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  1. Old Twins Cap
    Pinch me. Best record in MLB. Most runs scored. Biggest run differential. Most HRs. Most wins by starting pitchers. Solid defense. Pretty good bullpen. Winning on the road as well as at home. Everybody gets rest and time off and no one is stressed. Like, did I die and go to heaven or what the hell is going on here?
  2. Old Twins Cap
    Well, I'm concerned about Lewis. Even Buxton was not the overall number 1 pick. It's okay to struggle, that's baseball, but at some point, when you are a stud, you snap out of it.
  3. Old Twins Cap
    No panic. Twins are winning and slugging and pitching well. F.O. will add relief at some point. But, for now, with a lot of games coming up against the Whities, the Royals, the Tigres and the Indians, no need to jump into something rash. The next move is the big move, so make sure it is the right move.
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    That second HR by Sano, the hang time, not the longest ball of the day, but man, to watch that go out must have been magnificent. Landed like 10 seconds after it was hit. If he pulls his thing together this year, all bets are off.
  5. Old Twins Cap
    Forget about Adrianza, it's Gordon who has become expendable.
  6. Old Twins Cap
    Rogers, sure, a little rusty. Then again, those three straight strikes to Trout in bottom 7 were a thing of beauty. The great slugger never took the bat off his shoulder.
  7. Old Twins Cap
    Gibson's fastball to Haniger in the 5th was a huge mistake. Right down the middle. Never kick a sleeping bear. But, May, his curve ball was not looking sharp yesterday and he should have stuck with the heater on Encarnacion. You wonder if Astudillo knows what he's doing back there. People love him to death, but does that make him a great game-calling catcher?
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    Very interesting look at Buck's hitting mechanics. Not sure if I know enough to validate the ins and outs, but certainly something has changed. My view is that there was more change upstairs than anywhere, which is always a big factor in hitting a baseball. He looks calm, he sees the ball better, his swing is smooth and efficient, and yet powerful. He belongs. A pitcher can still get him out down and away or hard up, but, that's true with most players. He ain't a pushover anymore, and he isn't afraid of who he might be as a ballplayer, which means -- he a man.
  9. Old Twins Cap
    Hope MLB gets a urine test on Tommy La Stella. He's cracked 10 HRs this year, and took an off-speed pitch out to LF. When HOF'er Albert Pujols goes oppo, it's dribblers, but not La Stella.
  10. Old Twins Cap
    Astudillo swung out of his shoes, trying to hit long flies. HRs can be fun, but also subvert the lineup by going for glory instead of the single to RF. Need to win games like these two losses to the Tigers, however it is done. And you lessen your chances by keeping your best reliever in the BP.
  11. Old Twins Cap
    C'mon, this is on Baldelli, for once. Tigers were throwing a MLB debut rookie in the encore, and after Cron ties it in the 8th of the opener, why don't you lead your Ace in the very next inning? Rogers. That's called "balling it". Let the Tigers deal with the fact that they aren't going to score and need to hold the Twins? Do they bring in Shane Green? Doubtful. Twins threw one away on the Hildenberger fantasy. Not the end of the world, but sweep the Tigers when you got them pinned like that.
  12. Old Twins Cap
    Tyler Jay? He finding himself after all these years?
  13. Old Twins Cap
    Once you have the Best Record in Baseball, clubs come at you, hard. Twins' weaknesses will be exposed. Plus, there's injuries, which to this point, 'cept Sano's party in Dominica, have been Astudillo, plus spare parts. There isn't a clear way to improve. Let them play. Then respond to gaps. And bigly.
  14. Old Twins Cap
    The thing I hate most about playing the Yankees in the Bronx, and I've seen it for decades, is that the home plate umpires squeeze the visiting team on the strike zone. Sure, some umps are worse than others, but, if you go back pitch-by-pitch, you start to realize that the bias is real and impacts the game in multiple ways. No umpire wants the Yankee fans on their ass, and they subtly cave to their curses and rants, making for a built-in Yankee advantage that is nauseating to watch.
  15. Old Twins Cap
    Best part of game, seeing Garver's lazy fly ball to RF go into the stands. Aaron Judge does that all the time, and it's nauseating. Of course, Judge would have likely caught Garver's fly if he were out there.
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    Cleveland, with Clevinger and Kluber out for months each, that's bad luck. But, a team wins three years in a row, that means they've been fortunate to some degree and things do have a way of evening out. Speaking of an evening out, come home and Kluber is injured while Perez pretty much dominates the best hitting team in baseball -- that's a swing evening that you could not have imagined. May 1st, the day the season swung.
  17. Old Twins Cap
    People complain about trading Pressly and what an awesome pitcher he is. Well, it may be that Houston knows how to coach pitching. Jesus, Wade Miley looked like Cy Young last night. Wasn't he rubbish in Boston and other cities before Houston?
  18. Old Twins Cap
    Someone on the 40 man. Littel? Who else?
  19. Old Twins Cap
    Polanco has huge eyes, if I can say it like that. Baseball players need to see really small things, really big things, and everything in between. I bet he sees in the dark.
  20. Old Twins Cap
    Early, we don't know much. Like, is Baltimore a terrible team? Not clear the way they played Boston and New York. But, how good are Boston and New York? Don't know. Toronto gets some breaks at Target Field, Twins don't hit and Toronto take three of four, and then sweep Oakland out west. How good Toronto? Hard to say. Things swing wildly the first months. Twins will hit homers. Defense is solid to excellent. Pitching? Don't know. Cleveland? Great starters, decent bullpen, weak on offense. Hard to repeat. Division for the taking if Twins can pitch.
  21. Old Twins Cap
    For a guy that big, with that kind of frame and momentum coming forward, his ball just kind of hangs there, in the zone, without a lot of dip or tilt or movement. And, at 92 tops, that's not a winning pitch against a good hitting team. Pineda may beat the Tigers, White Sox and Royals, but no way he will pitch the Twins deep into the playoffs. No way.
  22. Old Twins Cap
    Orioles and Rays go to extra innings in Florida. Burn the bullpen boys, and have safe travels getting back to Baltimore.
  23. Old Twins Cap
    You go back and watch that 8th inning, Mejia kept throwing the slider and it didn't have much action, just a gentle slope into the middle of the plate. In the 9th, he relied on his fastball, which was sitting 95 and he could control to both sides of the plate. Garver was a little slow to realize the slider was not working. But, really, the offense has to put more runs up. Listless. Definitely a night they needed the Sano-man.
  24. Old Twins Cap
    Remember the Twins played against a fair number of high-quality pitchers so far, Arrieta, DeGrom, Syndergard, Kluber, Bauer, Carrasco, guys who are going to be around the plate and have a long track record. Twins' plate appearances might well change as they work against the rest of the league, hurlers not yet proven to throw strikes. But, yes, they are coming out swinging.
  25. Old Twins Cap
    You know Buxton is different when, in the 8th, he gets down 0-2 and takes three straight close pitches and doesn't offer. Then fouls off three straight pitches. Then just misses on a fast ball and hits a huge fly to center. If he barrels that, it goes upper deck. But, he playing the game now.
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