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  1. Darius
    This lineup is starting to settle in, I think. Sano is an MVP candidate. Mauer is very sharp. Kepler gets better every night. I think Grossman might be for real. Guys like Rosario and Buxton are taking decent ABs. If Dozier goes on another tear at some point, it could be extremely fun to watch.
  2. Darius
    Mauer's resurgence continues
  3. Darius
    I feel a complete game shutout coming on for Gibson.
  4. Darius
    Definitely some hard luck involved here. Guys like May, Burdi, Jay, and Chagrois should probably be here to go with Duffey, Kintzler, etc, which makes a nice looking 'pen on paper. That said....they should've brought in another free agent in the offseason. Everyone on Earth knew it. A few million bucks might be the difference between making the playoff and not this year.
  5. Darius
    Tim Laudner.,,,
  6. Darius
    Really disappointing. There was a stretch recently in which he looked elite. Oh well, it was a good run while it lasted. This pitching staff is in a full-on, unrecoverable, death spiral. The season is over.
  7. Darius
    I can't put any of it on Molitor. The team was in some very favorable positions late in the game, and the players didn't execute. Twice, there were runners on third with less than two out to win the game. One with the fastest player in the League (arguably) on third. You have to be able to put a ball in play and cash one of those in.
  8. Darius
    What an awful loss.
  9. Darius
    No Sano for the second straight day. Interesting.
  10. Darius
    The way I look at it: He (Mejia) and Gibson are so important. They both have the ability. If they can be relatively good the rest of the way, this is a playoff team. If they struggle, it may not be. I'll take Mejia's start yesterday every time. That'll keep the team in the W column often enough.
  11. Darius
    This is exactly what they need Mejia to do going forward. I'd be happy with that.
  12. Darius
    It's hard for me to say much at this point: after all, this team is succeeding totally on the backs of players brought in by the previous regime. I don't think it takes an analytics to figure out where to put Miguel Sano or Max Kepler in this lineup. Maybe it's helped incrementally here or there with Santana's pitch selection, etc. Something interesting from Gleeman and Bonnes' podcast recently: Sano, Polanco, and Kepler were all signed by Bill Smith. Not saying Smith should still be the GM by any means, but if any FO individual is going to get credit for the team's success this year...,it should probably be him.
  13. Darius
    That's probably the game with Archer on the hump.
  14. Darius
    Archer is a really good pitcher. Not too many better in the game right now. He throws his slider harder than anyone in the Twins' rotation throws a fastball.
  15. Darius
    A lot of the guys you mentioned are free agents at the end of the year, and/or not guys who will help us much anyway. I don't want to send a Gordon, for example, for a rental that'll do nothing for us. I still think Duffey should've been given a rotation spot, and Hughes should've been eased back slowly out of the 'pen. It didn't take The Hubble Telescope to see Hughes shouldn't be in the mix. I'm still not ready to give up on Gibson. His last start was really fluky, and was a little better than the stat line looked. Still too many mistakes, but rolling a 4th/5th starter out with his stuff could workout very nicely. Hopefully he stint in the minors was a shock to his system, and will get him straightened out. I also think Mejia has the stuff to be a decent back-end guy, and him being a lefty helps. Adding a guy like Ian Kennedy, and his 5.2 FIP this year, and 4.2 career (for reference, Kyle Gibson's career FIP is 4.2) isn't helping anybody get anywhere. Getting more bad pitchers on bad contracts is exactly the opposite of what the youngest team in baseball should be doing. We don't need to add another boat anchor, like Hughes, to this rotation that they'll be compelled to run out there year after year because he's making 10 mil per year.
  16. Darius
    This is team is way too flawed to even consider making a run at a World Series. I don't think adding one starter will change that. The season isn't a quarter of the way over, and we're a half-game up of the struggling defending AL champs, in arguably the worst division in baseball, with 8 wins against one of the worst team in baseball. Let's not get carried away, here. This team's roster is set up to make a serious run a couple of years from now. Some of those prospective pieces are still in the minors (Gordon, Burdi, Romero, Gonsalves, etc). Who do you trade for a SP rental? Gordon? Any other prospect close to scratching any top 100 lists are currently hurt, or returning from injury. Not sure you can just go out and get a legit SP that easily. I don't want to mortgage a potential powerhouse in a couple of years from for a pipe dream now. I'd still like to see them try and get some young starting pitching for guys like Santana, Dozier, Grossman, etc. Then, get aggressive in free agency, and really load up for 2018-19.
  17. Darius
    Perfect timing from Morris, there. That's pretty funny.
  18. Darius
    Just caught Berrios' second in info in my lunch break. He looks great again. Something I noticed about him is that he looks different physically than he did last year. He's a brick s-house. Last year he still looked like a kid.
  19. Darius
    This Sano guy is a decent ball player
  20. Darius
    That was a very inning. If he could locate like that consistently, he'd be great.
  21. Darius
    Exexuting with runners in scoring position? Where am I? What year is it?
  22. Darius
    Well if that base-bounce doesn't tell you what kind of night it's been for Gibson.... A bobbled double-play ball, a dropped tag by the catcher, and a freak bounce off of a base are the difference between 6 runs after 5, and getting through 5 shutout inning with about 50 pitches. He's made some bad pitches, for sure, that have compounded the issue. He's not blameless. But, he hasn't pitched nearly as bad assome like to make it sound.
  23. Darius
    When you have to throw 30 pitches in an inning because the defense gives them 5 outs, you're going to make a mistake eventually. I don't care if you're Kyle Gibson or Bob Gibson.
  24. Darius
    Gibson probably wondering if he can bring Rochester's defense up with him for the next start.
  25. Darius
    That run is on Dozier.
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