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  1. h2oface
    Does Duran really need to be the one pitching to Kirilloff for batting practice on a back field?
  2. h2oface
    Yes. Mahle can't break Buxton's hand again because they are on the same team, now. Tough day, again, for Mahle. At least he is trying. 6 hits, 3 homers in 18 batters. Not looking very ready. Maybe that is the main point. It would do them good to be more ready. And do you call what Sanchez has been doing as pitching? I hope he doesn't make the roster out of ST. Maeda gave up 2 homers and 5 earned in 4 innings today. And those "starters" getting ready came up with 2 hits in the game today. No wait. One hit was Garlick, who better not make the team again, and LaMarre was the other. Starters had no hits. Being ready is a good thing. It is just ST. No problems.
  3. h2oface
    HERO TIME!! Trea Turner!!!
  4. h2oface
    Arraez. Gonna miss that guy. Luis Arraez...... of the Marlins.
  5. h2oface
    Yup. Couldn't have happened to a more.......... short guy. It sure would be nice if this USA team had more pitchers that stepped up. It is awful thin of American stud pitchers. Bard was totally out of control, and DeRosa just watched.
  6. h2oface
    Watching DeRosa leave Bard in when it was so obvious that he had no control at all from the moment he stepped on the mound..... PITCHING!!! .... so important, and this USA team really didn't end up with what they needed. Lots of bats, but the stud pitchers did not show. Loaded offense, but suspect pitching. I know another team like that......
  7. h2oface
    It certainly is a good share... six or maybe 7, eh? I think that was your point. An example of a team playing starters that are getting ready for opening day, on the field and in games. The Twins certainly are playing very few, and it is not what they have done in the past. I hope they are ready. I think that is the main point, too. I hope I didn't use a wrong word here to make my point.
  8. h2oface
    That us correct. I read the report, too. Mahle has to be better.... he did nothing but rest for treatment.
  9. h2oface
    The thing is, Diaz was not hurt playing baseball, but celebrating. Why these guys like to make a pile (not referring to Diaz who was just jumping around on the mound) of bodies and throw gaterade and shaving cream all over everyone has never been a shining light of intelligence. Celebration is great, but slamming heads and arms (Bellinger has never been the same since that World Series arm slam and shoulder dislocation) and the pile ups are just stupid.
  10. h2oface
    Probably for the same reasons that batting practice doesn't get a lot of coverage.
  11. h2oface
    I am having the same feelings. I have never seen a Spring Training with so little participation from the 26 man. I know, I know, the WBC and babies being born and slow ramp up from surgeries ..... but we are hardly seeing any pitchers and position players day after day, that will actually be on the roster come opening day playing in the major league ST games. I hope they are ready.
  12. h2oface
    I hope so. I have never seen a Spring Training with so little participation from the 26 man. I hope they are ready. All future and No Past. Every team is currently in first place.
  13. h2oface
    Well...... 3 inherited runners scoring, and the runs that lost the game? Almost never counts. I can see a lot of ways to not give up all 3 runs. It looked a lot like last fall to me. A star reliever is a star because they can get out of that situation, with the game on the line and coming in with a 2 run lead, even with the bases sacked. Maybe end the inning tied? At least not give up 2 consecutive hits, sketchy as the last one was, and now trail by one. Our Twins did a pretty good job last year of not scoring runs with the basses loaded, even with pretty mediocre pitchers on the mound for many of the situations. And Lopez is supposed to be an all-star. That was a time to do it right for his country. Oh well.
  14. h2oface
    Yikes!
  15. h2oface
    And Mahle can't break his wrist again with his pinpoint control since he is on the same team, now.
  16. h2oface
    Christian Encarnacion-Strand making loud noise. https://www.mlb.com/news/christian-encarnacion-strand-impressing-with-loud-power?partnerId=zh-20230304-844026-mlb-1-A&qid=1026&utm_id=zh-20230304-844026-mlb-1-A&bt_ee=LGfhrWvHCzGp%2BKSiEcD1hNSOsjV%2BwaiMco%2FPmxPC2obVzWyjRjcIm7AFGiHTPvCG&bt_ts=1677940998229
  17. h2oface
    This one is flying over my head. I must be out of the marshmallow loop. Please fill me in on what I am missing.
  18. h2oface
    Same. At least that is Balazovic’s story on record.
  19. h2oface
    They have until the end of the year to establish the number that determines it. All the rest is supposition. Going young is part of the strategy. They have done salary dumps before. It ain’t over yet. https://dodgerblue.com/dodgers-payroll-exceeded-luxury-tax-threshold-before-miguel-rojas-trade/2023/01/15/amp/ "The Dodgers still have until the end of the season to get below the threshold, but it’s difficult to do so during the year, especially if they try to make trades to reinforce their roster at the deadline." https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/payroll/dodgers But you are very well stated. The ship has probably sailed, now. Dodgers Weighing Depth Possibilities In Response To Gavin Lux Injury “The Dodgers themselves were flirting with the possibility of dipping below a luxury tax tier, in their case the $233MM base threshold. The Rojas acquisition put that to bed, however, and Friedman has subsequently affirmed they have no plans to shed money and get under the CBT marker at this point. That doesn’t provide much insight into how much room they have for further additions, however. Roster Resourcecurrently projects their luxury tax number around $245MM, which puts them approximately $8MM shy of the second penalization tier.”
  20. h2oface
    This team will pitch? Well, they all will. "as good of a group as anyone could hope for"? I personally could hope for much, much better, as long as we are hoping, even if the hopes for this group mostly happens. I will believe it when I see it. And not until. This pitching is total question marks. I mean, did you get a load of the incredible stuff Pagan was flashing already, today? Stuff. Ha.
  21. h2oface
    Maeda's surgery was different than Syndergaard's. Maeda's operation involved the placement of an internal brace in Maeda’s elbow that apparently has a chance to expedite the recovery timeline. While Tommy John rehabilitation typically takes around fourteen months, this procedure comes with a suggested return in between nine and twelve months time. We see that didin't happen, already. https://www.houstonmethodist.org/newsroom/new-surgical-technique-cuts-tommy-john-recovery-time-in-half/ Syndergaard's did not include the brace. There is an additional newer developement other that the original. https://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope/shows.php?shows=1_5uzyiyly The original involved harvesting a tendon to use from another part of the body. Not sure which of the last two Syndergaard had, as I can't find anything that says either way, but with the time or 12-18 months stated for his recovcery, it woud probably be the original. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/tommy-john-surgery-ulnar-collateral-ligament-reconstruction
  22. h2oface
    The bigger thing for them this year appears to be resetting the luxury tax and staying under the first tier mark, where the are barely under after Bauer money kicked in. That is why the were going with Lux in the first place.
  23. h2oface
    The Dodgers know Farmer well, as they drafted him, farmed him starting in 2013, and he was up and down from AAA in 2018, and filled in at third mostly. He had a homer in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs in one of the games during the streak that the Dodgers won like 40 out of 45 or something like that, and somebody new every night was the hero keeping the amazing run happening. He was in the organization for 6 years. He was traded to the Reds that off season in December as part of a massive salary dump. "December 21, 2018Los Angeles Dodgers traded RF Yasiel Puig, LF Matt Kemp, LHP Alex Wood, C Kyle Farmer and cash to Cincinnati Reds for RHP Homer Bailey, SS Jeter Downs and RHP Josiah Gray."
  24. h2oface
    After how the Twins imploded so many times and ways against Cleveland last year, and they are the defending division champs..... Cleveland.
  25. h2oface
    Thanks for some truth. I also noticed that they went 0-9 with RISP. I hope that is not season prep.
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