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It must be a dream. About time. Maybe I am dreaming.

Manfred basically destroying the AL and NL. Soon the two leagues will be a thing of the past. There wil be only MLB. No divisions needed with the equal scheduling. A shame, really. Probaly will even want to change the name to MLB - Manfred League Baseball.

Hamilton should have just kept doing donuts around second, just for fun, the way Gonzalez was chasing him around the bag with his hands on the base......

Hamilton in the 6th again. So early. I just don't get it.

Come on, Sanchez. Time to get hot heading into free agency in meaningless games. Follow your "team leader's" example.......

Thanks for giving up the lead, Rocco and Jax. That didn't take long. I wonder how Varland would have done........

Great throw by Wallner. I would have liked to have seen it to third, too.

Working well so far, eh? I am so sick of it.

One doesn't need to explain their MVP vote. It is all their favorite, in the end. I bet Judge will win.

Of couse Baldelli pulls Varland after 5. I mean, he already has 74 pitches. No reason to see what he's really got. Better to continue to tax the bullpen guys. Drive "the plan" into the ground no matter what. Can you imagine managing like that in the Playoffs? With no eye for nuance needed?

Heads up play Luis. Damn we suck on the basepaths.

There goes the no hitter..... and shutout. Wallner. Last game too. Got lucky on the bounce last night.

There goes the perfect game

Two runs. Ducks left on 2 and 3rd. and 29 pitches for Giolito. Gotta be satisfied.

Correa can't score from second on the slow developing hit to right. Amazing. Correa didn't follow Watkins signal to go, either. He is a vet. He shouldn't make that mistake, eh? For our baserunning this year, I guess it is not amazing., but expected,

Where was Correa when we needed him? Great that he woke up, but he was so absent for so long. Going for the $ now is all.

"Dobnak missed a quality start by an out." As far as I know, a "quality start" is defined as a start where the pitcher pitches at least 6 innings and gives up no more than 3 earned runs. Dobnak only pitched 4.2 innings. Is a quality start in the minors now different than the majors, and you only need to go 5 innings? I must have missed that memo.

Is 4 runs enough for Lopez?

Miranda doesn't stand and watch his hit.... he is off! As he should be. Good for him.

He was at ,320 when they sat him for a couple games about a week ago, I think. And he had the. PA to qualify for the batting title. They could have just shut him down. Where is the honor in that? The whole season counts. Regardless.

Fulmer is a mess. Great pick up. A good throw by Gordon and we would have not given Fulmer so many chances to not come through. At least it was only one run with the DP.

Fulmer can't come in and get the 8 and 9 hitters. Not even one of them.

Windor will put you to sleep. The type of pitcher that the clock rule is made to stop delaying the game.

Easily? Nothing is easy, and Arraez' precipitous fall from .348 is case in point. They did have some positives, though.

"....(not to mention the return of Kenta Maeda and Chris Paddock [sic]),......" I guess we may as well not mention the return of Chris Paddack, as he won't be back until at least August, and maybe not at all next year, so let's give him 1 month in 2022, 1 month in 2023 to be generous, and all of 2024 to be extra optimistic and he doesn't go on the IL all year, and that is what we get for the "3 years of control" that was so valuable. Looks like maybe, if we are lucky, we get a year total, and he actually gets a lot better in his return that he was the last year that he pitched, which was pretty poor in San Diego. Certainly we don't need to think that he will help the rotation in 2023. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/09/central-notes-oneill-paddack-madrigal.html "Twins right-hander Chris Paddack underwent Tommy John surgery in May and is now targeting an August 2023 return, per Do-Hyoung Park of MLB.com. The surgery usually comes with a 12-18 month recovery window, but this is the second such procedure of Paddack’s career, having previously gone under the knife as a prospect in 2016. Paddack tells Park that the second recovery is going to take a bit longer, meaning the narrow end of the typical recovery window is closed. Since the best-case scenario involves Paddack missing the bulk of next year, the club will have to plan on building a rotation without him." -from todays email from Do-Hyoung Park ......Among others to return from a second Tommy John surgery, Nathan Eovaldi needed a 21-month recovery before he made it back to a big league mound, Daniel Hudson took 15 months, Jameson Taillon pitched in a regular-season game 20 months after his second and the timeline was ultimately 17 months for Mike Clevinger. A return in August would put Paddack at 15 months..... Seth's article about the trade that acquired Paddack in April. "In 2020, he went 4-5 with a 4.73 ERA. In 2021, he was 7-7 with a 5.07 ERA, though as people have pointed out, his FIP was just 3.78. While he throws a lot of strikes, his strikeout rate has dropped from 9.8 to 8.8 to 82 over his three seasons in the big leagues." And, Mahle wasn't even mentioned in the OP here, but the above quoted Twins Beat email said his plan is just rest. Best of luck with that. ".....the 27-year-old shut down twice due to right shoulder inflammation that Mahle says is due to fatigue, and that he believes will go away with an extended period of time away from the field."