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  1. SwainZag
    Much ado about nothing. Twins could do no more than put in claims. Saying they struck out is a bit clickbaity when they never had a chance. Here's hoping that Cleveland just threw a couple million away.
  2. SwainZag
    Injuries probably blew Larnach's chances. Hard to blame the team. If a player really wants to get back he has to put in the work and get back.
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    2008.
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  5. SwainZag
    I still don't know why we aren't bunting in the bottom of extra innings with the game tied. Leadoff men went 0-3 in that situation, not advancing the runner once. On a separate note, outside of the ugly 1/3 of an inning from Jax yesterday, the bullpen put up a line of: 18.2 IP. 9H. 3R. 1ER. 7BB. 17K. Good for an ERA of 0.48. Who saw that coming?
  6. SwainZag
    I don't believe Hader ever hit free agency. He was traded him Milwaukee to San Diego. Then San Diego extended him on a 1 year deal to avoid arbitration.
  7. SwainZag
    Honestly haven't paid that much attention to it, but spied that big number.
  8. SwainZag
    Yeah, that tells me the WPA Stat is heavily flawed.
  9. SwainZag
    That's some insane negative WPA for Duran. Are you sure that's right?
  10. SwainZag
    If Luplow is only going to get at max 1-2 AB in this game, does it matter if it's automatically known he will hit against a LHP in the 1st inning, or just possibly against a relief arm later? I don't have a problem with the pinch hitting, especially because Luplow is on this team for one reason and that is to bat against LHP.
  11. SwainZag
    Meh. Maeda went 4 innings. The bullpen needed to throw 5 innings given a 1 run lead since the offense decided to go 4+ innings without a hit. You can blame Rocco or Jax, but realistically, praying your pitching can hold a 1 run lead for 7 innings isn't exactly the best case scenario.
  12. SwainZag
    If, and it's a big IF....but if this team can get back Ryan, Stewart, Buxton and Kirilloff for the postseason, the roster would be in pretty dang good shape. You gotta like the Twins chances in a 3 game series with the starting staff though. Who knows, gotta get there first.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. SwainZag
    He wouldn't play against RHP. That's what the glut of left handed hitting is for.
  21. 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.
  22. SwainZag
    Career year with less than ideal peripherals. They sold at exactly the right time. Tampa absolutely needed a starter as well.
  23. SwainZag
    Twins were in position to win with their best player on the mound. He just got beat. That should be no indication to tip any scale to sell.
  24. SwainZag
    It's July and not even the trade deadline yet. There is 35% of the season left. Really no reason to be overly dramatic. A sweep would be great, but by no means it is the season on the line.
  25. SwainZag
    Floro has been across the board a better pitcher than Lopez this year. The Twins essentially gave up Lopez's last year of ARB on a swap with Florio who is a pending FA. 30 year old for a 32 year old. Lopez: 5.09 ERA/5.94 FIP/2.8 BB/9 6.9 K/9 .265 BABIP Floro: 4.54 ERA/2.78 FIP/2.5 BB/9 9.3 K/9 .397 BABIP Combined with the mental health issues he has had, I can't see how this as awful as most of the comments are making it out to be so far. This makes the trade last year seem worse, but that should have no bearing on this deal. Makes sense for the Marlins, they get back someone they can hope to "fix" for another season for a guy who wasn't going to be back next season.
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