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  1. 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?
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    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?
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    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?
  4. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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...
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    Whoa, Thielbar brings the 93 high cheese to snuff the inning! Love those slow curves...
  9. jimbo92107
    I get the feeling that 3 runs won't win this game...
  10. jimbo92107
    Some good makeup pitching by Paddack. Nice curve to end the inning.
  11. jimbo92107
    I will say that Eddie Juliene has greatly improved his fielding. He's rounding into a very good ballplayer.
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    My hope for Alcala is that he needs to get his clunker out of the way before he settles down and starts to pitch. Twins have been amazingly patient with the guy...there has to be a reason. Show us that reason, Jose.
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    Great start by WoodRick, good article. Pretty impressive pitcher's dual with a Cy Young candidate. I bet SWR was feeling pretty good when he hit the bench. As for the struggles of Julien and Killer...isn't that fairly common when facing a Cy Young candidate?
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    I didn't watch the whole game today, but I saw enough to know one thing: You can't blame this one on the sausage. Its contributions to the win-streak have been nothing, if not consistent. A pet rock could do no better. As we all know, winning baseball is all about applying pressure, with pitching, hitting, and fielding. I used to add baserunning, but...meh... Boston traditionally is good at applying pressure, and today they did a better job of it than did our guys. Can't blame that on the sausage.
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    UCL surgery for Prielipp "Shoulder injury" for Canterino 60-day IL for Cory Lewis. Damn. Pitching is dangerous.
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    Q: Does a bear do business in the woods? A: Never ask a bear about its business. Score at least 6 runs per game, you'll be a winning team, even with mediocre pitching and fielding. Score less than that, you'll need a little something extra from the other two areas. Today, the Twins got a lot extra from Chris Paddack, and a little extra from Carlos Correa, after an initial blunder. It was enough. Wave a sausage, eat a chicken. Food for the soul.
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    Hands thrusting forward, bat head lagging behind and BELOW the hands... I like his 2024 swing. It will allow him to drive and lift balls on both sides of the plate, and if he can pounce on high fastballs with that swing, Jose Miranda is going to have a wonderful year.
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    "Sausage streak." Must we? A caution: The word "sausage" is loaded with potential witticisms, but few of them are fit for human consumption. The intellectual level of wordplay varies so drastically around here... Should we applaud for well-crafted mud, or reserve our plaudits for only the most sublime? What am I saying? This is a baseball fan site. Have at it, naughty brethren! 'Tis but a sausage, after all. Have a whack at it! Our most cutting jibes will never make it droop. Years hence may we reminisce on this meat product, and wax philosophic. Dear sausage (or was it beef?) I remember it, Horatio! A well-wrapped tube of dubious content, yet it inspired a troop of men to rally from the depths of a long losing streak, to an even longer winning streak. But was it really the sausage, my friend? Nay, of course not. Not a horse joke. Our destiny lies not in a sausage, but in hands of our trainers, coaches, and nutritionists. We salute not to you, but with you, old tube of meat. Surely it is in the swinging that this brave team has progressed. It was no sausage drove in those runs. It was a man who was ready to hit. The readiness is pretty good.
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    Just for fun, I copied a grammatically imperfect sentence from this article, then told ChatGPT to correct the grammar. Me correct the grammar in the following: The talented center fielder popped up weekly to the infield on a 1-1 pitch, and it’s been his struggles at the plate that have kept him out of the lineup on a daily basis more than anything. ChatGPT The corrected sentence is: "The talented center fielder popped up weakly to the infield on a 1-1 pitch, and it's been his struggles at the plate that have kept him out of the lineup on a daily basis more than anything." Impressive! The AI spotted "weekly" and changed it to "weakly," based most likely on many thousands of example sentences. My point? Not much, really. AI's are getting better at detecting things, but they still don't really understand what they're doing. I suppose that's why RoboUmp can call balls and strikes, but we should still have a human ump for more subtle things.
  20. jimbo92107
    They sent Martin down? Unwise! Martin has been a sparkplug for this offense. Better to send down a pitcher.
  21. jimbo92107
    I can hardly wait for the Twins to win the division with 100 games, and the RBI Sausage to be turning interesting shades of green and blue!
  22. jimbo92107
    Obviously the Twins followed the advice of those that said "Good teams score six or more runs per game." Better hitting makes the pitching look pretty good.
  23. jimbo92107
    "...but also Farmer, who decked the outfielder..." Wow, Farmer must have reeeeally long arms! Deked?
  24. jimbo92107
    It's simply average runs per game. Good teams score what, 6 or more runs per game, on average? Twins appear to be more like 2 to 3 runs per game. Fire the hitting coach, encourage more base stealing. If you're going to lose, at least make it more interesting. Is Martin leading off? He should be. Twins don't have a big bopper home run hitter these days. Anybody available?
  25. jimbo92107
    "It is by no means good news that Lee has been diagnosed with a disc herniation but, as the research shows, it also shouldn't be a cause for panic." I think I'll panic anyway. It is the end of the world as we know it! Whew, that felt good.
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