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Uh, B-B-B- But I Say, I S-S- Say, Boy, I say Mr. Leghorn, please, I just wanna be like Lyman Bostock! Would, W- W- W- That please be OK M- M- M- Mister Foghorn???

Bell has been superb. His at bats in the clutch are a masterclass in how to work counts, have a professional at bat at most importantly, approach an at bat with the team’s success prioritized over any individual goals. I think his 83 RBIs are the most impressive statistic of any on the team at this juncture. I very much agree with the premise of your article!

Sadly true!

Just to be clear, I think Prielipp has outstanding stuff, and the potential to be a top of the rotation pitcher. He has a great slider, curve and his fastball is more than sufficient. It just appears to me that he’s worn down for this season. The two games lost, he gave up 8 and 6 runs while pitching very well at the start. I noted that in his 2nd to last major league appearance, Marquez pitched 5 innings of 1 hit ball. So, he has something left in the tank. That was my logic in the post. See if Marquez, being fresh, can give a competent start.

Remember Rich Coggins and Al Bumbry and the two barreled, scintillating rookie transformation of the Orioles they brought in the second half of the season. Coggins/Bumbry. Culpepper/Jenkins. You’ll never find out leaving 1/2 of the potential transformational tandem in AAA.

My sentiments exactly. It seems like a no-brainer.

It’s clearly time to call up German Marquez and have him start in a demoted Connor Prielipp’s spot. Prielipp is not the slightest bit competitive at this point. The other option would to be to call up Rojas and piggyback him with our newly effective relief core.

They thought it was Reggie?

For the whole month of August, 13 games .389/.450/.741

OPS+ with its extreme favoring of power hitters is not a fair statistic to use for a line drive hitter like Walker Jenkins. It’s not as inappropriate but in the same spirit as using OPS+ to compare Rod Carew to his contemporaries when he hit .388 in 1977 and won the batting title by 52 points plus the MVP award. Carew had a 178 OPS+ but Ken Singleton had a 165 OPS+, despite Carew having 239 hits to 176, 38 doubles to 24, 16 triples to none, 128 runs scored to 90, a .388 average to .328, a .449 OBP to .438, 23 SB to none (though not a great %). Singleton appears to be in the same league as Carew simply based on hitting 24 HR to Carew’s 14.

I caught that glaring contradiction as well! You articulated it very well!

I have to agree with everything you said, point by point - Tom, Zoll and Shelton all clearly better communicators than their predecessors and yes, that’s valuable! The higher aspirations and greater skill of all 3 has the Twins in the 3rd wild crd spot for now and whoa thunk it?

That's what I was thinking, 3 HR in game 1 and 3 more in the regularly scheduled game would be 6 Hrs for the day and earn a call up!

.389/.441/~.640 in August as of noon Thursday. I’d call that blowing the doors down.

Some good, old fashioned logic, context and facts being applied to the situation! Jenkins hit a 2nd HR in the rain delayed game!