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  1. USAFChief
    Smeltzer has really been a godsend.
  2. USAFChief
    Rehab halted, hasn't pitched since 1 inning over a week ago. Elbow issues Who knows, but doesn't sound good. At best, it'll be a while. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/06/cody-stashak-to-undergo-season-ending-shoulder-surgery.html
  3. USAFChief
    I dont think they coach it as much as seek out (and pay for) guys who have the ability to do that. It's tough to teach that skill. Luis Arraez just has the ability to recognize, and fortitude to lay off, a lot of pitches out of the zone. I don't think that's something somebody actively taught him how to do. Even a guy like Gallo. Tons of swing and miss, but...at pitches that are in the zone, for the most part. Where, once in awhile, he'll hurt you. And he'll draw his walks if you don't throw strikes.
  4. USAFChief
    And Hicks should buy him a beer. High dollar one, too.
  5. USAFChief
    That should be it. Ryan can take his slot Tuesday in Seattle.
  6. USAFChief
    I felt like the Urshela baserunning blunder was the point at which the Twins remembered who they were playing.
  7. USAFChief
    1. Ryan has to take Bundy's next start in Seattle, no? 2. Polanco had a pretty brutal game. 3. It seems like every inning is an entire game against that lineup. They force you to get them out WITHIN the zone. And finally, while I think we'd all have accepted 3-3 against Tor/NY a week ago...that was really deflating.
  8. USAFChief
    Duran would net a lot. Maybe more than anyone. Dominant relievers are in high demand, with good reason. Not that I think the Twins should trade him.
  9. USAFChief
    Haiku is an art Requiring great precision And the Yankees suck
  10. USAFChief
    If Urshela is standing at SS 100% of the time, why WOULDN'T he be compared to shortstops?
  11. USAFChief
    I'm intrigued by Megill, was before this article. However...I'm not sure about any system that rates Joe Smith as having the best stuff of any Twins pitcher. Also have trouble believing there are 7 Twins relievers at least 6 percent above average. Nope.
  12. USAFChief
    Only one of which, i believe, has ever thrown as much as 150 innings in any season, minors or majors (Gray). Let's stop pretending this is incredibly bad luck. This is the pitching staff the FO designed. You can't, for example, put Bailey Ober in your rotation and think he's going to last the season. He's never done that, and they don't ask that from pitchers in the minors any more, so what to they expect?
  13. USAFChief
    So tell me...who pitches the 7th, 8th, and 9th?
  14. USAFChief
    I have trouble understanding wanting Duran in the 7th inning of a game we trailed. We don't have a good pen. From day one. That's not Rocco's fault.
  15. USAFChief
    Always has the feel of a cat playing with a mouse before getting bored with it and delivering the death blow.
  16. USAFChief
    I'd go Arraez. Probably Buxton 2nd due to his April. He was all world for almost a month. Maybe Kepler 3rd.
  17. USAFChief
    He had one good game, let's not pick an endpoint that highlights the good part.
  18. USAFChief
    Well "we" wouldn't know, but presumably the medical staff would. And at least in this (3 week old) article, it's stated that it "doesn't appear to be something that will resolve itself in a matter of days with rest." That's a bit ambiguous, but enough for me to question whether an IL stint would actually help. Particularly since they haven't.
  19. USAFChief
    Do we know that an IL stint will fix the knee? If it will, then IL him immediately. He's not the same player. If it won't, and I don't think it will or they'd have done it already, then we're getting the 100 games of Buxton they told us we were getting, and we're not getting 100 games of a superstar.
  20. USAFChief
    1. There are no low-leverage-only spots in a modern bullpen. When the expectation is 3 or more relievers EVERY night, and many nights 4 or 5, every reliever is going to be pitching in high leverage situations. Often. It can't be avoided. 2. Duffey zoomed up out of nowhere in 2019, close to that in a short 2020. Went back to normal when "grip enhancers" became a thing in 2021. Perhaps unfairly, I'm suspicious. 3. Duffey is bad, but I don't think there are 7 or 8 consistently better options in the organization, 4. I keep asking for bullpen talent every winter, and I keep reading reasons why they don't need to add...well, this is what you get.
  21. USAFChief
    No, what catapulted Duffey to prominence was his K rate jumping astronomically in 2019 (and 2020). That Duffey wasn't around in 2021, and isn't in 2022. Duffey isn't the same guy. Personally, I wonder about grip enhancers, but that's just speculation. Whatever the reason, he's pretty hitable.
  22. USAFChief
    A plan that features 2 innings from your best reliever with a big lead is not "great."
  23. USAFChief
    I'm a "better to take the starter out too early than too late" guy, but...why didn't Smeltzer get at least a shot at the 5th inning? Also...Duffey. yeesh. That said, can't complain about getting 2 of 3 over the weekend in Tronno.
  24. USAFChief
    I put the over/under on future Bundy starts at 2.5.
  25. USAFChief
    Gardy's ears just perked up. "Five or six catchers you say??"
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