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Aaron Hicks is going to have Tommy John surgery and will be out 8 to 10 months.

 

I don't miss him.

Those are some sour Wheaties you've been eating.

I’m pretty sure this is the Lohse-Prince game I mentioned:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN200108180.shtml

Through 2 innings, Lohse allowed 1 run on 2 hits and 3 walks throwing like 60 pitches. After that (and Prince) nada for 4 more innings.

Buck had himself a pretty good day. So did the Canuck.

Of what is this 3rd and 7 you speak? This is a foreign tongue of which I know very little.....

It's playoff-speak for playing against the Yankees.

3rd inning, down by 7.

tl;dr

*too late; didn't read

You'll want to see these updated playoff odds

 

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2019-mlb-predictions/?ex_cid=rrpromo

I'll take it.

Nope.

More like an intermediate leash.

Sano adds a potential game-changing dimension to this team. Adding even a .265 BA/.870-ish batting line to this already-potent lineup could easily put the Twins over the top heading into post season.

 

And the fact that the team has done well without him actually BUYS him a LONGER leash to make his adjustments to becoming a regular contributor at the 5-spot in the order and at 3B or DH.

Concur, concur, concur.

Sano, playing to his capabilities, adds something to the lineup that they're not going to ever add through any type of in-season acquisition later.

"It's just like making a trade....only better." ©­®­™

Sano coming back will free up Gonzalez to back up SS when needed.

That's what I'm hoping for. He's likely stretched there defensively, but how many days off does Polanco need (sans injury)?

Positively.

Hopefully!

As with Buxton, I went from expecting production, to accepting any production.

AT some point, you ask would Garver be better served catching everyday at AAA.

Absolutely not, imnshueo*. He belongs on the major league roster, sink or swim. If he's spending any more time in AAA at this point, it means he doesn't have a future on the major league roster going forward.

*(in my not so humble un-educated opinion)

Awesome recap Tom, per usual, even better coming off a fantastic win to start the season.

Is the newest season on Prime yet? 

It is, was just added within the last week.

The first three seasons are up on Prime now.  I don't know when the fourth season is due out.

Sounded like they were aiming for a 2019 release, but nothing specific.

The worst part about The Expanse, is that there isn't enough of it.

I wish we had a right-handed Jake Cave.

Dustan Mohr is only 42-years-young.

CB Bucknor could also have his moments. I think this was him ringing up Mauer for no earthly reason:

Eric Gregg says, "pfffft, amateurs."

All I wanted was a bit of Cuddyer magic, and rather than a trick for the entire crowd, we got a personal bit of card play right there at the table. Couldn't have drawn it up any better than that.

Huge thanks to all of TwinsDaily, both cast and crew. John, Nick, Tom, Seth, Parker, was great to see you all again, another fantastic event.

But I’d rather be sitting in either Chicago Stadiums in late October than Target Field.

We can cross that bridge when (if) it ever actually happens. 

Schur was also Ken Tremendous on the Fire Joe Morgan blog. He's had a wildly awesome career.

My degree in philosophy makes me nerd out about the show. I wish it were a tad funnier but I enjoy it. Parks and Rec is probably my second favorite sitcom all time behind the early years of the Simpsons. So, for me, it's no shame not to be that good.

They just need more consistency.

I broke my phone a couple days ago, explains why they haven't notified me yet.

Pro: you get a player that's probably better than Austin at a cost of nothing but cash.

Cron: probably not dramatically better than Austin, while costing 10x as much and potentially restricting/stopping the acquisition of a better player elsewhere.

We Unix computer geeks will call it a Cron Job and get nothing but crickets and weird stares for our effort.

I laughed.

It's been frustrating without a doubt, and I had zero confidence in them going into Wisconsin today, but color me very impressed.

I was at the Wisconsin game last year, at home, and it was one of the most embarrassing displays of football I've ever had the displeasure of experiencing (the weather didn't help the mood either).

All I say is keep Astudillo...for so many reasons, not the least of which is his personality.

And his fun-quotient is an 11.

When you consider that it runs on a 1-10 scale, it's really good.

Got mine, looks great.

His BABIP was consistent to that of all his minor league career, so I do not see much of problem.  K% will improve hopefully with maturity as a hitter 

Not consistently at the extreme he posted his season though. Minors BABIPs tend to be about 15 points higher than in the majors. His high minors BABIP (AA/AAA) in 1,900 plate appearances was .344.

Without digging in any further I might expect his to be in the neighborhood of ~.330, and even that's being optimistic as only 34 qualified batters hit that mark. That's a pretty dramatic difference from the unsustainable mark of .368 he had this season.

Hopefully his strikeout rate will improve, a few more balls in play will offset the BABIP drop, and with the decent speed he's got that will turn into a good chunk of xbh's.