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  1. USAFChief
    Jake Cave has to be feeling a bit ... what? Embarrassed? Angry?
  2. USAFChief
    Apparently Buxton came in not feeling well.
  3. USAFChief
    The problem is the front office thinking Sergio Romo is an acceptable option in a playoff game. Look around today and see how many playoff teams are trotting out similar pitchers in similar situations. Let me know how many 37 yr olds tossing 84 MPH fastballs you see.
  4. USAFChief
    Someone tell Rocco this isn't the middle of May, and there's no more long game to play.
  5. USAFChief
    PANIC!!1!
  6. USAFChief
    I disagree on the bullpen. Strenuously.
  7. USAFChief
    For the record, Avila is a better defensive catcher than Garver. But that wouldn't be an issue if Rocco just leaves Jeffers in the game. Why start Jeffers, if not because he's currently the better option?.
  8. USAFChief
    Pro tip: don't take delivery of the TV until Thursday.
  9. USAFChief
    Extremely disappointed in a front office that put Rocco in the position of using Romo and Thielbar in the 9th inning of a 1-1 playoff game. Pinch hitting Garver...why?? I guess we know why 4 (four!) Catchers. Putting Astudillo on the playoff roster is like leaving crack cocaine on the coffee table of an addict. Rocco wont be able to resist. Is Alcala hurt? Because there is no other reasonable reason he isn't on the roster. The offense is just...offensive. We know Polanco is a poor SS. No range, weak arm. That doesn't excuse the error, of course. But his lack of range showed up twice today. And finally...i think every Twins fan, in their heart of hearts, saw this coming when they let Grienke wiggle out of the 1st.
  10. USAFChief
    like I said, plenty of blame to go around. But Polanco's error doesn't happen if Romo doesn't give up back to back hits, and might not have mattered if Romo, who by the way throws among the fewest strikes of any MLB pitcher, doesnt walk Altuve. Thielbar is a nice story, but he hasn't been in MLB for a long time for a reason. He didnt even have a minor league job this year, until the Twins came knocking. As a taxi squad guy...maybe. Pitching the 9th of a playoff game? That's front office malpractice. And it was foreseeable, and preventable. I don't hate Romo or Thielbar. I hate the process that made them options in that game. I want guys throwing 97, not Frisbee sliders that every hitter knows is coming.
  11. USAFChief
    nah. Its tough to keep up out there in SoDak, with no TV or internet.
  12. USAFChief
    Caleb Thielbar was out of baseball, signed to be the Augustana pitching coach, when the Twins invited him to spring training.
  13. USAFChief
    Well, it's a moot point, but you know what "brilliant" looks like? It looks like Lucas Giolito today. Blake Snell today.
  14. USAFChief
    Polanco had a pretty bad game. Like I said, lots of blame to go around. But making a physical error is, IMO, much different than the front office looking at their pen a month ago and deciding, "Nope, we're good. Don't need Rosenthal. Don't need anybody." Again...they're pitching Sergio Romo and Caleb Thielbar in the 9th inning. Of a tied playoff game.
  15. USAFChief
    Maeda battled, and did well, but 'brilliant?" no.
  16. USAFChief
    The ninth inning of a 1-1 playoff game went to a 37 year old junkballer and the Augustana University pitching coach. Sounds like the town ball state tournament, not the AL playoffs. So much blame to go around, but the above was preventable, if the front office does it's job.
  17. USAFChief
    Today was a culmnination of the front office's failure. In the 9th inning of a 1-1 playoff game, the Twins threw out a 37 year old junkballer and the Augustana University pitching coach.
  18. USAFChief
    Also, if I have a choice between a .300 hitter with a .350 OBP, or a .225 hitter with a .350 OBP, I take the first guy 100 times out of 100.
  19. USAFChief
    Rocco didn't have a very good game, did he?
  20. USAFChief
    So much blame to go around.
  21. USAFChief
    Failure to launch.
  22. USAFChief
    ANother absolutely pathetic AB from Rosario.
  23. USAFChief
    Grienke throws 30 pitches in the 1st, and Houston needs to pitchers to get into the 9th.
  24. USAFChief
    We trusted the 9th inning of a tied playoff game to 37 year old junkballer Sergio Romo and the Augustana University pitching coach. It's like the town ball state tournament.
  25. USAFChief
    And now all the top arms in the pen will be on back to back days, tomorrow.
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