DJL44
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Remember his lousy .514 OPS in the first half last year? That would be a huge improvement over his current OPS of .318. He's projecting to between -1.5 and -3 WAR for the season. That's crazy bad for a half-time player. His statcast page says he's doing a great job of squaring up the ball, and his hard hit % is awful with no bat speed and no power. He's an incredibly slow slap-hitter. He should bunt every time there is a runner on base ahead of him to avoid the double play.
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I think someone else is bound to get hurt by the time Lewis returns. Ultimately the guy Lee needs to beat out on the roster is Ty France. France has been pretty much what you would expect - OPS+ in the 90s and blah defensively. Either Lee or Lewis can move to 1B. I don't think it's too high of a bar to say Lee needs to be as good as Ty France to keep a spot in the major leagues.
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He's in that dreaded spot for a hitter - recognizing pitches, swinging at the right ones and unable to put the barrel on the ball at all. Everything is weak contact.
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That doesn't make any sense. ABS is not going to be fooled by pitch framing. The Twins desperately need to buy a real catching prospect. He could move quickly to the big leagues - Vazquez has been awful this season on offense.
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Lee has more walks (5) than strikeouts (4). He's hitting the ball. He has a .143 average but his statcast page is bright red including barrel% and hard hit%. The hits will fall if he keeps this approach. He's fielding fine at 3B. He's still slow but sending him to AAA isn't going to fix that. If you're going to give a rookie a chance, he deserves more than 8 games to establish himself. This is especially true if he's been holding his own over those 8 games. Lucky for Lee, we won't see Lewis for a couple more weeks.
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It's been 8 games for Brooks Lee. He's already been on base more times than Miranda was in 12 games.
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I'm going to guess it will take Larnach injuring himself more than he appears to be injured currently. Bader has a 104 OPS+ and plays great defense. McCusker is not stealing any of his playing time. Keirsey is a defensive replacement and pinch runner. He doesn't get much playing time.
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They seem likely to manipulate service time with Festa and Matthews this season to make sure they get an extra year's control out of each of them.
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I think that is the best defensive play I have seen from Julien.
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I really like entertainment decisions to be simple. I was quite pleased that the Twins TV package was $99/year. That was a pretty easy yes/no decision to make. It might be the only money I spend on the team this season but I'm not regretting my purchase. There are a lot more Saints games now with a AAA schedule. That's like 50% more seats to sell.
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The whole thing sounds like Skee-ball, where you play for a couple hours and realize your 30,000 points are worth a pencil eraser shaped like a frog.
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I think they missed on Gen Z already. Their only hope is to market heavily to Millennials to get them and their kids to the ballpark.
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It's probably bad for the team that I actively avoid "special" sections of the stadium, assuming that they only allow season ticket holders to enter. I've never entered a Target Field bar or restaurant, partly for that reason (the other reason is my intuition that whatever I buy there will cost twice what I want to pay). I buy my ticket, sit at my seat and go to the nearby concessions. There are like 100 different sections and I don't know what any of them are (What is the difference between a box, terrace, view, patio, legend or porch? WTF is The Cove?). Sometimes I wonder if the crowd is entirely in the restaurants and that's why the seats are completely empty. Going to a Saints game is a much simpler experience.
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It should be disturbing to the team that I am one of the most avid Twins fans I know and I have no idea how the MyTwins thing works or what the benefits are. "Buy a MyTwins, call for details" is an awful marketing pitch.
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He appears to be playing through an injury that makes it painful to run. If he didn't have any "fire", I expect he wouldn't be on the field at all.
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According to Baseball Reference, that's wrong https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/topaju01.shtml Last 5 games are 4/5, 4/6, 4/11, 4/14, 4/19 He's not in the box score on 4/18 https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL202504180.shtml
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1) Players don't know where to position themselves on defense during discretionary plays where more than one player could make the play (cut-offs, bunts, in-between fielding plays). 2) Starting pitchers are not prepared to throw more than 75 pitches in April. 3) Baserunners are not motivated to run at full speed That's enough.
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I guess, if you're happy with the current offense, then by all means keep going down the path of more weak contact and fewer hard hit balls. A bunch of slow players hitting grounders seems like a bad strategy to me but everyone has their own opinion.
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He's running like a middle aged softball player.
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I think a new owner might fire Falvey just because he wouldn't fire Rocco.
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Where did he pitch the day before? The game logs for April show him appearing 4/5, 4/6, 4/11, 4/14, 4/19.
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Did people reasonably expect that this team would have a .300 winning percentage in 2025? I didn't see many baseball pundits predicting fewer than 50 wins. That's how bad they've played since the collapse last season (6-16 plus 7-15 = 13-31). Rocco might not be the whole problem but he's part of the problem.
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Zebby has always had good location and the ability to throw strikes. If he's improved his stuff while maintaining his location and ability to throw strikes that is a very good thing.
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A batter can be successful in AAA waiting for mistake pitches. That doesn't work in MLB - the pitchers don't make enough mistakes. In MLB you have to be able to do something with the pitcher's best pitches.
