USAFChief

No, the primary return.

Doink! Thing of beauty. 2 out RBI, the key to life.

Perkins: "(Farmer) is one for one at Comerica Park with his pants up." Heh.

Wallner catches that.

I guess it's "Alcala has one."

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Have you seen Desclafani's numbers?

While I'm on a roll: unless there's an injury, Margot over Wallner is lunacy

Also, I renew my earlier prediction: Carlos Santana leads the Twins in PAs this year. Ugh

No Buxton again?

Or at least the useful return. They've got neither.

Heh. Awful pitch. Assist from an Awful throw from Miranda. Those will be unearned runs, but that was some ******* pitching.

Not corner the "DFA'd 33 year old reliever" market and call it "done and done?" In reality, they've been a little unlucky. But it does show the preposterousness* of ever assuming there's a log jam of talent, or someone is "blocked" in AAA. They traded for Michael Tonkin for the specific purpose of getting 2 innings in an April game in Detroit. DfA'd before the box score was printed. *possibly not actually a word, but it sure as heck should be

It's quite apparent the plan for Santana was, and is, full time first baseman. Stupid plan.

The overflowing bullpen is low on water as well.

Correa to 10 day IL. Tonkin DFA'D. Camargo and Bowman recalled. Woods-Richardson 27th man for today's doubleheader. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/twins-place-carlos-correa-on-10-day-il-designate-michael-tonkin.html

The difference being, "They'll be in 3rd place by June 1st" is now what the ceaselessly optimistic crowd is saying.

Yes. /obligatory

I'm hoping the Twins can avoid getting swept this weekend.

Well i hope so too, but as I said...IMO pitching machines are only so useful.

But Rocco has been doing the middle inning PH thing for years. SItuation has little or nothing to do with it. He PHs with 2 out and nobody on. I recall you calling him out on it last year, for example.

It's tough to find enough LH pitchers to even give LH hitters much live BP. You can set up pitching machines to mimic LH breaking balls, but IMO pitching machines are only so useful.

One of the greatest things about TD is Riverbrian. Never change, my friend.

A couple thoughts: 1. platoon advantage is real, has been since the first baseball game was played. It's simply easier to hit pitches breaking toward you than breaking away. I also believe it's easier for humans vision to pick up the ball from opposite handed pitchers. 2. I think right handed hitters suffer less from the platoon disadvantage because they see way more RH pitching growing up than LH hitters see LH pitching. They get more practice. And the Darwin theory starts to eliminate right handed hitters whi can't hit RH pitching long before they progress to higher levels. 3. I often post "reverse splits are a mirage." It's sort of a joke, but mostly not. I'm very skeptical that true reverse splits are actually true, and not a statistical quirk that will correct itself over time. As for Rocco: I don't have a problem with using platoons. It's a simple and financially feasible way to squeeze some extra offense out of your roster. And as we can see, most LH bats never turn into good LH hitters against LH pitching. If Tony Oliva, Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau suffered against LHers, do we really need to give Wallner or Julien hundreds of ABs just to learn what we already knew? My problem is PHing a RHed bat for a 1 AB platoon advantage in early or middle innings. That spot in the order is coming around again, maybe more than once. And there's a huge chance it will be against RHed pitching. You're going to be giving up the platoon advantage in at least one of those ABs. I'd rather let Julien face a lefty in the 5th and RH relievers from then on, over getting Farmer an AB against that lefty in the 5th, but then face those same RH relievers from then on. I truly believe teams have been intentionally putting Rocco in position to remove his best hitters.

Ditto. And due to the velo at which I threw said BP, the last pitch is just now reaching home plate.