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So in your world, you just keep piling it one, regardless of the score or opponent?

.........and poor hand

Well then I imagine there isn’t anything wrong with stealing in the too of the ninth up ten? Very classy!

No, this isn’t the crap that is ruining baseball. This was a "courtesy" extended to all teams, by all other teams over the decades. And I doubt there is any rational debate that today’s game is better than the eras that preceded this one. Every team, in every season has games like last night, and will often close it out with a position player. That swing wasn’t about winning or losing, it was simply about being a jerk. Again, hitting the HR wasn’t the problem. Swinging on the 3-0 was. It’s the same reason teams in basketball don’t shoot in their last possession which a solid lead, and football teams don’t kick field goals with the game in the bag!

You weren’t wrong, you just picked the wrong game. Your theory was solid!

Is Derek Law the answer? Or is the answer Derek Law?

I know umping is a touchy subject, but does Dick really think that a MLB ump will be influenced by a clunky half plate pull of a pitch. The pitch was off the plate, but as a rule all you do is aggravate a plate umpire by pulling pitches that far. My question to a catcher who did that was, "if the pitch was a strike, how come you had to pull it 6”? Framing pitches is about receiving the ball comfortably, not jerking them a foot!

OP heading. "No end in sight" Ahhhh, actually I think it should have read, "the end is near"?

He still has not learned to square up his body on a low pitch. Nor has he learned to "smother" a pitch. Finally, while I know that one legged catching is the rage, there are just some guys not athletic enough to pull it off. He is one of them. You simply cannot block balls that low if you are tied up like a pretzel. That leaves you relying on your glove, definitely not Garvers forte!

When the opposition pitcher is standing on the mound, cap over mouth, chanting, "PH Sano, PH Sano, you know the manager made the wrong call. Rocco will tell you that Sano was his chance for a 3 run bomb. The pitcher will tell you Sano was his chance to get out of a big inning! It sort of sums up the teams approach. Bombas score runs, making contact and situational hitting is for weenies!

When they signed him I told my son, . "it’s nice to see a SS exceed 78 mph on a throw to first". That last one was in the low 60’s

I know Budweiser is a huge operation. But there is absolutely no way they can make enough beer to quench a Twins fans search for simple competence.

"Limited Edition"..... we could only hope!

MN Twins Rally Edition? Can they be sued for misrepresenting a MLB team?

Satire fits this team perfectly..... Watching the last three innings of. Twins game is frankly baseball satire at its best. I do think there is a possibility that Baffert could help in one aspect of the game. Almost all of Bafferts horses make it all the way around the track. (We won’t go into detail about those that don’t). Few Twins hitters accomplish this feat. Maybe some training in the Blue Grass state would be helpful. That said, Baffert should be watched carefully. I don’t want to see them pulling a curtain around Buxton next time he pulls up lame! ??

I don’t think it’s a good idea to jump to premature conclusions....... I would wait a little longer.... maybe til the top of the 9th?

Some of this is a lack of talent. But some of this is a failure of the players to meet our expectations. And the fluke 2019 season didn’t help. The Keplers, Garvers, Sanos, and Rogers maybe aren’t what we thought they were. I for one thought Polanco would be a true pure hitter. He’s gotten better, but he isn’t what I envisioned. And while Cruz has 9? HR’s, he is beginning to appear a mere mortal. As for mental approach, well one of the "team leaders" lollygagged his butt home on that DP and cost a run. Also, I was a huge fan of signing Simmons, the team needed a SS badly. But he is playing with about as much interest as my grandchildren do when we pick up sticks in the yard! The Twins pitching staff needs no further verbal abuse, it’s mostly all been said. But, if I was a pitcher and had to pitch to Garver I would seriously have to consider going to my grandmothers funeral that day. The fact I no longer have a grandmother would not deter me a bit. Seriously, if there is a worse MLB catcher I can’t name him. His two singles were easily displaced by the two unblocked low balls, scoring runs. How can you pitch with confidence down in the zone looking at him behind the plate. Pitch framing? I have seen high school catchers who don’t jerk a pitch that clumsily. I don’t think the Calvary is coming this year. This may just be what it is. The FO is going to have to do some pretty miraculous work to turn this around, even by next year. The only player untouchable should be Buxton, and I think he only has a year left under control. Sadly, with his inability to stay on the field, that translates into about 100 more games.

There is a fourth true outcome. Boredom! Moving the mound back would maybe/likely cause more baseballs to be struck, but in this era they would be either HR’s of fly balls. HR’s while productive get more blasé by the day. As would 14-7 games. What’s really missing is action plays, but these have been deemed analytically non productive. (And for all I know, they may be). But by nor bunting, stealing, hitting behind a runner, and hit and running, an essence of the game is removed. Simply accepting that these strategies are non productive may make mathematical sense. But it still removes an element of the game that used to exist. Strategy! It’s becoming a possibility that good math, and good entertainment are not one and the same thing?

Hopefully with the changeover to the new format, the predictions made this spring by some foolish, optimistic, and naive Twins fans have gotten misplaced in the netherworld? Z??

The Turtle gives you a lot of coverage for being 25-26 on the roster. Is he an elite defensive replacement anywhere? Probably not. But he can go out and make standard and at times above standard defensive plays. I saw Polanco and Sano in the OF, enough said. Also, contemplate Cave at 1B? He has trouble with ground balls in the OF. Donaldson in RF? Garver in LF? Point is while the Turtle may not outplay a MLB starter in a defensive position, he will outplay most of them if they are off their normal spot on the field. Nice flexibility for a manager to have.

On the other hand, the board game by the same name has some correlation to Rocco’s attempts to explain some of his bizarre in game moves. In both instances, it’s really a stretch!

The similarities between watching Twister and the Twins, besides the only slight differences in spelling and the fact that both are disasters, is that they both include a cow. In Twister the tornado ends up having the cow. Watching the Twins, you end up having a cow!

>>>>>>" Besides Burnes, both Gerrit Cole and Jacob deGrom posted strikeout rates of 44% or higher. Unfortunately, the Twins don’t have one of these pitchers." They do have several of those hitters though! The stat on total runs scored is really not relevant for the Twins. This is a Jeckel and Hyde team. It’s either 12 runs, or 2 runs. Some of that is Bomba Ball, and some may be a group of front running hitters. Which would explain a seemingly low success rate in high leverage situations.

Its like a punt!

Can you option the bullpen? In reality I would send him on a rehab, for as long as possible. He either has to hit like a MLB player, or he likely has to be taken of the current MLB squad. You can’t give up Kiriloff’s AB’s to him right now. And Sano is not any kind of upgrade at 1B. Maybe a tad, but neither will make us forget that defense doesn’t count on that corner!