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Hilarious our announcers are saying Laz Diaz is one of the best umpires in baseball. He has a rep of being horrible, especially at balls and strikes.

Gonna be a fun NFL and NCAAF season. But I'm looking towards the start of Hockey Season.

please

why wouldn't their runner tag up?

nothing funny about cancer.

Wow! What an ugly looking lineup today.

IMO, this organization had a lot of issues when the new FO took over. I believe it's too early to grade them at all.

The new Series on Amazon Prime, Jack Ryan, was pretty good.

wait. Did we sac bunt again after a double and no outs

That second one made me spit water on my laptop :-)

Twins Baseball, We may not raise our level of play, but we'll raise our ticket prices.

yeah, but overall it's not like he dominated the minors this year either. Not sure why he got promoted to AAA this season, honestly. I mean yeah, he Kd more and BBd less this year in AA than last year, but his WHIP was worse this year as was his ERA (don't see his FIP). One could argue that, overall, he did worse in AA this year than last year, but regardless. Not sure he earned a promotion to AAA much less the majors. Edit: His FIP in AA was pretty darn good this year, but over 4 in AAA.

Twins 2019. Continiung to build for the future. OR Twins Baseball. Always building for the future. .

That's the reason he took away the teeth of the Johnson Amendment, so he could manipulate future elections... He is pure scum of the earth.

Exactly. P.S And 2.3 fWAR...

true :-) Oh and Hicks is a scratch golfer.

Just want to say that I am SO happy for Hicks! He did really well in about half a season's work last year and has continued it on this year.

Looking at the rest of the schedule, I'm imagining a 13-18 record the rest of the way.

Haha, I know, right? Who knew Belisle was so important to this team's success? :-)

We have the Astros, Yankees, As and Indians in 11 of our final 31...Yikes. And even against the dregs of the AL Central, we've basically split our games against KC, the W Sox and the Tigers this year.

Except that's not how it works. You can't just bank 85 wins from one season, sprinkle in some players you hope will be okay, expect young players to just continue getting better (cause progression for young ball players is not linear) and then say there's 90 or more wins the next season. Just doesn't work that way. 1. Got to truly evaluate the team and wonder if we got lucky to win that many games based on the talent we had. Did we expect to win 85 games after the amount we won the year before? 2. Have to remember while we are working to improve our team in the offseason, so are other teams. 3. Remember other teams might have under-performed their talent and don't just expect them to do it again. 4. Remember other teams might have young players also expecting to take the next step. 5. Remember other teams might have quality players coming back from injury. 6. Remember we had quality players who, before the season started, we KNEW we weren't going to have for a good chunk of time. 7. And probably many, MANY other things that could be mentioned if I had more time. In other words, our attempt to improve our team doesn't happen while every other team stands pat and does nothing. IMO, you have to forget last year's record completely. It means nothing. Have to first start with comparing your rotation to other teams' rotations, cause MOST (not all) of the time, true contenders have truly good/great rotations. Second, compare position players to the best team in your division and the other truly good/great teams in the AL. Third compare relief corp too. Four, compare depth in pitching staff and position players, both on the active roster and MLB ready in the minors. It's just not as easy as saying, well, we had 85 wins, grabbed some players, and all of our young guys are just going to keep improving. WAAAAY too many other things to consider.

by that logic, we should have gone far in 2016 based on our 2015 season. IMO, there certainly was question about how competitive this team should have been expected to be. First, IMO, although I was happy the team won as many as it did last year, I think the team won more than the talent on the team. It was fun to see, but I couldn't see it repeated. As far as being competitive in the division, Cleveland's team was and is way better and there was also Boston, NY, Houston which were all clearly better. Perhaps, if everything went our way, and by playing in a week division we squeak into the one game wild card (like last year) but that doesn't make them true contenders.

I keep reading that this team was supposed to be competing this year, but based on the roster and other teams' rosters, I know I didn't expect them to. I expected them to lose more games this year than last, myself. I think the idea this team was supposed to be competing was based on hope and/or unrealistic expectations. This 2019 team was not built to really compete.

I love me some Kershaw and Verlander too, but even the great innings eating starting pitchers get help from his catcher calling the game, the defense behind him, and the offense that scored enough for the team to win. Even the best pitchers can't win a game on their own.

Well, the Cubs depth of true quality players is ridiculous. Maddon has been given options.