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  1. Aggies7
    Well said. I knew when MLB announced it was changing the ball it had the potential to really hurt the twins in the long run. What happened a couple years ago with the HR record was historically special. 3-4-5 sometimes 7 home run games....I’m not sure that was going to ever be repeated. Heck, we’d take half of what they produced in 2019 at this point. I can’t even believe the garvers and polanco’s of the team are the same players today. The twins were set up pretty well in the postseason both years. Who knows,if they could have just avoided the Yankees maybe they would have had a shot to at least win a postseason series in 2019. And last year’s shot was just an embarrassment. If the window is open now, it might not be for much longer.
  2. Aggies7
    Something is incredibly rotten with this team. Lifeless performances. Have to wonder how much longer the window is open.
  3. Aggies7
    was james rowson the greatest hitting coach of all time or what?
  4. Aggies7
    Alcala might have been a better option for the 10th. Could he have honestly been worse than walking the 8/9 hitters??
  5. Aggies7
    Just giving context to the “two division titles” stuff. Again, last year was a sham and certainly far from great. It would be like crowning a divisional champ at the end of May. We literally played like 9 teams last year and most of them stunk to the high heavens. Perhaps if Rocco’s teams weren’t 0-5 in the postseason I’d give a little more leeway to the two great years thing.
  6. Aggies7
    let's be real: 2019 was a year where the club hit the most home runs in the history of the sport. multiple guys had what may end up being career years. they simply bullied teams with 3, 4 and sometimes SEVEN home run games. 101 wins and cruised to the playoffs where they promptly got outclassed and outmanaged by the yankees and lost their 14-16 straight postseason games. 2020 was a year that almost shouldn't even count. not just for the shortened schedule, but for the fact that the twins played half their games against the tigers, royals, pirates and brewers. teams that went a combined 97-141 (.407). yes the schedule was not their fault, but they played some of the worst teams in baseball for half their entire season, and still needed a late surge to overcome the white sox. then, they were essentially gift wrapped a golden opportunity to finally break their postseason drought by drawing the universally-hated astros (who barely qualified for the expanded playoffs after a sub .500 season) AT HOME no less. and they laid a giant egg and were promptly eliminated without a single victory. and now here we are in 2021 and the baffling managerial decisions and the over protection of players are already old, 2 weeks in. rowson is long gone and the offense is terrible. the team has an overall soft look to it. if this year spirals down the tubes and the club ends up with 90+ losses, how much of the good vibes from those "two division titles" will still be around?
  7. Aggies7
    I’m gonna punch the air so hard if colome is the closer going forward. Don’t compound a bad signing by continuing to put him in high leverage situations
  8. Aggies7
    A culture of softness is what it sounds like to me. If a guy isn’t healthy enough to run around the bases then maybe he shouldn’t be on the active roster. I’d be fuming if I were Donaldson
  9. Aggies7
    100% accurate.
  10. Aggies7
    Dan gladden sounded like he witnessed a murder on the radio when Arraez air mailed that throw
  11. Aggies7
    My short list of worst regular season losses 2009 @ Oakland, blew 12-2 lead 2002 @ Yankees, walkoff grand slam by giambi down by 3 1984 @ Indians, blew ten run lead with playoffs on the line honorable mention, the 2019 loss to the Yankees where Aaron hicks made that wild catch
  12. Aggies7
    It’s a manager’s job to put players in the best position to win. Period.
  13. Aggies7
    Rocco ain’t the manager we need colome ain’t the closer we need the team is mentally soft lets start there.
  14. Aggies7
    a lot of these guys have been around for 6 of the 18 straight losses. far from blameless
  15. Aggies7
    to be fair, we can deduce how he is in the clubhouse by his comments and how he hands out off days like candy.
  16. Aggies7
    this group of twins has played a part in losing 18 straight playoff games. any analogy to the guys who won two rings is quite silly
  17. Aggies7
    Can someone find out how many times in history a team has been shut down in a DH. I’m going to guess <50 times since they stopped regularly playing DHs
  18. Aggies7
    not really outcome dependent. the pitch count was fine. the bullpen isn't great. again, not asking him to let him finish the game, but 2 hits in 7 innings warrants a shot at starting the 8th. but the mysterious arbitrary line was apparently crossed and pineda was out. and i disagree that that ball was over his head. it defies 100 years of baseball strategy to not guard the lines in that situation
  19. Aggies7
    most competently managed teams would have let pineda start and have a guy ready going in to the inning in case something goes wrong. shoemaker was left in for what, 4 batters? a 3 run lead, one guy gets on and you yank him. he was cruising. he earned a shot instead of losing his win. then defensive placement. check where our third baseman was positioned on the game tying double. bases loaded, 3 run lead, 2 outs. WHY was he playing halfway to second base and not guarding the line? because analytics said so? a LH pitcher with a slider, and the LH batter goes the other way with the pitch. had he been playing where he should have, thats a liner caught for the third out. then the already mentioned 8th inning batting debacle. I don't trust rocco's in game decision making.
  20. Aggies7
    Literally every move imaginable in baseball history has worked before, but I’d rather go with some form of Rogers, Duffy, alcala or Robles over a third inning of dobnak. Tomorrow’s DH has two 7 inning games. And both starters routinely pitch into the 6th
  21. Aggies7
    Much of that 91 team had a ring already. This bunch (and that’s management as well as players) need to win a single playoff game before we compare them to a world champ
  22. Aggies7
    the twins need to make in-game management a social justice issue. that way Rocco will be all over it
  23. Aggies7
    I'm only in my 30's but the only WPA i've ever heard of was part of FDR's New Deal
  24. Aggies7
    seems as though the twins offense observed 8 innings of silence this afternoon
  25. Aggies7
    I think it’s a fair question to ask why we used a long reliever into the 8th inning of a tie game coming off an off day. Maybe nothing would have been different but why did we need to try and get 3 innings out of him?
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