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  1. Doctor Gast
    What a bunch of scumbags
  2. Doctor Gast
    What happened? Never mind
  3. Doctor Gast
    Good start keep it going!
  4. Doctor Gast
    Wallner has the tools to become a great OFer once they develop his ball reaction & routes. I'm sorry to, trade Margot already. Bring up Wallner & Keirsey will be a much better club.
  5. Doctor Gast
    I was supposing that Larnach was regressing back to his old approach & that it's hard for him to maintain that new approach. Which makes it hard for me to put him above Wallner.
  6. Doctor Gast
    MIA LHRPs Scott & Nardi are very expensive but MIA has another LHRP, failed SP experiment AJ Pukk. His #s are very inflated because he did poorly & lasted just a few innings in each game but returning to the BP his ERA has constantly improved where is he's 3.4 in the BP. (LHSP). Luzardo has been put on the IL due to a stressed lumbar. It takes 4-6 weeks to recover which is just before the deadline. Not enough time to showcase him & to make room for others on the roster they put him on the 60 day. Nobody will seek after him, his arm isn't hurt & his back isn't that bad, where Paparesta can whip him into shape not long after the deadline. Throw Pukk in there we'd have a pretty good package. I love the idea
  7. Doctor Gast
    Most of these relievers (including Miller) are potent & intoxicating but we'll sober right up once we see a price tag. I really like our BP even with Duran not on top of his game, we still have Jax, Alcala & overdue Varland still in AAA. If use Stamant properly I don't see much of a regression. Duran can still return to his old self, Steward will be back before we know it, hopes that Canterino & Topo can still return & have an impact sometime before postseason. Now IMO LHRPs is a need. Thielbar is no longer high-leverage, Okert & Funderburg cannot be trusted beyond low -leverage. (MIA) Nardi will be in demand & expensive. Gonzales's value is over-inflated so I'd like to trade him before it falls too much, So Gonzales & Doncon or Culpepper could get the job done.
  8. Doctor Gast
    Very interesting article Matthew & it'd have been nice to have extended those lists to see where other sits. "Underlying statistics, particularly batted ball metrics such as exit velocity and launch angle, are far more predictive of future performance than traditional stats like slugging percentage and OPS. These advanced metrics help us understand the quality of a player's contact and provide insight into whether their current performance is sustainable." I grant you that top elected analysts today love & depend exclusively on exit velocity & launch angle. IMO these stats don't tell me how lucky or how good a hitter is. Grant you that exit velo has value and GBs are normally not desirable but with less importance put on INFers glove & more on his bat IMO it has less value. If exit velocity & launch angle are the gauges to measure how lucky or how good a batter is, Then Arraez is the worst & luckiest hitter on the planet. Exit velocity & launch angle only tell me what kind of hitter a batter is. A high launch angle normally tells me that he's an "all or nothing" slugger who strikes out a lot & has a programmed swing easy for a fielder to position himself, so when this hitter flies out, he's not unlucky. The league has the book on these hitters which produce much fewer HRs & more SOs (SEA's dilemma). Lower launch angles are normally contact hitters. While sluggers have high exit velocity so can some contact hitters, here is where luck comes in when a contact hitter FO.
  9. Doctor Gast
    What can you say? The lineup was great up & down. Miranda was a monster & Correa grand slam was very timely. The defense was great especially as always Correa. Didn't Lopido's catch hit the wall before he brought it in? Pitching? There's the problem. It wasn't Pablo's day, he should have had a short leash. After the 5th we were leading! They finally brought Alcala in & after the damage had been done with the way the offense was generating we still had a very good chance to win this game! Why bring in low-leverage Winder (who has been absent for a long time recovering, for 2innings) & Funderburg?! I have advocated since the beginning of the season to bring up Varland to the MLB BP. Here would have been a perfect opportunity to bring in Varland & have him pitch at least 1X through the order. As I said pre-game, HOU is a test. HOU is a good team & they are HOT. We need to put out HOU's fire, we don't want to face HOU red hot in the postseason & we need to show everybody we are a better team. But last nite we gave HOU every opportunity to win that game. So far we have failed the test & dug a hole for us to try to get out of. For me it's hard to know who is to blame, the policy, Baldelli or both.
  10. Doctor Gast
    I must've missed when Eeles was promoted to AAA from high A. He is handling himself well and he plays the OF too
  11. Doctor Gast
    Many are on the HOU bandwagon, Let's cool HOU off!
  12. Doctor Gast
    HOU has been hot, NYY has not, swept by CIN, Hurrah! HOU should be a good test. We should take 2 out of 3. All 3 should be good games. Ryan should win & that'd be good for him. SWR will be interesting, I'm rooting for him. Tonite will be Lopez, winning the 1st game sounds good. I'll miss this game too 🫡
  13. Doctor Gast
    I really don't think we need to buy another LHH cOF bat.
  14. Doctor Gast
    I can understand the Mahle & Jorge Lopez trades, There was no way to know that Lopez would turn out the way he did, This FO seems to have the bad luck of getting damaged goods. Aren't they examining them well enough? At the deadline, it always seems like a seller's market & with the new post-season format, there are a lot more buyers than sellers. IMO the selection is poor & very expensive. To be buyers you have to be very smart to find that hidden jewel & very lucky. Since it's a seller's market, IMO we can unload our rentals & still be a better team. Use that money to pick up a high-end SP & or RP rental.
  15. Doctor Gast
    News Flash! Kiriloff had a shoulder injury last season & had surgery on it this last offseason, the Twins announced that they were going to start Kiriloff's throwing & hitting conditioning a month before spring training, after a quiet offseason & limit Kiriloff to 1B/ DH duties. Kiriloff had a great spring training but the Twins were totally committed to Santana at 1B so to get his bat in the line-up they decided to lift the restrictions & put Kiriloff in the OF. While on the active list the Twins have taken Buxton & Larnach out from the OF & restrict them to DH duties when they had physical limitations because OF is a physically more demanding position. This isn't drivel it's called observing with an open mind, putting the pieces together & making a reasonable conclusion. I'm sorry it doesn't into your box.
  16. Doctor Gast
    How did you come to that conclusion on what I said? What has shortening slumps & injury time has to do with retiring?
  17. Doctor Gast
    On June 20th Lewis said "Hey, I don't do this slump thing" Lewis said "he began feeling a tightness in that area during the Twins’ series at Oakland from June 21-23. And when he tried to run out a double on Tuesday, the pain intensified to the point he didn’t think it was safe to continue." As I thought Lewis's slump began when he started to feel tightness in that area. Shortly after his slump started he should have been approached.
  18. Doctor Gast
    Ober had a little trouble again at the start of the game but again settled in & pitched excellently after that. It's nice to win these blowout games but winning the close ones is what really counts.
  19. Doctor Gast
    I pretty much agree with you on the starters except Larnach. He's a good player but not a starter (Castro will get the nodd before him) & will get plenty of playing time in the cOF but he is not a steady starter. I still put Kiriloff as a better hitter than Larnach. In the beginning of the season, Kiriloff was hitting great. If we didn't sign Santana & kept Kiriloff at 1B & DH to keep him healthy. Kiriloff wouldn't have gotten hurt & slumped, he'd have had a great season. Plus Miranda would have more playing time. We have a great roster of young players in '24. It was a waste to have signed Santana & Margot that took precious playing time from our superior younger players to cement themselves in their starting positions so we could have an even better '25 roster. I would have like to see what Keirsey can do earlier this season & get his feet wet (he's not getting any younger). Emma & Severino are great players but it'll be hard to squeeze them in because of the players ahead of them at cOF & 1B. There is talk about trading Kiriloff, I'd absolutely not do that because his stock is almost worthless & he's still a pretty good hitter, If they don't want to play Julien at 1B then trade him. Can we pick up a good SP deal with MIA? Here's something else for you to think about. Jeffers's contract will be up soon, will they extend him? With Boras as his agent, I doubt it. So the best time to trade Jeffers is next offseason so we have Vazquez to mentor in a new young elite (LHH) catcher.
  20. Doctor Gast
    Happy 4th you guys & good game
  21. Doctor Gast
    Neither are doing very well, may be if they were switched we'd have better results, But we are winning.
  22. Doctor Gast
    Now we have Lee & Martin, Let's see how this combo works
  23. Doctor Gast
    Piggy-backing in the TD world, it doesn't work. But in the real world, there is great success for those who are courageous enough to buck the system. Twins had great success with it under 1st year of Baldelli with Perez & Pineda. It wasn't until some time after they stopped it that rotation blew up. Since then piggy-backing & even long relief has been frowned upon by the Twins & TD. In my recollection, Twins always had trouble hitting against piggy-backing or BP games.
  24. Doctor Gast
    Although there's a bear market, I still don't see anyone biting on TC.
  25. Doctor Gast
    In some cases, this could be the case but in Lewis's case I doubt it. This all started with a freak accident of a Southern California kid unfamiliar with ice in Texas. Playing 3B IMO helps to slim the chances of another ALC but he remains susceptible to soft-tissue injuries independent of heredity. IMO this will limit what Lewis can do. But if properly managed he can still be very successful in this 2 yr. span.
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