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  1. Alex Schieferdecker
    Harper has appeared in plenty of low leverage situations. He has also appeared in a couple of higher leverage situations, as trust in him as seemed to grow.
  2. Alex Schieferdecker
    Of all of Baldelli's moves, I have been most impressed (like many of you) by his insistence on rest. No matter how important or how hot, every position player is getting rotated out of the line-up. guys like Gonzalez and Astudillo are basically everyday players, despite neither having a set position, entirely because they move around and fill in for whoever is scheduled to take the day off. A similar philosophy seems to be being applied to the bullpen as well. In the home series against the Angels, when the Twins played three close games in a row, the entire bullpen was used. It wasn't just Rogers, Parker, May, and Harper every night. (In fact, the idea that a guy like Harper could have already established himself as a high leverage option seems like something that would not have happened on most teams.) I think the essential part (as the article mentions) is that Baldelli thinks that getting regular rest in the long run is more important than any one game's result. I think he's probably right. Baseball has 162 games in the regular season, it's a marathon, not a sprint. If the Twins get to the postseason, they could be the freshest team remaining.
  3. Alex Schieferdecker
    Twins might be good this year.
  4. Alex Schieferdecker
    Ryne Harper is the unsung hero of the Twins so far. Hildenberger and (to a lesser extent) May's difficulties in being the #3 guy in the bullpen have been almost completely been papered over by Harper's pitching. I absolutely love his arsenal of slow, slower, and slowest breaking balls.
  5. Alex Schieferdecker
    The thing that convinces me so far that the Twins are "for real," is that they are succeeding in a completely normal way. They are trading blows with good teams, and absolutely destroying bad teams. Contrast this with the Wild, who had a great record against the best teams in the league, but you knew they weren't legit because they would collapse against teams that could barely lace up a pair of skates.
  6. Alex Schieferdecker
    I mean, we recently had seven games against Houston. Rogers: 1 IP, 0 ER May: 1.1 IP, 0 ER Duffey: 1.1 IP, 0 ER Parker: 2 IP, 0 ER and then... Magill: 2 IP, 2 ER (first appearance back) Harper: 3.1 IP, 3 ER (in four appearances, three were scoreless) Mejia: 1.1 IP, 3 ER Hildenberger: 1.2 IP, 4 ER Romero: 3 IP: 2 ER I'm not saying that the Twins should just be rolling into a playoff series with Trevor Hildenberger and Adalberto Mejia as if everything is hunky dory. What I am saying is that it's really easy to overstate the bullpen's issues. There are four guys (Rogers, May, Parker, and Harper) who have been consistently solid. There have been three more guys, (Magill, Morin, Duffey) who have been good through limited action. I'm not bent out of shape about it. There's probably a need for additional reinforcements, but pretending that the whole bullpen is a disaster is simply wrong.
  7. Alex Schieferdecker
    Except that Harper, Magill, Morin, and Duffey have 7 ER in 27 IP this season. The problem with the bullpen was almost exclusively Mejia to start the season (plus the dynamic De Jong + Vasquez duo). Now Hildenberger is completely melting down. But it's not really a bullpen-wide issue, it's basically been just two guys, and two disastrous call-ups. Rogers, Parker, Harper, May, Magill, Morin, and Duffey: 17 ER in 87 IP. Between those seven pitchers, that's a 1.76 ERA. I thought Rocco's bullpen management today was poor. I don't know why Magill came out. I don't know why Harper came in after working yesterday. I would've liked to see Duffey pitch, preferably at the start of an inning. I would've liked to see Morin start an inning. I would've liked to not see Hildenberger at all. We had three reasonably rested pitchers available, and instead of putting them in positions to succeed, we had the entire bullpen running around putting out fires instead.
  8. Alex Schieferdecker
    It was really fun! Looking forward to the MinnCentric brand-new-soccer-stadium outing in two years. *fingers crossed*
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