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  1. If the Twins script out a scenario in which they remove one of their 2 best pitchers after 5 regardless of performance and how the game plays out in order to bring in a minor leaguer, the entire FO and field staff should be fired immediately after the game.
  2. I mean, I think a guy who we can count on for 1 inning would be huge. We barely have any of those guys right now. My bigger point is, for how crappy the team has played this year they will likely be in the playoffs, with the best rotation we've had in a while. Weird things happen in the playoffs. Let's actually try to win! This franchise has won ONE playoff series in 3 decades, we don't have the luxury of punting on playoff appearances.
  3. For those suggesting it wasn't worth making moves at the deadline this year.... Let's say the Twins make the playoffs. We all know the FO/Rocco are going to go the early hook route, so Gray/Lopez are going 5 tops. That means 12 outs from the bullpen, 2 nights in a row. Who's getting those 24 high leverage outs for us? If I recall correctly, the Mariners closer was dealt for peanuts.
  4. Replacing a bad pitcher with a better one won't make a difference? Man, some of these responses are head scratchers.
  5. It would make them better, which would give them a better chance to make/advance in the playoffs?
  6. Agreed and apologies. It's just a game, sorry to argue. I just wish this team was better :)
  7. Yeah it's almost like before significantly adding to his physical workload by asking him to play a position he hasn't played all year, they might want to make sure the hammy is fully healed. Wild, indeed.
  8. As I explained many, many times a few months ago, my belief was that, if he was too injured to play CF he was too injured to hit/run the bases and therefore playing him was detrimental to the team. I'll let you evaluate his performance since then to determine whether or not I was right. Now he's literally been on the IL for 3 weeks, and you're arguing that now is the time to INCREASE the physical toll on his body? I am just so confused. He's injured. Shut him down.
  9. Because the hamstring is important to playing the field! Seriously???
  10. Let me try to understand this. A couple months ago, he was healthy enough to sprint around the bases, but not healthy enough to sprint around the outfield. Now, he's not healthy enough to do either...in games....but after months more wear and tear and his body continuing to degrade... now he's finally healthy enough to sprint around the outfield? With a bum hamstring? A lot of posters here were pretty adamant about how physically taxing playing CF is so I guess I'm lost as to how he couldn't play CF with a healthy hammy but now he's "ramping up" with one that's kept him out of the lineup for almost a month. It would be like the Twins putting Duran on the IL with elbow issues and announcing they're stretching him out to return as a starter.
  11. Many TD posters questioned the Twins' handling of the Buxton situation earlier in the season -- for example, how someone could be healthy enough to sprint around the bases but not healthy enough to sprint around the outfield - and we were told it was stupid and borderline offensive to question the Twins because if he was healthy enough to play CF he would be playing CF, end of story. Now it appears it's ok to be questioning the Twins' approach. Interesting. I'll ask another question: how in the world does it make any sense for Buxton to be ramping up to play the field....while he's on the IL?
  12. Well, the non-Floro portions of the bullpen shut out the Brewers, so the Twins probably win. Mission accomplished!
  13. Telling fans how to feel is not "hitting it on the head," sorry. If I told you that you shouldn't follow this team because of past failures I'm guessing you'd take issue with that.
  14. As opposed to all the pennants the Falvine regime has showered us with?
  15. So why did they even let him go 5 innings? Wouldn't it have been even smarter to yank him after 4?
  16. As with a lot of sabermetric decisions, this omits the most important fact: Rocco pulled Ober after 5 with a 3-2 lead AND REPLACED HIM WITH DYLAN FLORO. Replacing a starter who is performing well with a low pitch count, with a bad reliever who seemingly hasn't had a clean inning since he arrived here, is quite out of the ordinary in my book. Details matter.
  17. It's not like fans are clamoring for him to have pitched another 12 innings yesterday. I'm positive his arm wouldn't have fallen off with ONE more inning yesterday. I don't understand the argument that 5 innings last night falls within the realm of safe, responsible workload but 6 would have crossed the line. Why not yank him after 4? After 3? Wouldn't that be more responsible? For god's sake, he only pitched 70 innings last year! This is going to be a thing in the playoffs, folks. Due to the terrible Central the Twins are going to have a long time to script out the playoffs. Get prepared for 5 inning starts out of Gray and Lopez. After all, the bullpen's gonna be fresh just like it was last night, right? Listen to Rocco: the decision to yank Ober had nothing to do with pitch count/innings limits. It was because Rocco thought turning it over to Dylan Floro gave the team the best chance to win. That should be the A topic today, not innings limits.
  18. There's a huge difference between disagreeing with another fan's opinion - that's part of the fun of sports! - and telling a fan they are supposed to feel a certain way.
  19. Ah, fan policing, my favorite topic. I'd say the definition of "snooty" would be someone lecturing fans on how they are supposed to feel. Actually, no, I'd use a stronger word than snooty... Has Jim Souhan watched the Twins for the past 32 years? How has winning the Central worked out for the past 3 decades? Has Souhan looked at the AL standings? Would he be writing the same article if the Twins were in the West or East? Has Souhan watched the 2023 Twins play baseball? Fans can feel however they want, full stop. Imagine watching a game like, oh I don't know, today's game, and saying: "Why can't Twins fans be more grateful?"
  20. I don't think this works as an analogy as it would mean, in the context of the Arraez/Lopez discrepancy, that you are much taller than me when using metric, but I'm slightly taller than you when using imperial.
  21. Still blows the mind that he started game 2 in the 2019 playoffs for a 100 win team.
  22. I hear you...but with a guy on 3rd and less than 2 outs you don't even need a hit! Any hitter who has reached the major should be able to hit a fly ball, that's not a specialized skill that only certain hitters can manage. Like, say, hitting home runs. You'd think with a talent-deficient roster the team would emphasize the little things, scratching and clawing for any run they can get. Instead they seem to teach every hitter to swing for the fences every at bat regardless of situation. It's baffling.
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