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    Good to see late season promotions for Graterol and Alcala, though it's debatable that Alcala earned it. He's been better since moving to the pen (which is what I have been asking for the entire season), but he needs to prove he can be less hittable. Graterol, on the other hand, should be in the big leagues within the next two weeks, so we can consider his stint at AAA a trial run.
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    Something tells me that Kelley hitting Kepler for a BS reason on Thursday might have led to this minor conflict...
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    And the game will finish at 2:00 am!
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    He does have one option left, but I imagine he gets IL'd over getting demoted.
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    Well, that article was right about Berrios struggling in August - not good, considering he's our "ace"!
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    Yeah, here we go! That turned out to be quite the disastrous error!
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    I don't want to add a black hole to the lineup - as others have said, he'd be a great pinch runner and defensive replacement, but if you pencil him into the lineup, it's not too different from playing an NL game where you have to put your pitcher out there. His OBP is .275 and he has zero power! Cave hit well last season and has started to heat up as of late. I just wish he'd stop having misadventures in the outfield.
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    Whew, just got out of there. I'd use Romo in the 9th now.
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    Did Schoop get hurt? What's up with the sub?
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    Marwin's real hot lately, can Schoop follow suite?
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    I don't think many people here would believe if you told them Adrianza would be hitting .290 in August - a lot of us didn't think he'd still be on the roster. On another note, I still stand my what I said about Minor - I would have liked to acquire this guy, I think he's a good starter. I'd trust him a lot more than Gibson and Perez.
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    I look forward to when this old style of thinking is dead and gone. Why don't you swing? You potentially hit the ball into play and get out, thus quickening the game. I just find it unbelievable where there is a situation in baseball where you are not allowed to swing at a pitch in the strike zone, and if you do, one of your batters will be hit with a 90+ MPH pitch. Why would it suddenly be OK if Cave swung at a 3-1 pitch and got a hit - would the pitcher get pissy then, to? Why don't the batters just give up and get the game over with? What if the pitcher throws a ball out of the strike zone on the 3-0 count, and Cave swings and misses? Vanimal perfectly stated this - it'd be like if NBA players were not allowed to take shots in a blowout, or how about in soccer, you wouldn't be allowed to attempt shot on goals, you'd just have to kick the ball back and forth, or in hockey, you'd just have to pass the puck back and forth. But no, I guess "this is how baseball is played" - you're only allowed to try and hit in specific situations and appease bad teams and bad pitchers.
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    Hamilton is great defensively in the outfield and a great basestealer, but I find it hard to ever pencil him into the lineup with his microscopic .544 OPS. I'd rather stick with Cave as the 4th OF.
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    I wish I could like this post more than once!
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    Chief, this makes zero sense to me. Cave taking on a 3-0 count likely makes the game go longer as he either takes a walk or takes a strike, and now we have to see another pitcher. Alternatively, swinging at it could potentially lead to an out in the field, which would speed up the game. Alternatively, Kepler gets hit, and now you're putting a runner on base... in a game which is a blowout, in which I thought the point was to speed up the game and get it over with. Only in the backwards sport of baseball are players supposed to stop trying once the score is at a certain point. Why don't we just have a mercy rule? These stupid unwritten rules drive me nuts.
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    Boy, I just love Arraez. Just a triple shy of the cycle tonight. Folks, we have our starting 2B on the roster!
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    That was a garbage inning for Smeltzer, but an even more garbage inning for the Texas baserunners. Dear goodness, they made all three of their outs between 3rd and home!
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    I'm pretty sure Dick overreacted to the 3rd base coach sending the guy home only because Diaz did the same thing a few days earlier...
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    It feels like Marwin has successfully broken out of his mid-summer slump. We're gonna need him to keep hitting down the stretch.
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    It's good to see another old-fashioned blowout in favor of the Twins. Here's hoping for at least 3 wins in this series!
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    Nice play by Cron there, we could use some better fielding in the infield.
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    I'm cheering for the Indians to beat the Yankees - I just hate New York that much. Boy, how mad must Yankees fans be that they didn't acquire any starting pitching? They couldn't even get Robbie freaking Ray! We talk about how Twins pitching isn't going hold up in the postseason, but how is New York's going to? I wonder if the Indians could take down the Yanks in the playoffs. They certainly seem to be up to the task...
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    Brent Rooker and Alex Kirilloff could end up at 1B... both of them are regarded as much better than Diaz and Davis. I find it kind of odd how highly regarded Diaz is - he was Rule 5 eligible in 2017 and 2018 and had a middling 2017 and a very poor 2018. I'm not buying that his 2019 season has suddenly fixed him into being a 1B of the future.
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    I would look into re-signing Odorizzi and Pineda - I think both can be a bit underrated, and Pineda might improve in his second year after TJ surgery. Odorizzi is pretty darn effective through 4-5 innings, which is a surprisingly uncommon thing these days. I'm done with Gibson, I've seen enough. He can go get overpaid elsewhere.
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