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  1. Blyleven2011
    Good to hear that a few of our new draftees are making there debut , we drafted quite a few pitchers , they will probably bring them along aliitle slower ... It seems to be the norm for drafted pitchers in their first year of professional ball ...
  2. Blyleven2011
    I'm not ready to give up on larnach yet , yes He has some flaws to work on with the off speed pitches ... He not over the hill yet so the young dog should learn new tricks , he just needs to identify the pitches better , his defense looks better this year but the off speed pitches are his worst enemy , larnach should go to driveline this winter to work on his hitting , a fresh approach with a different voice just might be the key to unlock him into a pretty good player , if he fails from driveline and with the Twins next year , then it is time to move on .... Are you listening Trevor , driveline is almost on your backyard ...
  3. Blyleven2011
    If you remember , last year we were not contenders and many fans didn't want to trade prospects because we were just in first place , first place but not contenders , the trades failed and we dropped out of first place , was it injuries or just bad baseball ... This year we are better , starting pitching is solid , hitting seems to be coming around lately and I don't see the FO making any significant upgrades , trading or dfa veteran players is possible , Let the young players and prospects play the game , Yes we gave up a bundle for J. Lopez and mahle at last years deadline ... I agree that somethings do click sometimes when a player is traded to another team , a different voice may help ( cano ) ...
  4. Blyleven2011
    Name one .... You'd guess wrong ...
  5. Blyleven2011
    Hope it works out for Jorge being close to the family .... He cost us a bundle , an Allstar Cano, a prospect pitcher and other fringe players and now we trade for a rental player floro .... Boy is the pressure now on floro to succeed or the fans are going to roast him ( or maybe the FO should be roasted ) because of the cost to get Lopez at deadline last year ... Can we win with this FO or manager , I've been waiting , waiting and waiting ... It's like the energizer bunny only in reverse ....
  6. Blyleven2011
    Great to see 2 come from behind walk off wins at home ... Maeda continues to surprise me with his consistency since coming back from his injury , I was clamoring for maeda to be in the bullpen but it looks like the right move as he keeps us in the game .... Still some work to do if the Twins are to be taken seriously as a contender , they have played better since the allstar break and I hope they continue to do so ... As of yesterday , cleveland and the twins hadn't signed their first round pick in 2023 ... hope they sign walker Jenkins ...
  7. Blyleven2011
    You don't always hit pay dirt , but if you don't try it will never happen .... I would be in favor of trading sonny Gray for a substantial prospect and some A ball players ... We traded berrios for 2 AA prospects , has it worked out , not yet , nor has it been a flop as of yet ... Kepler or Gallo would be nice to part with , Kepler has more trade value but is a streaky hitter ,, Gallo , I wouldn't think you would get much ... Polanco is valuable to the twins and I wouldn't be shocked if he was traded regardless of his low value coming from an injury ... I'm not afraid to take chances and let the young players and prospects play their game ...
  8. Blyleven2011
    That is my first thought ... I like sonny but if we can get great value for him at the deadline I say do it because teams over pay for pitching in deadline trades , losing petty to the trade for Gray might help get some decent pitching prospects in return ...
  9. Blyleven2011
    It was a team effort in the ninth through the twelfth .... I was listening while driving ( nothing illegal about that i hope ) , boring game listening to the twins for eight innings , putting runners on base and failing to capitalize on scoring , 15 runners in scoring position and 10 plus strikeouts through 8 innings , the offense did manage 13 hits and 7 walks for the game so offense is starting to hit again but not in the clutch ... Some have posted they are on the bandwagon again , as a true twins fan I have never fell off the bandwagon ....
  10. Blyleven2011
    If roster is managed properly the team can win the division and playoff games ... If is the definitive word ... I just dont see this team being managed the right way to succeed to win against the better teams , we build a solid pitching rotation but ignore the bullpen and lineup , ( traded away 2 decent hitters last off season ) , replaced them with below average hitters as of now but with better defense ... The FO and coaching is not fundamentally sound in constructing a winning formula ... Cruz with no experience in coaching is not an option as a manager as of now , maybe later ... Look what an experienced manager like bochy has done for the rangers , they too have dealt with injuries and seem to keep winning to hold first place ... Experience is very important and our current FO and coaching had no experience as head of operations coming into the twins operation , the twins owners felt a change was needed and this is the change we bargained for , I THINK NOT .... it's how you play the game that counts , those that take a WIN anyway they can get it is only asking for a let down .... Quality baseball wins , Quality leadership matters .... Quality leadership that takes accountability for the construction of a roster ...
  11. Blyleven2011
    Good game to stay up and watch , lots of action ... Julien and Kirilloff's hitting is fun to watch , Correa heating up as the number 1 batter , Kepler is streaky and making a claim to stay on the team or adding value for being traded ... Ober didn't have a good 1st inning and I thought we might be in for a long night , he managed very well through the next 5 innings ... Thanks twins for a deciding victory , it was a team effort ....
  12. Blyleven2011
    We all feel for buck and as he plays he most certainly is playing at less than a 100 % ... His injuries last year have definitely changed his swing as he swings through to many pitches with an upper cut , he needs to level his swing some to make better contact , I agree with others that he needs to look at his past years when he was driving the ball and hitting lots of doubles , even lots of singles that he turned into doubles , he is definitely not 100 % ... The front office just might be okay with buck swinging for the fences so he doesn't have to run hard around the bases .... I also agree that he should go on the IL list and rest his injuries and then rehab to correct his timing and approach and be ready for September and possibly help the twins win the division ... Buck needs to level that swing for netter contact , but again maybe the FO doesn't want him to change , it's their style and interpretation of baseball to play for the once in a blue moon homerun ...
  13. Blyleven2011
    The final at bat was jeffers and he never swung the bat , went down looking , no killer instinct after keplers 3 run homer ...
  14. Blyleven2011
    Grays one bad inning has been a trade mark of his this year , seems like the fifth or sixth inning he gives up a crooked number ... Buxton chewing gum during his at bat's looks like he's chewing his cud like a cow , no adjustments in his swing , that upper cut has been his downfall the past couple of seasons , His swings needs to level out to make contact better .... No comments on whether it was a winnable game or not .... My comment is the twins just can't seem to put together a long winning streak ...
  15. Blyleven2011
    Good start to the game than nothing until 8th inning homerun by Gallo , twice the opportunity was there through the middle innings , 10 hits but not at the right time , 14 strikeouts not at the right time either ....
  16. Blyleven2011
    I'm listening right now to gladden giving the lineups ... I'll be listening and maybe watching all the way to the final out tonight ... Let me tell you about the best game I ever saw as a youngster ... Doubleheader at the old met stadium , twins are playing the Oakland A's 1971 ... Twins win the first game 9-8 ... Nightcap , twins are losing 8-7 two outs bottom of tge 9th with rod carew at second base , and who is up to bat but Harmon Killebrew , who do you want up in that situation but Killebrew , Killebrew gets the pitch and the fans roars as the ball is heading for left center and looking like a homerun , Joe rudi climbs the fence and takes away a homerun with a fantastic catch , twins lose but that was the best game loss I ever seen , Why was it the best game I ever saw , Killebrew gave it his all that night and almost won the game , his all just wasn't quite enough with Joe rudi a great left fielder catching it .... Greatest loss , I tell that story alot to baseball fans .... Best win I ever seen was 1991 , game seven of the world series ... other great memories and stories and there are tons but a few here was Jim kaat hitting homeruns to win the game he pitched all nine innings , a game with Tovar and carew stealing 5 bases in 1 inning and that includes both stealing home in the same inning ... Not to be negative of today's game but that was some exciting baseball back then ...
  17. Blyleven2011
    Oh I do listen and watch and yes I would like to get to the playoffs and play quality baseball , but I would rather have a team that is hitting on all cylinders and that hasn't been the twins way of late .... I am a loyal twins fan and don't miss alot of games , I dont like posting negative responses but the past 3 years there hasn't been alot of positive baseball from the twins organization , therefore I won't get my hopes high for a central division crown only to have those hopes come crashing down .... If they win , great and anything can happen , see 1987 twins world series winners .... I hope you can tell me at the end of tge season that I was wrong ... Go twins ...
  18. Blyleven2011
    I just can't raise my hopes only to be let down , so if they do win the division and finally win a playoff game, I will tip my hat to them ... I have been a life long fan since the old met stadium days and the last 3 years it has been a nightmare stuck on ground hog day ....
  19. Blyleven2011
    We have to get past the deadline first , Before we can talk , are the pitchers built for October ... A couple of starters could be traded at deadline for a return of prospects ... I see us seller's with no chance they can even win the division ... The hitting has not performed well enough as the pitching goes to waste .... I would rather not make the playoffs only to embarrass us once again ....
  20. Blyleven2011
    This front office has tried and tried to build the twins , they have really failed , they fix the starting rotation , but fail to fix the bullpen .... They trade a great hitter ( spark plug of the team ) and lineup falters in 2023 ... They are not good in free agency ( adding below quality arms ) because they dont want to spend big money and they haven't done to well in the trades ( some good during the off season , but most trades have been a disaster especially the deadline acquisitions ) ... We should be sellers at the deadline , the twins can't right the ship by August 1st to be contenders because they can't score runs ... Last night's allstar game the players all had fun and laughing. , something I have not seen from our club the past 3 seasons ... Yes a change is necessary , for some players but mostly the coaching philosophy on their interpretation of baseball needs to change .... TIME FOR DIFFERENT VOICES ...
  21. Blyleven2011
    Push overs usually do ambush us ...
  22. Blyleven2011
    Week in reverse ... Win 3 and lose 3 , will hover around 500 for the remainder of the season and finish below 500 and for 3 seasons in arow the window of opportunity has been wasted ... For years we have had no pitching , now we have the pitching but no hitting , hard to believe the lineup will turn it around in the second half and be contenders ... We've seen 80 plus games , they are who they are unless some changes are made in their philosophy of baseball .... I don't think the FO really has a plan anymore because the lineup definitely doesn't show like it has a plan ... Another week in reverse and more to come , a 15-2 loss going into the break just killed any momentum ....
  23. Blyleven2011
    I'm just going to wait and then bash or praise the pick ... Get it right and I agree don't get cute , we have to build our mid market team with high quality players ...
  24. Blyleven2011
    Yes it has ended similar to last year only earlier this year.... Worst plan I have ever seen , FO is trying to follow the plan like the movie moneyball and they aren't succeeding, but the aberration is they believe it IS ... WHAT A CROCK ...
  25. Blyleven2011
    Atlanta's pitchers also have had time on the IL , some long , some short .... Injuries ; My impression is depression ...
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