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  1. USAFChief
    Turns out Friday morning wasn't the low point after all. https://twinsdaily.com/forums/topic/58278-the-2022-twins-are-at-a-low-point/#comment-1178118
  2. USAFChief
    He angles back, toward the corner. He intercepts the ball after one or two hops. I'm not going to argue any longer, but you're wrong. For same reason an infielder doesn't always travel perpendicular to the path of a ground ball. A SS for example, angles a little toward CF rather than 90 degrees from a ground ball's path to cut off a grounder up the middle. If he's going to attempt to catch it, yes. Direct path to ball flight. But you have to be 100 percent sure you can catch it. Otherwise, tie game for sure, and maybe worse. Not 100 percent? Cut the ball, 3-2, live to see another hitter with the lead.
  3. USAFChief
    Nonconcur. Take proper angle, don't dive, cut ball off, 2nd and 3rd 2 out. Know the situation. You can't dive if you can't catch it.
  4. USAFChief
    Brutal. Lopez had Stassi 0-2 and walks him in the 9th. If Gordon takes the proper angle, doesn't dive, and cuts that triple off, it's a double and Stassi doesn't score the tying run from 1st. And as MarkG points out, for the love of everything holy DRIVE IN SOME RUNS. Bah-ruu-tull.
  5. USAFChief
    I'd take Larnach. The Twins OF is pretty bad. We had the rusting hulk of Tim Beckham in LF and at DH, ferpetesake. Cave. Celestino. Gordon. After that I'd probably take Jeffers, and I don't even like Jeffers. Then Winder or Ober. Get one of Archer or Bundy (cougharchercough) out of the rotation.
  6. USAFChief
    Concur. This is precisely why at it's best, TD kicks the regular media's butt. Hard. Can you do all the game recaps, Matt?
  7. USAFChief
    Did you watch the game?
  8. USAFChief
    I thought 6 complete was enough for Mahle. Actually, if I were managing, I might have thought 5 and 2/3rds was enough and not let him face the tying run at the plate in the bottom of the 6th. And by the way, nice job Mahle.
  9. USAFChief
    "The Dodgers are just too good for us to expect to compete. What did you expect?" Followed immediately by the obligatory "Too many negative posters here." Heh.
  10. USAFChief
    "The Twins took an early lead thanks to Jorge Polanco and Gary Sanchez, but as it has been so many times with this team, the bullpen relinquished the lead in the late innings on the way to an 8-5 loss." Nitpic: the bullpen didn't relinquish the lead. That was Gray. The bullpen relinquished the tie.
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    I'd go run prevention, run scoring, and management.
  13. USAFChief
    https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/league-info/potential-2023-free-agents/
  14. USAFChief
    Next year's C market is Contreras. That's it. Good case can be made Gary Sanchez is the 2nd best 2023 FA C. Maybe Christian Vazquez?
  15. USAFChief
    Extreme plunge? Arm issues?
  16. USAFChief
    My four: 1. A poke in the eye with a sharp stick 2. A swift kick in the buttocks. 3. Avian flu 4. An IRS audit.
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  18. USAFChief
    And the .190 BABIP might have to do with a lotta 3 hoppers to short and soft fly balls to shallow right.
  19. USAFChief
    Also Cesar Tover.
  20. USAFChief
    "I'm not sure I agree with ya 100 percent on your police work there, Lou."
  21. USAFChief
    I can't speak for everyone, but he's certainly been something of a disappointment to me. He IS a damn good defensive SS though. I certainly haven't been disappointed there. But low- to mid-700s OPS? That's not what I was hoping for.
  22. USAFChief
    And if one believes in WAR, fangraphs has him tied for the 143rd most valuable player in baseball, 5th on the Twins. Behind Max Kepler.
  23. USAFChief
    1st: thanks Lucas and Heezy for your great help here. 2nd: for either or both: assuming normal recovery and rehab times, is it likely he will meet the Twins "hopes" and be physically ready for spring training?
  24. USAFChief
    It was a bad play by the left fielder. That bad play contributed to the winning run scoring. I don't think that's controversial or even debatable. And there's nothing "unnecessarily negative" about pointing that out.
  25. USAFChief
    We can certainly observe that playing an infielder in the outfield certainly contributed to the play, since he took not one BUT TWO crowhops, costing not just a "split second" but enough time to make what should have been "out by 15 feet" to close enough to be screwed by replay. The popup was to very shallow left. It shouldn't have even been close. It was a poorly executed and thereby late throw. It doesn't make one a "bad fan" to recognize and acknowledge that. That we're playing an infielder in the OF doesn't make it better, either. It's a cause, perhaps, not an excuse. Bad defense shows up in many ways. We laugh when an opponent makes a bad play. We can't lament when the Twins do? We can't expect better?
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