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  1. Trov
    The central is weak, and I personally am not surprised by that. I felt the Sox out performed last year, in a weak division. They have been a terrible defensive team for years, and have done nothing to help that. They can have a good offense, but their defense is always going to be an issue. Also, their pitching is thin. They were counting on aging pitchers to do what they had been doing, but have little depth. Detroit did better than expected last year with some young guys out performing expectations, and vets having good years. Their break out rookies, ie Badoo, has not performed anywhere close to last year so far. Baez has been hurt, but the rest of the line up has not done much either. They have the pieces and could break out but so far they have not been impressing. Cleveland has no offense and doubt they will. KC if their young talent comes around could be a challenge, but they are counting on a lot of young guys. I fully agree we have depth, and most importantly at the pitching position. That will go a long way over the season.
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    My take away from that crazy last play is that this year maybe we will get some breaks our way. Last year early in the year we were the team blowing leads on plays like that. We were the team throwing the ball away on stupid plays and losing close games. Right now, we are getting the other team to make bad plays get wins. Lets not forget Anderson and Abreau giving us a win in Sox series. That being said, I want to comment on the running play. Larnach first I feel played it bad. I do not know if he was looking to tag, or was playing half way like I think he should have. Yes, it hit the glove, but if he is playing half way he did not need to sprint back to bag he could have confirmed the catch or not and get back with plenty of time. Then Urshella should have never left second when Sano came running to second. Urshella should have seen Larnach on third and just stayed on second, like Larnach saw Urshella coming and stayed on third. Sano could have easy returned to first base as no one was covering there. Of all the players Sano actually was the best of them. He saw the throw go to home, he does not know if a runner is going but assumed they were, and he should follow the runners to the next base. He also could have always returned to first with no issue once he sees Urshella on second. Now, I will admit Sano took way too long to notice the other runners and should have returned sooner, but it all worked out.
  3. Trov
    Good to see our top hitters producing. I would not be surprised if we see any of them cycle in through the season if injuries happen, or if some struggle enough. 3rd base, 1st base, Dh, and LF are not locked up by anyone. If Sano does not start getting hits, Sanchez or Urshella struggles or any of our rotating LF not step up, I could see Miranda and Lewis, and if needed Martin all getting up to MLB level.
  4. Trov
    I know still early in his MLB career but I am very impressed with everything I see from Joe Ryan. He gets it done with location, movement, and throwing all his pitches for strikes. His FB is not overpowering, but because he gets the rise type movement he strikes out so many people on it. Now, will hitters learn to adjust as his career goes on and they see him more often, maybe. However, the early returns on the trade to get him is a huge win for Twins. We gave a up a guy that had no value to us last year, at the end of his contract, for a guy we will have for 6 years minimum, barring any trades, and has looked great.
  5. Trov
    I remember Giolito fell in draft because of injury, he has panned out fine. I would lean toward Lesko if he drops to 8. From what I read his change up elite, which is always one of the pitches that takes time to develop. If he is advanced with it, then less likely he just got by with velo in high school.
  6. Trov
    Kepler has always been on the cusp of being great, but never gets there. Analytic people love him and keep saying he will break out. He is who he is. He has tried to make adjustments over his career that has not worked well. He said last year he tried to work on more oppo hitting, but then that led to a funk in his swing. I like him as a defender, and he is serviceable as a hitter, but do not expect him to carry the team on offense. He is a good piece but just that a piece. He will do some good things, like last night, but he will not carry us.
  7. Trov
    I was not watching super close, but Paddock looked pretty good tonight. It is nice to see these starters all doing well overall, and would like to see them go a little deeper this next time through order. I am hoping Ryan can go at least a full 6 if not 7 tonight.
  8. Trov
    First, I am all for sitting him, cutting him or whatever. I get the writers point that his numbers should be higher overall, but he had an at bat where he never swung. So he did not chase or whiff, but he struck out on 3 pitches. Hard to whiff or chase if you never swing, but hard to get hits too. However, I would point out Sano actually did not have a bad base running play, it was Urshella that did. Why do I say that? Sano reacted to the throw to plate, he was assuming either a runner was going home or had already. It is smart to follow the runners in this situation. Also, there is no 1st baseman behind him so he can get almost to 2nd with no issue of getting back. He was not going to get into a run down. Was he thinking this? Maybe, maybe not. It was Urshella who took off to third when he should not have. He should have stayed on 2nd and told Sano to run back to 1st, instead he thinks Sano is forcing him to 3rd and never realizes until he is almost to 3rd that Larnach is standing there. Who made the worst decision of them all in this case? The catcher for Detroit. Other than the terrible throw, he was not going to get the lead runner out, and tying run in Larnach as he was on 3rd alone. So maybe he can get Urshella in a run down, and get him out, but that could have left Larnach a path to get home, to at least drawing a throw home. Yes, getting that 2nd out would have been good for Detroit, but the catcher should have just let the runners return to their bases and play it safe. Thankfully he tossed the ball to middle of left field letting 2 runs score.
  9. Trov
    The situation you speak on is one where I would not draw too much inference from. You had a catcher hitting with both others on roster banged up a little. Sure, Jeffers most likely could have caught the rest of the game, but why force it? It is not like Correa has been on fire this early season. Sure he is getting paid to hit well, but he is not right now. Why put out your banged up catcher leaving no one to fill in if he gets banged up more, for the maybe better at bat of Correa?
  10. Trov
    Assuming he bounces back, it will take a lot of money to sign him long term, if struggles this year I bet he opts in and we can discuss this next year. I would point out that so far most of the top FA have not preformed well. Yes, still early, but Seager, Seimian, Story(who many wanted the Twins to drop a ton on), Baez have all got off to slow starts. Clearly the team can afford a 30 mil a year guy, the question for a team like the Twins is can you afford them over a 7 to 10 year deal? Also, how will a subpar performance affect the teams ability to compete in the future? Specifically, in 5 years Ryan, Ober, and possibly Duran, Winder, and others in minors will be reaching FA. Will 30 million to Correa in his year 8 through 10 affect our ability to bring them back, if we want? That is what the FO always have to keep thinking about, not just this year or next, but 3 to 6 years down the road.
  11. Trov
    The Tigers offense is not very good. Not that ours is either. Outside of Meadows, Torkleson, and Cabrerra, who is only hitting singles, they have bad offense so far. The steal of the rule 5 draft that so many Twins fans have been crying about, Badoo, has been down right terrible at the plate. Baez back and healthy could help their offense, but outside of the few guys no one really scares you. Torkleson is really a 3 true outcome guy too. We really need someone other than Aaraez and Buck to step up at the plate though. Hopefully we can get some guys going soon.
  12. Trov
    I have not seen Encarnasio-Strand hit yet. He is putting up crazy numbers when he makes contact. That is most likely not sustainable, but not sure if he is getting lucky sometimes or everything he hits he just hits hard. The question is how will he adjust as teams adjust to him over the season. Is he a Rosarrio type that will swing at everything but still make decent contact or will he just start whiff as more and more breaking pitches are thrown his way out of the zone. I have a strong feeling he will start to struggle as teams make him show he will take out of the zone. Maybe not, but he is at just A ball right now. I am excited of what he could bring, but until he does it at higher levels and for a long stretch I will just keep wondering.
  13. Trov
    When he is healthy, I would say he is one of the best overall, when you include his base stealing/running, and defense. His double the other day was a single for just about every other player, but he knew the right fielder would be throwing toward home, and even when hitting the cut-off Buck got all the way to 2nd without a throw. It was crazy, and really should be talked about more how good a play he made there. 99% of guys would have just jogged out to 1st and maybe round it just in case the throw was getting airmailed. However, now teams will have to decided, should we throw just to 2nd and not even think about drawing a throw home because Buck will go to 2nd even if you throw to cut. The question for the last couple years is can he stay on the field. The fact that he got hurt sliding into a base really raises concerns. Hopefully he will be on the field for 150 games because he is a huge difference maker.
  14. Trov
    I sure hope that if Urshela, Sanchez, Sano, and Larnach do not produce the Twins will not hesitate to make some changes quickly. Larnach can go across the river if needed to work on whatever is leading to his issues, but the others, DFA or trade if they continue to fail. We have guys that can come up and do at minimum what they are doing. I could see Lewis or Miranda at 3rd, and Lewis or Martin in LF with just about anyone at 1b and DH with someone filling in as backup catcher. The 4 listed do not offer enough defense to make up for below average offense. They are in the line up for the offense and if they cannot do it, do not hesitate to try and find someone who can.
  15. Trov
    It may be that I have only heard Bremer on the TV for Twins my whole life, but I do think he is good at what he does. I have listened to some bad play by play guys. In the early 2000's Dick and Bert were great. However, Bert got old and did not adapt to the game, and just sounded like old man complaining that it is not like in his day. The partners Dick gets now are not very good, which is hard for Dick to really do well when he has nothing to play off of. Dick has adapted to the game and gets his audience has adapted as well. He still likes some old school style, but he gets the change that has happened. I just do not understand why broadcasts always feel the need to have the color guy be an ex player or manager. I get they need to know about the game, but there are many trained broadcasters that never played in majors that know the game. They could provide just as much incite but in a better way. For some reason years ago it was decided in all sports broadcasts the color guy would be some ex player with name brand. All too often they are terrible at the job. Some are great at it, but many are terrible.
  16. Trov
    How so? I can think of 1 game where he would possibly made a difference, that being the blown save by Duffy. The other blown lead by Duffy it is unlikely Rodgers gets the nod. If you can point to any other games the pen blew that Rodgers would have pitched in please point them out.
  17. Trov
    Remember when people were tearing into Twins for Ryan being the opening day starter? Who has been the best starter on the team so far? Overall our starters have done well, but he has been the best. I bet he could have went another inning or two for sure, but will take the win either way. Early season sure, but if you had to pick Berrios or Ryan right now who would be your preferred starter?
  18. Trov
    The early returns on Yankees trade is tilting Twins, despite neither player we got doing great, Donaldson is doing terrible. In terms of the Gray for Petty trade, time will tell if we made a mistake or not. High school pitchers are so hard to project. He is doing fine first 11 innings in A ball for Reds.
  19. Trov
    He started off a little slow, but picking it up. I have huge expectations for his hitting game, just where he will play on defense will be the question. He bat should play at the majors.
  20. Trov
    I hope his new eye at the plate is not just SSS and when teams start to pitch him different that he will not regress.
  21. Trov
    Everyone on here was worried about starting pitching coming into the year. There was a few guys they wanted us to have over who we have so far. The few other guys have done well, but overall so has our starting pitching. Even if we got Manea, or Rondon both we still would be losing. Until our bats can score any runs we will never win. What I am most worried about is if our offense start clicking that is when our pitching will start to falter. This is how last year went, we never had all areas firing at the same time. If we pitched well, we could not hit. If the starter gave us a chance to win the pen blew it. If pen was going well and hitting was going well our starters could not get through 2 innings. I know it is early, but this terrible offense is not fun to watch at all.
  22. Trov
    I know early in year, but Berrios is doing terrible in 3 starts with Jays, 11.1 innings pitched 11 Ks with a 2 whip, and 6.69 FIP. Not saying he will not bounce back, but right now I would say Twins made a good trade last year as he would have little value right now. Also, Jays on hook for 7 more years. I do not wish Berrios anything bad, but I sure hope we win the trade and Woods Richardson sure is looking good so far. Yes he is doing in minors and Berrios in Majors, but every one of our starters have done better than Berrios has so far.
  23. Trov
    If Correa continues to hit sub .200 with OPS of .586I think he opts in for next year, so I would not say he is a lock to walk. Also, if he continues to hit like that we will be a bottom feeding team again as well. The most frustrating about our hitting prospects is our stacked OF list has not performed for various reasons and now our future OF hitters look terrible right now. Of course Marten, or Lewis could get shifted there if no IF spots are open when they come up. Also corner OF is easiest to fill from trades or FA so not too worried there.
  24. Trov
    I do not understand how shifting Buck to DH would fix the issue presented. He got hurt, to what level it is, while running the bases after hitting. So if the goal is to keep him in lineup hitting, how does just DH him help this, as it was hitting that led to the issue? Last year as well, he hurt his hip running the bases, and he was hit by a pitch later on. Yes, he has got some injuries in the field over his career, but many has been from hitting and running bases too. I believe he broke a toe on a foul ball, hurt a hand on a slide once, as noted hurt hip running bases, been hit by pitches. If he was routinely getting hurt running into walls or on dives in the field I would say this idea is worth entertaining, but the fact that a lot of his value is in his defense, and there is not evidence to suggest that making him just a hitter would reduce injuries to almost none, then why lose his value in the field?
  25. Trov
    How long before Lewis gets the call up? No he will not take over for Correa, but he can play 3rd, or OF if his bat plays well, just put him in the MLB line up. Right now he would be better than what we have been throwing out there.
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