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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The spirit of my post was more fun than seriousness. Juan Soto and Bryce Harper have laid down sacrifice bunts this postseason. That’s interesting, no!? There is a lesson for the Twins in there somewhere, but why bother anymore. No, I do not expect the best hitters on the Twins to lay down sac bunts every time a runner reached first base. Cleveland and Tampa Bay played two low scoring games. Good for Cleveland. You mentioned Scherzer and deGrom. Why not mention Wheeler and Darvish? Two pitchers the Twins could have had in free agency. See, we could play this tit for tat game forever, and probably will, but really I was just making a comment that even two of the biggest power hitters in the game are bunting when the situation calls for it. Would Correa have laid down a bunt?
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Memorandum Re: Putting on plays, making things happen Juan Soto and now Bryce Harper have laid down sacrifice bunts. Both times, the runner came around to score. cc: Rocco Baldelli
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    There was a weird bunch of wrist injuries in September. I don’t know how preventable those are or how well exercises work.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    So, split the difference and put you down for 78 wins in 2022?
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    “The Angels front office under Joe Maddon” ”The Twins front office under Rocco” ”Followers of the Tao” “Name three groups who could learn to use their bullpens better”
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    I don’t think so. Just because one fan doesn’t understand some thing, doesn’t mean that other fans cannot possibly understand it. The last thing you said about some teams applying analytics better than other teams is something I think most of us can agree on.
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    The data-to-gut ratio is something we need the manager to figure out. Even then, they won’t always make the right call.
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    6.1, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 Those are the number of innings the winning team’s starting pitcher pitched on postseason day one. Are we sounding like a broken record on this? Yup.
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The Mets did what now in 86 you say?
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    (slight exaggeration, but still a pretty ugly 9th for the Cardinals)
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    Add up all the Twins implosions in 2021-2022, the uglier the better, multiply them together, and I predict you get what the Cardinals did in Game 1 of the Cards-Phils series
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    I liked the Yoo game as well and love the Tal reference. AlphaZero is the best chess engine we have seen to date and a lot of those games look like Tal games, in sacrificing material in order to gain positional advantage, which was a radical style in Tal's day.
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    I am trying to come up with a good rebuttal, but don’t have one. Niemann cheated in the past but no one can really point to anything specific in the recent OTB games. The best case that Niemann was cheating comes from Magnus I think, when Magnus says Niemann’s body language was off and he just didn’t seem engaged in the game or in calculating positions, yet somehow he was making winning moves. Another site I just watched had a good breakdown of Niemann’s behavior too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hiaWVcjiMBo This is probably enough for me to take Magnus’s side, but it doesn’t help that Niemann seems to have the emotional intelligence of a two-year-old, which makes reading behavior and body language that much harder. It’s not impossible to be all of those things at once: a past cheater, a complete jerk, and also a brilliant genius chess player.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Anyone any thoughts on Hans Niemann? @gunnarthor
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    Maybe.
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    It’s ironic, given your screen name, because I don’t know if you listen to the games on the radio often or not, but Dan Gladden and Cory Provus routinely see deeper into the game than Rocco apparently does, and Gladden out-manages Rocco in real time on a regular basis. By the way, basically the whole radio team including Atteberry and the backups to him, everyone there sounds fed up with the starting pitcher usage. It’s not just some nasty people on the Internet who are questioning it.
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    The radio guys, even Atteberry, were questioning the pinch running thing until the end of the broadcast. Lest anyone think this is just a bunch of fans whining on the Internet. What also bothers me about it is that if the game had gone to the 10th, or if Contreras had extended the inning, it would have been Miranda’s spot due back up, but with Miranda out of the game. (To add: in my opinion the top of the 8th when the home team still has two at bats is more often than not too soon to start making these types of substitutions, especially with the personnel the Twins have right now) There are going to be close low scoring games again in 2023 and game management must get better. In case no one has mentioned that yet this year.
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    @Nate Palmer did you have any insights on Arraez’s status as a pinch hit possibility or on the pinch running situation in the 8th?
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    Yikes, I wasn’t remembering what we gave up for Lopez.
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    Matt Garza was voted MVP of the 2008 ALCS. That was the year the Rays finally came out of nowhere with their analytical approach and went to their first World Series, after years of being the league’s door mat. I think other teams still don’t know exactly what they are doing right.
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    I feel most bad for Kirilloff. That surgery sounds less than ideal.
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    That these games do not have meaning actually makes it an ever better reason for Mahle to “be out there” as Wolfson says. The throwaway line in the Tweet about extending Mahle is what I will interpret as a bad joke meant to disrespect the fans, but the fans are used to it by now. I don’t check on Wolfson at all anymore so maybe it is sarcasm or a sideways comment on the original trade for Mahle, and if so I apologize. Anyway, bottom line is, if Mahle says he is feeling fine, if he wants to pitch, and the front office knows this, then the front office should have scheduled a start for Mahle this week against Chicago.
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    6. Is Balazovic still a top prospect? Short answer: SURE Long answer: TINSTAAPP 7. Will they keep Pagan and Lopez? Yes I think they will but not saying they should. The Twins bullpen will be much better next year, barring another “closer” signing like Colome or Rodney or Pagan who comes in and undoes what all the other pitchers before him did, and if Pagan and Lopez return they need to be considered to be at the bottom of the bullpen ladder, not the top.
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    1. I agre Correa is gone. Fine. Sign a glove-first guy for 2023, then if Lewis recovers on schedule that will bring him back mid season. We are pretty much in agreement on this. And no I do not consider Palacios or Gordon to be options at short; maybe Polanco if they do not trade him, but see #11. 2. Regarding rushing Brooks Lee to the majors: Well they rushed Luis Arraez and look where that got us. Actually I would put it at 50-50 that we see Lee in 2023 if what people are saying about him is true. 3. Short answer is I disagree that Gray and Ryan are set for the rotation and the whole pitching thing is just where this whole project falls apart. The jury is still out on whether Ryan can pitch a whole season as if every team is Detroit or KC, and Gray just seems unhappy, and I would trade him. Obviously if Gray is on the roster and healthy when the season starts then Gray and Ryan are locks for the rotation, but I think they should explore trading Gray. 4. I don’t think we should count on any of those three being major contributors in 2023. It seems like Mahle has the most potential. Maybe there are some stretching or diet programs he can do that will improve his chances for a good 2023 (not being facetious). 5. As far as ceilings of being very good, I would put Winder ahead of Ober or Woods Richardson, with no idea about Varland. Varland has not been on my radar. However, Winder seems most likely to have arm issues? Don’t know,…
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    Good job. I will reply when I’m at a keyboard. Forewarning: I do not have opinions on everything. Also, we run into trouble with surprise moves out of nowhere, like the Taylor Rogers trade. We should not have traded Rogers—how would we know to oppose the trade before it happened?
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