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  1. KirbyDome89
    We're all familiar with his on field antics. Personally I couldn't stand the guy pre or post his MN tenure, but if you're going to label him cancer adjacent, i.e. actively harmful in the clubhouse during his time with the Twins, then actually give me something Twins related.
  2. KirbyDome89
    Why make **** up if you can justify the move on a financial basis?
  3. KirbyDome89
    You know what the actual implication was....
  4. KirbyDome89
    Anything to actually substantiate this, or are we just reviving a tiresome talking point from last season?
  5. KirbyDome89
    "More so, it became notable how effuse pitchers were in their praise for trade deadline replacement Sandy Leon, suggesting some animosity toward Sánchez's ability to call the game." What?
  6. KirbyDome89
    I buy that offenses start more slowly. The sparkling numbers from the Twins own starting staff aren't going to hold, but there's still an offensive hierarchy and the Twins find themselves near the bottom. Sale has one good start in four tries this year, and it just so happens to be agains the Twins, but we can consider him a star if you'd like. So out of 9 games when they've finished the 9th innings with 2 or fewer runs (10 if you count last night) only half have been when the opposing pitcher was a "star." Should we expect this offense to consistently shrivel when facing good/decent pitching too? How low do we need to set the bar? If the Twins were KC then yeah, I'd watch this lineup getting mowed down by high end pitching and think "no reason to expect them to compete," because KC is a terrible team. If you're supposed to be a frontrunner for the division title and we're talking postseason than yeah, I think you should at least look somewhat competent, even against high level pitching early in the season.
  7. KirbyDome89
    They just keep running into great pitching. It's wild....
  8. KirbyDome89
    Conversely, what good, or even pretty good starter has this offense performed well against? Garcia, maybe, and he's had a rough start to the year until his most recent outing. They've finished with 2 runs or less 7x in those 19 games, and they've needed a free runner + extra innings another 2x to clear that low bar. They seem much more capable of looking helpless than knocking around opposing pitching.
  9. KirbyDome89
    Because he's been awful for 3 years now and he had no business being resigned after his meltdown last year. We can stop trying to turn this into something it's not right?
  10. KirbyDome89
    In your scenario Kirilloff will have lost 3 straight major league season's to the same wrist aliment. How do you justify holding 1B open for him again heading into next year if that's the case?
  11. KirbyDome89
    You're a glutton for punishment. If I tuned in and saw a 2-2 game where MN had 4 hits and 16 Ks through 9 innings + Boston had 11-12 Ks and was 2-15 (or something similar) with RISP I'm immediately checking out.
  12. KirbyDome89
    This team has completed 9 innings with 2 or fewer runs 9x in 17 games. They're 3-6 in those games. As a side note, Nick Gordon currently has a -31 OPS+. I didn't realize that was possible...
  13. KirbyDome89
    I think an importance difference is that I'm not resigning this offense to the cellar. Yes, we're probably all much happier that (most of) the depth in question actually belongs on a major league roster this year.
  14. KirbyDome89
    Overall, yes, and I've said as much elsewhere, but if you're going to make definitive statements about "nailing," roster construction this group probably shouldn't be near last offensively. Just my 2 cents. Ok, but if it must be done, I'd point out that 4 of the 7 players you listed are guys being lauded.
  15. KirbyDome89
    The Twins have a bottom 5 offense. Is right now really the best time to be touting positional flexibility?
  16. KirbyDome89
    Monday: Sox commit 3 official errors, boot a rundown which ends up with Tim Anderson on the IL for 2 weeks, and they still manage to win the game. Tuesday: Sox literally throw the game away in extra innings when they can't field a bunt. Wednesday: Sheets falls down on a routine fly ball resulting in a Jeffers "triple." Jeffers scores two batters later when Vaughn bobbles a ground ball and can't make a throw home. Willi Castro and his .000 slugging% "break the game open," with a double to put the Twins up 2-0. I guess that's baseball for ya, but yeesh, not much about the way this team is winning feels remotely sustainable. There was endless complaining about bad luck last year, this must be the overcorrection.
  17. KirbyDome89
    If you're going to say that Ryan has addressed his woes against better teams, maybe don't stake that case on a game in which he posted an ERA eerily similar to the aforementioned "struggle," portion of last season. I'll take 6 innings over 4 though. Parsing single events is a sword that cuts both ways. It's also not a road worth traveling.
  18. KirbyDome89
    No Corra, Gallo, or Kepler. Buxton was scheduled off. Who was going to hit 4th in this lineup and change the outcome today? Should Farmer have gone 0-4 in front of Gordon instead of behind him? Spots 4-9 mustered 1 hit and 2 BBs in 9 innings. They were 0-5 with RISP and only one of those ABs were Gordon's. Yeah, the dude is struggling, but you're talking about shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic here.
  19. KirbyDome89
    4 earned runs in 6 innings is dominant now?
  20. KirbyDome89
    Alcantara is a stud, no doubt, but the Twins mustered 3 singles (one of which was an IF single) in 9 innings. The guy needed 100 pitches to get 27 outs. Those are ABs that "aren't that bad?" I mean c'mon, we can be a little objective here. I'm not choosing to focus on any of the games, hence my comment about us having no clue what this team is. I'm being critical of you labeling the lineup as overperforming, when it very clearly hasn't been. If you want to point to the current record and call scoreboard, ok, but that's a pretty weak supporting argument.
  21. KirbyDome89
    "Every player in the lineup appears to be as advertised or overperforming." They've scored 2 runs or fewer in 4/6 games. Is this satire? We're 6 games into the season. We have no idea who or what this team is.
  22. KirbyDome89
    So then his absence in the field isn't weather related. Pointing that out means I need to relax?
  23. KirbyDome89
    It's been 80+ and sunny the entire time the Twins have been in Miami. I think the weather theory has been debunked.
  24. KirbyDome89
    Yeah, maybe staying at DH means he'll get to 130ish games. I'd still bet the under, but you never know. He's either not 100% (which I kinda doubt) or we're not going to see him in CF often, which sucks for this offense.
  25. KirbyDome89
    Getting a day off isn't surprising, right or wrong he was handled the same way last year. Not playing a single inning in CF while in Miami kinda puts to rest the notion that weather was behind him starting the year at DH.
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