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  1. h2oface
    You know that the FO has failed when you are more interested watching games of teams your favorite traded players play for than what was and should be your favorite team. Strangers and visitors and AAAA mish-mash doesn't mean they are my team, does it? It becomes you have to like them because they are what is left of your team, but do you really? Or do you force yourself to?
  2. h2oface
    Jax had some good fortune in this outing. He wasn't fooling anyone, and was getting hit pretty regularly, just right at someone or just inside the park. I remember Scott Diamond. Gotta take the good when you can, especially this year. I can't say that I am rooting for Jax and Ober et al to do all that well. If they do, the FO is likely to go with them for next year instead of getting better pitching for this team, which has been their great failure. Looking at the Bullpen Usage Chart, and the names in it....... really is depressing.
  3. h2oface
    Such clarity. Never. Never ever. Never have two sides changed their position in negotiations and done something different than they have once stated. Never. Thanks for the clarification.
  4. h2oface
    What about when they allow exactly 5 runs? 5 must be included in one of those groups.
  5. h2oface
    Buxton - ABSOLUTELY NOT Rogers - No Donaldson - No, but maybe. If he goes on the IL with an injury, and they bring up Miranda and he continues his shine..... then yes. Kepler - No Sano - Yes It isn't the bats that have caused this team to tank. It was the horrible pitching decisions by the FO.
  6. h2oface
    ? Barnes was a 4th round pick out of Clemson in 2017. Our pick, our homegrown prospect...... and he has arrived!
  7. h2oface
    Looks like it is going to be tough for Charlie Barnes/Barns/Burns. Not that it is malicious, but he is not even winning the name recognition game from the homies! I wish his name was Burns - Corbin Burnes!Charlie Barnes/Barns/Burns will be 26 October 1, To give that some perspective, when folks like to point out someone is average age or young for his league/level, these guys are all 26..... Walker Buehler, RHP, Dodgers; Corbin Burnes, RHP, Brewers; Shane Bieber, RHP, Indians. Sure would be nice if Diaz would get runners to the plate instead of killing the rally at third. Are we the only team that can't seem to score from first on a double? No reason at all, at this point, to not be aggressive and force the other team to make a good play. As we know from our defense, that doesn't always happen.
  8. h2oface
    .... and Mahle (broke Buxton's hand in June) came to the plate yesterday. Maeda pitched very gentlemanly to him - all but one pitch outside and low. Got a called third strike on a pitch 6 inches outside and low. Maeda had just given up back to back homers on the first 2 pitches of the 3rd inning to the 7 and 8 batters, and there was no outs and no one on base. Put the Reds up 2-1. Wild Man Lucas Sims, who beaned Buxton at the end of September in 2019, and assured we wouldn't have him for the playoffs, is on the 10 day IL since June 24.
  9. h2oface
    Don't pay Berrios, but pay a stranger to replace him. I really don't like my team being full of strangers. Different strangers each year. Colome and Robles and Happ and Shoemaker. And all the others. That is one of the main reasons baseball is loosing fans. They don't even know their team, and the FOs don't treat them as people, just an asset. This is not a virtual fantasy game. This is real life. Their own union isn't helping. They have it organized for only a select few to get paid, and so many never get paid for the great seasons they have in their first 5 years while the CBA is set up to not pay them for perhaps the best seasons of their life. Then they become bad investments, and they are paying them for horrible future seasons. It is all screwed up.
  10. h2oface
    Bizarre first game for Martin. So what does Miranda have to do to get put on the roster and help the Twins? Or do they just like to see him play in St Paul? Donaldson ain't playing anyway for the last 6 games. We know Rooker can hit...... and strike out like Sano (....and Larnach 48 times in last 105 ABs). But does Rooker really have a future (Did Palka have a future? Does Sano?) Is there a reason the Prospect Summary isn't being updated with the new players yet?
  11. h2oface
    With what the Twins are doing with this team now, there is no reason to not have Refsnyder back on the Twins. Miranda, too.
  12. h2oface
    Wow. That St. Paul box has some pretty rough pitching in it. Doesn't look like much help coming from there. (I see 11 team LOB, not 21 - still not helpful....)
  13. h2oface
    Well.... only those that are losing, and have a bad team that they were responsible for at least some if not all of the design of, perhaps. And what do they all have in common? The team that they run was a loser. Just the folks one wants to emmulate.
  14. h2oface
    Not incompetent. But they did create this problem with all their cheap pitching signings and failures. They are now ripping a team apart because of those failures. I don't like it one bit. It could have been all way different. And the fact that they ever signed Happ in the first place (and Shoemaker) to inflict this horror on the team and fans leans them back toward incompetent a bit......
  15. h2oface
    20 minutes left and we still thankfully have Buxton.
  16. h2oface
    https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/07/twins-cardinals-trade-j-a-happ-john-gant.html No more JA Happ. THAT makes me Happy. Not for the return, just so I don't have to watch Happ pitch anymore.
  17. h2oface
    I'll take that to mean that you are changing your statement of "nothing" to something, just insane. So not "nothing". Gotcha.
  18. h2oface
    Now shopping Maeda, too. A team full of strangers, coming up. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/07/byron-buxton-trade-rumors-twins-phillies.html
  19. h2oface
    Kimbrel in an up year for the stretch. With getting their injured young stars back... they could be real dangerous in the playoffs.
  20. h2oface
    How exciting! Berrios has a replacement already! Oops. Already sent to St. Paul. "The Twins announced that they’ve claimed right-handed reliever Edgar Garcia off waivers from the Reds and optioned him to Triple-A St. Paul. Cincinnati designated Garcia for assignment earlier in the week. The 24-year-old Garcia has seen MLB time with the Phillies, Rays and Reds but limped to a 7.14 ERA in 46 1/3 innings. His Triple-A numbers are quite good, however, as he’s pitched to a 3.28 ERA with a 31.4 percent strikeout rate and 10.2 percent walk rate in 57 2/3 innings. Garcia averaged 95.1 mph on his heater in his brief time with the Reds and is in the last of his three minor-league option years. He can be shuttled between Triple-A and the big league roster for the rest of the season if the Twins choose, but he’ll be out of options next spring." https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/07/twins-claim-edgar-garcia-from-reds.html
  21. h2oface
    I was the first and original!
  22. h2oface
    Profound. Thank you.
  23. h2oface
    Berrios must be nothing. After all, he was a first round/supplemental compensatory pick, which is what he could have been replaced by if he refused a qualifying offer (at least under the current CBA, which may change) after he helped the Twins in 2022. And that would have been great for the prospect lists and books, too, and would have been more development years to talk and hope about.
  24. h2oface
    This is a great trade for those that like to talk about prospects and write prospect books. Not so great if you want players that acutally improve the MLB team. Will they? No one knows, and certainly won't that soon. Does this team need MLB pitching now? Certainly. Will we see a bunch of 1 year contracts of mediocre replacement level or less pitchers next year to be tortured with as filler while we wait? That's my bet. Can't wait for 2022. Year 5 (is it 5? something like that) of the Falvine reign, and the MLB team is getting worse. But the pitching is coming, right? They are pitching experts.... it has to be coming, right?
  25. h2oface
    92 mph 2 seam fastball, 94 mph 4 seam fastball. Currently getting lit up in AA.
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