Hosken Bombo Disco

The Twins , as other teams, employ multiple sports psychologists. Players spend most of their year with these other people and the mental part needs to be managed. Like it or not, the days of “man up” are over. I would only use Durán in a non-save situation on special occasions—like tonight.

My spidey sense almost tells me the Marlins lose this game yet

Error #3 🙂 @OvertheHill

I still can’t believe he dropped that toss. That 1 run looks monumental right now.

It looked like the umpire was trying to swat a bed there lol 🐝

Welcome back. Let’s watch the game together.

Durán has not been great in non-save situations. I do get it, though. I think Durán does too. I think the whole team gets it. The whole franchise.

Ah, you underestimate…

Safe but worth a shot if you’re Miami

There are some coaches in the game thread. Do you coach ‘round and look’ anymore? I thought that was a thing but maybe not I mean there’s down down down! and there’s go go go windmill, But what about the middle ground stop sign,

Jeffers makes up for his dropped catch error by legging out a single on a dropped pop up Did someone mention that the Marlins are a 100-loss team yet tonight?

It’s definitely something worthy of debate. I also think Lewis not being given a position to play anymore (ok, third base, but we already had one of those) plays a bigger part on the psyche than most people think.

Hey watch it, you

But then Minneapolis could get the Tampa franchise, and Tampa could get the Vegas franchise, and Oakland could get the expansion franchise, and so on…..

Jax now in the game, Rocco managing like his life is in the balance. “It’s just a game”, been hearing people say that a lot

Lewis has been stinging the ball. That one was 103mph off the bat, way harder than average. what can you do

+1 for posting a World Series parade photo tonite 🙂

I think Gladden said it on the radio earlier in the series, but these Marlins guys look like beer league softball players.

In the dugout, they are playing a game called, “who can hit it straight up in the air” and there are no winners

Damn beat me to it

Stew? Stew Thornley?

“Nobody posts in the game thread anymore. It’s too crowded.”

This is more of a gut feel, but I do feel like front offices, not just the Twins, do lean closer towards “blindly trusting” the numbers. Or that we have just passed through a phase of it. For example, exit velocity. The faster a ball travels to a point on the field, the less likely a fielder will get there to field it. Makes sense. As a result, we see players with hard swings and high exit velocities being scouted and promoted. But maybe the cost is faster swings and more strikeouts. On the Twins, you see it in newer players like Larnach, Julien, Wallner. The cost is faster swings and more strikeouts. Are they coached to just swing hard, let er rip and see what happens? I don’t see the ‘two strike approach’ much anymore. When these types of guys lose their hitting eye, it gets ugly fast. Shifitng gears slightly, you also see decisions taken out of players’ hands. Look at the ‘contact play’ when a runner is on third base. More and more, players seem instructed to just run. Dont even think about it. Just 15 minutes ago, bottom of the 3rd inning tonight, Austin Martin was on third base, Trevor Larnach hit a comeback grounder to the pitcher, and Austin Martin was stranded about 30 feet off of third base. Tagged out. We saw Louie Varland throw out a guy in a similar situation recently. Not even a competitive play. Player just ran on contact. Players are trusted less and less to use their own judgment. It’s not just the Twins. I’d say it’s a majority of teams. Amyway. Rant over—sorry this thread didn’t take off. Thanks for your contributions here and hope for many more!!

Yup, must win tonight. Baltimore is not going to roll over for us this weekend, just because.