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  1. jimbo92107
    Strange night... Nunez taking punishment from all directions, but his helmet hasn't fallen off.
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    Records are made to be broken?
  3. jimbo92107
    Nunez: "Would you people stop hitting me!"
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    Have each hitter flip a coin to decide if they're going to swing at the first pitch or not. It'll drive pitchers crazy.
  5. jimbo92107
    I was just thinking about long haired pitchers when I saw Noah Syndergaard pitching. Maybe Alex Meyer should grow really long hair and become a Norse god like Thor!
  6. jimbo92107
    Interesting concept, flopping at 22 years old with under 300 at-bats. Clearly Buxton has important issues to work on. He has not yet programmed himself to be a disciplined hitter, and he still appears to lack the ability to read a pitcher to time his steals. Quite possibly these fundamentals could be imparted to him more quickly in AAA, where failure does not affect the major league club. However, it's also true that Buxton has the tools to be a great ballplayer, including a sweet, powerful swing, blazing speed, a rifle arm and a good glove, getting better. He misread one fly ball a game ago that curved over his head, but otherwise he's been by far the best CF the Twins have had since Carlos Gomez. Buxton needs further coaching on advanced techniques of hitting and stealing bases, but calling him a flop? That conclusion is premature by about five years. If he still can't hit .260 and read a pitcher's move to home at 27 years old, then you can call him a flop, relative to what pundits expected. Even then he's going to be a great fielder for many years, so long as he doesn't crash into too many things.
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    I read an article via reddit a couple days ago about Bartolo Colon's magical resurgence after having stem cell therapy in 2010. Apparently Colon's shoulder was as bad as mine - impingement, arthritis, rotator cuff damage, etc. He could throw a ball no more than 75mph. So a doctor sucked blood from his bone marrow, isolated stem cells, mixed it with belly fat, then injected it into Colon's shoulder. Within months, the tissues regenerated. Since that procedure Colon has won 57 games and is still pitching in the MLB. Maybe Perkins is in line for a stem cell resurgence. Maybe I am, too! Can I get some for my feet?
  8. jimbo92107
    After watching Tonkin today, I'd go with Rogers as much as possible.
  9. jimbo92107
    Okay, then bring up Shaggy. I'm easy! ;-)
  10. jimbo92107
    Send down Park and Buxton, bring up Polanco and Mastroianni. Play Rosario, Kepler, Arcia in OF, Mastro 4th OF, bats first when he starts. Sano to DH. DFA Casey Fien, bring up Graham. Put Jake Reed on the 40, bump him to AAA, next in line for middle relief. 1. Dozier (Mastro when he starts over Kepler) 2. Mauer 3. Escobar 4. Plouffe 5. Arcia RF 6. Sano DH 7. Rosario CF/LF 8. Kepler, LF/CF (platoons with Mastro) 9. Catcher If Perkins doesn't pick up his game soon, he goes to setup man, Jepsen becomes closer. Get ready for Burdi.
  11. jimbo92107
    That's what surprised me - Rosario seems too bright to keep flailing at eye-high sucker pitches. Maybe the worst thing for him was when he actually hit one of those high balls for a home run. Now he thinks he can hit any high ball out. Dumb.
  12. jimbo92107
    Thanks for the great reports, Seth. You know, reading about the Twins farm system is a bit like gazing out upon a freshly planted garden of mixed vegetables. Sure, they are just little sprouts now, but someday, with patience and proper nurturing, they will grow to become big, healthy vegetables, bursting with vitamins. And then we will eat them! Okay, the analogy breaks down a bit towards the end...
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    My real concern is Perkins. Last couple seasons he started strong, then faded fast around the All-Star break. Now his heater is down around 91 to 92mph, and his command doesn't look as sharp. In fact, it looks like Perkins after the All-Star break the last two seasons. If this is the new normal for Perkins, then he's done being a closer.
  14. jimbo92107
    ...and if you combine that with NFL teams that lose their first 6 games, it looks even worse!
  15. jimbo92107
    Kepler's first at-bat was one of the most impressive I've seen for a guy that didn't swing once. He took six pitches without swinging, but that pitcher sure thought Kepler looked like he could swing. Even better, on ball four you could see Kepler laying off. He actually recognized that it was tailing outside soon enough to not swing. Impressive I say, in my deep baritone voice.
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    Just watched Nunez get hit. The only thing that might have saved that bone was that he tried to spin away from the ball. That might have reduced the impact energy just enough to prevent a break. Hoping.
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    One of two things has to happen: Either you fire everybody, or you fire up a doobie and chill. There are no other choices. Except somewhere in between, but still... For a minute there I got all excited. Hey, how about Nolasco pitching pretty good, eh?
  18. jimbo92107
    I just noticed something: This bullpen is bad.
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    - 3 Losses in the bag. ++ Joe Mauer looks a LOT better than last year. Seeing the ball quicker. +++ Danny Santana, ditto. Looks great all around. + Escobar looks solid at the plate and SS. + Buxton looks better at the plate, same in CF. No longer over-matched. + Sano not a complete disaster in RF, in fact looks fairly competent. - Sano's not finding the ball well yet. Starting off swinging flat? - Dozier cold at the plate, but good at 2B. + Plouffe looks okay at plate, solid at 3B. - Rosario almost as cold as Dozier at plate, good in LF. - Park is struggling, but not completely over-matched. - Santana's command was inconsistent. + Gibson looks a little stronger than last year. + Hughes looks a little stronger. - Jepsen looked passive, needs to attack. + May looks good. ++ Ryan Pressley looks really good. + Abad looks pretty good. - Fien looks like his command isn't there.
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    True, May developed closer stuff last year, when we started seeing him hit the four corners with mid-90's fastballs, like Joe Nathan used to do. Plus May has a hard slider that shows middle, then dumps out of the zone. That's all a closer needs.
  21. jimbo92107
    Anybody else notice the similarity of Jake Reed's stuff to Matt Guerrier's? Same kind of sweeping movement, very hard for hitters to follow with their bats. Guerrier had more of a skimming stones sling to his delivery, but I see a lot of the same movement from pitch to pitch. Nothing straight, always bending. If Casey Fein continues to struggle, I wouldn't mind seeing Reed get a cuppa in a month or so.
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    Most encouraging things: 1. Joe Mauer looked like Joe Mauer at the plate, not a ghost of his former self. His at-bat against O'Day was a thing of baseball beauty - a great pitcher against a great hitter. O'Day was nipping the corners, and Mauer was right there with him, not giving an inch. Finally at 3-2 O'Day gave him one that caught too much of the plate, and Mauer laced it to the outfield. Beautiful. 2. Trevor May looks just as good as last year. Bullpen ace. 3. Rosario looks good at the plate. ST was not an illusion. His hit scatter chart must be a nightmare. He hits balls to every point in the park, and some out of the park. 4. Escobar looks like a starting SS. Yay! 5. Sano can catch baseballs in RF. Yay! 6. Plouffe looked solid at the plate. He is a better ballplayer than some realize. Worrisome things: 1. Can Suzuki throw out anybody stealing second? 2. Is Buxton ever going to learn to hit? Ye gods, he's over 22 years old! ;-) 3. Casey Fein doesn't look good. 4. Jepsen looked passive. Needs to attack harder. In conclusion... All this team needs is for Joe Mauer to regain his former glory as a hitter, Sano to bang out 35 to 40 homers, a few good outings by the starters, and Trevor May to contribute 3 or 4 good innings per day. That's all I ask. Oh, and May has to kill Superman. That's all I ask.
  23. jimbo92107
    I'd love it, but I just don't see it. Seth, what exactly is keeping Meyer from being an effective pitcher? What are the coaches saying he's doing wrong mechanically?
  24. jimbo92107
    I'd love to see Van Mill do a side-arm delivery where he strides between home and third base, pivots and throws a sweeping curve. What baseball player would stand in for a pitch coming from that angle? Then I'd like to see him cock his head and throw a straight overhand pitch with a release point about eight feet in the air. He probably doesn't do either of those things, but it'd be cool.
  25. jimbo92107
    One possible scenario is if Byung Ho Park can't adjust to the difference between MLB fastballs and MLB off-speed stuff, he might get sent down to AAA while Kepler comes up. Then Sano could go back to DH with Kepler in RF. I did see Park struggling with curve balls in Saturday's game, the first time he seemed a little overmatched. It's not just a matter of gearing up for hotter fastballs, it's whether you can learn to hold back long enough to hit slower pitches.
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