dantes929
    Turtle went 0-1 as a sub. I will be mad if he goes on a 50 game hitting streak and falls short of Dimaggio just cuz of this game.
  21. Dantes929
    This game shows you can't go on the road in Philly in the rain on April 5th, walk 9 batters, hit another one, make three errors, be on the wrong side of a bunch of lousy calls ( see chart above plus Gonzalez was rung up when he barely even checked his swing when the Twins were still in it) in addition to just playing sloppy ball. I imagine it is not a good recipe playing against high or low payroll teams.
  22. Dantes929
    Worse than that. Apparently has trouble naming all the 5 teams in his own division. Wouldn't you start with that?
  23. Dantes929
    Hating the White Sox is the only unwritten rule in baseball that I respect. You could post "I hate the White Sox" in the comment section of any article here and you would get a like from me. As far as the Royals blog its like my mom trying to trash talk. You just chuckle, pat her on the head and say "nice try".
  24. Dantes929
    You are being kind. Royals went 28 years without a playoff berth. In the 20 years before there two year window of relevance in 2014 and 2015 they had two winning seasons and even with those winning seasons their average record in that 20 years was 69-93. I repeat, their AVERAGE record in that 20 year span was 69-93. Ok, that aside, I actually kind of admire their fan base. Through 30 years of misery the fans continued to support them. Most of the KC web sites I visited during those lousy 28 years were filled with faithful. loyal and well behaved fans.
  25. Dantes929
    For the record everyone. He sat the first two games but then played the last three in a row. He is 9th on the team in plate appearances and has 4 more than any catcher. If he keeps hitting I expect him to keep playing.
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