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  1. Old Twins Cap
    It looks like Moya, with his hitchy hinky delivery, just does not have enough raw stuff to get out MLB hitters. They foul off his good pitches until they get one they like. Prolly an All-Star at AAA though.
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    Mistakes were made. Disconcerting to see Sano strike out against Romo's frisbee sliders. He has to do better in that situation. Walking the number 9 hitter in the 10th to get lefty-on-lefty with Denard Span? Questionable. And, got some bad breaks. At least the Twins are getting some clutch hits.
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    Twins have a long line-up, where power and rallies can spring up at any time. That's like the old days when they made the playoffs. So, offense is not going to be the issue. Pitching, they got horses now. Sure there's been inconsistency in both starters and relievers. But there's also been more Ks, and they've stood up to some good lineups and held their own. Rodney can come or go, depending on results, and they can add an arm from AAA or at the trade deadline. So, I think we are in this for real this year. The main thing I always look at is Buxton. If Buxton emerges, we go somewhere special. If he doesn't, we have an unexpected hole in the lineup, and we all shake our heads about what could have been.
  4. Old Twins Cap
    Tempest in a tea pot. All that matters is the next AB. Win a game for us and this all goes away. But, do it soon.
  5. Old Twins Cap
    My crystal ball says: Twins would be lucky to get in ONE game this weekend, given the weather. Break out the double-headers in mid-summer.
  6. Old Twins Cap
    So, Mejia is removed after two innings, ... to make room for Romero to throw five? Spring weather anomalies driving pitching decisions? Or, what?
  7. Old Twins Cap
    Last year, what, Houston scored 40 runs over three games in Minnesota? I like our team. But we didn't have a good night. Rosario is fine on defense. Last week he won a game in Baltimore with one throw. I wish he would not have swung at the first pitch to him in the 8th. If it's a curve, let it go on the first pitch. Houston was hoping he'd do that with the bases loaded. But, the one that got me, the one that I screamed on was Mauer's swing and miss against Verlander. One thing about Joe, he does not swing at balls out of the zone, and it was a fastball that started out of the zone and went down from there. He hits Verlander pretty good usually. Then Sano gets screwed by the umpire, three pitches outside the zone and he's down 1-2. Liked our chances against the world champs with their ace on the mound. Keep fighting boys.
  8. Old Twins Cap
    What, Stewart finally upping his velo? Or, a really bad team he was facing? Or done working on his off-speed pitches? Or the new emphasis on fast-ball command working for him? Gotta hear the inside story. No walks. No hard hit balls. AA players. Someone has to dig this out. Unless, of course, next start he returns to the old days.
  9. Old Twins Cap
    Hard to win every game. But, Berrios was cruising before the swinging bunt, which, being at the game, Sano had 00% chance of getting him but threw it anyway -- down the right field line. A bloop and a blast has always been the best way in baseball. But to hit two foul poles in one game? That's something. It's early, but I like our chances.
  10. Old Twins Cap
    Not to make excuses but, it is cold out there. Some pitchers, more than others, need the "feel" of the ball and seams. Anyone want to work on a carburetor in those conditions? Well along in May we will see who is stepping up. But, unlike years past, we have options in AAA and AA.
  11. Old Twins Cap
    Early. The hitters will get stronger with better timing. Pitchers will get sore and tired and lose their edge.
  12. Old Twins Cap
    I saw a Twins' team that looked good on the mound and in the field. They didn't hit the ball great, but, that's been the story this year so far. I expect that will change and they are, despite yesterday, a very fun team to watch. Now, if Sano and Buxton can just lay off the low outside curve.
  13. Old Twins Cap
    Kind of makes you wonder what the Twins knew: as in, why did they bring in Aybar to Spring Training? Wasn't that a head scratcher? I would bet MLB has back-channel communications that makes Trump-Russia look like an old fashioned switchboard. I am bullish on Adrianza. He's a heady player, a gamer, with good glove and decent speed. Can he hit? The answer to that question is: Can Sano hit the curve? Can Kepler hit lefties? Can Buxton hit anyone? IOWs, if we are hanging anything on Adrianza's bat, we are in big trouble.
  14. Old Twins Cap
    After today's spring training game, extend him! :}
  15. Old Twins Cap
    Ahh, jeez, Kirby. What a ride. What a sad ending. Never forget, playing the A's one time, Ricky Henderson leads off and hits one up the gap into RF. Puckett cuts it off, has that crow-hop muscle twitch thing that only he can do where the whole body pivots at once, puts him in position to rifle a throw to 2B, Henderson slides in and is called safe. Second time up, similar ball, Puckett running away from 2B makes the same whole body crow-hop pivot. Henderson slams on the brakes and goes back to first. Never be another one like him. Ever.
  16. Old Twins Cap
    You never really know in baseball, other than, it's hard to repeat. In Cleveland's case, it's hard to repeat what you repeated. For the Twins, either their young guys take another step toward being stellar professionals, or they languish in the realm of ... maybe, could be, potential. That's what this year is about. We either are holding winning cards, and they play through, or, we have questions, doubts, injuries, insecurities -- and, more questions.
  17. Old Twins Cap
    Yeah, that pitch looks impressive. But, I would bet, if he tries that pitch again on a MLB hitter next AB, they rock it into right center field for extra bases. Just that, MLB baseball=adjustments. If you can't adapt, you never really get to MLB.
  18. Old Twins Cap
    So, if player salaries need to run about 48-52%, does anyone know what expenses eat up the remaining @50% on an MLB team? In restaurants, accountants break things down roughly: food costs @30%, labor @35%, facility/utilities @10%, F.F.E. @5%, overhead/inventory @5%, marketing @5%, profit @10%. In a good year. MLB teams have a ton of people, MiLB players, scouts/coaches/admin, equipment, marketing, travel, facilities, and on and on. And the owner will want to make money, millions likely, every year. Though, the main way to make money in sports franchising is to buy the team low, i.e. @$250M, and sell it high, i.e. @$400M. Be interesting to see their target percentages across the board.
  19. Old Twins Cap
    Is that some kind of metaphoric innuendo about Bonnes and the podcast? Yeah, nah, just over-thinking it. G'Night
  20. Old Twins Cap
    The head of a Fort, in military parlance, is usually a General, but also, commonly, Base Commander. That's for the head honcho. Here, you are looking for a stand-out prospect, so I would slide down the ranks and find one that makes sense. Kind of Elvis Presley, 1954, enlisted man, lip curl and swagg'ah. I get that "Sire" rhymes with Fort Myers, but a "sire" is the lead genetic line of a herd, or, in olden times, of a king, who, of course, sires as much as possible before he retires. Twins don't want those optics, especially from guys like Sano. So, there's that.
  21. Old Twins Cap
    Nicely reasoned and credible. Reduce both supply and demand and you have a prescription for less FA activity. What can and will Baseball do to address this? The incentive to tank is real and not actually that big a deal financially, especially if you have a solid base of fan support. But, it means that you only have a certain number of teams "in it" every year and they become "super teams" by dint of scooping up the best players from the teams that are tanking. And, of course, the schedule is unbalanced making it that much easier to win divisions or wild cards by being in the right place at the right time. This will need to be addressed. Somehow.
  22. Old Twins Cap
    Whatever, Dozier tells Molitor he prefers to bat lead-off and so he does. That's it. He is a gritty lead-off man. Dozier does not get cheated. If it works, then it works. Get tired of the solo HR all you want, there are other factors in play, psychological for Dozier and psycho-social in terms of the clubhouse. If Twins are scoring runs, don't fuss with it.
  23. Old Twins Cap
    You don't need an Ace, but, you do need pitchers who are pitching well. And, how a team gets there often involves happenstance and good fortune. So, roll the dice.
  24. Old Twins Cap
    Be interesting to see what MLB decides. Allegations are three years old, no formal complaint filed. But, the #me too movement has felled big fellahs and MLB will have to take a stance on complaints about player behavior for a whole bunch of very good reasons. But the Sano decision will need to be fair, credible and transparent, and they can't release hardly any information about it due to privacy laws. So, tough call as to how to punish/reprimand/set a bar for the league.
  25. Old Twins Cap
    Hughes is an extreme fly-ball pitcher in an extreme fly-ball business, with declining velocity, straight-line fastball and marginal breaking stuff. He's been injured, and injured again, thoracically surgeried, and at whatever age, is attempting a come-back. Good on him. We can go over a lot of numbers, but everything is pointing against his future sustainable success as a MLB starting pitcher. Pretty much everything -- except not pitching in Yankee Stadium, where, a reach, a broken bat, a pop-up, can carry out to RF. Hughes ain't going to carry you through the playoffs and into the World Series. Ever. So, there's that.
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