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  1. h2oface
    Yah, but he was running........ into the wall.
  2. h2oface
    Amazing how once injured, they injure something else before they can even return. Something is terribly wrong in this organization. Every year. Top prospects.
  3. h2oface
    Falvey is in love with himself.
  4. h2oface
    Baldelli Ball. A DH that hits under .200 leading off. LEADING OFF! Now we have Gasper AND Kody Clemens (hitting under .100) getting starts, and an AAA Keirsey who is hitting way under .100. Remember when bench players were actually bench players, and not 1/3 of the lineup starting? Lopez. Pitchers continue to throw the ball away to one of the bases, and then Stewart couldn't have been more middle middle middle - throw meat right down the middle late in the game we have a good chance to win for a crushing 3 run homer in the 7th. 3 SB against Jeffers, Santana one of them. Who knows how it would have come out because Jeffers' throw is so horrible that it hits a squatting Stewart in the back of the glove elbow. And Correa is back to 2025 normal and goes O'fer and Ks 3 times. So hard to watch.
  5. h2oface
    He is fooling himself, thinking he can control where the ball is going..... that is, unless he thinks he can blow it by right down the middle.
  6. h2oface
    One run from the offense. Should have saved a couple from yesterday. Baldelli Ball now has Coloumbe and Varland after Jax and Duran? Back to pulling the starter doing well with 76 pitches. I thought he might have progressed after the Ryan and Ober success. Too bad our guys watch so many of those right down the middle like Varland offered. If they would swing at those instead of the sliders a foot off the plate........ Maybe then would score more consistently.
  7. h2oface
    There could be a flagrant HBP for 2 bases. Like the NBA, it would be a judgement call based on more detailed description of the types of HBPs that qualify. Personally, I think the pitcher should have to suffer some kind of pain for hitting a batter "flagrantly". Maybe a flagrant 1 for just a horrible pitch that he lost control of, and a flagrant 2 with more penalty for doing it on purpose and/or perhaps causing injury, and that includes pitching way inside on purpose and then hitting the batter. (The sadist in me wants the batter to be able to throw it at the pitcher like dodgeball. It would be great fun to watch, too. The batter hit would get one throw and have to throw it at the pitcher below the waist, or a penalty for the batter. The pitcher at least knows the ball is coming and can dodge it. More consideration than the batter gets.) And accidents should still suffer consequences. If a pitcher can't control the ball, he will learn to not throw it so hard. I know, sick idea. But pitchers should not just be able to hit somebody and not suffer consequences. The whole idea that the other team's pitcher should hit another batter to "have their back" is schoolyard BS, just like the running out of the dugout because someone looks at somebody with a dirty look or trash talks the pitcher. I want the offender to feel pain, too, not some innocent teammate. As for that batter hitting the pitcher with a batted ball? More pitchers should be ready to field after pitching. Most aren't aren't even close to trying, and are totally out of control/position after the pitch. Not like Greg Maddux or Jim Kaat, who finished each pitch ready to field a possible comebacker.
  8. h2oface
    His in game decisions to often create rage in this calm heart. Even if I ignore the early game pinch hitting and management of the pen and his early pitch count decisions, the stubborn pinch hitting of Margot last year screams 🔥 fire him 🔥 all by itself.
  9. h2oface
    If you aren't concerned about Jax, it is concerning. He has officially earned concern in 2025. And the teammates in TBBIMLB are again giving up inherited runs like....... like....... like Jax is giving up hits. Baldelli will keep pretending it isn't happening, too. Believe in the process and not the results.
  10. h2oface
    Hmmmmm. I believe I remember the author claimed he was the all-star catcher to be last year, too. Tic Toc. Time is running out. Jeffers sure talks highly of himself, though. Likes to say his process and exit velocity is there, just not the results....yet..... just have to believe and stay with the process. Results are the process record. Time to make some.
  11. h2oface
    "The Twins' defense has been sharp this season, reining in a lot of the baserunning opportunities from the opposition and helping out the pitching staff. " They have made some really good plays, and a bunch of horrible defense. Like the cut off to the middle of the back of the Met yesterday, Castro has 3 errors and several that weren't scored an error, like in the Jax meltdown, and the pitchers have been literally losing games with horrible throws. That's team defense. It has hardly been "sharp". I would even call it pretty poor. How about that great double play by Julien? Even with chasing Lindor way out of the baseline. Jax is a mess. And he wanted to start.s I still can't believe Gasper is on the team.
  12. h2oface
    It's Thursday AM. The MRI's for Wallner and Correa were done Wednesday AM. Correa played the field Wednesday afternoon. What are the MRI results already?
  13. h2oface
    Seems like Correa failed to attend to his wrist in the 4 months off. Now he gets more highly paid vacation? I still can’t believe Gasper is on this team.
  14. h2oface
    I guess someone should tell Castro, then, or if they have, Castro should own it. The throw didn’t actually cause any advantage. But it sure was pathetic. About 7 years since Alcala was traded for and supposed to become a fair replacement for Ryan Pressly. I guess that ship never came in. Celestino must have hi-jacked it.
  15. h2oface
    I agree that Baldelli is continuing to prove his ineptness in many ways, but it was Correa that should have been on second, I believe. He ran out there with Castro. Correa should know that the second baseman is the relay man on and ball to deep right center. Correa was all the way to the first base side of Castro, chosing to back up Castro? for some reason? And shouldn't Castro be smart enough to not throw a ball if nobody is there? Awareness. Isn't that what Miranda got sent down for? I mean, he was hitting about the same as Correa and better than Vazquez. Now we have last years team mandatory default representative replacement "all-star" and the supossed team leader ultra-vet with bonehead plays, on the same play! I don't think that one is on Baldelli.
  16. h2oface
    I'm switching to Banana Ball! They sell out every game, now. MLB stadiums. No walks. It's a sprint. Did you catch the 60 minutes this Sunday? https://www.cbsnews.com/video/savannah-bananas-60-minutes-video-2025-04-13/
  17. h2oface
    Baby steps.
  18. h2oface
    Kinda. Only if you have an option. No accountability for the high paid. Just excuses. But Miranda’s lackadaisical effort was a showcase of the effort and focus this team is showing. I mean, he didn’t even bother to look at the ump, OR EVEN TOUCH SECOND. Look at the pitching depth that performed well, and the reward is immediate DFA for a managers mismanagement.
  19. h2oface
    If we didn’t have such prepared for the season high dollar team leaders like Correa and Buxton, we probably would have had to go with below replacement level options. Then where would we be? May we be grateful we are so blessed.
  20. h2oface
    The best part of the game was Lopez piling sunflower seeds in Watkins' belt gap above his belt in the rear, a plumbers type of gap without the crack showing, created as he stood leaning over a knee on the step of the dugout - Watkins without a clue - until it was overflowing, all across the back, and then when Watkins' went out to coach base when the Twins came in to bat, he started picking at his butt and back (What the Hell!) as gravity called and they got sucked down into his pants. That was hilarious.
  21. h2oface
    Baldelli Ball strikes again! And so soon. Just took the next game. 64 pitches (41 strikes), 2 outs in the 5th, and your starter has only given up 3 hits total and 1 walk with 4Ks...... so of course, with all the overuse of the "Best Bullpen in MLB", you pull him. The only reason you have a runner on third and a run in --- is because a throw from right that was a little off ("Matt Wallner uncorked an unwieldy shot, evidently tricky enough to evade two defenders and eventually roll into the Tigers dugout. The runner scores." Seriouisly? Unweildy? "Unearned, of course....") but certainly shouldn't have been a problem to at least stop, was deflected by the $35 million shortstop hitting a buck 50, and then Mr. utility defense Castro misses it under his glove (very likely would have had it if not for Correa's missed attempt) and it rolls into the dougout. So instead of a runner on 2nd and third with 2 outs, and no runs in, you have a run in, a runner on third, AND YOU PULL YOUR STARTER WITH ONLY 64 PITCHES! Alcala implodes, Topa gives up 2 inherited runs, Castro boots another later, and you use Gasper, who shouldn't even be on an MLB roster, as your DH. A DH that can't, and never has, hit in the show, and he is all you've got because you used one of your hottest batters, Bader, as a pinch runner one batter earlier for Julien (who is having a hot game going 3/5), with the tying run on third to end the game on a soft (of course it is) grounder. Baldelli Ball.
  22. h2oface
    Looks like Varland didn’t pitch…
  23. h2oface
    73 pitches and cruising. Thinking too much and pulling the starter. Baldelli Ball returns. If Ober is getting bombed leave him in to eat innings, but cruising and winning? Pull him with only 73 pitches after 6. And why? Best bullpen in MLB. Just don’t ask them to hold a runner and throw it to first. Or not hit batters. And now use 3 pitchers in 2 innings. Smart though. By blowing the save and relying on an anemic offense, you save an inning for the pen and don’t have to pitch the 9th. And that Julien slide? Decisive.
  24. h2oface
    He’s not the ace. Just another #2 or 3.
  25. h2oface
    They want Varland to be "good" so bad, but he really hasn't performed except in the minors and at the end of a couple years ago when brought up and pitched relief. Baldelli sure is giving him lots of chances to perform, but he gets hit a lot. Best Bullpen in MLB.
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