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  1. h2oface
    If Colome would have pitched like this early in the season, we would still have Berrios and Cruz on the team. I don't know if I will ever like Colome now.
  2. h2oface
    No Dick..... you have to find a place for Miranda to play!
  3. h2oface
    I guess I hesitate to make the criteria lowered because all are hitting worse. I never liked getting a 98 on the test (which actually happened sometimes!), and the rest of the class got no higher than 82, and the whole class being graded on the curve. I get it though. (The instructors in college had to make it look like they were educating the students......) Just because most hitters are not hitting well anymore, doesn't mean, to me, we should change the standards of what is a great hitter, and grade then on the curve, so to speak.
  4. h2oface
    Damn. Almost called it.
  5. h2oface
    Time for Garver to poke one out!!
  6. h2oface
    Well, I still like high average hitters. I will always struggle to consider .250 hitters and less above average, but I know that it is in vogue to not care about batting average these days. I certainly feel that we are getting the downside of Donaldson's career and output, that's for sure. There were years he was on the top of the heap. Not now.
  7. h2oface
    His K% is just under 20% and he has been widely regarded as a hitting savant. He’s anything but a guess hitter. Emphasis on the has been instead of the is .... and not necessarily meaning he is a has been......
  8. h2oface
    Thank you. See how quotes work?
  9. h2oface
    That pitch was. Let me repeat the rest of the comment "Still, 4 errors, and only 2 earned runs. Not bad. Baldelli has these guys focused and playing the field with aplomb ..."
  10. h2oface
    Jax totally missed his target. Low and outside and he gave it middle inside and was crushed for the go ahead run. Still, 4 errors, and only 2 earned runs. Not bad. Baldelli has these guys focused and playing the field with aplomb ...
  11. h2oface
    Simmons is so washed up. Just got old. Sad, really. Just the Twins' luck for it to be the year they signed him and paid him 10 million to be so not what he once was.
  12. h2oface
    perfect bunt pitch taken....
  13. h2oface
    Sano's nickname should be K-zone
  14. h2oface
    That is how you beat Tony "rally killer" Diaz. Just pretend you don't see him.
  15. h2oface
    I feel with the "notice Arraez is playing 3B " (yes, I can read the lineup) and "Batting near the top is the best to way to maximize PAs" I am being "fansplained" to, and that is not necessary. Very obvious notes. The way this team, and others now, bring players up and play them in positions they have never played before (ie Nick Gordon etc), it doesn't seem to matter, especially if the point of the rest of the season is to look forward. But I am not a fan of moving all players around and making each position weaker defensively when you could only make one position weaker, perhaps. Polanco makes the team better at second, not at short. Arraez .... I don't know where you play him that makes a team better in the field. There is certainly something to be said to have a team that every player can be moved around (the Dodgers do it tons). I don't see the SS blocking Miranda. He may need replaced, but it is not by Miranda.
  16. h2oface
    ?? Because they would play Miranda, who is not a SS, at SS?
  17. h2oface
    Is Donaldson getting hurt and being out for the season the only way we get to see Miranda get his two hits (at least) a game, .347 BA, and 1.028 OPS for the Twins instead of St. Paul? Amazing how stubborn Baldelli has been about Rooker batting #2. He has been hot for a couple games, for sure, but it really is amazing how Baldelli sees him as a 2 hole hitter. Don't even get me started about Kepler this year...... It is hard to say who should bat where though, when almost your whole line up is hitting so poorly. I guess Refsnyder needs some rest?
  18. h2oface
    Middle or back of rotation. Serviceable strike-thrower. Add innings eater. Crafty. Etc. Etc. I get all that. And those terms always make me cringe. Especially if it is what one choses to fill their rotation with instead of young pitchers from the farm that could be so much better with time instead of just the same consistent innings eater, a term that one in baseball uses when they can't come up with anything better to say and want to be nice. I just want the Twins to shoot higher than to consistantly be all that. And I don't believe that inspiration comes from out of shape vets with a record that includes PED suspension.
  19. h2oface
    I hope that is the last time Pineda takes the mound as a Twin. I don't wish him ill will, I just am tired of watching him pitch - the pace, the hat adjustments, and the homers. I am sure he will find another home, but probably not on a contender, and if we are a contender, it shouldn't be here, either. We have to look for better to be better. Pineda is filler, and always has been filler, in my book. And I am really tired of Thorpe and his lost velocity. I want to see Joe Ryan. I have seen Thorpe way too much already. Why is it that we always take all this time with the minor league pitchers that don't even have high ceilings? Over and over they are the next up it seems. Guys like Canterino will never be able to field a hit ball they way he finishes. Why can't pitchers end their wind up like Jim Kaat and Greg Maddux did?
  20. h2oface
    "His <Rooker> power is not in doubt, but a .252 on-base percentage ain't gonna cut it, especially when you factor in the total absence of defensive value." I do give him credit for that incredible diving catch on Saturday. I guess one can't really say total absence of defensive value.
  21. h2oface
    3 inherited runners. Yikes.
  22. h2oface
    I don't think anyone is "throwing him out". The question was.... if one was "disappointed". To me, being disappointed and throwing him out are not even close to the same thing. I'm disappointed when my guys strikeout but that doesn't mean I want to throw him off the team, or throw him out. Disappointment is not that big of a deal. And is fleeting. I also wouldn't anoint any of the others mentioned as first ballot HOFers. None of them have a career to declare that for me, yet. Even Harper. All could be finished with this game well before they accumulate the career it will take. The HOF prospect list is a lot like a top 100 prospect list. Potential is there, but that needs the career to get be a HOFer, let alone a fist ballot HOFer. We will soon find out just how much of a career it takes, when Joe Mauer becomes eligible and is on the ballot.
  23. h2oface
    I'm with you. I'm concerned about everyone on this team at this point, including Larnach, for sure. 24 is not all that young. 24 is time. 30, to most now is old, and not worth a long term contract. So when is a player not young? 25? 26? 27? When is the mean prime? Shame on you for comparing Larnach to others his age, or younger. He is an American, and needs coddling. He might be on the right team for that, with Baldelli at the helm. Hey, they could all be all-stars at some point too, but 24, to me, is time to be a star and get with it. We used to have higher expectations and hopes. I bet they all do for themselves. I hope all these guys want and desire to be more than just acceptable for their age. If they don't, there will be no championship or competing for one in their future, or us diehard fans' future. And let's face it - in the end, we all know he is a rookie called into action by this dark season, and are all rooting for Larnach to succeed past his floor and surpass his ceiling.
  24. h2oface
    11 hits and 10 singles. We got scored 2 errors. Only 2. But there were a lot more than that. True. So, Sano not lost? Keen? A real keeper? The cut off, the throw to third instead of home, and the lack of even making a play on the fly that dropped in? And the one he did that he just dropped? I still see a lost .213 hitter that strikes out 40% of the time, and makes mental error after mental mistake. My apologies. I will take tomorrow off. It seems I need it.
  25. h2oface
    Kaat - "The starting pitcher sets the tone for the game...." As good as he is, that is a Captain Obvious statement. Running out of commentary by the end of this one it seems.
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