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  1. mikelink45
    What sucks is that we are on a roll too - downhill and gaining momentum
  2. mikelink45
    How do you reset? Remember when we laughed at KC and Detroit? Just to understand their suffering we have now taken over last place. We hit and lose, we pitch and lose, we bring in our closer and lose for sure - he does close the door! We have great fielding and then take it out in the extra innings????? 6 - 11 we now need to go 89 - 56 to get 95 wins. 61%. We might want to start soon. Rocco - the clock still ticks in April.
  3. mikelink45
    When you walk the bases loaded you set yourself up for trouble - yes he blew it.
  4. mikelink45
    speed off the bat is not the statistic I look to. Hitting the ball to a defensive player no matter how hard is not good. MLB batters are supposed to have some control over where they put the ball and I am not seeing anyone but Arraez, Cruz, Simmons, and Buxton so far, searching for hits with their ABs. Others are still in Bomba heaven. No one wins a game because they had the highest exit velocity or the longest HR. Hits and runs are the offensive keys.
  5. mikelink45
    "TO SOME DEGREE CAVE"? To what degree has he not failed? -0.2 WAR .136 AV .224 OBP .159 SL .384 OPS
  6. mikelink45
    For those who regret the players we did not sign Odorizzi has a -0.4 WAR 0 - 2 10.57 ERA Sergio Romo is -0.3 WAR 9.53 era, 1.9 Whip Matt Wisler -0.5 WAR, 0 - 2 12.46 era and 1.8 Whip Tyler Clippard - injured Zack Littell 0.1 WAR, 6 - 2 4.52 era, 1.47 Whip Sean Poppen 0.1 WAR 0.00 era, 1.0 Whip Trevor May -0.2 WAR 1 - 1, 4.15 era, 1.84 whip How many do you want back? Ehire Adrianza 0.3 WAR, 320 AV, 1.041 OPS, 166 OPS+ 2 HR Marwin Gonzales 0.1 WAR, 213 AV, 654 OPS, 88 OPS+ 1 HR Eddie Rosario 0.2 WAR 224 AV, 678 OPS, 90 OPS+ 2 HR Alex Avila -0.1 WAR, 000 AV, 143, -55 OPS+ LaMonte Wade 0.0 WAR, 333, 929, 164 OPS+ (six ABs) Aaron Whitehead - not found Who do you want back?
  7. mikelink45
    This is the year I paid to have the MLB.com all access - and I try to watch every Twins game, but sometimes I have to go to the Dodgers for relief. I know it is just April, but if we want to be a 95 win team we now need to go 89 - 57 which is almost 61%. I know you cannot win the pennant in April, but you can lose it. I do not know if Rocco is energetic in the club house or just a Bud Grant calm so I do not blame him for the record (just for the bad decisions) and I do want to see the call ups. I know Rooker looks bad, but that does not mean that other Minor Leaguers will stink. Cave looks terrible - he is not the answer. Is Kiriloff and Larnach? Should Balazovic and Duran come up like one of the commenters suggested? I do not know. But things aren't working. We need a winning streak to get enthusiasm on the field and in the stands. How will we do it?
  8. mikelink45
    Simmons has been the best by far. He has out hit expectations, but more than anything when he is out and Polanco and Arraez are in the middle of the field they should never bring in Dobnak. They are too weak for a ground ball pitcher to survive. I do not know if they were expecting Lewis next year, but I think Simmons needs to be here next year. Hopefully Duran and Balazovic can replace Happ and Shoemaker. Not sure what they do with Pineda's slot in 2022 - Thorpe? I expect we will always see a rotation of RP - that seems to be the new Twins strategy.
  9. mikelink45
    Ron Davis was even more frightening.
  10. mikelink45
    I need to raise a question that I cannot answer. Did 2019's bombas actually hurt us? Did we learn to just wait to for the HR and forget that the other at bats count?
  11. mikelink45
    If you are going to give away the ending you need to give a spoiler alert!
  12. mikelink45
    Forget the triple crown, let's see if he can survive series in a row. The most discouraging thing for all of us fans is seeing this great athlete constantly broken down and unable to play
  13. mikelink45
    For everyone who enjoys a good twisting plot and a mystery, the twin season promises to deliver the most unusual and unexpected story lines we have seen.
  14. mikelink45
    Keep writing about Sano - someday I will become a believer. Do I care if Arraez has power? No - just get hits!
  15. mikelink45
    I know Garver had one great season - until he demonstrates that he might have another I want to push Jeffers to get a real chance to succeed.
  16. mikelink45
    Rocco needs counseling. It is okay for pitchers to continue pitching when they are going well. That is what SP do or at least they used to. With a lock down BP we might err on the side of RP, but that is not what we have and I cannot see the reason to continue a pattern that is not working. Maybe later in the season we can revisit it, but right now we need that hot pitcher going as far as he can. Let's hope Sano has turned a corner, but I am not ready to concede that with one big bomb. Arraez came back from a bad luck day and was great. Polanco needs to be batting 7 or 8 but with Sano, Cave, Jeffers, Riddle in funks where do you put him. 205 Max got a good hit - I am glad. We had 4 of 10 batters hitting 300+ and the other 6 all below 205! Rogers has a 0.00 era, but how does that measure one hit and one walk in 0.1 innings? And Robles and Colome are both over 5! Something is wrong and let's see a lot of fixing soon.
  17. mikelink45
    I am looking forward to these reports. Now if we can just get the team to keep promoting players to the big lakes it'll be an exciting time to watch the prospects grow
  18. mikelink45
    I hate BP games - when we are asking the BP to cover so many innings this does not make sense - it just burns them out.
  19. mikelink45
    I hope Alex hits the ball so well that the Twins are embarrassed when they send him back down. Poor Gordon has to feel really left out. He could have come up for a debut instead of Riddle.
  20. mikelink45
    Cave, Garver, Sano, Polanco, Rooker - too many in a slump at the same time - we have to find a way to pump some life into the lineup. That is just too much automatic outs. I would love to see them all come to life, but do not lump them in the lineup.
  21. mikelink45
    Not a lot to offer, but still wondering how Cave can hit so poorly and be up and Kiriloff had to be sent down because of his ST hitting. When do we get past the get an extra year point so we can put out best team out there? Cave out, Rooker injured, Kepler average - can Kiriloff and Larnach give a boost?
  22. mikelink45
    Fascinating to see this team with stories that look like an ascending line on a graph - starters, Buxton, Cruz, Arraez, Simmons followed by that descending slide for the other batters and a deep plunge when Colome comes in. Fielding is better, Hitting is 1/2 better and 1/2 helpless. SP good, RP bad. That is not the combination that leads to a championship so I hope to see some changes. Donaldson coming back is one thing we need, an explanation for why Cave is still starting when he is hitting worse that what Kiriloff did in ST is a mystery that deserves a big explanation and a change. Is Rooker taking over for the injury prone OF player that hopefully Buxton has moved on from? Is Garver proving that 2020 might not have been an outlier year. but 2019 was? Polanco has looked great in the field - but at bat!!!!!!!!!!!! I would comment on Sano, but .091 really says it all and if not 182 slugging completes the statement. Kepler is just a replacement level player at this time. We need some changes to support those who are producing.
  23. mikelink45
    Actually I am talking about Seattle's use of the bunt and they did get on. I still like it.
  24. mikelink45
    Wow a bunt! Yes it is still available and still a weapon.
  25. mikelink45
    Perhaps he has earned it.
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