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  1. jimbo92107
    Oh, I agree completely. Perkins may well look completely healthy next spring. However, if he's the everyday closer next season, he will break down before the All Star game, and then it'll be just like this again - limping through the rest of the season either hurt or ineffective. That's why the Twins must platoon him with Jepsen and get the heir apparent ready to step in, which I think will be Nick Burdi. Could be that Jepsen can take over as closer, but I assume he will need a break, too.
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    This is stupid. Jepsen should not have done that. If you just pulled a groin, you should NOT throw another pitch. Brave, but stupid.
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    Twins must have a plan for phasing out Perkins as closer. He can't pitch that much anymore. That back isn't ever going to fully recover, and it will always tend to get re-injured. First rule of bad backs. Platooning with Jepsen could be the answer, at least for next season. Start working in Nick Burdi when the kid's ready...
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    I do hope the Twins keep Kevin Jepsen. He's pretty good. Blew that catch, but usually good.
  5. jimbo92107
    The mighty Sano... struck out.
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    I can't blame Molitor for using Perkins. Perk was the best arm in the pen before the two cortisone shots. Now, he just doesn't have snap on his pitches. He had a good run of several healthy years as a dominant closer. That run is now over. Bad timing, but that's mortality for you.
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    Just not enough reliable guys in the pen. Perk's reliable when he's healthy, but he's not. Too bad.
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    Okay, at least Molitor is pulling Perkins before a complete avalanche. One point for seeing it wasn't getting any better.
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    Amazing fact: Both these teams are tied after 5 1/2 innings. Both teams have a shortstop named Escobar, and yet their SS bats first, and ours bats 9th! Coincidence?
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    If you were going to get really creative, you could have hard-throwing guys from all over the Twins minor league system work on throwing low fastballs to Buxton. Good practice for everybody. Then see if Buxton can check his swing on selected pitches, to work on recognition. The fact that some hitters can do this indicates that there are cues to look for in every pitcher's delivery that tip off the pitch before it's too late to check. You're not going to see much hotter heat than Jake Reed, Nick Burdi, Alex Meyer, etc. Twins have several serious flame throwers that could feed fastballs all day to Buxton. Byron could even tell them when they're tipping their pitches. Both sides get sharper. Unfortunately, that's not how these teams appear to operate.
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    Ultimately it comes down to feeling like you can hit whatever a pitcher throws anywhere near the plate. Right now Byron Buxton whiffs way too much. I don't see any way around that problem other than many more thousands of reps in the cage, honing his pitch recognition, timing and mechanics. In games, the very first thing I'd do is work him on mashing first-pitch fastballs. Make it a little harder for pitchers to assume he's just going to stand there and watch the first heater go by. Thing is, Buxton still has to get better at barreling up the heaters in a wider zone, not just right down the middle. Pitchers have to fear throwing a first-pitch heater, or they'll just keep doing it because it's the easiest pitch to command. If Buxton can lay off the spinning stuff on that first pitch, it puts pressure on the pitcher to command a more difficult pitch on the first offering, which starts to get him more favorable counts. Of course, then Buxton has to be better at hitting off-speed stuff, so... Back to the batting cage.
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    Most frustrating for me was that Pelfrey's MO for a bad start is very clear. If his stuff isn't bending enough, they start hitting hard line drives right away. That's the rumble before the avalanche, but Molitor didn't seem to notice, or chose to ignore the rumble. Several Twins pitchers are subject to this form of collapse, but all of them stem from the same thing - lack of command. Pelfrey's craptavalanche comes from a lack of command, insufficient movement on his heater as he tries to bend it right and left, plus elevating it, plus pipelining it down the middle. This makes for a particularly explosive craptavalanche. Thing is, a good manager is supposed to have a weather eye for such things. We here saw it coming several batters before the big, stinky craptavalanche hit the scoreboard. Even after it hit, whom did Molitor bring in? JR Graham, perhaps the second most prone to a craptavalanche. Graham has the proverbial "electric stuff," but his command appears to vary inversely with the importance of the outing. You don't bring in JR Graham to stop a craptavalanche. Frankly, the Twins don't have a craptavalanche stopper in the pen. For that you need either an ace strikeout guy or a reliable sinker baller. A healthy Glenn Perkins could do it. But to prevent one, you have to yank Pelfrey early and have somebody like Trevor May ready to go. Then be ready to yank him early, and so on. No long leashes in this situation.
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    This is one of those seasons where individual awards seem particularly silly, almost like Torii Hunter's whimsical dance awards. So many different guys have contributed in various ways and at various times, any one of them decided games that could have eliminated the Twins from the late-season contention we're enjoying right now. That said, I like Eddie Rosario for team rookie of the year because he has provided such a steady, high level of competitiveness since the first day he stepped on the field. I see multiple All-Star games in his future. For MVP, I go with Torii Hunter for bringing together a team of such volatility and forming one positive spirit. For pitcher of the year I go with Kyle Gibson. He's been the closest thing to a rock of stability in an ever-changing starting rotation. He's an innings-eating horse, a great fielder, and he's developing into a consistent threat to shut down opponents for 7 innings or more.
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    Angular parallax! By moving to the left side of the pitching rubber, Ervin Santana minimized the hitter's perception of each pitch's visual sweep from Santana's right to his left. His release point is more centered, thus making it harder to perceive the trajectory of the ball relative to the plate, which makes it harder to judge speed and distance. With reduced visual cues, hitters are more easily fooled, as each pitch appears headed down the middle for a longer time. Who knew Neil Allen had such a solid grasp of astronomy? He made Ervin Santana into a star! ;-)
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    Based on the hints, I'd guess Dozier's got a strained oblique, which will heal up just fine with a couple weeks off and some hot showers. Right after the season ends, or after they're out of the hunt. This is another reason the Twins need to find a utility infielder to replace Eduardo Escobar, who should have the SS job locked up for next season. Jorge Polanco could step in for that role in 2016, along with Danny Santana. 162 games is too long for most players to operate at their top level. You've got to rotate guys for a little recovery time. The good news is, it looks like the Twins could have a lot of positional versatility in 2016. Polanco and Santana in the infield, Kepler in the outfield. I suppose Nunez and Santana will compete for the super utility role.
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    At this point it would be better for Perkins if the Twins fell out of the race. His core is messed up. He needs some months of healing and rehab before he will get back his command. Even then, he's going to have to pitch fewer innings going forward. In 2016 platoon him with Jepsen, bring up Burdi, etc.
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    We spank the butt of Death with the angry newspaper of our defiance! Ha! I say. Ha! Feel that defiance? Want another? Ha!
  18. jimbo92107
    Damn, I step out for 20 minutes to get some Chinese food, and now everything has fallen apart. Good food tho. Fried rice, spicy chicken and orange chicken. Yum.
  19. jimbo92107
    Oh great Lord Cortisone, grant Glenn Perkins one good at-bat in this, our moment of slight concern...
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    Good pitch by Boyer. Wipe that ball off quick, Suzuki... ;-)
  21. jimbo92107
    Five innings of one-run ball. Good outing for Pelfrey. That's what he's got, and he gave it.
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    Now THAT's the kind of omen I like. All Rosie did was knock in three runs with his 15th triple, then steal home on an infield pop-up. See why I compare this guy to Bryce Harper? He loves the moment. His baseball IQ is a game-changer. He finds a way to put more pressure on the other team. Eddie is a real player.
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    I suppose Eddie Rosario could do some things better, but I'm pretty happy with what he's doing so far.
  24. jimbo92107
    Pelfrey's pitching great, like the first half version. What happened??
  25. jimbo92107
    I had one of those once. Hard to find parking.
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