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  1. mnfireman
    Sunday getaway/giveaway day, probably Castro...
  2. mnfireman
    I was not a big proponent for automated strike zones and always told the kids I coached to adjust to the ump's zone, but this has become borderline ridiculous. Last night's home plate umpire graded out at 1.93 runs in favor of Toronto. The Twins were working the count and laying off of bad pitches, only to be called out looking several times on pitches out of the zone. How does a team adjust to an inconsistent umpire? While 5 hits is not a good game, an umpire rewarding wild pitching with strike calls literally took the bat out of the team's hands.
  3. mnfireman
    Right now Taylor has opposite splits, he's hitting righties but not lefties.
  4. mnfireman
    This in when the ace rises to the top of the deck, so can Twins fans count on a win Wednesday? The starting pitching, for the most part, has not been the problem this season.
  5. mnfireman
    I believe he also including minor leagues, he said professional PA's, not MLB.
  6. mnfireman
    Approach, approach, approach. Instead of trying to put the ball in play and take the SF or single, this team tries to hit the GS and put the game away. This results in a typical inning of a pop-out to an infielder, a K and a dribbler back to the pitcher and 0 runs scored.
  7. mnfireman
    While a front office should be in tune with the fan base (they are the one's buying tickets and merchandise), personnel decisions should not be made based on comments on social media. Baseball is too cyclical, players have terrible stretches followed by hot stretches, to base decisions on fanbase (over)reactions. As far as Pagan is concerned, if the team had received a viable trade offer, I believe they would have pulled the trigger. Just because rumors state that a player is in other teams radars because of peripherals, doesn't mean that an offer, or at least a reasonable offer, was tendered. And let's be real here, he never stood a chance here because of the fanbase's love for Rogers (who once again is performing terribly). Pagan's numbers (results and peripheral) are the same or better than Jax's numbers and the fanbase loves Jax. I believe we will see Lewis in early June when either his performance dictates it or injury forces it. But let's not be too upset when Rocco sticks him in CF again, its going to happen.
  8. mnfireman
    Well, Miranda is slashing .227/.250/.227 .477 OPS @ St. Paul, not exactly tearing it up...
  9. mnfireman
    I see Correa has been dropped in line-up today....from 2nd to 3rd!!
  10. mnfireman
    Farmer, Kirilloff, Julien, Lewis, Wallner, and possibly Martin mean the end of Castro, Solano and Gordon this year, and probably Polanco and Kepler next year. Tough choices will have to be made.
  11. mnfireman
    The biggest black hole in the line-up is the $200 MM shortstop. Maybe dropping him from the two-spot for a couple games will wake his bat up. The biggest weakness on this team is defense(who as a Twins fan thought that would the case). There seems to be at least one bad play a game, and that seems to open the floodgates to a bad inning. Here's to hoping that warmer weather (eventually) will cure that.
  12. mnfireman
    Twins starters have averaged almost 6 IP per start (124.1 over 21 starts), not including Maeda's 16 IP over 4 starts (very Archeresque). 4 stud relievers to cover 3 innings should do it. Headrick is locked into the long reliever role (for now), and Pagan, Alcala & Moran, while not completely reliable, are serviceable. Not to be trusted in close games, but serviceable. Look at most teams, the BP's pretty much look the same. They need a 5th starter before they need a middle-reliever, and Ober and Varland are available, amongst other potential options.
  13. mnfireman
    Ober will get his chance. Unlike some of the other prospects he has MLB experience, and has had success. Injuries or performance will determine how fast he is promoted. If the rest of the starters are going 6 or 7 innings with regularity and one is putting Chris Archer type innings, that is who he will replace. I am assuming Maeda pitches tomorrow, and that will be with 9 or 10 days rest. How he performs could go a long way towards the teams outlook on Ober. That play Kirilloff made tells me a lot about his wrist. He dove for the ball with no hesitation, made a nice play and calmly tossed it to the pitcher covering first. No hurry, no wincing and he calmly jogged off the field not shaking his wrist, indicating no pain. Good signs!!
  14. mnfireman
    So a guy gets hit in the face, another has a freak accident on the base paths (don't know if he's missing any time), another has what appears to be a side injury (from an unnatural motion (swinging a bat)), and another has back tightness/spasms (can happen to anybody, anytime and at any age) and the team is out of shape? These are not the same soft tissue issues from improper/insuffecient training programs or mis-diagnosis of "minor" injuries that later led to long IL stints of the past couple of years.
  15. mnfireman
    Taylor playing in and of itself is not a big problem. But when Miranda and Gordon aren't hitting and Kepler and Gallo aren't available, and their replacements aren't hitting, it all becomes a very big problem. A bench of Castro, Taylor, Farmer and Solano is better than a starting line-up of the same.
  16. mnfireman
    This!!
  17. mnfireman
    I'll go with the 8th inning guy gets the ball here because of the day off on Thursday and you see how it plays out. IF Duran is unavailable is the only way this changes. Jax and Thielbar do not get the ball until innings 10 & 11.
  18. mnfireman
    Pagan gives up a run in a game that's not really close and TD posters blow up, but Jax and Thielbar blow up a close, winnable game and crickets. Lopez, either one, should have pitched to the bottom of the order in the 8th, Pablo's pitch count was still good and he was on a roll, Jorge should be the normal 8th inning guy. The starter pitched the 7th, that's Jax's normal role. Then Duran for the 9th, if he was unavailable, then Lopez for the 9th. Either one. But, oh yeah, Baldelli doesn't have conventional bullpen roles. Games might be a little easier to manage if he did....
  19. mnfireman
    It's Now or Never for Rocco Baldelli No it's not...
  20. mnfireman
    Reading the game summary from MLB.com it appears the Twins only took the extra base on a base hit once, Larnach scored from second on a single. It appeared to me that the base hits were hard hit, but right at the fielders, which did not allow for the runners to advance. With a little luck some of those will find the gaps or the corners and get the wheels in motion on the base paths.
  21. mnfireman
    Insight like this is what keeps me coming back to TD....
  22. mnfireman
    On second thought, maybe Rocco was just checking all the egos in the rotation. Ryan (2022), Mahle (2022), Maeda (2021), and Gray (2020) have all made opening day starts. He didn't want Lopez feeling left out.... If you can't tell, I am only kidding....
  23. mnfireman
    Well, following the logic on this site, the guy you get when you trade a reigning batting champion and silver slugger award winner must be an ace (if a pitcher) or a guy you plug into the middle of your batting order. Ergo, Lopez becomes the ace and opening day starter. Seriously, though, who starts the teams opening game is not a big deal. Remember, Vance Worley and Ricky Nolasco were opening day starters in 2013 & 2014.
  24. mnfireman
    Last year with Boston Vazquez started 73/103 games behind the plate, then with Houston it fell to 23/58, so he is fully capable of starting 2/3 or 3/4 of the games behind the plate. And he is also capable of providing above average offense.
  25. mnfireman
    Ober was destined for AAA the day the team traded for Lopez. Bad early season weather may have him promoted for double-headers. Sands over Coulombe is somewhat of a head scratcher, let's hope his leash is as short as the ride is from St. Paul. Hoffman will sign with somebody on Monday, but he appears to be one of those pitchers who could implode with no notice, the team already has (at least) one of those (Pagan). The silver lining of the Kirilloff and Polanco injuries is that Larnach gets to break camp with the big league team. If Larnach starts out hot and nobody gets hurt it will be interesting to see what happens when they are ready to return. The flip side to those injuries is that Castro gets to also break camp with the big league team. If Julien starts off hot in St. Paul the pressure will be on to promote him. If he hits with the big club, it will be interesting to see what happens when Kirilloff and/or Polanco are ready to return. However, all bets are off if the injury bug rears its ugly head and the team needs to get into the not-ready-for-prime-time-players. Again.
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