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Twins (TBD) vs Tigers (Valdez): 6/10/26, 5:40 pm CDT
Western SD Fan replied to C-Gangster's topic in Archived Game Threads
Including one by Wallner. According to the Royce Lewis path back to the majors, he is now ready to be recalled. -
Twins (TBD) vs Tigers (Valdez): 6/10/26, 5:40 pm CDT
Western SD Fan replied to C-Gangster's topic in Archived Game Threads
This is why I hate bullpen games. The script has to be perfect in order to win the game. If one pitcher falters, we are toast. -
Twins (TBD) vs Tigers (Valdez): 6/10/26, 5:40 pm CDT
Western SD Fan replied to C-Gangster's topic in Archived Game Threads
Don't worry Morneau, we still heckle you here in the threads. You just don't get to hear us. -
Twins (TBD) vs Tigers (Valdez): 6/10/26, 5:40 pm CDT
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Looks like our winner of the bullpen sacrifice fund (starter) is Paredes. Bradley has seemed to be back to not being able to put hitters out. How many hits did he give up with two strikes? As Sam Caulder mentions in his article, he still possesses swing and miss stuff. It just looks like that teams are laying off the stuff out of the zone and making him try to miss bats in the zone and he can't do it. It is tough to blame pitchers for blowing up games when your defense looks closer to Little League than a professional baseball team. Lewis allowing the ball to clank off of his mitt and roll all the way across the infield didn't help. While the Tigers didn't score that inning, it did cause Bradley to throw an additional five high stress pitches with runners in scoring position. I know there were other miscues/lapses on defense, but that one was the most egregious and Lewis did not get an error on the play.
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I have found the clip that the Twins should have in their pregame show. Instead of the MLB.TV lead in, play the old Hee Haw comedy bit: Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me.
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Well Cory, I can tell you how the pitching situation will go tomorrow. Just play the song Highway to Hell by AC/DC and you'll be pretty close to answering your own question.
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I'm not sure why I'm still watching this game. I could be watching Brewers/A's being played in the bandbox which is Las Vegas Stadium this week where the Saints racked up all of those runs. They scored 29 runs last night in 12 innings.
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Definitely could up Clemens' value. He could be marketed as a 2-way player, like Ohtani.
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We are just a grand slam away from Kody Clemens pitching time!
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I hope Clemens has his pitching arm warmed up. He can go back to his roots in Detroit when they score 4 more runs and we can bring in a position player.
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Kody! Kody! He's our man! If he can't do it, maybe go talk to your dad about some "supplements".
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Orze plunking the batter likely saved a run that would have scored on a wild pitch.
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Somebody just reported today that Sands was shut down again. I know he's not a starter, but was some hope for the bullpen.
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And he didn't stop running so he is in scoring position!
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The A's hit 7 home runs last night and still lost.
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Taj did negotiate the terrible defense nicely. Should have been out of the inning a number of pitches ago. But Taj is not Joe Ryan and will break eventually with defense like that behind him.
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Alright Taj. I know the Tigers have a tall lineup, but they don't have Paul Bunyan. You can keep the ball closer to the earth.
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I'm sure that is league average just like it was league average to score between 2-3 runs with the bases loaded and nobody out. With the Twins, the disclaimer always is "Results May Vary".
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That was a shaky route by Larnach. I'm just glad it didn't go out because that is what it looked like off the bat.
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Right on cue.
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They were saying tomorrow should be a full stadium since it is a rehab start for Verlander.
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Escobar's all-star season happened in 2021. Three years AFTER he was traded to the Diamondbacks. That is an important distinction if you are assessing the value of the trade at the time the trade was made. I will make it clear that I think Escobar's season was better than Clemens is having this year. I was noted that trade as the very high end of the value that we could get from Clemens, although your assessment of a lower lever flyer is likely more accurate.
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The top end of any trade possibility for Clemens would be the Eduardo Esobar trade that brought back Jhoan Duran from the Diamondbacks. Escobar was having a career year with the Twins prior to the trade, similar to what Clemens is doing now. The baseball reference comparison, shown below, still tracks 2026 Clemens trending towards half the WAR that Escobar did in 2017 and Escobar had similar positional flexibility as Clemens. We got to see what Duran turned into. We need to remember at the time that Duran was a high upside guy but wild with his power stuff. He was only the 16th rated prospect in the Diamondbacks organization at the time of the trade. If he was traded, that comp is likely the very top end of what you could expect in a return, a prospect no higher than 15th in an organization, depending on the quality of the farm system. There is still a lot of season to be played to determine whether Clemens will have a job at the end of the season. In a perfect world, Lewis and Keaschall nail down the right side of the infield so Clemens is reduced to more of a platoon role. Same would be said for the outfield if one of Jenkins, E-Rod, or Roden come off the IL and tear the ball off and is called up to the ML club thus reducing another path for playing time for Clemens by the end of the season. Everyone wants the youth movement. If you embrace the youth movement, then trading Clemens during a career year is the smart thing to do.
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But you really can't leave them in AAA. Take the current situation for the Twins. I think all of us would agree that having Morris, Adams, and Klein, when he was up here, is an improvement over Garcia and Topa. These are the guys, that prior to being called up, were doing the bulk pitching in AAA where they likely still belong. Although they would be better served in AAA, we need them on the ML club because they are the best we currently have and will currently get. Hopefully when pitchers come back from injury, we can reassess and give these guys some more seasoning in St Paul, especially now that they know what they need to do to be successful at the ML level.
