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  1. Bodie
    Simple idea... Ask to shake hands with the pitcher before the trade. Find an old farmer with a hook (for a right hand) to do it for southpaws. I can think of a couple of trades that probably would have fallen apart right about then...
  2. Bodie
    And Mr. 13-innings could have had a long career if they would have babied him...
  3. Bodie
    3 hits. 7 strikeouts. Twice as many Ks as hits: sounds like (modern) Twins baseball...
  4. Bodie
    Find it worrying that the team needs multiple explicit reminders that they are professionals, and should act like it ...
  5. Bodie
    Odd... My fondest dream involved swerving to miss a tree and running over the Yankees!
  6. Bodie
    If it is taking a toll, there is a problem much more immediate than "workload management"...
  7. Bodie
    Byron Buxton- the Twins' Ferrari. Oh, so very sexy when everything thing is tuned perfectly. An utter pain in our collective arse when not. But even when not optimally tuned, we still know he is a Ferrari and dream of that V8 purring along at 7000 rpm, sexy as a Magnum PI repeat...
  8. Bodie
    Nice to this game follow the earlier 12th inning "outburst"! Kick 'em when they are down! (twice if you can) Nice to see the kids step up and play like they belong in Minneapolis and not St. Paul. Does a lot to calm some early season bad vibes that I'm getting....
  9. Bodie
    And here I am thinking it was extraordinarily generous... Still rather have ol' DK than diSca. The one has been a serviceable starter. The other? Never in his career, and now out. I'd direct y'all to my reaction upon completion of the diSca trade (best case scenario being an injury to keep a bad arm from being a black hole on the pitching staff), but that would be a bit too much "I told you so". Hope for TJ surgery just to keep a 5+ ERA off the active roster for the season because they refuse to cut bait of obvious fork-ups! (see Joey Gallo for an example of Twins keeping an obvious detriment for no other reason than the salary obligation)
  10. Bodie
    Even in meaningless games, I HATE to see Ks outnumbering hits, especially after last year's (and not just last season...) K-palooza. I can remember when any player who did so was almost universally deemed to not be a real MLB player. No clue what the consensus would be about a team doing so would be, but I can guess!
  11. Bodie
    Only one guy, off the top of my head has played regularly for the Twins, and "looks like Sano" in a LONG time and his name is Joey Gallo...
  12. Bodie
    Tony Oliva. He's going to be happy, and if Tony is happy and doesn't lift you to at least "happy" something is wrong with you.
  13. Bodie
    Didn't know SI still existed, let alone was relied on for actual (i.e. non-freakshow swimsuit issue) information...
  14. Bodie
    Saw a BHOF vote tracking site over the weekend that has Joe Mauer at just over 80% of the publicly released votes. Those "known" votes represent just over 11% of the ballots. Hope it holds around that percentage holds and Twins' fans can celebrate with the Mauers!!!
  15. Bodie
    In this case, yes. I'd use stronger words to describe it, but... "content moderation".
  16. Bodie
    I doubt anyone in baseball "values" Larnach more than we Twins fans. And we are almost universally ready to trade him for a better player(s). Unfortunately, that pretty much sums up his value for his most optimistic fans: not good enough for us, but somehow valuable enough to be major trade component. The "logic" of this thinking should be obvious. I'd love for him to truly surprise everyone and be a component OF/DH, but until that is proven, the most realistic expectation is his ceiling being a fourth OF limited by an inability to play CF.
  17. Bodie
    MLB record for strikeouts. Nothing else needs to be said!
  18. Bodie
    Nice comment. I'd hate to have seen Killabrew and Carew with the same approach, in totality. Unfortunately, no one seems to be willing to tell players that they should be going for a more Carew-like approach. Keep this trend going, and the .300 hitter will become as rare as the present day 20 game winner...
  19. Bodie
    The teaching and execution led to an inconsistent and bad offense. Simple as that. And this isn't a one year thing. It has been a steady downhill regression. If you can't/don't make contact, it doesn't matter how hard you are swinging. Maybe there needs to be an advanced metric/stat so we can hail those corkscrew strikeouts. After all, you supposedly should swing as hard as possible all the time and falling down strikeouts are kinda funny (assuming it is a White Sox "highlight").
  20. Bodie
    And the author I'm referring to is Ted Williams...
  21. Bodie
    I keep this short. If, contrary to every bit of public info, from GM to the last man on the bench, they are coaching hitters to make contact first, then the coaching isn't taking. If you lead the majors in Ks (and set a MLB record!) you have to admit that there is a MAJOR failure.
  22. Bodie
    I checked. Gallo's 2023 OPS+ is 101
  23. Bodie
    I agree that power is better than no power, but I am speaking of approach. And the Twins DO teach a swing hard as you can approach at the plate. That isn't a debatable point, they are loud and proud about it. Then end result is team that does not produce regularly, and seems unworried that the team has the same approach in a 0-2 counts as a 2-0 count. If you think I'm mistaken about this, take a couple hours this weekend to read "The Art of Hitting". You might have heard of the author...
  24. Bodie
    It is also much harder to hit HRs in the playoffs because... the pitching is better than in the regular season. Again, trying to hit HRs IS NOT actually hitting them. In fact trying to hit HRs will lead to decreased production as the Ks rise and lazy pop-ups increase much more rapidly than the runs do. The Twins teach what I see as not just a flawed approach at the plate, but a fatally flawed one. I won't even look up the stats, but I am pretty confident that I can say no team won the world series while setting MLB record for strikeouts. The results netted a slightly above total of runs scored (yes the ONLY stat that matters for offense) but it is nowhere near consistent enough to feel any confidence. And 2 or 3 poor offensive games mean your season is done, and if you are honest you have to admit that the Twins struggling against decent pitching is not a surprise, but to be expected regularly with the "swing as hard as you can" approach this version of the Twins preach. Heck, it doesn't even take decent pitching as they showed last season to utterly shut them down! How many times did the opposing starter have his season-high strikeout total come against the Twins?
  25. Bodie
    Don't confuse correlation with causation... Also, swinging for the fences regardless off the situation IS NOT hitting more home runs. If it was, the Twins crush the Astros.
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