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  1. jimbo92107
    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.
  4. jimbo92107
    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.
  5. jimbo92107
    They sent Martin down? Unwise! Martin has been a sparkplug for this offense. Better to send down a pitcher.
  6. 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!
  7. 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.
  8. jimbo92107
    "...but also Farmer, who decked the outfielder..." Wow, Farmer must have reeeeally long arms! Deked?
  9. 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?
  10. 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.
  11. jimbo92107
    I don't see why this is "weird." Every pitcher finds his own way to adapt. Weird would be if he was throwing the ball behind his back. Sands has found a way to get guys out with a unique set of pitches. Heck the Twins have a guy in the minors that throws a knuckler - but not as his main pitch. Now that's odd, but still not weird. Let's hope Sands keeps on finding new wrinkles. It's always good to have a variety of approaches...if they work.
  12. jimbo92107
    My brother told me a guy he knows said, "Twins aren't that bad. They just need some better pitchers and hitters." Not sure how to reply to that...
  13. jimbo92107
    The Twins have drafted so many guys that were sooo talented as hitters, yet somehow the vast majority of them floundered and fizzled against the upper ranges of pitching, both AAA and MLB. I just can't relate to so much failure at the plate. When I was playing, hitting was easy. I mashed line drives all the time. I remember being a good hitter all the way from 3rd to 5th grade. If I hadn't broken my thumb, I might have played pretty good junior high ball. I even hit a home run once, in summer league, with a magnesium bat. Wow, did that thing go like a rocket. They told me it rolled under the 3rd base bench in the next field. A kid picked it up, then threw it to the left fielder, who turned and fired it to their shortstop, who turned and fired it home. I beat the throw by about two steps. Moral: Don't ever jog around the bases.
  14. jimbo92107
    Yeah, not too many 4-seamers work well right down the middle. Most major leaguers can hammer a cookie tossed right down Broadway. Varland needs to work mostly along the bottom of the zone with that cheese. Maybe torch the top on 3 and 2, and maybe sometimes bust some knuckles, but otherwise, down. Almost never, ever in the middle.
  15. jimbo92107
    Byron Buxton puts butts in the seats because he does things other humans cannot do. You can't ask him to stop making superstar plays while he still has the youth and the body to make us cheer like it's Fourth of July. There will come a time when Buxton can no longer do these things. Until then, let us celebrate his glorious youth, as we all should. What a ballplayer!
  16. jimbo92107
    Congrats to Martin, first MLB hit! A hustle double!
  17. jimbo92107
    Time to open a hospital across the street from Target Field. 'TJ's R Us.' After the season, everybody cues up for an elbow operation, so they can all start the next season with a fresh tendon. We do labrums, too, and rotator cuffs. MCL's, ACL's, knee replacements, hip replacements, cartilage tears, etc, all done with Kevlar stitches, titanium and super glue. Skol!
  18. jimbo92107
    First time I saw Brett Headrick last season, I thought he looked like a major starter prospect. The game didn't seem to be very hard for him. Striking out the side was like making a sandwich. Since then, I have sometimes wondered what happened to that guy. Apparently the game was a lot harder than he first made it look.
  19. jimbo92107
    Heads, you swing at the first pitch; tails, you hold up. Either way, you shift your weight and bring your hands forward as if you're going to swing. During the at bat: Heads, you swing flat; tails, uppercut. Either way, your stance stays the same, until after the pitcher's in his motion. Flipping a coin is a great way to stop the opposition from guessing what your hitters are going to do. They can't know, because you don't know either. Batters still won't swing at pitches far from the zone, and there's still the pitcher's cat and mouse how how he throws. However, randomizing some elements of hitter behavior takes away some of the opposition's planning. If the league thinks the Twins are swinging flat for average, they'll throw a lot of sinkers. If they think the Twins are swinging for the fences, watch for a lot of high fastballs. If there is no pattern... As a manager, you could announce that the team is experimenting with randomized swing patterns. Even make a show of flipping coins in the dugout. Even if you're not doing it, maybe it'll mess with a few heads out there.
  20. jimbo92107
    I wonder if the launch angle problem is linked to pitchers throwing stuff that usually breaks downward. If Batter A swings to hit flat, then pitches that duck down late will be topped, turning into a lot of ground ball outs. Conversely, if Batter B swings intentionally from low to high, then a certain percentage of those ducking pitches will either be driven to the fences or over the fence. Some of those pitches will still be ground balls, but fewer than Batter A. Right now the Twins are topping too many balls. Maybe it's all part of the cat and mouse game. If a pitcher comes in throwing a lot of sinking stuff, manager should tell his guys to switch to an uppercut swing. Good hitters should be able to do either kind of swing, right?
  21. jimbo92107
    Wait...I have a colonoscopy scheduled for this week. Should I stop throwing?
  22. jimbo92107
    Nick Burdi has really been through the grinder. Two TJ's and an appendectomy! Whew! Well, at least he won't have to go through another appendectomy! Yo Nick, maybe in the off season, get your tonsils out..!
  23. jimbo92107
    "Battling through elbow soreness." I believe that's another way of saying, "I'm going to throw some really hard sliders, to make damn sure I need TJ surgery."
  24. jimbo92107
    Eddie Julien reminds me of Cory Koske for a couple reasons. Both guys arrived as good hitters, raw fielders. Julien today is much improved as a fielder, after working his butt off on it last year. With one more year of working his butt off, he might become a very good 2nd baseman, just as Koske made himself into a good 3rd baseman. In fact, both those guys remind me of one other Canadian that arrived with a good bat, raw glove. He became a darn good 1st baseman. It has happened twice before. I'm not gonna bet it won't happen again. Work your butt off, Eddie.
  25. jimbo92107
    Actually, this should be the start of a long string of draft picks that have a good chance to contribute in the Valvine and Flannel era. Festa is another guy in the mold that the FO selected for the physical characteristics they project to be successful. Clearly they are big, strong guys that have at least one dominant pitch, but also get guys out. However, the formula must be a bit more complicated. Varland, Sands and Winder all fit the model. Ober fits, tho he's a bit taller than average. And so on. Point is, there enough of them in the pipeline now to make it unnecessary to look outside the organization for average to good veteran pitchers.
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