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  1. h2oface
    Plus........ Alcala could have had a problem with his fingers, or his arm, or his groin, or his hammy or or or.......and been removed because of injury, or suspected injury, and then the reliever gets all the time he needs to warm-up on the pitchers mound! Pretty simple, really.
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    You must be watching different games than I am. Thielbar is used up. Totally. He might have a couple lucky games yet, but that doesn't change anything. To keep Thielbar is just not smart.
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    I wish our offense would hit to the game like Jack Morris would pitch to the game. Funny how I was almost expecting a Grand Slam from Lewis with the bases juiced. That was the moment to pounce. Cleveland just keeps winning since they took the last two of our series. Winning the series is great, but time is running out. I sure hope Duran can become dominant again. Seems like very batter is making some contact against him during their at bats.
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    Gone. Minor league deal with the Cubs
  5. h2oface
    Absolutely. Never backhands. And with sitting on his ass style, can’t move fast enough to. Over and over. Doesn’t help him throw to second, either.
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    Yes. Two years ago it truly was. But even last year, and certainly this year, even with the pitches and velocity he has, almost every batter, even if they don’t get hits, make some contact against him. And a lot of good contact, even if it is foul. K rate way down. Why is that? I hope Duran and the staff figure it out. At this point, he is a crap shoot. Definitely no where close to a sure thing. Definitely no where close to Clase. Duran struggling in non save/lower pressure situations? Duran is struggling in tie game and save situations. But hey, we got Richards now!
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    It is inexcusable that every MLB batter can't bunt great. They have months off each year to do it. Access a batting cage, set the pitches slow, speed them up, AND LEARN HOW TO BUNT GREAT! I can't remember what stud it was on the other team that bunted against us in a situation like this (Yelich, I think) and won the game for them. No excuse whatsoever. Especially a guy like Castro who has speed. But even a plodder like Larnach can lay a well placed bunt and drive in a run while he gets thrown out.
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    FO has forced themselves to have no pitching. Even when they have had the opportunity to go for the current draft's best, they never do. Hunter Greene. Yeah, I know who they picked instead. That's not the point. They are not forced to do anything. They do it because they think they are so much smarter and it will finally sometime probably work out. I hope it does before some of us are dead. Hype means nothing. Predictive stats don't win games. No reason not to expect the prospects to excel. Some do right away. After all, the FO claims they know pitching. It is one thing to be so chest puffing proud about your low picks, and another for the MLB staff to actually show they were smart. Maybe it will come.
  9. h2oface
    Sweet. Just in time for 2024 Seth Lugo. Make him earn it right away. I'm all for it. Isn't it about time the Twins really get a pitcher that is young and shocks MLB and becomes an instant star? I think it is high time.
  10. h2oface
    Using expected results instead of managing, is why you keep seeing Baldelli use 0'fer Margot pinch hitting. How do you like those actual results?
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
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    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.
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    "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.
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    Doesn't Farmer need another 30 days in the rehab? What? He reinjured the injury? Damn. I guess we just have to wait longer.
  16. 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.
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    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.
  18. h2oface
    I hope they saved some runs for the close games.......... Gotta keep wining, because KC and Cleveland just keep rolling.
  19. 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.
  20. 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
  21. 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?
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
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    Should have saved those lonely two runs from yesterday for today........
  25. 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.
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