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  1. Linus
    I watch nearly every game. People have created this feel good scale for Julien and his fielding. He was so bad at the beginning that people are very excited when he makes a couple plays. He has a habit of making mistakes at crucial times. His arm is erratic and has hard hands. His work around the bag on DP is poor whether he is turning it or feeding it. It’s little things that add up: the other night his feed to Castro is off time and high. Castro has to double clutch and the hitter is safe at first. When he is turning the DP he stabs at the ball separating his hands meaning he’s slow to get the throw off. Oh and he is hitting 167 with a 637 OPS. He deserves to go to AAA as much as Wallner maybe more so.
  2. Linus
    I’m hoping for the best but unless he learns how to hit something other than a fastball he is likely done. It’s a story as old as baseball. Abner Doubleday put 108 stitches on a baseball and some guys have struggled hitting those darn breaking pitches ever since.
  3. Linus
    I have no problem saying that For 2024 Polanco would be better than Julien. He’s a better fielder and I believe he will put up as good or better offensive numbers while hitting righties and lefties. Julien had a good half season with a sky high babip. It would come as no surprise if he regresses pretty hard.
  4. Linus
    In an offseason of head scratching moves bringing Farmer back and not using him as the backup SS is right up there. The only value he really offered was the ability to cover SS and now he can’t? Tell you what - you can have Farmer and Santana and I will take Polanco.
  5. Linus
    And we are excited about Larnach taking his place? Not me. At this point I would put Martin in left and see if he can provide a little spark.
  6. Linus
    I think I entered the Twilight Zone. Like the rest of the team Julien isn’t hitting and his fielding is still a work in progress. If he continues improving he might get to average. The Julien love is starting to get irrational.
  7. Linus
    So I started keeping track last year of all games that were played fundamentally sound in the field. I gave up after a month or so because it was so rare. Same thing this year. When they play a clean fundamental game it is noteworthy because it doesn’t happen often. People seem to dismiss it as being old school but over the course of 162 games this level of sloppiness is going to cost a team a half a dozen games. When it comes to the playoffs that is huge. Of all the stuff that people complain about regarding Rocco (bullpen usage, pinch hitting, lineups) this is the thing that people should be pissed about.
  8. Linus
    Yea I was wondering about that. I couldn’t watch the game but a botched double play early in the game is huge. How is that not a significant point in the game recap?
  9. Linus
    I think you are overthinking this. They just want a fresh arm and they don’t view him as so clearly superior that he is worth keeping for the next week over the fresh arm. He has done fine but it’s not like his innings are that clean.
  10. Linus
    It is odd that a team seemingly strapped for cash doesn’t have a deal in place by now.
  11. Linus
    This. One of the great lies perpetrated on this site is that Falvine started with a bare cupboard. They started with a bunch of good young players and some decent pitching. Trevor May was in the pen as well.
  12. Linus
    As always your articles are interesting and helpful.
  13. Linus
    I wouldn’t assume he will be back soon. I think the bullpens are just ramping up towards full velocity and will be done carefully with plenty of off days in between.
  14. Linus
    This pretty much sums it up for me.
  15. Linus
    More sloppy baseball. The Twins seem to make at least one or two fundamental mistakes each game. I don’t know who is responsible for this aspect of the teams performance but whoever it is needs a wake up call. They seem to come to the big league team flawed. The frustrating thing is that it doesn’t get any better. I assume it’s being addressed but maybe guys just need to sit until they get the message.
  16. Linus
    I was going to post about this. I think the reliever churn is something the MLBPA needs to fight MLB on. Tonkin basically got used and then kicked to the curb. Which was entirely predictable. He should feigned a back problem and made them IL him for 10 days so he would get a little more pay. The MLBPA worries about the dumbest sh*t and then lets their rank and file get used like this.
  17. Linus
    Great to get the win but some sloppy ball again. Miranda with a bad throw and on the tying run in extras Wallner doesn’t get around the ball until after he fielded it meaning he couldnt uncork the throw right away. Runner just scores. Then Alcalá gets the double play grounder he needed and stood on the mound instead of covering first. Instead of being in the dugout he had to get another out in a tie game. Say what you want about the TK era but his teams didn’t make these kinds of plays.
  18. Linus
    Happy for SWR. He had a recent clunker in AAA so I was a little skeptical but if he could could be a legit back end starter that would be huge.
  19. Linus
    Yea that was my first thought when I saw that. I assumed the only reason they would bring Farmer back was because he was going to be the backup at short. If that is not case I would have traded him and kept Polanco.
  20. Linus
    Yea I’m feeling snarky after yesterday’s game. I was going to post something like boy the Twins could really use a veteran infielder preferably a switch hitter.
  21. Linus
    And I was just getting ready to post how much I appreciated CC playing all last year injured. This one he ain’t gonna play through.
  22. Linus
    Yea I think the idea that drives some of us nuts is that sometimes the best chance to break a game open is in the fifth inning. No sense in saving the platoon advantage for a later opportunity that never comes. If there are ducks on the pond then shoot your wad.
  23. Linus
    Yep - that’s why point number 3 you made is so valid. They will have to face a lefty at some point whether they like it or not.
  24. Linus
    I agree with point #3 emphatically. However the rest of the stats are pretty damning. Gleeman wrote a very informative article on this a few weeks ago. Essentially all the best left handed hitters in Twins history had a 20% decline one OPS against left handed pitching. Only Carew hit lefties and we are talking about some great hitters like Olivia Morneau etc. This wasn’t limited to Twins hitters either. Across league history this was the case. From memory another poster looked up Juliens minor league numbers against lefties and it was pretty ugly and the sample was pretty large. I hope Julien Wallner and Kiriloff learn to hit lefties at the big league level and want them to get a fair chance but the stats support Rocco big time on this.
  25. Linus
    Good on you for being a mentor. Your experience Saturday will be far better than a Twins game.
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