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Vazquez keeps calling the breaking pitches. Slow learning curve.

And a called K on a plenty low fastball finally. This ump is horrible.

11 off speed in a row

5 curves in a row called to Isbel. The only strike was a miscalled ball.

Vazquez loves to call the off speed stuff.

KC's manager didn't throw in the towel down 5 after 4.

Lopez contract drunk. 4 games and he was anointed - all of 4.

Is 2 outs more important than a run? Is 1 out more important than a run scored? Never in my book.

Kyle Gibson is having a nice start, too. Can't figure out how to do the tables' pasting. But the above was a great game, and he is 4-0 with a 3.93 ERA in 34.1 innings. 3 really good starts and 3 not so good, The next start he had 102 pitches in 4.1 innings. https://www.mlb.com/player/kyle-gibson-502043?stats=gamelogs-r-pitching-mlb&year=2023

Yes. I have read that there is a bag of both on the back of the mounds.

exactly

66 pitches and Mahle is done.

At the start of today's games, there were 175 batters that qualified with enough PAs to be in the Stat list of MLB. Only 4 Twins qualified, and the default stat for ordering is now OPS. You had to go to the 4th page of 7 to find the first Twin, Larnach, at #85 and .746. Taylor was the next on the 5th page of 7 at #107 and .705. Then Miranda on the 7th page, #152 at .628, and Correa at #159 of 175 and .608. No other Twins' hitters had enough PAs to even qualifiy,

Not one Twin in the lineup batting in the .100s! Things are looking up. Kepler has been hitting, and Correa is attempting to be at .200, but the Royals have 5 in the .100s and 6 of 9 .200 or lower! Yikes.

There certainly needs to be a standard that is not subjective, that is for sure, whatever the substance is, or becomes. It would seem to me to have it on the balls out of the box. Develop the balls with the help of the MLBPA and if they don't like a ball they get a different one.

Thanks much for the summary. I figured many were on the IL (6) or rehabbing and many were pitchers not pitching that day (7). So really only 6 of the top 20 that can't develop right now. Injuries are burtal.

Update story in Sports Illustrated. No mention that the umpire told him to use alcohol. And the official seems to be not much of an "official". There is no plans to change anything at this time. Stickiness is allowed until the umpire says it is too much, with no criteria other than.... "that is too sticky now, in my opinion, and i am the Power". Not a great standard to base a rule on. But then, it is similar to guessing at the strike zone that has no visible boundries and calling balls and strikes. https://www.si.com/mlb/2023/04/26/mlb-suspension-max-scherzer-truth-behind-sticky-substance-stickygate “Pitchers can’t use soap and water because it softens the tissues of the fingers, and that’s how you can get blisters,” Boras says. Describing his actions, Scherzer told reporters, “I am in front of the MLB official that is underneath [near the dugout]. I wash my hands with alcohol in front of the official.” The “MLB official” near the dugout is a part-time seasonal employee with no administrative authority. The official is a gameday compliance monitor (GCM) who is “responsible for monitoring and reporting Club compliance with gameday requirements, as well as providing support to the sign stealing and use of electronic devices enforcement program,” according to an MLB job posting description. GCMs are paid $27.50 per hour. They are eyes and ears only for MLB. They report any violations but do not intervene."

Wichita box link doesn't work. Use this https://www.milb.com/gameday/cardinals-vs-wind-surge/2023/04/26/728730#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=728730 Salas and Cavaco looking pretty ugly. Always seems strange to me to see 13 of an organizations top 20 prospects not on the field developing,

I totally disagree with it, unless they are a total rental and a one of start or relief and then you have to DFA them anyway for roster spot. Eat innings? If you don't have a staff that can absorb a bad outing you are in trouble, anyway. This was a winnable game early, Even at 5-0 it was just after 3. Your team needs to cover for each other, not sacrifice them.

I don't see how that would be a solution at all. It could stick for one pitch and not the next or the one before because you grabbed the rosin bag again. How would a player know the right amount, the right mixture of sweat and rosin?And if you feel it is too much as you sweat more, you wipe it off on your pants, or it gets on your glove. Sure, the way it is now is ripe for abuse, but you could not be meaning to abuse the the use and do anyway. If rosin is legal, it should be legal. Or don't have it legal, but it should not be subjective. With what you propose, it would be variable with each pitch as sweat changes or you went to the legal rosin bag one too many times. The fact that the pitcher did what the MLB official told them to do and used alcohol to clean it off, and that caused the increased stickiness, and then they get ejected (and suspended perhaps) for what it caused, is ludicrous.

No Baldelli presser included today? At least not yet. He has some 'xplain'n' to do..... I so hate when the manager throws in the towel in the 4th inning. Maeda should have not even started the 4th, maybe the 3rd. He didn't get one out, anyway in the 4th! That was still a winnable game until he just quit trying to win it.

Headrick did contribute to Maeda misery giving up the homer and letting an inherited runner score in front of his. I score it 9 for Maeda and 2 for Headrick.

Giving up on a game early with only 5 runs down is just a total f you to the home fans. Giving up on games early does matter.

There goes the all important run differential.......