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  1. USAFChief
    Maybe give em more than an inning... but yeah. not off to a flying start here
  2. USAFChief
    I think this almost HAS to be true. If for no other reason than I hate to watch him jog down the line and imagine what that implies if he's NOT battling some sort of leg issue.
  3. USAFChief
    I KNEW you were a commie!!1!
  4. USAFChief
    Just got an email from the Twins...$9 ballpark access tix. They're scrambling.
  5. USAFChief
    Which would, uh, be better than Austin Martin.
  6. USAFChief
    And yet, many, many players play every day. For 6 months or more. And are performing in September. Holy cow. SAL Perez has 141 games played. Nearing 575 PAs. He catches 4 or 5 times a week. Is he exhausted? I don't buy this for a second. It's not easy. But it's baseball. Spending 6 or 7 hours preparing for, and playing baseball (and thats a pretty generous estimate), 6 days a week, shouldn't tire out a 20-something.
  7. USAFChief
    Curious to see tonight's attendance. I'd be surprised if they draw 20K. Between Ownership, the front office, management, and the players they've seemingly done everything in their power to damp down enthusiasm and interest, starting last fall. And now with football kicking off, it's gonna just get worse.
  8. USAFChief
    Arizona Fall League. Make it so.
  9. USAFChief
    What a strange, poorly conceived article.
  10. USAFChief
    Not unless they're expected back during the trip. Why would they?
  11. USAFChief
    Concur. I wish the Twins, when they lose a centerfielder, would call up and use a CENTERFIELDER. Ditto shortstop, third base, etc. A fill in, or utility guy, for a day or two, OK. But every day? No. Get a replacement up. That way you probably suffer offensively, but at least you limit the downgrade to mostly one side of the ball. Let's play Kiersey in CF. Every day.
  12. USAFChief
    As for Lewis, he better be battling some type of lingering leg issue, or somebody better explain why he isn't required to run out ground balls. Not even pretend to hustle. That's not a good look, at all. He lost one base, for sure, in KC this weekend. Possibly two, on ground balls misplayed by infielders. They were turned into outs because Lewis was jogging from home to first.
  13. USAFChief
    C'mon. Batting practice? MLB players put in more hours than just games, sure. But physically demanding? No. Not to mention they have unlimited access to the absolute best therapeutic recovery methods, training staff, medical staff, nutrition, etc etc etc known to mankind. Chartered flights. The best hotels. Catchers get physically abused. They cant be expected to play every day. Nobody else on a MLB team has a single solitary excuse for not meeting the physical demands of the job. Or whining about it.
  14. USAFChief
    This organization doesn't pay much more than lip service to fundamentals. And that's not just a glib one-off. It's a statement of fact. Playing the game properly isn't considered an important element towards winning. It's not taught, it's not practiced, and it's not a factor in playing time.
  15. USAFChief
    Who is the manager of that bunch, Rocco?
  16. USAFChief
    Id guess there's a 95% chance Paddack starts 2025 in the Twins rotation.
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  18. USAFChief
    weird or not, it's a thing. Why fight it? And Duran was given the 9th in the previous four save situations. Virtually perfect. Why change?
  19. USAFChief
    MLB guidance to scorers is not to award errors on any play requiring more than "normal effort." You could get an error on a throw after a diving stop, for example, if it resulted in extra bases. But players no longer are charged errors on "hard" plays. "Trying and failing at a hard play" is no longer penalized. That's not me saying that, that's MLB.
  20. USAFChief
    I believe that's Matthews. Unless I completely made that up. Edit: I completely made that up. Matthews has gone as many as 7 IP this season, twice in fact, in the minors. Edit 2: Festa went 6 IP twice this season for St Paul. However, MiLB workloads are insanely light.
  21. USAFChief
    I'll quibble with 51/49, but whatever. As for part 2, exactly. Then why the need to swap Duran and Jax? Why change roles for anything other than his own ego?
  22. USAFChief
    This part is mostly untrue these days.
  23. USAFChief
    Can you share with us when that was? Duran has 5 appearances against KC this season. He earned a save in all three appearances against KC May 27, 28, and 30. No earned runs allowed. Pitched the 9th in all three games. He gave up an earned run on August 14, pitching the 7th inning, in a 4-1 loss. And finally last night. This stuff can be looked up. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=duranjh01&t=p&year=2024
  24. USAFChief
    They threw you in the water??!?!??!?
  25. USAFChief
    E Julien (L) 2B J Miranda (R) 1B T Larnach (L) LF M Wallner (L) RF R Lewis (R) 3B W Castro (S) CF R Jeffers (R) DH B Lee (S) SS C Vázquez (R) C
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