Hosken Bombo Disco

I just checked tomorrow's starting pitcher for the Reds, and,.. does the name Zack Littell ring a bell lol

Jhonkensy Noel starts at first base for Cleveland today haha. This guy makes Eddie Julien look like a glove wizard and makes Joey Gallo look like a contact hitter. But Vogt wanted the platoon advantage. Sometime I just... Skubal was back to being brilliant after a couple of meltdowns late in the regular season. Crochet was brilliant. The Yankees load the bases with no outs in the bottom of the ninth and don't score, and Cleveland gets Ramirez to third base with no outs in the bottom of the ninth, and can't score him. File under: It's not just the Twins

No predictions this year for me. Go underdogs! The brackets are interesting this year — the three AL East teams competing against Detroit///Cleveland and Seattle for the ALCS.

That would be a massive red flag. Not that we need any additional red flags to form a judgment on this management and ownership group.

It is nice to see Bradley, Abel, and Woods Richardson finish on high notes. However, there is a large enough body of work on them at this point. None of them will attain the consistent level of performance of Lopez or Ryan. Bradley is hittable but reliable as a 5th starter in the mold of Kyle Gibson. Abel has a minor league career rate of 5 walks per 9 innings, too high to play well at this level. SWR has not shown consistency or length, but is still early enough in his career to visualize his last start as a springboard for the future. I think SWR or Matthews give us the best chance of a mid rotation starter in the mold of Ober in the next year or two. Same with Austin Martin and a few others mentioned. We know these players by now. The Twins should not over analyze good performances in the statistically noisy final week. An outfield of Buxton, Roden, Larnach, Wallner and Martin is shaky, but maybe Walker Jenkins can slot in there next year and impress. Larnach, once described by this front office as a leader and positive influence, seems like the odd man out. At this point maybe Lee’s best move is to third base when Culpepper is ready to be called up to play short. And then the manager and coaches. But take all that with a grain of salt. It seems like a bunch of us diehards play the “who plays & where” game all year, every year, discussing the team, trying to analyze the best possible team in a moment of time. And then this front office always surprises us with something different. Anyway, I am looking forward to seeing the Twin Daily owners and writers and their deep dives into the state of the team soon.

It’s because people have lost their ****ing minds.

I owe you an apology and a correction. Yes, Royce Lewis is much more popular among the general fan base than he is inside this unventilated little corner of the Internet. So, sorry about that. My irrational love for players like Lewis happens when I see myself in them. Not so much the athleticism but the personal side, Royce being a generally nice guy, who runs his mouth sometimes, over explains, apologizes too much, and has a tendency to ask questions (why are you moving me to second base in the middle of a pennant race?) instead of just following orders. That feels like Royce to me to a T. Plus, all that charisma. I know you don’t think well of Lewis’s ability to play shortstop. You may be right, but problem is, the fans never got to see it happen. Twins scouting and development had Royce as a shortstop. Twins leadership closed the door on Royce at shortstop with the second Correa signing in January 2023. Maybe if fans had seen Royce struggle at short, or if Royce hadn’t hit those big home runs in the 2023 postseason, he wouldn’t be as popular here. Oh well.

I am guessing he thought he would go off and execute all those trades, and then come back to a hero’s welcome. He would do all the usual interviews, the local media would be friendly as usual, and everyone would tell him how great he did. Instead, it was the opposite. And it was a shock. So he went silent for a while. Just a guess.

Houston collapsed and is on the outside looking in. Toronto is also collapsing, but already locked up a playoff spot. I expect the Yankees to overtake Toronto and win the East, and Toronto to bow out in the wild card round.

José Berríos goes to the Injured List. Something that has never been said before. Bravo. He's been pretty good and incredibly healthy. He has also made more starts as a Blue Jay now than he did as a Twin. He is in his 10th season. It is elbow inflammation. Hopefully nothing serious.

this most of all. Our new Aaron Hicks.

We have seen that move before — Trout did it like 10 years ago sliding into third, lots of other guys have done stuff like that recently, but Fitzgerald’s was one of the best!

That’s not the same good girl as in the dirty sock avatar…. Anyway, be safe and thanks for ‘representing’ over there!

Pitching around Outman there?

outfielder, Mark Funderburk, cup of coffee

Trying to assemble the Twins recent all-defense team… C Vazquez, SS Correa, OF-Bader/Buxton/Kepler, .., mayyybe Lee at 3B? anyone else jump out?

shhhh don’t say that too loud, there are only like 4 or 5 of us who like him and we don’t want the pitchforks to come out 😆 however I think he probably takes less money to go elsewhere

I don’t mind the Tigers but I never thought they were the best team in the league by a long shot (easy to say now, I know)

So then would you put Martin in center until Jenkins is ready, or would you throw Jenkins out there and let him learn? … 🙂

Wow Cleveland in first place. I want apologies from all the people who told me 7 games back on July 27th was too much ground to make up! (the 2018 deadline sell off, if you are wondering. Yes you are correct I have trouble letting go of things lol…)

I give this team a 50/50 chance to make a run at .500 and a wild card next year, but two necessary steps would be keeping all their starting pitchers, and bringing in a better manager and philosophy and coaching staff. Otherwise the players will continue to underwhelm and bring themselves down, and it’s another run at 90+ losses.

LOVE IT

You really have to wonder.

We can still have the ‘love’ part