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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    My original point is that the team did not even announce it. Nothing conspiratorial about it. It’s not a good look. Anyway, my thumbs are tired and I have actual **** to do. See you in the game threads, wsnydes.
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    Rocco the Shrinking Violet? 🙂
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    Ok gotcha. I should have said press release not press conference. The money and terms are irrelevant. No team (no decent team) would pass up a chance to announce their good manager had been extended. It just wouldn’t happen. I did a quick google check of Francona and Roberts and they got press when they were extended.
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    Rocco honestly seems like a great guy. However, the Twins PR people didn’t even want to have a press conference to announce that he had been extended. Instead, it was a leak. Even Gardy had press conferences.
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    I really have no opinion on what the front office did or did not do at the trade deadline. My take on the deadline was: I have no idea who the front office is supposed to trade for, and it seems like they don't know either. I'll stand by that. However, a poster upthread did mention some names of relievers who have done pretty well for their new teams, actually. Chris Stratton from the Cardinals? Doing pretty good and heck the Twins were in St. Louie over the deadline. Just switch clubhouses, wouldn't even need to book flights! It's not true to say things like 'no one traded at the deadline is working out.' But people will say it anyway and on it goes. This is the postseason bullpen you had in mind, when the Twins were holding pat at the trade deadline on August 1st? Interesting indeed 🙂
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    Thanks for posting that. Suprised by 2021 - yikes I think the point is that Lopez and Gray (and Duran) are the best available pitchers on this team. So when someone say "let the starters pitch deep" it generally means Lopez and Gray. The Twins probably won't get very far if Lopez and Gray don't turn in some quality starts.
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    That is certainly a valid idea. For me, if we were going to skip starts, I would want to skip them before the final week so that those guys aren’t coming off a layoff. Then a 2 or 3 or 4 inning tune up start 4-5 days before the playoff start.
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    If the Twins win the first series in two games, I would roll with the #3 and #4 starters for the first two games of the ALDS. They’re playing with house money at that point. Try to steal one of the first two ALDS games with your third or fourth starter, and come back home to Target Field tied 1-1 with Lopez and Gray pitching games three and four.
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    That’s the trend, yes, but let’s ask ourselves who is better: Lopez/Gray, or the alternative. Say they get to the second round, then yeah, they may want to do something like piggyback two+ innings of Varland off of 4+ innings of Maeda.
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    I am playing wait-n-see, as well. Letting their starters pitch deeper into games will become more important the further they go.
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    Why would Gray start game 1? Lopez has been pitching the day before Gray for a while now, and they are already lined up nicely to start games 1 and 2 in that order. What kind of rotation rearranging are you suggesting? Hopefully Lopez can maintain his dominance and hopefully we have seen his last or second to last long start until October. No sense overworking people at this point, but also you want them to maintain their edge
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    Back in Jim Rice's day, pretty much most batters shortened up on the two-strike swing. I would thing that ran Rice into some double plays that he would not have otherwise hit into if he had been swinging like batters swing today. As far as Correa, there was a very strong case to not bid on him at all. If Correa had gone to the Mets for 6/150 or whatever it was, we would all be talking about how smart the Twins were to stay away from him. But he is our guy now, and we will need him in the playoff series. I would like to know if his plantar fasciitis is related to his reconstructed ankle. We can hope he really rests and treats that over the offseason so that it does not turn into a chronic thing year after year. If he had gone on the DL earlier this season, he might be feeling better by now, who knows (and would be nowhere near the GIDP number you mentioned). What you are describing with his speed is a curve trending downwards and he is getting slower over time. There is no reason to think he will get faster one of these years, especially if his plantar fasciitis lingers. I've heard this a lot on this site, and I agree, I would move him down the batting order heading into 2024, maybe 6th.
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    keeping in mind that besides Josh Winder, this also describes Griffin Jax and Kenta Maeda to a large degree, and Dallas Keuchel for sure, and Joe Ryan also being asked to mix up his fastball usage at one point. I agree it does make life harder but not sure you want to box yourself in by making a comment like that. I kind of like Funderburk as another lefty possibility. As long as he has a scouting report on the batters he will come in to face, and executes his pitches, it should be ok.
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    The so-called foot contusion will give the Twins the pretext to leave Gallo off the playoff roster.
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    uh-oh, who was driving...
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    Thanks for breaking that news!
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    If WAR were truly objective, we would not have different WARs to choose from. By the way, how’s the Kepler-Arraez OPS contest doing? Haven’t had an update in a while 🙂
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    I have Luplow as the last player on the bench, and a Keuchel/Sands/Winder type also being ahead of Gallo on the cut list. They are not cutting Gallo at this point. Not a fan of the front office leaving Kirilloff in the minors, or Larnach for that matter. Both Gallo and Kirilloff will be on the playoff roster. How many pitchers should they carry for that 3 game series? There should be room for Larnach even if Larnach is the last player on the bench in those games. Kirilloff has got to be starting first baseman in those games.
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    Plouffie was very reliable in the field but had little range. Then one day he dived for a ball in Detroit, and in the process, aggravated a rib injury (painful) and I don’t think he ever went to the ground for another ball after that. He’s a good guy I’m sure. One of this front office’s first organizational transactions was to non-tender Plouffe in favor of Sano. That was the right call. It sounds like Plouffe is providing good analysis on the television broadcasts, which is also a good thing.
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    Well, at the MLB level, smooth and slick is an indication of fitness. (fielding fitness). Most players who make it to the MLB level have it, they have the footwork and fundamentals and such. That's why it stands out like a sore thumb to see someone as clumsy as Julien, especially with Correa next to him. We have not seen enough of Julien to know whether he can compensate for a lack of fielding skill, or if he can continue making plays despite that, and there's a big obvious risk to giving him enough time in the field to find out if he's the exception. I don't know what the metrics say. If they say Julien is doing pretty good at second, then I think we have to almost question the metrics - not a bad thing for anyone with a scientific or analytical mind, like the front office has, I assume. I can't really tell what the tweet about Success Rate Added Percentage is trying to tell me. Can you go deep to explain this one? It appears some people obviously are buying it and I want to see it too. I mentioned Kyle Schwarber in an earlier post, so all is not lost for Julien. Nothing wrong with taking a chance on a guy like that. There is always more than just making the putouts too. I heard on the radio yesterday that Julien failed to cover a base. I'm not sure a television watcher would have caught that, but thank god for Cory Provus for catching it and passing that on to the radio listeners. Give that man a raise! I have a sick feeling we are going to lose him to football in a few years.
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    All I keep thinking of is the Kyle Schwarber experiment in left field in the 2015 postseason. The baseball old timers said that the ball would find him, and it did. So let’s assume that Polanco will be our playoff second baseman and be happy for that. Julien is definitely worth carrying as a pinch hitter or maybe even DH depending on matchup and if he can make adjustments.
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    Stephan has been a train wreck all season … also with Bieber and McKenzie injuries, Cleveland never really had a chance in 2023
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    Actually I would be happy to help him for real lol
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    Born again hard!
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