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  1. KirbyDome89
    Do the Twins play fundamentally sound baseball to the level of Cleveland so as to allow them the luxury of a glove first corner OF? Vitriol? C'mon. People weren't thrilled about another vet coming off down offensive years getting playing time. If you want to start the victory lap, go nuts, but if Bader gets near 400 PAs (your number) and his usage vs. RHP stays the same I'll happily hammer the under.
  2. KirbyDome89
    Uh huh, and you're locking yourself into a subpar offensive option and exacerbating an existing issue in the name of corner OF defense. I don't like the strategy. May 1st is pretty early to be serving up Harrison Bader crow...
  3. KirbyDome89
    I get it, but that has way more to do with the guys wearing the TC hats IMO. Call me bitter, but Cleveland has looked far from impressive this series. Their lineup is just as putrid as our own, and they can't even really use the injury excuse. Their rotation isn't nearly as good as MN's but their bullpen (when Clase isn't a meltdown waiting to happen) is probably better top to bottom.
  4. KirbyDome89
    Idk if their rotation really has a "toughest," starter. Maybe Bibee? It's not a good group.
  5. KirbyDome89
    Because they haven't needed a solid bat? I'd be happy with a bat only corner OF and Bader not getting 2/3 of his PAs against RHP.
  6. KirbyDome89
    Appreciate the clarity. There's a reason the above section wasn't quoted by me, and tbf, all of the subsequent posts, including those I viewed as taking a wider view were also downvoted.
  7. KirbyDome89
    Call me a homer but I would say it's more than slightly less. Some of those Twins teams from 2002 onward had quite a bit of top end talent. I know Cleveland had some pretty strong rotations around their WS run but their lineup has always been stars and scrubs with a heavier emphasis on the latter.
  8. KirbyDome89
    Fair. I did actively cringe listening to the Cleveland broadcast call it "Guards ball," when Ramirez scored and Santana worked his way to 3B. Ugly, but yeah I guess take advantage when ya can and they seem to do it consistently against the Twins.
  9. KirbyDome89
    Honestly though, Idk if I could stand being a Cleveland fan either. Their ownership is d*****t, they don't resign even marginal talent, they're basically TB light except they'll sneak into the postseason by winning what's fairly consistently the worst division in baseball rather than having to match a team like NY or Boston.
  10. KirbyDome89
    Can't wait to hear this being rationalized as some sort of "bad luck." Don't worry, it'll correct itself.....
  11. KirbyDome89
    Never said they weren't, I asked what part of the post was being downvoted. I said it's not debatable that this organization has been slow (or resistant) to changing course. That goes from roster building down to in game decision making. I very much believe that has hurt them over the last few years, and there's plenty of examples of that. If you're after some blanket statement saying Rocco is incapable of making off script (in game or otherwise) decisions on his own you'll have to find that argument elsewhere.
  12. KirbyDome89
    I read the post I responded to as a fair critique of a larger issue.
  13. KirbyDome89
    I'd love to know what part(s) of your posts are being downvoted here. I don't think it's even debatable that this organization has been rigid and slow to move away from whatever their plan is over the past few seasons. The extreme platooning you mentioned earlier 100% is an (albeit smaller) example of that. Does softer phrasing sooth the disagreement?
  14. KirbyDome89
    Eh, 32 runs in a 4 game stretch is going to skew things no? Maybe they've turned a corner, or maybe they just blew up some bad pitching.
  15. KirbyDome89
    They've won 3 games in their last 4 series and scored 0 or 1 run in nearly half of those games.
  16. KirbyDome89
    Just saw that flash on the screen. If true, Idk why they'd wait until now.
  17. KirbyDome89
    Maybe not the best sign, LHP or not, that if Bride is hitting for you
  18. KirbyDome89
    He did just compare McCusker to Judge so there's that...
  19. KirbyDome89
    They just spent $200M on Correa. The money was apparently there, the team chose to invest it elsewhere. Mahle was definitely brought in to sit at the front of the rotation when they traded for him. Paddack was not expected to be that high in the pecking order but that takes a back seat to the fact that they were relying on him to stick in the rotation. Unless you actually believe he was turning down better offers to stay in MN, the Twins represented the top of the market. Taylor is severely overrated on TD. He was an offensive black hole and a major contributor to a team offense that went dormant way too often for way too long. No need to talk about Margot. Bader if TBD and if the Twins keep feeding him PAs against RHP I'll take the under. I don't want to be TB. No fan should. Sure, take a run at an injured player if there's an actual plan B. Don't collect injured players, rely on them to stick, and then throw your hands up when they inevitably get hurt. I can't feel sorry for a FO that put themselves in those situations.
  20. KirbyDome89
    This thread is about the pace the Twins need to play at for the remainder of the season in order to reach 87 wins (or whatever hypothetical total gets them to the postseason) right? Their pace for a good chunk of last season was brought up. I pointed out their month to month was less impressive. You said that was arbitrary. I asked where the line was for non arbitrary. You said you weren't talking about sample sizes. Now we're here.
  21. KirbyDome89
    Isn't sample size inherently part of a conversation about pace?
  22. KirbyDome89
    Where is the line for non arbitrary?
  23. KirbyDome89
    I disagree about the month to month swings. I think it provides a better picture for performance. If you want to argue that it's slicing the pie a different way I won't argue, but I'd point out that the pie wasn't all that great in totality. I wouldn't bet on them either at this point, and my opinion of this team hasn't changed all that much based on their start, No, wining 89 games isn't outrageous. Again, this division is terrible, this team can abuse Chicago, and probably KC (for their remaining games) while holding water against Cleveland and Detroit and hit that mark if things break right. I think this teams lacks the talent most lament isn't shining through. If they do win win the division I believe it'll be because the ALC is the same type of dumpster fire that it was in 2023.
  24. KirbyDome89
    They've traded for 3 SP in the last 3 seasons and gotten next to nothing out of them. At what point does it stop becoming calculated? It's not just optics, it's reality. You can't keep trying to rely on guys who are terrible and/or not available. They didn't get a below market deal on Correa, and Buxton's backups have ranged from subpar to abysmal over the last few seasons. That doesn't offset his time missed in any capacity.
  25. KirbyDome89
    Hard is relative. For a good team in a bad division that's very doable. Their pace last year was inflated by a glut of early games vs bad teams. Maybe they sweep Chicago and LA this week. It wouldn't be shocking, both those teams are absolute garbage and they've played like it lately, but sustaining a winning pace is the issue. They've almost completely used up their margin for error and it isn't even May yet. Also, they haven't exactly had a tough schedule and they're still puking all over themselves vs some pretty bad to mediocre competition. Their best month last year was May, and they finished 4 games over. 500. They did that once. Now we're asking basically the same squad to replicate that 2x just to claw their way back to .500. The one thing they have going for them is the ALC looks a lot like the 2023 version, and really the AL as a whole feels pretty wide open.
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