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  1. USAFChief
    Wut?
  2. USAFChief
    Arcia.
  3. USAFChief
    FTFY.
  4. USAFChief
    I can't see any way Jackson makes the team. Three catchers? You only have 13 roster spots.
  5. USAFChief
    Wallner wasnt "sent down" last year. He had a 6 game injury rehab in late May at ST Paul returning from about 5 weeks on the IL.
  6. USAFChief
    My personal favorite thing about Danny is his ability to ignore a question and provide an answer complete unrelated. In fairness, I've come to associate Dan with Twins baseball on the radio and just accept that I need to keep track of the little things like the score myself. Congrats, Mr Gladden.
  7. USAFChief
    HRs don't suck. Nice strawman. Nobody said they did. But HRs don't happen that often, and the problem with Wallner is what he is able to accomplish in those many, many ABs when he doesnt hit a home run. 826 career ABs...77 RBI that arent himself. Seventy seven. The man has three...THREE...career sac flies. ... 3. Baseball games arent won by adding up wRC+ or another made up metric. They're won by adding up runs. And runs dont happen by magic. They happen when someone knocks them in.
  8. USAFChief
    Barring injury, zero chance Lewis isn't the Twins 3rd baseman on opening day. Zee-row
  9. USAFChief
    I don't wanna hear any whining about Twins defense, then. "Anybody can play anywhere."
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  11. USAFChief
    If only they added up wRC+ at the end of 9 innings.
  12. USAFChief
    Well I certainly agree that dumping thr top 2/3rds of your bullpen isn't smart. I spent approximately 37000 words here complaining about it. Moronic decision with zero reasons forcing it. The pen wasn't even expensive. And now, having done so, I too would rather see them restock with great young arms rather than castoffs and cheap FAs. The problem, though, is NObody has enough great young arms to do that. Certainly not the Twins. Who are they not using? Despite what some fans write, a bullpen isn't "the easiest thing to build."
  13. USAFChief
    So...that's a "yes" then?
  14. USAFChief
    I've always understood control to mean the ability to throw strikes, command the ability to throw strikes where you want them. A fastball middle middle exhibits control. A fastball on the low outside corner exhibits command.
  15. USAFChief
    Well even with 4 LH relievers, that still leaves 4 RHers. As we should know, watching Rocco get outmanaged time after time, PHing for the platoon advantage in the 6th inning has a way of coming back to bite you in the, uh, upper backside of your pants. I'm not going to worry about too many lefties. However, I AM terrified of the Twins pen.
  16. USAFChief
    Pretty sure Gallo is available. Make the call, Jeremy.
  17. USAFChief
    Or pitch an inning here and there?
  18. USAFChief
    No room to carry 6 outfielders.
  19. USAFChief
    Rojas: "...his fastball and cutter caught too much of the plate, and hitters made him pay. The positive takeaway is that his command was solid; he threw 35 of his 50 pitches for strikes..." Sounds to me like command was an issue. I think you're possibly confusing command with control.
  20. USAFChief
    Brings a tier to my eye.
  21. USAFChief
    I've felt from the day they signed Bell the intent was to put him at 1st, not DH. Also feel Arcia makes the team as the backup infielder. Less sure, but I bet Outman makes the opening day roster as well.
  22. USAFChief
    Yeah, I don't really think the actual distribution of LH/RH hitters matters much anyway. It's the actual batters faced. And that's gonna vary, of course, by pitcher and circumstance, but I don't think it ends up anywhere near 75-25. Sort of related to one of the weaknesses of platooning hitters...you can never really do it to the extent that you'd like. "Lefty mashers" end up facing a lot of RH pitching.
  23. USAFChief
    Complete hogwash. I've watched a lot of baseball. Learning and playing a regular position has always been the norm in baseball. Supplement that by finding a utility player that, while not good enough to hold down a regular spot, is good enough to fill in for a regular (ideally at multiple spots on the field) to be acceptable when necessary. What's not normal, nor do I believe beneficial, is to have a team full of players who learn no position, rather are thrown around the diamond willy-nilly. Have players learn the most important defensive position they can handle. Then leave them there. When they can't be in the lineup, find a replacement, but leave the rest of the positions alone as much as possible. There's zero need to weaken multiple positions just because one player is missing. And there's zero need to live with substandard defense solely in the misguided name of "flexibility." That has NOT been the norm throughout history. It shouldn't be the norm now.
  24. USAFChief
    For the record, 2nd batter. KABOOM is accurate though.
  25. USAFChief
    A couple things: 1. "Roughly three-quarters of hitters in today’s game bat right-handed." I dont think that's accurate. Last year, for example, in the AL roughly 56% of PAs came as a RH batter. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/split.cgi?t=b&lg=AL&year=2025 It gets a little wonkie with relievers, because of pinch hitting and managers ability to sometimes limit platoon exposure, but Chafin, for example, in his career has faces 1275 RH hitters and 1013 LH hitters. Even with the changes brought by the 3-hitter minimum, last year Chafin faced 71 RH hitters, 72 LH hitters. 2. My belief is imbalance towards RH pitching has more to do with a scarcity of LH pitchers than a preference for RHed pitching. 3. In any case, while the platoon advantage in baseball is real and persistent, ability trumps handedness. The bigger problem for the Twins pen isnt too many LHers, it's too little ability.
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