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  1. h2oface
    "......and you can find the video on your own." Now that is a sports writer with commitment!
  2. h2oface
    Getting runners on second and third with 1 out, and the double play (ironic) taken away, they are going for 2 runs, not 1. A soft single scores 2. not 1.
  3. h2oface
    Lopez and Lopez. What a waste. Especially when you look at what the players we gave up ane could have helping us instead this year. Falvey and Levine struck out big time. One is our new Colome, and the other is now the worst starter on the team. One just appears to have a panic attack when something goes amiss, and the other just will never be worth Arraez. Such a shame. Lewis should be a short when Correa is out. He should probably be a short when Mendoza Line hitting Carlos isn't out. This could get real interesting.
  4. h2oface
    Lewis looks like he should be a short instead of third. Might have gotten to the grounder that got through the infield on Farmer that led to the run. With Correa out, I really don't understand why he isn't.
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    I can't feel sorry for Correa. He dug his own grave. Only some of the Twins fans seem to now not care because he is on their team. And Houston fans don't care, because he was on their infamous team. The rest of baseball fans are not forgetting. Nor should they. The only thing he can do is perform, and this year, he has a long was to go. If he is soooooo good and smart, why does he start the last two years at the plate like someone that needs DFAd? And Miranda took him as mentor and is starting even worse. Perhaps he needs some help? Something is terribly amiss. Time to earn his salary all year.
  7. h2oface
    Especially with Baldelli pulling him with less than 80 pitches (and in situations like this he has earned to stay in the game in the past this season). Especially when 2 of the pitches in the said walk were actually strikes and not balls (1 not even close!), and mis-called by the sorry plate umpire. Abreau should have been wrung up looking on the 4th pitch. And the double was just the 4th hit in the whole game given up, and the only extra base hit, and was barely fair and not hit that well. I disagree that a starter with less than 80 pitches, in the 7th, doesn't deserve to put out the fire himself. 80, not 105. 80. You don't have to be a CY Young to deserve it. And certainly don't deserve to be disparaged. But then, even though I want to like Baldelli's decisions, I am definitely not a Baldelli apologist.
  8. h2oface
    Nobody that is a fan wants to not like what Baldelli does and how he manages. We all inherently want to be proud of him. He is all we have. I know I really want to like him, speaking just for myself. Unfortunately, repeated decisions like taking Gray out, the ERA leader in the show, or at least close (thanks to Stewart he was gifted a couple yesterday), with less than 80 pitches is just disrespectful to your pitcher. And when the Slam happens on a pitch so very middle middle....... You don't have to be gunning for him to be so very tired of his process. At least he let Duran pitch 2 innings. Redeemed? I don't know. Still very disrespectful to Sonny Gray.
  9. h2oface
    Great summary. One thing not noted - even with Duran not being used much this month, Lopez 23.0 innings/25 games, 337 pitches/14.65 pitches per inning, Moran 23.0/20/401/17.43, Jax 22.1/24/387/17.33, Pagan 21.2/20/370/17.08, and Duran 21.1/20/324/15.19, all have about the same amount of innings, Lopez and Duran the most economical amount of pitches. And no mention of what is the most important stat for a relief pitcher, at least for me, the true indicator of "relief" - inherited runners scored and the ratio.
  10. h2oface
    I want to add Joe Ryan as a highlight. Joe Cool just keeps on pitching so very well. And it seems that Pablo Lopez gets off the hook here, but he has become a major disappointment, especially for what the FO gave up to get him, and since signing his extension. It would be nice to see him perform. He is currently our #4 or even #5 starter.
  11. h2oface
    Maybe. Yet, they traded Arraez partly because there was no room for him to play in the field.
  12. h2oface
    Too bad we don't have one of the best centerfielders in baseball on the team to play in center. You know, like a platinum glove winner, or even a gold glove winner, and we have to play utility guys basically out of position.
  13. h2oface
    Why do the Twins have a 32 year old on the way down, no development involved at all, playing a key position like shortstop for the Saints?
  14. h2oface
    Still at 0.00! Jorge now at 3.68, and going for Pablo's 4.11.
  15. h2oface
    Great job, Brock Stewart.
  16. h2oface
    Toronto will steal second...
  17. h2oface
    Good place to bring in a Duran.... heart of the order and all 😇
  18. h2oface
    Baltimore was in contention for a play-off spot and didn't get a return that could help them right away, and went with Bautista, and they were better. They weren't buying Lopez.
  19. h2oface
    The Lopez dilemma. Doesn't matter which one.
  20. h2oface
    Are the high paid vets taking note?
  21. h2oface
    If you are going to use him with a 4 run lead, I guess it may as well be the heart of the order.
  22. h2oface
    yup. that's what I meant, of course. i will fix it. and unwritten policies are not made to be broken. 😇
  23. h2oface
    Puzzling use of Duran here. I guess he needs the work?
  24. h2oface
    For all the grief Moran gets, his ERA is now just under 4, and better than Pablo Lopez's. Of the 5 curernt starters, only Varland's 4.24 is higher than Lopez's 4.11. Gray 1.82, Ryan 2.21, Ober 2.55.
  25. h2oface
    Gallo on the way to the sombero today.....
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