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  1. Danchat
    Dang, Minaya pitched well and gets punished for it - looks like Pagan and Duffey have plenty more rope to burn.
  2. Danchat
    It's nice to have Celestino in CF rather than other options like Kepler/Cave/the other guys we trotted out in 2022. Defensively he's a great option, also better than Gordon. He is slumping at the plate and has zero power, but if he can maintain his .350 OBP, he's a fine to put in the back third of the lineup. I do like Contreras and while he does have more pop in his bat, he's more of a good corner OF like Kepler and he's not going to get on base as much.
  3. Danchat
    I think he needs to get IL'd or possibly demoted to AA. I'm not convinced moving to the pen would help, he's struggling in short appearances as well. Disagree, it could get worse. Strotman can't throw strikes and is very hittable to even AAA hitters, he'd probably have similarly terrible numbers in the majors. If he can't show an ounce of promise in AAA, I have no interest in seeing him flounder in the majors. Agreed, I want to see Schulfer and/or Sisk soon. Much more interested to see them than the two mentioned above.
  4. Danchat
    They're quite lucky to take 2/3 from Baltimore, but we've got to hope the offense can do something to starting pitching - going 3 games with 2 total runs off starters is not OK! Also: Smeltzer should stay in the rotation, but come playoff time it'd make more sense to him to operate as a long reliever.
  5. Danchat
    I think Sands could transition well to the bullpen, a la Jax and Littell. I don't know as much about Henriquez, but with the way he's struggling as a starter, it may be inevitable that they have to move him to the pen. As for Winder, I want him in the Twins rotation right now. He's proven up to this point that he can handle starting in the majors, and I'd rather have him starting every 5th game then relegating him to long relief. How about we remove Bundy from the rotation before he implodes like we all expect him to?
  6. Danchat
    Perhaps we could acquire him in a trade while his value is low? ?
  7. Danchat
    Another walk-off on a 0-2 count! Both times against Lopez, who has been one of the best relievers this year!
  8. Danchat
    Gotta love how 90% of these game threads have been complaining about the Twins, yet we are, a win yesterday and a very close one today. Have some faith, people!
  9. Danchat
    I think it's been like this for several years now...
  10. Danchat
    Can't remember the last time we got shut out through 7 perfect innings and then won it... we'll take it! Attaboy Buxton, and on an 0-2 count!
  11. Danchat
    I would have liked to see Ryan start the 8th, but even if the bullpen does lose this one, it's going to be on the hitters for letting the Orioles go 6+ perfect innings on them.
  12. Danchat
    I'd like to see the starters get pushed further too, but I'm not convinced it's going to work and make enough difference. Molitor did this quite often back when he was the manager, and it'd result in extra runs being given up in the 5th/6th because he got too greedy pushing the likes of Gibson or Odorizzi too far. Is pushing Archer past his limits, keeping Ryan in despite his dropping MPH, and having Smeltzer face strong RHs a 3rd time really going to pay off? I'll tell you what - the bullpen has been so horrible lately that I will take the risks involved with keeping in the starters too long. Since bullpen help is probably not coming until the deadline, I hope we'll see some adaptations. Hope being the key word.
  13. Danchat
    As compared to his entire minor league career with the Rays? You really think having our starters go 4-5 innings is Wes' strategy? Maybe it's because this team has consistently fielded starters who aren't good enough to go 6-7 innings... nah, that'd make too much sense. Wes deserves a lot of credit for maximizing output from mediocre to average pitchers, while helping up the velocity for a few pitchers that has helped them considerably. While a pitching pipeline hasn't been developed to be as robust as we hoped, I think Wes did a solid job outside of whatever happened in 2021.
  14. Danchat
    https://twitter.com/Brandon_Warne/status/1542271799265792004
  15. Danchat
    I don't get how Cotton doesn't just get another swing and a miss on a high fastball like he did earlier in the count, Naylor was swinging at everything. Instead he gives him the same pitch that Naylor had just fouled back into the screen. Awful. Bringing in Pagan was the wrong call, but Cotton should have been able to get out of that. Truly an embarrassing effort. It's time to DFA some relievers and try throwing more options at the wall to see if anything sticks. We tried the whole 'give Colome the entire season to prove himself' strategy last year and we don't need to repeat it again.
  16. Danchat
    I said last time they should give him the Duffey treatment, now will they? This isn't working...
  17. Danchat
    This Kwan guy is pretty good...
  18. Danchat
    Personally, I want to see more blamed be put at the feet of the FO when Rocco is more or less a puppet of theirs. And yes, at least a single playoff win this year is a must or I'm going to be fuming too, promise me. So while I personally don't think much of Rocco (or most managers in general), I'm just tired of seeing him getting scapegoated and seeing us fans assume our ideas on how to use the pen are superior to the coaching staff's.
  19. Danchat
    Agreed, I think most folks will change their opinions if Rocco helps get this team to a WS win or even if Kirk Cousins finally gets the Vikings to the promised land, despite their detractors. We can have those debates once we've won it all!
  20. Danchat
    Completely agreed on this point, there's no reason for Stashak to have two career Ls because he pitched in two huge situations in the 2019 and 2020 playoffs. But it would help if the offense bothered to show up come playoff time... I think that's incredibly fair, though I wonder if we see the same logic applied to the 2019 season a la "they only won 101 games because of the juiced ball" into something like "the team dragged Rocco to a playoff win". Just seems to me like he never gets credit for anything. That's completely unbelievable to me, 8 to 10 games?! Those managers would know precisely who was going to implode in the bullpen and make the right move every single time? And they'd be able to improve the players' fundamentals to such a degree that it'd affect our win total by that much? I could see 1-3 games, but 8-10 implies that we have a top 5, if not top 3 roster in all of baseball and that Rocco is a clown who is severely holding this team back.
  21. Danchat
    From what little I know, it doesn't sound like Steer is a MLB SS - seems like 3B/2B are where he is best used, so he's pretty redundant with Miranda on the squad. I think it'd make sense to trade one of the two, but I won't delve into which one here.
  22. Danchat
    And then we'd probably be back here after Thornburg/Duffey/Jax (his past two appearances he has two Ls against the Guardians) and then you'd tell me the answer was that we should have used Duran. Sure, he's given too much rope to the likes of Colome, Duffey, and Pagan... but it's also been two straight years of the front office butchering the bullpen (the justification of trading Rogers away without a legitimate replacement is baffling). If there is a managerial candidate out there who has proven to be able to navigate a bad bullpen, I'd pull the trigger in a heartbeat... I just don't know if that guy exists.
  23. Danchat
    Yup, I want him back in the majors pronto. When Bundy inevitably blows up, we can slide Winder right back in.
  24. Danchat
    Wow, what a waste of two hits. Ugh.
  25. Danchat
    Thornburg's a guy who's mostly cooked, already got DFA'd once this year and hasn't been throwing in high leverage situations since 2016. I can't blame Rocco for not wanting to use him in a 1 run game - we saw what happened when we threw AAAA guys into high leverage situations last year - Brandon Waddell, Luke Farrell, Dobnak as a reliever? Yeah, I've seen enough of that.
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