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What’s the deal with Jenkins on the IL? Any word?
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Not when he hasn’t hit in the last 50 games going back to last year and hasn’t been consistent since last June/July. Also, not in mid April.
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Buuuuut, you know what I mean.
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Keaschall is hitting. Lewis is at least 3 weeks out at very least. They need a kick in the arse right now. Not sure if Lee provides that. We’ll see.
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They’re not gonna fire Rocco at this point in the season. They’re not gonna tear it all down mid April. Yes they are and have been for a while playing bad non fundamental baseball. But when the FO and ownership fail to build a solid team this is what you get. Focused on numbers, analytics and payrolls and not playing “baseball”. It hasn’t changed much in 100 years and apparently the Twins are trying to reinvent the wheel. Still gotta be sound defensively, throw strikes, not make baserunning mistakes and put the ball in play when it needs to be. A very simple game complicated by analytics, money and Ivy League grads.
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The teams that do the little things right win games. Not the teams that hit bombs most of the time. How many Yankees teams and the 2019 Twins didn’t make it far in the playoffs playing bad defense and terrible base running when the bomb bats went cold? Baseball is a over century old game and time and time again the most sound team is there at the end most of the time.
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Yes, I love listening to Gleeman but this talk of players like Lewis, Correa and Buxton “Saving themselves” when running on the basebaths and running out groundballs. That kind of stuff festers in an organization. Not running out groundballs to not get injured manifests itself into fielding balls off to the side, not sliding hard, and not having competitive at bats. For all the badmouthing of Gardenhire he sure did a lot more with a lot less most of the time.
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They’re not rebuilding. Period. They can’t with the guys you mentioned along with Lopez. They can retool. And if this continues they should. Rebuilding means you trade everyone you can and wait for prospects. That’s not happening. Not until the manager and some front office guys lose their jobs.
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HR’s also lose you games. They come in bunches and disappear like a ghost when you need them most. HR’s will win you post season games as well but you gotta get there. True it scores runs faster and in bigger bunches.
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Someone will take Vazquez. A good backup defensive catcher in the last year of a deal is always wanted by a contender at the deadline. Stewart’s going nowhere and I don’t see Tonkin even with the team by the deadline.
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Stats are great. They make baseball the ultimate numbers game. The fact of the matter is though did you hold the lead or lose the lead. The eye test/ traditional scouting tells you exactly what happened. Our “Aces” have been giving up leads and the lower end guys have been preserving leads/keeping them in the game. Plain and simple. No stats needed. Your eyes tell you the whole story.
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I like the apple.tv broadcast but I have apple.tv. I can see not buying it for the handful of twins games in a season though. The experience is pretty good with knowledgeable broadcasters that don’t just focus on the star players like some others and the stat lines and percentages are very cutting edge. It would be good for baseball and driving the analytics side of the game to partner with them more. By my standards it’s the best game experience of them all for sure!
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There’ll be takers on those guys. Won’t get much for them but they’ll get something. Ober is probably on the block. They probably get calls on Ryan as well. If Royce is back and playing decent they probably get calls on him as well along with Jax and Duran. If this continues by end of July they need to build a new team that compliments the next wave. Not rebuilding but a full scale retooling. Putting guys around Correa, Buxton, Lopez, Wallner, Jenkins, Erod, Mathew’s, festa, Keaschall, and whomever they don’t trade. There’s another team in here somewhere that can be good but the complimentary players they have to those guys now are failing massively. And for the love of god get Gasper out of here. He clearly can’t hit. He can walk. Good plate discipline. He just can’t hit. Or play defense.
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I don’t believe they make a big trade in season unless the current team continues what they’ve done up to the end of July. In which case Rocco is probably gone and maybe a front office person or two are boxing up their office in anticipation of looking for a job end of season. I don’t see them shaking things up until late May if this continues and by that point it’s probably too late. They are gonna sink or swim in the next month. It will either be agonizing or fun. Get ready!
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Culpepper and de barge are solid. For all 3 it will be their first full season. We’ll know more at the end of the year with these 3. Way too early to start poo-pooing these 3. Culpepper in particular has some great tools to “Actually” stick at SS in the major leagues.
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Solid pitching performance. Struggling against a good not great opposing pitcher. Bullpen struggles to make quick work against a good but not great lineup. Only put together 1 run. Uncompetitive at bats and weak grounders and weak pop ups. Hmmmm, sounds a lot like last season. We’ll hear the we’re not worried it’s early in the season until this continues to happen again in May.
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As someone who plays OOTP the great thing about the game is that it incorporates a lot of realism. As part of that realism you’ll get the randomness that a guy can put together a monster season when he puts it all together and everything breaks right. In the game with Buxtons skill set in particular having everything work and simulating it 25 times you can have him putting up a monster season. You’ll also have a season where he falls off a cliff as well. In 25 simulations any team in the top half has a chance to put it all together for a run. I wouldn’t be too excited after watching the first two games.
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He’ll win the CY if he skips his KC starts and only pitches against The A’s.
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Reports were he was struggling to even hit 90-91. He attributed it to mechanics but that doesn’t bode well either way. He’s very consistent I agree but if he’s out of whack with his mechanics and only throwing 88-89 he’s gotta figure it out to contend for a cy young. Pablo looked ok the other day. I’m more excited to see Joe Ryan today. I think if he takes another step as he seems to do he could be a force.
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It’s not the highest in baseball. Also, it was not known if that was from just the twins. Not good but it’s not as bad as said. Most teams carry debt. A lot of teams are in debt and lose money. Debt is used as a financial instrument. It’s not like debt to a normal person. Lots of businesses are “in debt” but when the got that debt at near zero rates it’s cheaper than most other types of capital. Very click Baitey statement. Honest reporting. Do better
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My point exactly. In the last 30 years how many championships have those teams won? Not as many as you would think by all the clamoring about the big teams spending money. If you just read articles you would assume that those large market teams win it every year.
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Austin Martin was never destined to be a SS. At least not a good one at the major league level. Doesn’t have the arm. In college an athletic guy can get away with pure athleticism. It shouldn’t have taken 115 games in the minors to find that out. Also, he played all over in college as well. He was drafted high for his bat and athleticism. Not because he was a superior SS. He played mostly 3B in college. I like that they encourage guys to play all over but as we’ve seen with the Twins defense over the years not having a a home position for guys to hone their craft defensively hurts as much as it helps.
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But that’s what everyone wants when they say they want new owners that spend. Everyone who’s team is not the Yankees or dodgers want their team to be able to spend like the Yankees or dodgers. They want the excitement of signing a big FA every year or every other year. You know it and I know it. What else is everyone referring to when they say they want an owner who opens up his pocket book? They want an owner like Steve Cohen. Or that’s who they’re hoping for which is what they thought when they heard the name Ishbia because of what his brother did in Phoenix. I dislike the Pohlads as much as the next guy but not because they don’t spend as much money. It’s when they choose not to spend money.
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Not at all. They just have an affinity for keeping guys at certain positions when they have no business being there or not putting obvious choices in certain positions of weakness. For instance Wallner other than his arm seems to be average at best in RF. They are weak at 1B. When Erod and Jenkins come up who are superior OF’s where will Wallner play? No reps at 1B at all when he’s a natural fit. Same with Varland. He should have been in the BP last year. Wasted a whole year at AAA just to come to the obvious conclusion a year later.
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For the same reasons Austin Martin played SS in the minors for 115 games. The same reason half the team plays 2B when they need a 1B. A mystery as old as this regime!
