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  1. h2oface
    "I don't like how that entire group ends up on our mound!" That’s what….. nevermind….. Yaaaaa! Get off of our mound!!! (Even, though, technically, it is their mound). Baseball players are sooooooooo tough. Hey.... it's right there in front of us..........
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    If a someone is 23,24 years old, and has been playing baseball since a child..... and they still are making bad deisions as to the rules of the game and what to do from any base in any situation on the basepaths or in the field, then they just haven't been paying attention. They are not inexperienced just because they are now playing against the best players instead of not as good players at others levels. The rules and moves haven't changed. If they haven't learned the game by that age, they must have a low baseball IQ. They are doing the best they can, they just don't have the brain power to do what is needed in the split second without even more repetition. Some learn with one or two repetions. High IQ. Some it takes a lot more. Lower IQ. Some make the same mistake over and over, Low IQ. Same with learning music. Some can learn the piece and a lot quicker than others, and memorize it quicker and get it from the left side of the brain to the right side of the brain and free themselves to really play the music instead of read the music. High IQ. Some always just read instead of play. All can perhaps get there, but some get there with less repetition. Great jazz guitarist, John Abercrombie, said that the more he played, the quicker it was to learn a new piece and get it from the left to the right side of the brain, were he no longer needed to think and it was just there to add all the emotion and nuance to, or "play".
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    It’s all in front of him
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    This in MLB Trade Rumors today, Sept 1 Minnesota Twins Added LHP Austin Davis (previously claimed off waivers from Red Sox) to active roster Selected contract of OF Billy Hamilton from Triple-A St. Paul Corresponding move: Transferred OF Trevor Larnach to 60-day injured list Larnach to 60 day? What does this mean. Finished for the year? Was moved from the 10 day with a effective date of June 24. Then I saw this in another post there: Larnach has been out more than 60 days already after undergoing surgery to repair a sports hernia back in late June, so the move to the 60-day IL is a pure formality. The Twins are still hopeful that he can return this month.
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    Duffey picks Yankees. Now we know. It's right in front of him.
  6. h2oface
    Did you catch the way Watkins coached Gordon to slide into third. Pretty comical. Like him sliding too will help, or Gordon will even see it at that late juncture. Pretty funny. Best view at :14. https://www.mlb.com/gameday/red-sox-vs-twins/2022/08/31/661649#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=661649
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    Arraez is also hitting .222 in his last 7 games, .220 in his last 15. And noticably slumping since the All-Star break. Should that be taken into consideration at all? Two spans of one or two hits in 20something ABs. He did already homer in this game. It is a tough call, I agree. I think mostly you can't risk a double play in this situation, and if you can advance both runners with a bunt, and have runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out, then I like the odds of not only tying the game, but winning it. Even a slap hit here by Arraez and it may not score a Twin from second the way we run and Watkins coaches third. If he does bunt and moves the runners up, I would not call that taking the bat out of his hands. I would call it using his great bat skills to help the team. (Plus, with his bat skills, maybe he bunts for a hit and bases loaded and no outs, but then we are probably doomed ). Correa would have probably been intentionally walked then, to load the bases and put the double play back in effect (but maybe not), but I like the bases loaded with one out and Miranda hitting a lot better than first and second with one out and Mr. Not Clutch At All This Year Correa hitting, who also has 15 GIDP now, and 14 at the time. Above all else, we need to score at least one run here, and getting a runner to third with one out opens up the chance of scoring on a WP or PB, too. Nobody should be too proud to bunt, and not know how to lay down a successful bunt on a baseball team. I would have asked Arraez to bunt, all things considered, as well, in this situation.
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    Tony O. Tops. Others stated in comments already as well. Miranda is having a rookie season we needed, but some of us have witnessed the Twins since the 60s, and Miranda’s rookie season isn’t even close to the best ever.
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    It never ceases to amaze me that MLB players don't bust it out of the box EVERY DAMN TIME!! WHAT ELSE DO THEY HAVE TO DO? Admire your hit after you hustle your arse off. Nick Gordon should be ashamed. It makes no sense. It is all ego and nothing about the team when you don't hustle on every play, on every hit. Young player's mistake? NO WAY. YOU KNOW THIS IN LITTLE LEAGUE. Baldelli said he didn't even talk to Nick about it in the presser. WHY NOT!?! That is his job! Should have been done immediately. Yes, stop at second after you stand there and loaf out of the box instead of compounding your mistake and making the third out at third, but it is the loafing and ego admiring your drive that made it so you had to stop at second. If he had just run from the get go he could have run to third standing up and not even needed to stop at second. He knew it was going to be fair. No question it would be foul. The only question was if it was out of the park, or off the wall. Instead he was planning the worthless arm pump for glory. You cannot assume EVER!!! RUN YOUR ARSE OFF OUT OF THE BOX! EVERY TIME. ALWAYS. NO EXCUSE. NONE. If Baldelli doesn't have the cojones to do it, someone in the clubhouse needs to ream him a new one. Correa is soooooooo disappointing, Living on past laurels. He cries for help and it is himself that needs to step it up. This is crunch time. He is failing, big time.
  10. h2oface
    Paralyzed by hope is an unfortunate place to be. Don't even bring up Cavaco and Javier (signed in the international draft in 2015 instead of Tatis Jr, Soto, Alvarez, Guerrero Jr, Giminez, Chisholm, and more success stories) among all the others mentioned. The three of the OP..... my bet, sad as it may be.... stick a fork in them. All 3.
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    I thought so, too, and if he at least swung at the fine "mistake", I would have been happy, even if he wiffed. Letting the second pitch go was fine. Borderline early in the count for the called first strike. But to just watch him look at the third strike that was total meat - a four seam at 95 that had no movement... very disappointing., especially with the base loaded.
  12. h2oface
    Win 4 lose 6 win 4........ let's hope that cylce stops there and the winning continues!
  13. h2oface
    Nice to finally see the Twins win a game on Sunday afternoon, and not all look like they had just ate a stack of 20 pancakes each.
  14. h2oface
    Boy did we get lucky tonight. Tried to give it away several times and just won anyway. I hope it continues. How do MLB players not know how many outs there are? Seriously. WAKE UP!!!~!
  15. h2oface
    Miranda shoud be the 3rd baseman. He is really improving there. He looks bad at first, and so does Arraez. Urshela is a replacement player, but sure has come up bigger than that several times this year. I sure wish we had a catcher that made us proud. Neither Jeffers or Sanchez do it for me. Lots of holes and lots of possibilities. Hard to know what you really have when they can't stay on the field in a non contact sport.
  16. h2oface
    About time that Baldelli left the starter in in the 6th to finish a great start. And with a high pitch count. At least a couple of these guys can do it if Baldelli doesn't yank them. Most of the time they are only at 70 or 80something pitches, too. But he yanks them. Sure, many times it is in a close game, and that puts more pressure on the starter. But I am so sick of watching this weak pen come in and torch the game that the starter probably could have saved and finished the inning. I hope Baldelli learned something watching Ryan strikeout those last two batters after a couple guys got on base. I hope Baldelli doesn't forget that.
  17. h2oface
    Wasn't it Thielbar that came in Saturday in the 10th and gave up 2 immediate singles to give the Rangers a 3-2 lead - with Duran on the bench after having had a team day off on Thursday and only throwing 18 pitches (in the 7th with a 4-0 lead on KC) the day before on Wednesday, and on Friday only throwing 10 pitches in the 2-1 win against Texas - followed by Jax to give up a single and another run to the first batter he faced - and Duran still on the bench? That part of the roll? That was the start of the 6 game skid.....
  18. h2oface
    That was one of the excuses I chose not to add. It was pathetic that Duran wasn't used a couple times in that week, because he was needed, and Baldelli blew it and left him on the bench to save him "for tomorrow". His own fault. He saved them for so long he had to use Duran just to give him work as he needs to regularly pitch to stay sharp. Duran left on the bench after having had a team day off on Thursday and only throwing 18 pitches (in the 7th with a 4-0 lead on KC) the day before on Wednesday, and on Friday only throwing 10 pitches in the 2-1 win against Texas, and then not used in the 4-3 loss on Saturday that Thielbar and Jax combined to give up 2 with the score tied 2-2 in the 10th. Duran not used in the 2-1 loss to Texas on Monday after 2 day rest from his 10 pitch outing Friday (but Thielbar and Jax were successfully this time as they didn't give up any runs in the loss). I would say his was needed in both of those games......... and so it goes. Now he needed work after the not being used in Baldelli's mound visit debacle in game one with Houston on Tuesday and the game Wednesday when Fulmer let the lead go immediately from 2-1 to 5-1 in the 6th. So he needed work. Right.
  19. h2oface
    Carlos Correa. A leader? I'm not buying, All that talk, and it is him that needs to step up, not acquisitions he wanted (which all are struggling a bit). Duran in the 5th, behind by 2. Make all the excuses you want - I could too - but it is just nuts. Lopez in the 7th, and giving up 2 more hits? It seems he left it all in Baltimore and they were sneaky clever about how his year was going to end. Maybe Baldelli was just confused, and he thought it was 2020 and this was part of a 2 day double header and this game was only going to be 7 innings....... And maybe it is just how I look at relief, but on Saturday, it was Jax who came in in the 11th, and gave up a single to the first batter and let one of the two inherited runners score the 4th run, which turned out to be the winning run in another 4-3 heartbreaking loss to Texas. Was it charged to him? No. Was it a "scoreless appearance"? Also no. He has been good, but the whole story can be told as well.
  20. h2oface
    I can't go to the games in Minnesota, but when they come to LA, I used to go to all of them. This year, I could only bring myself to go to one, and there were 5. Two at Dodger Stadium, and three at Angel Stadium. I wanted to see Ryan pitch, so I went to the first one. I had no interest in paying to see Bundy or Archer pitch, not much to see Mahle, and Gray would have been OK but it was Freddy Freeman bobblehead night, and the resale tickets spiked about 3 times in price. I actually would even had gone anyway, except they just look like they gave up in the first game, and I just lost interest. No reason to go be made to feel like a chump Twins' fan in public. May as well do it in the privacy of my home.
  21. h2oface
    "There's no explanation needed [for the struggles],” shortstop Carlos Correa said. “It's just poor baseball play by us. It's as simple as that. We're a lot better than that. We didn't execute. We didn't do our job, and that's that. There's no explanation for how poorly we played.” PROVE IT!
  22. h2oface
    Joe Maddon on infrastructure... it just might apply to the Twins as well: ......The veteran skipper is enjoying a rare “summer vacation” of sorts, and would only be interested in a managerial or advisory job with a team that had a “strong balance between the old and the new” approaches to the game, and not too tilted in favor of analytics. It seems clear that Maddon didn’t feel this balance existed in Anaheim. In general, Maddon felt the Angels’ “infrastructure needs to be improved….It’s the non-sexy stuff that has to get better. It’s not just bright, shiny objects — they have that. They need to do the infrastructure better in order to get to where we had been in the past.” Maddon also implied that the front office tried to have too much of an influence on baseball decisions, thus trying to turn the manager into a “middle man” rather than an actual leader in the clubhouse. “It’s at the point where some GM should really just put a uniform on and go down to the dugout, or their main analytical membrane, he should go down to the dugout….And what happens is when the performance isn’t what they think it should be, it’s never about the acquisitional process,” Maddon said. “It’s always about the inability of coaches and managers to get the best out of a player. And that’s where this tremendous disconnect is formed.”
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    Ah, the Austin Martin hype. Another big K by the FO.
  24. h2oface
    He gave up the run the night before, too, just scored as if Bundy did. But is was Thielbar giving up the inherited runner at first with one out when as he got a base stolen on his slow delivery, and then gave up a single. IRS - the true sign of good relief, all too often ignored. If Thielbar gets you out of a jam, consider yourself lucky. And luck is good.
  25. h2oface
    Does Correa even do interviews? I haven't seen one all year! That doesn't mean he hasn't, I just haven't seen him after games.
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