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  1. h2oface
    Dobnak. The Falvey/Levine building block of the Twins pitching staff.
  2. h2oface
    Simmons another error tonight, this time just not stepping on second on the DP. Is that 6 errors now (4 total in the game, Pineda, Polanco, Astudillo, and the defensive wizard not focusing, Simmons)
  3. h2oface
    This article jinxed "em? Tonight, Polanco error, and Rogers looked like Colome and gave up the game again in the 8th. Good as ever?
  4. h2oface
    One Million times. hmmmm. I guess you don't see the irony that I do. Well, we all know about predictive stats, and how they can be bet on and how well they predict the future. I guess I can buy tickets to the playoffs now. The Twins were predicted to be one of the 5 best teams and headed for the playoffs. This all must be just a dream.
  5. h2oface
    The same people that claim RBI are meaningless and outdated, like to use Batting average with RISP with great importance. I guess they are important to a team, but not important that an individual actually steps up to the added pressure and delivers. Go figure...........
  6. h2oface
    Great hitters, throughout the history of the game, have been able to control where the ball goes when they hit it. Pulling, hitting to the opposite field, hitting in the shift to where they aren't... Rod Carew certainly comes to mind as I saw him do it his whole career. I think the assumption stated as fact that you can't control where you hit the ball is just not true. Some can't. For some it is just the goal to touch the ball as well as you can. The truly great hitters seem to have more motive and success. I will take soft contact for a hit anyday over hitting it 95 mph right at someone, and will continue to declare a hit a better at bat than hitting the ball hard with a poor outcome.
  7. h2oface
    "Strikeouts aside, Miguel Sanó continued to hit the ball hard today with an RBI double that gave the Twins their first lead in the third, as well as hitting a shot to centerfied in the 6th that had an exit velocity of 96.5 miles per hour and an xBA of .390." See....... Sano just needs to swing harder and it will make it out of the park!
  8. h2oface
    Me too, no hashtag.
  9. h2oface
    Wander Javier (4-for-6, 3B, 2B, 4 R, 2 RBI) Good to see!
  10. h2oface
    Atta buddy, Nick Gordon!
  11. h2oface
    Wow. Those are some downright pitiful batting averages in AAA. Joey Votto is having a tough rehab stint. Only 1/13 so far. So it can happen to anyone, I guess. Will Wander Javier, of the 4 million bonus, ever hit?
  12. 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.
  13. h2oface
    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?
  14. h2oface
    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.
  15. h2oface
    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!
  16. h2oface
    I also find it comedic that Theilbar strained his groin throwing a 62 mph ephus curveball.
  17. h2oface
    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.
  18. h2oface
    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.
  19. h2oface
    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.
  20. h2oface
    Just keep holding on to Thorpe and dreaming. SMH.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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?
  24. h2oface
    It's not baseball, it's HBO!
  25. 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.
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