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  1. h2oface
    Thank you. Exactly. But they just can't help themselves when it comes to putting players out of position in the endless shifts. Although...... Detroit and KC have both hurt Giolito this year, and even after tonight, his season ERA is 4.35. The Twins are pretty good at making most pitchers look good this year, regardless of the hype. Wouldn't it have been nice if the pitching experts with connections had signed Kluber this year?
  2. h2oface
    Maybe. But then, once you go down the curse road, you are living in a fantasy world no matter what perspective.
  3. h2oface
    The curse of the TD writers (and universally many others) claiming they were so good and anointing them to take the pennant and go to the world series?
  4. h2oface
    You rest/save guys like Simmons and Donaldson when they can be helpful in the pennant run. As it is, there will be no pennant run if they don't play and are part of the resurgence. Save for October ball? You have to get there to play.
  5. h2oface
    A most depressing set of 3 pitchers to have hope invested in. These are all losers. The new Smeltzer/Stashak/Theilbar bad news. We already know what we have in these guys, and is bottom of the barrel waiver wire fodder before the DFAs. I would feel different if we were talking Balazovic/Duran/Enlow, but that is not close (injuries or level) it seems. The OP is a most depressing set of pitchers and will be a waste of time until they are no longer in the system. Place holders taking up space. Nothing more. When will the great pitching identifiers and develpers that is the calling card of the FO actually deliver real depth that a team can be proud to be fielding?
  6. h2oface
    Not only are the Twins losers, now, they are babies and poor sports.
  7. h2oface
    I agree. Always try to do your best. No matter the score or inning. That is the game. And you play for the fans. They deserve your best effort. If a team sucks, that is on them.
  8. h2oface
    How about this guy? Just a rookie in 1916.
  9. h2oface
    Even more depressing to know that Dobnak and Thorpe are the first depth pieces. We are doomed. It looks like Dobnak is eating a lot of fries these days.
  10. h2oface
    Luck. You make your luck. The Twins just play horribly.
  11. h2oface
    Not to continue this tangent, but this and done. It looks like Ynoa isn't too smart, though.... "Ynoa broke his hand after punching the dugout in frustration following a tough outing yesterday against the Brewers, and will now spend approximately two months or more in recovery. It’s a very unfortunate setback for a player who has become an unexpectedly big part of Atlanta’ rotation this season."
  12. h2oface
    And posters chastised those of us that predicted the "long season" when they were blowing the first games. We called it.
  13. h2oface
    Pitching brought to you by the genius of Derek Falvey and Thad Levine. It's their calling card.
  14. h2oface
    Hope vs Reality. I take Reality. This trade still only sucks. Looking like the Expert Pitching Identifiers in the FO laid a monster egg on trading Huascar Ynoa (who is looking like a stud for the Braves) for Jaimie Garcia flipped for Enns and Littell. Is anyone still believing these guys can select and develop top notch pitching? I sure don't.
  15. h2oface
    Our .400 hitter at .275, and that is better than it has been. RISP..... grounder to second. Make that .273
  16. h2oface
    Donaldson steps into the path of the runner that would have been out at second like he is trying to take a charge on the Basketball court. Stands/moves right in the basepath, in the runners way, trying to impede him or slow him down. I guess that ump didn't think that was interference or obstruction, because NO CALL. Intentional and malicious, and not the "runner stick my arm out so I touch the defender that isn't in the basepath anyway".
  17. h2oface
    Exactly. I plainly see Andrus reaching out with his elbow, moving a bit out of baseline. Thank you. Judgement call. Umpire made it. He was wrong. Andrus is laughing at ump as a sucker. I get all you are saying. I know the rule. They would not have touched anyway. I have eyes and can still see.
  18. h2oface
    Andrus put his elbow out and ran into our catcher, not the other way around. Easy to see. They don't touch unless he does. You are imagining things, I believe.
  19. h2oface
    Happy for you that you think a pitcher does his job perfectly when he is called in FOR RELIEF with the bases loaded and no outs.... AND ALL THE RUNNERS INHERITED SCORE. ALL OF THEM. I know what happened and how (one can watch the game and not be part of the game thread, eh?). Miss bats and things are different. That would be perfect in my book. Relief is not letting all the runners score. I know Duffey had help. He is still on the mound called in for relief, not to open the faucet. The ump should never have called interference. It did get to that point, and the runner should have been called out. Period. Umpire made a horrible call. Well documented. Easy to see on replay. Hate the catcher if you like, if that makes you happy. I have already adressed that he had other options, and should have done them. But the umpire made the call that was horrible, and the wrong call. And I won't call your behavior stupid, even if you call mine stupid.
  20. h2oface
    Totally agree that the correct play was to run the runner all the way back to third. But in regard to blaming teammates for not yelling.... how does someone playing in the show, especially as a catcher, not know that? Or someone playing in the lowest levels of the minors, even? Still, the umpire made a horrible call. Flopping in baseball. These are our times.
  21. h2oface
    If a batter moves his arm into the pitch, is it the pitchers fault for throwing it inside over the plate and it is still a strike, if not for the batter moving elbow into the ball? Rortvedt doesn't touch Andrus. Andrus reaches out and touches Rortvedt. The umpire never should have made that call. Flopping Andrus should have been called out, as he was. Sometimes players like to cheat to win. Anything to win. Hrbek comes to mind.....
  22. h2oface
    3 inherited runners, 3 inherited runners scored. If it ain't about the flop, it ain't about any other excuses.
  23. h2oface
    Lots of details to moan about. One that will get lost in it all.... Duffey - three inherited runners. Three inherited runners scored. It never ends. Donaldson - just wow. Simmons can't throw now (4 errors so far this year) and Donaldson can't catch an easy throw. That was a double play and out of the top half of the 9th. Instead, that's the loss and the ball game.
  24. h2oface
    "Miguel Sano's homer only had an exit velocity of 99.8 mph and had an expected batting average of .120." How a ball that goes off the bat at 100mph and goes over the fence comfortably has an expected batting average of .120 is just BS. Crazy talk. How has stats come to this?
  25. h2oface
    Exactly. And Rogers is a 5 of 6 inherited runners scored at 3.21 ERA/0-1 W-L/2 blown saves out of 4 chances. When it comes to relievers, since the job is relief, IRS and %IRS is the best indicator of if they did their job and provided relief, rather than pass the runs given up to their teammates.
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