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  1. Linus
    And how many years have guys thrown 100 with wicked spin rates?
  2. Linus
    I think the whole strikeout thing is more nuanced. I get it - it’s ugly to watch people flail away but often times it doesn’t matter if you k or fly out or hit a dribbler. There are times that it does. Obvious situation being man on third with less than two outs or man on second and nobody out. Take last night when Buck scored on the contact play. Jeffers had weak contact and beat the ball into the dirt. Everything you don’t want as a hitter yet it scored Buxton. The nuanced part comes here: I don’t think in today’s game you can have two different approaches as a hitter - it’s too difficult. If approach is the three true outcomes but then you have an at bat where you can’t strike out I just don’t think it can be done. Your mindset has to be about preventing strikeouts all the time so you are confident you can do it when you really need to put the ball in play. Just my theory.
  3. Linus
    He did. He made a small but quick move towards second.
  4. Linus
    Crappy feed by Farmer.
  5. Linus
    Well the Tigers catcher noticed immediately so there were some players alert enough to know the rule. Jeffers screwed up - it ain’t the umps fault.
  6. Linus
    Ahhh. When Buck scored the ball rolled loose. Jeffers had already crossed first. When he saw the ball loose he made a small move towards second. The Tigers alertly saw it and they tagged out Jeffers.
  7. Linus
    If you make any move toward second you are in play. Ump called it very tight but Jeffers should know better.
  8. Linus
    Just an ordinary player.
  9. Linus
    Did Badoo just pimp the warning track fly out?
  10. Linus
    Nope
  11. Linus
    Hopefully just precautionary. If not that can be a couple weeks easy.
  12. Linus
    Sim with 96.
  13. Linus
    Yea it’s moving around a little.
  14. Linus
    Well at least the bad throw didn’t matter.
  15. Linus
    Oddly the Twins seem adept at maximizing existing pitchers but poor at drafting and developing them. Anyway Joe has gotten better and his split seems to be a quality pitch. Breaking ball can get better but he is really having a good season. As far as an extension- no chance. I believe he is 27 and has 3.5 years of control left. That means he will be a free agent at 31. Take the good years and thank him for his service.
  16. Linus
    I am skeptical the Twins will call up Lee to play second when he has only played there a couple of times. In fact I think he should be playing third a lot so next year he can play third and Royce can play second.
  17. Linus
    The outfield situation next year is a bit concerning. I assume Max will be gone so that means two of Larnach Wallner and Kiriloff have to produce. Not sure I want to bet on that. I guess you can throw Martin in the mix because we are going to have lots of infielders. Would we roll the dice on these guys knowing that if we need to we could play Castro in left?
  18. Linus
    Didn’t see the game but that one inning sounds like a doozy. Happy for Larnach. He’s been hitting in a little bad luck lately.
  19. Linus
    The first filter for all of these articles should be is the proposed player making any money? If yes just move on as the Twins aren’t going to add anything significant to payroll.
  20. Linus
    Austin Martin has an arm like a leg.
  21. Linus
    People are overthinking this. Vasquez and Miranda didn’t make two relatively basic plays. They make those and the Twins win and all the second guessing is moot.
  22. Linus
    I’m happy to see his progress particularly the walk rate. I couldn’t care less what his prospect rank is - it means nothing. Prospect ranking is such an overrated waste of time. The only thing that matters is if he helps the Twins some day.
  23. Linus
    Really pleased with Castro Buck and Correa. Miranda bouncing back is an important development. Not surprised to see Wallner and Julien struggle. And Kepler is back to being Kepler. At least the off season decision on him will be easy. It was pretty obvious they needed to add a starter in the off season but ownership decided that one. And a big shout out to SWR. We would be in a world of hurt had he not stepped up.
  24. Linus
    As I’ve stated before the Twins play sloppy baseball with regularity. Sometimes it doesn’t cost them, last night it sure did.
  25. Linus
    Ober has a fine change up.
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