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  1. h2oface
    "Perhaps Willians Astudillo's influence is rubbing off on his teammates. Led by the nemesis of the three true outcomes himself, the Twins' lineup has largely found ways to put the ball in play so far, as Minnesota's 61 strikeouts rank second-fewest and 23 walks are fifth-fewest in the Major Leagues." Strikeouts is good news and a good trend. Walks.... not so much. The old pace myth is back I see.......
  2. h2oface
    Sure would be nice it these guys could get some hits. What do they say? Good teams find a way to win close games.....
  3. h2oface
    Probably not worried. But I still bet he is tired of slow starts. I know I would be, even if I realized that is my standard to bear.
  4. h2oface
    And when it is a totally arbitrary line, it gathers even more importance. ____________________ Don't cross it. At least their arms don't fall off if they do.
  5. h2oface
    Glad 34 is OK. Big difference.
  6. h2oface
    Looks like Rooker is off to his usual tepid start. I bet he is getting tired of that. "The Twins have a rule that if a pitcher throws 35 or more pitches in an inning, he will be done for the night." Wow. What an abitrary rule to have. Is this new, or a Falvey/Levine era thing?
  7. h2oface
    Smart or stupid? That might be a better question. That play was stupid and foolish and cost a run. The smart play was to play it off the wall. For the game and for is body. He didn't even look at the ball. He definitely needs to smarten up. We need him all year.
  8. h2oface
    I like wins, no matter how they come. Buxton just needs to get smart and relax. That catch attempt and throw were just horrible. Senseless. Hard to understand. Foolish. His brain needs to slow down. That whole play was disgusting, including a 93 mph no movement first pitch fastball right down the middle by Rodgers. Yuk.
  9. h2oface
    "Kepler struck out, and the rally went on to fall short. Presumably, Baldelli is just trying to show confidence in his core guys, but turning to a contact machine like Willians Astudillo in that spot – speedy runner on second, no outs, deepest bench the Twins will have all year – seemed like such an obvious call that it was surprising not to see it from the ostensibly analytical thinker. ....." Exactly!
  10. h2oface
    Too each his own. Gardenhire's blather made me sick, and rarely laugh, but often made me sick and furious and yell at the screen. I would take anyone BUT Gardenhire, so maybe, just maybe, I am biased.
  11. h2oface
    That's what I was refering to when I commented "Cuzzi can't see balls and strikes any better than he can see the foul line!" earlier in the thread. Disgusting umpire. I hope Odorizzi has learned not to throw it right down the middle on a 3-0 count. That pitch was meat to Hanley Rameriz. No need to ever serve up the juice on a 3-0 count. Never ever. Especially with 2 outs and the the bases empty. Of course, he has to know that already, right? This is not to deride the fact that he was stellar, today.
  12. h2oface
    Cuzzi can't see balls and strikes any better than he can see the foul line!
  13. h2oface
    That is exactly why umpires still calling balls and strikes is bogus. Did you see that curve that Kepler took that was in the middle of the zone and a good 3 to 4 inches up from the bottom of the zone? And Cuzzi called it a ball on Bauer? Poor umpiring is the reason for most bad calls, and yet, people want to make up a fake stat like pitch framing. This can only be fixed one way, and you know how that is. It is not the catcher.... it is the umpire. The whole premise of pitch framing is to cheat the reality of what happened. It is time to get balls and strikes right, without trying to cheat.
  14. h2oface
    Parker in the 9th with the game tied. Yuk. And not the funny yuk. What a waste of a Odorizzi's great outing. We probably aren't going to get many of those. And Parker in the 9th. Shaking my head. May gets no trust after a single, but Parker stays in after a single and 2.... count 'em... 1, 2..... wild pitches in a row. Still shaking my head. Buxton still hitting. No one else is. Mind you, Bauer and Kluber are formidable. Still. How about some hitting.
  15. h2oface
    I can't forget that even in his 2 good months last hear, he at one point in that lonely stretch before "overused", gave up 7 runs in a row from inherited runners, losing games for the team and his other teammates and infecting their stats, while his stats remained unblemished and made him look better than he was even then.
  16. h2oface
    I tend to, but not here. Just straight forward for this one. I am tired of so called good stories. I want a good story that brings a winner, not a passing novelty that costs us games.
  17. h2oface
    Half a dozen even worse. Swell. That is still so not encouraging.
  18. h2oface
    11 innings and sss is thrown out the window for Harper for the sake of a feel good story. Ignore what he did in Rochester. He is the silly Sire of Fort Myers anoitee, apparently. It probably won't cost us that many games before the inevitable happens. I hope. But all games count, no matter when they happen during the season.
  19. h2oface
    To me, a minor league 30 year old making the team is not a great story. Kimbrel in the pen..... now that would be something to get excited about. And I just never get the fascination with chubby ball players..... but then when I look at the audience..... maybe they just like to see someone more like the beefers watching. And Hildenberger? Seriously?
  20. h2oface
    I can't get to Target.... but I go to a bunch of games at Dodger Stadium (including the 3 game sweep the Twins suffered in July of 2017 and watched Granite throw it to a base where there was no one there to lose a sure win, Molitor totally blow a double substitution, was forced to watch Colon for a game, and watched Rodgers and Kintzler implode and the Twins score first in every game and give up 1, 2 and 5 run leads... argh) every year (I love to see MLB games, no matter who is playing) and always brought way better food than you could get at the park. Same type of policy. At Angel stadium (was in left field when Pujols #600 landed 20 feet away against us), too. No need to line the pockets of the greedy hand.
  21. h2oface
    Kyle Gibson (Missouri, NCAA-1, three seasons) 3.66 ERA 63 games (29 starts) 259.0 IP 304 K (10.48 K/9) 0 HR 61 BB (2.10 BB/9) 1.16 WHIP 9 SV Gibson didn't give up one dinger in college in 259 innings? Is that right? That is pretty amazing.
  22. h2oface
    I guess we will know....... in August.
  23. h2oface
    I can't wait for the leash to be longer in the regular for when Odorizzi is getting bombed in the first inning and giving up more than 5 runs. I sure hope he is ready for the season. Austin will have to make the team, or he will be gone and picked up.
  24. h2oface
    That Tanner English is "depth" is kinda depressing. .233/.313/.417 for an outfielder, any outfielder, is NEVER "appealing". The whole modern day acceptance of center fielders and catchers and shortstops being bad hitters, and that is acceptable even with elite fielding, is hogwash. Every MLB player, when all they do is play baseball, needs to aspire and acheive hitting and fielding. For a line like that to be 'more appealing' in center than right is just settling for mediocrity.
  25. h2oface
    Me too, no hashtag. There really is not reason not to have both, though. The idea that it would be horrible to lose a draft pick, a draft pick that probably will never make the bigs anyway, is just silly. Just think if we would have lost a Levi Michael, or a Tyler Jay for a top line pitcher. It would just crush me.
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