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  1. KirbyDome89
    They get the White Sox 2x before the end of the month. Anaheim and Detroit aren't juggernauts either. I don't think beating up on a team that looks primed to challenge the 2003 Tigers for worst modern team of all time, or taking 2-3 games from Detroit at home really means much of anything, but that's life in the ALC. Those Ws aren't guaranteed, and we watched this team piss away winnable games during the first 3-4 months of the season last year, but it'd be surprising, even at their current level ineptitude, if they couldn't make up some ground with that schedule to finish April.
  2. KirbyDome89
    Is it just me, or do Julien's wiffs look more violent this year? It seems like when he's missing he's swinging out of his cleats.
  3. KirbyDome89
    Or the Twins are playing their 5th game in 4 days.
  4. KirbyDome89
    A lack of a consistently good secondary pitch. A significant performance gap between starts made in division vs. out of division over his career. Yeah, I've always viewed Ryan as somebody I want starting game 4 or sliding to the pen for a postseason series. Idk, is there a big gap between a 3 or 4?
  5. KirbyDome89
    Detroit isn't good either?
  6. KirbyDome89
    Was he a markedly different pitcher last season than he was in 2021? I'd argue no. I've always viewed Ryan as a 4-5 so yeah we'll disagree.
  7. KirbyDome89
    He threw a whopping 9 innings at AAA for the Twins before being called up in 2021 . There isn't some massive dip, or uptick in his ML performance over the last 3 years.
  8. KirbyDome89
    He can be, but he isn't right now, which is why AAA is where he needs to be. Wallner has an option and he has become an offensive liability for a team that can't afford another hole in the lineup. I don't really see an argument for letting him "figure things out," at the ML level. If he picks it up in AAA there will undoubtedly be room for him on the 26 man.
  9. KirbyDome89
    Both. The Twins targeting DeSclafani isn't excusing Varland's performance. This team wasn't going to make it through a season with 5 starters, and Varland clearly was the next man up.
  10. KirbyDome89
    Agreed that more relief arms isn't a good thing. 1 starter + 8 relief arms should be enough to get you through a 9 inning game. Idk if a more compelling argument is necessary.
  11. KirbyDome89
    MLB needs to ban position players from pitching period. Idc if it's a 20 run game, watching Castro throw 40 mph moon balls is a joke.
  12. KirbyDome89
    At least they don't play 2 tomorrow....
  13. KirbyDome89
    Baez. Buxton is still a Major League hitter.
  14. KirbyDome89
    Shhhh. It's only allowed to point these things out when it doesn't benefit the team we root for.
  15. KirbyDome89
    Because you included "so far so good," in the headline?
  16. KirbyDome89
    Is Correa getting booed by Dodger fans in TF? Actually, is that what I'm hearing on the Dodger broadcast background?
  17. KirbyDome89
    Had the same thought. Buddy, you're 1-11 with 9 Ks to start the year. Just sit down...
  18. KirbyDome89
    Or they could've non-tendered Farmer + not taken on $4M for a guy they supposedly didn't want. That's Polanco's $10M. Agreed, I think it's pretty obvious this team thought they were getting a budget starter, or at least better than bottom of the barrel guy, in DeSclafani. The idea that this FO was eating his salary to balance the trade, or buying a low tier lotto ticket on a shoestring budget is nonsense. The Twins shuffled money and players, swapping ceiling for floor.
  19. KirbyDome89
    I'd love to hear the "they didn't want him/he was a throw in," crowd rationalize this organization handing DeSclafani a rotation spot and dedicating 1/3 of their paltry offseason spending towards his salary. Make it make sense guys....
  20. KirbyDome89
    To add onto the how/why; specialization has also increased. Before Lewis went down the Twins were still platooning half (more depending on what happens with Santana) of the defensive positions. That's increasing your exposure to injury. If Farmer misses 3 months as the short side at 2B those days still count towards IL time despite the fact he probably only plays 40% of that period.
  21. KirbyDome89
    You need to possess a certain level of conditioning as well as general durability to survive the grind that is a MLB season. Plenty of runners experience injuries/setbacks when training for, or running, a marathon. The answer isn't to run less often or log fewer miles in the months leading up to race day. Until hockey players start throwing pucks overhand into nets the comp is apples and oranges.
  22. KirbyDome89
    2 runs in the 9th (to put the game out of reach for KC's anemic offense) on one ball hit out of the infield. Single, BB, chopper, WP, BB, Chopper, throwing error, K, FB. Woof. No clue why KC was a trendy offseason pick to make any amount noise. Take the W, they all count the same, but this looked a lot like the ugly offensive baseball MN played for a lot of last season; long stretches of nothing, high Ks, and getting bailed out by pitching/a dog**** division.
  23. KirbyDome89
    Jax has thrown 20 more innings th last two years, that isn't negligible, but there isn't some availability gulf between him and Graterol. Unless you think Brusdar has been insanely luckly (his FIP might suggest he has been a bit) I wouldn't consider putting him ahead of Jax a tough call. If durability is part of the analysis, Stewart has no place in the conversation.
  24. KirbyDome89
    He cost the Twins $4M, his total salary is actually $12M. That doesn't mean anybody should want him in their rotation. Keuchel came up when Joe Ryan hit the IL. Varland forced himself out with an awful run in June last year. The point here was that handicapping yourself in the name of depth is counterproductive.
  25. KirbyDome89
    The massive difference being Keuchel signed a minor league deal and wasn't forcing a much higher upside arm out of the rotation.
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