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He is the Cy Young of position players.

Gimenez pitching to Escobar. They are not even using signs. More like batting practice than pitching, but got 3 outs without a walk or a hit.

Nice double by Buxton. A Dozier home run can cut the lead to 6.

I am back from the game. I cheered so hard during the 9th inning that my throat is sore.

You make some good points, but let's hope that tomorrow Berrios can go 8 or 9 innings and turn this around. The Twins are coming to Anaheim soon and I hate that damn rally monkey.

Rucinski is not getting it done, but I see no reason not to now put in Wheeler .

I ran out of likes a while ago, but this is a great post.

Players.

Moderator note - this game is infuriating but please tone down the name calling.

For the love of God please bring in one of the young guys.

I want to see Buxton's right hand. If the laceration is not severe then a band aid would have avoided that missed catch by Rosario.

I hope that our batters spent some time in the cage during the rain delay. We could use runs in the bottom of the 8th.

At least warm up one of them and see how his pitches look.

I am starting to worry. Someone needs to be warming up.

Agreed. And clearly he know more than I do. This illustrates how we fans can be completely wrong.

I respectfully disagree with Erv coming back out. He looked tired last inning.

I would like him to stay in for his defense. I suspect that he may be injured.

Today would be a great day for lots of insurance runs. The bullpen is gassed and it would be nice to deplete the Houston bullpen so that they are gassed tomorrow.

Great final pitch by Erv. WHEW.

Erv looks tired.

It appears that the Twins may now be leaning towards Wright -- http://m.mlb.com/news/article/232496282/jim-callis-mock-projection-2017-mlb-draft/

I would be interested to know how McKay, Wright and Gore pitched when they were seniors in high school in comparison with Greene. I also hope that the Twins are spending a huge amount of effort studying the pitching motions of all of these prospects, with input from top experts to project durability as best they can. I hope that they pick Greene, but only if they determine that his pitching motion is consistent with durability and that Greene seems likely to be able to develop better secondary pitches (and a fastball with better movement). Greene is raw, but that also means that he may benefit more from great coaching, because he has had less time to develop bad habits. I live in the Los Angeles area and have friends who have some remote association with Greene, including a friend whose son is on Greene's HS team. I am hearing is that Greene's father has been proactive in protecting Greene's arm against overuse. If this is true and the kid has as good a makeup as some people think, then I would pick him, but only with a commitment to expend the resources necessary to give him the best possible development. However, I am almost certainly missing a lot of important factors, because I am not spending the hundreds of hours of hard work that, hopefully, the Twins are spending on this. It's fun to discuss this on TD, but the FO has access to far more information than we do, including slow motion videos that can be shown to multiple experts, and detailed research regarding each prospect's character and attitude, including discussions with their coaches and teammates. We see only the part of the iceberg that is above the waterline. Hopefully the Twins are sending people under the iceberg and spending hundreds of person hours studying every angle as to all of these prospects. If I were Falvine, I would want to know everything that might possibly be relevant, and have my army of scouts and analysts working 12 hours per day on this.

Moderator note -- some people are trolling in this thread. I have deleted their posts and we will start issuing infraction points if this continues.

I hope that the Twins are opportunistic. If they can make a solid deal then they should make one, but I would hope that it's for a player who can be around for at least a few years.

I missed all of this, but am liking the score. As always, insurance runs would be appreciated.