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  1. Darius
    Really huge to answer back with one there.
  2. Darius
    Huge hit by Arraez. Cashing in on situations like that is championship-caliber stuff.
  3. Darius
    Agreed. No chance Pineda is coming out of the rotation. As we speak they’re resting him for the playoffs (He’s not really unable to pitch due to some injury). He’s our best pitcher behind Berrios. Perez should definitely be relegated to the pen. Performance aside, we could use the extra lefty. But, let’s let it play out. We’ve seen this repeatedly. A guy comes up and looks great for 3, 4, 5 starts until he’s figured out. Just watching Smeltzer pitch, I get the feeling that it’s coming (could be wrong).
  4. Darius
    IMO, there isn’t a better baseball uniform out there than the one in the picture. The baby blue Twins throwbacks are tough to beat, but there isn’t a comparable to those Braves throw-backs.
  5. Darius
    Call it luck, or whatever you’d like to call it. But this is the difference between the Astros and Twins right now. They acquire Aaron Sanchez off the scrap heap (6+ ERA) and he comes in and combines for a no hitter. We acquire a guy with a long track record who comes in and nearly blows two games then hits the IL.
  6. Darius
    It would be huge if Gibson could go 7 tonight.
  7. Darius
    Cruz might hit 3 tonight. He nearly had 3 last night. He had 3 in s game mere days ago. He is crushing the ball all over field in every single at bat right now. It’s incredible.
  8. Darius
    His slugging percentage over those 15 games is 1.000.
  9. Darius
    This recent run by Cruz is unreal. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything like it.
  10. Darius
    Cruz is absolutely hammering the ball right now. He probably should’ve had another 3 HR night last night. He almost certainly does in a lot of ballparks. Find me a hitter that’s more fun to watch than Nelson Cruz at his best. There aren’t many walking the planet that can hit lasers like that (his teammates Sano and Rosario when at their best could be in that conversation, actually). He’s putting together one of the best individual offensive seasons in team history right now. He’s not far off of the best single season OPS, OPS+, etc in Twins history.
  11. Darius
    A couple more insurance runs for this bullpen would’ve been nice.
  12. Darius
    Big missed opportunity last night with Cleveland losing. Also, could’ve picked up 1/2 on the Yankees. Bummer.
  13. Darius
    At the end of the day, the bullpen is getting the heat. But, the offense has ample opportunity to answer back to the bottom of the ninth. Bad decisions by the manager. Bad decisions by the FO. Poor pitching performance. All of this could’ve been wiped away by a long ball in the top of the 10th or 11th. That’s what’s going to have to happen for this season to be successful. The offense is the only donkey going up the mountain. It’s really unfortunate that the FO so badly botched this bullpen. But, that’s the reality. Its the only weakness on the team (maybe infield defense as well), and it’s a massive one.
  14. Darius
    Does it really matter that much whether you blow the lead in the 7th or 8th inning as opposed to the 9th inning? These guys are professionals. If you’re that mentally fragile that you succeed or implode based on the number assigned to that particular inning, you probably shouldn’t be at the back end of a major league bullpen to begin with.
  15. Darius
    Sounds like we’re ready to tear down that Baldelli statue that we had built after the first month of his first season.
  16. Darius
    Yep, bullpen is still awful.
  17. Darius
    Also, why did Pineda get pulled with 80 pitches after 6? Did I miss something?
  18. Darius
    Unreal. Giving one back to the Marlins is how you lose the division.
  19. Darius
    Rough first outing for Dyson. I was saying all along that they don’t need to make any trades....
  20. Darius
    I think extending should be top priority. But, I’m not sure he would do it. 1). Not saying this is the case, just a possibility. Do we know he even wants to be here? He wasn’t overly happy with the organization last year. He was very vocal about working with people outside of the organization. Nobody like playing games here when it’s 40 degrees and drizzle for the first month of the season. And so on. 2). He’s going to get paid in arbitration. When the Buxton camp can flop all of those advanced defensive metrics and gold gloves on top of a run of 20-20 seasons with 60 doubles every year....it’ll be a short hearing. 3). When he hits free agency he could cash in and be one of the highest paid in the game. Endorsement deals alone could be massive in a market like New York. From a front office perspective, they may not want to do it either. Getting Buxton signed now could come at such a cost that it causes constraints. We need to come up with nearly an entire staring rotation next year.
  21. Darius
    It’s incredible how much better this team is with Buxton in the lineup. We’ve missed a number of guys for periods of time due to injury throughout the year. The only one that seems to derail the team is Buxton.
  22. Darius
    Are you just talking the metro areas? Because the Twins draw fans from 3 other states (the dakotas and Iowa). The Astros have another MLB team down the road in the same state. I don’t think the size of the market has anything to do with it. They’ve just been a much better team and have marketable players (Verlander, Cole, Springer, Altuve, Correa, etc).
  23. Darius
    I would’ve like to see another decent middle reliever, but I’m thrilled with this move. I think it puts the Twins bullpen in a decent spot without losing a high-end prospect (although Teng could be). I think if anyone a week ago would’ve said we’d get Dyson and Romo without losing a single top 10 prospect (hardly even a top 20), people would’ve been thrilled.
  24. Darius
    This is unbelievable. People can make all the excuses they want, but this comes down to the Pohlads, right? I refuse to believe, if Falvine is actually doing their job, that they couldn’t have reached a deal for a couple of these marginal middle relievers at minimum. There is no explanation that makes this an OK trade deadline.
  25. Darius
    I hope the next homestand starts out with a healthy round of boos from the crowd as the team takes the field.
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