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  1. Old Twins Hat
    I am not sure a player should be happy if they are not reaching their potential and the team is struggling to win. I mean, what about the drive to get better? It's work. At a certain point, I want a competitor, not a glad-hander.
  2. Old Twins Hat
    I clicked on this article when I read the title: Come Ready to Work The body language, facial expressions and easy-going smile of Royce -- when on the field and interacting with opponents -- has really been bothering me. The ultimate goal of a professional baseball player is to win. And when the team is not winning, or even when they are, it's more than a little off-putting to appear as if you are in a greeting line at a wedding. C'mon Royce, get the game face on and play to win. It's not a popularity contest.
  3. Old Twins Hat
    Who is this guy? And why has no one talked about him? Over .300 average, 900 OPS, 5' 5" tall. WTF? How can someone that small fly under the radar? Or, did I just answer my own question.
  4. Old Twins Hat
    Provus was saying all series that Seager swings on every first-pitch fastball and is hitting like .500 with that approach. Twins had been throwing him change-ups on every first pitch. I guess Alcala didn't get the memo. Doesn't really absolve Jeffers though.
  5. Old Twins Hat
    I watched most of the game and then had to go pick-up my step-son and listened on the radio. After watching Pablo struggle, inning after inning, and yet escape, and knowing how the BP has been used/abused, my assumption was Rocco would go to Richards. And if Richards faltered, he still had Jax and Duran, if not Okert and Thielbar. It was the 7th after all. Alas, Twins found a way to lose, as convoluted as it was. Baseball is about second-guessing when you lose, and celebrating when you win. But why get Richards if you can't live what he does in high leverage situations?
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    Something is wrong with Lewis. You can see it with his hitting and his defense. It looks like he can't get his legs working together, and it hampers all his baseball moves, especially throwing across the diamond and trying to hit for power. He's been hitting a lot of weak ground balls to the left side. And his throws just look pathetic. Meanwhile his average and OPS are sinking, while his defense tumbles below average. Great kid, unlimited potential, but, at this point, he may need a break.
  7. Old Twins Hat
    How do I shut off the volume on your voice-overs on the website? People do like to watch the highlights with sound and now it's just all a jumble of voices with two audios going. BTW, I don't enjoy having a disembodied voice pop on all of a sudden on a beautiful quiet morning. We should be able to opt out.
  8. Old Twins Hat
    Yeah, no upside with Farmer. Gotta roll dice and hope a next guy steps up -- Martin, and, er,... not a lot available, Martin.
  9. Old Twins Hat
    Gotta love it when kids playing beyond the LF wall all turn and chase like crazy after the long home run by Keaschall. What a blast.
  10. Old Twins Hat
    This game is pretty simple: make winning plays, as many as you can, every game. That's it. Hoping the guys have it in them.
  11. Old Twins Hat
    Willi Castro, what a day. All over the bases, three hits, running every which way, getting bulldozed by Wallner on that foul pop, having to hustle back to first on that amazing catch by the Detroit LF, only to have to turn on the jets again and circle the bases on Wallner's double, He's the energizer: put him on the scorecard, wind him up and let him go.
  12. Old Twins Hat
    In theory, the Twins, once Topa is activated, will have two sets of high quality relievers. Alcala, Jax and Duran for the games they are leading. Topa, Sands and Stewart for games where it remains close. Okert, Thielbar and Staumont .... well, someone will need to get cut and the other two can do mop up. But, bullpen could be strong down the stretch. Jax and Duran have actually been less than lockdown for much of the season so who knows what Rocco will go with.
  13. Old Twins Hat
    It's early, he's young, no need to panic. But, there were five top prospects in his draft class, and everybody said that any one of them could be taken as a first pick in a normal year, and that it wasn't a normal year. Skenes is doing pretty good. Crews is looking good. The guy that Texas picked in front of Jenkins is already in the Major Leagues. True enough, those picks were college guys. So, I think the expectations of comparing the five prospects from that year were not fairly weighted. Jenkins is young and big and strong and could end up being beyond solid. But, the comps of being grouped with the other four was unrealistic. Jenkins will rise to his level as time goes on, but only with ups and downs that a kid his age experiences. He ain't going to be a super young super star, that's all we know at this point.
  14. Old Twins Hat
    Given his size and power, more like Alex Bregman to me. One can hope.
  15. Old Twins Hat
    Can never have enough Shortstops. Er, infielders. Or sparkplugs. Go Twins!
  16. Old Twins Hat
    Wallner left his feet on the first batter of the game on Friday night and the Twins never recovered. Margot, he hit the Twins into a tie but, for gosh sakes, don't leave your feet on the first batter of the inning. Play the bounce, throw it to 2B, let Duran deal with it. That said, Duran's curve balls inside on Lefty hitters have gotten spanked this year. Why speed up their bats? At least back door the curve once in awhile. Twins won a boatload of series where they lose game one but win the last two games. Can't even count them all. Thought they had a chance to do it again but they threw it away, literally.
  17. Old Twins Hat
    Hoping for a late bloom. Not everybody is prime at 18 or 20.
  18. Old Twins Hat
    Losses hurt, but, my goodness, what a game. Loperfido hits one down the RF line, right on the chalk, to score a couple runs, then, makes that barehand catch falling on the warning track. Altuve runs down a pop up with the bases loaded and makes a back to the infield catch on Correa. Correa makes an impossible play on Pena's grounder up the middle. Miranda runs his hit streak to 10 ABs. The Twins homer for the 22nd straight game, and put up seven runs in the bottom of nine with two outs. I mean, come on people, this game was off the chain, all this in one nine inning game!
  19. Old Twins Hat
    I am thinking that it is time for Brooks Lee to make his MLB debut. When Lewis gets a timeline, Farmer's days are numbered. Some team may trade a low A backend pitcher with velocity for infield depth.
  20. Old Twins Hat
    Absolutely brilliant. This is a parody, right?
  21. Old Twins Hat
    Don't forget on Radke, and perhaps Ober, getting out of the first inning without surrendering runs was his biggest challenge. It was like he had to learn how to get this pitches to work at the beginning of every game. But once he did, it was like a magician with a bag of tricks == now you see it, now you don't, now you can't.
  22. Old Twins Hat
    How about hearing about Topa and Stewart?
  23. Old Twins Hat
    You never, ever trade your top pitching prospect. Ever.
  24. Old Twins Hat
    Got to add the name Blewett to my list of unfortunate baseball names.
  25. Old Twins Hat
    New Yorkers are still waiting for the Thielbar curve ball to Giancarlo Stanton to come down in that one winnable game in the Bronx. It wasn't a hanger either. It was his best pitch.
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