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  1. h2oface
    Pineda, as a team player, could have informed the FO and Baldelli about what was going on. Maybe he did. But it seems as everyone found out except Pineda and his agent just before the suspension, and after his last start. As these things go, he probably knew this was the final outcome before the trade deadline, too. That makes his choices and behavior exhibit even more a lack of being a good teammate and ultimately more selfish. Informed, the FO maybe would have been encouraged to actually do something about our starting pitching depth, you know..... since they are so awesome and innovative.
  2. h2oface
    Call it my own advanced stat. Inherited runners scored I credit to the pitcher who came in to relieve and didn't. They were on the mound. It is an outdated custom to charge the pitcher that has left the game, in my opinion, especially with two outs. Plus, the target was low, and on the ground as he threw it, and Stashak completely blew the pitch, and missed the target by 4 feet. Sure, Garver should have still caught it, and it is an unearned run, but Stashak also loafed to the cover the plate, and if he was there, there could have been a play at the plate. But you are right, it was charged to Gibson, as if he made the play happen. Plus, there is no guarantee that the Nats would have used the same relievers that the Twins scored on. More for your refute. My point remains.... the relief choices were from Rochester, and a sad state of affairs, and another game seemingly given up on too soon, and now in a penant race that one cannot afford to give any game away for player development.
  3. h2oface
    I can't believe the pitching guru's haven't identified Stewart as being a canditate for sale to a Korean team, yet. How long is it gonna take? How much more will this team have to suffer as he keeps getting run out there? Bullpen holds today.... and it is a 6-5 win. And hey........ it is not like the Twins are 10 games up anymore and you can just throw games away, and give up on the offense coming back and throw in your Rochester Red Wings, Stashak, Stewart, and Hildenberger. .
  4. h2oface
    Only one way to find the answer that question...... and the extras shouldn't be behind the plate.
  5. h2oface
    If nothing else.... to send him a message and light a fire under his...... And........ what is Rosario doing in right field, now, anyway. It just makes for a further unstable outfield. Not only in right field unstable, but so is left. I know he has played several games there, but he is now a left fielder. How quickly our outfield turned into a weakness instead of a strength.
  6. h2oface
    Pretty embarassing... watching Rosario, Astudillo, and Adrianza let 5.50 ERA Rodney take them out in the 8th. Eddie really needs to dig deep and step it up. Astudillo shouldn't even still be on this team. But Eddie....... he really needs to be a team leader and get his mojo working.
  7. h2oface
    The home run record for a season is it's own thing. It is not connected to getting to and winning in the play-offs. It doesn't have to be one or the other, even in one'e own mind. They are separate accomplishments that may or may not happen. It doesn't lesson one to care about one more than the other. Not caring about one doesn't make the other more likely to happen. Records are fun. Always have been. Always will be. That is why we keep track of them.
  8. h2oface
    No need to factor in the Twins are banged up, really. I mean........ it's not like the Yankees have been even close to fully staffed by all their sluggers all season, and Stanton has been totally absent. The Twins are slowing down, even those (except Garver, it seems) that aren't nicked up. But it ain't over until it's over. I hope the Twins do take and keep the record. I really do. That would mean winning a bunch of games in September. And records do matter. That is why we keep track of them.
  9. h2oface
    Glad I gently saw this all before it disappears. Put me in the room that is still amazed Pressly was traded. And who couln't have used Escobar? Prospects? This was not the year for prospects. Especially A-ball and below prospects. This was a year to make a team ready for the playoffs. Winning regular season games is nice. But hitting great pitching under pressure is what makes champions. When the Twins bring up pitchers they develop that perform like Walker Buehler and Tony Gonsolin and Julio Urías, I'll be buying in, but not when the call ups perform like Stashak and Smeltzer. I could have used a signing of DJ LeMahieu instead of Schoop, for sure, and was disappointed in the decision, and still am. We have some over acheiving on offense that has made things a lot of fun, no doubt. But I am not enamored to a point of gushing. The break outs that have carried this team were not due to the current FO. But Cruz was. Times are changing, and I hope that the shifts are not always used when they don't have to be. If a group gels, and then they just split up the gang for a little more cash..... so be it. But hopefully they are developing staff that feels like a "community" and sees beyond the greenbacks, and stick around make us all believers. Proof is in building a team that can not only get to the post season, but win in the post season. This might be a tough year to do it, with the pitching staff that has been assembled (or should that be not assembled?), and with either Houston or New York in an ALDS.... that is, if this team can take it to the finish line.
  10. h2oface
    I feel really bad for the guy. I hope he has a speedy recovery, and takes to heart that playing smart can lead to a much better career than playing with uncompromising reckless abandon. He will have plenty of time to think about it, that's for sure.
  11. h2oface
    Still rehabbing Gonsalves in AA for a game 5 win or go home game in the playoffs? He doesn't pitch all year, starts rehabbing in August at rookie level, and then they have him pitch in the playoffs? Seems odd and not very considerate of the other teammates. Sure it's minors... but still. It is the playoffs, and that still means something to these guys, or at least, it should.
  12. h2oface
    Amazing people don't get suspended for pitch framing... that is clearly trying to cheat, and not surreptitiously, but blatantly and in clear view for all to see, and on virtually every pitch trying to make something something it is not to create unfair advantage and trick the poor pitch judge, who is just guessing anyway. I wonder if umpires take PED's for sight? Are they ever tested? I stray and digress. Why do the results - the investigation and suspension process - need to be so secret after the suspension is decided and enforced? Why can't the transcripts be released? Shouldn't it then become public knowledge? Pineda could also just give interviews, too. And almost all perscription drugs can be acquired over the counter, without a perscription...... just not the counter at the pharmacy.
  13. h2oface
    This will all blow over. Look how much we all love Polanco and Cruz, now. It is like it never happened. I have to be impressed at how well Pineda has been performing while all this was happening in the background, unbeknownst to so many that would have liked to have known.... or maybe they did and are just pretending they didn't. I wonder what color the pills were....... were they red, or were they blue?
  14. h2oface
    .... and if you were trying to mask, and you are fat, and are taking some type of PED and want to lose weight, too........ it is a perfect dumb like Columbo defense. Ingenious, infact. Or perhaps it is just as Pineda says, and he still thinks water weight is a way to diet. It is irresponsible for any ball player to not clear any chemical at all with team sources, whatever it is. If you can get suspended for taking a pill..... how hard is it to always clear it with the team? I find it hard to believe any player would not check, if they are infact not trying to cover anything up. Also, if "the banned diuretic he used was not a masking agent for performance-enhancing drug's", as Passan says a source says....... then why the hell is it on the banned list, and deemed worthy of suspension at all?
  15. h2oface
    Is it just me, or does Graterol seem to be easy to hit, with lots of velocity, but not much movement on the heater? Is the management instructing him to hold back a bit.... I mean.... in the minors he was over 100 a lot, and has he even hit that threshold in the show? It seems every batter is having little problem making contact. Bats have to hit good pitching, too. If not, it will be a very short ALDS. I mean, Verlander is pitching a no-hitter in September, and Cole is banging out the Ks. It looks like it will be a good thing not to have home field advantage for this team. Of course, it could be the Yankees instead. Oh joy.
  16. h2oface
    I don't agree. A team that is 20-10 to start the year, and that is when they are scheduled.... I don't care who they played at that point. They are a >.500 team, even if by the end of the year they are under .500. At one point this year, the Twins had a record well over .500 against teams above .500. Many of these teams are now not. So what. That isn't the team we beat. Just as the Twins June and July was not the same team. There could have been injuries, etc. I just don't agree what you are supporting is the "right way", or representative of what happened, and the stat is misleading the way it is.
  17. h2oface
    It looked like to me, as to how the ball was clearly on the way down and hit the wall at about halfway up..... that in any other ballpark that would have been a routine fly ball ..... maybe to the warning track, but probably not even that deep, the outfield would have been playing deep to normal, a routine catch right to the left fielder and three outs and the end of the game right there. We still would have been robbed of the fantastic play and throw and put out at home with the bounce off the shallow left field green monster, though.
  18. h2oface
    Well, we all know that people generally gravitate to the easiest way, regardless whether it represents what is acutally happening when the teams play(ed).
  19. h2oface
    I think the record against >.500 teams is a stat that is not calculated correctly. It does not represent the records at game time. A team could enter a 4 game series against a team 3 games above .500, sweep them, and not get recognized as beating a team with a record above .500. The stat changes as the opposing team's record changes. It would be more representative of what actually happened if it is based on the results of the records when the game was played.
  20. h2oface
    What's up with Graterol? Hasn't even topped 100mph yet. Is he losing his velocity? But seriously, the heat is great, but it seems to be a no movement heat so far to me.... am I the only one? Hitter's seem to not have a problem hitting it. Looking forward to seeing more.
  21. h2oface
    When you throw your pitch right down the middle to Mookie Betts, and then do it again the next at bat... you are not going to be a succesful pitcher. It is sad what has happened to Berrios the second half of this, and every season of his career.
  22. h2oface
    I think we should trade Kirilloff for a top of the line pitcher, since more people still spell his name wrong than even spell Graterol wrong. Maybe he will then get the respect he deserves, eh? It is always a crap shot it seems. Look at Escobar's career year, and for someone else because this team virtually gave up on him, and found him expendable. Just think of what this team would look like this year with Escobar on it. Adrianza seems to have a similar progression, minus the power. Early identification of prospect's futures is the key to a great team that sustains.
  23. h2oface
    Awesome breakdown of the decision. Kudos. Keeping it 100, without the bias.
  24. h2oface
    ..... and they lost the game. I just don't get why Baldelli leaves these starters in to be totally embarassed when they just don't have it, and give away the game. Prudent identification (and it really isn't hard) that it is happening, and you win games like this with our offense. Eat innings? It just doesn't hold up. You end of pulling them anyway after just a coupe of innings, and still have to use the other pitchers, but instead of being down 4 or 5 to whatever.... you are down 8-9 to whatever, and didn't accomplish anything. He has done it with Odorizzi, Berrios, Perez (the others?) and in all those games the offense came back and made a game of it and scored 7 plus runs..... and it could have been wins. I just don't get it. It accomplished nothing except to shatter confidence.
  25. h2oface
    You're right. Thanks for bringing me back down. No reason to think big. And only one team in history has ever hit 267 homers in a season. I mean, why dream for the World Series when only 2 teams get there each year. Playoffs or bust. That will do. And no reason to hope for a sweep of the Tigers when a series win (or a split) of the worst team in MLB is within reach. I feel much better now. Thanks for helping me lower the bar.
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