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Those sound great. Do you have dates on either? They would be fun to look up. I guess the Uecker game won’t be hard to find while looking at his home run log.
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My sense is that Rocco does increase the leverage opportunities, but very slowly, slower than a lot on TD would like. Particularly with young guys, he focuses on putting them in positions to succeed and not to fail. He seems to recognize that it takes a while to build confidence. I also sense him doing that when he pulls a young starter an inning earlier than folks on TD would like. He likes to have them leave with a good taste in their mouth. Tonight was driven by availability, obviously, but Winder with 46 pitches on Thursday vs. Sands with 32 on Friday were arguably equally rested. It was pretty low leverage when Winder came in, but it was also still within a grand slam. That he went to Winder in that spot suggests to me that he’s inching up the trust chart.
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You can also get the save if you go at least three innings, regardless of the score. In tonight’s game, Maeda didn’t go five innings, so he couldn’t get the win. That means it’s the scorer’s decision on which reliever most deserved the win. Since Winder went three, it could have gone to him, but in a case like this, where both relievers were effective, the scorer is encouraged to reward each by giving both a win and a save.
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The bullpen botched it last week, but they now haven’t given up an earned run since the seventh inning last Wednesday. That’s 22.2 innings.
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Going 10-20 the rest of the way would give them a nice round 100 losses. I’ve got confidence they can do it.
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15 up, 15 down, no less.
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Then let’s get about 20. And another 11 in October. Though I’m not big on smalls.
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Not surprising that Taylor was the first guy to call the balk. And then steals third to add insult to injury. Nice.
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Gotta like getting four shutout innings from two guys with spring training uniform numbers. EDIT: Five. Opening a crucial series with their closest follower, and two of the bottom guys in the pen get the win and save. That works.
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No. Just got off too far. That’s several times when he’s gotten burned being too aggressive. Last week in Milwaukee, rounding first base too far when down four in the ninth. Though to be fair, he was a bit in No One’s Land. If he tags and it drops, he could have been forced at third.
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Correct — meant to say “when they are wearing.”
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I wish this pitcher would drop down from time to time, just to be able to call it a sidewinder.
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Little disappointed in the size of the crowd, though it is a weeknight. But yes, good energy. There was a bit of nervous silence early, but a six-spot will liven things up. PA folks were hyped early, however, breaking out the infernal “Every-body-clap-your-hands” by the bottom of the second.
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Concur. I still don’t like that they are wearing Marlins caps, but I like the rest of the kit.
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Funderburk setting himself up for the “Win, scorer’s decision.” I had lunch with official scorer Stew Thornley recently. He said that this year, thanks in part to the pitch-clock operator being added to their crew and in part to the reality of betting, they have been moved from the general press box to being isolated in one of the extra broadcast media booths. Until the game is over and he’s made his decision, he’s not allowed to give anyone a sense as to where he’s leaning with that decision, for fear it will get tweeted and allow folks to slap down a late bet.
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It was.
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1U, K, 1-3. Not bad.
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To add to the explanation on the previous post, both teams screwed it up. The ump at second clearly said Correa was off the base and the runner was safe. Cleveland’s coach needed to let him know to stay on the base. When he didn’t and was jogging slowly to third, the coach next needed to direct him straight to third in an attempt to “steal” the base. Similarly, the Twins screwed up in not catching that he was jogging to third. Had they seen him jogging, they should have easily been able to get him in a run down. As I said, I didn’t see anyone call timeout, and the umps would have had no reason to call it without someone asking. When the umps got together, they could have easily ended the conversation quickly by saying, “Such-and-such asked for time and we gave it.” That that didn’t happen makes me think that no one asked for time. I think the correct call SHOULD have been to call him out for giving himself up, but that would have been a hard sell to Francona. So the “safe” solution was to send him back to second and blame it on confusion. That’s my perspective from Section 103, where I have a pretty good view.
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After the runner was called safe, he jogged to the dugout, assuming he was out. After he made it to the coaches box, the dugout let him know he was safe, so he tried to jump on third. I didn’t catch whether time had been called. Had it not been and had he stopped at third, he would have been entitled to the base. I don’t know if this was Rocco‘s argument, but he could have been saying that time had not been called and that the runner had given himself up by going past the dirt and towards the dugout. In the end, the umps probably got it right by just sending him back to second.
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Lead chipped, area mulched. Now let’s go ahead and put the Guardies on the compost pile.
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GIVE THAT MAN A VEST!!!
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I’m guessing Funderburk getting called up had more to do with Ober struggling recently (including yesterday) and the bullpen getting depleted yesterday than it did with whether Ortega was going on the 15 or 60 day IL.
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Does the normal rule about needing to be down 10 days still apply when it comes to the Sept 1 roster expansion? If not, it’s an easy thing to send him down and call him back up later this week. That also allows them to bring him up in less than the normal 15 days of an IL stint.
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Prospect Retrospective: Kody Funderburk
IndianaTwin replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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And over four extra innings, Kepler’s single was the only hit by either team.
