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  1. h2oface
    Wow. And this aside is what you are showcasing and got out of the many perspectives of that great post by @JAH? Regardless of one's opinion on Kepler's value - if you are a fan that is all about statistical value and the business, or one that enjoys continuity and loyalty above one or two year strangers with a statcast niche - the post had an insightful and interesting take on the whole Kepler discussion.
  2. h2oface
    How is life in a vacuum? 😇
  3. h2oface
    More writing Kepler off. Gets old every year, and every year you are all wrong. I hope he is a Twin for his whole career.
  4. h2oface
    No fan vote AND no player vote voted a Twin in. Mandatory pick by MLB goes to Correa. There has to be one from each team. He's the most famous for many reasons, and has very good numbers in the first half, finally, since becoming a Twin. Now he may need to let his wrist get some time off. I don’t have homer vision. There are no comparative all-stars on this team, when all the others in the game on all the other teams are considered. The cumulative baseball fans know it, and the players know it. "One month" Jeffers is not even close, yet. Some have had nice streaks, for sure. Replacement and mandatory must feel a bit cheap - to be on the team because MLB had to select at least one player from your team. I would think a player would want to have deserved a selection by the fans or players, and get to the game in a more respectful fashion, and replacement means exactly that, replacing the all-star that could not play. Maybe next year. I think some could sustain excellence and deserve it. Take off the homer blinders and get the big picture. We can still win without the "all-star(s)" on the team.
  5. h2oface
    And Baldelli benched the hottest bat in the game. Formula man.
  6. h2oface
    Wow. You think? No pitcher in the history of the game has ever purposely tried to hit the batter! Just ask them! Never. That would be totally unsportsmanlike and cowardly.
  7. h2oface
    Here’s hoping. This team notoriously doesn’t get runs for Ryan. No runs, and when he leaves with the small leads after 6-7 innings, the bullpen “deGrom’s” him and blows the lead. But there is always that hope…..
  8. h2oface
    Margo making 2 outs in the 9th.......
  9. h2oface
    Such a shame to lose this game. 12 runs scored. So many truly great things happened. Funderburk and Winder are not MLB pitchers. What a waste of innings and time. And Costly. Lopez is soooooo disappointing at home. This Pablo Day crap is just too much for him. He can't take added pressure it brings. So inconsistent. He has the potential, I guess. But he really sucks this year for the most part, minus a couple really great games. What a weird game this was. I felt it really turn when Vazquez couldn't come up with the "wild pitch" that a great defensive catcher does all the time and that he called...... and the ground rule double on the chalk that followed now scored 2 because of the runners advancing. Then the progression of Winder and Funderburk. Painful.
  10. h2oface
    Baffling. The guy is so hot, in the grove, and it would be a super low pressure at bat because of the 13-5 score. As low as it could be when it involves how each at bat now is pressure filled because of the streak/record. But to pinch hit? Because the 26 year old athlete, that is sitting down half the game on the bench between innings, could be ……tired? (correction: most of the game, as Miranda was DH) exhausted? really Baldelli? the great cooler? Because anything could happen before his next at bat...... like a rain out. Food poisoning. whatever. The time and momentum was then. Baldelli tries the "poor guys are tired" crap to spin it. "Those guys, they play virtually every day and they’re doing a good job,” Baldelli said. “In an eight-run game, they’ve been on their feet for a while. No reason not to get them off." Shame on the manager. You ask Miranda if he wants to hit, and listen to him. You don't get him off his feet because he has10 consecutive plate appearances with a hit !!!!!! And he is ready to set a record!!!!! Baldelli is so so so ...... the words that are not allowed to type here.
  11. h2oface
    Straight from the horses mouth. One day Paddack will get out of the paddock, and earn some respect...... I hope.
  12. h2oface
    Top pitching prospect, eh? Yikes.
  13. h2oface
    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-.
  14. h2oface
    Well, that says a lot right there about his value, doesn't it?
  15. h2oface
    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.....
  16. h2oface
    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.
  17. h2oface
    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.
  18. h2oface
    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.
  19. h2oface
    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.
  20. h2oface
    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.
  21. h2oface
    FREE BROOKS LEE !!!
  22. h2oface
    Maybe trade Paddack for Rodgers?
  23. h2oface
    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".
  24. h2oface
    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.
  25. h2oface
    Now you are just trolling. Follow the chain-saw enema with rock salt! That will do the trick.
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