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  1. jimbo92107
    On the bright side, Brooks Lee looked like he's been a major league ballplayer all his life... which, in a way, he has.
  2. jimbo92107
    Well, at least we got https://fmhy.pages.dev to see Brooks Lee's first hit, and his first RBI. Kid sure looks like a ballplayer. I'd call him a natural, but he's basically had pro coaching since he could crawl. He even got his first grounder! As for Festa...eh. Gotta get more command, or pros will eat you.
  3. jimbo92107
    Dang, Lee makes hitting look kinda easy.... He's gonna get tons of RBI's.
  4. jimbo92107
    Festa's gotta learn to cut his fastball left and right. His secondaries aren't good enough to get by without a third weapon.
  5. jimbo92107
    Lee's first hit did not look like a fluke. He's got a good eye and a good swing.
  6. jimbo92107
    Festa needs to make that heater move a lot more. Hey, Vasquez came to play. Nice bang.
  7. jimbo92107
    First hug from Wallner. You'll be up pretty soon too, bud. Congrats to Brooks Lee. You'll like Minneapolis. Dirt's a little cleaner on the west side of the river. Skol, young man.
  8. jimbo92107
    Ironically, if Miranda holds the ball, Seattle probably doesn't score. But where's the fun in that?
  9. jimbo92107
    I like the way the ball explodes from his hand. Mechanical efficiency.
  10. jimbo92107
    Festa looked good until Arizona realized that his heater doesn't bend a bit. When they started sitting on the heater, Festa suffered. He absolutely MUST figure out how to get his fastball to bend. Learn a cutter. Don't throw the four seamer. I'm sure it works perfectly as a shortstop throw, but 96 mph with no movement will get pounded by major league hitters. The only alternative is to learn to spot the heater in the four corners, like Joe Nathan. That is very difficult.
  11. jimbo92107
    One suggestion for Festa: On your fastball, follow through with your throwing wrist into your left armpit, slapping yourself on the left scapula. That will make the ball cut left. An arrow-straight 96 mph heater will get tattooed. Make it cut, like Rivera.
  12. jimbo92107
    First, CONGRATULATIONS to David Festa. It's a long, hard road for most guys to the majors, and to make it to The Show as a starting pitcher has to be one of the most difficult challenges other than becoming a starting NFL quarterback (by which I mean a successful QB). I hope Festa manages to get his family to his first game, and I hope they get to see his first strikeout before his first home run allowed. Second, I like Festa's delivery. He looks like a bit of a scarecrow, with lots of feet, knees and elbows, adding up to a bit of apparent confusion. I'm guessing he's not very easy to read. Solid tactical foundation with a good slider to righties and a good changeup to lefties. Decent heater with serious dive and a high release point. Anybody else getting a workhorse vibe from this guy? Nothing about his style looks fluky. Here's hoping he hits his spots and trusts his catcher to call a good game.
  13. jimbo92107
    Unless Marco Raya has a history of arm trouble ("good mechanics" sounds just the opposite), then why not raise his pitch count? If his arm starts to fail, then back off and consider his role as a reliever. This doesn't seem like a difficult choice.
  14. jimbo92107
    I wondered why the Twins drafted Sabato and Cavaco. Still wondering. Both guys seemed like mid to late rounders to me. I also wonder why the Twins continue to draft pitchers that are coming off arm surgeries. Very seldom does that result in a solid starter, much less a front rotation guy.
  15. jimbo92107
    Problem is, Wallner's most natural position is right field, where Max Kepler continues to execute flawless fielding, along with some revived hitting so far this season. They can platoon Wallner with Martin in left field, but the real transition comes after one of the team's most solid players goes somewhere else. Wallner probably will develop into a good right fielder. He's got a serious gun for an arm, and I'm sure he's smart enough to learn the nuances of that corner, and the overhanging wall. Even so, can he be as reliable as Kepler has been? That's a tough ask.
  16. jimbo92107
    Problem is, we've seen this movie before with Kirilloff. I'm sure he's like a lot of young pro ballplayers in that he's justifiably terrified of being one of those guys that's always got something wrong with him that stops him from realizing his talent. This is like a pitcher that can't throw without developing a blister on his middle finger, or an infielder with chronic planar fasciitis. These things can end a career before it really gets going. Sadly, we may be watching it happen to another great Twins prospect.
  17. jimbo92107
    Wouldn't surprise me a bit if Kirilloff was hiding a recurrence of his wrist issue. Such a bummer that he can't swing the bat with the sudden explosion that made him a top hitting prospect, but what can the team do if he's just not performing?
  18. jimbo92107
    There doesn't seem to be a limit to the semi-nonsensical diagnoses that give excuses to rest a player. "Arm fatigue" is as vague as anything. Isn't that used fairly often?
  19. jimbo92107
    Watching a few of Jax's devastating sliders, I wonder if the Twins should think about stretching him out. He's got a very good heater, and I think a change. Is that enough?
  20. jimbo92107
    When Bailey Ober is on his game, he really does dominate. He gets into a rhythm where it looks easy, like he's just flipping the ball up there, but it's buzzing around the strike zone. That long-armed heater measures 92, but he's letting it go at the edge of the mound, which makes it look like it's upper 90's. Since he came up through the Twins system, I had the popular skepticism that something would go wrong. It did, a little, but now he just looks like a big, strong, reliable starter. A good lesson for all of us. Despite all that can go wrong, sometimes things can go right. Good for you, Mister Ober. Please, continue.
  21. jimbo92107
    Sim is a good prospect, but more important, he appears to be holding his own as a starter. As the 5th guy, we're not supposed to expect him to dominate, and he's not. However, he's clearly a fighter, and when he makes the pitches his catcher calls for, his stuff is competitive. Also, he doesn't appear to run out of gas after a few innings, which is nice. As for Festa and Raya, what can we say? Does it even matter if their stuff looks more "electric" than SWR's? Heck, after Ryan came along, I thought Falvey and Levine had come up with an endless crop of late-round hurlers. I thought Sands looked great. I thought Winder looked great. Both guys were bringing mid-90's heat at the knees. I thought Dobnak was going to dominate - and he did, until his finger betrayed him. Point is, so many guys look great, until they face their first few starts in the show. Then, if anything can go wrong, it will. Frankly, it's a little strange if nothing goes wrong. SWR is becoming a strange example. His big heater isn't really there, yet so far, he is surviving. Keep being the exception, Sim. Keep surviving.
  22. jimbo92107
    A couple years ago (before they traded Garver), I predicted that Ryan Jeffers would be a starting catcher for the Twins for the next decade. Got one! Of course, I also predicted a lot of other things that didn't come true. The only way to beat my Jeffers call is... I predict a lot of Twins pitching prospects and veteran free agent pitchers will have arm trouble. There, now I can get my psychic average above 50 percent. Throwing a baseball as hard as you can, over and over, with spin, is bloody dangerous. Doesn't even matter if you can aim it.
  23. jimbo92107
    There's nothing wrong with Kepler scoring from third base on that play. First, he's a professional ballplayer, so he is expected to keep competing if at all possible, which it was. Second, he's a ballplayer, not a doctor, so there was nothing he could do for the injured player. Third, pro baseball does not offer time-outs in the middle of a play. Once Kepler scored, the play was over, so the ump called time out. Technically, nobody other than another fielder is allowed on the field during a live play. Time-outs during play are allowed in some sports, like soccer and hockey, but not in American football or major league baseball. Even in something like tennis, the point ends before a trainer runs onto the court. If I saw an opponent go down, I would not hit the next shot, but that's because it was not that important. I was not a professional. Interestingly, Juliene could have dashed to second base immediately after his slide, but he did not. Might have made it, too...
  24. jimbo92107
    Whoa, Thielbar brings the 93 high cheese to snuff the inning! Love those slow curves...
  25. jimbo92107
    I get the feeling that 3 runs won't win this game...
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