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  1. Danchat
    Just wanted to throw this out there: I understood the "Pressly is NSFW" as another way to say "Pressly is filthy". The metaphor of a pitcher being filthy means they induce strikeouts and have elusive pitches, not using the normal definition of "vile, foul, or contemptible". So I thought that filthy = NSFW. Maybe it should be NSFB (not safe for batters).
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    Too bad most teams aren't willing to ship off guys for so little like the Rays did. Odorizzi's been even better than I thought he would, with his only real downside being that he's going to get 6 innings max. I'll take that from a 3rd or 4th starter any day.
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    Aguilar should thank the Twins, they're giving him a chance to shine!
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    I dunno, Garver crushed that 3-2 pitch. I can't really be mad at him for that.
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    That last inning... Garver and Cave had legitimately good ABs, but Garver's screaming line drive was hit right to the left fielder and Cave's deep fly ball just needed to go a little further. So close... yet so far.
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    Darn, now Odorizzi's probably going to give up 6 runs this inning.
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    I'm impressed with Odorizzi through two, he's doing better than Gibson and Romero did against this good Milwaukee lineup.
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    Molly said that Wilson will be playing 50% of the games, and thus far he seems to be committing to that [bad] plan. Oh, and Gordon's still at AA for some reason. I guess hitting .906 OPS isn't good enough to even get to AAA. At this point, Sano will be back soon, so it's probably too late to call up Gordon. By the way, why isn't Petit playing more often for Adrianza? Petit may be limited to singles and walks but at least he can do that while Adrianza rarely gets on base.
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    Upon further thought, this season feels like the logical continuation of the 2016 season. We'd be lauding 2018 as successful thus far if it were followed by 2016... but 2017 somehow happened. This season seems odd because I'd say our starting pitching and bullpen have been "average", which is an upgrade from last year, but the lineup has been plagued by injuries, awful hitting, the return of bad defense, and countless boneheaded and stupid plays. It's bizarre how some of our guys have regressed so sharply between seasons. You can't win games with this in the lineup: Dozier since April 24th: .181/.235/.319 (.554 OPS) Adrianza: .213/.273/.263 (.535 OPS) Grossman: .231/.294/.352 (.646 OPS) Buxton: .156/.194/.203 (.397 OPS) B. Wilson: Career .212/.266/.320 (.586 OPS) and he's 35 now Bleh. Maybe with more reinforcements over the next month and a half the Twins will improve, but methinks we're a .500 team at best. They'll probably catch fire when we least expect it, but until then, we're not a good baseball team.
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    I don't understand how Hader only throws a 93-95 MPH fastball (compared to others who can throw harder), but not a single batter could even foul it or even get close. That was like watching a little league team facing up against a MLB pitcher. Hader has mostly done this to the other teams he's faced, so clearly I need to read up more on how this guy pitches. That was something else. (at least, today he only seemed to throw the fastball. I didn't see any breaking balls, but I didn't quite watch all of it.)
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    And then we'd be sending Vargas to the plate as our DH, who's not even hitting .200 at AAA. Good depth!
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    For a bit more on Cave: he's 25 and spent was on his 3rd season at the AAA level. Last year he had a spectacular .921 OPS with 15 HRs in just 297 PAs at AAA, though, his numbers are down since he's been traded to the Twins (.711 OPS with 1 HR in 155 PAs at Rochester). Time played in the outfield in the minors: CF 67%, LF 21.7%, RF 11.3%.
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    Brewers Freddy Peralta ® 1. Brian Dozier ® 2B 2. Max Kepler (L) RF 3. Eddie Rosario (L) LF 4. Eduardo Escobar (S) 3B 5. Logan Morrison (L) 1B 6. Robbie Grossman (S) DH 7. Jake Cave (L) CF 8. Ehire Adrianza (S) SS 9. Bobby Wilson ® C Twins Fernando Romero ® 1. Lorenzo Cain ® CF 2. Christian Yelich (L) LF 3. Jesus Aguilar ® DH 4. Travis Shaw (L) 3B 5. Domingo Santana ® RF 6. Ji-Man Choi (L) 1B 7. Jonathan Villar (S) 2B 8. Manny Pina ® C 9. Orlando Arcia ® SS Mauer has been placed on the 10 day DL and Jake Cave has been called up. Cave will make his first career start at CF.
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    Say what you will about Mauer, but is he not allowed to get injured due to his massive salary? There are plenty of things to be mad about today, but I don't think this should be one of them. He's getting old and these kind of injuries are going to happen. I wouldn't want to mess with a neck ailment. Now, if we're talking about extending his contract... yeah, this would be a problem.
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    I like that Kepler eats lefties for lunch now... but that's about it for positive things. I'm not even that mad at Gibson for having a bad outing, it's going to happen every once in a while. The Brewers lineup seems to know what they're doing... and we're throwing out Adrianza, Wilson, awful Buxton, and the crew at MLB pitching staffs. Yuck.
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    Petit just so happens to have one option remaining, so I imagine he gets optioned instead of DFA'd. For the short amount he's played, he's done a fine job. I'm just about done with Duffey, and I'd be OK if he was DFA'd. There are enough relievers at AAA that I'd rather see (Moya, Busenitz, Bard and Anderson are non-40 options).
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    Hmmm... I was not aware Castro had two prior knee surgeries before. With the third already completed, I wonder if this could shorten his catching career? Not that I think his knee will be like Sam Bradford's, but I do think it could be a concern going forward. Oh, and nice article!
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    Hopefully Rooker will be able to take this hot streak and extend it into a successful season at AA. He had a rough start in the upper minors, but I'm confident he'll be figure things out.
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    The reason the Cards cut bait with Lynn had nothing to do with thinking he would be terrible... they offered him the one year qualifying offer, so clearly they would have been OK with him there for about $17M. Lynn started asking for $20M+ on a deal and the Cards weren't interested in giving him that. (Heck, nobody was. Rightfully so.) They instead signed Miles Mikolas.
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    I'm trying to find a recent Twins comp. for a starting pitcher who was been worse than Lynn thus far. [possibly] Worse: Trevor May 2014 (7.88 ERA, 9 starts), Vance Worley 2013 (7.21 ERA, only 5.1 K/9 in 10 starts), 2012 Nick Blackburn (7.39 ERA, 3.8 K/9, 19 starts). Better: Ricky Nolasco (all years), Yohan Pino, Pedro Hernandez, P. J. Walters, Andrew Albers, Sam Deduno, Scott Diamond (at his worst), Liam Hendriks, Cole De Vries Yuck. The best comparison was rookie Trevor May, when he was getting strikeouts (8.7 K/9) but walking too much (4.3 BB/9) and giving too many hits. For a veteran comparison, Lynn is pitching similarly to Vance Worley, who was basically batting practice with few strikeouts. Bleh. Maybe the Twins should stop going after NL starters... Nolasco, Worley, and Lynn have all been flops.
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    I mean, they'll have that amount and more open for 2019, but I don't think spending it all on one player would be wise...
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    At least Mr. 23 million went 2 for 5 today... while Mr. 12 million only managed to go 3 innings and gave up 3 runs.
  24. Danchat
    Nice hit for LoMo, now let's get a few more hits! Robbie's gonna have to step things up here.
  25. Danchat
    Here's Hughes, as you all hoped you would see him! Remember why Molitor doesn't want to use him?
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