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  1. SwainZag
    Ring him up!
  2. SwainZag
    He has great stuff....he just always has had problems with control. And that's evident tonight.
  3. SwainZag
    He didn't look hurt scoring from 3rd. Over 30 feet per second from 3rd to home.
  4. SwainZag
    I send him back out. You could always pull him if Judge gets up as it will be 8-9-1.
  5. SwainZag
    Reading this game thread you would think it's 11-1 Yankees. Couple hits and they are back in this game.
  6. SwainZag
    I thought it was pretty surprising too, especially considering in 9 of their 12 losses they have scored 3 or less runs, and 6 of those games were 2 or less, despite having the middle of the order that they do. I'm guessing there had to be something internal that added into this? A 12 game losing streak is tough, but it's only June and the Halos are only 2 games under .500. Seems like pretty strange timing to me.
  7. SwainZag
    Gotta assume about everyone is available. Off-day yesterday and 3? pitchers coming off the exemption list for not going to Canada.
  8. SwainZag
    They didn't make a roster move. I am guessing they make a move tomorrow morning and he has a chance at starting tomorrow night's game.
  9. SwainZag
    This means that Ryan is getting a rehab start, which is alright, he hasn't started a game in 17 days. We are going to need the bats to get going either way, it will be a tall task.
  10. SwainZag
    I made a trip to see a game at Target Field on my birthday in April and was shocked and appalled that the team store had not one Arraez item. I am guessing that has probably changed or will soon change if he keeps hitting. That being said, I absolutely love his old school approach at the plate. In a generation which has seemingly lost hitters who choke up, fight off pitches and put the ball in the play with 2 strikes rather than swing for the fences. I know advanced stats do not love singles hitters....and a team full of them wouldn't succeed, but with the clip he gets on base he becomes insanely important when you have studs hitting behind him.
  11. SwainZag
    His argument isn't to use worse relievers later in games. His argument is that Rocco used Duran in the 6th and 7th with the 1-6 hitters coming up in the Tigers lineup....and the hitters who have done most if not all the damage against the Twins this week. The bottom 3 in the Tigers lineup are all hitting sub .200. It was a 1 run game. If a manager wants to assume his best arm can get through dangerous hitters in the lineup, it's giving the Twins offense multiple innings to add on to a 1 run lead. Yes, that means you are still going to face the lineup again, potentially with a 1 run lead. Personally, I would rather see them keep the lead and try and add on rather to just wait and save your pitchers until the end. Really it's all moot because you can bitch about bullpen usage all you want, but scoring 2 runs in 3 games isn't going to lead to too many wins.
  12. SwainZag
    Top 6 in the order went 1-24 today, if that's Rocco's fault then....
  13. SwainZag
    Closer is the most overrated position in the game. Duran came in face the 1-6 hitters in the lineup and did his job. Put the best arm to face the best hitters in tight games. The issue again was 2 runs of offense. It doesn't relieve Pagan from giving up a HR to one of the worst hitters in the roster, but score same damn runs.
  14. SwainZag
    Gordon!
  15. SwainZag
    I think 26?
  16. SwainZag
    On a negative note....this team hasn't scored a run in a while. On the positive side, they are totally due!
  17. SwainZag
    Garlick has the highest OBP and OPS on the team against left handed pitching outside of Larnach. There was a lefty on the mound. It's not really that hard to understand why he hits Garlick in the top of the order against lefties.
  18. SwainZag
    Saw this factoid today. The last 2 World Series winners were under .500 on June 1st. Food for thought.
  19. SwainZag
    I am totally a Garvsauce fan, but he's 31 and hitting .232/.307/.446 and has only caught 14 games this season. Compare that to Sanchez who is 29 and hitting .236/.297/.457 while catching 21 games. Neither is the long term answer but 2019 Garv is looking more and more like a blip than the norm.
  20. SwainZag
    5 hits in 2 games combined. Yikes.
  21. SwainZag
    Sheesh. Giving up on a team in 1st place in early June already? Going thru a lull but man.....it's early.
  22. SwainZag
    Any lineup without Buck, Correa, Arraez and Max is going to look weak. I have a feeling both Arraez and Kepler are getting AB's in this game though. Weird construction with Gary hitting 2nd and Gio 4th though.
  23. SwainZag
    For all we know they have been making calls. All i am saying is pre-July trades are pretty rare and wringing your hands over the team not making any is pretty futile.
  24. SwainZag
    The issue is teams usually do not start trading off pieces until July. It's much more of a buyers market when things have settled a little more and there are more teams to bid on your commodities. You can tell all the people you want that you think the Twins should make trades now, but that doesn't mean there are going to be trade partners out there right now.
  25. SwainZag
    Cave down there raking in AAA
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