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  1. GopherMike
    First in-person game of the year and boy did it suck. Twins are losing in the most inefficient way possible. An 11-11 team with a +12 run differential and excellent starting pitching.
  2. GopherMike
    I think we believe "the next young superster is close to arriving" I'm not sure that's actually true.
  3. GopherMike
    As much as we'd all like to rely on Kreidler-bombs to bail this team out, we'll probably need to develop a second offensive weapon for the long stretch.
  4. GopherMike
    You watch that filthy mouth when you talk about Orze. Twins are 6-1 when he pitches. Extend that out and we'll be, like, 139-23 if he pitches every day. That's just math.
  5. GopherMike
    Pardon my language, but gosh darn this is a lot of fun
  6. GopherMike
    Eric Orze once again leads the Twins to victory. 6-0 when he pitches.
  7. GopherMike
    I don't think baseball has settled on the actual value of a manager. But I like Derek Shelton.
  8. GopherMike
    He can play CF and nobody else on this roster really can (Martin can pretend in a pinch) That said---yeah....I think he's the most vulnerable hitter on the 40-man. There's an argument that Roden deserves a chance soon, if not now. I can't see anyone claiming Outman if we sent him down at this point. And I'm not sure I'd care if they did.
  9. GopherMike
    Kendry Rojas was the key part of the Varland trade--not Roden. I didn't care for the trade--but that's an important distinction.
  10. GopherMike
    1) It was a bad trade and I wish they could have gotten literally anything of value and/or not held so much salary 2) That doesn't necessarily mean we should have kept him....or that we'd be a better team with him than without him. It's impossible to know. But yeah...it was a salary dump. That's well understood by everyone.
  11. GopherMike
    Plate discipline has been great so far this year. 8th in OBP coming into the game despite being 19th in average. For a team that doesn't have a lot of fantastic hitters, it's causing the offensive sum of its parts to be much more. Love to see it.
  12. GopherMike
    Ryan seemed genuinely confused at the sight of someone playing defense
  13. GopherMike
    *shrug* I don't think carrying a roster-spot for someone to hit .730 OPS just against lefties and just to play 3B (poorly) makes sense. Kreidler can’t hit, obviously. Nobody is arguing otherwise. The point is that he actually solves a real roster problem right now. Wagaman doesn’t. “Maybe he can fake a platoon at third because he’s been less bad vs lefties” is not much of a role.
  14. GopherMike
    I agree that this is more interesting than it appears on the surface. Do the Twins use this as an opportunity to give Brooks more play at 3B? Do they give Kreidler a chance to show he's anything better than Outman? My guess is Royce is probably out through April, which is about 20 games. That's a not-insignificant window.
  15. GopherMike
    If you’re a bench bat, you need to either really hit or have some carrying tool that makes the roster fit. Wagaman is a pretty awful third baseman defensively, he can't run, and he has a career wRC+ OF 85. Kreidler may be ugly on a bench with Outman, but at least he gives you real defensive utility at positions where the Twins actually need coverage right now. I’m not calling him good. I’m saying he has a clearer functional use than Wagaman does. I really don't know what we are keeping Wagaman for, other than we have basically awful 1B options all around.
  16. GopherMike
    Wagaman is nothing. The Reds DFA'd Christian Encarnacion and I'm hoping the Twins will snag him. Wagaman has no real functional upside and is a super marginal 40-man guy. Kreidler at least offers defensive versatility
  17. GopherMike
    It's also his second forearm strain. He had one last year too.
  18. GopherMike
    Arcia would require a 40-man roster move.
  19. GopherMike
    The Twins are 5-0 when Eric Orze pitches and 2-7 when he doesn't. Just saying.
  20. GopherMike
    James Outman benefits by being able to play center, but at a certain point he needs to show that he can literally do anything on offense. Brooks Lee has a longer leash, I'd bet, but Outman doesn't necessitate that.
  21. GopherMike
    Eric Orze is playing so well, Derek Falvey might trade him to Tampa for a starting pitcher!
  22. GopherMike
    We quite posisbly have gone from 'vaguely bad' to 'distinctly mediocre' Progress!
  23. GopherMike
    I think Derek Falvey uno-reversed the Tampa Bay Rays.
  24. GopherMike
    I said what I said
  25. GopherMike
    A tiny bit hyperbolic through 10 games.........But I get that's where everyone is right now. I think we are likely looking at a battle between atrocious and 'just bad', especially on the left side. I also agree there likely aren't any obvious solutions that don't have other tradeoffs at the moment. The difference between this season being bad or mediocre is probably figuring out one of the bullpen or the defense. I have more optimism in the bullpen, when I'm feeling optimistic.
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