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  1. h2oface
    Pablo Day Lopez now with 3 really ugly starts and 2 very good ones. Bonafide Ace? Well, we need one. The Twins are so desperate to have one, they crown 'em way too early. April ERA now 5.49, 4.39 for the season. He made the 3-19 White Sox look pretty good. So far the so called "off" days are more common than good ones. He hasn't been able to string 2 good ones in a row, yet. Twins need to keep winning. The 3 above them are. Exciting walk-off.
  2. h2oface
    Well, it only follows that that MUST mean the Twins offense is just soooooo amazing and fearsome, then, right?
  3. h2oface
    The whole organization, at this point, is made up of losing teams. Hard to ignore. If it was a team that a Twins' fan disparages, they would take that as an even more convincing indicator about how horrible they are. Is is ignored when it is your team?
  4. h2oface
    That's kind of funny. I'm pretty sure that when you combine two players and figure batting averages it is still a percentage of the total hits divided by total official at bats. (not like OPS). But I didn't like it at all, either.
  5. h2oface
    "Duarte actually came to the Twins via the Rangers, who claimed Duarte off waivers from the Reds in January before designating him a couple of weeks later and losing him on another claim from Minnesota. The Twins then DFA’ed and outrighted Duarte off their own roster in February before selecting his contract just prior to Opening Day. Duarte will be moved to the 60-day IL when the Twins next need a 40-man roster space. If there is any small consolation to what has to be a rough setback for Duarte, he’ll at least bank a year of MLB service time because the injury occurred while he was on the active roster." Good for him. At least he got some money and service time.
  6. h2oface
    7-12. That's better than 6-12. Varland to the rescue? Baldelli is still pulling pitchers pitching well with 82 pitches, pinch hitting (which all moves failed) .100somethings for hot hitters. It almost all imploded. That meat by Jax that went to the warning track to end the game was pretty scary. 7-12. That's better than 6-12. It's all better now? Sure it is.
  7. h2oface
    Strider did it.
  8. h2oface
    Broken record.
  9. h2oface
    🤮 That was cheap. If Berrios was on a make it free agent year, his whole season might have been different. To assume that his 2022 season would have been the exact same results with a different team backing him and managing him is folly, and different consequences of his performance would be in play. It can't be known. The Yankees didn't trade Judge. They played out the year with him raking. The Braves didn't trade Freeman for prospects, and won a world series with him. A lot of teams keep one of their stars and get THAT value instead of what may be nothing, and cash in on the draft. This whole "you have to trade him to get (unknown) value in the future that could be 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 years later", or maybe never...... well, it doesn't happen more than it does. To say that ONLY analytics should be considered gets you a team like this one. I like high batting averages. I like to watch hitters and not strikeout kings looking for walks. I think a guy that consistently knocks in runs isn't lucky, but shines under pressure. I don't abhor analytics at all, I just don't think that it is the master of all decisions, especially when pre-scripted before the games with no consideration to what is actually happening in the game NOW. But I like homegrown players that work their ass off, and Berrios was one of them. So was Polanco. Morneau and Cuddyer won batting titles after cast off. Batting titles that many statheads like to pretend doesn't matter for the almighty OPS with 200 Ks. If only analytics worked so well, we would have repeated as World Champions by now. 🙃
  10. h2oface
    Optimistic. I would take 11-10 instead of 7-12. You are your record.
  11. h2oface
    Jax. I can’t watch.
  12. h2oface
    R R L R scheduled for 9th. Stewart? Jax is pretty scary. Both would be back to back. Score 5 runs and make it not matter
  13. h2oface
    Because cruising Bailey couldn’t throw more than 82 pitches, according to Baldelli.
  14. h2oface
    We have 4 runs and 6 hits. Quota and one over. The best bullpen in MLB needs to step up. That is probably it for the offense. Our bench hitters today were .088, .121, .127, and .179. But let them pinch hit!
  15. h2oface
    Amazing. Larnach is hitting, so doubt him and put in .100 something Mar-got-nuthin against platoon opps and of course switch pitchers anyway and bad platoon now, and no hot bat for the rest of game. Soulless analytic failure once more.
  16. h2oface
    I never understand throwing meat on purpose.
  17. h2oface
    Buxton looks like Mort from Bazooka Joe in black instead of red.
  18. h2oface
    Sting’s 60th birthday bash.
  19. h2oface
    Timing. Astros are 7-14 so far this season. 1 game under .500 worse than us. But point taken. Their run of success provides for reactions to be more lenient.
  20. h2oface
    I see the spelling police is selective and gives you a break on Kirilloff. 😇 4 years in…… and there would still be a lot of tickets on this site.
  21. h2oface
    As long as defense is on the table, I guess it is only fair for one to consider the 2 gifted runs by Detroit because of their defense, eh? 12 Ks and 5 hits rarely is adequate to win baseball games.
  22. h2oface
    And it seems Baldelli thinks the throw was the downfall of the play. Sure, the throw could have been better, but that is our 10 million dollar/yr Mr Defense catcher, that as long as he isn't hitting anymore, needs to make that catch on the hop. Look at all the throws he makes to second that hop and the infielders make the play anyway (like Vazquez's subsequent throw back to Castro that was 6 feet to the wrong side of the bag and Castro still made the play). I would hope our catcher(s) can handle throws like that. “We just have to stand up and make a good throw,” Baldelli said. “It’s an awkward part of the field, not a throw you make very often, but a play we have to complete.”
  23. h2oface
    Even with the Tigers gifting runs, our boys can't get it up. The losing culture starts with lackadaisical spring trainings. Soulless analytics lead to brainless managerial decisions. Our whole lineup begging for walks instead of practicing situational hitting. And tonight, the play that pissed me off more than any all season, and it didn't even really cost a run because of other inept hitting, was Buxton standing there begging for a home run and not a foul, and he didn't even start running, even with being in a horrible familiar Buxton slump, this time with fine knees. And the embarrasing moment got scored a hit on a ball that should have been easily caught. Pathetic. No need to go see them in Anaheim and suffer this year.
  24. h2oface
    You listening to the Piano Man, again? (I mean, I shouldn't use his initials, eh?)
  25. h2oface
    Why not? He is pitching great right now. Great results. Why not try something different and go with the hot hand instead of the just off the IL pitcher getting bombed? With no control. Throwing the ball away.......
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