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  1. USAFChief
    The problem, boys, wasn't Jeffers missing a nasty slider on strike 3. The problem was not putting in play strikes 1 and 2, both mistake fastballs pretty near middle middle.
  2. USAFChief
    Agreed, but 1. He has almost no control over how they hit. He has control over where, and whether they're asked to do something other than swing from the heels every time up. 2. I listed things he DOES have control over, and not just this week. Most of these are long term issues, IYAM. For the record, MLB is largely about nibbling at the edges. The best teams are best because they're a little bit better than the worst teams, they maintain that slight advantage, and over a long season that translates into 11 or 12 wins over 20 games. And you can absolutely overcome some of that small talent gap through playing the game better than your opponents. Throw to the right base. Move runners. Catch the balls you should catch and a few you shouldn't. Etc etc. We don't do much of that.
  3. USAFChief
    Seems very likely he wasn't ready to come off the IL at all then.
  4. USAFChief
    Stop scheduling needless days off. Stop pinch hitting for your best hitters in the 5th inning. Hit and run once in a while. Have your LH hitters drop a bunt down the LF line when there's no third baseman. Sac bunt when 1 run matters. Steal a base now and then. Don't write out the lineup card based on salary. Schedule BP and infield, every day, for everyone, no exceptions. Demand 100 percent effort on every play, 1st inning to 9th, every day from every player or sit that player, no matter who. That's just off the top of my head.
  5. USAFChief
    I didn't, and still don't, agree with the idea that strikeouts don't matter. The same people theorizing Ks don't matter for hitters turn around and tout Ks as desirable for pitchers. Which they are, of course. Both those things cannot be true.
  6. USAFChief
    Off topic, but Except for the David Arias part, this is complete myth. Not done anything? Hjs last 3 years with the Twins: 3 years, 340 plus games, almost 1300 PAs, OPS's of .810, .799, .839. Some injury issues, but obvious offensive skill and potential for more. He was only 26 his last season as a Twin. He was released because Terry Ryan wanted to save a couple hundred thousand dollars and gave the DH job to Matt LeCroy. Ortiz was a good hitter with the Twins. Not the great hitter he became, but good. "He did nothing with the Twins" is false.
  7. USAFChief
    Stick with Correa. He's at least a legit very good SS. Buxton is the starting CFer the day he's activated from the IL and stays there unless he's back on the IL. That way at least there's room for a DH. Not that we have anyone deserving ABs, but with Gallo due back, and Julien, Wallner and Miranda in AAA, maybe they can find one.
  8. USAFChief
    I'm pretty sure Rocco gets tons of data, but he writes the lineup out. And makes pinch hitting, pinch running, and pitching change decisions. He's not getting a lineup handed to him. I'd wager a lot on that.
  9. USAFChief
    Besides the above, if I recall correctly, twice already this season the FO has made a DL decision so late they were unable to get a replacement for the 26 man to the team in time for that nights game. They played twice already with a 25 man roster. That's ridiculous.
  10. USAFChief
    Careful. Questioning Baldelli is out of bounds.
  11. USAFChief
    Sticking to just last night's game, a couple observations: - it's even worse...last night we faced the absolute dregs of the TB bullpen until the 9th. ,And we got shut down completely - I will give Kepler some slack on not stealing second on MAT's steal of 3rd, but he's not being held at first and should have made third on Lewis's single to left. It wasn't a potential line out so he didn't need to hold and the ball wasn't directly at the left fielder. - Jeffers was watching the play on his GIDP in the 9th instead of running hard. Then tried to kick it in gear when he was shocked to see the 2nd baseman make the turn. Then out on a bang bang play. INEXCUSABLE and just another example of the kind of baseball we see under Baldelli. Longer term comments: In most situations, management gets the workforce it manages to. I particularly like the comment above about getting injuries a lot if you treat everyone like they're injury prone. And I strongly believe you get ****** baseball when you don't believe playing the game properly is important. And Twins management clearly doesn't believe in playing baseball properly. Process is what matters, not Ws and Ls. Don't ever push anyone, or demand improvement. No infield or BP required. New age this, soft skills that. It's BS. Long past time for some accountability and change.
  12. USAFChief
    Why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway? I nicknamed my hippie friend's wife Mississippi. You can't trust atoms, they literally make up everything.
  13. USAFChief
    Run hard through 1st. T-ball lessons.
  14. USAFChief
    Five runs since Thursday.
  15. USAFChief
    Well ****.
  16. USAFChief
    Jeffers was watching the play instead of running hard Sigh...
  17. USAFChief
    Don't stop now boys!
  18. USAFChief
    *PA
  19. USAFChief
    Last year
  20. USAFChief
    I loathe Siri with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.
  21. USAFChief
    People put soccer on to watch the grass grow. More action.
  22. USAFChief
    Hey now, don't exaggerate. It's not THAT bad. Watching grass grow > watching Twins offense > watching soccer
  23. USAFChief
    Mid April for me.
  24. USAFChief
    Garlick has really helped. Not.
  25. USAFChief
    Next time you're at a game notice how much deeper the Twins play their OF than almost every other team. That Polanco flair probably falls in against the Twins.
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