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  1. jimbo92107
    Imagine how Jose Miranda feels. He missed a couple hits tonight. What's he doing wrong??
  2. jimbo92107
    Brooks Lee made an in-game adjustment after his first line drive was snagged with a leaping grab. After that, he hit line drives a few feet higher.
  3. jimbo92107
    Imagine Jose Miranda going 2 for 5, and thinking there must be something wrong with his approach...
  4. jimbo92107
    Dang, Brooks Lee looks like an All Star third baseman, and he's played in just a handful of games! I will say that Royce Lewis is shaping up into an excellent 3B, but Lee looks like he's already a finished product. The two bunts he fielded in this game, he made both difficult plays look easy. Great anticipation, perfect footwork, strong arm, quick release. And that's not even his preferred position! Twins got themselves a young gem!
  5. jimbo92107
    Walner's back! Cool. Martin's hurt. Crap. Sim looks good. Nice.
  6. jimbo92107
    We're gonna need a bigger chicken for this dinner. Wonder what other ballplayers think of Jose Miranda's streak of hits. They work all their lives to get consistent contact. It's one of the hardest things in all of sports, hitting a ball that's just under three inches in diameter with a bat whose diameter is slightly bigger... Except the ball is travelling between 75 and 103 miles per hour, so you have under half a second to decide whether to swing, and where. Oh, and the spin can be anywhere from 0 to about 3000 RPM. Meaning that it can curve a couple feet before you make contact. Oh, and it can be anywhere inside a rectangle about the size of a kitchen trash can. Oh, and sometimes they throw the ball right at you. They actually did hit Miranda with a pitch, and he still got a couple more hits. They finally got him out on a routine fly ball, which means he hit the last one pretty well, too. What Miranda did was far more rare than bowling a 300 game, or pitching a no-hitter. There's no way he can do something like that again. Is there?
  7. jimbo92107
    Depends what you mean by "unlucky," at least for that category. To me, unlucky means unable to hit for a reason a player isn't responsible for, which means injuries. The most unlucky Twins hitters on the team today are Byron Buxton (multiple injury seasons), Alex Kirilloff (bad wrist, bad back), Royce Lewis (multiple extended injuries), and I suppose Austin Martin, a high first rounder that had one bad stroke of luck after another, until this season, fingers crossed. Can't really use the injury = bad luck definition for pitchers, because simply throwing a baseball really hard a lot of times is inherently hazardous for elbows, shoulders, fingers, legs, etc. Even standing on the mound is dangerous, with 100+ mph baseballs bulleting right at your head. I am sooo glad I had zero talent as a pitcher as a kid...
  8. jimbo92107
    Suddenly the Twins lineup seems loaded with hitters. Wha happen? Gotta figure it was all about those early-season oscillations, where some guys are red hot and others are ice cold. On paper, the Twins are now chock full of guys that got here based on their skill with a bat. Some of them then worked their butts off to be acceptable fielders. See Miranda, Julien, Kepler, Jeffers. Others are high 1st round picks that are assumed to be great fielders. See Lewis, Lee, Buxton, Correa. The team also is lucky to have some excellent "glue" players like Castro, Santana, and...Larnach? Not sure where Larnach fits, but he came up for his bat, and he's always been a solid OF. Anyway, it should not be terribly surprising that a team leaning heavily on acquiring bat-first guys should get hot with their bats. Also nice to hear Royce Lewis saying his groin injury doesn't feel that bad. Maybe he'll be back in a week or three. No rush, Royce. Brooks Lee can use a decent tryout at third. Good problems to have. Now, if somebody could teach Festa to throw a cutter...
  9. jimbo92107
    Okay, I'm calling it. Game over. Sorry Miranda's last hit won't count. Continue hot streak later. Does popcorn chicken count as dinner, fireworks, or both? Hey, Provus just said Miranda's hit does count. Kewl!
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. jimbo92107
    Dang, Lee makes hitting look kinda easy.... He's gonna get tons of RBI's.
  13. 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.
  14. jimbo92107
    Lee's first hit did not look like a fluke. He's got a good eye and a good swing.
  15. jimbo92107
    Festa needs to make that heater move a lot more. Hey, Vasquez came to play. Nice bang.
  16. 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.
  17. jimbo92107
    Ironically, if Miranda holds the ball, Seattle probably doesn't score. But where's the fun in that?
  18. jimbo92107
    I like the way the ball explodes from his hand. Mechanical efficiency.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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