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  1. IndianaTwin
    April 2022 would be a bonus.
  2. IndianaTwin
    How do you figure? Going into tonight, they are 42-0 when leading after eight.
  3. IndianaTwin
    Phooey.
  4. IndianaTwin
    It has a chance to get late early for Cleveland. If we hang on here, it's a 4.0 game lead. Bieber now on the 60-day, Quantrill still out a couple days. Rotation down to Civale, Williams, Bibee, Allen and an Opener. Lineup not strong. If the Twins take care of business and go 4-2 or better this week and Cleveland loses another game or so in the standings by then, they very easily could be moving to seller mode. Even if they think they are still in it by being within five games or so, to be sitting at several games under .500 at that point makes it awfully hard to try going for it with the number of holes they have.
  5. IndianaTwin
    Wagner graduated from the next high school over from us.
  6. IndianaTwin
    My third favorite team*, Kansas City, has just won. *Third favorite team being whoever is playing Cleveland. Second favorite is whoever is playing the White Sox.
  7. IndianaTwin
    No, Tomorrow. Who's on first.
  8. IndianaTwin
    I regularly get to listen to Pat Hughes, deservedly honored in Cooperstown this weekend. It's easy to hear Hughes coming through in Provus. Provus was blessed to get to work alongside Hughes in Chicago.
  9. IndianaTwin
    Getting recalled? I keep getting the letter about the airbags on my 2004 Accord needing to be replaced.
  10. IndianaTwin
    It only seemed like it lasted into the night.
  11. IndianaTwin
    I'm not concerned about identifying a "No. 1" starter. I've been saying all season that they have five guys who can pitch or have pitched "like a No. 1" for an extended period of time. That's better than having a clear 1-2-3-4-5.
  12. IndianaTwin
    Uh, why not just re-sign Sano? I mean, like Mountcastle, he's a right-handed hitter who can only play 1B. Mountcastle only strikes 171 times per 162 games, whereas Sano is much higher, but Sano has a higher OPS+ and more HRs per 162. Said more succinctly, "No, thanks." (And like others, I don't think Baltimore's likely to be trading him.)
  13. IndianaTwin
    Correlation doesn't equal causation, but it's been reported that Larnach will be activated on Monday, with Buxton to the paternity list. Perhaps the Twins got word the birth was impending.
  14. IndianaTwin
    From: https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-draft-2023-bonus-pools-pick-values; Teams that exceed their bonus pool face a penalty. Clubs that outspend their allotment by 0-5 percent pay a 75 percent tax on the overage. At higher thresholds, teams lose future picks: a first-rounder and a 75 percent tax for surpassing their pool by more than 5 and up to 10 percent; a first- and a second-rounder and a 100 percent tax for more than 10 and up to 15 percent; and two first-rounders and a 100 percent tax for more than 15 percent.
  15. IndianaTwin
    Because it's still at least a couple weeks out. Plenty of things will change by then.
  16. IndianaTwin
    It’s the Vulture role. He’s gotten two of his four wins that way. I haven’t seen anyone make reference to this, but this week he also got one via the rarely used “brief, but ineffective” clause.
  17. IndianaTwin
    I’ve been convinced for a while that the Twins are the only team in the division with the talent to be able to pull away from the others.
  18. IndianaTwin
    Exactly. Those two blown holds, coming on the heels of last season, have made it so people refuse to give him a break, but all in all, he’s done quite well. The primary niche they’ve used him in is the 7th inning, when down a run or two, with intentions to keep them in the game while not using their highest leverage guys when they are behind. He’s done particularly well in that situation.
  19. IndianaTwin
    It was described that way by Ozzie and the other guy on the Sox postgame show. I was kinda partial to the doink game from earlier this year when thinking about the game that most frustrated Ozzie.
  20. IndianaTwin
    WPA question here, for those who know this stat better than me. On today’s play where Gallo scored on the sac fly by Farmer, does the entire positive WPA contribution go to Farmer? If so, that’s ironic, since Gallo is the one who deserved it with his heads-up base running.
  21. IndianaTwin
    You’re right that he wouldn’t have NEEDED to replace Wallner. My comment was that he could have very well been planning to. I’m not sure which is a better defense — Vazquez at 1B, with AK/Castro/Gallo in the OF vs. AK at 1B with Gallo/Castro/Wallner in the OF. I definitely agree on your last paragraph about Farmer. He’s the guy I most trust to have a good at bat in situations like today.
  22. IndianaTwin
    Today was his 40th game. He’s blown a hold twice.
  23. IndianaTwin
    They used a lot of guys, but I suspect only Duran and Ortega are truly not available, with a preference to not use Jax.
  24. IndianaTwin
    And had it gone another inning, I’d have been inclined to go another inning with Pagan before going to Moran, Sands or Balazovic, who were the three remaining.
  25. IndianaTwin
    I’ll bite on pinch hitting Vazquez for Wallner. 1. I don’t like to second-guess in general, at least in part because I never have all the pieces of information that go into a decision. 2. But for his career and for the season, Vazquez has an OPS of .730 against lefties, in several hundred at bats. 3. Albeit in a SSS, Wallner is 0-3 on the season vs. lefties and has a career OPS of .293 against lefties. That’s not OBP. That’s not Slugging. That’s OPS. Someone will say, “But how he’s ever going to hit lefties if he doesn’t get a chance?” By getting a chance in lower-leverage situations. Some of us grumble at times, but all in all, the team’s MO with rookies is to bring them along slowly into pressure situations whenever possible. 4. By already having used Castro, Gallo and Farmer, I suspect Rocco had already committed to taking Wallner out for defensive purposes if it reached another inning. The only way to do that is to go to Vazquez anyway, so he pretty much knew that Vazquez was going to be hitting in that spot if the game went through the lineup another time. 5. People were worried about using the second catcher, in case something happened to Jeffers (and it nearly did). In reality, they had an intermediate option if Jeffers has a minor injury. When Jeffers got hit, for example, an option was to flip him and Vazquez. And there was even another option, to actually use Buxton on defense. 6. See also, Chief’s comment above. 🤣 Right decision? Who knows. But to me, it’s much more defensible than he’s given credit for.
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