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  1. SwainZag
    Kepler's drive is a HR in 21/30 parks. His earlier fly leaves 6/30.
  2. 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.
  3. SwainZag
    Geez, the soft contact hits continue to pile up. That was just super unlucky.
  4. SwainZag
    What's your definition of "fair enough"? In 29 PA he has a triple slash of .207/207/207, good for an OPS of .414. 6 for 29, no extra base hits, no walks and 9 strikeouts.
  5. SwainZag
    Geez, just nickel and dime-ing Ober here. Most of these hits aren't hit that hard, but good enough for base hits. I don't know what in the world Wallner was thinking firing that into 3rd base, a base hit scores 2 now instead of just one.
  6. SwainZag
    Ober needs to start getting ahead of hitters.
  7. 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.
  8. SwainZag
    There are other things in the lineup besides Joey Gallo, you guys know that right? Would love to see them jump on them early and give Ober a cushion to play with. Faedo shouldn't strike fear in anyone, I hope they are aggressive out of the gates.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. SwainZag
    Even if Donny hits the IL, with a right hander on the mound, Gallo almost will certainly be starting at 1B. To the question of who gets called up if that happens is a good question.
  12. SwainZag
    Honestly, you gotta love what you see, but I think it's way too small of a sample size. Julien has also almost only hit right handed pitching (phenomenally btw) as well, while most of the other players on your lists are doing it against everyone. What he does against RHP, yes I love his approach and has a chance to be a very special bat. Julien has a whole 29 PA against left handed pitching. Triple slash of .207/207/207, good for an OPS of .414. I understand they have shielded him from left handed pitching, but he needs to be at least adequate against southpaws.
  13. SwainZag
    Gallo came in for an injured Solano
  14. SwainZag
    Ah! Would surpass it in nearly 40 less innings as well.
  15. SwainZag
    He only has 8 though? He had 12 in his CGSO against the Royals last month...and 10 against the Tigers two starts before that
  16. SwainZag
    Twins pitching is just so much more satisfying and not to mention leaps and bounds less anxiety inducing when no opposing batters are being walked.
  17. SwainZag
    If it's under 100 pitches sure. Zero reason to over use starters right now. 85 pitches in 7 shutout innings would be just gravy to me.
  18. SwainZag
    8 hits, 7 runs, 4 extra base hits and only 1 K thru 2 innings. Not a bad start boys. Woud love to see Pablo cruise thru 7 shutout innings now.
  19. 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.
  20. SwainZag
    Because hitters also work off scouting reports. A pitch down the middle on the first pitch might mean that they know the pitcher throw a change 69% of the time and are sitting on it.... and a fastball came. Vice-versa for the opposite. Also, when hitters jump on the first pitch and the opposing pitcher throws 4 pitches in an inning because 3 of those swings went for outs, all you hear is how impatient hitters are and how they can't work the count. It works both ways.
  21. SwainZag
    Because AK hit the IL. Your other option is Solano everyday at 1B. I still think it's the only reason he was signed in the first place because of the question mark with AK's wrist.
  22. SwainZag
    This is the Sonny's achilles heel so far. 6th inning, 3rd time thru the lineup. Let's see if he goes after guys or starts nibbling.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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