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  2. h2oface
    What a waste of 4 homers. This pitching staff needs to find some pride. What a bunch of...............
  3. h2oface
    Baldelli little talk makes me vomit. "Shoe is ready. He'll be ready tomorrow"..... That makes it worse. I think his brain is shrinking. Alcala overused. Doughboy Duffey creates his own problems. Rogers is wasted for only 3 pitches and one batter. So Baldelli goes to the Shoe on the wrong foot late inning too many innings. How about that turning point at the end of last nights game. Some turning point. Especially with Baldelli making the decisions during the game.
  4. h2oface
    4 runs on the last 5 pitches. That was some kind of fun.
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    Yup. As I expected. $$ You would side with the "most". $$ Pohlad's were the wealthiest owner, maybe they still are. $$ They are free to make whatever choices they want, and they are familiar ones.
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    Back to back games in relief? I don't mind them bringing him in yesterday for multiple innings. But yesterday? and back to back days. Just irresponsible in my opinion.
  7. h2oface
    I disagree. Some businessmen will. Some won't. Most won't. Nobody owns a MLB franchise as their first source of income (or at least, they shouldn't). It is a glorified hobby. Sure, some, and even most, businessmen owners will treat it solely as a business. But the best owners, and the most human owners, know it is a side gig, and one to treat the players well and even lose a bit of the unneeded millions and billions of excess money and enjoy life and spend the rewards that they acheived while they are alive, and HAVE SOME FUN. Life is not always about not operating at a net loss. Money changes everything, though, and to some, it just makes them more greedy. I have known some very unhappy very ultra-rich people. Pohlads could be having a lot more fun than they are having with the Twins, and it wouldn't hurt a soul, including them.
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    Dobnak. The Falvey/Levine building block of the Twins pitching staff.
  9. 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)
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    This article jinxed "em? Tonight, Polanco error, and Rogers looked like Colome and gave up the game again in the 8th. Good as ever?
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    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.
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    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...........
  13. 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.
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    "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!
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    Me too, no hashtag.
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    Wander Javier (4-for-6, 3B, 2B, 4 R, 2 RBI) Good to see!
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    Atta buddy, Nick Gordon!
  18. 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?
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    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.
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    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?
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    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.
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    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!
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    I also find it comedic that Theilbar strained his groin throwing a 62 mph ephus curveball.
  24. 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.
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    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.
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