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  1. Danchat
    Wow, Cave and Astudillo have been our entire run production over these two games. Not good! Today wouldn't be such a bad loss if they hadn't lost so many close games the last two weeks. Yuck.
  2. Danchat
    Eh... he doesn't fit the Vikings' zone blocking scheme at all and the Chiefs will need to pay him like a left tackle to keep him past 2021. All for a guy who's started something like 11 games at LT... I'll pass.
  3. Danchat
    Hopefully that won't be the only stress-less save this year!
  4. Danchat
    Reynolds is a switch hitter, and hits about .050 OPS worse against lefties.
  5. Danchat
    Reynolds and Moran's numbers are both worse against lefties, so I like bringing in Rogers here.
  6. Danchat
    He's literally 50% of our run production today... and being down 4 guys on the COVID list is reason enough. He's a bench player at best. He'll go back to that once everyone is healthy.
  7. Danchat
    Polanco has made some nice plays at SS, he seems to be running on his ankle better. Now if only the pop in his bat could return. And Astudillo is reminding everyone that most/many MLB hitters can play 1B without being a butcher.
  8. Danchat
    This never really felt like it was going to be a no-hitter, with the way Happ relies on groundballs and flyballs for outs. But a heck of a start! Now let's see if Duffey, and hopefully Rogers can close this one out.
  9. Danchat
    Nope, he went 0/3 in the doubleheader. If there was a hit, it was changed.
  10. Danchat
    I dunno, with his ankle hurting I don't think it would have been a good idea.
  11. Danchat
    Tortuga with a Rosario-esque HR!!!!
  12. Danchat
    Is Happ's control usually this bad? He's throwing a ton of balls right now.
  13. Danchat
    I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer, but I'd like to bring up why Gordon isn't highly thought of. Fangraphs on why they have him ranked as the Twins' 37th best prospect: Gordon has a lot to overcome - he's mostly a singles hitter who has struggled as a fielder at SS and 2B. I wish him the best and I hope he can overcome all these obstacles that have been in his way - even if he just pans out to be a bench player.
  14. Danchat
    Kirilloff and Gordon to be called up for tonight's game, Sano to 10 day IL. I would guess Telis is removed from the roster as the other move, since we have no need for a 4th catcher. Farrell and Smeltzer are also candidates, as they're only mop-up guys.
  15. Danchat
    If only the Twins could just take all the bad luck from the Vikings and let them finally win a Super Bowl!
  16. Danchat
    If Baldelli was truly using analytics 100% of the time, there'd be no way in heck that Colome should be throwing pitches in the 10th inning. His usage of Colome as the closer no matter what despite the "we haven't named a closer" statement is quite the old school move and it's costing him. Baldelli's moves constantly imploding like this reminds me of Molitor in the 2016 Total System Failure season. Decently high expectations followed by a season filled with bad play, bad managing, and some bad luck (don't misconstrue this, it was mostly bad play), the team had an abysmal season. Fans criticized him for being behind the times, using the bullpen poorly, and failing to show passion like Gardy did. And he did have a much worse roster than Rocco's got, I'll give you that. But I'm seeing some comparisons here. Let's not forget that Molitor got two more seasons after the total system failure... Gardy had 4 90+ loss seasons in a row. This FO may be different, but Rocco is their guy. He ain't close to being fired.
  17. Danchat
    I'm pretty sure that's how it works, I think they just revert back to non-40 guys without going through the DFA process.
  18. Danchat
    I'm interested to see the WPA for this game. So many players screwed up so many times in this one, who should receive the blame?! As for the bullpen... Wes worked some magic in 2019 and 2020 (more second half of 2019) and got strong performances from some older/middling/broken down relievers like Duffey, Harper, Littell, Romo, Stashak, Thielbar, Wisler, and Clippard. Add two very good homegrown relievers in Rogers and May, and we've had above average bullpens. I think Wes and the rest of the pitching staff deserve a ton of credit for this group's overachievement. However, the wheels are coming off the wagon now. Rogers is consistently being hung down the heart of the plate and it's no longer "bad luck", Colome is an unmitigated disaster despite having a strong track record, Robles is wild but was abysmal last year, Duffey's velo is down, Alcala still needs development time, and Stashak got shelled and demoted. Wes & Co. should be given time to work on a solution. Maybe it will require axing some arms like they did in 2019 when they cast off Parker, Magill, and Morin in the stretch of a week. Perhaps it will require calling up some rookies to see if they can help the pen. But the fixes need to start coming now or the 2021 season will be lost. I wonder if the Addison Reed and Sam Dyson moves turned the FO off to big reliever moves. Not to mention that they almost signed Craig Kimbrel, which would have also been a disaster. I'd really wish they'd make some trades to bolster their pitching depth.
  19. Danchat
    2020 Colome: 12/13 in save situations, 1/1 in the playoffs 2021 Colome: 2/6 in save situations (OK, it's really 2/5, but it's 2/6 in our hearts)
  20. Danchat
    I can't help but laugh at how pathetic this team is!! Ironically, Colome did his job and forced two rather routine groundballs, but our infielders couldn't help but poop themselves. Unbelievable.
  21. Danchat
    I'd get Tortuga ready with his 46 MPH rainbow. Better than Colome!
  22. Danchat
    Colome got really lucky the A's didn't finish it there, as a couple of those pitches should have been hit for HRs. Yikes. What's wrong with the bullpen? Well, the past two years they've relied on fixing up broken / middle-tier relievers and turning them into capable guys... but everything has fallen apart 2 weeks into the season. Wes has earned himself time to figure this out, but we're going to need some solutions real soon.
  23. Danchat
    I would have stayed with Dobby for another inning... not sure who gets the 7th after this.
  24. Danchat
    Romo is on the Fernando Rodney path - pitch decently at an old age for the Twins, and then implode with the A’s.
  25. Danchat
    I still don’t get how he looks light years ahead of our other prospects despite having zero experience against MLB pitching... Rooker hit well in college, AA, AAA, and comes up at 26 and looks like train wreck. And yet Baddoo’s plate discipline looks decent.
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