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  1. Pepperidge Farm remembers that Twins Daily article that called Banda an elite reliever...
  2. Tigers are 0 for 11 in RISP situations... they're making us look good by comparison!
  3. It's incredible how they found somebody worse than DaShawn Kiersey to replace him... and they had to trade for him!
  4. Also helps that Steven Hajjar did diddly squat... trading from our pitching prospects hasn't burned us in a quite a while (helps that they rarely move them). Though randomly, I did notice that the Astros have a former farmhand in Kai-Wei Teng in their bullpen, who once upon a time was traded for Sam Dyson.
  5. Two challenges on the first 6 pitches of the game... Tigers already down to just one challenge left.
  6. The Rays acquired nothing other than not paying Odorizzi's arbitration salaries, as Jermaine Palacios never played in the majors for them. Hard to call that trade a win for Tampa when we got a serviceable starting pitcher and they got zero value in return.
  7. We have a tendency to overreact to small sample sizes, looking at his 6.61 ERA in 6 starts last year for us and the Rays gave him around 90 starts and couldn't figure him out. Clearly my logic at the time of "if the Rays can't fix him, why do you think we can" was not accurate.
  8. That's two good wins in a row... impressive. Let's see if that's a flash in the pan or actual progress. Between Joe Ryan, Taj Bradley, and so far Orze, Falvey's best trades were with the Rays. Oh, and the Odorizzi trade too. They need to stop trading with us!
  9. From what little I've seen of Orze, I have a lot more faith in him than I do Topa.
  10. Easily the biggest appearance of Laweryson's young career... here we go...
  11. Looks like Wallner is heading down the 2024 route of having a putrid first couple of weeks... and the team's fascination with Outman needs to end. He's not a MLB caliber player and they have obvious upgrades waiting in St. Paul. I'm down for giving Abel a couple more starts, let him take his lumps and see if he figures anything out against MLB hitting. I have more faith that he will break through than Ober regaining his prior form.
  12. His MLB career isn't close to over, the Twins are gonna give him a lot more rope, and even when they eventually cut bait, his profile is the right kind for other teams to swoop in as a reclamation project because "look at his OPS!"
  13. I dunno, we need to have some depth in the minors with Ober not looking good. I'd give Zebby a few more weeks and see if things improve. If not him, then it's Morris and Prielipp for starting depth...
  14. I did not know you could challenge a shift violation... huh.
  15. And in actuality he's only getting $10M in new money, he was already getting $10M from Atlanta. The Raiders are paying $11.3M and the Falcons $8.7M now.
  16. Hmm, if this trade continues to go the way it looks to be, with Jax regressing sharply and Bradley seemingly turning a corner over the offseason, this could be the second time the Falvey regime embarrassed the Rays in a trade. Taj's stuff seems to have taken a big step up over the offseason, perhaps a reminder that players can breakout later into their careers. Though it's hard to call Taj a late bloomer when he's still so young.
  17. Hm, I did think the name was vaguely familiar. Looks like we sent him to the Royals in the Michael A Taylor trade. I had no idea, he was even a regular reliever for them last year with passable numbers.
  18. Looks like Rogers is going to need to get the final 4 outs.
  19. I don't think they see him as a high leverage reliever right now, he's only appeared in games where we are trailing and it's not close. I think he's only above Laweryson and Kent on the totem pole.
  20. Intentionally walking Larnach to get to Buxton is certainly a choice...
  21. That's a tricky question, as a plain pocket passer he is below average and his running has been his best trait, problem is defenses have been taking that away and forcing him to throw in the intermediate range, where he has failed to get AJ Brown the ball. He has his strengths - we saw him connect on 3 or so deep passes in the previous Vikings game - and I think the OC has to do a lot of work getting the offense to revolve around his strengths, more than the typical QB. But he does come with the cheat code that is the Brotherly Shove that gives him the luxury to only need to get to 3rd/4th and 1 when other QBs need to get the full first down. Russell Wilson is a fair comparison, I don't think he is going to last as a starter very long into his 30s. I have him and Kyler in a 2QB dynasty league and it may be time to start planning for the future. Hurts is only 28 but he might be going down the Kyler Murray path soon and playing on a one year deal somewhere else, maybe even in 2027.
  22. The AAA bullpen gave up 19 runs yesterday, so it's not like we have quality options waiting in the minors...
  23. Evidently we're gonna need our challenges today with the way this ump is calling it... missing calls right on the edges is acceptable and expected, but that's already 2 obvious misses in one inning. Yikes!
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