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Perhaps people are holding off on the thumbs down because you think that plantar fasciitis is somehow related to an old ankle injury on the other leg. Just wow

Yup, relief arms can come cheap. Any of them who signed for less than $10 million was hit and miss.

Yup, he did pitch in the Toronto series. That does not change what happened with the Houston series.

FIP is a lovely number. It sometimes gives people hope for a brighter tomorrow. It sometimes says the person is lucky. The thing is neither scenario matters when the player gives up 5 runs in the playoffs when the team needs the best out of him.

Yet somehow the Twins find themselves in the bottom 10 of the league for blown saves with this motley crew of lowly regarded relievers They are tied for 5th fewest with Cleveland and Atlanta , which along with the Twins the only teams with winning records

Last time I looked Alcala has ha only 2 bad outings all year. The sky is not falling there Varland is not a left handed pitcher. So far this year Varland has been equally bad versus both left and right handed hitting. I doubt that is going to be cured by a move to the bullpen . It would give the bloggers here something for clickbait

A pitcher can warm up in 30 seconds? Mound visits have been limited sinew 2018. Igiven history Mound Visit Definition The members of the coaching staff (including the manager) can make one mound visit per pitcher per inning without needing to remove the pitcher from the game. If the same pitcher is visited twice in one inning, the pitcher must be removed from the contest. These mound visits are limited to 30 seconds, starting when the manager or coach has exited the dugout and been granted time by the umpire. The mound visit is considered to be concluded once the manager or coach leaves the 18-foot circle surrounding the pitching rubber, though they are permitted to temporarily leave that area to notify the umpire of a substitution. In that case, the manager or coach can then return to the mound without it being counted as two mound visits. Mound visits are limited to four per team per nine innings, though an extra mound visit is awarded for the ninth inning if the defensive team has zero remaining visits at the end of the eighth. Teams also receive an additional visit for every extra inning played. Any manager, coach or player visit to the mound counts as a mound visit under this rule, though visits to the mound to clean cleats in rainy weather, to check on a potential injury or after the announcement of an offensive substitution are excepted. Normal communication between a player and pitcher that doesn't require either to vacate his position on the field doesn't count as a visit. If a team is out of visits, the umpire will have discretion to grant a brief visit at the catcher's request if a cross-up has occurred between the pitcher and catcher. History of the rule Mound visits had no time limit prior to the 2016 season, when Major League Baseball began limiting visits by managers and coaches to 30 seconds. The rule limiting each team to six mound visits per nine innings was instituted prior to the 2018 campaign and changed to five per nine innings prior to the 2019 season. The number of mound visits was reduced again to four per nine innings prior to the 2024 season. Prior to 2018, the only restriction on the number of mound visits each team could make was the one requiring a pitcher to be removed if he was visited twice in one inning.

Urshela had a better season than Donaldson in 2022. Donaldson Garver caught 14 games in 2022. He was more a DH than a catcher. Rortvert did not become a 1/2 time catcher until this year. Give Tampa Bay the credit for that.

DeScalfini might retire before taking a minor league contract for an age 35 season. Dobnak is the one more likely to sign one

Major league ready means there is nothing lrft for them to prove in the minors. Prospects that pan out that are traded for the non perennial all star player tend to be the high ranked prospects the club trades because the club doesn’t think they are going to make it. Credit the receiving club for any success they might have.

Varland and SWR have surpassed well beyond the norm for prospect status. The question remains for them can they be like Ober and Ryan and develop enough to have a chance at getting paid in arbitration time, not ranking. Festa and Mathew’s have reached the major leagues as necessary pieces. Question one is are they good enough to stick or not. Question 2 is do they develop enough to get paid when arbitration level is reached. Ranking is insignificant at this point. Now ranking the next group would be informative as knowing what will be the 6-9 starter is always important and will the team have to keep a Dobnak just in case

The winner of the hindsight is 20/20 Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda award is Randy Grichuk who’s having a fine year very cheaply for a ball player that the Twins could have signed.. then they could have traded Miller for some front end starting pitching help that the pipeline filled with ramch dressing will prove we did not need anyways

Sometime the pipeline is filled with Busch Lite dark beer

Dallas Keuchel is on his 5th team after it appeared his career was finished. On a minor league contract> Pitching is thin in the major leagues. Pitching is thin in the minor leagues as well Gunkel and Tozak prove that. Sorry if the names are misspelled

Dobnak did not sign a one year contract.. Dobnak might be the best reason why not to sign a back of the rotation starter to a long term deal. Dobnak is a great reminder how injuries can affect a career. Dobnak is also the great reminder of how the great store for fans becomes tar and feathers

Nope, the quote never existed. It is only an allegation because nobody thought to save a videoclip ot a link to the article. One must footnote their words now

Your comment was the cupboard was bare.. For pitching it was. I did not feel the need yo resist the pitchers but I guess one has to remove all doubt as memory seems to fall after a post. Considering that this is the 8th season of the regime, 3 is about right. Consider how different the 91 team was from 1987 and that was only four years

Suxton Kepler Polanco Garver Kirilloff Wade Gordon had one good Year Sano Escobar Dozier and Mauer they were all in the system. oops, forgot Jose Miranda

Landon Leach, Blayne Enlow, Charlie Barnes say hello Traded pitching prospects like Legumina and Gipson Long have not done anything of note so there really shouldn’t be any crying over their trades

Rapsodo did not come out until 2016, Trackman was prohibitively expensive. Whether or not the Twins would have went that way eventually is unknown. I doubt that anyone on Ryan’s staff will say the answer.. Falvey one tome did say it was a barebones operation. I remember looking at the front office roster listed. Where there was one person there now seems to be 304. Lots of assistant GMa. The tickets sales people with more staff are not doing a great job.

10 of the 25 pitchers on the 40 man roster or 60 day dl were drafted or signed by the Twins. 5 more were brought in by trade as prospects. Jax is the only one not brought in by this FO. They remixed a pipeline, they did not say it had to solely be by the draft. Berrios, Jay, Gonsalves, Stewart, Burdi, Meyer, Thorpe, Chargois, Eades and Zach Jones with Cedroth and Jorge getting C grade and Taylor Rogers being listed as a player of note were the top ranked pitchers in the system according to Sickles when Falvey took over. Cupboard was kind of bare. It was going to take a while

There are fewer companies owning refineries than baseball teams. Most of the processed food is made by 5 companies. What is a normal business that has on average over 300 million in revenue?

At age 34 with an injury history Topa should be smart enough to grab any offer the Twins make. The alternative would probably be a minor league deal

Jason Adam on a reasonably inexpensive contract was trade for a top 100 prospect

0 fer the Yankee, Baltimore and Cleveland so far this year, what could they possibly have traded for that would make that up?