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  1. SwainZag
    Except when they come in bunches.
  2. SwainZag
    I see you waste zero time blaming Rocco.
  3. SwainZag
    He's really had trouble putting guys away for about a month now.
  4. SwainZag
    And Torkleson again. Damnit.
  5. SwainZag
    Time is now..... hopefully.
  6. SwainZag
    I mean.... this team is pretty well mixed with veterans and youth.
  7. SwainZag
    Had a nice inning last night
  8. SwainZag
    Wallner now 2/22 against lefties this season. 4/38 for his young career.
  9. SwainZag
    With him having 2 years and $20M on his contract, it's pretty likely he's back next year.
  10. SwainZag
    Listen to the radio broadcast!
  11. SwainZag
    Torkleson looking like he is going to be problem for the forseeable future.
  12. SwainZag
    I love crooked numbers in the morning
  13. SwainZag
    A lot of 1st inning pitches, but great recovery Kenta!
  14. SwainZag
    Both should realistically finish in the Top 5 and possibly Top 3 depending on how the season plays out. I'm not sure either of them are homer take laughable. Julien likely isn't in a realistic convo from a sheer playing time difference, but Gray does have an outside shot at making a run at the award.
  15. SwainZag
    With the amount of times we have see Gray breeze thru and then implode in a later inning, combined with a fully rested back end of the pen, it's kinda hard to fault Rocco's reasoning in this one.
  16. SwainZag
    Well obviously. His OPS since the the 2nd half started is .958, if he hit like that all year long it would be 3rd in the AL only behind Ohtani and Seager. We will see how he finishes out the season, but his swing does look shorter, and he is hitting the ball hard. His barrell %, exit velocity, and XSLG are all career highs right now.....and that includes the awful first half of games he played this season. 1st 46 games, 165 PA: .189/.261/.365 .626 OPS Last 41 games, 151 PA: .290/.344/.573 .917 OPS A full season of the recent Kepler makes him a top 10 corner OF in baseball. Now is Max that good? Probably not, but he does look like he could give you a .800 OPS+ year, which is a for sure yes on picking up that option.
  17. SwainZag
    I am tired of seeing him in the lineup as well, but almost every topic is being over-run with DFA Gallo. It's almost worse than the Kepler talk of May-June. Just trying to be realistic about it. If they haven't gotten rid of him yet for an inexperienced AAA player yet, they aren't going to do it now when the rest of the 1B depth is banged up. It also isn't a video game where any player can pick up a 1st baseman's glove and be fine defensively out there.
  18. SwainZag
    The quicker everyone realizes that Gallo isn't going anywhere until AK comes back to this team the better. The team isn't going to DFA Gallo to field a team without a player on the roster who doesn't have much playing time at 1B. Farmer with his 171 innings at 1B isn't some huge upgrade against RHP than Joey is. I know every post must include DFA Gallo somewhere, but it's really not going to happen until AK is back on the roster.
  19. SwainZag
    Like chpettit said above, how do you make room on the 40 man for him? If you can 60 day IL Alcala, then great. If he plans to return this season, someone is going to have to be DFA'd.
  20. SwainZag
    Adjust to what? Mauer was a professional hitter who worked counts his entire career. It had nothing to do with adjusting and more than him wanting to see pitches, work the pitcher and wait for a pitch he wanted. The odd complaint and straight irritation of Joe taking the first pitch will always baffle me. He swung at just above 10% of all 1st pitches. His OPS when swinging at the 1stc pitch was .846. It was .824 when he didn't. For the majority of his career he had more walks than strikeouts, it changed towards the tail end, but he was the definition off a patient contact hitter. Almost all the people who discount Mauer point to his 09 season and say.... this is who he should have been his whole career instead of accepting that as an outlier and using the rest of his career as the standard. I'm always baffled by how many twins fans down play how good Joe Mauer was as a player. I don't know if it's because he was a hometown guy and they somehow expected more, or if it's because he was always so humble and a likeable genuine human..... but man I will always come with numbers to back him up.
  21. SwainZag
    I would almost guarantee they told him they would find a way to get him onto the roster after the deadline. Whether it be an injured starter or 6th starter or bullpen piece.
  22. SwainZag
    Amazing how many of you point and jump to "phantom injury" over Ryan admitting it was something he was trying to pitch thru. Either way, I think he could use a little break.
  23. SwainZag
    At first glance it seems it would be comparable to a package of Castro, Larnach and Schobel. Maybe a little less than that. Certainly more than nothing.
  24. SwainZag
    He wouldn't play against RHP. That's what the glut of left handed hitting is for.
  25. SwainZag
    Twins are 2nd to last hitting vs left handed pitching in the majors. Hernandez's slash of .303/.323/.573 vs lefties would be a welcome addition. Good for an OPS of .896.
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