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Straight from the horses mouth. One day Paddack will get out of the paddock, and earn some respect...... I hope.

Top pitching prospect, eh? Yikes.

I defer to @bean5302 just previous. He basically was injured, and they FO knew it and decided it wasn't a deal killer and made the overpay. Mahle had made a couple of starts after he came off the IL, and was a very questionable health risk. Absolutely. Pitching Well? I guess I don't consider a 4.40 ERA in 104 innings with Cincy "well". Maybe I have higher bars for "pitching well". Process? Whatever. Just because we needed better pitchers I don't consider trading for a blatant question mark a smart process. I hated the trade then, and of course, worse now. I didn't like him at all, anyway, especially because his wildness broke Buxton's hand in June of 2021 when we came back from a hip injury and we were needing him. https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-twins-baseball-mlb-sports-96bf7376a8011bf4d77fbee9dd681a5f Lopez wasn't injured, but why would the Orioles, who knew him and all the intangibles he brought, trade him when they were in the playoff race? It didn't make a lick of sense. Process? Lopez's track record of success was horrible before he went to the pen, and was a flash in the pan for just a few months, and the FO bet he was converted for good, and we all know how that turned out. All Lopez did was lose games for us, and he is still a liability wherever he has been. And we gave up a 2023 All-Star reliever and a starter that looks to be better than Paddack, and he can play. (Nobody thought they would be that good? The players did, and the FO claims to know how to pick them.) Horrible trades, and not just looking back. Homers wanted it to be a good trade. But it never was. Not then. Not looking back. F-.

Well, that says a lot right there about his value, doesn't it?

Well, not a fan of Gallo. Although some will drink it. And it is June still, for a few days. There is always July, August, September, and October.....

And to think they are paying him a relative pittance. MLBPA really gives guys like Lewis the shaft, so guys like Gallo can suck over 10 times more from this team than Lewis got/gets paid, and they set it up for 5 years to keep not paying what he is worth. Quite a deal.

No need to the matching yellow paper bag, today. But then, only home games are Pablo Days. Hats, and bags off for Pablo Day Lopez. What a game. I hope he can be at least somewhat consistent. And even do it for the home fans, against top teams. But today, it was his day, and gets all the deserved credit, and we could all use a little, no, a lot more of that kind of start.

Seems a waste of time for Brooks Lee to "wait his turn". A waste of time and offense. Are we waiting for him to get hurt in AAA ball? Pace. There is no pace. Just streaks, and all the games count. And if there was a pace, it changes after each game, and you can't throw out just a few teams that are mostly losses.

1971 in Detroit. And one I didn't see in 1934. Look them up. When over 20 players played that became Hall of Famers. Today's games, full of so many 10-12 week wonders that end up, by the end of the season, being nowhere close to an all-star, and never were or are again, are so disappointing. They never take into account the last half of a season after the all-star game for the next all-star game. That counts, too, and sometimes it includes post-season play that is more important than the first 3 months of the year. Royce has been amazing, last year and this year, but I am sure he will feel much better about it when he is a real established all-star, and not just a 2/3/4 month wonder. Santana an all-star? Give me a break. Being a mandatory pick because each team, whether they really deserve it or not, has to have a player selected..... it has to feel cheap, deep down.

Why not? The All-Star game has become a joke. Vote 25 times, and then make another email and do it again. But Royce will earn it, I believe. Next year. There is not one Twin in the top five of any voting. There is a reason for that. Homers have tunnel vision. When players really earn it, they get noticed. Arraez will get in again. Because he earns it.

FREE BROOKS LEE !!!

Maybe trade Paddack for Rodgers?

7 drafts and there are none they have drafted that have become anything like a pipeline, or even contributed significantly for the Twins, at all, except Ober, and Ober is proving to be a question mark. And when they do pick a pitcher higher in the draft with the most potential, they trade them away. I will believe it when it actually happens. And not just hopefuls still in the minors. Trading isn't drafting. And if you trade them and they mature into someone we all wish we had (Gil), it is not of their doing. It just makes it worse, because they weren't clever enough to keep them. 7 drafts isn't "overnight".

Or from 3rd on no hit, no contact at all, but a wild pitch, which is just another opportunity that comes from extra pressure felt.

Now you are just trolling. Follow the chain-saw enema with rock salt! That will do the trick.

I was thinking the same. But both plays could have been made. Santana could have caught the ball like he did Miranda's throw late. And tonight, it was the right play to get to third, where a wild pitch even ties it again. It was just a play by Santana that many make, including him, and a great throw today. They wouldn't have even been in the games to have these opportunities without his offense these two games, either. I love it that he is in everything. He almost ended the game in the 9th, too, with the drive to the track after Miranda's homer!

Or give yourself a chain-saw enema. That will fix everything.

I think they are 14-7 in one run games. At least close to that, without looking it up.

Really? Not me. I hate the losing end of blowouts. I love competitive effort. That is what they are paid to do. To never give up. Right, Jimmy V?

Sure it does. It means they didn't give up, even though the manager had earlier.

Thanks, again, Baldelli. Great choices. NOT

Atta boy, Jeffers!!

Even giving up 2 hits, Jax would have had a 0 run inning without the fake baseball rule. I hate that rule. Siri hit a pitch that was at least 3 inches outside for a protect the plate single on the 8th pitch. Sure, he shouldn't have to swing at a pitch like that to protect himself from a bad call by the umpire, but it is a better hitter that can do that, and knows to do that, than watches the close one that the umpire misses like Jeffers earlier. Last chance now.....

Santana CAN grab a bad throw!

When he started with the string of yesterday's relief repeat, the game was tied. He has to use Jax in a tie game, now anyway! If they held the game at tied for the 8th and 9th, the game would be over with a Twins win. They weren't losing when the towel came in.