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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Another great post rb. I like your point about what a pitcher can do to confound the best laid plans of analytics. Think about how many runners Pablo Lopez (or say Jose Berrios) can leave on base. “They shouldn’t be as good as they are! How are they so lucky?” It is just an instinct for pitching there, for how to get a batter out when needed, for what pitch to throw in any given situation. Or how & where to throw a given pitch that the catcher calls, or is called by the dugout. Especially getting batters out like Wallner, Larnach or Julien (sorry if any of those three are anyone’s favorite.) My gut tells me this is part of why offense is down; enough pitchers who know how to pitch on a gut level. Greg Maddux was the best. Bailey Ober has this skill too. If Paul Skenes has this instinct, combined with his physical talent and stuff, he will be this generation’s Clayton Kershaw or Pedro Martinez. “gut” can’t be measured of course; but neither can “hotness” (talking about the 2024 Detroit Tigers, not Ryan Gosling 🙂) Pure baseball talent will be cool again someday. Lots still to talk about. We are not done with this subject.
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    ignore the spreadsheet?
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Have a game, Kirko.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    100% correct.
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    I appreciate the find. However, it’s from May 2017, and I don’t think it says what you claim it says. Levine said he came from a risk-taking organization (Texas) and he said he attempts to balance decision making, depending on the situation. Levine does not come out and say “I’m the risk taker here” or anything like that.
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    Good luck to Levine. I liked his interviews. There was no way Levine was the final sign-off for the bigger decisions, like the Pablo-Arraez trade (fair to say is working out well), the Donaldson signing (heh) or the Correa signing $200 million with $33 million a year locked up. So, not sure Levine leaving really moves the needle.
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Another thing the Padres are doing is turning over their managers every couple years.
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    Not even close. You were very vocal about it. Also not even close. Just because you can’t do or see something doesn’t mean no one else can. “Easy to be wrong” is not the right way to explain it. It’s a shame that base hits and table setters are overrated in today’s game. It would be nice to know what the Twins saw in Margot and Julien as leadoff batters this year. Any ideas?
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Surprised no one commented on Goff’s perfect night. He went 18-18, with 292 yards, and 2 TD Which did not earn him a perfect passer rating, believe it or not.
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    “Thrilled”.. You also called Jose Salas a stud. Anyway, the incompetence of the Pohlads would be easier to digest if we had smarter people running this team.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Agree wholeheartedly, but it's not just the Twins. I think it's endemic to all of the mediocre teams competing for that 5th and 6th wildcard. Example. Can't remember the situation, I think it was the Miami series, but I do remember Trevor Larnach not being held at first base and being allowed to just trot down to second base late in a game in a not insignificant moment. Even on his bad hamstring. I may be wrong here again, but I would like to see the stats on 1st & 2nd, no outs, or even 2nd & 3rd, and not scoring. It seems like this has been a huge problem for a lot of teams, not just the Twins. Batters just don't change their approaces. Swing your swing and see what happens. Well I will tell you what happens: strikeouts happen. Or popups. At least against the better pitchers. ...Rant over.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    AL Central 2-0 after first day. You need to be able to win low scoring games in MLB.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I dunno, I guess I would keep giving Buxton an Incomlete until he plays a bigger chunk of the season? Its such a strain to have so many guys who need backups and constant moving around, and that doesn’t really show up in the stat lines, imo. So they need to find the 2025 version of Michael Taylor or Manuel Margot again and cross our fingers.
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    Buxton? Buxton scored 62 runs, Anthony Santander was 10th in the American League with 91 runs scored. Just thinking someone upthread got their signals crossed
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    My thinking is that the KC game was the turning point. I am fine if people disagree with that and call the Texas loss or Miami loss the big ones, or one of the Cleveland losses. Heck the Twins would still have been mathematically alive on the last day of the season, had they won that KC game, if everything else had played out the same (which it wouldn’t have, but still). Everyone in the game thread was asking for Ober to be allowed to pitch the 8th that night; Ober was breezing, and the bottom of the order was coming up. Ober knew the deal and wanted to stay in. You gotta roll the dice at some point for your starters. You need to save your bullpen guys in that stretch. Etc etc. Rocco compounded the mistake by bringing in Duran as you said.
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    Now if I’m the Mets, with a playoff clinch and in the drivers seat, I look at the matchup and ask if Milwaukee is an easier opponent than San Diego? Not fair to the Diamondbacks but they had their opportunities.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    then Mets stunned in 8th, then Braves stunned in 9th Great game! MLB got the Game 163 they did not want. 🙂
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Hi Chief. I remember too — we were having this same conversation about Rocco already back in 2022, if not earlier.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    2001 was a ray of hope, not a disappointment. 1992 was a victory lap season. Incredible that leadership of this team, at all levels, in all aspects baseball and non-baseball, could look at the last few years and say to themselves “yes this is good for our brand, give us more of it.”
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    I have always seen Levine as more the assistant; the Rob Antony to Terry Ryan. But who knows. Maybe not. Levine might play the "why-would-they-even-want-to-stay-here" card and leave of his own accord. But maybe not. Who knows.
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    A thank you to Bailey Ober for taking the ball today. Ober was lined up to pitch on Tuesday. Ober did keep his ERA under 4, which is nice little achievement and will look better on his baseball card. Correa and Buxton. Any fan willing to attend this game in person today deserved to see Correa and Buxton in the lineup. I guess they were feeling a little sore or didn't see a reason to play with nothing at stake. But most of all, congratualtions to DaShawn Keirsey Jr. for the home run - maybe he is our center field backup going into 2025
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    Well, right. If Josh Donaldson was hired to manage the Twins or be Baseball Operations VP, and this same collapse happened under Donaldson year after year, we wouldn't blame Donaldson. Donaldson is just being Donaldson.
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    Rocco hit the lottery when he was born with elite athletic talent. Then he hit the lottery again when he made the major leagues with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as a center fielder. (a lot of work went has to go into that one, to Rocco's credit) Then Rocco hit the lottery for a third time as a major league manager. Anybody affiliated with MLB in that capacity like Rocco, Falvey, St. Peter, has already hit the lottery.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It's a small number of people on each side. A majority of individuals who post on this site just ignore it, to their credit. There are better things to do.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    or possibly July or August
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