Jocko87

Not a line drive, gold glove centerfielder with a great arm and no outs. I would rather ask, why would you expect him to score there?

LOL, Buck, Lewis and Correa all between 3rd and home at once.

That was almost more fun.

I'd say maybe one of those is close to right. That's a tough ball to read and if he's wrong Twins Daily will have a field day.

I've been wondering about Harry as well. I've been seeing him in centerfield a few times which is interesting. He's not hitting quite as much this year but seems a solid player.

Except nothing you said here is true or correct. This isn't how anything works but it's so fun to make random generalizations cloaked in internet anonymity. I'd be interested to read a blog post with some details supporting your theory though. It often helps to put it on paper to sort it out.

It's hard on nights like tonight but I'm a pragmatic optimist. Incurable. I see the rest of the league and am impressed by the way this team compares. They ain't perfect but this is also a game of failures. I see the most talented 40 man roster in my lifetime. AK might need a reset, who we got. Err, let's give Matt flipping Wallner a try. I see the pitching pipeline developing long before Zebby appeared and SWR learned 97. It does not matter if they were drafted or traded. We are close to being the Mariners and Marlins with extra pitching to pass around. That's nuts to a lifelong Twins fan but look around the league. I see the vision that gets them into the tournament with the best possible roster at the proper time. Complain about Margot and Farmer holding back the kids, but also look at the potential of the kids to play them out of those spots in September. (an extra year of control doesn't hurt either) We have very fresh evidence that Rocco will manage differently in a postseason game. It was crazy how those postseason games were managed like a game thread wet dream. Yes the moves we want him to make in June seem obvious but different things are important now and I know that I don't have enough information to know what they are. Would I have left Louie in? Absolutely, unless they shared some other information that would change my mind. As it is, I'm quite encouraged by Louie tonight. I'm probably a bit of a Bobo for Louie but I saw what I wanted tonight. Maybe they did too. I need to see them play to their potential starting pretty soon. Performances like this are concerning but we have seen far too many times in baseball that once it clicks, it clicks. This team has the potential to morph into the Atlanta Braves of a couple years ago. There. I said it.

Projection.

I haven't read the book but have seen some discussion about it. If the Angels disfunctional idiot GM is calling the dugout it makes sense why it didn't work there with Maddon. Maddon teaches a leadership series and has a long track record of the opposite behavior. I'm pretty confident Rocco is in the 50% making his own calls in an environment that he helped create.

Maybe we will get our Boushley.

And it ain't that either.

It certainly ain't ego.

Huh?

5-6-3. As expected.

Louie giving up some hard contact but all beat into the ground. Only one K and doesn't look like he's trying to strike everyone out on every pitch. Encouraging.

He's pitching! Not throwing!

Not Louie, he's busy.

Get it while it's hot.

I quit.

Two lefties in the Rockies pen, they can make them face three righties. One too many first basey types I guess.

The biggest difference from this and the last front office in this regard is that we are going to have a whole lot more interesting pitchers to chose from internally. They are very good at turning up the stuff.

I don't know what to say to that as an interpretation of my post. It doesn't help as much if you just shift the burden to the bullpen. They are trying to get 6-7 "free" innings from outside the room. That's also probably part of why they are doing it against the Rockies instead of the Yankees.