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  1. Alex Wilde
    Since Jax's last clean outing on JULY 23rd against the White Sox 8.1 innings 15 hits, 2 hit batters, and 3 walks WHIP of 2.4 7 earned runs 3 of 4 home runs given up on the season He had an unlucky stretch at the beginning of the season, but this has been a stretch of straight-up terrible pitching. What are we doing here giving him high-leverage outings right now? Please give me Pagan over him every single day right now.
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    Jax’s WHIP in his last 7 games: 1.89 Duran’s WHIP in his last 7 games: 1.74 with 5 earned runs Gray’s last inning was 8 pitches with 2 K’s against their 3,4, and 5 hitters. He was at 80 pitches. At a minimum, just let him start the next inning and if you want you can take him out after a single base runner. I guess you have Monday off but still, you had to use your best four relievers in a game in which you easily could have used two.
  4. Alex Wilde
    How can you take Gray out after 80 pitches and that many swinging strikes? I understand his track record isn’t great this year a third time around, but geez give the man a chance in the 7th. The moment he lets a base runner on you can take him out. You just used your best four relievers to win a game in which your starter went 6 scoreless and could have easily gone another inning. The bullpen usage will continue to bogle my mind. On a side note, Jax is back to being unreliable and Duran is giving up way too many hits. Not a good recipe heading down the stretch with a thin bullpen as it is.
  5. Alex Wilde
    Should have kept Ian Hamilton and could have easily signed Nick Anderson both for the league minimum and they would be the 3/4 guys in the BP right now after Duran and López. There young guys are not developing and Jax is a mess.
  6. Alex Wilde
    I’m glad you had a crystal ball to see into the future. The vast majority of folks praised this trade at the time because they were clamoring for starting pitching. Hurt when they traded for him? He had shoulder soreness and everything pointed to fatigue after not having a spring training just like the majority of major league pitchers last year (Sonny Gray perfect example). They gave up an average at best 3B (no spot on this team), a bat only DH (plenty of other options on this team), and a High A pitcher who may never see above AAA. PLEASE go find something else to complain about.
  7. Alex Wilde
    It has to be Miranda. He needs low leverage at bats every day to get his confidence back and he needs some more reps at third to get more comfortable there. His arm has looked terrible too so hopefully he can work on building up his arm strength a bit at AAA. Castro can ride the pine as often as you need him. He is still a valuable asset because he switch hits, can play any position, and he can pinch run at the end of games.
  8. Alex Wilde
    What is Rocco doing by even letting Maeda pitch today? He should have been on the IL immediately after getting hit in Boston. He should then be in the bullpen the rest of the reason when he is healthy. This is getting ridiculous. He is a 36 year old free agent after the season.
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    Does anyone think we could use Coulombe now with his 0.5 WHIP and 1.5 FIP in 9 innings pitched…? Moran and Alcala should both be at AAA and our long reliever will be a rotating door all season long. The FO needs to stop overthinking easy decisions by choosing “their guys” over proven players.
  11. Alex Wilde
    And at the time of the trade it was praised by just about every outlet as an overpay for Berrios and that the Twins “stole” SWR as Martin was headlining the trade. It’s easy to go back now and want different prospects from the Jays or even a different organization, but hindsight is always 20/20.
  12. Alex Wilde
    As if Berrios has been anything but a #5 starter over the past year or so?
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    Have Polanco bunt over the runners so your worst hitter right now (Miranda) has to hit in the biggest spot of the game? I don’t mind the decision I guess because then Gallo gets a chance atleast. Either way you can’t come up and swing at the first pitch off a wild pitcher who already walked a batter and that’s besides the point being down 1 in the bottom of the ninth….don’t you always take until you have a strike at that point? Dumb throw by Larnach making the winning run possible anyways. The Twins are not getting beat, they are losing these games on their own.
  14. Alex Wilde
    I would have liked to have seen Alcala instead of Moran there in the ninth, but that is a seemingly minuscule critique of an otherwise outstanding performance all around!
  15. Alex Wilde
    Great game overall for most of the team! I have to be a little negative and say that Cole Sands is straight BP and Coulombe should be in the bullpen over him. The one wrong move by the FO so far this season.
  16. Alex Wilde
    I agree with your take to an extent, but you can’t bring up other sports that have set time constraints for the games themselves because the comparison does not match up at all. Those rules are in place so that teams don’t use up the entire clock before a snap or shot, where as baseball is simply trying to speed up game play.
  17. Alex Wilde
    Eddie sucked for the Indians and was traded away for literally nothing. We know who he is and he gets hot for a bit and it happened to be in the playoffs for the Braves. So what? If it wasn’t for injuries, Royce and Larnach would be playing in the outfield right now. Kepler would have been traded at the deadline for a AA pitcher and life would move on.
  18. Alex Wilde
    Ian Hamilton didn’t actually do that poorly. Vlad tanked a high inside fastball…tip your hat and move on because it wasn’t necessarily a bad pitch. Outside of that one swing, he looked solid in my opinion. Cano has good stuff and he may have a chance to stick in the pen at some point, but boy does he have some work to do with pitch placement and simply throwing strikes if he wants to have any chance of staying in the majors.
  19. Alex Wilde
    “Didn’t execute when we needed, but we had a plan and we stuck to it” Roco is brilliant
  20. Alex Wilde
    Thanks Seth. I understand what you are saying and definitely agree with you. Although, I am just wondering why he wouldn’t have been moved up instead of Law, Coulombe, and Minaya. He could have gone up, stayed, and pushed one of these 30 year olds back to AAA or to another team. Whatever the case may be, I am looking forward to watching him in a Twins uni!
  21. Alex Wilde
    It’s great to Javier and De La Trinidad continuing to do well! On a side note, what does Ian Hamilton have to do at this point to prove himself and get another shot at the majors? He’s done better than any other pitcher on the Saints this year and somehow still hasn’t gotten called up. I’m not the one calling the shots, but this one doesn’t make any sense to me.
  22. Alex Wilde
    I don’t want to hear anything about Berrios walking two guys to start the 2nd. He ended the day with one ER through 7 giving up one hit and striking out 10! We can’t have a lineup who strands 8 plus runners every single game. We had 8 hits off of one of the best pitchers in the game right now and only scored a run. That’s the real killer.
  23. Alex Wilde
    DFA Shoemaker already. It’s honestly embarrassing to watch him come into the game at this point and just expect it to get out of hand. I’d rather watch any young pitcher, or ideally Ian Hamilton, looking for another chance in the Bigs to earn a spot in the bullpen. Please just start the fire sale and let the fans enjoy watching some prospects develop the rest of the season.
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