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  1. mikelink45
    After the Twins and Saints games it is hard to put together a good reflection.
  2. mikelink45
    With a game like this you have to dig deep. So my disappointment is that our Ohtani Very Very Light Bride now has an ERA of 15 and a BA of 168! Think of the historic potential here.
  3. mikelink45
    WHY???? Or who cares?
  4. mikelink45
    This is not against Clemens, just recognition that his hitting is settling back to the norm.
  5. mikelink45
    When you are desperate to sell, but have weak products to offer the results are not what everyone would want. We have needed strategic thinking from this FO for the last few years.
  6. mikelink45
    Yes bring him up and let him have a real opportunity to sink or swim - with Bride, a diminished Clemens, and Keirsey we have no bats on the bench - give him a chance to prove himself. And yes we need the bat whether he owns a glove or not.
  7. mikelink45
    At this point SP is not the only consideration since starters seldom go more than 5 innings. Most likely a left hander will come out of the pen at some point.
  8. mikelink45
    I say keep Castro, Coloumbe, and Bader. We do not have adequate replacements for any of them and I hope we still think we can compete for the rest of the Correa contract.
  9. mikelink45
    Only negative - Nice to have the offense wake up, but we have learned not to count on it. But right now Ober and Paddock have both looked shaky the last two starts and Festa and SWR are both question marks each game. We need a lot more if we are going to start the elevator back up.
  10. mikelink45
    How do we know this - they have to be healthy for us to forget (not possible) or more important put it behind us. Buxton is shining this year and we are all celebrating. Royce has had so many injuries from minors on up we have no opportunity to celebrate his production and health.
  11. mikelink45
    The escalator is still going down - below 500. 73 games in. Since they finished so bad last year this is a worrisome place to be. 10.5 games behind Detroit, Cleveland has passed us and KC is 1/2 game behind us. Who are we? Buxton, Castro and Lee are the only ones getting hits, but they are 1,5, 7 in the order so not able to support one another. And the rain saved the day as the article states because we did not use our BP. That is the good news of the day I guess.
  12. mikelink45
    If the owner is from Jacksonville I can see conversations about moving the team across the state to the largest market left in Florida.
  13. mikelink45
    I do not see Cartaya or Camargo (IL) coming up soon we have had WInkel in Spring training 279/319/878 in AAA and Cossetti 279/319/878 in AA those the next two in my mind.
  14. mikelink45
    I think you got it, but I wanted a longer post!
  15. mikelink45
    We are now 500. This is like ground zero. We can drop down to the basement or we can pull it together and rise to the top. Which one will it be? Right now the down elevator seems to be waiting. So what can the twins do to right this listing ship.? The rookie starters don't look ready to sustain success at this point. So another question is whether the veteran starters can actually sustain success because they look shaky recently too. I do find that I am confused. By the way, the lineup keeps shuffling. It's almost as if the manager is pulling the names out of a hat. And there is a question of whether Correa is going to earn his exorbitant contract or continue to play at the replacement level that we've seen out there. Castro has many imperfections but put his bat on the bench instead of the lineup and this team will suffer. However, he is the utility player that should be coming off the bench. So the reality is we're lacking the starters we need and have very poor bench options.
  16. mikelink45
    Are we that desperate for a player or a story? Mickey has had enough, just as Bride has. Let's move on and do something significant.
  17. mikelink45
    Is there another 12 game winning streak hidden within the team or are we in 500 limbo or worse? Buxton and Castro and Lee imagine if they had a fourth batter joining them. Hopefully Festa and SWR have settled down and are going to continue to pitch well. Was Paddack overly hyped to pitch at home in Texas? Can Ober offset his aching hip? These are the questions that need to be answered or the season is going downhill quicker than it did last year.
  18. mikelink45
    I love your multiple play and pitcher selection. Nice to get so many good performances. Of course the start of our ranked perspectives did not look so good until #11. Thanks for the summaries.
  19. mikelink45
    I would take McCusker
  20. mikelink45
    It's more than the story of this game having our two rookies struggling. It really hurts to have Ober and Paddock look terrible. Let's hope Ryan can give us a veteran start and get us looking like a 500 team at least. Festa had a better second game so maybe we can all think positive and look for another 12-game winning streak. But in the meantime we have Royce doing what Royce has been doing his entire career- looking great and then going down with an injury. It's really sad. We went through this for so many years with Buxton. What is it with the twins that we have such bad injury luck. I know every team has injuries but boy it seems like we are really plagued with them.
  21. mikelink45
    He is the next one to be cut or DFA'd when Keaschall comes back or we decide to bring up a prospect. Unless we give him a permanent position in the BP.
  22. mikelink45
    I am in shock - Ober might not be an ACE but he has certainly been really good and this year with the injuries depleting the rotation we need him to be above average and he isn't close. What is wrong? Wish I knew. Last year Theilbar stunk and now he is doing great for the Cubs - what did they tweak? What is the needed tweak for Ober? But then there is our pen. When SP sucks the pen is also devastated. Another post seemed to indicated Jax is out right now. What is that all about?
  23. mikelink45
    The movement of Alcala was needed and what we got for him was nothing of value, but then he had little value. Our prospects do not have the cannot miss potential that we might wish. Right now getting Keaschall back is the big thing for the lineup. Unless Bride is going to continue in relief his position should be easily replaceable. Clemens is coming down, but he is a bench player so what are we expecting. Some questions remain - do we extend or lose Paddock, do we keep the carousel turning at 1B, can we replace the $10 million man at backup C, will Lewis produce what we need, is Correa turning a bad corner? Do we have enough pitchers to complete and compete this season? Is Tonkin really an upgrade in the pen? Is Topa reliable? And what would we need, or want in a trade?
  24. mikelink45
    I truly believe it is not the innings that are the issue - it is the frequency. Once warmed up a pitcher should be able to continue unless there is a big inning or delay. I think the K rate is overrated, or perhaps underrated as a factor in the pitcher arm injuries.
  25. mikelink45
    Alcala wore out this fans enthusiasm. I don't care how fast the ball moves if he is going to have so many implosions. I hope he finds success and even if he does I am glad we are moving on. The weakness in today's pitching is the total dependence on BP arms. No one can pitch 162 games and with 5 inning starters we have to have 4 one inning arms per game. It might now sound like a lot to pitch one inning, but put in all the warm up tosses and the max effort and you have tired arms that look good one year and terrible the next. Look at Thielbar now 0.7 WAR and 1.85 ERA. "Looking back on the 2024 MLB season, an interesting note has been made about the entire league which seems to have raised a few eyebrows. There were only a total of 28 complete games in the 2024 MLB season making that a record low since the year 1975" 1999 was the last year that the leader in complete games in the National League was in double figures - Randy Johnson. It was s2011 when James Shields had 11 in the American League. Since then the leader in each league averaged 2 per year.
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