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  1. h2oface
    I never understand how consistently bad becomes OK. Seems like to be consistently bad or wrong is worse than wrong just some of the time. I get the perdictability factor, that one can now try to predict he will be wrong the same way over and over.... but wrong is wrong, and consistently wrong or bad....... I really hate that.
  2. h2oface
    Just think what could happen if Sano gets his Ks down!
  3. h2oface
    Definitely constructed for the feast or famine, for sure. I am surprised that the Ks are not happening to that extent yet, and surprisingly almost the lowest in MLB! I sure hope it doesn't mean that it will swing way in the other direction to hit the average/expectation. The batters are also using a pretty low amout of pitches - 3.77/ plate appearance - but I can't find how that ranks. So they could work the count more, but I like swinging at the right pitch, no matter when it comes, way more than not swinging at the meat (Mauer) and then having to fight off pitches, and not great pitches to hit, with 2 strikes. Whatever is happening, is working. So I hope they don't try to fix it. So far, they have a middle of MLB (15/30) OBP at .328 as a team, and lead MLB in OPS (.835) and sluggng (.507), and are 29/30 MLB teams in Ks with only 190!
  4. h2oface
    I love baseball so much, I want it to be over. I get it, but baseball has never been about making it last less time to me. I love getting it right, and not allowing umpire errors (errors they really didn't want to make anyway, but did and do), but I despise changes that are all about time, and only about time.
  5. h2oface
    Like the judge that wants the case over, a civil case that the plaintiff waited 2 years to get his day. Some want it to end, and some want the full deal. Fans come from miles to see games, have planned and anticipated the day for months. They come early as they can to watch the field dressed, batting practice, and maybe see their favorite close up, get an autograph, and a bobblehead, and find out where the players will exit after the showers, and wait there too to see them and get a chance to extend the special experience. It might be a young kids first MLB baseball game, something that will make a new fan for life. I get that those that might work the games like it ending quickly, but not me, never me. I think extra innings is the greatest thing that can happen. Drama, more baseball.... I get to be there longer. But I get where you are coming from..... I guess. I loved this game. Time is no issue. Pitcher's duel, or explosive offense.... I love the drama of a close one, a comeback, a shutout, and the comfort of a blowout. Love love love.
  6. h2oface
    That homer by Adrianza was a no doubter, a bomb, spanked tater.... a Thome Blast! Just what we needed, just what he needed. Hopefully, Odorizzi will inspire Pineda. We need him to really step up.
  7. h2oface
    High A, a level he already saw for a month and a half last year, and he starts like this? Nope. Is he a top prospect. Sure. Anoint him baseball's top prospect right now? No way. Anyway, all that doesn't happen again until mid season, does it?
  8. h2oface
    Happy to go 3-4? Let's prepare to be happy with a losing record..... at home? Not me. Not ready to prepare to be a loser. 4-3 or bust.
  9. h2oface
    I think I heard Gibson mutter "Bite Me, you Nibbler Nits" as he finished up yesterday. Could have just been my feed, but pretty sure...... Baltimore's offense is performing better than Toronto's, and Toronto swept this team. Nibble on that.
  10. h2oface
    Rooker now has 56 ABs and 28 Ks. 50% of his official at bats are strikeouts! That is truly amazing, and not in a good way. Lewis is now hitting .192 with a .557 OPS. The overhaul of the farm staff is not producing results. Hey, I don't care if it is "early". This is totally discouraging. At least Graterol is inspiring.
  11. h2oface
    I think Romero was misused this series and against Baltimore as the 26th Man. I get that they wanted "innngs eaten". Romero was used for 2 innings in each game. He pitched to three only 3 batters in the first inning (7th) he pitched of each game. I thought, as he came out for the second inning each time, and at the time, that this was a bad managerial move. Against Baltimore's 7-8-9 batters, he gave up a second pitch infield single (one that I thought Gonzalez could have come up with) that was part of the subsequent double play, and then another ground out. Against Houston, he pitched the 1-2-3 inning against Springer, Altuve, and Bregman! But the goal was to use him to eat innings, and not his development, I thought and think. If used for just 1 inning each time, he comes away with great confidence, and we all know how important that is. Instead, just the opposite. I think this was playing an ill-advised short game concerning Romero.
  12. h2oface
    How many times does the player that was traded or "let go" via free agency or released, come back and just destroy his former team? It seems like it happens a lot to the Twins, and it is always a good story so I feel like I read a story like that across MLB somewhat often. Apparently Gonzalez didn't get the memo, missed the stories, and failed to make a new one. Batting 6th, 0-fer 11, 3 Ks, 1 walk.
  13. h2oface
    Runs aren't up for Rochester (he says without looking it up) are they?... unless they were really bad at the beginning of last year too.
  14. h2oface
    Love it! Are you thinking about throwing in a quiz we can take at the end? That would be fun.
  15. h2oface
    Hey I get it. I don't have to be as much of a homer though, but I have no problem with that. I didn't say they didn't try. I considered all that you mentioned. All that started and played did the best they could. To compete we just need more that can do better, or play the ones that are doing better at the time. It could have been managed to compete. Whoopee. 6 innings. 6 innings of poor pitching that doesn't give his team a chance to win is encouraging? Not to me. To think I am being offensive, is just silly, if not offensive. I am lamenting.
  16. h2oface
    It is like this game was played and managed to not compete from the get go. I hate that. If anybody needed to sit out it was Gonzalez. And a turtle in right field? Not holes, but 3 craters in the lineup with Adrianza, Gonzalez and Castro. Casto not so bad.... OBP and OPS not bad, I guess. I hate games like this. They all matter.
  17. h2oface
    I guess I should clarify.... Royce... Royce Lewis, not Lewis Thorpe.
  18. h2oface
    Lewis not looking too elite so far in his return to High A ball this season.
  19. h2oface
    Outstanding, eh? I must have drastically different standards for outstanding.
  20. h2oface
    Why is Rooker not playing lately?
  21. h2oface
    So Castro wanted it in the wheelhouse, with absolutely no movement? I don't think so. Castro didn't throw the pitch there. I'm not betting on him..... weith 5/8 inherieted runners scored so far. But I thought that from the get go, when they announced he had made the roster. I might have prejudice. Like ST counts, eh?
  22. h2oface
    It only makes me think of how frustrating, for years time 2, that Alcala & Celestino will be if and when they even make it to the show. Wait 3 to 4 years for them to show up, and then inconsistent and frustrating for a couple more....... I want to forget about that already.
  23. h2oface
    Waiting is truly overrated. To me, doesn't matter how Alcala & Celestino ever become in the future. The Pressly trade made our team worse. We need him NOW and for the next few years.... not maybe in 2 or 3 years, or maybe even more (and then go through several years of inconsistency, like Pressly, before becoming a player like Pressly had become, and worth a trade for another team). We already had a need, and the trade made it worse. Alcala & Celestino may be great (I'll take money that they won't and won't even make the show....) and they may be a bust. Doesn't matter. This trade did not make the team better. If and when they might, it still doesn't matter, because it made this team worse. Could our staff had helped Pressly develop further? I don't know. They had their chance for years. That is the only question I have.
  24. h2oface
    The most notable performer in the bullpen was actually Ryne Harper, who pitched three times and allowed zero runs on three singles while recording 15 outs. He's fast changing his narrative from "good story" to "good reliever." It seems the rest of the story is left out again. Harper was also 2/3 (5/8 on the season) inherited runners scored for the week, coming in against Toronto on Tuesday to bail out Gibson and hold the fort with runners on 1st and 2nd with one out and the Twins only down 2-1 in the 6th ..... and let them both score with a pair of singles before he walks away with a 0.00 ERA (a 2/2 outing). Am I the only one that thinks that is a big part of a reliever's story - the inherited-runners scored - and should always be included in a discussion of their perfomance? The Twins lost the game by one... 6-5, so those two runs that were charged to Gibson but let in by Harper, were significant. Harper came in in the 4th with 2 outs and a runner on second on Thursday after Pineda had just imploded and turned a 3-1 lead into a 6-3 deficit, and struck Galvis out swinging on 4 pitches. Harper continued to pitch 3 more stellar innings, and kept the score at 6-3. Now that was impressive, albeit with a much lower pressure threshold. I really hope Harper continues to improve and baffle. We certainly need it in the pen.
  25. h2oface
    What's up with Royce Lewis?
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