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Gerrit. Gerrit Cole. It's an unusual spelling. I need to rabbit hole that name. I would go with Garrett as the most familiar. This made me curious as to its roots.

I was really hoping JD would get to Cole. Too bad.

Yup. Postponed already. Like a snow day in Virginia, when they close the schools for the next day from the weather forcast (but many times, it is a nice day). But Hurricanes and floods.... nothing to mess with. Good call. They had to shut down the big Central Park Reopening Concert early today, too!

That's because they never have anybody (only Berrios has made it in the last 5 years, and they just traded him away) that is ready that comes from their system. Talk all you want about the prospects. That is the fact. Bring Ryan up before he becomes part of this system, and see what he's got, at 25, before the Twins can mess with him.

Truth is very often hard to take, and excuses will always be made.

Garcia fits right in. 3 inherited runners with one out. That's a tough spot, for sure, but the visitor here did the worst job. All three runners scored. Maeda lost it, sure, but it looks like maybe for the next season as well..... forearm tightness is TJs child. That was the last we will see of Kenta for the season, and my bet is most of next, if not all. Donaldson has lost his thirst for the big hit. Walks are a part of his game, but to have two strikes on you (and not just today with the bases loaded in the 5th), time after time, he will take that close pitch instead of protecting the plate and fouling it off or putting it into play. With the bases loaded, you cannot hunt the walk, especially with the count 1-2. The team needs you to at least protect the plate and not just watch it (and he watched 2 in a row for 2 called strikes). And they were both even strikes. He looked foolish whining . I hate watching Luke Voit. Team after team. Players after players. This Yankee thing for the Twins is downright sickening. I hope the game doesn't get rained out tomorrow, and Gil shoves it down the FO's throat and shuts us out, and Cave starts and wears the golden sombero. A showcase of their choices. They deserve it.

I watched those Olympic games Ryan pitched live.... they started at 3am in California. They should just bring the guy up and let him rip. He was classic cool. And when he got the plate umpire to fist bump him between innings..... some kind of kool.

Watch the next two days get rained out, and the whole pitching fiasco wasn't even necessary. No need to give Maeda extra rest and then match him up with Cole. Why not give us a better chance to win and match him up with a different pitcher? If you are going to give games away, Baldelli, you may as well give away one you would probable lose even with your best lineup and starting pitcher (that the team has left, anyway).

It really is amazing how bad the FO has set this team up for pitching. To march guys out there like we are now, is so very depressing. All the comments and articles with the thoughts of how they are actually good and/or will be or can be. Just give them a chance and see.... when to me, it is so obvious that they are not going to make the show. I commend the fans that think and are satisfied with what we throw out there. That includes all of them except Maeda and Berrios. All of them, and that includes Pineda. Oh.... I forgot, We sent Berrios packing. I have but one pitcher on the team pitching right now that I really care to watch. The rest I try to talk myself into it will be better one day. And we even have the team mascot playing first base!

Using heart is a bit cliche, and I am guilty, as the heart never thinks, feels, or believes. But that is what is common practice to use in situations like this. Desire and heart. The will to be. The fire in the heart. It certainly helps that body parts can do what the brain tells them to do, that is for sure. Pain is a mother.

All those predictive group think stats to site his failures, and how he is finished........ and it is his heart that wins out. Imagine that. The intangible is still the most important thing.

I am the last guy that wants to run a team like a fantasy/video game. I hate both and participate in neither. But many on this site do like to think that way, I agree. One season signings already know that they are there for one season. Not news. I read MLBTradeRumors daily, and the Twins are not even close to some of the teams and the moves being made. All teams are quick to pull the trigger in those cases, and should, I think. I never liked Colome, and never liked the signing, and if it wasn't for him blowing so many games for the whole first half of the seaon, Berrios and Cruz would still be on the team. Those are the guys that the FO played fantasy/video games with. Our long term guys. The last nine outings for Colome before this doesn't make up for the whole half season, so saying "1 bad outing" is ignoring the total of his sad contribution to this team. As for these guys are human - I agree, and feel for all the teammates that had to suffer through Colome blowing game after game after game this year. 25 of them to one of Colome. Polanco could easily move to short for the last 6 weeks, and we could have Miranda and his two hits a game on the team taking third and Arraez second, and it would make the team better for the coming season. Plus, Gordon should get some time there in the last 6 weeks. The FO already totally gave up on the season, so no need to not see what we have, and I don't mean the AAAA filler, but prospects running out of time and options. I know many like Pineda, but I don't see a PED convicted out of shape vet that takes forever to throw the next pitch as an inspiration and mentor to younger pitchers. And he is probably out for the rest of the season anyway. I hope the FO learned to go for a better pitching staff than they went for this off season. I seriously doubt that other players would feel that the Twins are too quick to cut the chord. They all saw how long they kept giving Shoemaker and Happ opportunities - way longer than they deserved. The fans deserve better than inning's eaters. They deserve upgrades, from the farm, and from free agency and trades. Not lateral moves, but upgrades. Pineda will not be signed by a contender, but by a team that doesn't expect to win. You watch. If the Twins resign him, that is not a good direction.

Some can't help but to fansplain. I agree with you. You said something simple, and the rest was projection. Colome spiked like 3 in a row, with each one getting worse. This new sitting down on the job that our catchers (and others) are doing is not helping. I called the WP on the game thread. I knew it was coming. It was Colome pitching.

Comparing Polanco to Parmalee......... I saw that 5 minutes ago and am still laughing.

Is Jorge Polanco the current face of the Twins? Current means right now. The answer is.... yes. I didn't see this two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, I would not be saying the following. Things can change, and will (especially if Buxton stays on the field and the FO isn't foolish enough to trade him), but currently, the man on the field and and leading all offensive individual stat categories for the season for this team on the Twins home page (not just today)...... is Polanco. Current is not the last two years, or April of this year. Current is now.

Thorpe can play ball in Australia. He will be home, and near parents and family. Past history shows that is what he needs. I never saw the "stuff" that others keep talking about, and certainly never in a MLB game. They have held roster spots for him while letting guys not Baddoo, Ynoa, Anderson, Littell, and others go. Time is up. He can't even throw in the 90s now. Time is up. Colome, Simmons, and Pineda? Time to move on. This team does not need rental place holders. All will be free agents. Best of luck to them. Time to move on.

JORGE!

Kepler has to take second on that.

Zimmer poked that ball from abou 8 inches outside the zone.

Damn. Speedster Straw on 2nd.

A catch like Cave didn't make, Straw does, and saves the gave for Cleveland.

That puts Jeffers on 2 to start the bottom of the 11th. I guess Refsnyder is not the DH? Can you sub for the DH or do you lose it?

Hittable pitches. Damn. We needed that Gordon.

92 mph out of control fastballs.

Duffey rarely hits 95 anymore. A 2 pitch pitcher that has lost his velo and control.