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  1. IndianaTwin
    Actually, it doesn’t seem like Bowden waits that late into the night to start these. They seem to come at any point. Wasn’t he also the leader of the Twins Are Going to Trade Ryan brigade?
  2. IndianaTwin
    Why would they struggle against LHP? Arguably their best lineup is five righties, three switchies and a lefty. Said another way, Buxton, Jeffers and Keaschall, arguably the three hitters that people have the greatest confidence in, are all righties. If anything, they should be expected to struggle more against righties, since they are likely going to have four guys most days (Buxton, Jeffers, Keaschall, Lewis when not hurt) with the platoon disadvantage.
  3. IndianaTwin
    So far they have given a few innings/games in the corner to Rodriguez but not to Jenkins. That's necessity, because they can't play center simultaneously, but I have to wonder if that's additional clue to further anticipation of Rodriguez being called up first. Keep Jenkins in CF in case of a Buxton injury, but give Rodriguez corner experience in anticipation of a callup. Then, after that happens, start giving Jenkins some corner experience for a later callup. I'm not a downer on Wallner/Larnach/Martin and I'm not clamoring to call up Rodriguez and Jenkins yesterday, but if there's health between Buxton, Rodriguez and Jenkins, it's hard not to see at least a few games at season's end with the three of them in the OF lineup together.
  4. IndianaTwin
    With the presence of Buxton in CF, is there a sense that he'll be playing some corner OF at some point?
  5. IndianaTwin
    We have a problem with this? Buxton is in CF. Rodriguez’s and Jenkins’ only path to the majors is to move to a corner. And if that’s the OF (plus anything from Martin, Wallner, et. al, getting Gonzalez time at 1B makes gobs of sense, particularly since that’s one of the overall weakest spots in terms of death.
  6. IndianaTwin
    It’s also not unusual for 67-pitch outings in relief to lead to being sent down. Not out of ineffectiveness but in response to being effectively unavailable for three, or more likely four, days.
  7. IndianaTwin
    That’s like the (probably apocryphal) story of Rick Sutcliffe giving up back-to-back homers in a visiting stadium that shot off fireworks after home team homers. When the pitching coach came out, Sutcliffe barked at him with something like, “You’re probably just going to tell me to throw strikes.” ”No,” the pitching coach said. “I just want to give the fireworks guy time to reload.”
  8. IndianaTwin
    First place, in the Wild Card Race, baby. Magic number is 148 to clinch at least a tie.
  9. IndianaTwin
    It’s great having a guy in center who can run like Hayes and hit like Mays.
  10. IndianaTwin
    Thankfully no one appears to be considering the White Sox.
  11. IndianaTwin
    My comment in that day's game thread was that I love watching Buxton hit a stand up double and end up on third base. Similarly I've long said that one reason he doesn't get a huge number of steals is that teams have to play deep so his singles often turn into doubles. My favorite was the one the other day where he beat out an infield single that was reversed on appeal, advanced to second on a sac fly, drew an errant pickoff throw at second to advance to third and then scored on another sac fly.
  12. IndianaTwin
    I used bWAR, which has him and Dozier flipped in 2017 and he and Cruz flipped in 2020. But whichever you use, it's pretty hard to argue that he has been anything but the Twins best position player over the time he's been up. It's not like he's only had two good seasons. And I wasn't trying to justify a position, but to provide a fuller picture of what he's done. I also wasn't suggesting the Twins owe Buxton anything, whether it's to extend him even further or to trade him to a team that increases the likelihood of making the playoffs.
  13. IndianaTwin
    Oh yeah, him too. 😀
  14. IndianaTwin
    And 2017. And the partial 2020 season. And missed by 0.1 in 2024.
  15. IndianaTwin
    Of note is that Buxton's 29.6 bWAR is currently behind only Carew (63.7), Killebrew (60.5), Puckett (51.1), Oliva (43.1), Hrbek (38.6), Knoblauch (38.0) and Allison (34.2) among Twins hitters (including Killebrew's and Allison's times as Senators). With three seasons left on his contract, if he averages even 4.0 per year, he'll pass Hrbek and be approaching Oliva. With three years like last year or even a single-year extension, he could easily pass Oliva as well. With the regular emphasis on "what might have been" with Buxton, it's easy to overlook what he has done.
  16. IndianaTwin
    Don't you just mean that the Argument for Moderation fallacy is good enough?
  17. IndianaTwin
    Power outage, schmower outage.
  18. IndianaTwin
    Prescient.
  19. IndianaTwin
    Right forearm contusion. X-rays negative. Edit: Either ninja’ed or getting a second opinion.
  20. IndianaTwin
    You’re saying attendance is less than 18,021?
  21. IndianaTwin
    Technical adjustment: Something must have happened with the radio feed. My MLB Audio is using the TV audio feed rather than the radio feed. Notice I said technical adjustment. It is not a technical problem. Provus & Morneau > Atteberry & Gladden
  22. IndianaTwin
    Footnotes in a Game Thread? What has this site come to? Next thing we know, there will be math.
  23. IndianaTwin
    But what did the cannibal that was late to the wedding feast get?
  24. IndianaTwin
    Top picture makes it look like he should be the guy nicknamed “Turtle.”
  25. IndianaTwin
    But yes, the baserunning mistakes were egregious. Bell’s was particularly damaging, in that the next guy hit a double, which would have scored Bell. Larnach’s bad jump/Gray’s running through a sign may not have cost them a run. It should have runners on second and third with one out, instead of bases empty with two outs. You can’t count on the same stuff happening, but if it had, Larnach would have scored on Clemens’ fly ball and Buxton would have made the third out of the inning. Buxton’s was just weird. The RF will often through towards third in that situation, but he threw behind Buxton instead. I don’t know whether he was doing this, but the third base coach should have been yelling/signally to stay on the bag at second. And the Wallner challenge on strike three was also costly. They are learning about challenges on the fly, but that one wasn’t even close and was by someone who usually has a good eye. .
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