IndianaTwin
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Regretfully, if you're looking solely at batting average, Miranda's .154 (after the AB) and Wallner's .083 are both improvements on who they were hitting for.
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Let's stick this closer in a van down by the river.
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I hope you've enjoyed your time on TD while it lasted, Aggies. The administrators will be in touch.
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After yesterday's game, something is feeling vaguely familiar here.
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Me too, but I'm starting to think we should have put him back in for the eighth.
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Based on Mrs. IT's response to my jokes, TD is the only outlet I've got.
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If so, I'm sure Chief is amped up about it.
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I assume he's now conducting himself properly?
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Fun article. Also, any article that has opportunity to reference Juan Berenguer deserves a “like.”
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Lost in today's wins, don't forget about Tonkin. When he was signed this week, there were a decent number of people complaining, while others of us were naming that he was likely just a placeholder for a few days. Well, last night, he held that place and threw two innings after they were down 5-0. In doing so, he allowed them to have a fresh bullpen today, which was huge. Sure, Bowman could have conceivably thrown those two innings Friday night, but then he wouldn't have been available today (when he wasn't needed, but was an available body) or tomorrow (when he'll be the only completely fresh arm). It's almost like the front office knew what it was doing in signing Tonkin.
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Beautiful job by SWR. With it and with the efficient bullpen work, no relievers enters tomorrow’s game having thrown more than 32 pitches in the past two days. Guys will need to go back to back, but everyone besides Funderburk, Jackson (both through yesterday and today) and Sands (28 pitches today) is probably available for at least a batter or two. Since I put in a request earlier for SWR to go six innings, I’ll go ahead and request that for Ober for tomorrow.
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Gotta like having seconds on chicken!
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I think it may be sorta both. Brock is correct that they have to be sent down. BUT, because he doesn’t have to stay down the normal 10 or 15 days, they can immediately bring him back up in exchange for someone else, which effectively does what Lecroy is describing. In the case of a starting pitcher, it doesn’t make sense to do that, however. Go ahead and send SWR back down, but you can still bring him back up for next Friday or Saturday if you want, but you still have several days’ access to the guy you would send down in his place.
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Though as I understand it, he doesn’t have to deal with the being down x number of days, since he was up in the 27th-man situation.
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I’m usually a “I’ve got no problem with Rocco pulling the starter” kind of guy, but given the doubleheader situation, the three-run lead and being at 80 pitches, I’d let him roll. No more than two base runners and have someone ready, but if he can sneak the seventh, that would be spiffy heading into tomorrow. (But I also have no problem with being satisfied with six.)
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English is a weird language. For example, in most settings, “I’m sorry” and “I apologize” mean more or less the same thing. Except at a funeral.
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Wow. One guy over .235. Two guys over .209.
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Obviously the ideal is six innings from SWR, followed by two from Sands and one from Bowman in a blowout, but I could see going to Jax (11 pitches in game 1) and Okert (13), and perhaps even Stewart (19). It helps that none of those three pitched either Friday or Thursday. They may also be more likely to go to one of those mid-inning than they usually are. The real sticking point could be tomorrow’s game, particularly if Ober struggles. I’m not sure who, but I’m guessing that Gardenhire has a couple guys that he’s under strict orders not to use tonight for the possibility of a roster move tomorrow.
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Let’s go ahead and score another four and go to Willi Castro to close this thing out.
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I’m sure things are festive on Tigers Daily, with 17 strikeouts by their hitters so far, Torkelson going to third on the sac bunt with Buxton running and then a three-run error.
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The majority of grounders that lead to a force are also going to be regular groundouts. There’s a smidge of an advantage to having the force, but I don’t think it comes close to the handedness and Manfred Man advantage that pitching to Torkelson provided.
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With a right hander on the mound, why walk the .584 OPS right-handed hitter to get to the left-handed .855 hitter, particularly when it means getting Torkelson out makes for a much slower Manfred Man in the 11th than Carpenter would be?
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If Miranda gets thrown out on a strike ‘em out, throw ‘em out, Castro starts the next inning as the Manfred Man and Buxton is still available as a pinch hitter. If Miranda is safe, go ahead and pinch run Buxton, who’s much more likely to score from second on a single, and then leave him in on defense. I’m sure there’s even more to the thought process than that, but it doesn’t seem out of line.
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In terms of the TWINS’ center field legacy, Bostock had already been traded to the Angels and played nearly a full season for them before he was killed. The article seems to imply that he was still with the Twins.
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