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  1. jimbo92107
    How odd. Duffey has discovered a new pitching strategy. Throw it all over the place with unstable mechanics for 4 innings, then find your regular stuff around the 5th inning.
  2. jimbo92107
    It's like there's a rubber band about to snap. How long can Duffey keep up the shutout?
  3. jimbo92107
    Ha! The catcher thought it was three outs! This game be dragon, baby.
  4. jimbo92107
    I wanna see Kep mash one.
  5. jimbo92107
    Remember when Aaron Hicks was doing the French Mistake? Funny as hell.
  6. jimbo92107
    Tyler Duffey forges ahead with his shutout!!
  7. jimbo92107
    I don't know as I've ever seen a pitcher tinkering so much with his mechanics during a ballgame. Now Duffey is falling off towards first base like Nolasco. WTF?
  8. jimbo92107
    "Mongo straight" is from Blazing Saddles.
  9. jimbo92107
    Unbelievable. Texas is really snake bit if they can't score when Duffey's throwing the ball this badly. Maybe their problem is they don't have any more idea where the next pitch is going than Duffey does. Weird.
  10. jimbo92107
    Suzuki did a little sand surfing to field that ball in the dirt. He does field those bouncers pretty well.
  11. jimbo92107
    Duffey is stooping over at the set. He needs to stand up straight so his release point is higher and he gets better tilt on his stuff. When he stoops over, his benders flatten out and his fastball sails.
  12. jimbo92107
    Duffey got out of that first inning on pure luck. He better straighten up and step across the line a little, or these Texas hitters will kill him.
  13. jimbo92107
    It looks like Michael Tonkin is gradually developing into a dominant relief pitcher at the mlb level. In AAA he was dominating merely by whipping his 96 mph heater and his wipe-out slider past inferior hitters, not having to worry much about making mistakes placing his heater. At the mlb level he faces hitters that can square up and pound almost anything that gets too close to the middle. This means Tonkin has had to develop finer command, which requires more precise mechanics. He can't fly open too soon and let his heater level out or sail anymore. MLB hitters also know how to work the count and get a non-precise pitcher into bad counts. Earlier in the season I too thought Tonkin wasn't going to make it, but now he has changed my mind. Around the time he took a line drive to his thigh and kept going, I thought I saw from him a new level of determination. Before, he seemed to have an aw-shucks, Mayberry look on his face. Now he looks like all business out there. I'm glad Molitor has shown patience with him; it might just pay off.
  14. jimbo92107
    Mauer is swinging the bat like his concussion symptoms are back. Either that, or his back hurts. He's got no pop in his swing anymore.
  15. jimbo92107
    They should know by now that they're super lucky if Nolasco can finish six innings. He doesn't have the stuff or the stamina to go past that. Molitor should know his pitchers by now.
  16. jimbo92107
    Man, if Taylor Rogers is gonna throw fastballs down the middle, he'd better get his glove ready on the follow through. That one could have taken his head off.
  17. jimbo92107
    Seems to me that Suzuki's new Axebat is actually helping him hit more flat line drives. What do you guys think? To me it looks like his wrist flip has gotten much tighter, almost reminding me of Kenny Landreaux.
  18. jimbo92107
    Fun Fact: The combined mass of the Twins' two corner infielders is well over 500 pounds, which is enough to cause a slight curvature of the earth, just enough to affect the roll of a bunt down the line by approximately two inches. Hitters must adjust for this by aiming their bunts well within the lines.
  19. jimbo92107
    There's only one way to get over these bunting problems. Paul Molitor has to go crazy. Everybody bunts on every at-bat, until they get it right... OR NO SUPPER! Well, that's what I'd do, anyway.
  20. jimbo92107
    Buxton is back to where we hoped he'd be at the beginning of this season, after finishing fairly strong last year. Rosario appears to have gotten his swing back, and maybe a little better zone discipline. Kepler looks like a freakin' all star with a beautiful, clean lefty swing. Grossman should drag Rosario into the film room to show him how to prep for pitchers. All of them are young with room to improve. All of them look like they will. Meanwhile, I've got nothing against Kevin Jepsen except his performance on the field, which mostly sucked. He throws a flat fastball that drifts over the middle too much. For half a season last year he was picking corners, but this season we saw why his previous team let him go for a AA control pitcher. To be successful in the majors you've got to have mechanics that are repeatable enough to allow reliable control. Cole Hamels is a perfect example of that. His mechanics are as repeatable as one of those dippy bird toys: That's Cole Hamels. It sure ain't Kevin Jepsen.
  21. jimbo92107
    Another good topic: How exactly do you jinx the worst team in baseball? It's not like I can cite how healthy they've been all year, or how their pitchers are doing unexpectedly well, or anybody's hitting out of their mind... Like most people here, I'd just love it if the Twins had a long streak of good luck. Since the season is already toast, any jinxes would have to be considered entirely redundant. All the hexes and voodoo that fans of other teams cast upon the Twins have apparently worked much better than our own chicken bones and magic wands from Toys Are Us. Maybe squirt guns and water balloons will work better... ;-)
  22. jimbo92107
    Speaking of squaring up that lead hip: Cole Hammels, y'all. There's a guy that squares up his hip just about perfectly. Downward Plane Airlines. Always hitting the ground, sometimes a bit too soon.
  23. jimbo92107
    Even Kevin Jepsen can't blow a 12-run lead... I think.
  24. jimbo92107
    You might wonder why teams don't have more guys come out throwing in the low 70's and 60's. That's because it would take one batting practice for hitters to start slamming every pitch over the fence. Look how hard it is for these guys to wait for those slow balls. I'm just glad Nunez didn't pull a back muscle.
  25. jimbo92107
    This does suggest an interesting topic: If Duffey keeps the ball in the park by not flying open, isn't the same thing true for a guy like Michael Tonkin? The bomb he just allowed came from a pipelined fastball that was flat as a pancake. Tonkin does sling the ball with a big old arm whip, which generates lots of velocity, but he too needs to keep the lead hip closed to avoid a disastrous flat trajectory. I see now that he's doing just that - keeping the lead hip closed a bit longer. Much better, tho a bit late. Now the ball is going downhill.
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