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  1. Danchat
    Fun fact: Duran has given up just 2 earned runs in the past 18.2 innings.
  2. Danchat
    I'll follow that up with a prediction - Lopez will finish the year with an ERA under 3.80, and he will also pitch at least 170 innings on the season.
  3. Danchat
    Have you seen our AAA pitching? It’s pretty bad, their best starter would be Headrick who just got drubbed, SWR is a disaster and Dobnak has a WHIP of almost 2. The manager means nothing when your players are bad.
  4. Danchat
    I have confidence that Lopez will turn around and be a fairly good starter going forward (confidence in Pablo, not the Twins)... but maybe don't trade the reigning batting champion in his prime. The front office wisely sold high on a few guys in early 2022 (Garver, Rogers, Donaldson), but it turned out Arraez didn't reached his ceiling in 2022.
  5. Danchat
    Eh, did you watch any baseball from 2011 to 2016? The 2011-14 teams were garbage while the 2016 Total System Failure was an abomination on the eyes. The pitching we have is way, way better than what those teams had. Then again, we are potentially facing a third straight losing season, getting close to matching the 4 straight losing seasons from 2011-14... Bold of you to assume there even is a DFA clock on him!
  6. Danchat
    Never thought I’d see a 41 mph pitch induce a GBDP! Man, Kluber is cooked.
  7. Danchat
    Seems like the training staff has put the kibosh on Buxton playing CF. Edit: Ninja'd by Mike who posted the same tweet 30 seconds earlier... you win this round!
  8. Danchat
    He might be a DH-only, so it'd be nice if a certain someone could start playing in his natural position rather than DH...
  9. Danchat
    It's disappointing seeing Varland begin to crater like this. I wonder if it's a "hitters figuring him out" problem or just the fact that his stuff isn't quite good enough? I mentioned he had the look of a legit MLB starter in a post a couple weeks back, and while that was still as a #4 or 5 starter - this isn't a good look. And then we finally get to see Balazovic pitch for the first time with the Twins... it's hard to believe it took him so long to make it up here. The dude's already in his final option year! I can't say anything that hasn't already been said about the hitters. I'd rather see the young players struggle in the majors than the veterans, and it's incredible how much rope Kepler has gotten. I'm just about done with Gallo, but his OPS is still high enough that he'll probably be given the entire rest of the season to try and prove that the FO was right to sign him. He's just flat-out not a good hitter like Sano - he'll contribute with walks and a hit XBH rate, but the frequently of awful at bats is so high that it prevents him from moving runners or doing anything against pitchers with nastier stuff. The dude has 3 career sac flies!! In almost 3000 plate appearances!!! Having the easiest schedule in baseball is nice, but that doesn't mean you will automatically win a majority of those games. Good teams will lose a series every once in a while to a bad team, but I think we've seen enough from the Twins to know that they aren't good. Not bad, but clearly not going anywhere.
  10. Danchat
    It's inexcusable that Wallner isn't in the majors right now. Kepler is a sub replacement level hitter and the team needs a jolt, and we may as well figure out if Wallner can handle the majors now rather than later.
  11. Danchat
    The restricted list? Hmmmm... There might be a story here, or perhaps a personal emergency of some sort?
  12. Danchat
    Gallo is the last guy you want up with runners on, he just takes too many uncompetitive at bats.
  13. Danchat
    Heck of a bullpen game!
  14. Danchat
    Assuming we are talking about Wentz, he had 7 once and he also hit 6 once (19 total starts). Yikes!
  15. Danchat
    Getting out of this only down 2-1 would be a win...
  16. Danchat
    Absolutely, Castro's speed on the basepaths and ability to play multiple positions decently well gives him utility over Kepler - not to mention that his career OPS, which is pretty bad, is still better than Kepler 2022-23. Oh, and he can at least play CF (even if he's not great at it) while Kepler simply won't anymore.
  17. Danchat
    I see Rodriguez and Martin as the primary locks. Enlow is probably back on the 40 man after getting removed. Severino is a tricky one because I think this will be the third year he is eligible, he makes sense as a trade candidate. Camargo fit the free agent market last year and returned on a MILB deal, and doesn't seem to be valuable enough to be protected. Funderburk and Grace are middling minor league relievers who don't need to be protected. Feels like we have a couple of these relievers reach AAA every year but then never end up doing anything, whether it be Mason Melotakis, Tom Hackimer, Jake Reed, etc.
  18. Danchat
    So, we ready for Pagan to defend another 2 run lead in the 8th? 🤪
  19. Danchat
    Dang, they are jumping on Williams! GAME!!!!
  20. Danchat
    Gallo is the king of failing to get RBIs, no surprise there
  21. Danchat
    We praise a lot of moves here, but regardless we need to judge moves by the results. It is also way to early to judge the Buxton move.
  22. Danchat
    The problem, this isn't going to happen because the front office doesn't want to have a third straight losing season in a row. They pitched the idea of "sustainable competitiveness" and yet here we are in year 7 of the regime and we're not much better off than where we started. I don't know if the Pohlads are anywhere ready to be handing out pink slips, but Falvine is more likely to acquire a couple rentals or get a couple guys with control to at least win the division so they can buy some more time... despite the fact that the team will be totally buoyed by being in a horrifically bad division.
  23. Danchat
    I'd rather stick with just having the Paddack contract rather than having him and Mahle. With Ryan, Varland, and Ober on their rookie deals and Lopez just signing an extension, I think we are good with the rotation the way it is. And that's not mentioning what to do with Sonny Gray. Hard pass.
  24. Danchat
    Bad loss. The logic behind giving Pagan a shot in high leverage situations makes sense with how well he's pitched recently, but he just doesn't have what it takes. I imagine Falvey/Levine have been pestering Rocco to get him out of low leverage situations for some time now, and with Lopez not viable for now and Stewart pitching the past two days, it made sense to throw him out there. The FO's hubris with believing in Pagan costs this team another game. Though I will also add, failing to score the runner on 3rd with 0 outs in the 7th IIRC was unacceptable. Why is hitting a sac fly so hard?!
  25. Danchat
    Too bad Biggio didn’t bunt like Dick wanted him to. That’s the downside to bunting!
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