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  1. Dodecahedron
    The Twins don't have anyone as good as or better than Berrios to take his place. The return for a Berrios trade would either be a worse pitcher or some prospects (aka, lottery tickets) who would not be pitching for the Twins for several years. In the meantime, the pitching would struggle. And with no bullpen to help? Hm. Doesn't sound smart. Berrios does not have to be an "ace" -- or, in other words, he does not have to be one of the few star pitchers in the league -- for the Twins to keep him. #2/#3 pitchers are foundational and necessary for success.
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    We don't know if 2021 will be an outlier until we see how the front office reacts. We know they will make changes. Will they sell everything not nailed down for a bunch of prospects that are 3+ years away from being contributors? (Hi, Terry!) They probably won't do this, but there is every possibility the team sells some pieces that are difficult to replace, creating problems that linger.
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    The problem there is the relief pitchers will continue to be a "D" lineup. I suppose that can be entertaining too.
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    The universe just keeps piling on.
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    CNN weighed in on this. White Sox manager's alarmingly stupid move https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/20/opinions/white-sox-la-russa-yermin-mercedes-jennings/
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    You don't know that. It's possible that he was never in this situation. It's possible he has never faced a position player pitching to him. It's possible he *has* been in these situations before, but the coaches communicated the game plan to him.
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    True, but he is 6-for-9 so far with a 1.444 OPS. The Twins should ride that until he regresses.
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    The Twins are not cursed. Twins fans are. The team can control the situation, we can't. Usually, it's not difficult to analyze why the Twins implode, when they do. Random unfortunate events are not the problem. The '82 team, now that team was cursed. They played well most of the year but kept losing anyway.
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    Typically, when a manager, boss, leader, or heck any stakeholder wants something to happen a certain way, he or she communicates that in advance. Otherwise -- shocker -- it never unfolds that way. LaRussa can get blue in the face all he wants. Neither he nor any player in the dugout communicated to this player what the plan was. Rules, laws, norms, mores, whatever you want to call them, need to be communicated, whether the "rules" are written or unwritten. Especially so in a dugout, where the players have vastly different experiences, histories, and viewpoints. I don't blame this kid for not getting the memo that was never sent. We all know what people say about the word "assume."
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    Twins brass was really proud of those trees. One Morneau complaint later -> firewood.
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    They won. Seems like you need to go to more games.
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    Maybe. That's your assumption. This is like when you are driving and someone cuts you off. Do you get angry, or do you remember that you have unintentionally cut off dozens of people as a driver too? Like in driving, in baseball things happen. You can turn it into a drama or you can move on. Yeah, I get it, some people like drama. Trying to guess what's going on inside their heads is hard. But if I were in baseball, would I swing at a 3-0 pitch in that situation? Probably. Would I pitch inside to the same hitter later if I were pitching? Probably. Would I pitch behind the hitter? Maybe, if the pitch got away from me or if I was too timid about throwing a real pitch inside. These things happen in baseball. I can buy it that Duffey was too timid to throw an actual threatening pitch and the pitch got away from him.
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    Yeah, I dunno. I don't really care if a dude swung on a 3-0 pitch in a blowout game. Dude's gonna get on base anyway. Why not, who cares, etc. I'm old enough to remember where the Twins set a record for number of runs scored against a team in a double header. It was what, 30? 40? This was against the Sox. Was that "fair"? Also, I don't really care if the same dude got plunked the next day, by accident or not. These are adults. I just don't care. If it had caused a fight, sure, I'd care. I will say that Duffey looked surprised and concerned after he threw the pitch, if that means anything to anybody. Sometimes these narratives just get out of control. None of us know what is going on in the minds of either player.
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    Meh. These metrics seem jacked. This team is not playing good defense. What does statcast say about the team's defense? Statcast is the only defensive metric free of the data being fed through a funky algorithm to spit out a hypothetical.
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    Shoemaker should not be a starter at this point in his career. I think he could be a serviceable relief pitcher if used in the right situations. It makes me happy to see people speaking up that the idea of signing "#5 starter level talent" is crazy.
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    I think the fans have been unlucky, forget the team. We might not be happy with a .500 team but we'd ultimately be OK with it. However, a .333 team is inexcusable, they are way below the threshold of luck. They need an 8-10 game winning streak before we can start talking about luck.
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    Yeah. One of the things I said before the season was that hitting was going to be catastrophic this year if the Twins did not change gears knowing that the MLB was deadening the ball. I felt like I had egg on my face when they came out blazing that first week. Now, not so much. Maybe teams were using up the leftover balls from last year to start the season, maybe not, but what worked last year is not working this year since those first couple of weeks. The ball is deadened, just as we were told it would be. It's worth pointing out that the same hitting approach has not worked for the Yankees, either. It's an easy guess as to which team adjusted better to the change. We just have to look at bullpen stats for each team to know the rest of the story. Their closer has not allowed an earned run in 15 games. Our combined closers probably have an ERA close to 15 in the 9th inning. Night and day.
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    Maybe. I mean, one would hope so. The bullpen has been really bad, and the Twins have burned through their depth at all positions already. Somehow, we all missed the fact that this team has no depth when we were predicting the Twins were going to have a good year. Yeah, the hitting has been unfortunately/unlucky, but I'm not sure how much of a difference it would make if they were hitting as expected. They'd still be under .500, probably still by a lot.
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    I agree. These things tend to snowball, and we all saw decisions early on in the year that were astoundingly terrible and few to none of us would have made those same decisions. If the front office has a plan to build a roster a certain way, using certain metrics, and then the game manager does not know how to use the result, that's a problem. The team has already burned through it's depth and is starting 30+ year old career minor leaguers. In retrospect, we should have been able to spot that this team is a house of cards.
  20. Dodecahedron
    Please remember this is just one game. There are many other games that the Twins will lose.
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    Good question. Not sure. Let me take a look at what the numbers say and I'll get back to you.
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    Budweiser is the only beer I know of where it does not always taste the same. It's like those $5 bottles of wine at Target. You just don't know what you are getting. It is true that no lead is safe with the Twins, but not in the way this was intended.
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    This team just can't win without Buxton on the roster. This isn't new. Whether it's his defense or one of his short hot streaks with the bat, the Twins are just pointless without him on the field. But this year has shown that Buxton can't do it alone. Although, you know, that should have been obvious.
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    Wait, the Twins won a game?
  25. Dodecahedron
    Do horses run faster if they have butt fungus? It seems like my cats do.
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