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  1. h2oface
    We are conditioned to be so apologetic it seems. The thing is, the decisions he has made, the lackadaisical throw after the horrible catch he blew that Larnach was sitting on..... these are things that AT ANY LEVEL OF PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL YOU DON'T DO. It has nothing to do with being ready for MLB, like at the plate and being able to hit MLB pitching. The gaffs he is coming up with shouldn't be done at amateur levels. I would like to think even by the end of little league. That being said...... I hope he can become something. With the way this season has progressed, I have little sympathy left.
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    Well, you would think that polish would have gotten some shine IN SIX YEARS! If it's not fair to compare others to Trout for the upper end of performance, then is it fair to compare at all?
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    Celestino polished? Horrible decisions, horrible execution, and horrible routes. I don't even care what he looks like at the plate. Playing the field is not pitching based. I saw the first two games. If that is polished, the Twins are in more trouble than I thought.
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    Dobnak. He represents the long term building block that our FO aparently deems as the future of the pitching staff and what we fans deserve. Fitting. Mediocre (on his best days, at least). Homegrown and not a waiver wire signing or a free agent on the cheap that no one else would sign. He is the perfect representative for the all star nod that rates all stars anyone that has a good couple of months to start a season. Dobnak really doesn't fit that hot start, but that story.... that uber driver back story that the home team seems to rather have than players that are stars. Fits so well with this horrible team. Our all star!
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    I also find it comedic that Theilbar strained his groin throwing a 62 mph ephus curveball.
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    I mostly disagree. I also acknowledged Simmons "real good ones". But the scoring is atrocious. The official scorers now give hits away like candy to grandchildren. So many errors that all players should get to and touch but don't make the play are scored hits. Same with throwing errors sometimes. Official scorers are charity workers when it comes to scoring and they give far too many hits and don't score the poor defense, and not the other way around. Certainly they include range in that, and don't score them as errors, either, for the rangey players.
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    I am amazed that Simmons rates so high defensively this year. I have watched him make more than the 5 errors he actually got officially, and make some real bonehead plays and decisions to go with the real good ones. It is so easy for people to sell out on Cruz with the "has his age finally caught up with him?" Interesting to see he is actually one of the top hitters on the year so far. But carry on with the cheap shots. Everyone has some slump time. If you come out on top even with the slump, you are doing pretty fine.
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    Prospect rankings? Center fielder of the future? So much overrating and home team blindness. Do these guys know how to use they voices? Their loud voices? How does something like that even happen ..... in even college ball or minor league ball? I hate this team.
  9. h2oface
    Just keep holding on to Thorpe and dreaming. SMH.
  10. h2oface
    Management is paying him more, by far, than any of the young "core" that they have signed. That is the ultimate sign of not ignoring him. Right now it is totally wasted money.
  11. h2oface
    This is getting obtuse. It is currently 60' 6". It will be moved one foot back to 61' 6". https://www.wtkr.com/sports/mlb-will-have-minor-league-experiment-with-moving-back-mound#:~:text=MLB will experiment with a,feet%2C 6 inches starting Aug.
  12. h2oface
    This just up at MLBTradeRumors: "Twins catcher Mitch Garver exited last night’s game after taking a foul tip from the bat of Trey Mancini to the groin, and while the initial diagnosis was only a contusion, additional tests provided a more concerning outlook. Garver announced on his Instagram story that he underwent surgery after undergoing ultrasound imaging at the emergency room. Thankfully, Garver adds that he is “recovering well,” but the mere fact that surgery was required likely points to an absence of some note." And he had just heated up to 2019 Garver this last month.... Still no mention about whether he was wearing a cup or not. He had to be, right?
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    It's not baseball, it's HBO!
  14. h2oface
    Shoemaker Not too Shabby The scoreboard would indicate that Matt Shoemaker had a rough day on the hill. That wasn’t the case. Shoemaker was outstanding through four innings, retiring 11 consecutive batters at one point. The tables turned in the fifth inning when Shoemaker surrendered four singles and a walk, leading to a four-run inning for the Royals. Shoemaker has been up and down all year, but you can’t knock the guy for his outing today. Despite the result of the inning, Shoemaker pounded the zone all day. No, six runs aren’t great, but Shoemaker has been moving in the right direction as of recent, and today was far from a shameful performance. Self fullfilling prophecy. If 5 runs (I know, 2 let in by Theilbar, but we are the IRS kings of the world! -- don't leave men on for the relief, because they no longer know how to provide relief until they let all the teammates runners in) in 4.1 inning is a good outing and acceptable, my expectations are way way way higher, and I might be rooting for the wrong team. Sano doesn't seem to have the mental capabilities to make it. So many of our batters today just swung at ball four and other balls. Sano needs to quit watching Astudillo and start watching Larnach and Kirilloff.
  15. h2oface
    To give you an answer, since you are requesting one, and you took the time to make that awesome table of pitchers, I want pitcher E, becasue it is Jacob deGrom. But if I was the Twins FO, I would select pitchers B,C,F, or G.... because that is what they do to supply new pitchers to our team. Or worse stat pitchers. I don't mind the sss for your purposes. It really doesn't matter for your mission. Enjoy your arguing. It doesn't matter what anyone else chimes in with, you are considering it 'noise'. You hear what you want to hear. No one has said that W/L is the most important stat. Nobody, You can win if you like. I am fine with considering W/L stats not useless for my baseball considerations. You can chose what you like.
  16. h2oface
    "Standing: 5th Place in AL Central (9.5 GB)" You are so kind. This sounds way better than "Standing: tied for DEAD LAST in the entire MLB" Tonight's game: a battle of the tied to not own it outright.
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    Isn't as important, and useless don't mean the same thing to me. Words mean something. If that is not what you meant, then so be it. One might say that team wins is the only important stat. But that is not inferring that all others are useless. Wins has always been part of a starting pitcher's story, and not the whole story. Even moreso now that pitchers don't pitch much past the 5th. Nor do they start every 4th game. One thing consistent is you can't get a loss if you don't allow runs to score. Might not get the win, and you could get "deGrom'ed", but you can't get a loss. Wins are not useless. They never will be useless, no matter how many new stats we can come up with. They are all part of the story, and none are useless. There used to be 3 television channels. They aren't useless now, they are just less of the whole story by sheer content.
  18. h2oface
    Hallelujah! I breathe a fans sigh of relief. The Twins win it in the 10th! Now I can get pumped up for the series of the two worst teams in MLB facing off, and hopes to leave the MLB cellar, with thee Matt Shoemaker starting. Nowhere to go but up (except down further, but that is not a possiblity to entertain today.)
  19. h2oface
    Throw out over 100 years of history for the last 20 and the trendy cocktail stats, eh? All those great HOF pitchers. Credibility takes a hit here in my opinion.
  20. h2oface
    Nice write up. Looks like trading Huascar Ynoa was a gaff, and they just let Nick Anderson go for Brian who? It is a nice list, but we needed pitchers last year and the year before and the year before that, and this year and next year and the year after that.... I will believe it when I see these pitchers becoming stars and big leaguers. Right now, it is looking like Falvey didn't have that much to do with what was happening in Cleveland. The bullpen choices this year and the regression of all of them is not emitting much confidence, either. They can't even win one extra inning game! Right now, I doubt any other team is jealous of what the Twins have in the oven.
  21. h2oface
    And Arraez was safe at second before he pulled off the bag, and would have easily scored on Kepler's double. That would have been a win in 9 innings........ Colome with 3 days rest, still comes in and throws immediate meat. Only took 2 pitches to give up the homer. Couldn't be happy using him in earlier innings. Had to go back to: Just keep on doing the same thing and expecting different results..... To go extras these days with the pathetic rule and runner on second, you need to have fireballers that can get Ks. Contact pitchers like Colome are worthless in extras. Any news about Maeda?
  22. h2oface
    Thorpe is a waste of time. I can't believe how long they have hung on to him, especially with his drastic drop in velo. He can't even throw it 90 anymore. It may come across as insensitive, but he also has homesickness problems. Missing mom and dad in Australia. That doesn't help him grow up. He is a young man now. Tic toc.
  23. h2oface
    Happ and Shoemaker were horrible signings from the get go. The only question to me was, how much will it cost us, and not in money, but in games. Any pitcher can have a good streak, and this outing surely doens't make me change my mind about how many games Dobnak will cost us too, but it is nice to get a good start out of him.
  24. h2oface
    But wait! Dobnak is signed long term!
  25. h2oface
    The bizarre thing about this choice, the choice to do 2 makeup games in California today....... is that they have to fly out from Minnesota, play two 7 inning (littel league) games in California, and fly back to Cleveland for Friday. Two weekends ago, they were in Detroit, had a day off the next day (as did Detroit), and instead of making up the one rained out game right where they were, and then the quick trip to Chicago the next day, they scheduled another double header later in June or July, I think. Pretty ineffecient.
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