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  1. Darius
    I find it amusing that you think past RBI count, which is largely dependent on those playing around you, is a better predictor of future success for a player than his on-base and slugging percentage combined, which are the two things the hitter has the most control over.
  2. Darius
    People don’t even know what they’re complaining about with Sami anymore. They just know they feel the need to complain about him. A guy came into my office the other day talking Twins. We lamented their recent play, and he tried to end the conversation with, “maybe when they get rid of Sano they’ll get back on track.” I asked him what he didn’t like about Sano, and it kept coming back to strikeouts. He couldn’t explain why a strikeout was worse than rolling a weak grounder over to short. I then proceeded to ask why he doesn’t want a 26 year old hitting 35 HRs and OPSing .850 from the 7-8 spot in the lineup, and showed him some of the numbers for other guys hitting 7-8 in lineups around the league. He then claimed he’s really been struggling lately, and it’s holidng the team back. Those numbers were due to his hot start. I then showed him his recently ended 11 game hitting streak and 1.300 OPS over that stretch. He was still convinced Sano sucks when he left my office. There is no reason or logic behind this, it’s a bias that some have developed that is so deeply engrained that he could OPS .850 for the whole year and there will still be a group wanting him DFA’d next spring.
  3. Darius
    This is a must-have series. Give this one away with awful defense and pitch selection and we could be out of a playoff spot all together in short order. It’s insane that this is where we are. What an epic collapse (yes playing .500 ball for two months is collapsing for a team once in the hunt for the best record in baseball).
  4. Darius
    The Yankees, Cubs, and most notably Dodgers all have more errors per game this year than the Twins. Errors happen. Sometimes pitchers have to pull a little extra weight and get a hitter out with runners on base. Not excusing it, but the numbers show that other teams commit just as many/more errors and are pulling away from the Twins record-wise like they’re tied to a post. It’s more complicated than an outfielder dropping a fly ball.
  5. Darius
    Disagree. He just got scorched by an 0-2 curveball a few days ago, when my 5 year-old kid could see that Santana wasn’t catching up to his fastball. It cost the Twins two games in the standings that day. One more yesterday. He can’t locate the pitch. Don’t call it when other things are clearly working. A one run game in the 7th inning in the middle of a playoff race isn’t the time hope something to close your eyes and hope something works. A good catcher takes control of things there. You tell the pitcher what he’s throwing. Especially when it’s a guy like May who has no track record to support any credibility.
  6. Darius
    Complaining about pulling Perez is just silly. The guy is not a good pitcher, and an implosion is a matter of time. Everyone would be chastising Baldelli today for leaving him in if he would’ve done so, because Perez would’ve given it away eventually. It seems like the new-age act from Baldelli is wearing thin. Everything looks great when you’re winning two out of every three. It’s time to cope with reality. This team isn’t a great team. Certainly not the best team in the AL like we all started to believe. We’re not even the best team in the division. We won’t even be the best team getting a wildcard spot (if we even get one - a performance like this against Oakland and you can probably stick a fork in the season and start selling guys). The FO should’ve struck while the iron was hot. They have massive culpability here for this thing going off the rails. What an incredible waste of a historic start. Mark my words today, this team will be on the outside looking in come playoff time. What an embarrassment (the defense, the awful pitch selection). Might be time to start thinking about halting production on that bronze statue of Wes Johnson. This pitching staff is as bad as we all thought it was when we were pulling our hair out about the lack of offseason activity. Frankly, I’m getting kind of pissed off with Falvine and Baldelli at this point.
  7. Darius
    We’ve been average since well before the All Star break (since early June). This isn’t a recent development. This house of cards started to fold a long time ago. I don’t care what the “baseball guys” think they know about the trade deadline, Falvine is botching this by not bringing in pitching help. It may be unbotchable at this point. Honestly, I think the Indians are going to blow by us, and it will be over with weeks left in the season. At this point, If they decide to trade some serious prospect talent, and they’ve let this thing get so far out of control that we lose the division or get bounced in the wildcard round, they’re going to look real bad. I think it would be reasonable to start wondering whether they can do this (considering they’re winning with talent primarily acquired under the previous regime). Watching Adrianza throw 60 mph while being down by 10 runs to the lowly Mets is embarrassing. We’re going to swept without seeing DeGrom or Thor. It’s time to concede this nice little run is over.
  8. Darius
    The quality of this take is poor in multiple ways.
  9. Darius
    May is killing this team lately. I get that stuff is there, but he just never seems to get over the hump. Get him out of any sort of high-leverage role ASAP.
  10. Darius
    I think it’s time for Perez to be removed from the rotation. Give Smeltzer or Thorpe a shot until someone can be brought in.
  11. Darius
    Arraez should be playing every day at second base. Schoop is terrible.
  12. Darius
    I’ll believe it when I see it. Ryan used to say there wasn’t any Pohlad imposed limitations that were highly restrictive in terms of payroll. I never bought that company line. I’d love to be proven wrong on this. They’re spending less than I believe they should be right now, IMO. We’ll know the truth in the near future (certainly next offseason when they should be targeting the top starters available).
  13. Darius
    Just when you thought the Indians were out of it, the Twins let them back in. Bad Luck? They gave up the lead right away in the first by playing awful defense. Then, when handed the chance to take the lead back on a silver platter (via walks and HBP), They couldn’t get the ball out of the infield. This team has been playing this way, and giving games away to bad teams, for a while now. It’s coming up in two months of nearly .500 baseball (since the beginning of June, I believe). I have a really hard time buying this as a legitimate World Series contender at this point, especially if Buxton is out for an extended period of time. The respite from being concerned about giving away the division was nice for a few days, though.
  14. Darius
    Almost forgot we were missing Cron. Nice to see he and Rosario back in the lineup. Now, if we could just get Buffon healthy again we may be able to field our optimal lineup for the first time this year (even the Yankees can’t claim that).
  15. Darius
    I’d hope we are setting our sights higher than Wheeler if we’re going to bring in a starter.
  16. Darius
    I think he’s the most valuable. Is he the best? No. But, given the Twins circumstances there probably isn’t a reliever that would be missed more if he were to get injured (wood has been knocked).
  17. Darius
    I feel like they just handed the Indians two games in the standings. Pretty frustrating. The offense dropped the ball, but I just can’t get that hanging curve to Santana from May out of my mind. Morris was literally saying how he shouldn’t throw that pitch under any circumstances right before he threw it. And what is Garver thinking? If he keeps shaking off the fastball, go out and talk to him.
  18. Darius
    That’s getting really frustrating to watch. Two terrible at-bats once a runner gets on.
  19. Darius
    Come on. The win was right there, all they had to do was put the ball in play somewhere. A rested Hand facing Cave, Schoop, and Kepler is curtains. The sweep would’ve been great (and probably should’ve happened), but it’s hard to be upset about the series as a whole.
  20. Darius
    What an awful pitch by May. Why are you even throwing that? Stick with the fastball there.
  21. Darius
    Well, the Indians did everything they could to give the Twins the game and they wouldn’t take it.
  22. Darius
    It looked to me like Polanco was not seeing the ball real well against Perez.
  23. Darius
    Pitchers seemingly have no trouble dealing with Schoop when they bear down in a jam. He’s been awful in situations like that, it seems (maybe decency bias?).
  24. Darius
    The Indians pitchers do such a great job of consistently getting that outside strike early in counts to get ahead. I’ve noticed it the last two nights, that they so consistently hot that spot that the ump starts giving them a little extra room out there. The way they all can get that breaking pitch to stay on the same plane as that fast outside, then dive out of the zone, has been pretty fun to watch as well. Even though we’re winning this series, we’ve had some silly looking strikeouts. This pitching staff is really good. I still think they make the playoffs.
  25. Darius
    Larnach is really raking. 100 hits and 140+ total bases in just over 80 games. His OPS (.845) is actually lower than I would expect. But, he’s got a done of doubles and only 6 HRs. There’s an age old adage about doubles turning into home runs with experience/added strength. The way things have been going with Lewis/Kirilloff, it looks like he may beat them both to the majors. He’s got to get a shot at AA this year, right? It’s not out of the realm of possibilities to see him in September next year.
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