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  1. Aggies7
    There’s not a single pitcher anywhere in the organization that could do better than this? It’s batting practice
  2. Aggies7
    I mean, I can’t think of a worse place to throw a pitch to Aaron judge
  3. Aggies7
    What a joke
  4. Aggies7
    Lol first pitch laser beam
  5. Aggies7
    Hey hey one disaster game at a time here
  6. Aggies7
    Lol the name sounds vaguely, and I mean vaguely familiar, but I can’t remember him. And I worked in AAA at the time so I assume he came through at some point
  7. Aggies7
    I consider myself to be a pretty knowledgeable twins fan but I cannot for the life of me remember pj walters
  8. Aggies7
    7/1/13 Scott diamond vs pettitte 7/2/13 Sam deduno vs Phil hughes 7/3/13 PJ walters (?!) vs sabatia swept yeah this was a bad one
  9. Aggies7
    8/18/11 sabathia vs Brian duensing (L) 8/19/11 Phil hughes vs Kevin slowey (L) 8/20/11 AJ Burnett vs liriano (w) 8/21/11 Ivan nova vs nick blackburn (L) Checking for other bad ones
  10. Aggies7
    Pretty sure I read where the twins have won 47 of the past 162 games against the Yankees, so a whole season’s worth for a winning percentage of 0.290
  11. Aggies7
    Can it monsoon for like three days?
  12. Aggies7
    I didn’t say he “never” lets starters go deeper but his bias is towards pulling early. If the organizational philosophy is to pull guys early, then it must be a pretty loose mandate because he’s gone against the grain before. A new manager wouldn’t have to be “drastically” different. We’re talking letting guys go another inning or two here, not trying for complete games
  13. Aggies7
    They apparently aren’t that serious about wanting things run a certain way since literally the same exact pitcher has been allowed to go deeper into games. And rocco hasn’t been fired which is apparently the barometer for you. If it’s up to his discretion on when to pull guys based on velocity etc then who’s to say another manager wouldn’t be different? You can still make decisions that aren’t on a spreadsheet. “Complain about the right stuff” sounds a lot like “don’t criticize the manager”
  14. Aggies7
    You said it’s not fair to criticize the manager here, which is an absurd claim as is unless the FO is calling down to the dugout to tell him what to do, in game. So is it his call or not? Is he going to get scolded if he lets a guy go another inning? He’s let a lot of starters see the lineup the third time and he hasn’t been fired yet.. doesn’t that “go against the philosophy”?
  15. Aggies7
    Having watched this bullpen all year, I’m always going to be ok with giving the starter a chance to go further. The only time I can think of where it was obvious a starter should have been yanked was the bundy game in Baltimore when it was clear he had nothing and Rocco tried to squeeze another inning out of him after the twins crawled back into the game
  16. Aggies7
    Ok, so you can’t, got it. Interesting that the pitcher in question has been allowed to go 6 before. But this organizational strategy you claim exists must have just kicked in yesterday I guess
  17. Aggies7
    Can you source this claim?
  18. Aggies7
    The angst is because we simply don’t have enough reliable relievers to continually get us 4-5 innings every single game. It’s unreasonable to continue to pull starters before they even START the 5th inning. Rocco’s plans assume that every reliever is going to get the job done cleanly and no one is going to be injured. Asking 4 or 5 mostly shaky relievers to do their job is asking for trouble. My god, starting pitchers have been “going around the order 3 times” for 100 years, now all of a sudden they can’t figure it out anymore. The red flag pitch count used to be 100 and now it’s…70? Then when you do bring in relievers, everyone just has an inning regardless of how many pitches they throw? Jax threw 9 pitches and couldn’t go another?
  19. Aggies7
    Good argument here, I can’t disagree
  20. Aggies7
    Two inning outings is a weird way to use your best reliever IMO. If he needs two days off after that, you kinda set yourself up for failure when your bullpen is so lean. Like, who’s another good 8/9 inning option right now? I’d like to have him available for 9th inning save situations only. But that requires 1) starters going longer 2) other relievers stepping up
  21. Aggies7
    Hey these dudes are in the major leagues for a reason. Yeah the guys with the best stuff should get the highest leverage situations but if you’re not going to ask even 5 innings from the starter, then some of these less proven guys are going to need to see action, sometimes against the better hitters. Otherwise you’re just leaning on a guy or two to do ALL the heavy lifting and you run the risk of burning them out.
  22. Aggies7
    It is true that he was already warming so it may have been too late to change course. But again, the fewer innings you have to get out of a weak bullpen the better. I’ll take a smeltzer for the third time through the order over MOST of our bullpen guys. The trick should be trying to get to the 9th without using duran, especially if we’re concerned about innings
  23. Aggies7
    Aren’t we supposed to be watching how many innings duran has? Why use him for TWO innings of a 5 run game? And smith has been shaky shaky shaky for about a month now. Rocco manages the pitching staff like we have an all star loaded bullpen. There’s a steep drop off after duran. Rocco should be trying to get as many innings out of his starters as possible, not yanking them because they reach the magical third time through the order
  24. Aggies7
    Rocco tried his darndest to manage us into a loss. Thankfully the offense covered for him
  25. Aggies7
    I beg to differ, you can certainly blame the manager. Quick trigger rocco is terrified of letting his starter see the lineup for a third time but he’s willing to gamble that a wildly inconsistent bullpen will be able to seamlessly get 15 outs without blowing the lead. Luckily the offense kept adding on or this could have been a disaster. He had a plan for 3 guys to each get an inning and Duran to apparently get two. Then Duran gets a liner and almost had to come out. So a wildly unreliable option (Duffey) gets the 9th and pretty much imploded. He overmanaged and easily could have cost the game. He can’t seem to learn from his past mistakes.
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