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  1. IndianaTwin
    See my upcoming post over in the Perez topic.
  2. IndianaTwin
    I'm still a believer in Pineda. Even with three walks today, his BB/9 is still second-best among the starters. His K/9 matches Perez and Gibson. He started with three spiffy games, followed by a clunker. G5 looks ugly in the end, but the damage came in the 5th and 6th. Through 4, he'd given up a run on three hits and two walks, striking out three. G6 also looks ugly in the end, but again the damage came in the 5th and 6th. Through 4, he'd given up a run on three hits, an HBP, and a walk, with the walk coming after the inning was extended by an error. And both G5 and G6 were against the Astros. Even today, he looked good at times, with seven strikeouts through three. It was a tough play, but if Polanco gets the out on the grounder in the second, he has something like four hits and two walks through four, with just two runs. Not spectacular, but keeping them in the game. To only get 60 pitches from your No. 5 (which is what he is right now) isn't sustainable, but to me he looks like the guy coming back from Tommy John that he also is. There's usually hiccups for guys coming back from TJS. With an off day on Thursday, they could skip him this time through the rotation. I'd like to see them do that for the purpose of giving him a break, but I suspect they won't with the DH on Saturday.
  3. IndianaTwin
    If the Twins don't score three, I'll bet the tarp comes out.
  4. IndianaTwin
    I wonder the same, but thanks, CardsFan for doing so. Otherwise I would have missed the incredible video tribute linked back in Comment No. 8. Awesome work, Twins video people.
  5. IndianaTwin
    Not since Tuesday, anyway. It was pretty much of the end of the world that night too.
  6. IndianaTwin
    Does being called to be the 26th man for a DH require 1) being on the 40-man; and 2) using an option? If not, I'd be intrigued to see Smeltzer get a shot next Saturday, particularly if his start this weekend in Rochester goes well. He's the same age (a month or two older, actually) than Littell and Thorpe and just a year younger than Stewart. Pitching against the Tigers is pretty much like a facing a AAA lineup anyway, particularly given that a regular starter or two may well be given the second game off with four games in less than 48 hours.
  7. IndianaTwin
    The better results of the starters can also improve the bullpen. So far they averaged 5.6 innings/start. Last year’s team averaged 5.1. Still a small sample, but if that continued that’s about 80 innings we don’t need to come up with from the bullpen, or roughly the innings from one stud reliever many of us (including me) wanted to sign. And while we’re at it, a better offense helps the bullpen in that a few innings become lower leverage, lowering the likelihood of overusing the top relievers. So maybe the team “improved” the bullpen more than we thought. They did it by signing Pérez, Cruz, Schoop, etc.
  8. IndianaTwin
    I’m telling ya’. He’s worried about keeping his job when Sano is back!
  9. IndianaTwin
    Raise your hand if you thought the Twins would head into the last day of April a game behind Tampa Bay for the best record in baseball. You’re lying.
  10. IndianaTwin
    Adrianza must have heard that Sano is starting his rehab tomorrow night.
  11. IndianaTwin
    Uh, I guess I’ll choose Parker in the 9th. :-)
  12. IndianaTwin
    Pulling Odorizzi was probably the right move, even though the fan in me wishes he’d have had a chance to go for the eighth. But I also went and looked at his game logs. He has never pitched to more than 29 batters in a game, and he’s only had 19 games in his career when he’s gotten to more than 27. On one of those, he gave an intentional walk to Dozier and then was pulled.
  13. IndianaTwin
    Gee. If you’d told me that Verlander would have thrown 27 more pitches than Odorizzi through six innings, I’d have assumed Odorizzi didn’t get through the third.
  14. IndianaTwin
    Nice half-dozen eggs, Odorizzi.
  15. IndianaTwin
    No doubt, and that's why they play the games. But it sure is nice to be playing the 26th game at 16-9 rather than at 9-16 like we were last year! Ooh -- let's try this. We have 78 percent more wins through 25 games than we did a year ago. Extrapolate that to the 69 wins we had the rest of the season last year, and we end up 139-23. That's even better than Nine of twelve's math above, and I'm pretty sure we'd have home-field advantage, which would clear up RiverBrian's travel plans!
  16. IndianaTwin
    First, your math is wrong. Playing .526 ball over the remaining 137 games would get them to 88 wins. Second, those 19 non-Orioles games include 11 against teams that are assumed to playoff contenders (Phillies, Mets, Cleveland, Houston) and only 5 against wimps (KC, Det). You can decide where to slot the Blue Jays. So outside the Orioles, they've actually played a pretty tough schedule in that 10-9 pace. Third, of their remaining games, 55 are against KC, Det, CWS, and Miami vs. about 31-34 against Bos, NYY, Cleveland, and whoever you want to consider their next toughest opponent. Of the teams they play one series against the rest of the way, Atlanta, Washington, and Houston are all at home. Compared to who they've played so far, that points to a schedule that they can play considerably better than .526 against.
  17. IndianaTwin
    WIth tonight's blast, Der Schlagger has 16.5 percent of all the homers in MLB history hit by a player born in Germany.
  18. IndianaTwin
    Vlad looking like Dad on the double on the pitch six inches outside.
  19. IndianaTwin
    Good article. I simplify it this way. How much better would the Twins be with Cave active compared to Castro? Little, if any. How much of a hurt would the Twins be in if they DFAed Castro and either Garver or Astudillo would get hurt, necessitating calling up Sawyer or Telis (and it's very likely one would get hurt -- few teams make it through a whole season with two healthy catchers)? Quite a bit. Don't cut Castro.
  20. IndianaTwin
    Very nice play coming in to short-hop a grounder.
  21. IndianaTwin
    Ball One to Vlad Jr., and they took the ball out of play. And he just got robbed on strike two. And he grounds out.
  22. IndianaTwin
    Generally agree with the sentiment, but he also could be Wednesday's starter in a bullpen game, and three wins are in the bag.
  23. IndianaTwin
    I don't want to say that my wife has more confidence than me, but she got out the broom after the double in the ninth. Then I realized she was just cleaning the garage.
  24. IndianaTwin
    Nah, I was just thinking of switching the Blue Jays out for the Orioles. We can keep the KC, CWS, Tigs games.
  25. IndianaTwin
    Dear Mr. Manfred, May we play the Orioles more often? Sincerely, IT
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