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  1. I can’t tell if Atteberry is talking about Griffin Jax or Mariano Rivera
  2. Think more outside the box: Tony LaRussa, Part III
  3. It’s the game thread! We are all having a good time!
  4. Per gameday, heater is not as hot this inning
  5. Nolan Arenado had a check swing ground ball tap off home plate and travel four inches towards fair territory last night for the final out. Catcher just stepped around him, picked it up, and tagged him.
  6. Q: How do you score from second base, on a ground ball to catcher? A: Play the White Sox
  7. occasionally some of those tweeners are on purpose
  8. Following pitch plots on GameDay, it feels like a lot of Twins may be guess hitters. Take a pitch down the middle, swing at one at the ankles. Maybe I am hallucinating.
  9. I am following on gameday. I see a 90.5, 90.1 and 90.5 (still down from last year iirc
  10. And we will be force fed a series of articles about how “the real Twins showed up for this series” “this is what good teams do” 🙂
  11. They are the White Sox. They will find a way.
  12. On the other hand, a short bench makes it so Rocco can’t pinch hit guys in the 5th inning 🙂
  13. Pohlads deserve every bit of criticism they get, but are still pretty middle-of-the-pack as far as owners go. I mean, Jerry Reinsdorf? I don’t know if the crocodile tears for Falvey and Baldelli are real, fake, or probably somewhere in between for the writers on this site. Those two have a much bigger effect on Wins & Losses. Credit where due: the Twins have had a nice rotation for a few years now. it came at a high cost in talent, but hey, you do what you need to do. I will also add my two cents that I think by yesteryear’s standards, Rocco is, um, not a great tactician. For today’s baseball, my opinion is the same, but there are a lot more Rocco types in the league now too, so it doesn’t stand out quite as much and sometimes the Twins benefit by the mistakes of other managers.
  14. bumping an old thread... Triston McKenzie DFA'd by Cleveland. I don't know what the underlying metrics say, given his significant injuries, but I would absolutely make a minor deal with Cleveland for this guy. Give him a few weeks off -- he's a Florida kid -- then send him to Ft. Myers and ramp him back up.
  15. How about those Detroit Pistons! 15 straight playoff losses and counting!
  16. I don’t mind trying something new with the opener, but if you are just going to pull the primary/starter when they get to the third time through anyway, then I don’t see the advantage. The Twins left the bases loaded that inning, but the Braves left a lot of runs on the field all night long. Not as close as the score. gotta win tomorrow.
  17. Rocco pushed all the right buttons yesterday!! 🙂 Jax is a nice reliever, who had a whale of a season last year. He is not one of the best relievers in baseball, nor does he need to be. Twins Media World sets up unrealistic expectations for some of these guys that they cannot meet.
  18. One bench player? Yikes Even for one game, I really think they should get another player up here and put someone on the IL if needed, either Correa based on recent performance with a chronic issue, or Wallner based on his comments (he said he “felt something pop”? or something like that)
  19. Agree. I respect that not everyone else agrees, but Correa and Buxton just have this heaviness about them that is not good. Hypothetical: if Rocco, Tingler, Buxton, and Correa were off the team tomorrow, somehow, would the team be better, worse, or about the same? Here is what my everyday line up would be: DH Julien 3B Lee SS Lewis (closer to ready than is let on) RF Wallner 1B France C Jeffers LF Larnach 2B Castro CF Bader Obviously there are some issues, namely the shine is off Lewis and Lee somewhat, and a very very thin bench with Keirsey JR and Miranda, but a younger team like this would bring some energy. A new head coach going out, and doing drills with this new set of guys, would do wonders. Obviously we are praying on guys like Rodriguez, Keaschall and Walker Jenkins to mature and contribute soon, as well.
  20. Carlos certainly has the arm to be the cutoff guy and I don't have a problem necessarily with the way the Twins do it as long as it works, but ideally the second baseman should have a strong arm, too. Castro should have wheeled and thrown home. I think the runner would have been out. Instead, we got what we got.
  21. The shortstop should be at second base when the ball is hit to right. What you saw is a result of Carlos Correa constantly covering for Eddie Julien - god bless Eddie - because Julien doesn't have a sense of what to do. So I'm guessing Carlos temporarily forgot that it was Castro playing second base and went out to take the throw from Wallner because he (Correa) knew there would be a play on Alonso at home,. But Castro took the relay throw. No idea what the communication was during the play.
  22. Good question. Here is a very similar one from 2015 that set the firing date to “first half of season” but only looked back 10 years (or you could say it looked back 12 years, since it discusses the 2003 Marlins as the ideal result). How Common Are Early-Season Manager Firings?
  23. They demoted Miranda after the game today, and promoted Lee? Do not approve. The last thing these guys need is to be embarrassed. It feels like most every player on the roster doesn't have his head in the game right now. Their heads are not in it. You can tell by looking at them. I guarantee you there are fielders standing out there forgetting the number of outs, but not getting exposed like Miranda did. Sit Miranda on the bench for a couple games if you need to make a statement. Anyway, the more intelligent transaction would have been to promote Lee before yesterday's game, and let go of Gasper. Which was discussed in last night's game thread. As it happened, Gasper made the final out last night with the tying run on third base. And on it goes with this organization.
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