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I mean, it comes down to whether you have a vision for this team or not. Do you? Did you in 2021? -
Berrios would have been extended on a new Twins contract, negating that need to trade for Lopez.
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Honestly Mike, it could have been extend Berrios and keep Arraez.
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Ok we’ll play this straight 🙂 Take a look at this from a couple nights ago. Tell me this isn’t the saddest effort you’ve ever seen in your life: the throw home, and then the failure to cover home, and then you’ve got the first baseman wandering around no where near the bag and unable to make a play. The Twins in their lowest moments could only dream of this level of ineptitude… As it happened, Cleveland came back to win this game. Cleveland has two huge things going for them that the Twins don’t: Francona, and a tiny number of guys like Ramirez and Kwan who are actually playing really well. Which is why I say the AL Central race should be a nailbiter that comes down to the last week. 🙂
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(John Cusack)
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Cleveland has a bullpen as bad as the Twins, has hitters worse than any Twins hitters, and Cleveland had the final disadvantage of not getting to play Oakland or Colorado in the final week of the season like the Twins will. The Twins will probably win the division right around 500 and then play a flawed beatable team like the Angels or Blue Jays in the first round. The waiting is the hardest part!
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i think the bigger point was that if players know their roles and what is expected of them, that’s a better environment for them to prepare and succeed over a long season. It was done this way for a long time. Everyday players did get the occasional getaway off day, but they were everyday players for a reason. What the Twins have been doing isn’t working. Two more quick thoughts: 1) if I recall, the Twins did actually pencil in the exact same lineup all three games of the opening series against KC, and 2) Polanco and Arraez would have been a perfectly acceptable SS-2B combo for me until Lewis and Lee were ready. Below average defensively but would more than make up for it on offense.
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Yes I knew Arraez was batting third for a while. (awful, isn’t it) Now finish what you started, and provide a list of the positions he has played in Miami.
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It’s a long season and I think you are really underrating the importance of just having a set lineup and batting position every day. It sets expectations for players and gives them one less thing to think about. Best case scenario is a situation like Arraez in 2023, who bats leadoff and plays 2B every day in Miami. Gets his load management by coming out of games in the later innings when his bat is no longer needed. When his knees are barking, he gets a couple days off. Not too difficult. This is not how the Twins handled Arraez in 2022. To the point where people actually said he doesn’t have a position. Well, his position is second base, and it always was.
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Something needs to change! They could start by changing that OPS against lefties?
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Also for people looking for silver linings, remember the Twins squandered their entire 11.0 game lead in the standings in 2019 too, and the world ended that day too. 🙂 but they rallied and won the division anyway.
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There seems to be a culture issue, granted, but in this case I think it’s just mistakes compounded on mistakes compounded on more mistakes. Someone will say, “there’s not one thing that will fix this” or “Arraez by himself wouldn’t help this offense.” Yeah, tell me about it. We are too far down the rabbit hole at this point, unfortunately.
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I think there was more resistance to Correa than was let on. People had their reasons, like his ankle, or cheating history or Dior comments, but mostly I thought he was just a really poor fit going forward for reasons we have discussed.
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I am begging you to go back and read what I was saying about Correa 🙂 granted, it might not have been all on this forum
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There is video of Derek Falvey saying that Trevor Larnach is one of the team leaders, add to that Royce Lewis and his leadership qualities, and I just didn’t see the need to bring in a leader from the outside. The pitchers have their own thing going on which is still working, so that’s good. As far as the coaching, yeah, I don’t know if you listen to radio but they spent a lot of time talking about the great coaching on Atlanta after the game today.
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Game Thread --Early start today
Hosken Bombo Disco replied to mrtwinsfan's topic in Archived Game Threads
We call it the IRL— In Real Life (it’s a great place to be if you give it a chance) -
Set your alarm
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We’ve had just about everything tonight: math, death, sex, taxes (probably somewhere), double plays, strikeouts, etc. best to forget it and try again tomorrow
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When he goes 2-5 in a game, does his average rise, or drop?
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To provide veteran presence and make sure Ryan locates his fastball and doesn’t give Atlanta a bunch of meatballs?
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Three True Outcomes are: Little league triple, big league double, and whats the third one? 🤣
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Gladden saying exact same thing you are
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Except when he was locked in during the 2021 NLCS, great D if I recall
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I heard a radio interview not long ago. Having left-right staggered like that is a huge consideration for the Twins in creating the lineup.
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Radke pitched through a torn labrum in 2006
