mnfireman

I think they keep him as a mentor/on field coach for Miranda. I also think they work out some sort of rotation @ 3B, 1B, DH and LF/RF with Sano (who I personally would like to see traded), Donaldson, Miranda, Kirilloff and Larnach. Days off and positional flexibility may help keep everyone on the field and performing.

Umpire was doing a good job, now calling strikes out of the zone.

I am sure he appreciates that.....

7 inning game, still need to go 5 to get the win? Can't wait for this to be done, as well as the runner on second rule for extra innings.

Go look at Baseball Savant, Nelson was inconsistent with close pitches, at best. There were some clearly outside the zone called strikes, and the pitches around the strike zone box were very inconsistent.

MLB generally recycles front office personnel, so which team's failure(s) do want to replace them with?

Was thinking to myself during the game that Benintendi was killing the Twins this year, so I looked his numbers up. He is!! .405/.422/.833 slash line with 5 HR's and 15 RBI in 12 games

I think he would have beat the throw if no runner on first....

I think we saw two throwing errors from him in a span of a couple games not too long ago....

Agreed, even found a couple of instances where Bryce Harper bunted to beat the shift....

Per MLB Trade Rumors this off-seasons FA pitchers, since we need a couple Brett Anderson (34) Chase Anderson (34) Tyler Anderson (32) Chris Archer (33) Jake Arrieta (36) Trevor Bauer (31) – can opt out of remaining two years, $62MM Dylan Bundy (29) Trevor Cahill (33) Alex Cobb (34) Johnny Cueto (36) — $22MM club option ($5MM buyout) Zach Davies (29) Anthony DeSclafani (32) Danny Duffy (33) Mike Fiers (37) Kevin Gausman (31) Jon Gray (30) Zack Greinke (38) J.A. Happ (39) Matt Harvey (33) Andrew Heaney (31) Felix Hernandez (36) Rich Hill (42) Merrill Kelly (32) — $4.25MM club option ($500K buyout) Clayton Kershaw (34) Yusei Kikuchi (31) — Mariners can exercise four-year, $66MM extension; if not, Kikuchi has one-year, $13MM player option Kwang-Hyun Kim (33) Corey Kluber (36) Wade LeBlanc (37) Jon Lester (38) Michael Lorenzen (30) Jordan Lyles (31) Carlos Martinez (30) — $17MM club option ($500K buyout; contract also contains $18MM club option for 2023) Steven Matz (31) Wade Miley (35) — $10MM club option ($1MM buyout) Tommy Milone (35) Mike Montgomery (32) Matt Moore (33) Charlie Morton (38) Daniel Norris (29) Ivan Nova (35) James Paxton (33) Martin Perez (31) Michael Pineda (33) Jose Quintana (33) Robbie Ray (30) Garrett Richards (34) — $10MM club option Tanner Roark (35) Carlos Rodon (29) Eduardo Rodriguez (29) Tyson Ross (35) Aaron Sanchez (29) Max Scherzer (37) Matt Shoemaker (35) Drew Smyly (33) Marcus Stroman (30) Noah Syndergaard (29) Julio Teheran (31) Jose Urena (30) Vince Velasquez (30) Justin Verlander (39) Michael Wacha (30) Adam Wainwright (40) Alex Wood (31)

Because everyone hits 1.000 and HR's every other AB......

Definitely doesn't belong here, 21 pitches to get through 2 innings, no excuse for that

So Kepler and the others who tested positive well after Simmons did are included in this group?

What does this have to do with someone's ability (or lack thereof) to play baseball?

And the veteran pops up a bunt......

As Bert used to say, the two-out Sac Fly doesn't hurt you...... Disgusting at-bats with a runner on third and nobody out.

Not if they don't play him against lefties or find him a full-time defensive position.

I don't care if a pitcher is 21 or 41, if he gets the job done he deserves a spot. The kids should be up starting September 1, hope the team has a development plan in place.

Astudillo needed to move Kepler over..........

Not a fan of Cave in the line-up again and would rather have Garver over Jeffers....

POLANCO....... Jump on my back boys!!

Why Cave swung at Ball 4 was beyond me, should be looking for a pitch to drive. He would have rolled into a 6-4-3 DP if he made contact.

Where are the fundamentals? Bad, bad baseball.....