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  1. Twodogs
    I don't think there was any intent from the Cleveland pitcher last night. Had there been intent with that pitch to Buxton then I would like to think the Twins pitchers would have defended Buxton, but I really think that one was just an accident.
  2. Twodogs
    Hopefully it's just a coincidence, but it seems like Pagan pitches better when the Twins are behind.
  3. Twodogs
    Looks like Pagan might be hurt for awhile.
  4. Twodogs
    Is something wrong with Buxton??
  5. Twodogs
    He went a long ways to get to that thing.
  6. Twodogs
    I'm an Angels season ticket holder, so I'm at the game right now, but it's because Houston is in the Angels' division, so there is a lot of contention there. Almost all Houston guys get booed here in Anaheim. A guy who owns the seats next to me was telling me that all Houston players should be banned. This was like a season or two after the cheating. So I asked him should Max Stassi be banned too? And he looked at me, did he play for Houston? I said yes, and he didn't know what to say after that. Kind of a funny story.
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    I mean Right? I guess I'm all for going crazy and swinging for the fences with no strikes or one strike but why not change the approach with 2 strikes, and in the situation of course also. I mean 1st and 3rd 1 out you kind of need a fly ball somewhere, you don't want a ground ball double play, so in the right situations they need to change their approach once in awhile. I feel as though the players themselves are always swinging for the fences because that's what gets them paid. So career moneywise a bunch of K's don't mean anything if they have 30+ homers. But a bunch of K's can negatively impact a winning season, but the agents out there get the guys paid to hit dingers. It seems to them the the winning and losing is secondary?
  8. Twodogs
    Kind of funny, Chapman has 27 K's in 16 innings and KC swooped him up with a 1 year like 3 million dollar contract. I mean sometimes you can take chances, had he stunk they could have released him and not paid much for the look. I guess that's what KC did?
  9. Twodogs
    Personally, I think the Twins need to send Jax to the mound a couple of times. Two different appearances 1 inning each and tell him he can only use his fastball. I'd like to see what happens, I bet it wouldn't be any worse than this? I mean I was sitting in the stands, last night and after 20 or so pitches 15 of them must have been the so called sweeper. He has a 96mph fastball and used it like once maybe twice. I mean I know even the fans felt like they could hit that sweeper because they knew it was coming. Set that pitch up with the fastball? Or at least set the fastball up with the sweeper. I mean sweeper after sweeper after sweeper they are going to start hitting it for sure and they are. It's maddening.
  10. Twodogs
    Twins need to bring up an arm here or there from the minors just to see if they can fool some people for awhile. Just get the shuttle filled up with gas.
  11. Twodogs
    I know this question is a little late, but what was discussed yesterday when that ball that was hit down the right field line looked foul? How come no one challenged it?
  12. Twodogs
    This exactly proves my point. The OP said that batting average is the worst offensive stat in baseball. Everyone who is defending that point brings up the fact that HR's are so so so much more valuable than just being a good hitter. But when I bring up a guy who hit 442 HR's everyone is saying that he sucks. He was an All Star 3 times. He got MVP votes with the Giants, Mets, Cubs and A's. All stadiums except for Wrigley are pretty bad hitter parks and he still ended up with 442 home runs, but he ain't worth nothing when I compare him to an all around hitter that hit like a total of 90 HR's in a 20 year career. So being a good hitter is way more important than hitting HR's
  13. Twodogs
    What would Kingman's ops have been had he hit .300? Also, I'd say the opposite, most of Kingman's career was in non homer friendly parks. San Fran I think candlestick? Oakland, not really a hitters park, I don't think shea stadium was exactly a hitters park, and even I thought Yankee stadium wasn't that friendly to right handed hitters. He also played in san Diego and for the Angels. I don't think any of those parks are hitter havens. I mean had he spent his career in Boston like David Ortiz did Kingman probably hits over 500 home runs, especially since they could have DHed him more in Boston? Just an example.
  14. Twodogs
    But would Rod Carew been a hall of famer had he hit .209? Or even as good as Kingman, I think he hit like .240 for his career. Would Carew have been a hall of famer then? So, I'm saying batting average means something for sure. I mean people pick on Kingman, saying he wasn't good defensively, but he played a majority of his career in the NL with no DH so he was able to get on the field at least most of the time. Kingman finished in the top 10 in HR's numerous times, he finished top 5 in HR's numerous times. I am obviously not saying he was better than Carew, but Carew was definitely no defensive gem by any means. In fact he was actually pretty sketchy also. What I'm getting at, is a guy like Kingman, most of the young people on here probably don't even know who the hell he is. However, with today's stats, if Kingman played in today's game, especially with the DH in both leagues, and the shift over the last few years, no steroids/hgh they'd probably be talking about him being a hall of famer in today's game. Back then he was basically a nobody.
  15. Twodogs
    So the Twins would have been better if they had Dave Kingman rather than Rod Carew?
  16. Twodogs
    https://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team I mean batting average isnt a great metric if it doesn't fit our narrative. I mean I really want the Twins to be good, they are doing ok, so batting average doesn't mean anything. But if you look at the top 10 teams in batting average, they are all doing good with the exception of St Louis and Colorado. St. Louis is like the Bazaro Twins with decent hitting and terrible pitching, and I'm guessing because of where they play that Colorado will always have a decent batting average. I mean, I'm trying to look at the Twins hitting as a positive, I mean they are doing well and they can't hit, you have to think that some of the guys will heat up eventually and they will start to hit a little bit. If the pitching maintains at a decent level the Twins should only get better, right?
  17. Twodogs
    I see your point, if the other team is up 5 - 0 all of the time that he should see good pitches, however, in his defense, he's not doing these things in Colorado or Cincinnati or in some hitters park. Oakland by and large is considered one of the worst hitters parks in MLB, so you can add that he's also doing well even though he plays in an extreme pitchers park.
  18. Twodogs
    I was watching the MLB channel yesterday and they had Rooker on the show. Mark DeRosa said that he himself was a bench player for a number of years and how hard that can be. We all know that coaches always say trust the process, keep working and doing things right and if you trust the process good results will happen. When you are a bench player, when you get only a couple of at bats per week that you become results oriented and not process oriented. Rooker then said after DeRosa that his hitting coach was a starter and then became a bench player who pinch hits once in awhile. He said that typically as a pinch hitter you come in and face the high leverage relief pitchers that the league is hitting like .140 against, this sounds weird but if you're hitting .180 or .190 in that role against those guys you're actually doing well. But when us fans look at that and we look at all of the advance metrics we determine that these guys stink. Where in reality some of these guys just needed everyday at bats to show what they can actually do.
  19. Twodogs
    Wasn't he the MVP of the NLCS?
  20. Twodogs
    I don't think anyone is catching up to him per se. I think when you walk 3 people in an inning expect to give up at least 1 run. Maybe he was just off a little yesterday.
  21. Twodogs
    Does anyone know what the scoop is with Duran and his immigration issues? Hopefully it's not serious, as the twins have dealt with that before with Fernando Romero.
  22. Twodogs
    Especially Gallo, imagine he has a really good season, he will capitalize on that, most likely elsewhere.
  23. Twodogs
    Well yeah, I mean he has 4 losses. However, he didn't really pitch that poorly until his last outing. First start he lost but he only gave up 1 run. Then in his next start he threw well also, went an extra inning as compared to his first start. Then his 3rd start he got the liner off of his leg, and then his last start was terrible. Now he's had some struggles out there but his overall numbers weren't really that bad. So I can see why they gave him a shot
  24. Twodogs
    I think you'd have to go with Ober first Varland second. Only because Ober has more major league experience and has done well. Good problem to have though.
  25. Twodogs
    Yeah, I think Maeda needs to go on the IL, his first start actually looked ok, even his second start wasn't terrible, his 3rd start is when he got hit by the comebacker and today he looked lost. I think he needs to go on the IL, do some rehab, go to AAA and pitch in the rotation. Meanwhile Ober will be with the Twins. If he locks down the spot Maeda is in trouble as he will have to wait until the next injury. But if Ober struggles then give Maeda a shot. But he needs 5 - 6 starts down there, a full month and then decide what to do with him.
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