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  1. USAFChief
    They call an inning in which a pitcher gets 3 K's on 9 pitches an "immaculate inning." Sano is 2/3rds of the way to whatever they call a hitter K'ing 3 times on 9 pitches.
  2. USAFChief
    *PA
  3. USAFChief
    I take it you blinked.
  4. USAFChief
    A little middle finger at the folks who tell us strikeouts are just like any other outs.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. USAFChief
    Can we sign Rivera to a 2 year deal? He's only 51, and I'd hand him the ball before Colome every day and twice on Sunday.
  9. USAFChief
    He got through 2 scoreless, but I saw nothing very encouraging in his outing.
  10. 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.
  11. USAFChief
    Yesterday, Rocco in response to question about using Waddell: "Y'know, he's here for a reason." Today: Waddell to St Paul.
  12. 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.
  13. USAFChief
    Buxton should have been signed 2 years ago, when it was feasible. At the latest, thus past off season. Whatever window there was to get it done is almost certainly closed. If the Twins are out of it by late June, they should absolutely trade Buxton. Probably Berrios too.
  14. USAFChief
    Thank you. I cringe when I hear Bremer claim "so and so hits lefties just as well as righties," ot even worse, make a claim of " reverse splits." Reverse splits, to a practical degree, don't exist. The few exceptions merely prove the rule.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. USAFChief
    there has to be something wrong with him.
  18. USAFChief
    Kirilloff better have had an emergency appendectomy, or I shall be VERY put out!
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. USAFChief
    ftfy.
  22. USAFChief
    winnah. ... phew.
  23. USAFChief
    Dunno why, but even though I've lost my hair in the last few years, I still carry around my favorite old comb. I just can't part with it.
  24. USAFChief
    I don't think that was a bad route by the left fielder. Unless he could run faster, that ball was gonna plug the gap no matter what. It was out of his reach. Now Cave...THAT was a bad route.
  25. USAFChief
    yes.
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