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  1. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
  4. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
  7. Old Twins Hat
    Given his size and power, more like Alex Bregman to me. One can hope.
  8. Old Twins Hat
    Can never have enough Shortstops. Er, infielders. Or sparkplugs. Go Twins!
  9. 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.
  10. Old Twins Hat
    Hoping for a late bloom. Not everybody is prime at 18 or 20.
  11. 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!
  12. 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.
  13. Old Twins Hat
    Absolutely brilliant. This is a parody, right?
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    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.
  15. Old Twins Hat
    How about hearing about Topa and Stewart?
  16. Old Twins Hat
    You never, ever trade your top pitching prospect. Ever.
  17. Old Twins Hat
    Got to add the name Blewett to my list of unfortunate baseball names.
  18. 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.
  19. Old Twins Hat
    Ever since Michael Wacha proclaimed on National TV during the Houston playoff series that Wallner had a hole in his swing -- up and inside fastballs -- big enough to drive a truck through, Wallner has not been the same guy. But, baseball is a game of adjustments and teams know his weakness as much as he does.
  20. Old Twins Hat
    You know it's bad when the author refers to the hitting coach as Popovich and no one really notices. Fifteen Ks is five full innings of nothing happening. Five. It's simply unwatchable.
  21. Old Twins Hat
    Yeah, I think the analytics, when you have a shutdown bullpen, show how getting a lead in the middle innings is pretty much the ballgame. Thus, pinch-hitting for Julien. Baldelli also knows the value of getting Margot some confidence. It's early. We can allow the manager a chance to get his team all pulling in the same direction.
  22. Old Twins Hat
    Dodgers have spent a BILLION dollars on free agents so far this off-season. BILLION with a B. Baseball needs to do something before L.A. just ups and buys an entire team Division,. CRAZY amount of money.
  23. Old Twins Hat
    Most of managing baseball in MLB is about how you handle relationships -- with everyone, the players of course, but your staff, the FO, myriad professionals covering/involved with the team. Baldelli is a very good communicator. He is calm, measured, fair and insightful,. This all comes across in his interviews and interactions with the media, and secondarily, through listening to the players and others associated with the team. Is he a good manager? Well, if the job is mainly about handling relationships, the answer is "yes". The in-game strategies, the line-ups, the decisions about pitchers coming in -- hate to say it, but that stuff is really secondary to how he shows up for all the other "stuff" he is responsible for. This is not a Billy Martin job anymore, coaching baseball. You can't just cuss and throw things around and bitch and expect that your team will respond. I have been impressed by how Baldelli handles all questions, gets to the guts of the issue and doesn't duck or obfuscate or blame others.
  24. Old Twins Hat
    Houston's hitters are going to foul off a ton of pitches from Ober. A ton. Hope it works out.
  25. Old Twins Hat
    Fun day around the league. In Atlanta, the Braves actually had the lead and Washington was down to its last three outs, but they ended up scoring four runs in top of the ninth and pushing the game to the bottom. Without that, Twins HR record would have stood, maybe forever, who knows? Now we are left with the one record that transcends all sports: 0 for 18 in the playoffs. When the Twins break that jinx, if they break that jinx, the Baseball Gods certainly owe us something for these decades of misery. What will we get? Worth tuning in.
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