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I didn’t realize satire articles was exactly what Twins Daily needed, but I’m loving these articles. Good stuff!

Nice, Kiriloff's back! Now if we could just get Graterol back from that shoulder injury...

I'm starting to get concerned... it seems the lineup really needs Byron and Marwin, and some of our guys having career years have regressed. Every team is going to slump, but this needs to end as soon as possible. But I also think it's not right to point fingers at Baldelli yet. The laid-back approach seemed to work, and it's not time to abandon ship after a poor week of baseball. Maybe he'll crank up the workouts and work the players a little harder, or maybe they're just in a funk. Whatever it is, we aren't going to win 110 games and we aren't currently the best team in baseball - but this is a good team and they should rebound... the only question is how soon.

I think a lot of us have become smitten with OPS, which is a great stat, but HRs boost it so much that you can mash a few HRs and look horrendous in the rest of the PAs and you couldn't tell by the stat. I've recently come to appreciate the OPS stat more the past year or two, but it's not perfect. I don't feel like it rewards players enough just for simply getting on base and avoiding outs - for example, check out Ichiro Suzuki's career OPS - it's shockingly low for a Hall of Fame player!

I'm not sure how people can defend Sano after watching these ABs. He isn't close to hitting anything and I believe he's struck out 10 times in the last 4 games 12 times in his last 18 PAs. I can't wait for Thrylos to tell me about his great OPS and why I should stop complaining. On the other hand, Kohl Stewart has looked very good thus far. Much better than Odorizzi, surprisingly.

Remember when Odorizzi was part of the Cy Young race? Woof.

Lamonte Wade is on the 40 man roster and could use a cup of coffee. He may only be hitting .232 but he's got a crazy good walking ability with a .374 OBP. We could use that right now.

I'm not surprised regression is starting to come for Odorizzi... but in back-to-back starts against the Royals?!

I like this Arraez kid! And I do wish we'd stop with the reckless baserunning with Cron - he ain't fast!

The last thing this team needs is another crappy start. Please bounce back from this, Odorizzi!

6/18/19 - Red Sox at Twins - David Price vs Michael Pineda Box Score: Game Summary The Twins struck first in the second inning with Sano notching a one-out double, followed by a Jake Cave two run homer. It was a no-doubter, as I had a 6-12 roll, which meant that unless the pitcher is very good at preventing HRs, this one was gone. Price is good at preventing homers, but not great, so the Twins jumped out to a 2-0 lead. The Sox chipped away at the lead as Betts hit a RBI single in the 3rd inning, but the bats exploded in the 4th inning. What followed was an error to get Martinez on 1st, a Devers double, Chavis double, Bradley Jr. single, Betts single, and a Benintendi single. The Red Sox took a strong 5-2 lead that they later strengthened to a 6th run. The Twins fired back in the bottom of the 5th, though, as Cave lead the inning off with a triple. Schoop singled him in, followed by Garver singling him to second. We then saw Rosario hit a double and Cron hit a single to make the game 6-5 by the end of the 5th. And then in the 6th, the Twins struck again! Cave hit a double (this dude is on a tear!), followed by a Schoop single that moved him to 3rd. David Price was pulled for Mike Shawaryn, who immediately gave up a game-tying single to Polanco. Garver then hit a double that scored Schoop, which gave the Twins a 7-6 lead. But then the bullpen struck - Littell gave up a single, and I pulled him and placed Morin in with one out already recorded. Then Michael Chavis, the young Boston 1st baseman, nailed a 2 run homer to give them a 8-7 lead. This one seems like a game of tug-of-rope.Trevor May then came out to pitch the 8th and gave up 3 singles and a 2 run homer to Mookie Betts, making it 10-7. This is getting real ugly! However, in the 9th, Cruz lead off with a single and Cron walked to get the tying run up to the plate. But Gonzalez and Sano both struck out and Brasier got the save. We are now 1-2 in Strat-O-Land. Another one went down the drain today... but at least this one didn't go 17 innings. I think my record for my longest Strat-O-Matic game went 13 innings. I'd like to see if I could ever break that number. Here's hoping we can win one next time out!

Ummm... I thought 2 innings was enough from Poppen, but I see we have no choice but to leave him out there now. Gibson really needed to go further into this one.

How the heck did Rodriguez end up going 7 innings?

I didn't know Poppen touched 97 like that... this dude might just have a future in the majors. His stuff looked good!

Probably because they're not ready to throw a rookie who's thrown about 20 innings at AAA to the Sox lineup in a close game his first time out.

At this point... probably Pineda, because he'll be in the bullpen.

This has the feeling of one of those games of whoever scores last wins. At least both teams' bullpens are overworked at the moment...

There's your clutch hit from Rosario!

I heard that Parker left Minnesota immediately after the game ended, so it seems that there is a legitimate family emergency. Methinks if this wouldn't have come up, Littell would have been optioned for Poppen.

Y'know, this clip reminded me of a piece of trivia that I read a while back:

The link to the article is dead...

This isn't happening. Cleveland is well within wild card contention and it would be foolish to give the Twins, a division rival, Hand with control from 2019-2021. I imagine Cleveland starts to think about trading him in 2020 if they're doing to rebuild or retool, but not now.

Alright, they had better hit Rosario in. I'm going to bed!

Well, the bullpen couldn't stay perfect forever. It's now or never, hitters!

Wasn't Duffey's last game the one where he pitched the 10th inning and gave up the winning run (due to errors) for the Royals? Oh, please no!