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  1. USAFChief
    Then booooo on the front office for planning for this
  2. USAFChief
    We're at rock bottom if the rotting corpse of Matt Shoemaker occupying a slot in the Twins rotation out of spring training isn't a disappointment. What did you expect?
  3. USAFChief
    When I left home plate, an anomaly! I was on first base to score After dumping to right a flare, On the quiet of the basepaths, runnin' scared Running slow, eeking out some base advancement where so few Twins ever flow Looking for home plate but alas, it's no go Lai la lie...
  4. USAFChief
    12th loss for the bullpen...it's not even mid-May. MLB teams cannot survive with this level of ineptitude from the pen. All else is secondary. Appears to me the season is over.
  5. USAFChief
    There's no trick to building a sustainable roster. The difficult part is building a winning roster.
  6. USAFChief
    There's pretty much nothing worse for a MLB team than a bad bullpen. It's gonna impact a lot of games. And we got one.
  7. USAFChief
    Masks now optional at Target Field, but paper bags over your head mandatory for anyone in seats designated as "in background view of center field, on deck circle, and bullpen TV cameras. Paper bags optional for all others. Cut out eye holes in bags will not exceed 2.5 inches in diameter. Drawing mask on bag with sharpie for comedic effect not permitted. That would be funny...once."
  8. USAFChief
    Not to hijack the thread--oh heck who am I kidding....I'm hijacking the thread--but the Aaron Hicks trade was easily one of the worst 3 or 4 trades in Twins history. Awful.
  9. USAFChief
    The offense has NOT been "fine." They've scored 3 or fewer runs in 17 of 29 games this year. Almost 2/3rds of the time. That's not going to work, even if you manage to throw up a couple 12 run explosions.
  10. USAFChief
    Yeah, and my very unscientific and non-measurable, but incredibly reliable and 100 percent deadly accurate eyeball test tells me he threw nothing that looked in the least bit dominating. Nobody got bad swings, nobody got really fooled on pitches.
  11. USAFChief
    He got through 2 scoreless, but I saw nothing very encouraging in his outing.
  12. USAFChief
    Not far from season over. Not quite there yet, but not far I don't know if I've ever been more disappointed in a player than Polanco. For half a season, he looked sooo good. And now he's just pathetic. That bases loaded, no out K in the 4h, off a 2-0 count against a nothing LHer? How does that happen? Both the 2-0 and 2-1 pitches could not have been more center cut, without velo or movement. Can't even put them in play. And defensively he's not really a very good second baseman, either. No arm, not much range, iffy glove.
  13. USAFChief
    asking JA Happ to go longer wasn't, isn’t, and won't be the answer. The Twins got more than what can reasonably be expected from Happ last night...1 run in 5.1 IP. You might get 6 on a couple good nights, but you'll get less than 5.1 some nights too. Everyone in the dugout, and front office, knew that when Happ was signed. You're PLANNING on 3 to 4 innings from the pen almost every time Happ takes the mound when you ink him to a contract. The failure is with not having a good plan for that, rather than for expecting more from Happ.
  14. USAFChief
    Who's going to trade a good reliever in early May? Nobody. Very unlikely. The front office completely blew the offseason, and it can't fix it right now. I can't claim to have predicted the pen would be THIS bad, but it wasn't hard to predict the pen wasn't going to be good enough.
  15. USAFChief
    I said 2 months ago the bullpen wasn't going to be good enough, and I got quite a bit of pushback. Well? What say youse guys now? As to this game, plenty of blame to go around, as has been all too common, but I'll point a finger at Rocco for sending Rogers out for the 9th. Not only back to back games, but a second inning as well. Stupid, although I admit the alternatives aren't that attractive. I'm afraid it's probably too late. You can't rebuild a bullpen in April/May from outside the organization, and there's no help in St Paul.
  16. USAFChief
    I just can't get behind this team until they do something about the bullpen. I don't know what that something is, either.
  17. USAFChief
    The Mets have Pete Alonso at first base. Syndergaard hasn't pitched since 2019, not expected back until mid June at the earliest. I don't think that's realistic.
  18. USAFChief
    Rortvedt looked the part behind the plate. Nice to see.
  19. USAFChief
    Not for Kirilloff.
  20. USAFChief
    The Twins pen isn't one piece away.
  21. USAFChief
    I think they needed to figure that out long ago. I doubt either will give up free agency at this point.
  22. USAFChief
    Great job Happ, too.
  23. USAFChief
    I would think his asking price is plummeting.
  24. USAFChief
    I still like Maeda as a starter, but last year's 60 game sample was an aberration, not something that was likely to be repeated. I think he'll be fine going forward...an above average starter on a great contract. But not someone likely to be in any CY conversation again.
  25. USAFChief
    Among the many, many things that could be said, or asked, about this game, one stands head and shoulders above all else: "What the **** was that 8th inning about?" Edit: I guess it was too much to ask a beat writer to question Rocco on the monumentally stupid decision to let Colome struggle through a hit batter followed by three walks (and it should have been four walks if not for a gift K) in the 8th inning of a 1 run game: no mention in the Strib game story. Nothing. I mean, come on!
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