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  1. Platoon
    So does Gwynn yell Macht schnell,Macht schell at Kepler around the bag?
  2. Platoon
    When we used to sit in the shop and drink beer, one of the guys wore his cap like Rodney..... The more beer he drank, the further the cap went. We could get a very close approximation of his BAC by the cap angle. .
  3. Platoon
    If they had scored like that when we played my fielding average would have easily been in the .700 area
  4. Platoon
    Those blue seats are known to be soft spoken but very knowledgable baseball fans...
  5. Platoon
    That's the general direction of the stratosphere........ . But he came up short.
  6. Platoon
    So, 538 is telling us we might win? Or we might lose? I like when I don't know what's gonna happen.
  7. Platoon
    Old Man River has also passed on! I heard it was from age related complications.
  8. Platoon
    Are you sure your cat was laying on your keys for an hour? Or did you simply forget where you put your keys? Or did you forget your cat did feel sorry. Or did you forget that you don't have a cat?
  9. Platoon
    Yes, please just keep it to Berrios and his silly two run homers.....
  10. Platoon
    I am normally a "let the high ceiling prospect play" type of guy. For this reason: If Buxton and Sano don't pan out, it basically means the Twins are going to be mired in mediocrity land for a long time. I don't mean they will be terrible, just ordinary. Buxton and Sano are our chance to exceed that level. Garver isn't in that category. He may be at his ceiling. 27 years old, average bat, and bad hands do limit him.
  11. Platoon
    It's thinking like that, that keeps one from winning MOY. .
  12. Platoon
    And why I am not close to giving up on Buxtons bat.
  13. Platoon
    I have asked, "if that was a strike, why did you move your glove"? Framing to me is turning the glove so the ball shows to the plate. Catching the ball going to the plate AS you catch it, not after, , softly with little movement.
  14. Platoon
    They're not wearing socks.
  15. Platoon
    Tonight he has dropped a strike, dropped a pitch on a steal, and missed an outside pitch completely. It wasn't with someone on, but it was still reachable. And this is in two innings.
  16. Platoon
    OH my! I had assumed GT were clothing optional? I knew when you commented in the more formal settings of Blogs and Forums suitable dress was required. Hmmmm, maybe that explains why my wife quit watching the Twins?
  17. Platoon
    I had no idea that they chiseled jokes this long on stone tablets? [ ]
  18. Platoon
    Me first! 'No'
  19. Platoon
    No but you can type it. But the real question is this: 'Cause negativity stinks.' Would that be a double negative?
  20. Platoon
    Nice opening on the State of the Game Thread. They have been getting a little cranky lately. In 2016 when the Twins totally sucked we had a wonderful time on GT's. And I remember asking, I wonder what happens if the team starts winning. The gallow humor would be gone. And it came to pass. I hope your well thought out, and well written gentle reminder return us to the days of yesteryear.
  21. Platoon
    I hear so much about Gordon, but it's almost all related to his bat. Which of course is important. I hear virtually nothing about his defense.
  22. Platoon
    Dozier had a plunked RF double the other night also on a pitch you could barely reach with canoe paddle. Hopefully he has changed his approach and keeps it up. It appears his days of up and in FB's are over and they would rather walk him with stuff off the plate. He has been particularly susceptible to high outside breaking stuff. That said, the guy the Twins need more than Dozier or Sano is Buxton. He is absolute havoc on the bases, if he gets that far.
  23. Platoon
    Not sure what, or if anything has changed. But May was vociferous about the fact that his arm and apparently back did not mesh well with BP duties. Then again, maybe it was his mind? Either way he has the stuff to dominate out of the pen, but he doesn't seem to have his head wrapped around that idea. Aye if it's his only shot at a MLB roster spot that will change. But if it is truly a physical issue, it won't last long.
  24. Platoon
    I thought replay was going to resolve controversial calls. . I am NOT comparing Rosario to Oliva, with the exception that neither ever saw a pitch that they considered unhittable.
  25. Platoon
    So what is Keplers launch angle this year comparative to other years. Hitting less ground balls definitely improves the number, but there is a difference between GB's, high flys, and hard hit liners. (Using ancient terminology here). Also, I know I am an outlier on this opinion, but trying to reach some mythical number of pitchers per PA seems non productive, unless you are Robbie G. Even Mauer has better success when ahead in the count. Dozier recognized this early. He feasted on early in the count get em over FB's. It took three years for them to stop throwing them to him. If you get your pitch to hit, you better hit it, no matter the count. If you continually work yourself into two strike counts, you end up hitting what the pitcher wants you to hit. This takes plate discipline, something Kepler seems to have. My point being that if you are raking at avout 4.0 pitches per AB, you don't need to see more pitches. Taking strikes doesn't get you more juicy pitches, it gets you less.
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