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  1. Blyleven2011
    Urshela comes up clutch.... course you have to realize ursela was not a homegrown player , he was a Indian and yankee before the trade to Twins , he was not coached by falvys top professionals so his approach at the plate is different .. I rest my case on our top professionals hired by our top professional FO to develop our young players for situational hitting , covering the plate with a 2 strike count with runners in scoring position , garlick let a close pitch go by for strike 3 standing , and players not rrunning out everything ... kepler is a mess , he stood at home on a fair ball in front of the plate , just stood there and didn't run , UNACCEPTABLE and should be benched for not playing hard .... We got a good win because of Urshela and he has been consistent , I like Urshela of all the positional players we got in trades ...
  2. Blyleven2011
    I concur that he is not competent nor capable to lead us to the playoffs and win with his methods ,,,, Might have to wait awhile for the changing of the guards as the owners have been loyal in the past ... managers and coaches and of course our FO are drawing salary . If we performed our jobs with mistakes , we would be fired ... All their mishaps and they still have their jobs and that is where I find the humor .... I personally think the players might be alittle frustrated with Rocco and FO and their baseball methods , something is diminishing their talent , drive to win ... Remember San Diego quit on their manager last year....
  3. Blyleven2011
    In 2021 , in first half it seemed the twins didn't have any luck with the way the ball bounced ... 2022 it seemed like the twins were having luck with the way the ball bounced . , second half is alittle different , new York overturns a call at the plate in Toronto , Rocco's head and the coaches are not on the game as he sends pitching coach to talk to Sanchez and it ends up being the second visit and pitcher removed ( these are just a couple of recent examples of what seems like our luck has run out ) there has been more in the second half than the first half ( first half we got the ball to bounce in our favor ) ...
  4. Blyleven2011
    I DITTO this
  5. Blyleven2011
    Alittle extreme but I agree with the concept , the only performers on the team are the younger players Arraez , Miranda and Gordon because they want to stay in the major leagues and have something to prove , arraez has been in the league and has proved he should get a contract extension , So bringing up some prospects for a taste of the big is a good idea at this point ,,,. Something to get excited about to finish the season ...
  6. Blyleven2011
    Just alittle to late and just alittle short on runs, at least we avoided a shutout with runs in the ninth ... A big blunder again for the second year in arow from the entire coaching staff for not having their heads in the game on the mound visits , as odd as it was it was still a blunder ... if the coaches don't have their heads on the game , how do you expect the players to ... I rest my case ...
  7. Blyleven2011
    I also have to agree with mikelink45 ,,, we beat ourselves ... They can't seem to get on the same page , pitching solid 1 game , hitting stagnant , hitting scores more than 3 runs and pitching flops ...
  8. Blyleven2011
    The triple play was exciting , The Pitching was solid for ... The situational hitting wasn't good ... Buxtons injuries aren't good... That's how realistic positive I can, be ...
  9. Blyleven2011
    Injuries ... Good pitching ... Situational hitting not good ...
  10. Blyleven2011
    Nice article and I couldn't agree more that the leadership is lacking ,,, Last year when the twins were losing badly Falvey was never seen in an interview until the media called him out on it ,,, he never owned up to the responsibility of the twins play and let levine get the camera time with the media during the losing times in 2021 ... Now when the twins started winning in second half of 2021 and played better ball Falvey was back in the camera light , proud to be a representative of the twins, levine was never again interviewed ... Leadership does seem to be lacking along with their communications skills on eluding us ( the fans ) of their plan .... The plan , the plan , the plan .... Smiles everyone .... I noticed it hasn't gotten much better this year ....
  11. Blyleven2011
    To those that likes Rocco, GREAT ... To those that Don't like Rocco , GREAT ... Rocco played little league baseball and was taught the rules to play a certain way ... I'm sure he played , babe Ruth and legion and college and played the same way he was taught , he played mlb ball and I'm sure at the beginning he played the way he was taught as a youngster .... My point is if Rocco is going to remain manager is that he changes his methods and utilizes and implement old school baseball along with his analytical spread sheets ... steal , bunt , hit and run , hit behind the runners and move them into scoring position and situational hitting , 2 strike hitting , runners in scoring position , put the ball in play ,,,, RBI's, batting average still matter , strike outs suck .... I also think the Twins players have talent but the coaching staff does capitalize and tap into that talent and make them better players ... We know Rocco doesn't do enough fundamentals , even doesn't require players to take batting practice ... Have the players quit on Rocco ,,, it's quite possible , we had the pitching coach quit mid season and I thought that was low and not wait for seasons end ... We have had other coaches leave for other venues also ,,, some left for better positions but some left for the same position ,,, Maybe they didn't like the methods of Rocco but liked him as a person ....
  12. Blyleven2011
    WHERE'S THE BENCH ??? Did anyone notice we had 3 pinch hitters and all 3 struck out ,,, pathetic that 1 pinch hitter couldn't put the ball in play ....
  13. Blyleven2011
    I'm not totally sure about this but it appears that the players may not like the style of baseball that Rocco plays and their enthusiasm is waning ( no spark in line up sucks , how many times have we been shutout ) ... I know I would not like playing for Rocco ...
  14. Blyleven2011
    The first half or up to deadline of 2021 the twins were constantly blown out , they were not competitive games , they did start to play better the final 2 months that probably inflated the winning percentage ... In my eyes 2021 was the worst twins season of ball I have ever witnessed , even worse than the season we lost 103 games , there were alot of competitive games we lost that year .....
  15. Blyleven2011
    There better than the 2021 twins ....
  16. Blyleven2011
    What do we get if we're spot on ??? Varland , enlow , woods Richardson Wallner , Julien , Williams , bechtold
  17. Blyleven2011
    Have the twins received value ... ALOT MORE THAN 2021 , and you know who they were .... The laughing squad of the dumpster diving ....
  18. Blyleven2011
    What a box score ,,, Muti hits by many batters and 1 homerun .... Gray was on even if it was the royals .... 8 more wins to go for a 10 game winning streak and get the division lead back and keep it ...
  19. Blyleven2011
    Roger said please let's have a winning streak and I concur ... The time is now ... no excuses ...
  20. Blyleven2011
    A blowout of 10 runs or more would be great ... A 10 game winning streak would be better ... Management hasn't shown me any indication that they have learned their lessons ... Thanks for your thoughts , This is my story and I'm sticking too it ...
  21. Blyleven2011
    Makes perfect sense to split them up , it would also make sense to have a quality left handed starter in rotation to give opponents a different look because all are righties and are pretty much the same , ( average )
  22. Blyleven2011
    It was a competitive win between the teams ... Some have said that the royals are a AAAA team , if so then that is what the twins are because they are the only teams the twins can beat .... Let's hope kepler gets on a streak and starts hitting ....
  23. Blyleven2011
    The suspense in winning is exciting .... The obvious in losing is not ... Throws hard but gets hit hard ,,, Time for him to go , he reminds me of Ron Davis ...
  24. Blyleven2011
    No more sano .... Pick up option ,,,, Gray is adequate and in the price range for a #2 starter , not sure I would extend him as he has injury issues and hasn't shown enough to me to extend him , he's had a steadycareer ... Bundy , first free agent pitcher the twins signed before the lock out and everyone was beside themselves and I was one of them ... Actually I have come to like Bundys bulldog composure , yes he doesn't throw above 90 but man the guy gives it everything he's got ... I don't think Bundy is worth 11 million , buy him out for 1 million and renegotiate a 5 million deal for depth , otherwise let him go ... Bye bye sano
  25. Blyleven2011
    I DITTO every word ....
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