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  1. Alex Schieferdecker
    Hope to see Ober get a shot with the Twins again soon. He was better than the statline showed in his debut, and he keeps putting up video game numbers in the minors.
  2. Alex Schieferdecker
    Hard not to be excited about the Twins pitching pipeline. Duran was impressive for the Saints. Sands, Winder, and Vallimont are all pitching well in Wichita. Canterino and Enlow are looking great in Cedar Rapids and might be moved up soon. Balazovic will be back in action soon. I think Ober will be back with the Twins shortly, after Maeda's injruy. That's eight guys who are all excelling in the minors, several of whom have front-of-the-rotation potential. I hope the Twins can get Maeda healthy and resign Pineda, but I'm less confident that we'll be able to sign Berrios. At least two to four spots in the rotation will be open soon and goodness knows lots of opportunities for relievers. The Twins will sign new people of course, but this pipeline gives them some opportunities for competition and hopefully some homegrown high-end arms.
  3. Alex Schieferdecker
    Was dumb to throw at the guy. Who cares? Baseball's unwritten rules are extremely stupid. Ober looked nervous. Even then, looked like he's got stuff that might play, and was throwing quite a bit faster than advertised. Certainly hoping to see him get another start, maybe at the expense of Happ, who could use a bit of a break, or Pineda if his medical issue continues. Impressive outing from the bullpen. For one night at least, they put it all together. Let's get more hitters healthy and then we'll see what can happen.
  4. Alex Schieferdecker
    How soon until Bailey Ober gets a shot? I know his stuff looks like it shouldn't play, but you can't ignore the numbers.
  5. Alex Schieferdecker
    Duffey is the most confusing one. All of those hitters have been inconsistent throughout their careers. But Duffey seemed like a much surer bet. The simultaneous implosion of every reliever the Twins have is one of the most inexplicable things that has happened this season.
  6. Alex Schieferdecker
    It's this kind of stuff that is so inexplicable to me about the Twins season so far. It's one thing if one or two guys were struggling in their own separate ways. But to see huge swaths of the team slumping, often in the same way, for no discernable reason, is really baffling. How is it possible for like, Kenta Maeda [i]and[/i] Taylor Rogers [i]and[/i] Caleb Thielbar [i]and[/i] Alex Colome to all completely lose their ability to pitch to lefties all at once?
  7. Alex Schieferdecker
    Would like to see Ryan Mason moved up swiftly if he continues to have dominant late inning outings like what seems to have happened last night.
  8. Alex Schieferdecker
    I've never wanted a player to succeed more than the guy named Kody Funderburk. What. A. Name. And Cody Laweryson on the same team!!!
  9. Alex Schieferdecker
    There are about four relievers who are somewhat trustworthy: Duffey (who doesn't look nearly as dominant as last year) Robles Rogers (who got horrifically unlucky last night) Thielbar Then there's the rest. Alcala has promise, but he just gets hammered by lefties, which is why he wasn't usable last night. I'm not sure the solution there, besides hoping for the best, or having him develop a pitch against lefties. Stashak, I don't know. Great strikeout numbers, but if he's not striking someone out, he's getting hit hard. His walks are way up. His BABIP and FIP suggest he's getting unlucky on batted balls, and the Twins are using him that way, but he's not a high leverage option. Colomé, I mean, what else is there to say? You've got to start working him into low leverage situations and hope that he figures something out. But it's untenable to keep him around all season as a nearly useless arm. Eventually they need to decide he's turned it around, or cut bait. So at this point, the Twins have to be kicking the tires on Greene. But they also should be aggressively cycling through their AAA options to see if anyone can stick. Law looked good in the spring, and I'm surprised they haven't tried him yet. Ryan Mason looked good in past minor league seasons, he could quickly emerge as an option. But the Twins need to get aggressive.
  10. Alex Schieferdecker
    The Twins actually seem decently positioned. Before 2019's breakout, I think most people thought the Twins were a couple years away, and that they'd be entering into their window right now. The window opened a bit earlier than expected, but that doesn't mean it will now close earlier than expected. Nothing is guaranteed, but the Twins are in the enviable spot right now of having a top-half farm system while also being back-to-back division winners and a bunch of affordable contracts. Unless there are a bunch of surprising prospect busts, the Twins might sustain this success for a good stretch.
  11. Alex Schieferdecker
    How is it possible that there are still MLB teams with guys throwing a ton of awful sinkers?
  12. Alex Schieferdecker
    Certainly seems like Kuhl could be a lot better if goes someplace where the pitching coach will tell him to never throw another sinker again.
  13. Alex Schieferdecker
    Twins obviously won the trade, by getting something for nothing. But given what both teams thought they were getting, seems fair to say that nobody really won.
  14. Alex Schieferdecker
    One thing that doesn't cut in Wisler's favor, ironically, is the success of guys like Matt Wisler. If the Twins could pluck a guy like him out of nowhere and get those kind of numbers out of him, then they've got to be pretty confident in their ability to do it again.
  15. Alex Schieferdecker
    I've been most encouraged by Trevor May. He looks unhittable again.
  16. Alex Schieferdecker
    Love to see a rested bullpen!
  17. Alex Schieferdecker
    I can't get enough of Wisler closing the game with fourteen straight sliders, ranging from 80-85 mph. He and Thielbar are absolutely spinning the ball, and have been completely freed by the dictum that you throw your best pitch as much as possible and forget about throwing your bad pitches for variety.
  18. Alex Schieferdecker
    He's been surprisingly good. His pitches are excellent. If he can figure out where they are going before he throws them, he'll be unhittable.
  19. Alex Schieferdecker
    What a brutal game. It's been a while since I've seen someone fall apart so suddenly as Hill did with two outs in the third. He was cruising and then suddenly he was being shelled.
  20. Alex Schieferdecker
    Super concerned about Rogers, but shoutout to Theilbar and especially Alcala for coming in and throwing three scoreless with a runner on second base every inning. Baldelli had little choice but to trust those guys, and they took their opportunity.
  21. Alex Schieferdecker
    It's remarkable that even after a string of close games, there's still juice left in the bullpen because of how deep it is. Of course, ideally you win this Tuesday game with Poppen pitching a significant amount, and Stashak to close any doors. But you've got Romo and Duffey on a day of rest if needed as well.
  22. Alex Schieferdecker
    I don't think I worried that the Twins would lose for a single minute of this series. Just gently put the Cards to bed.
  23. Alex Schieferdecker
    This last game was really the first time where the Twins played anything even close to a major league line-up, so that may have something to do with it.
  24. Alex Schieferdecker
    For someone who does not follow the Gophers at all, who are their top three pitchers? I assume Max Meyer is #1, who are the others? Beyond Meyer do the Gophers have other credible MLB prospects?
  25. Alex Schieferdecker
    Rooting for Thorpe to beat out Chacin in the rotation.
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