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  1. mikelink45
    A one game winning streak and all the posts read so different. Let's make it two!
  2. mikelink45
    I am joining D C Twins in wondering what they are really doing with Raya. Is he going to be a starter? Does he have some ailment that we don't know? Will his arm fall off if he goes 4 or 5 innings? If he eventually goes down with T.J. will we drop this limitation?
  3. mikelink45
    I have never cared about the velocity of hit balls. In this report Detroit hitting balls that are well below the exit velocity that everyone wants, but guess what. They were hits and thus they won. Won. I still like the old wee Willy keeler statement about hitting him where they ain't. That's still the best strategy.
  4. mikelink45
    Wallner is certainly enjoying his St Paul vacation - if he keeps this up and Kepler shows he still can't climb to the Mendoza Line can we call up Wallner first? Balazovic continues to prove his potential is shot. He is not a major leaguer.
  5. mikelink45
    I am out of my depth on this one. It hurts too much. I keep thinking of Rocco;s Rally killer line, or the launch angle line or the three true outcomes line, but it probably needs the Twins in it so maybe back to the old nickname - The Twinkie Line
  6. mikelink45
    I was moved by the call for fans to spend more so the Twins can spend more or pocket more depending on their mood. So I am moving all my retirement into the Twins account - except that I just found out Correa makes more per game than my retirement fund. Guess I will keep it.
  7. mikelink45
    Rocco and the thumb - pull our Lopez because???? We just had a pitcher (not ours) throw a 112 pitch shutout. It would not happen with the Twins. By the way I think I read on TD that we have the best BP in the majors or close to it - time to revise the rankings. Jax is not a closer - I have nothing more to add there. Julien is not leadoff until he starts to heat up or is he now swinging for the fences? Buxton is not a number 3 or 4 or 5 of 5 hitter. Move him down. I am really discouraged by this game in context with the season so far.
  8. mikelink45
    Sad to see, I do not see Randy in a Twins uniform this year, but if he does it is a total collapse of the MLB rotation. Staumont needs to step up if he is going to save our pen. We can only hope Severino and Rodriguez push out Margo and Santana. I am not confident at all that we are finding the right pitchers and developing them. How does Cleveland keep doing it? Their secret sauce was kept away from our FO team.
  9. mikelink45
    Today Santana has dropped to -0.5 WAR and Margot is -0.3. On a team where Castro is -0.2, Farmer is -0.3 it is hard to see what the FO saw coming into the season. And I hate to say it Nick Gordon (-0.2 WAR) has a 124 OPS+ and 3 HRS. I know it is still early, 10% of the season so far and things can turn around, but how much faith do we have. I know Max Kepler with his -0.4 WAR will come back. We have sent down Wallner and are hoping AAAA Larnach can make the next half step. Buxton is doing great in the field, but his ABs are not what we expect. He has 0.2 Defensive WAR and -0.1 batting. Julien is not what we expect and does not erase Luis Arraez from our memories. Correa and his 0.3 WAR and Lewis are the infusion we need and I hope that Miranda keeps hitting and pushes Santana out (would our FO allow this?).
  10. mikelink45
    It used to be the curving balls were the cause of injury. And kids were told not to throw a curve or one of its equivalents because it was bad for the arm. I do believe we have gone overboard in our quest for speed. Not everyone is a Nolan Ryan or Bob Feller or Walter Johnson. But the blame on the pitch clock is ridiculous. In the 1920s and 1930s the average time for a game was less than two hours! Were the pitchers walking around the mound, staring and using the resin bag and delaying so they would not get injured? To be that fast it was get the ball, throw the ball. Even by the 1980s the games were barely over 2 1/2 hours and some of that was the delay with the advent of more RP. We have always had pitcher injuries - like Bob Grim who won 20 for the Yankees and then had arm trouble. No one had the idea of what to do so they made him a relief pitcher. Mark Fydrich (Big Bird) was a favorite and he went down and we lost a potentially great career. The reason the Tommy John surgery was so important was the fact that we have always been losing pitchers to the various versions of the injury, but until Tommy (who should be in the HOF) we did not have a name or a solution. Gary Nolan, Don Gullett, Dick Radatz, Smoky Joe Wood, Mark Prior and more lost their careers to arm trouble.. https://www.nbcsports.com/mlb/news/the-long-sad-history-of-injured-pitchers This article follows the history of arm trouble - " In 1910, Ford at age 27 came to play for the New York Yankees and he went 26-6 with a 1.65 ERA and 209 strikeouts in 299 2/3 innings. " "Russ Ford soon suffered from, yep, “arm fatigue.” What’s that? His arm hurt. He had a good second year, but by his third he led the league in losses. They Yankees dumped him after the next year." "Tommy Thomas at age 27 won 19 games with a 2.98 ERA for the Chicago White Sox. He led all pitchers in WAR. Three years later, he blew out his elbow," Bill James of the Boston Braves won 26 then came down with arm fatigue and career ended.
  11. mikelink45
    Is Larnach more than AAAA player? I hope he is but I haven't seen it
  12. mikelink45
    thats all he has. What else can you use to judge?
  13. mikelink45
    yes
  14. mikelink45
    That is all we have. Maybe we should have waited until he had a bigger sample
  15. mikelink45
    Okay, I am now in agreement - our rotation is not as good as last year. I also am still waiting to see the best bullpen in baseball. The Twins got some hits after the game was essentially over. Not impressed. We need something to happen soon. We are playing one of the really good teams and we look really bad. After splitting with Detroit the hope was we would move forward, but we forgot that Detroit is in the central division. We have two wins against KC and two against Detroit to go with one vs Dodgers and one vs Milwaukee.
  16. mikelink45
    Unfortunate that we have to play two ughs!
  17. mikelink45
    I agree but Keirsey and Fajardo make more sense that Larnach right now. If Helman was healthy he would be better too.
  18. mikelink45
    182 .286 .273 .558 What do we expect form Larnach when this is his slash line in the minors? Keirsey and Fajardo what have made more sense for me.
  19. mikelink45
    I am not moved by this move. It is a so what signing and I am fine with it. Since he first signed with Cincinnati I thought I would share this report on Cincinnati from the Athletic team ratings: The Reds are flush with young, exciting talent, but no one is standing out as much as Spencer Steer. Before games on Monday, the left-fielder led the Reds in hits (18) and RBIs (18) and nearly three weeks into the season, he still has an OPS that is four digits long. Steer’s bat has come up big numerous times for the Reds already this season, but his glove is getting it done, too, including on a sliding catch against the White Sox over the weekend. And, as our C. Trent Rosecrans pointed out, Steer and his fellow Reds outfielders have been the best defensive outfield in the majors to start the season, according to Sports Info Solutions. — McGrath
  20. mikelink45
    There is no best defensive lineup right now. We just have to plug holes. But I would put Miranda at 3B and let Farmer sit. I know Miranda is not the answer, but neither is farmer. I am not as impressed with Santana at 1B as many are. Our defense at the moment is only good in CF and C.
  21. mikelink45
    Let's not make moves too quickly. Larnach has been tried over and over and found wanting. He is hitting 182 in the minors and some think he should be brought up? How many ABs did Kelly say were needed to truly measure a players skills? Santana is much more of a problem and our clean up hitter Farmer is not going well. Castro and Buxton are not hitting and Margot has not been exciting. Why are we singling out Wallner at this time?
  22. mikelink45
    Julien is 200/286/480. Too early for a promotional piece. And I really like him, but not ready for this. His fielding according to BR is a -6 RTOT and -4 in defensive runs saved so far this year.
  23. mikelink45
    I thought we were getting past the service time manipulation. Alcala was effective, Thielbar and Jax were not in their last outings. Funderburk has exceeded expectations. If I were making the choice I would keep the younger arms.
  24. mikelink45
    One more thought - question. Farmer 071 bats fourth??????????????????????
  25. mikelink45
    Alcala loses service time and we have to put up with Bowman - not a good decision.
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