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  1. h2oface
    Just pretend he isn't starting from the jump for the first game up, and maybe you will be right.
  2. h2oface
    Bring up a guy that can't make the show, and have him give Dozier a day off and make that shortstop play a different position. Tell me how this FO is different, again?
  3. h2oface
    Back to dumpster diving off the waiver wire for pitchers, no offense, poor defense, Grossman playing in the outfield, Castro making wild pitches out of pitches that should be blocked or caught, Hughes and Rodney marched out regardless of the case to just move on, a blowpen matching the last two years......... and this team is even worse than Detroit at present. How is it Hughes gets paid millions, has tons of free time, and still comes back soft bellied and out of shape, instead of svelte and looking like a new man ready to really be a professional athlete? And the incessant walks from the pitchers supplied by the expert FO identifiers. How is it that it seems almost every walk from our staff turns into runs, and our guys seem to not get to home plate after they walk, even with 4 errors by the opposing team. Dozier now back down to .260. How does the fastest team so often not make it first to third on a single, or score from first on a double, but we see it happen to us way too often? I have to take a week off. I have a headache.... and as long as Rodney is on this team, I don't have hope it will go away.
  4. h2oface
    Where are the "pace" posters now? I think, without doing the math, it must be over 100 losses now.... But fear not, pace is just a fantasy, a figment of one's imagination. There is no pace. Gotta take a break for a week to go up to Fresno and catch 3 just scheduled Neil Young and Crazy Horse shows at a small theater. Maybe I am the bad luck guy, and they will prosper if I don't watch.
  5. h2oface
    Rodney = suffering
  6. h2oface
    It would have been nice is Duffey's AAA performance this year translated to the show too. Unfortunately, just because they do it in Rochester, doesn't mean they will here.
  7. h2oface
    Well.... balls in play, that can become singles and doubles, and what the hell, even triples and home runs - to replace half those walks. But I will take the walks. Walks rarely drive in runs. They are very nice for the OBP stat and becoming a base runner with the potential to score a run... the most important stat. The walks would be really cool if it was followed by a stolen base. But no, I hope Mauer doesn't pitch. And I agree, the pitching staff is not his fault. Who assembled that staff, anyway?
  8. h2oface
    Sure it is.
  9. h2oface
    If this was a North Carolina basketball team, Roy Williams would bench the relievers and bring in a whole new 5. Alas.... baseball doesn't let you do that. Are we done with the Phil Hughes experiment yet, as well? I can't even see him helping from the pen.
  10. h2oface
    That is one of the ugliest reddish colors, for my taste. I wonder who sold that product to them, or picked the color? Morrison. I must be dreaming, a flash back to last year.
  11. h2oface
    Totally agreed. Totally unnecessary, especially at that point in the game. I don't know that it would have changed anything, though. Escobar has very little range.
  12. h2oface
    No projection article coming from anybody after this week with the 2-8 second ten and the 8-12 record? Something like....Through Twenty Games, Twins On Pace For 97 Losses
  13. h2oface
    Take that performance, Gibson haters!
  14. h2oface
    Ha. Hadn't even thought about it. But. If it includes Rodney. Whatever you want to call the delivery format. It has to be the worst.
  15. h2oface
    If Rodney is on your team, and you are a fan, you will suffer. The only perspective for me is I hate to ever see him. Before this year, and definitely now. I can't wait to see him gone. I said that when he was signed, and am not surprised. The fact that he sucked like this at the start of last year, and got all the way back to a 4.23 ERA on the season AS A CLOSER, only makes things worse. Wow, a 4.23 for the season. That means the FO will hold on to him far too long.
  16. h2oface
    Agreed. Thankfully, Kinley is now DFAd. Track records are nice, but that is just history, at this point. The Cards wanted no part of Lynn back, or Duke, and they seem to always have some pretty good pitching... pretty savvy. Nobody else seemed to want Morrison either. The track records almost make it worse to me, like Morales a couple years ago. They cost millions more, and need to perform, especially at the beginning of their stay on a new team, if they want fan support. And because of their salaries, the FO and management is locked in and even slower than usual to move on if needed. The career year by Morrison seemed to be an outlier, and he is regressing to his norm and worse. At least they were signed on the cheap, considering what they wanted. So..... one could even say, for 2018, they are all shaping up as colossal whiffs...... which doesn't mean that they can't right their year, but so far, I hear the howl of the wind. I hope they find it soon. We need them too, desperately.
  17. h2oface
    12, 13, 13 and 11 = 49 hits given up in 35 innings by the 4 pitching staffs, today (yesterday much better). Lucky to go 2-2. This is a very disturbing trend all through the system. Strikeout rates that don't account for total batters faced can be really non-representative of what is going on. here is the Cedar Rapids box link http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2018_04_25_burafx_cedafx_1&t=g_box&sid=milb
  18. h2oface
    Morrison, Lynn, and Duke aren't shaping up as colossal whiffs, too? The shaping for Kinley is done, and the shaping for the others is still suffering in progress. Oh, did I mention Rodney?
  19. h2oface
    Why would we want a pitcher that a contending team didn’t want ???? Really???? Roster limits, the rules of service time and options. Hundreds of players each season move around that the teams would have rather kept in the system if the rules allowed. Hundreds. Of course they take Bard back, if they can. We didn't get rid of him, he was taken from the Twins, by the rules.
  20. h2oface
    Bard was used for much more significant times in games than Kinley, and only had one bad outing that they should have pulled him after he finally got out of the inning, but they ran him out there again, and Boston crushed him, and they let it happen. It was the game Ohtani got his blister, and got tagged, too. Until then, for something like 5 or6 games and 8 innings, Bard was very good! Very good. The difference is that the Angels made a decisive move, and decided that a roster spot was not worth having taken up by an experiment. Kinley has never been good. Talent? It hasn't translated to anything but hope. It seems very ego driven to me right now, and foolish, (also foolish to ever had taken him with all things considered, and he is too old, in my opinion) to keep wasting a roster spot for a pipe dream. Nick Burdi is on the 60 day DL for the Pirates, and hasn't had a single bad outing all year!
  21. h2oface
    I still can't believe what this FO let go or made available in the rule 5 to keep this guy. So much for pitching experts.
  22. h2oface
    Rochester .... didn't I read somewhere how they had veteran leadership and were going to be good?
  23. h2oface
    I love a bunt into the shift. Easy pickin's, even for a slower runner. But this one in the first inning? If it is game 7 of a playoff, and you just want to get a run in in the first, no problem. But this was not the case in game one of the 4 game at the beginning of the year. Too bad it didn't work, and Mauer got a single instead of a sac bunt.
  24. h2oface
    Joe has gone 3 for 23 in the last six games, and dropped .114 in average. But I agree, why worry, eh?
  25. h2oface
    I don't see it that way. It is all part of the whole process. At the time the FO tried to sneak Chargois off the 40-man, they could have let Kinley be returned, already, to make the needed space. So they did still choose Kinley over another system player on the edge of the show. Chargois was not the only choice available to make space. Note: didn't see the other replies until after I posted this.
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