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  1. h2oface
    Winder coming out after the second rain delay? I can get on board after one. But the second was just not smart for so many reasons. Counsell knows better. Baldelli? Still learning, l guess.
  2. h2oface
    If Mahle is on our team, at least his wildness can't break Buxton's hand again. https://www.ballysports.com/news/buxton-s-bad-luck-twins-star-shelved-again-has-broken-hand https://www.mlb.com/news/byron-buxton-left-hand-injury-twins
  3. h2oface
    Did Celestino get an assist on Seager's homer for pushing it over the fence?
  4. h2oface
    I wanted David Robertson, who the Cubs signed and is having a fine comeback after injury year, to be signed as a free agent after I saw him pitch last summer in the Olympics. Now he will cost some prospects instead of just $ to get him from the Cubs.
  5. h2oface
    It is pretty amazing to me, no matter your great defensive skills, speed, or how many homers (and 23 before the break is not really that unusual.....) that you can have an average of .215 (basically the worst of your career), only have an OBP of .295, a K% of 28.5, ..........and still be considered an all-star. I was listening to a couple ESPN guys discussing all the pitchers that did not make the team, and that was because there are just so many really good pitchers right now. I wish the FO would use their infamous pitching identification talents and get some of those on the Twins. After all, since there are so many, it would seems we deserve a couple, just from the randomness of it all.
  6. h2oface
    I see Hamilton is practicing up for a late inning role on the big team........
  7. h2oface
    Maybe not to you. I they mean a ton to the players and the team. And it tells me a lot about the player, especially the player that has a lot of RBIs. It means somebody stepped up to the plate with runners on, more pressure, and shined in the clutch when the opportunities presented and got them accross the plate to score the run. I guess assists in basketball and hockey are uninteresting to you, too? And the long throw from the outfield. It means nothing? It is just the assist. The put out is the end product, and the only thing important?
  8. h2oface
    How does one know what he is capable of? Seriously? We have all seen what he is capable of. Many times. Is it really that unrealistic to think that the guy should/could be performing even half as good as he is capable of at the plate, instead of 1/10 as good in these long stretches? I don't think it is. He is almost hitting at the Mendoza line for average, and that includes about 6 weeks of "the best player in baseball"! That is really really bad to bring those streches down to what it is for the season.
  9. h2oface
    It is sad that so many great offensive and defensive performances keep getting buried by the sorry bullpen.
  10. h2oface
    His lows drag him down to a mendoza line type average for the year. Not even hitting around .250 with the great streaks. Very disappointing, Consistentcy and average still count a ton in my book. He is striking out like Sano now. I guess his "injury" has to be a secret of sorts, for some reason.
  11. h2oface
    Thoughts on a Grey Gray Day. Just Beautiful. So Beautiful.
  12. h2oface
    Forget trading for a bat. Go get Hunter Greene. They should have just drafted him. Trade the prospect house. It would be cool. You know, Lewis/Greene and Correa/Buxton. One two, one two. The Reds don't need him, right?
  13. h2oface
    Looks like a very "Gray" day tomorrow in Texas. https://www.mlb.com/gameday/twins-vs-rangers/2022/07/08/661843#game_state=preview,lock_state=preview,game_tab=,game=661843
  14. h2oface
    What happened to Sano today? Did he need the day off after that lowest level 0-4?
  15. h2oface
    Yes. But...... I like the guy's composure, and 85 pitches, 7 base runners, 8 with hitting Garcia, 2 earned on the walk dinger and a gift unearned on his own pick off attempt and double, but if he is a goer after 4 with only 85 pitches, he is the guy that I let go and see. I guess it could have been worse than a Pagan 5th, but I still see. Don't forget his COVID break, either. He got blasted. Physically. Maybe he was cooked anyway, and he was ready to sit. I don't know. It is hard to know who is calling the pitches, too, with the whole wrist electronics. I at least see, with the bullpen ready if I pull him after the first batter or two. I dread the pen getting 5 innings...... or 4...... or 3.........or................. you know? Give him a chance to be "the guy". Last push. There was some great offense out there today. From our guys, too. Seems a bit forgotten. These games must be ultra painful to the team.
  16. h2oface
    You might have to quit writing these resurrection supportive articles about players and managers. They all seem to elicite the wrong trend immediately.
  17. h2oface
    I he develops an eye, and plate discipline, (horrible K, chase, and BB rate), he could have a respectable OBP and learn to use his speed, which will be on the decline, before it is not speed. I wish he woud learn how to steal bases again. He is pretty bad this year, so much so, that he only has 6 attempts. He is a very nice utility piece.
  18. h2oface
    Sano who?
  19. h2oface
    See. Pitchers aren't really that good. It's just the bats didn't get any hits this series when they were pitching. Same with Bob Gibson. He wasn't that good, either, it was just that other teams didn't get many hits on the days he pitched. Lucky.
  20. h2oface
    Correa is just going to bolt, anyway. They should be playing him every single game and more. Get your 35 million worth. Same with any other 1 year contract or expiring contract. Baseball really isn't that grueling. If they all spent time stretching, even on the bench, bench yoga, they would all be able to stay on the field more and not pull and rip all their muscles so often, etc. Even if you only get paid a million a year, you get to play baseball in the show and get paid for it. Not that hard, really.
  21. h2oface
    How many games of heroic offensive performances in the last couple inning were wasted by this our pen? It almost makes one forget how clutch and special they were, because the pitching staff blew them all up.
  22. h2oface
    We are barely a .500 team, and barely not for June. And Archer is our pitcher of the month? Yikes. Sometimes you just sit on the award, and don't have a pitcher of the month. But that is the thing these days. Everybody gets an award, regardless.
  23. h2oface
    Who needed Tyler Wells, anyway? Had to make all that room for the dumpster diving arms that shockingly didn't pan out. Pitching identification. That's the ticket. Tyler Wells takes care of the home team now.
  24. h2oface
    I still bet on Berrios. 3 months of struggling (and he crushed us) up and down games. It could all be evened out by the end of the season, and the Jays in the playoffs. He is pitching in the show, the only team that really matters. Our guys still may never make it there. They haven't even advanced, in a whole year. I like your optimism, though.
  25. h2oface
    Naaa. It is never how the game is managed, your are unreally correct. As bad as our bullpen is, and it is horrible, I think we are not Oakland, and there is a bit more accountability, but you can have it your way. Baldelli is not responsible for his choices and timing et al during the game. All on the FO. Every bit of it.
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