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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Jorge Polanco is eligible to come off the IL today. I’ve been hearing for what seems like weeks that Trevor Larnach is doing baseball activities at full speed and is near ready, but then, where is he? They demote Louie Varland after Varland’s start in New York, even though his turn was to come up against KC at home on Tuesday. (Demote the local kid after a good debut and when he’s lined up to make his second start at home—questionable decision-making at best.) Max Kepler just kind of lingers around in the dugout, at least those are the camera shots that I see, and then enters the game to take a half-hearted at bat now and then. Byron Buxton has vanished, despite explicit efforts to monitor his health and manage his load so that he would not vanish. Gilberto Celestino, Buxton’s replacement, makes more mistakes than… I don’t know. Sonny Gray takes the mound every fifth game, though I still chuckle that they traded their first round pick for him. The Taylor Rogers trade was a bust. Duffey probably should have been traded instead. Process, or something. We all have our own storylines that we notice; those are some of mine. But there are players to be excited about. Jhoan Duran’s shoulder has held up. Caleb Thielbar has been great—huge strikeout of Stanton Thursday. Bundy and Archer have frankly done better than expected, in my opinion. Arraez and Miranda have been good—but even those two guys were inherited from the previous Ryan regime. if the Twins find a way to win this division, it will be because of those players above and Correa. A few more gritty pitching performances will also be needed. I think a lot of us are keeping our expectations very, very low, but hope to be surprised. Those of us who visit this site have enough fan equity that we can come back and reclaim our rightful seat aboard the bandwagon and go 100% in for this team in the postseason, should the Twins surprise us and pull it out.
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    Imagine where this team would be with solid pitching. At least a half dozen games up in the standings and looking to put away Cleveland for good these next 8 of 11 games. The last two series against Chicago would be a mere formality, letting starters work shorter starts, letting some callups pitch from the pen, and setting up the postseason rotation. Or maybe none of that, but instead they would be playing to win to overtake the Yankees for second best record. I don't understand the need to sugar coat every single bad thing this team is doing, but then again, you did get my mouse click like everyone elses.
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    Too soon, Stu. Twins Daily is deep in mourning. The queen has passed so that the Yankees might lose. Let’s all pour one out — a cup of tea, of course—for England this morning.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Good mention. I'm not sure why an editor did not suggest mentioning Pineda in the article as a success story.
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    Good news!
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    Agreed. There’s nothing as fun as a pitcher on a roll. I started saying the same thing about Brett Favre in his second season with the Vikings. “One of the best NFL quarterbacks of all time, but was the second best quarterback on the Packers.” (Aaron Rodgers)
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    I found out later that the reason traffic was so bad that day, was because of Mauer’s motorcade had closed down the streets
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    Good article! Duran is special, no doubt. Let’s hope his shoulder holds up—no indication that it won’t at this point, at least through 2022. If we are counting half seasons, then Scott Erickson’s splinker ranks up there too. Joe Nathan had a great curveball, I thought. I’m sure I will think of some more and post again later!
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    I think Correa’s plan was to opt out, but I wouldn’t bet on it at this moment. Turner and Bogaerts may want to stay put in LA and Boston, and the Yankees might throw all their money at retaining Judge. A new Correa deal would look paltry in comparison to Judge’s. The shortstop carousel that was expected this upcoming offseason may not materialize— yet to be seen.
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    Isn't that TwinsDaily's job, @Seth Stohs @Steve Lein, to report for us whether he has had any injuries? ? So the deal with SWR is that in June, he missed a start. Then, he missed a second start. At that point he was put on the IL with an unspecified injury. Then, a week or two later, he was placed on the Covid IL. So it's not strictly a Covid thing (in fact at one point I thought I saw him celebrating a walk-off with his teammates when he was technically on the Covid IL and maybe there were protocols, don't know.) If he continues to pitch well and stay on the mound then I guess the details won't matter. I would like to see him pitch a full season at a minor league level before he joins the big leagues.
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    Imagine Baltimore sneaks into the last wild card and the Twins miss out on the postseason and a chance to play them.
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    Gladden said something to that effect this afternoon.
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    Whether you think Gordon should have dove for that ball, or should have played it on a hop (would have been tough if you ask me), I think there needs to be someone in the dugout with some situational sense who can see how the game is playing out, how the at bat is playing out, and adjust the outfielders accordingly. Someone like Gladden who would see what’s happening, whistle out to Gordon and wave him a few steps over. imagine if Gordon was playing closer to the line and had made a diving catch to save the game! i bring this up because that play was the talk of pregame today so I imagine Gladden was all over it during the game last night as it was happening.
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    The people of lore have indeed weighed in, and oh have they weighed (and I imagined them quite a bit rounder when I read the books)
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    We at TwinsDaily work around the clock to bring you the hard hitting content and ask the tough questions of the front office that you the reader demands. So it does feel good to punch down at the fans now and again.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Not really a shot at overweight people as it’s more just a shot at fans in general?
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    Gray did not struggle in the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th. Walks are going to happen, I'm not always bothered by those like some people, and I'm not bothered by giving up some runs to the Dodgers. When I skipped out after the fourth I thought Gray still had a lot of gas in the tank. I'm not buying the premise in the article that Gray ran out of steam and I'm definitely not buying how the Twins managed the starter and bullpen last night.
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    I thought Gray’s first four innings were fine — he actually did have good his stuff. The big caveat is I was not available to see the fifth inning. Just because Gray gave up a couple hard hits in the fifth doesn’t tell me he needed to be pulled there. I’d be curious to hear from some careful observers about whether they felt Gray really needed to be pulled there. He had only thrown a dozen pitches in the inning and only 80 for the game.
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    Unlike last night, Twins need to launch some deep threes tonite
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    This play had the feel of the old NFL catch rule: where replay reviewers had this mistaken belief that they needed to slow the video way down to make sure both palms and all ten fingers were in firm grasp of the ball on every frame of the tape, that no blades of grass were disturbed by a brush with the football, etc. Thankfully the NFL recognized that their rule had gone too far. Maybe MLB will discuss internally but won't help the Twins this time.
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    I have to disagree and agree, first, that Sanchez was ever much in foul territory. So following the lead of @chpettit19 with the screen shot, I will add these. 1. Here is Sanchez's initial set up: Kudos to Gordon for covering third base. Also, I love Gio's gesture here. We're not cuttin' this one! 2. Then, here is the point in time where Sanchez is most in the baseline, preparing to catch the throw but if you slow it down, he's kind of rocking back and forth, probably just natural motion, but notice his right foot: Sanchez doesn't have the ball yet and Merrifield is not at the plate. 3. Then a moment later, here is Sanchez providing a lane; his left leg is in the air, and is by no means planted in front of home plate denying an avenue (the spirit of the rule). Notice the right foot again back well into fair territory: And the call on the field: Out, and not even a demonstrative call. So while yes it was a close play, it wasn't that close, if that makes sense. Not very logical but it makes sense in my head, anyway. Sanchez did it probably just the way you coach it? not sure What's really unfortunate is that there is a video angle from the third base dugout camera that looks like Sanchez is blocking the plate old school style and falling all over the runner in a big cloud of dust. I'm sure that angle had to have had an effect on the overturn. Despite the crow hops and clutches, I also thought Beckham made a pretty awesome throw, as good as a throw you could hope for, in my opinion. But mostly I just disagreed that Sanchez did anything wrong and I decided I wanted to do a bunch of screenshots.
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    Had to leave the game after the 8th, uh-oh missed a few things
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    My opinion on Rocco:
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    And what’s with trading for Michael Fulmer? Aren’t the Twins and Tigers in the same division? I fully expect Sawyer Gipson-Long to be closing games and knocking the Twins out of contention for Detroit in 2025
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Honestly I wanted to see another Jake Odorizzi -for - Jermaine Palacios trade happen. It was there for the taking!
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