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  1. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Houston's hitters are going to foul off a ton of pitches from Ober. A ton. Hope it works out.
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    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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    8-0 Rays. 4-0 Houston. Toronto in trouble on the mound. They will be throwing a lot of bullpen arms after maxing out the last couple games. Twins catching some early breaks?
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    He's definitely not as good throwing lefty.
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    Why is that a good thing? Correa has been awful this year with RISP, runners on base, and with no one on base. His year is what it is. Hopefully the plantar fascitis is the principal cause and can be addressed over time. As it is, despite the performances of Buxton and Correa, the Twins are winning the division with depth, rookies and a good pitching staff. Not something I would have expected, but, good on them!
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    All I can say is I hope Mr. Correa spends more time talking about "being hungry" for a playoff run then how sexy he feels hitting .217.
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    I was at the game. Body language on the Pale Hose, Anderson, Graveman, Robert, just terrible. If those guys were on my team, I would just give up already. No life in them. At all. The ball Wallner hit off the right field wall, that was a bullet. Haven't seen a ball hit like that since Cruz was on the team. Terrible base-running by Wallner though. He's fast enough, just way too conservative. He and Gallo should spend more time together. You put saddles on those two guys, they could carry the team.
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    If you watch carefully , the fielder missed the short hop throw and the ball hits Buxton in the side of the face. He took a shot and got up slowly but it was the ball.
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    Who knows? Twins were not such a lousy hitting team last year, so, let's admit something up front: They've gone backward. Question is: Why? Or, better yet, how? Strike outs are the most obvious clue. They lead the league and are on pace to set a record. I know the stats heads don't overrate the value of Ks, but, still, if you go from middle of the pack to the worst ever, something must be going on, right? Are the players water bottles spiked by an insider? No real answers. But, why are the veterans the worst of the worst? Rookies, I can understand, but the veterans k'ing by the dozen every game? It's just, it's like a murder mystery> Who murdered the Twins ability to make contact with the baseball? What happened? This is an all-time great mystery: How does a team go from being mediocre at hitting to being one of the all-time worst? I don't know. Neither does anyone else. But whatever Popkins is doing, can I just say this out loud: It's not working!! Maybe being cerebral is overrated when it comes to baseball, He's great at analytics, but all it does is make the Twins hitters overthink it. Have some fun, hit the gaddamn baseball and run toward first. It used to be SOP, but now, for whatever reason, it's swing and miss and go back to the dugout. It might be funny, even hilarious if this were a last place team, like the '68 Mets, but no, it's the Twins, in a lousy division, trying to out-lousy the worst teams in the American League and likely succeeding. Who killed their ability to hit the ball?
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    Kind of perplexing: a first-place team yet completely unwatchable and cringe-worthy, let down by their veterans, leading the league in strike outs, while featuring a top-five starting pitching staff. There are no obvious moves to make. The Twins offense should be better, but they can't hit the ball, especially with runners on base, and particularly when they are in scoring position. There is nothing to be done but accept that something is terribly wrong with this team. It starts with Buxton, Correa and Kepler, but it doesn't stop there. Lewis and Polanco can't stay healthy, Baldelli finds new ways to lose games in the late innings and the idea that they might rally, at some point, string some hits together, get that big knock, you know, like score some runs, come from behind, is dashed over and over again. Can't love them; can we leave them at least? Just dreadful season. The worst division in baseball and we sit, hands folded, watching offensive ineptitude prevail, with no moves to be made and no one to hold to account.
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    The umps in New York have always favored the Yanks, that's just reality that must be accepted. However, the Twins' essential problem is on offense, and the fact they lead the league in Ks. Tell me the last time that a team that Ks more than all other teams finished in first place or made a run in the playoffs? Something gotta change because we are on the verge of being beyond a small sample size.
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    Not sure about Vazquez calling a great game. Duran throws 102 mph. Why again would you call for his first pitch of the inning to be a curve in the upper 80s? Not for my money. Make their best hitter see, feel and fear the high heat. Then throw the curve. Robert prolly thinks he hit Duran's fast ball. Was he guessing curve there?
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    Sparky Anderson said that in a baseball season, every team is going to win 50 and lose 50 no matter what. It's the other games, the contested ones, that make winners and losers. Twins score two runs, usually they lose. Most of this is about winning when you didn't play all that well -- chalk up some wins that could have been losses in most circumstances. And the pitching, especially the BP, looks reliable.
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    Never seen so many guys so hung up on what they think possible scenarios may shade into predictions if a particular analysis is applied to projections of potential in what could have been worlds which only statistics can actually adequately describe if dis-aggregated from previous analyses which no one can possibly contest. Ya. Go Twins. Let's have some fun.
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    Twins are going for it, guys. That's what I see in this move. They have the pieces in place; relievers can be added along the way. They are going for it.
  21. Old Twins Hat
    Raise your hand if it's conceivable that you will not be alive in 13 years. Hard to really be that upset.
  22. Old Twins Hat
    Matt, after reading your take, I am looking out my window right now.... Eight inches of snow. Drifted over sidewalks and driveways that I spent two hours shoveling yesterday. The winds are 20-30 mph, with occasional higher gusts. Wind-chill right around zero. There is no sun, and if there were, it would come up at 8:00 and go down at 4:30 p.m., meaning, there isn't a chance of seeing the light of day in a non-work moment. Tell me again why the Twins could or should sign an elite baseball pitcher to bring their family to this God-forsaken land? Wouldn't Carlos Rodon prefer to hang out in Los Angeles, maybe hit the beach by 10:00 am., ice-cream on the boardwalk, those barely dressed sexy young things zipping by on roller blades -- not a cloud in the sky, and all the glitz and glamor of California that make Carlos believe that with his talent, he should be priced like an epic piece of Christian Dior jewelry, dangling between the open front of that babe's prodigious tank top.
  23. Old Twins Hat
    Is he a brother?
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