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  1. h2oface
    That is just not true. Julian won't always be the best choice, but he certainly has had times he definitely was, and I will bet some team, if not the Twins, will see it again. Never is just a silly word to use (and I could even say stupid, but I won't), and it is hardly ever true.
  2. h2oface
    "Tanner Bibee was nails," It is all too easy to say the pitcher was so great, when this offense (and that is considering how good it can look in blowouts) just doesn't get the job done. I have seen, and so have we all, this offense make a pitcher with a 6+ ERA or more look like a Cy Young candidate. Bibee wasn't that good, he just faced an offense (except for Buxton) being inept for this game.
  3. h2oface
    Thielbar has a game or 2 that he doesn't suck, and at this point, gets lucky that the opposing team doesn't take advantage. But that is fools mica. Get rid of him. All year. Should have been during ST. Just get rid of him. It really is a travesty to keep this happening . All set of for Castro. And Larnach. Hell, two bunts with the bases loaded and the score could have been tied.
  4. h2oface
    "Castro is a super utility player in the fact that he can play solid defense all over the dirt and the grass and produce a .748 OPS and get elected to an All Star game." Castro didn't get elected to the all-star game. Castro was a replacement selection, an appointed/selected choice of the commissioner's office to replace injured Altuve. That is a ton different than being elected. And Correa was also a commissioner's office pick as the mandatory selection of at least one player from each team. When Correa was hurt, Castro was helped to get the nod. It is likely that being a commissioner's office selection is the only way Correa will ever be selected to the All-Star game, as the players certainly will never elect him as a sub, and unlikely the fans for any team other than Houston or Minnesota will forget, either.
  5. h2oface
    Doesn't Farmer need another 30 days in the rehab? What? He reinjured the injury? Damn. I guess we just have to wait longer.
  6. h2oface
    Lee playing hurt right now is a bad idea. Either IL him or send him down. It couldn't hurt. He needs to stop hurting. Either way, have a hypnotist hypnotize him during the lull so he thinks it he is just being brought up for the first time. Repeat every couple of weeks, before the slumping starts. I don't know why this option isn't used more often in cases like this.
  7. h2oface
    Pitching brought to you by the brilliance of Falvey and Baldelli is officially brain dead. Mr Throw The Game Away. Baldelli always has a deeper bottom.
  8. h2oface
    I hope they saved some runs for the close games.......... Gotta keep wining, because KC and Cleveland just keep rolling.
  9. h2oface
    K rate down to 37%...... and that is supposed to be promising? .429 BABIP means that things are bound to get a lot worse. Especially coupled with a K rate that is still really really horrible. We will see. I hope not.
  10. h2oface
    Sometimes we see and think what we want, regardless whether it is true. In fact, it happens a lot these days. I wish it was Sonny we extended. But then, he spoke his mind and told the truth. Or, our guys would have had the conviction and foresight to trade for/sign Chris Sale. Somebody had to guess right, and it was Anthopoulos and Atlanta. They even got Boston to pay for the first year. Quite a cunning move. And pretty damn cheap, all and all. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/chris-sale-contract-atlanta-braves-boston-red-sox-trade/ But let's not get sidetracked. 2023 Cy Young Award balloting, Gerrit Cole, NYY: 30 1st-place votes, unanimous -- 210 points Sonny Gray, MIN: 20 (2nd), 6 (3rd), 3 (4th) -- 104 points Kevin Gausman, TOR: 7 (2nd), 15 (3rd), 4 (4th), 1 (5th) -- 82 points Kyle Bradish, BAL: 6 (3rd), 8 (4th), 5 (5th) -- 39 points Luis Castillo, SEA: 2 (2nd), 5 (4th), 5 (5th) -- 23 points Zach Eflin, TB: 1 (2nd), 2 (3rd), 3 (4th), 3 (5th) -- 19 points Pablo López, MIN: 5 (4th), 1 (5th) -- 11 points George Kirby, SEA: 1 (4th), 6 (5th) -- 8 points Framber Valdez, HOU: 1 (4th), 4 (5th) -- 6 points Chris Bassitt, TOR: 1 (3rd), 1 (5th) -- 4 points Félix Bautista, BAL: 3 (5th) -- 3 points Chris Martin, BOS: 1 (5th) -- 1 point
  11. h2oface
    First catchers try to cheat by pretending a pitch is what it is not, and now throwing purposely at the retired batter when nobody is trying to steal. And at his head, no less (and umpire allows it and even rewards the behavior!) No scruples. Nice to get at least one in the win column in NYC. Is it just me, or do you notice that Duran is way too hittable these days, too?
  12. h2oface
    It is not the opposing pitchers that are not swinging at good and close pitches. Looking at strikes and swinging at balls is not on pitchers, it is on the batter.
  13. h2oface
    Twins can't put their bat on it, as well. Festa can really lose it in a second. 4 pitch walk, another wild ball, balk on a pick off attempt, and a wild pitch. Then a single to Martinez for the one run. Limited sequence, but that all of the sudden he was totally out of control. He hit a batter right after the homer he gave up later. Wild. Still only two runs given up.
  14. h2oface
    Should have saved those lonely two runs from yesterday for today........
  15. h2oface
    Lewis must have been hanging around Julien too much. Yes, that last pitch was a ball, but it was close enough to protect, and he let some fine strikes go without swinging, also. #3 K for the day, and looking. Too much Julien exposure.
  16. h2oface
    Well he sucked in ST before he took it off.
  17. h2oface
    It is just sad watching Buxton keep getting suckered on the way out of the zone low and outside slider. Over and over and over. It never even starts in the zone. He must tell himself repeatedly to not go for it. And then still does. It is like an automatic strikeout with two strikes on him for the pitcher. And every pitcher knows it. Just sad. And with bases loaded killer Lewis coming up on the walk. Damn.
  18. h2oface
    And having him back will only make the mocking more massive.
  19. h2oface
    I like the knife on the tree part, whatever and however you carve it up.
  20. h2oface
    Who needs more pitching when we have discovered Wallner’s secret weapon?!?!
  21. h2oface
    And that’s a list that is both virtually and literally impossible to get on these days!
  22. h2oface
    Timing. 15-2 against the Mets. Great shape. Yup.
  23. h2oface
    There goes our run differential. Best pen in MLB. I thought we got rid of Jackson. Maybe just changed name to Stewart?
  24. h2oface
    The best move they could make is just DFA Theilbar. It is pathetic that they keep throwing him out there. They should have done it in ST.
  25. h2oface
    Better than being fat.
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