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  1. mikelink45
    Luke KeaschallWalker JenkinsBrandon WinokurEmmanuel RodriguezAndrew MorrisKaelen CulpepperBilly AmickCharlee SotoGabriel GonzalezTravis AdamsTanner SchobelDasan HillMarco RayaRicardo OlivarEduardo BeltreCory LewisPayton EelesCJ CulpepperCarson McCuskerKala'i Rosario
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    Umpires are always criticized. They have how many calls per game? Yes there are some lousy ones and I am in favor of the electronic strike zone. But I keep seeing the umps mentioned in almost all our losses. The same umps are there for both teams and it is usually the bad team that finds the most faults with the umpires. Our problem is not with the men who call the game, it is with those who play and manage the team.
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    I was criticized yesterday for saying that I did not think Julien was doing his job as lead-off. Evidently Rocco agreed, but that does not make me feel better when Gasper is the solution. I feel like I should just have a paste option for why pull the SP. But old Rocco and I really diverge here. Is our BP so great that we don't want to have our SP face the next rotation of the lineup? I thought SP was a strength. 19% of the season done - fans looking at Wild and Wolves, talking about drafts and United and Lynx. Are the Twins number six in the professional pecking order now or am I missing some other teams and leagues?
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    Nice profile. One thing that is constantly brought up is that a batter is hitting against older pitchers. Does it matter. Those older pitchers are at that level for a reason. Does anyone give extra credit to our batters if the get a hit against Verlander?
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    Watching McCusker hit bombs in AAA reminds me of last year when we wasted so many Wallner hits before bringing him up. Julien is not performing - let's give Carson a week or two of DH and see if he can make some noise with the Twins.
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    It is fascinating to see all the comments that cover what I was thinking as I watched the end of the game - why four relievers again? 30 games into the season and Varland has been in 15! and six more have been in 10 - 12. Too many. Can our Ace go 8? France has shocked me in a good way. I apologize for my skepticism, but this low scoring game highlights, again, our need for productive bats. The light hitting Cleveland team had 5 players with BA of 250 - 333. We had three above 250 is starting lineup - France, Lee and Bride and Bride has 19 ABs. Without Bride's sss France and Lee are 267 and 256. Julien is not cutting it as leadoff, but who goes there now that we know Wallner is out for a few more weeks and Keaschall months?
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    No chance to match this. NBA and NFL have colleges doing their prep work for them. I do not know most of the baseball players in the draft. I don't know if they are good or not - I rely on TD to give me insight. I don't watch any drafts, but I think MLB is a long way from this spectacle. MLB is not even good at getting their best players recognized.
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    If I was him I would sign with someone else, just to see if my luck changed. The orioles need RP
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    Nothing works for me, but there is such craziness in RP market - who knows.
  10. mikelink45
    Trade Paddock and Alcala - get Festa and Matthews into the majors RP/SP. We need all the good arms we can get. There are ways to stretch from BP to SP if needed.
  11. mikelink45
    Next week determines whether I am impressed with this week's results or not.
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    With the extended playoff options, no team is out of it yet. So yes they can. And they do have some good players coming back. So I wouldn't give up yet. But next week we no longer play teams that are last place. So that will start to show if we are turning a corner or shrinking back into what we've seen so far this season
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    I think that we have to really consider how our team wore down last year and think about the posts above questioning our use of relievers. We have played 27 games so far. This is how often our top relievers have been called on so far: Varland 14 Duran 12 Sands 12 Jax 12 Columbe 12 Alcala 10 Topa 10 The first 27 games - 16% of the season! Varland has been over 50% of the games. Tell me this is sustainable.
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    Mickey Gasper, Kody Clemens, Jonah Bride, Keirsey - that is our bench! I feel so bad for Keaschall. I don't know who has the Twins organizational health insurance, but I think they are about to file bankruptcy. In the midst of mostly good news tonight I am looking at France and Bader and their numbers are fading. Good thing Buxton is going well (stay healthy) and Larnach's bat is looking up. We need Lewis and Wallner.
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    Mickey Gasper, Kody Clemens, Jonah Bride - that is our bench. We are hurting!
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    All RP analysis is based on SSS but that is to be expected when they only go one inning at a time. The best BP in the league predictions have crashed and we need any live arm that can be consistent. I would have kept Blewett over Alcala for example, the revolving door will continue to spin.
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    I agree with you. It reminds me of Curt Flood and the lack of respect for the individual's personal needs. This has nothing to do with what they are paid - all professional athletes in the majors are overpaid, but rather the human aspect.
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    Alcala has consistently teased the team and they keep putting them in and he keeps failing. I think it's time he went somewhere else. Put paddock in the pen and Matthews in the rotation. Something has to change.
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    The White Sox played with the same ump. Not an excuse
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    Sure and we have the best BP in baseball and we are going to win the Central division - I agree we are better with Keaschall, but this is overstating the case
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    This is the last place world series and we are serious - 6 pitchers in a 9 inning game - try to keep that going. Love what Keaschall has contributed and hope it keeps going. But to have all those base runners stranded in the first few inning is not a good sign.
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    Since I was an usher in year one and have followed them since day one I can say this team has really pushed me to the brink. Luckily I have a job that has me traveling half the year so I have other distractions, but in the past I had Killebrew, Oliva, Kaat, Carew, Bostock, Viola, Hrbek, Blyleven, Gaetti, Puckett, Pascual, Tovar, and Mauer and Morneau who gave me joy win or not. Then there was the "I love that kid" Wynegar and other players who made me want to be at the game. I loved it when we had Mudcat and I wanted to see Vic Power with defense and energy at 1B. But now this team has no one who moves me to be excited. Buxton is too injured or too erratic. Correa has shown why other teams worried about his health. Julien had a flash in the pan year, but I really miss Arraez. No energy, no special qualities (I almost used a French phrase there) and if they are blasé' why should I get excited? Put that into context with all the elements that Nick described plus contraction and the buzz I got attending all the 1991 WS games is hard to sustain. I had hoped that Lewis would be that great and joyful player, but an injury list longer than his stat summary diminishes that potential.
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    I was never excited by him but the only reason to cut him is if we have someone to replace him. The cupboard seems quite bare.
  24. mikelink45
    When a team is desperate it is time to take a chance - give McCusker a chance.
  25. mikelink45
    This is about wholesale change - not tweaks - as Fire Dan Gladden says, we need this team to be sold. Pohlads are not going to regain any favorable relationships with Twins - that slide began with the old retraction effort to eliminate the team years ago. They were not committed to the team or fans then and they have not improved over the years. A new owner will have that honeymoon period where they can tell us that things will change and we will want to believe them. Prospects are always promising until they prove us otherwise. Maybe it will be different this time - we keep telling ourselves. But are we sure that the leadership team can bring them up and help with the transition to MLB? Past performance does not seem to indicate it. But for the fans sake we need Emma, Walker, Matthews, Festa, Morris, and Keaschall to be the real thing. We keep seeing other teams bringing up really young players and have them prosper. We need that. The hitting and pitching coaches are easy targets and we keep changing them with the same results so maybe it is time to look at the other management members and ask what they are doing. Can TD examine all the coaches and not just their functions, but their success?
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