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  1. singlesoverwalks
    Colome is warming up. Go off, everyone.
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    Dallas Braden on the A's broadcast: "The only way to look at this is Byron Buxton and his speed is a cheat code, it's unfair, he should have to stay put for at least 3 seconds before running for a ball."
  3. singlesoverwalks
    What did they put in the clubhouse coffee today?
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    This inning has been thing of beauty. Jorge Polanco's opposite field RBI single, stolen base, and scoring from second on a single to left are [chef's kiss].
  5. singlesoverwalks
    I love having PeteRoseRodCarewTonyGwynn leading off for us.
  6. singlesoverwalks
    Top of the order coming up - here comes the fun!
  7. singlesoverwalks
    LET'S GOOOOOO
  8. singlesoverwalks
    This one turned out to be the correct one, I think.
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    Now seems like the time, with a doubleheader, Garlick on the COVID list, Rooker injured, and Cave struggling. I don't know how the service time thing works, though. Is Kirilloff going to get called up tomorrow?
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    The same Kyle Garlick who hugged Max Kepler a few nights ago? It can't be too much longer before MLB requires vaccination. I'm sure the union will demand some concessions, but there's too much money riding on it.
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    I don't really get why Jake Cave has to be on the team.
  12. singlesoverwalks
    That's a 19th century poetry reference, you philistines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron
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    For the record - and I can't take credit for this - his nickname should be Lord Byron.
  14. singlesoverwalks
    Let's say you have a couple of players you really value long-term (Rooker and Kiriloff) and a couple of players who seem like decent wildcards (Astudillo and Garlick). The long-term guys look a little less ready than the wildcard guys. And you need ready players in the lineup every day, because you're a contending team. That means if you call up the long-term guys, and they fail, you can't bench them, so you have to send them down, which means you've burned one of their options. And their options are much more valuable than the options on the wildcard guys that you will burn when you probably, eventually, move on from the wildcard guys. Guard the valuable options, gamble with the less valuable options. Good roster management.
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    I still love Willians Astudillo, but I just want to point out that he has an 826 career OPS in spring training, and 747 career OPS in the regular season at the MLB level. His spring chicken promise is yet to be fulfilled. That being said, I'm glad he made the team.
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    His arm looks better than Greg Gagne's, and that's saying a lot. If his range is still there post-injury, it's definitely better than Gagne's. That would make him the best Twins shortstop in my memory.
  17. singlesoverwalks
    "Rediscovering that visceral disgust in my heart, it’s like riding a bike made of spite and angry thoughts.” ^This is the best sentence I've read in five years, comma splice and all.
  18. singlesoverwalks
    Dan Gladden. He might not be a Sabermetric favorite, but when they made that trade it gave them a feeling of legitimacy.
  19. singlesoverwalks
    Answering my own question, and quoting myself, yes. Here's the ranking of the top five 1987 Twins by latest retirement year: 1. Gaetti, 2000, at 41, with the Red Sox. 2. Mark Portugal, 1999, at 36, also as a Red Sock. 3. Greg Gagne, 1997, at 35, as a Dodger. 4. Frank Viola, 1996, at 36, as a Blue Jay. 5. Joe Klink, 1996, at 34, as a Mariner. No, I never heard of him either.
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    At the risk of this devolving into a list of players I loved who got traded, it was really weird when Gary Gaetti was a Cardinal. P.S. Gary Gaetti was one heck of a baseball player. Was he, in the end, the last member of the 1987 team to retire? I know this is an answerable question on the Internet. I just want to muse on it for a second before I go look it up.
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    Cabela's manager goatee
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    I'll say it. Laurels. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/rest-on-your-laurels
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    Just because Thorpe, Dobnak, and Smeltzer looked kind of good in a small sample in 2019 doesn't mean you should really count on them to fill two spaces for 2020. Rookie starters flame out all the time after scouts and hitters get familiar with them. I would be much more comfortable if Thorpe, Dobnak, and Smeltzer were backup options. The Twins are going for it, trying to compete for a World Series, and they have enough payroll space to add another good bet at starter. They should do that.
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    Season-opening pitching staffs 2019 -> 2020 Berrios -> Berrios Odorizzi -> Odorizzi Gibson -> Bailey, Homer Perez -> TBD (Rich Hill's arm hopefully good for more than 58.2 innings this year?) Pineda -> TBD (Pineda back in June?) Looks shakey to me. I'm not super optimistic about the existing options for TBD. Pitchers get off to a good start all the time before the league figures them out.
  25. singlesoverwalks
    Leading the division in July is not automatic. Compare the April-May 2019 team to the April-May 2020 team. The 2020 starting staff will (likely) be _worse_. The lineup will add Donaldson and Arraez but subtract Schoop and Cron, who were pretty good for that time period. There's a chance the lineup could be better, or they could be worse. Donaldson has plenty of recent history of injury. Arraez could have a sophomore slump. Add in baseball stuff (i.e.,randomness) and the improved White Sox and, yeah, it would be hubris / jinx territory to type in a blog comment that we're assured of first place by July. You don't want to be responsible for this team's epic collapse, DO YOU?
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