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  1. howeda7
    Yes he did. He did the same thing last night but still made it 2nd.
  2. howeda7
    I don't think it was the case tonight, but we should have gone for the boot on the throat on Sunday and we didn't. Now it will probably take us until the final week-end to clinch. I see Cleveland losing 2 more games at most.
  3. howeda7
    I've wondered this too. Against Houston, it probably doesn't matter as they have 3 aces. But against the Yankees, do you throw Smeltzer out there in game 1, hope for a miracle and know that you now have the advantage in games 2 and 3? This almost worked unintentionally for the Twins in 2009 as they had to start Duensing in game 1 due to game 163. Unfortunately, Nathan blew the save in game 2 and Phil Cuzzi game through for the Yankees in the 10th.
  4. howeda7
    I agree with this, except insert Cron for Cave and move Gonzalez to RF. If staying with this 9, I'd swap Rosario and Garver to avoid having back-to-back lefies.
  5. howeda7
    That feels like forfeiting. I don't understand pushing Berrios back. If you start him today and Friday, you set up him to pitch Wed or Thursday before the end of the season which lines him up for game 1. If you stick with giving him 5 days rest, you pitch him tomorrow and next Sunday. That puts him in line to pitch the 2nd to last game of the season. You don't want that. And the alternative is he's on like 10 days rest.
  6. howeda7
    Give 1500 Skor North a listen. They have been the opposite. Breaks cut, all is well talk. Almost to the point of irritation.
  7. howeda7
    What is this rest talk? Finish them, clinch by next Friday or so. Then rest.
  8. howeda7
    94% is ridiculous. 60/40 at best.
  9. howeda7
    How many of you knew that the Yankees held the record before the season started? Or who held it before that? Whoever sets it this year, it will almost certainly be broken again in a year or two. It's a nice talking point, but I honestly don't care that much.
  10. howeda7
    The spin at the time was that he liked it here so much they would trade him, get prospects and then re-sign him. They obviously didn't try very hard considering he took $7 million/year.
  11. howeda7
    Did they though? What did they offer him? He's making $5 million less than Gonzalez and is a far better version.
  12. howeda7
    His HR/AB is not sustainable, it would have him hitting like 53 with 600 AB's. But even if it dropped quite a bit, he's still more valuable hitting 40 HR over 500 AB's than 33 in 375.
  13. howeda7
    Supposedly it's up to the Twins until they start and it's not supposed to stop raining until 9. Having to play an extra game on 9/30 would suck, but there's a pretty decent chance it won't need to be played for either team, and if it needs to be played only for the Nats sake, we can run our line-up from last night out there. I'd give it until like 7:30 and then call it.
  14. howeda7
    Garver needs to play. Cron needs to play. If Sano or Kepler can play, they need to play. Everyone is banged up this time of year, time to stop babying them all. We can't win with the line-up we trotted out there tonight. And I'm looking forward to getting some pitching for Rosario.
  15. howeda7
    I agree, though I would be open to trading one of Sano, Rosario or Buxton in that order. It might be time to sell high on one/both of Sano and Rosario while they still have team control. I don't see us retaining either past 2021.
  16. howeda7
    The division is not in hand. Cleveland could easily gain 3 or 4 games on us in the next 7 days.
  17. howeda7
    I'll be happy if they still have a 3.5 game lead a week from now. But honestly, I'm finding it hard to even worry about. Making the play-offs doesn't mean much if there's a 75% chance we're going to get swept.
  18. howeda7
    Not to mention the Red Sox only other run was on a ball that is a routine foul ball in any other stadium.
  19. howeda7
    I'd pass on Odorizzi if it's more than $12 million/year. I think long-term he's closer to what we saw last year than what he was for 2 months this year. Rather keep Pineda for cheaper. And even Gibson will probably have to take a 1 year deal.
  20. howeda7
    I have been a Gibby supporter. He was really pretty good from June 2017 through last season. But this season he's regressed into his old self. It's incredibly frustrating and I don't need to see anymore of it. Even if the person we replace him with in 2020 isn't any better. If Perez keeps pitching well, I'd pick up his option, try to keep Pineda on a two year deal and go after a big FA. Berrios, FA, Pineda, Perez, Smeltzer/Graderal/Stewart/etc.
  21. howeda7
    Blackburn also pitched huge in big games (game 163 in 2008, second to last game in 2009 and then game 2 of ALDS in Yankee stadium). Gibson would wet himself pitching a play-off game in Yankee stadium.
  22. howeda7
    I don't buy this argument in the case of a guy like Minor. I refuse to believe it would have required some package of Kirloff and Graterol to get him. Stroman was worth more than Minor. So the asking price in all likelihood was a similar package to that or less. We don't know which other teams were interested. Minor is not some ace. But he would have helped this staff a lot. The bottom line is that this rotation and staff needed help. We have a deep farm system. And we clung to all of our top 20 prospects like grim death and did the absolute minimum to help it.
  23. howeda7
    I was much more the on the Keuchel bandwagon than the Kimbrel bandwagon for this reason. But the bottom line is that they could have added a starter for nothing but $ or they could have used their deep farm system to trade for one. They did neither and are paying the price. We're supposed to wait for next year, when the rotation has one guy set.
  24. howeda7
    Not directly. But it would make it easier to pull the trigger on putting Berios on the IL and giving him 10 days off. Nothing excuses the front office refusing to part with any of their top 20 prospects to help this pitching staff.
  25. howeda7
    An unacceptable loss. Put Berrios on the IL and release Harper. Get Littell and Smeltzer up. And get Arreaz into the lead-off spot and Kepler to 4th immediately. Thsi should be a no-brainer. Ultimately the front office's trade deadline cowardice is their undoing. But there's always 2024.
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