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I disagree too. Start Schoop in game one. The Twins were overthinking this. There would have been a chance to get Arraez in the game later and then start Arraez in game two. Arraez’s double was good, but hardly hard-hit, and Arraez also grounded into a double play early on which was a huge blow. You feel for the kid having a terrible game, we were all happy he healed up in time to play, but coming off the ankle sprain the right call was to start Schoop.
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Give Polanco some credit too. Otherwise, yeah.
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For the record, I don’t disagree with either of you.
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This time I think we can say “yes, they were one player away.” A starting pitcher. Not that that excuses the other players who haven’t showed up yet this series.
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Sounds to me like there is a “Twins never had a chance” strain of revisionist thinking going on—that I strongly disagree with. If the Yankees were that superior to the 101-win Twins this year, then how many wins should the Twins shoot for next season to be on their level? No way the Twins should have been swept this year. No way. By the way, I went back to 2002 and calculated the Yankees postseason Win-Loss record and Win% since then. Anyone care to guess what that is?
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And then when the Twins get back to NY for game five, we turn to... Dobnak? It unfortunately looks like the Twins out-thought themselves this series, or were way too overconfident behind the scenes. Or something. They were certainly “out-analyticed” up in the front office.
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Against a tough Toronto lineup, Cleveland started Ryan Merritt in game five of the 2016 ALCS. Four plus shutout innings. Cleveland is where Falvey came from. I thought he or someone in the Twins front office might have an idea or something up their sleeve for this one. With Dobnak, I assumed the Twins had a plan. How to pitch to the Yankees with the stuff Dobnak has. “Once through the order” or something, then someone else. The process they used during the season of following one pitcher with another type of pitcher. Or that Dobnak had the best chance out of their six-plus other guys like Smeltzer, Perez, Graterol, Thorpe, whoever.
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In hindsight, I don’t know what they were thinking with Dobnak. I don’t blame Dobnak. I like Dobnak a lot as a good person and am happy for him. I just assumed the team had a plan with his start tonight. They didn’t. Dobnak wasn’t good enough, and when he got into trouble in the third, they shrugged their shoulders and pulled him from the game as if he was just a guy making a spot start in June.
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He didn’t say what quality of pitching, right?
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I agree so much.
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Agree, the Yankees best reliever in 2017 was arguably Chad Green, and they brought him in in the first inning in the Wild Card game that year.
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I wouldn’t rule it out. I know it makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist, but hey, I lived through most of the Bobby Knight / Assembly Hall era.
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But without that banned substance, and whatever the reasons he was taking it, does he perform at that level? Some of us think not.
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Yet you question my comment on a managerial move?
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Smeltzer gonna eat up some innings for us, for... reasons.
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Gone are the days when managers wrote out the lineup cards and told the GMs to go to hell and mind their own business. Most of the posters on here were surprised Arraez started last night, but you bring up a good point about Schoop’s splits against Tanaka, too.
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I mean, I would have signed Darvish, or Keuchel, and traded for a starter. Baldelli is usually just taking orders. So the question is a little more complicated than you are making it.
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I just don’t get it. I mean, was Dobnak your opener, to be pulled quickly? Or was he your starter? Did they have any idea which? Why not leave him in?
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I was going to type and post: “Hey Duffey, quit grooving fastballs down the middle” But I didn’t want to be a negative nelly
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Haha touché
