Blyleven2011

Okay ill tell you this .... I live for opening day , everything in between and for great baseball in the playoffs and world series ... Not disappointed so far this post season , the games have been good , runs and defense and some very good pitching from some young inexperienced pitchers ....

Nice to send the Yankees packing though , a sweep would have been nice but might have cost boone his job , still might ...

Justctuning into Phillies and Dodgers game , Kepler batting , he sure looks different in that Phillies uniform , helmet almost looks to big ... Good to see the Phillies making a stab at staying in the hunt ...

He's had 2 good starts now in the playoffs , lots of young pitchers pitching important games , that Melton kid with Detroit , Misiorowski with the brewers , all are young and with little major league experience and doing very well ... Yesavage with Toronto too ...

There's been some bad managers yes , but Rocco being the twins manager just kept frustrating the diehard fans when he wouldn't deviate from the daily plan , it's just so hard to get used to this kind of baseball that just doesn't seem to work with this organization .... Pinch hitting Margot everytime he needed a right handed hitter is proof he and Falvey's plan wasn't working , platooning hitters in the past , he gave lefthanders alittle more leeway this season , but not against real good lefthanders ... Not stealing bases because Rocco said we weren't a team with speed , and the runners started to prove him wrong after the deadline stealing bases and making the games more exciting ... That beautiful bunt that Clemens did to score the runner from third was Clemens idea , he confessed he did not call it , ut was a perfectly placed bunt ... Bunting alitte bit more after the deadline when we had a speedy player on third and less than 2 outs .... What took so long to finally change thing up just a bit to make the game more interesting , even if we lose , it was more of an effort from the players to try and win ....

Hitting is contagious .... Detroit is capitalizing ...

MVP big dumper comes through , Seattle in charge ...

Seattle gets first blood , Crawford let two of those high pitches go by , mize comes back with same pitch in a pitchers count and gets him to chase , good call by someone ...

If , and that is a big IF rocco was to get another gig at managing , I sure hope it's in the national league , less I see of him the better i like it .

I didn't know he had a rubber arm , he's pitched alot lately and he went a inning plus last night and it wasn't good , is toronto's manager watching replays of varland when Rocco managed him .... May be a miss print , we shall see ...

No this story is trying to brace you for the most losses in the history of MLB baseball ... At the deadline we fans expected the team to trade the expiring contracts of coloumbe , Castro , Bader , France and paddack .... I also expected the twins to trade a couple of relievers , one of either Duran or Jax , Stewart was also an option to be traded .... But NOoooo , they tore our hearts out and traded the quality bullpen ... Now , this off season i can see the twins ( even though falvey has said he would like to keep them ) , trade Lopez , Ryan ( most likely request or demand a trade ) and if he is traded so is Lopez because we don't needed him on a rebuild ... If these 2 players get traded , I wouldn't blame Buxton one bit for opting out of his no trade clause to play for Atlanta Braves ... Now with these 3 players gone , Jeffers has value with a higher price tag in arbitration the twins probably would want to shed and I can see them signing Vazquez for his defense and smarts for 3 to 5 million in salary , if that doesn't happen we have pereda and Cardenas as our 2 catchers ... Now where they go , I have no possible idea , I do know that the teams Nelson suggested in these trades might not have the best talent in their system to get the right return ( but falvey may think so because he's great at dumpster diving ) ... If these pitchers and players are traded , please get some better quality prospects and major league ready players in return .... I don't have much faith in this being accomplished as they still haven't a plan in order as stated by falvey ... who cares what the payroll is , just get some talented players that will play some better exciting baseball than what we have witnessed the last 5 years excluding 2023 as they made a playoff appearance and won a few games ... Even the players the team sent to the AFL is kind of a joke , they practically sent players that are not even close to major league ready , I always thought the AFL was the last step before making the major league roster , not with this organization ....

Still alot of game left but 8 unanswered runs , defense hasn't been kind to Toronto tonight , Santander just reminded me of wallner ... Santander better redeem himself in his next at bat ..

1980 Royals swept Yankees in 5 game series ... 2012 Detroit swept Yankees in 7 game series ... 2020 Tampa swept Yankees in 3 game series ...

I looked up how many times Yankees has been swept in a playoff or world series ... I found dodgers beat them 4 games to zero in 1963 and Cincinnati beart them 4 games to zero in 1976 , both in world series , Still digging on any playoff sweeps.....

He has been teetering on the hot seat for some years , Damn , why did he leave varland in for another inning , when he's hitable , he's hitable , when he's awesome , he's awesome ...

You answered your previous question , I was watching the Seattle / Detroit game and tuned into Toronto / Yankees and I don't like what I see ... I looked at box score and saw varland gave up that homer , ouch ...

As most have said , I agree he is dropped from the 40 man roster and non tendered player , he is left handed and throws hard , I can see the FO signing him on a milb contract for depth , that's all he showed in his games with the twins .... If we lose him , no biggie , falvey loves to go dumpster diving ... There is quite a few players that shouldn't be on this team next year , I looked at the 40 man roster the other day and I counted over 10 that shouldn't be in the conversation for the twins in 2026 ..

Find a manager that doesn't use spread sheets during batting and on field practice , teach skills at this level with your eyes ... The organizations direction is unclear at this time , what a crock .... If they have no idea what the direction is from supposedly Falvey's statements which is always the long way around the barn with nothing productive said ... The direction of the team whatever the payroll is , is to take the talent from AAA and transition that talented player at the hardest level and groom that player to be a better talent ( that is where Rocco and his coaches have failed ) ... The organization always seems lost in the direction it should go ... The main reason you play a season of 162 games is to play in the world series , the desire to win is not seen in the falvey / rocco players ... You can't construct a team and hope they win enough games to draw fans to the stadium ... The pretending has to stop , the team needs to be constructed of talented players with the desire to win and be contenders ... Yes catchers have been highly regarded being very capable of being good managers ... Mike Redmond has some experience as a manager with a crappy Florida Marlins team and was let go because of a new front office making changes adding their personal ...

Twins need to get a good catcher that can hit and play solid defense ... Contreras is good , but not available ... There are a couple of good back up catchers that can hit and play defense , white Sox have two very good catchers , falvey needs to get creative and get it done , creative , his words not mine ( another of his phrases is wait and see , im tired of that one because i waited and saw at the deadline how he dismantled the bullpen )...

Misoroski at least didn't walk the lead off hitter , he throws hard but I heard them say he had 30 plus walks in 66 innings ...

Is bichette coming off the IL list soon ... Bader pulls his groin in first game and pinch hits in philles ninth inning and gets a hit , they love him there ...

Toronto is a good team and they have stomped the Yankees ... Gotta believe Toronto has the advantage but Yankees have done it before ...

Awesome Vaughn , tie game ... Im going with Brewers and Seattle in world series , neither has won it or amd Seattle has never been there ... Interesting games after 1 inning ...

On to Brewers and cubbies ... Cubbies draw first blood ..

It's turning out to be a nail bite, win or lose the Phillies fighting back is good ... They need this win or they have a big hole to crawl out of ...