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  1. LeatherAntenna
    Kepler, without a doubt has blossomed into something special. I see next year another jump into elite MLB company.
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    Technically eight homeruns up? They are averaging 1.95 per game, so isn’t that just under four games up?
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    good thought that if the Twins enter a “we can take it easy” mode and rest people, but my guess the guys when they get in will be swinging “bombs away.”
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    Should happen easily, the lowest monthly total this year is 49.
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    well, I guess a tired arm perhaps.
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    Could Berrios be hurt? Just wild conjecture but what else would explain the velocity drop?
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    And the next record, 4, 5 or possibly 6 with 30 HRs. There are six who could do it but Cron is obviously the longest shot. But the way Cron is hitting ....
  8. LeatherAntenna
    . 2018: Home runs are dramatically up in MLB this season and that means some home run history will inevitably be made. The Dodgers fulfilled that idea Wednesday, entering the history books with a booming homer from Matt Kemp in the second inning of their game against the Rockies. Kemp’s solo shot bumped his season total up to 20 and gave the Dodgers their seventh 20-homer hitter on the season, tying an MLB record for most 20-homer hitters on a team in a single season. The Los Angeles group now includes Kemp, Cody Bellinger, Yasmani Grandal, Enrique Hernandez, Max Muncy, Joc Pederson and Yasiel Puig. The Dodgers came close to such a mark last year with six players reaching the milestone, and they managed to hit seven this year without three of the hitters from last year (Corey Seager, Chris Taylor and Justin Turner). Moderator edit: This passage comes from the following Yahoo Sports link. Please don't lift quotations verbatim without attribution. https://sports.yahoo.com/dodgers-bash-way-mlb-history-record-seven-20-homer-hitters-051853742.html
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    . Last Year the Dodgers tied the MLB mark then with seven.
  10. LeatherAntenna
    Love this thread, thank you! Imagine that you were itching to get it out. Seven days ago I thought it impossible the Twins set the record in August.
  11. LeatherAntenna
    True Championship contenders? I like your optimism but that is one heck of a leap for a team that has mostly been playing sub 500 ball for a long long time.
  12. LeatherAntenna
    By my California math as Bert would say, if in 2009 Mauer has just 1 more hit every two weeks that season he bats .400+ for the season.
  13. LeatherAntenna
    Count me as change of heart guy. I’ve always been suspicious of that 29 home run year followed by the big contract and then the lack of power that followed. Not anymore. It started this year as I for some reason isolated him more watching games. It hit me that the way he carried himself this year and perhaps thinking it could be his last year while playing on a struggling team was done in a very very professional way. In September I started to read anything about him I could find. Some stories from this web site reminded me that i’d Forgotten how special his 09 season was. Especially batting over .400 the one month, and very near .400 another month. He really wasn’t more than 2 hits more a week batting .400 for the year. His drop in power after signing the big contract may have been the toils of catching all the years and then concussions on top of everything. I now believe had injury not started to derail his seasons that perhaps some other bigger HR years would have occurred. It doesn’t matter now about HRs. If the double was his last big league hit, the hit was a textbook bookend to a solid career. Did he only take one pitch as catcher as part of the script, or did his emotions cause him to lose his composure and pull a Lou Gehrig? I kind of want to believe that both happened.
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    All the Dozier bashers, Brian is on his 2016 HR pace, and ahead of last year’s pace. I knew he would get here, it’s simply his pattern. And the best of luck to him with a new contract with whoever ends up with him, he is both deserving and appreciated.
  15. LeatherAntenna
    Bring up the whole triple A team. Triple A could score 3 runs in 23 innings.
  16. LeatherAntenna
    Real disappointment this season. After last season, I was expecting to look forward to several or more years of Rosario, Buxton and Kep playing together and getting more potent year over year in the outfield. Looks like that doesn’t happen. I see one or more of them gone soon.
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    This.
  18. LeatherAntenna
    is that telling that the Cubs didn’t have to replace their outfield? Maybe just another of the many basics missing this year in the Twins organization?
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    He grew up in life and now he is enjoying the spoils of life? (And apparently no obvious discipline) OK, others are always not wired that way but assuming that is something that you give him then it is also acceptable for fans to criticize him. Those sadly, are our spoils.
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    Isn’t his batting against left handed pitching still much improved this year and makes his 2018 year more perplexing?
  21. LeatherAntenna
    of all the posts in this thread this one sums it up best. I still believe in Kep, he looks in shape, is intense, and I believe that he figures it out. As to the rest and upcoming years, well, as in “Games of Thrones”, prepare for winter.
  22. LeatherAntenna
    Agreed he should have hit Betts except he didn’t know he would face Betts with no runners on when the inning started. Now if you are saying he should have plunked Betts after Leon, that would have been interesting and also may have started a bench clearing brawl. Maybe that should have happened.
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    The guy in the Robert Redford movie “The Natural.”
  24. LeatherAntenna
    Well another disappointing loss and with this thread the Twins are that much farther away from a 2006 mirror season since in that year the Twins at this same time were starting a long winning streak as opposed to tonight’s continuing loss tendencies. Reed actually looked good tonight but he is still got spanked and his night pretty much sums up this season.
  25. LeatherAntenna
    . It’s not been 10 years. More like 7 and 1/2 years but I agree with you that it has been too long not playing consistent playoff achieving baseball. Especially with the potentially best outfield the Twins have ever had if Buxton can appear again. Something is amiss within this organization. If the Twins don’t finish strong this year and that does look doubtful then singing players to contract extensions, if that is an organization desire, might get harder with this outfield seeing a more appealing move to a free agency market where the player can sign with a winning team becoming a factor.
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