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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I just think it’s more likely they are looking for vets on one-year deals. Kluber might fit that bill after all his injuries now; I’d be intrigued by him.
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    Yeah, from the fans’ standpoint, this is a guessing game. When Darvish was the top free agent a couple years ago, the market was extremely slow. However, I would bet that the next guys down had offers, like I assume Paxton, Tanaka and Odorizzi have soft offers right now, if they don’t want to play that game of chicken and try to squeeze out every penny. My prediction is I don’t think the Twins are shopping for starting pitching.
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    Honestly I never liked the M, but I always liked the pinstripes (the Twins pinstripes). My least favorite Twins uniform was the solid white with gold trim when they moved into Target Field. I think you still see that once in a while but only rarely. Keep the powder blues! It makes me feel like I’m in a more innocent time. I think the concussion thing sprouting up after 2010 was more of just societal awareness. Players got concussions but played through them. Great comment! Come back soon.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    St. Paul is Minneapolis-ifying the old Ford plant site as we speak. Maybe the two cities are growing closer as they age?
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    And let’s all say it together: “Not everyone from Minneapolis...” Minneapolis is great in many ways. Definitely not trying to shame anyone here.
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    One of my favorite pieces of writing on the "Minneapolis vs. St. Paul" debate (yes, out-staters, this is a thing) by Mischke in 2009 Mr. St. Paul, where are you?
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Glad for Tyler Wells to get a chance. Hope he stays healthy.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Okay true but this game could go sideways on you in a hurry, considering what the Twins have done (or not done) in the postseason.
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The Dodgers went to the World Series that year. Tough crowd. But let’s wait and see what becomes of the Kenta Maeda—Luke Raley trade, as it’s come to be known here. Bottom line: Who was the winner of the Brian Dozier trade? Brian Dozier, and it’s not that close.
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    Eddie is an old fashioned “go big or go home” kind of player in a “just qualify for the playoffs baby” kind of league, with the unfortunate timing of covid and the CBA expiring on top of it to dampen his prospects for a nice contract. Boston seems like a good landing spot for him. He’s by no means done.
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    Agree! We just don’t know what the offer was. I’m the biggest fan when it comes to trades for starting pitching. However, I’m still stuck in the old thinking that teams want strong rotations, and if that’s not how it’s trending anymore, then I’m not sure how worthwhile it is to trade for those types of guys. I still think, build a strong 5-man rotation as possible. So I hope we see Duran in another year or two and maybe the Escobar trade starts paying dividends.
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    But the Twins were serious contenders in 2019 and 2020, so not sure what
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    Wasn’t a fan of this one. Escobar went in the fire sale of 2018, when many players were traded. The Twins were 7 games back but I would have liked to see how the pennant race played out. The Twins were sellers the season before, as well, and then rallied. It will be fun when Duran makes his debut, even if the lustre and glow of being a starting pitcher is starting to wear off.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    What does analytics say about slumps?
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Instead of asking starters to go 7 innings every five days, teams today seem happy to get 5 innings every six or seven days. At least in Twins world that seems to be expectation. The results here in Minnesota speak for themselves.
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    This is an important question. Unless my eyes are deceiving me, the Twins look like they are willing participants in the movement to downgrade the value of starting pitching. This necessarily means that relief pitching must become more important. Which starts to cast doubt on (for me, anyway) on the trade they made for starting pitching last February. And yeah I would have liked to seen all the Twins starters pitch at least one more inning in their postseason starts, 2019 included. /rant
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    Jeffers was a very nice surprise. I wouldn’t get too down on Garver. Garver did look bad at times this year, but I’ll bet he’s the type of player who really benefits from a full spring training to work on his skills and swings. Next year he’ll have that again.
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    Well. I wish you had been wrong!
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I hit sixth in the lineup back in a T-Ball tournament once. Anyway, I came up in the first inning of the first game with the bases loaded and two out, and struck out. Then same thing happened in the second game. No runs either time. Felt like the worst person in the world. So anyway, my opinion has always been to have a contact hitter who knows the strike zone in the six spot. Definitely not a Miggy if possible—he’s either a 3-4 hitter or a 7-8 hitter. Then maybe Lamont Wade instead of Alex Kirilloff would have had a better result there. We’ll never know.
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    I figured this was the best scenario myself; unfortunately it did not turn out.
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    Wasn’t Keoni Cavaco available today to play shortstop? (haha just kidding, I wanted to say that ever since I saw Jeffers and Kirilloff in the starting lineup)
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Speaking of groundskeeping... Here is the link to Reusse: https://m.startribune.com/reusse-twins-game-1-bullpen-usage-leaves-much-to-be-desired/572581712/ This passage also jumped out: The Twins had a total of two hits at that point. Franmal Valdez, a lefty and considered by some to be the Astros’ second-best starter, had entered for Greinke in the fifth. Valdez started with a pair of walks, asked for the mound to be repaired in his landing area, and then blew through Byron Buxton, Max Kepler and Cruz. Someone from the Twins org fixed the mound for the opponent? What th—? This morning was the first I heard of this. The first thing that came to mind was the New England snowplow game, but wasn’t that to help the home team?
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Why stop there? we could do better with better front officing, ownershipping, fanning, vendoring, groundskeepering,...
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Reusse argued that May should have gone another inning, given five innings seems to be the absolute upper limit a starting pitcher can be expected to pitch. (Ok I added some of that.) Reusse also argues that the Twins need to improve in three areas before the second game: hitting, fielding, and pitching
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    I think you are making my point? Rocco, or maybe it’s the front office, is clearly erring on the side of removing starting pitchers early from these postseason games. They lost the benefit of the doubt with me last year removing Berrios after four innings on the night before a scheduled bullpen game. And same as last year, I think the organization is overrating this bullpen. Sounds like Maeda pitched great today—tight strike zone too I guess—and the bullpen did fine after him (until the 9th). The decision to remove him largely worked out, but the trade off is it’s one more inning the bullpen doesn’t have for the next two games.
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