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  1. LambchoP
    You rely on a bunch of rookies, you get rookie mistakes. If we can keep our starters healthy, and playing the same position day after day, we should be fine. Aside from Castro, they need to designate everyone a single position, let them learn it and stick there. Speaking of defense, how do we not bring up Santana? Dude is amazing over there at first and of he doesn't get his gold glove it's a travesty. His bat may leave something to be desired, especially lately. But the runs he has saved us with some of those plays are very important. I wouldn't mind signing him for another year if we can get him cheap enough. I'd rather see a middle of the lineup true power hitter signed, but it's not going to happen.
  2. LambchoP
    You can't expect to be a playoff team when you can barely score 1 or 2 runs per game. We can't blame the pathetic hitting on injuries anymore, all our guys are healthy. Both Buxton and Correa have looked great too. The team needs to figure out how to hit with RISP and Rocco needs to get out of the way and stop with his idiotic pinch hitting decisions.
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    Margot a solid CF? I got a good laugh out of that one. Twins will always need a true CF as backup to Buxton,but Margot certainly is not that. We have Keirsey, Martin and eventually R Rod coming up. I think any one of these guys would be more productive than Margot while providing better defense. Correa, Buxton and Lewis are key to this team. They need to be out there, everyday and at the same position. Quit trying to turn everyone into a Wiki Castro and just let them learn one position well. A lineup that isn't completely different everyday might help s bit too. It's got to be hard for our hitters to get into a routine not knowing if they're playing day to day. And if they are, not knowing where they're hitting in the lineup or where they're playing on the field. Look at the last CLE series. They had just about the same lineup and defense each day.
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    Glad to see Raya go 5. Biggest positive was NO walks. If he can keep his walk rate down and figure out how to pitch deeper into games, just like Festa, we just might have a few capable starters to call on. Good thing because we're not spending on any that's for sure. Sure looks like Topa and Funderburk are cooked and aren't an option anymore. Hopefully they can put something together next year. I've got to believe Keirsey and Eeles will make the Twins top 30 lists after this year. Those two, along with Mccusker and maybe Rodriguez should factor into the big league club next year at some point. It's nice to have depth, especially with all our players being so injury prone.
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    Probably not, unless we suddenly learn to hit again. Guys are guessing and flailing up there like little leaguers. Do we really want this team to be seen on national TV against a true contender? Might be pretty embarrassing watching our guys strike out 20 times a game, get shut out twice and easily swept in two quick games ... Maybe the added playoff series money can go towards an injured waiver wire reliever lol
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    Much needed win. Festa looks really good, lots of K's, but really needs to find a way to be more efficient and go deeper into games. If he can do that, I think he has a shot at the number 5 rotation spot. Bullpen was unbelievable today. Offense, not so much. When you have more than 10 hits a game, you should be able to score runs. At least we didn't strikeout over and over, but that's more likely because Boston's pen sucks. I have to say it yet again, why is Rocco pinch hitting Margot?! Dude's 0-30 it's obvious to anyone watching he sucks as a PH. It makes even less sense when he had Jeffers or a lefty Julien available. Or even better, Farmer, who has been one of our better hitters lately. I hate Rocco's childish, stubborn managing style, continually making dumb moves because eventually it might work. Glad we have Pablo going today, but if he can't pitch real deep we are in trouble because we have basically nobody available in the pen. Wonder if we call up a fresh arm? Alcala would be the smart move, so it'll probably be someone else.
  7. LambchoP
    I completely understand not wanting to pay the huge prospect price for some of the starters that were available, but you can't tell me we couldn't have given up one or two mid level guys for someone like AJ Puk, who was a perfect lefty for for our pen, has been dominant since the trade, AND is under control next year too. Our GM is a coward. We hoarded prospects, great. Some of them might pan out,most won't. I sure hope they try to leverage some of them for some pitching help this off-season. If they stand on their hands and do nothing again aside from a few minor league injured cast offs, this fandom will revolt, as they should!
  8. LambchoP
    Ober has been a good send for this rotation. We should have a solid 1-3 next year with Lopez, Ober and Ryan. I'm guessing 4 and 5 will be SWR and Paddack/Festa, but I really hope we sign a veteran who can eat innings until Zebby/Morris/Lewis etc are actually ready. Depth is key, as we already know.
  9. LambchoP
    I love hearing about these guys and all the good they do for people and the community. So much better than these stupid kids who get the 100 million dollar contracts and go wild with their money and end up in trouble for drugs, guns and other crimes. For some reason you hear about those guys in the NFL and NBA all the time but not so much in the MLB. Baseball has some really classy players and it's a good influence on the younger generation.
  10. LambchoP
    Hopefully this late season collapse and missed playoffs will result in at least a few positives. Someone needs to be held accountable, so the coaching staff should be shaken up. If not Rocco I'd say the hitting coaches need to go. As far as ownership, they'll have to admit that trying to put together a playoff team on a tight budget with cast offs and injured players ,and then not improving the team at all in July is not a strategy for winning. They try to cry poverty because attendance is down, well the best way to boost attendance is to field a winning team. Nobody wants to spend a lot of money to come watch the twins when we have a young starter pitch three innings and the offense, with no Buxton, no Correa, no Lewis, get maybe 3 hits all night and score one or two runs. No thank you. Put a better team together, attendance will go up. Especially if the team is good enough for the playoffs, because that would add to profit too. The deeper a team plays into the playoffs, the more money there is. Of course it's not very likely that extra money would be put back into the team with this ownership:(
  11. LambchoP
    Keirsey should have taken Margots roster spot a long time ago, but he hits left handed so we can't have that. Lots of our young guys had a real solid season at AAA. Keirsey, Eeles, Mccusker, Severino. Not to mention Rosario and Rodriguez. If just a few of these guys pan out they should be able to help the big league club next year. Either on the field or as trade bait for pitching help. I'm glad Cory Lewis got a AAA start under his belt. Does he always only throw 88-90 mph though? Chances are that won't fly in the bigs.
  12. LambchoP
    Past failures at the deadline is not an excuse to not make any trades this year. Competitive windows can close up in an instant, and with more payroll cutting this off-season, our window may be closing faster than it should be. Maybe they surprise us this off-season with something. Maybe they held on to all our prospects at the deadline so they could make some moves in the off-season. We need a lot of pitching help and offensively we need to find guys who can hit and drive in runs, with almost zero money to do it with.... we'll see I guess
  13. LambchoP
    We have Correa for at least four more years and he needs to be our shortstop. That is where he provides the most value. Your highest paid players on the team need to play those premium positions. Castro is not a SS. Lee has looked ok there and will probably be the backup. I think our best infield alignment is Lee at 2nd Correa at SS and Lewis at 3rd. As far as 1st base goes, of Miranda can find his power again, maybe he can stick there along with Julien, again, if he can learn to hit. Ideally I'd love to see them go out and get a true power hitting first baseman, but any money we may have has to go to pitching. Maybe try to trade some of these infielders for pitching help too
  14. LambchoP
    The playoffs are all about who gets hot at the right time. Tigers are surging and putting together a last minute push. Meanwhile the twins are completely falling apart. I'm sure it would help if Rocco would actually play our best players everyday, maybe put together the same lineup and defensive alignment every now and then. Baseball is about consistency and when our guys don't even know if they'll be playing day to day, or where they'll be playing or hitting in the lineup, it's got to be hard to get on a routine. Unless some changes are made with the coaching staff and the pitching staff, next year might be a long losing season....
  15. LambchoP
    Our pen is a joke. We dumped Alcala for Irvin so that we could get "length" out of him. He's faced one batter? Alcala looked great his last time out pitching two innings. If we're not going to use Irvin as a multi inning guy why the heck did we bring him in?! Bigger problem is our lineup. It is infuriating that every day Rocco sits Lewis Buxton or Correa. The last two have looked great so far, and totally healthy since they came off the IL. They're our best players, if we want to make the playoffs then they need to be out there playing everyday! I get that ownership screwed the team and Rocco can only manage with what he's got, but he sure does a poor job of it. Constantly pinch hitting Margot and refusing to use anyone else is getting ridiculous....
  16. LambchoP
    Looks like Austin Martin and Keirsey would probably be providing more offense than Brooks Lee/Julien and Margot.....it really looks like Lee and Julien need more seasoning in AAA to work on their swing. Maybe Eeles will have a big spring training and can hold down second base until Lee figures it out? I really don't think Julien is ever going to be our answer there.
  17. LambchoP
    The thing that bothers me most is the starting lineup. Here we are, in the fight of our lives trying to sneak into the playoffs, and Rocco decides basically every game one or two of Lewis Buxton and Correa need the day off...wtf?! If we're going to hang on, our guys need to be out there, everyday. Especially since Buxton and Correa have looked great since they came back. You would think these guys would be fighting to be out there everyday if they really wanted to rally the team and take a playoff spot. The way everyone looks now, especially Rocco, is that they'd be just fine missing the playoffs because they're all too tired and want to go home. No fight in this team at all, it's sad. Go Vikings I guess:)
  18. LambchoP
    Lopez AND Over have been pitching like team aces this year. What's held us back is Ryan going down and relying on three rookies that are at their limits as far as durability and stamina goes SWR should be fine next year but it's obvious he's on fumes. Festa and Zebby have shown flashes of great stuff, but we're probably rushed a bit due to needed big league starters. These last three guys only throwing a couple innings each start has worn down our pen so much that any lead we may have is in constant jeopardy.
  19. LambchoP
    Wish we'd get some kind of update but I haven't seen anything pretty much all year. Maybe we'll hear something in the off season? I always thought Canterino had some of the best stuff in our system, just not the durability and stamina to be the starter the twins wanted him to be. If they stick him in the pen he could let it fly and be a real weapon.
  20. LambchoP
    I like what I've seen from him this year. I wouldn't rely on him as a closer or top setup man yet. Start him in lower leverage situations next year and let him work his way up like with Brock Stewart and Sands. If we can pick up a lefty or two, we should have a decent bullpen next year. Duran, Jax, Alcala, Sands Stewart, Topa, Henriquez Varland, Paddack?, lefty Canterino, Headrick, Prelipp, Raya Do we have Cole Irvin next year? One or two free agent signings to raise the ceiling and create depth should give us a good group
  21. LambchoP
    Neither of these guys are going to save us even if they do pitch again this year which I highly doubt. As far as next year, I think we should try to find a way to dump Paddacks 7.5 million dollar salary and put that towards signing a legit SP to pair with Pablo. Flaherty, Eovaldi, Kikuchi....we should be able to afford 20 million if we dump Paddack. We're already getting Kepler, Farmer, Margot, Santana and Theilbar off the books. As for Topa, he's cheap enough and we need all the help we can get in the bullpen. As we've seen, pitching and depth gets you to the playoffs.
  22. LambchoP
    I would love another year of Santana with his professional at bats and gold glove caliber defense. As everyone already said though, we probably won't spend any money at all sadly. My guess is we go with Miranda and maybe Julien at 1st. Maybe give Severino a shot of Julien struggles again. One thing in this article I found really pathetic is Santana is one of only two players on our entire team that have enough at bats to qualify for leaderboards. Only two players, that is really sad....
  23. LambchoP
    Pulling Wallner for Margot was infuriating! Wallner has already shown this year he can hit lefties, plus he had two hits already. Margot has shown her sucks! 0-29 pinch hitting. For a manager who goes off of numbers so much it makes no sense that he refuses to change up. Plus, after pinch hitting, we were stuck with Margot in right field for the last three innings in a tight game. Dude is horrible on defense and losing Wallner arm late in the game is just dumb. Rocco is lucky we won, no thanks to him....
  24. LambchoP
    I think both Eeles and Mccusker should factor into the big league roster next year. It makes it kind of tough that almost all these young kids coming up hit left handed. With the platoon obsessed Rocco calling the shots it'll be interesting to see how they get at bats for everyone. Management needs to go outside the organization for a good lefty for next year. Okert looks like a DFA and Funderburk, while younger and maybe a bit longer of a leash, hasn't shown much either. With Theilbar probably gone, we need someone else.
  25. LambchoP
    I think it's the more preventable injuries that are frustrating like pulled hamstrings, tight groins. Medical staff needs to teach these guys better preventative measures to stay healthy. Also, durability should be a skill that teams look at when drafting, developing or signing free agents. Some guys like Buxton and Lewis are just injury prone and always will be. Guys like Santana or Bobby Witt are everyday players who take care of themselves well enough to not get injured. Those are the guys you want. Otherwise with a team of injury prone stars, the only option is to build solid depth and lots of it ...
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