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  1. h2oface
    I would so love to see us lay a 10 spot on Lynn.
  2. h2oface
    How's the new "ace" doing? 78 too cold?
  3. h2oface
    Two fine starts as the season opens, and the ace talk. How many pitchers have started seasons with two fine starts? So very desperate.
  4. h2oface
    Almost 5 years later, how close is Jorge Alcala to becoming the replacement for Ryan Pressly? That certainly was the goal of the trade. Yes, Gilberto Celestino was thrown in, and has provided less than replacement value forced replacement in the outfield when forced to (the force is with him), but the pitch was Alcala could become at least what Ryan Pressly was at the time (not even considering what he has become). Pressly was 29 at the time, and Alcala will be 28 in July, 5 years after the trade. Was the 5 years of pitching return worth it? Considering what Pressly has become, can Alcala ever be what Pressly could have supplied? Can Alcala equal or surpass that? Sure, it costs $ to retain your players, and Pressly would have had to be resigned. Or even if Alcala starts to, will the Twins keep him or trade him for another 5 to 6 year development project?
  5. h2oface
    It is amazing that Correa hurt his back on this little lackadaisical dance into home - one of the lamest scoring attempts I have ever seen. He had no awareness of the throw and where he needed to be running. If I see the catcher setting up there I run in fair territory, not right toward him. I mean, he didn't even slide. Just tip-toed around and strained his back? It is the play he says he hurt his back on. Buxton and Correa have become so fragile. https://www.mlb.com/twins/video/luis-garcia-in-play-run-s-to-trevor-larnach-1tdcxl?q=trevor larnach rbi single&cp=MIXED&qt=FREETEXT&p=0 Buxton was sent in for one reason. To try to tie the game with a homer. Nobody on base, and with Miranda coming in and giving up the DH, the pitchers spot wouldn't come around for 8 more batters, if the game wasn't over. Hunting for the "big swing" as they like to call it these days. It would seem you would want to save him to do that with a runner on, but so it went. Wallner was the one Baldy wanted to pull.
  6. h2oface
    But he looks so sexy..... just ask Correa! Maybe his is just patterning himself after his hero..... hence the horrible start of the season.
  7. h2oface
    Don't look now, but Arraez is hitting ........ don't look.
  8. h2oface
    Well, Maki was making another visit.... to Moran, so real time. Visit to Moran will result in......? Better result this time.
  9. h2oface
    Ugly game. 3 errors on the Sox and we still can't beat them.
  10. h2oface
    2 hits yesterday. 4 today. Ugly.
  11. h2oface
    This is it. Time for a hero. Moran does well with the extra help from the plate ump.
  12. h2oface
    Just call them all strikes.......
  13. h2oface
    Maeda visit from Maki resulted in a 3 run homer
  14. h2oface
    We need to trade for Reynaldo Lopez. More Lopez just to confuse the opposition.
  15. h2oface
    With that angle, the go back to angle..... How about going back to the 60s and 4 man rotations and win 90 to 100 games a year? And every year, no matter what the style or year, some teams are going to use the norm of the day to win 90-100 games, even if it isn't the Twins. Ahhhhhhhh. You can't go back.
  16. h2oface
    There goes the all important run differential. I don't know what folks expect from Mahle. Well, I know what the FO sold us and some are trying to. But Mahle's career ERA is 4.35, and the season is now at 4.09. WHIP 1.32 to 1.36 in the only first two starts. That is what he is. That is what he probably will be. Better score lots of runs when he pitches. And the Pagan spin? Stuff stuff and more stuff? One the worst relievers running for the last 3 years. How about that stuff. 2 of 3 from Houston is still a win. And 6-3 is a welcome start as a team. Let's see what the White Sox have got. Great info on Mahle's trials. Love it. And if you know how Buxton runs, he would have scored from first on the double. But with Watkins coaching third, he might have held Buxton to prevent him from sliding ......... 🙁
  17. h2oface
    I hear you. And especially the ...... stuff!! And those Detroit bats are fearsome! 😇 Brown had a good day. Can't say I am ever impressed that much by the prospect numbers, but yes. That is what they say. They used to say that about some of our guys. Maybe Blaze will show them yet.
  18. h2oface
    Potential. Like our guys.
  19. h2oface
    It is like an ever progressing limbo bar. The bar just keeps getting lower.
  20. h2oface
    Well, none hit today expect for a 1/4 from Solano. Too bad we couldn't hit the guy with the 7.71 ERA coming into the game.
  21. h2oface
    My thoughts exactly. Our depth. Yikes. At least the Twins don't need them yet. Polanco playing 7 innings with a double and 2 walks..... I like that.
  22. h2oface
    Tell De Leon we are playing Israel in the WBC. What. Danny Valencia is on the team! And Joc Pederson!
  23. h2oface
    ..... and, one might even propose, with only 81 pitches, and Ryan breezing through the 6th, he was pulled too early, still! Ryan had just induced a fly out to Alvarez, and then struck out Abreu and Tucker on 7 pitches in the 6th. Seems pretty cruising to me. And he was going to face 6-7-8, Pena-Hensley-Meyers, Pena who had struck out looking twice, Hensley who had struck out swinging twice, and Meyers, who had flown out and lined out to left. And with only 81 pitches thrown so far. <They all struck out in the 7th anyway 😇 > You push Lopez and Jax to the 8th and 9th. It is a one run game at the time, though....... and you like your pen. And Ryan had the one shakey inning.... 3 innings ago... It all worked out fine except for having to use Duran, as it happened. Fun to think about for a post. 6 innings is still 6 innings. 6-2 sure looks good, and especially with at least a series win against Houston.
  24. h2oface
    I noticed that Vazquez was calling just about all off speed stuff for Pena all day. In the 4th "Jeremy Pena took five straight offspeed pitches (from Ryan) and then struck out looking on an 89 MPH fastball below the zone." 5 off speed for a swinging K in the 7th from Lopez, and in the 9th against Moran, the first change just missed, and Vazquez called the same pitch, gave Moran the target, right down the middle, and he hit it. So did Pena. After seeing 11 out of 12 of the last pitches to him off speed, Pena might have been sitting on it.
  25. h2oface
    Both the big dollar long term stars seem afraid or unable to run and slide.
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