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  1. h2oface
    Exactly. That is why it is not worth the time being an apologist for the plethora of bad trades by our FO. The ho hum, that's baseball, oh well, it happens training is working it appears. If the Rays can do it, (and Baltimore is doing it now, and they were got rid of Lopez to go to their better option, Bautista, because they apparently didn't buy into the fools gold and tried to fleece the suckers) so can they all, if they were good enough execs. Our FO is like our team now, they all tell us how good they are without acutal results to back it up. And many of our fan base are OK with that. So be it.
  2. h2oface
    Maybe another Lopez to go for the disappointment hat trick?
  3. h2oface
    This team likes to say how good they are, but you are your record. Goes to show that you can't just win with good pitching. Pays to have an Arraez and not be foolish and trade him away for a 4 ERA career pitcher and think he will be your savior, and all of the sudden be way better than he always has been. Pays to admit that you aren't as good at the plate as you think, and have some that can hit, too, and actually do, and not just talk about how they can. What the bats can say with accuracy, is they strikeout the best of any team in MLB.
  4. h2oface
    And neither was Jorge Lopez's. Half a season of good work for Baltimore, and the FO got Lopez drunk. Both Lopez;s have proven to be totally misguided. As well as Mahle.
  5. h2oface
    I don't know that that would have helped here. Arias was all the way into foul territory, too. There out to be a rule there like running into home. Lewis certainly wasn't a gymnast or diver. Once he pushed off with his hands.... TUCK! That was ugly. The Guardians injured Buxton and Lewis. Both careless performance that has no penalty. Sure they didn't mean to, but it should have some consequeces for the perp.
  6. h2oface
    "......and you can find the video on your own." Now that is a sports writer with commitment!
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. h2oface
    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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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?
  15. h2oface
    Great double play by Correa, but high baseball IQ for the basic "run right at the runner if he strands himself between bases" is something all little leaguers are taught (I would hope still). I think Correa does have a high baseball IQ, but I don't know that performing one of the basics properly means this was an example of that. Impressive DP nonetheless. “It seems like we're almost winning every game, but we can't finish it,” Correa said. “We have a really good team. We just haven't been able to put those clutch hits together in order to give our pitchers comfortable leads. There's still a lot of season left, but we've got to turn it on here pretty soon.” Real soon, and especially Correa at the plate. I like the confidence, but time to deliver. Talk is proving very cheap.
  16. h2oface
    Numbers. I do miss hits. Hits of all kinds. A couple of those singles after a couple of walks, and it means a run scores. But another walk just loads the bases, and we all know that is the kiss of death for this team. I like all hits. Even more than walks.
  17. h2oface
    YES!
  18. h2oface
    It is a crying shame that protecting the plate means you have to swing at pitches out of the zone to try to continue an at bat because of the inhuman aspect of the game that still hasn't been corrected - the umpire calling balls a strike when it isn't.
  19. h2oface
    That would be 0,0,0,1,1=2 total runs. Not much. Barely. Insignificant.
  20. h2oface
    Jorge Lopez' Monday blow up heart break in the 12th and gifting a loss to Pablo today seems to get ignored. Larnach just seems to give up on fly balls that look very playable. Didn't Buxton use to slide gracefully?
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  22. h2oface
    Game Changing. I have always been a Buxton apologist. Still am, I guess. But all this just makes me sad. Game Changing. If what Buxton does at the plate and running the bases (which includes not stealing to his potential, and he doesn't know how to slide any more! He is totally ungraceful and whether he goes feet first or dives and face plants & bounces) is all game changing means anymore, then it is really a shell of what it used to mean. It used to mean hitting for over .300 (sometimes well over .300), OBP of over .400, well over 100 RBI a year, 40+ homers, a cannon arm, 40/40 potential, etc. Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams..... Tony O, Mike Trout, Joe Mauer, Albert Pujols, Kirby Puckett, Frank Robinson, and years like Rendon and Goldschmidt and Freeman and Betts etc have. Several years. Buxton has had a few, and it really is just a few, game changing months, not years, and those months weren't better than months that guys like Colabello and many others have had at the plate for month long runs! I mean, let's get real. So now game changing is just batting in 120+ games and hitting .230ish, 30ish homers, stealing a few bases, OBP of around .340, and OPS in the .800s - maybe, and not playing in the field when you are perhaps the best center fielder and outfielder in the game, but are too afraid (?) to actually play the game? Just hit, and run the bases. That is what Buxton is being saved for. Not all-star numbers, but good numbers only if you think OPS is the only way to judge a batter now, and career .777 OPS is by no means elite. We could sure use more of a game changer than that, even just at the plate, if it is all Buxton is going to do, or is allowed to do out of fear of loss. Watching Buxton be a shell of what he could be, is really sad for me. I bet it is for a lot of Twins' fans. And next year he will already be 30.
  23. h2oface
    Yes. Anybody is going to be better than Hawkins. One for one trade?
  24. h2oface
    If you want to go diving....... Aaron Hicks has been DFA'd and may soon be available for pro-rated league minimum. But do you? Want to go diving? He would fit right in with Correa's up the middle offensive production, and Aaron could even go to the Carlos Correa School of Off Season Mentoring so he is ready to bust out of the gate next year like Correa and Miranda were this year. 😇
  25. h2oface
    Once again, the prognosticators all go with the shiney new object, and declare Lee the top prospect. I believe Royce is saying "bite me" with his performance, and at the higher level than Lee, too.
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