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  1. Dantes929
    If what ails him can't be fixed on the fly mid-season then I don't want him in the pen either. We've already got a guy that we don't trust with any kind of high level innings and I don't care to add another. His career says 3.5 ERA and it is not SSS. I like comparing things to my golf game. When I am bad, just doing the same thing over and over just makes me worse. Every once in a while someone might say something or I might try something different and it just clicks. After it clicks a couple range sessions and I am back to decent. My point is it is possible to correct things in mid season. Maybe its a grip ro a shoulder turn or foot work. I just want him to work on it somewhere else other than a Twins game for the time being.
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    Great question. I think they can do it with his consent. Without his consent he may have to clear waivers in which case if a team claims him then Mike's wish comes true anyway. Pretending injury could work. I just remember Crain and Liriano both telling Gardy they had no idea where there fastball was going and they both got "fixed" at the lower level, whether it was because of a lower stress environment or because of instruction they got there, I don't know. I just don't want to keep trotting him out there to walk a guy per inning and I don't see how bullpen work can help him either. Mike and I are on the same page there. If its possible to have him in the minors I would do it rather than just release him.
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    The reason to not give up on him is that he has a career track record of being better and he is striking out over 9/9 innings. I would give him quite a few more starts but if you read my post closely you would see that I would want those starts to be in the minors. I would love for him and Gonsalves to switch places. What are you losing by having him try to right himself in the minors? The guy had very nice career numbers, had good numbers last year and still has strikeout stuff. Don't you think there is a possible upside if he just stops walking guys? Twins didn't give up on Crain or Liriano back in the day when they had control issues and were sent to the minors and were rewarded for it. If he can't earn his way back to the Twins so be it but what will we have lost by giving him the chance? Its in his best interest also. If he does well in the minors and then comes up and does well for us it will be a big plus for him on the free agent market next year. Continuing to do what he is doing at the big league level now is doing neither him nor the Twins any favors.
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    But for running or anything else you don't build up and then shut down. To train for a marathon you don't build up to run 5 miles by July and then shut down until the end of the year and then next year build up to 10 miles by June and then shut down until the following year and then to 15 the following year and so on. Ok, I don't run so maybe you actually do it that way but I am guessing not. If you say a pitcher needs to condition his arm or body over a long period of time with regards to throwing a 100 pitches or more I would think that is reasonable. Maybe the problem is the incremental increases in pitches or innings thrown in Spring Training from start to start is too high. Maybe optimally Romero is only throwing 70 pitches per start by this point and only builds to 100 by mid June. I don't know what is optimal but that is the part I agree with you in terms of the need to condition the body. " For example, if you're not feeling 100%, and may not get the explosion off the mound you normally would, you may try and horse you're way through the delivery with your back/shoulder/arm a little more." I agree with this completely and alluded to it in an earlier post. This is the part that should be monitored and has little to do with innings accumulated in a given year. It might happen after building up to 20 pitches or 80 pitches. It might happen after 50 innings or 150 innings. If a pitcher is doing this that is the time to skip a start and work on mechanics or just give the arm a rest for a few days. Not the time to shut them down completely.
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    Lynn's strikeouts/9 says he has stuff as does his career history. His walks/9 says he has had command issues all year. No reason to give up on him but it is dong the team and his career no good to continue on like this. I've never like the Twins going after NL starters but his track record was better than the others and these struggles just make no sense. Let him go to the minors and figure it out. It is in his best interest also.
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    Thank you for that. I have been preaching for quite a while and felt like a voice in the wilderness that no one pays attention to. I believe the Twin have been at the forefront of trying to "protect" their pitchers arms through the theory of innings limits and pitch counts for well over a decade and if the result has been that they have fewer arm problems than other teams it would be tough to argue against the theory. Is that what has happened? Does any one think the Twins' pitchers have had fewer arm problems than the average? I believe, without doing any research that Romero is just as likely to hurt his arm in the first inning of spring training as he would be on his 180th inning. Common sense approach would be to skip starts if fatigue shows up and to watch for signs of overthrowing or tiredness during a game regardless of inning or pitch count. Catchers and pitching coaches should be aware of when a pitcher is not following through, losing command or losing smoothness in mechanics. Now on to the actual issue. How about meritocracy? Crain and Liriano both voluntarily went to the minors in their day because of ineffectiveness. To their credit they figured things out and earned their way back. How about Lynn doing the same thing? His walks per 9 stands at 6.6 and just got worse today. Having a guy with 7 walks/9 makes no more sense in the bullpen than it does in the roation. As it stands, Gonsalves or Slegers should be coming up to replace Lynn. Santana and May should have a period of time in the minors proving they are ready before they are considered for promotion. No use pondering what to do them on the Twins until they show maybe two weeks of being effective in the minors. If at some point every one is pitching fantastic then you have to consider bull pen assignments and trades. Not holding my breath.
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    I've been saying forever that Buxton should be bunting for hits twice a game but after tonight I am wondering if I should reconsider. They were expecting bunt, he showed very early that he was going to bunt, it was a pretty bad bunt right back to the pitcher and he still beat the throw and caused the throw to be hurried and off mark. I am now thinking he should be bunting every time up. I am only partly kidding. Even when he is red hot he should be bunting more than he has been now when he is slumping but he should especially be bunting more now. Its just a great slump buster and he is not using it. Besides, I'm not saying bunting for base hits is the most exciting play in baseball. I'm saying BUXTON bunting for hits is the most exciting play in baseball. As far as swinging goes he looks too quick to me much like last year. What happened to the opposite field drill and other drills that helped him last year. Buxton getting on base ignites this offense. Fix him and there is a good chance the rest fall in line.
  8. Dantes929
    Does your friend have the initials USAFC? Just order two deserts. That way you get one and a half deserts and she feels better because she is only eating the other half in order for food not to go to waste and by cleaning the plate somehow keeping a kid in China from starving. Win, win, win. Besides which, if I know Riverbrian as well as I think I do (which is not at all) then taking his wife out to eat is just a semiannual (or is it biannual?) event anyway.
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    You can see in the replay above that it sure looks like Adrianza sees the ball and is shuffling along to make sure it isn't caught. He is facing the outfielders. I think he could have had a little more momentum going and made the decision sooner. If a diving catch was made he still had time to get back. Great play by the Angels and by no means am I laying blame for the loss at his feet. Just not a great read. No where near my pet peeve of when a hitter is running but not all out and then decide to try for another base. You can actually see them turn on another gear and then get thrown out by inches. Running more aggressively from the start gets them the base easily.
  10. Dantes929
    The throw by Calhoun was awesome. The relay was nice but didn't look like Adrianza had a great read on the play.
  11. Dantes929
    No... pretty sure she wants a vacuum cleaner. I think that is what wives like for gifts.
  12. Dantes929
    Quite a few of the losses in the losing streak felt like bad fortune. Doesn't necessarily even out and the fortunes of a team like the Twins often depend on more of those things going our way rather than against. Really excited about today's matchup. Hopefully it lives up to billing.
  13. Dantes929
    I'm just impressed. Apparently he did it twice.
  14. Dantes929
    Rehab probably wouldn't have hurt but I still expect #9 batter production out of him. IMO, he should legitimately try to bunt for base hits twice a game until the rest comes around I thought it helped him get on track last year and it can help him this year. Its such a great weapon for him and I haven't even seen him try it this year.
  15. Dantes929
    Me too. Like a reverse circumcision or something.
  16. Dantes929
    I must be more educated than you because I learn nothing new from RB's intro's. I do like them though because all his facts confirm what I already knew.
  17. Dantes929
    "Increasing the gap between his fastball and changeup velocity is something Romero is going to need to work on in order to keep hitters off balance and have any sustained success with that pitch. In the mean time we can be in awe of a 92 MPH pitch that moves like this." First off, great article and analysis. While it might be preferable to have a larger gap I have heard that a good change up is hard to hit even when the batter knows it is coming because of the movement. If there is a changeup that comes in above league average mph fastball with movement that has us in awe there is no reason to think success is unsustainable. I have always been a big believer in changing speeds, pitches and locations to keep a batter off balance but a fastball that moves crazy left to right, a slider that moves crazy right to left, a changeup that moves crazy downward and a fastball that moves 98 mph is probably enough to keep batters off balance. Command, which has been pretty good is still his biggest question mark. Minor leaguers did score runs against him which makes it very likely that major leaguers will also but it is easy to imagine Romero having a high quality start percentage even by Bert's standards with the possible exception of getting 7 or more innings pitched.
  18. Dantes929
    Beating dead horse time. I agree the most important thing is Romero's health and development. Still have seen no correlation to innings pitched. IMO, also not supported by any research, is the number of pitches in any one given inning and staying loose and stretched out when the Twins have prolonged half innings on offense has more to do with his health.
  19. Dantes929
    That's my memory also. Had nothing to do with batters figuring him out.
  20. Dantes929
    Romero went 6 yesterday. Gibson went 6.2 the day before that. Lynn went 6 the day before that. Berrios went 6 the day before that. That is 4 in a row. You did want us to let you know. I also have no complaints about Odorizzi today even though he only went 5.
  21. Dantes929
    I've beat on this drum before. There is no evidence I have ever seen that even suggests stretching out needs to be done incrementally in terms of so many innings a season (stretching out to go from 0 pitches to 110 is a different matter). Every one is different and I think it just as likely that Romero's arm blows out in ST as it would for him to pitch 200 innings. Don't baby him but be smart about it. If he feels fatigue or has soreness then skip a start and monitor. How many of our pitchers have followed the incremental philosophy and then needed surgery anyway? Sometimes it feels like the answer is all of them. Blyleven threw 220 innings at age 19 and then no less than 275 innings for the next 6 years. Its not like he had a Clemens like build either. I agree with you. Just do it.
  22. Dantes929
    As far as Romero goes, exciting as all get out. Dose of reality though says Rosario's catch was huge. 2nd dose says he has a 2.83 career ERA in the minors which is excellent but doesn't equate to a 0.00 ERA over a sustained period in the bigs. If he is anywhere north of 60% quality starts with another 10-20% failing because of not reaching 6 full innings that would be fantastic.
  23. Dantes929
    It would be a good problem to have everyone pitching well at once. Where do you see that May will be ready before July? I would want him to build up arm strength and stamina and then also provide about a month of good results in the minors before he even makes the Twins. Lets see him do it first and then figure out what to do with him. If everyone is pitching well he may very well end up back in the pen which would be great also.
  24. Dantes929
    Fastball, slider, change up. I think he might have thrown a few curve balls as well. He probably won't need any others. Fine tune the command is probably his best aspiration. Nitpicking shutouts but less than three walks per 9 would be nice.
  25. Dantes929
    I'm impressed too. There was an audit of a defense contractor?
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