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  1. Old Twins Cap
    Marwin, back on a team that knows how to steal the catcher's signs, could have a big year.
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    Berrios looked great, but, as always with Jose, what kind of stuff he shows up with can vary widely from game to game, including fastball command and sharpness of his curve. So, we'll see. Great pitchers come with their good stuff 80% of the time, and the other 20%, they scuffle, scrap and pull it together through watching how hitters react and making do with what's working that night. We gotta hope Jose learns to pitch like great ones do.
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    Standard Spanish pronunciation: J is an aspirated English H and the H is silent. So, "hoan". But, given English butchering of all languages, they may call him anything from Juan to Ho'an. Or just dipthong the O-A, into an Asian expletitive used after eating food that is too hot: HHHoooaaannn! I don't know.
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    If he did, and I didn't acutally read the article I will admit, that means automatically that we do not have the best infield in whatever jurisdiction the author was attempting to assess. Sano has some positive attributes for sure, and makes some nice plays, but, we need to be realistic: he isn't a top 10 defender, and that means the occasional short-hop throw from one of our Ace infielders will end up in the stands. And pop-ups down the line will go unsecured. And he will muff the occasional bunt or squibber. We only hope he doesn't fish after the low outside curve. But, the "Best Infield in baseball" doesn't earn it by playing like that.
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    Don't forget that one of the positions in the infield is First Base.
  6. Old Twins Cap
    He's an asset. Look, like any business, a Club takes its money and turns it into a physical asset. Hopefully you fairly value the asset and he produces. At some point during the season, depending on needs, depth, performance, place in the standings, you flip that asset for something else. Or you keep him. Not a big deal. Standard operating procedure for MLB clubs. And certainly not worth getting worked up over. Or excited. Sometimes you overpay, sometimes under, sometimes you hit the jackpot. But, you definitely roll the dice. If you don't spend money, you just pay more in taxes next year.
  7. Old Twins Cap
    Not much to say other than: That was the worst game from a team with 16 straight losses in playoff history. If it had been against the Yankees I would have gone out back by the woodpile and vomited. As it is: buck up and win tomorrow.
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    Sano looks lost right now against RH pitching. Other than that, if a someone gets injured during the series, I would assume MLB allows for a replacement to be named. So, my bet: reward for being the best player with the best attitude over in St. Paul. Who wouldn't want to sit on the Twins bench for the playoff run? And may it be long and interesting.
  9. Old Twins Cap
    I think they maneuvered through that rather well. They have a pretty damn good shot at beating the Astros in three games at Target Field.
  10. Old Twins Cap
    Between Cruz, Garver, Sano and Buxton, there were a lot of swing and missess on low outside sliders. They will get more chances to improve on that pitch. For sure.
  11. Old Twins Cap
    Bring on the Yanks! Snap the skid during the Covid year. Get the monkey, take it off your back and spank the monkey, on National Television.
  12. Old Twins Cap
    The old saying, "You are never as good as you think on your best days, nor as bad as you imagine on your worst" applies here. That said, this team is one of the best in the league at going from 1st to 3rd in a hurry. :} It's okay to laugh, they are in the playoffs.
  13. Old Twins Cap
    Without fans, with a likely bubble hub, playoff positioning matters less than ever. They will make the playoffs; if they play well, they will advance. When the year started, if was pitching and defense, Cruz, Rosario and Kepler winning them ballgames. At this point, we don't know what's going to click for them or take them south to an early exit.
  14. Old Twins Cap
    How long will it be before Berrios has to simplify his delivery? He's got a lot of moving parts, and every game he pitches, you don't know if he will be able to locate, let alone command, his fast ball or his curve. To me that means you pare back to a simpler wind up, something more repeatable, more reliable in how the ball and body combine to propel the baseball. You heard it here first: Berrios needs to simplify his wind up for the sake of consistency. As for Romo, his raw stuff is just not that good. He can maybe shut down the KC and Detroits of the league, but asking him to protect a lead against a good hitting team, which the Twins will face in the playoffs, just not going to happen. Duffy and Clippard are their best pitchers right now. No reason Duffy after throwing, what?, 10 pitches in the 7th -- no reason he could not have handled the 8th. Baldelli is not trying to win these games per se, he is feeling out his bullpen, giving them experience and shots at winning, maybe partly not to let a team like the Tribe get too familiar with our people.
  15. Old Twins Cap
    How about we acquire Donaldson, Buxton and Garver by doing nothing but let them heal?
  16. Old Twins Cap
    They had a slow motion camera shot with Romo rocking full body with his long hair flopping forward and backward, the hat with the ball in it in front of him extended out like an offering. Looked like some kind of shamanic ritual. I went to bed laughing my ass off.
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    If Dobnak could room with Romo, and Sergio teach him that crafty low inside corner, low outside corner thing, alternating sinker, slider, change-up, the Dobber could become the next Greg Maddux. Or am I dating myself? Technically I can't date myself if I'm married, right? Help.
  18. Old Twins Cap
    Go get Rosenthal before someone we meet in the playoffs does. Jesus Christ! Nine pitches and the Twins are toast. He's the white Aroldis Chapman. Or something.
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    If I were pitching to Buxton right now, I would throw breaking stuff low and away, fastballs up and in, then finish with a fastball away. He's pulling everything, which is working now, but baseball is a game of adjustments and everyone can see the same thing we see. Until Buck goes with fastballs to RF, I think it is reasonable to be skeptical that this is a turn the corner kind of moment.
  20. Old Twins Cap
    Sooner or later, there will be conversation, maybe even controversy, about where to hit Buxton in the lineup. He's on the pitches and is showing power. You really going to hit him 9th?
  21. Old Twins Cap
    Berrios not sharp. You have to get the #9 batter out in the 2nd inning by throwing him strikes. Didn't get it done and it cost him four runs. Other hand, glad we aren't the Orioles, who started Tommy Milone on opening day. Remember those years? Or the Tigers, whose three of first four hitters are former Twins, Goodrum, Schoop and Cron. Cron did homer for their only run. Twins really could stand out this year, and it would not be a step back to have to go to a "bullpen game".
  22. Old Twins Cap
    The only way to beat this thing is to knock it out early, before it infects a high percentage of the population. Real leaders understand what they are being told by health professionals, which is, limit the spread early, save yourself a whole ton of difficulties later. So, call it caution or prevention or whatever. Really, it's a strategy, a smart strategy to expedite recovery. The business as usual path leads to protracted, ongoing, severe, irreversible harms across society. Without leadership from the Federal government, local and corporate leaders are getting this right. And, we will be grateful they did and took action early. Hopefully, despite flare-ups and hotspots in a few areas, in two months time we will be able to get back to some level of normal. But it will take months. Then years before a vaccine and lack of spread render the novel coronavirus an infrequent disease rather than a pandemic.
  23. Old Twins Cap
    What are you saying? Just let everyone get it and see what happens? Survival of the fittest? Do you know what being in the hospital for weeks is like? How expensive it is? How completely shut down would be every phase of our economy once infection rates reach 50-60-70%? How many seniors would die? All so we can have a baseball season? Wake up. Hard place met rock. There's going to be a new normal here; we are all implicated. And no one knows where this goes or ends. Period.
  24. Old Twins Cap
    Yeah, sad to say but baseball is going to be shelved for a considerable period at this point. The whole planet, every country, every business, every community -- we are entering a new reality that has not occurred in the modern world. With latent transmission being a possibility over the long term, the lack of a vaccine, the reality of being able to get corona virus a second and third and endless number of times -- the economic impacts, in places like Italy sitting on $3 trillion in debt and the whole country shut down. Sports will be a welcome relief at some point in the future, but right now, they seem like a fatuous extravagance before we knew what was really happening. Stay safe out there.
  25. Old Twins Cap
    It was plain as the nose on the Twins' mascot face that counting on a 280 lb 3B to avoid injury over the course of a season was a prescription for disaster. That's always going to be the real upside to Donaldson's signing. It's like the Twins got two 40 HR sluggers for the price of one.
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