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  1. Rosterman
    The Twins shall showcase Winder, Ober and, hopefully, Varland this weekend in Cleveland (too bad they couldn't get Varland a couple of innings of throws with St. Paul on Sunday or Tuesday). One, we get to see how they fare against a farily strong line-up. I imagine the loser of the three will become long-relief in the pen. The Twins will have to make two roster moves (Sanchez and Cotton). One coming off the 40-man. Although sicne he is healthy and HAS to be out of rehab time, the Twins have to make a decision on Dobnak and the 40-man.
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    I IMAGINE HE WILL BE THE ADD FOR THE DOUBLE-HEADER WITH CLEVELAND, WITH THE OPTION OF SENDING HIM BACK OUT, IF NECESSARY. dDPENDING ON HOW WINDER AND OBER PITCH.
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    I'm not sure about the reasoning of having Moran throw 40+ pitches and the need to have one of your lefties pitch two innings. Go for the "easy" win and use anotehr arm in the 9th.
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    When you start lining up the Top three starters, the closer, maybe two setup guys, and the line-up. The Twins now die in holding baserunners with pitchers AND catchers. They have nothing after the first two rotation arms, but those aren't top arms. The closer has shown weakness. You may have four other decent relievers, but they can't pitch every otehr day. The outfield is in shambles. There is no bench. How do you construct this lineup (Garlick leading off, Kepler batting clean-up). Hamilton has added nothong if you can't use. In September, when you need to play the best baseball ever, playing your worst. Sigh. Big Sigh.
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    Twins keeping Julien at AA hoping he will escape the Rule 5. Shows the Twins system is pretty darn rich. Canterino isn't even shown here (albeit he is out, now, for a season).
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    No one is going anywhere. Blame it all on injuries. I would feel better if the front office wasn't so BIG on saying they were going to be competitive in 2022. They did a big overpay signing, when no other free agents would come here. But something has to be done to keep players from going down, including in the minors.
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    In July the Twins were 10 games above .500 in a division that you could probably win with 85 victories. It actually looked like only one team MIGHT finish above .500. Strange when you play so many games within the division. (Stranger so in the East where all but one have a winning record). The Twins lacked a #1 starter. The rotation got out-of-whack so Ryan wasn't facing the best. But didn't matter. Getting the guys to 30 starts and pushing towards 150 innings for the year was the desire. Which is prep for the NEXT season, not to be competitive this season. Always felt the Twins would burn thru an Ober and Ryan and need to reinforce with, say, a Balazovic and Sands coming in to backend the rotation. In the end, like getting a full season of work out of the staff better. Cave was sitting in St. Paul drawing a major league salary. Umpteen players are on the disabled list, also drawing major league salary and service time. Celestino needed to play at AAA a tad more. The outfield was truly broken. I never considered Lewis a given for 2023. He got his feet wet, and than the Twins - in a need to play someone anywhere but where they may be best to play - broke him. The Twins have Lopez, Duran, Moran, Jax and Thielbar doing well. But they can't pitch every other day. Moran is a lefty (as is Caleb) who can face multiple batters - a plus going into 2023. All those AAAA signings stashed at St. Paul to cycle thru in a spot or two ended up just being more and more of Cotton and Minaya, both released how many times and not able to find work elsewhere. I'm most disappointed in the marketing of the team. Pushed to break 22,000 fans regularly in a gorgeous outdoor stadium, with lots of your players, close games, and all. Maybe it was the lack of vendors! P.S. In the end, the Twins couldn't defeat one of the weakest Yankee lineups ever. Go figure! Home runs, lots of stolen bases!
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    I imagine it was a chance to give both guys playing time, with Lee staying for the playoffs for Cedar Rapids. Yes, often these short advancements is because of a position-to-be-filled need. Usually happeens at catcher. Kyle Schmidt was the past bouncer in the minors. This year it has been Ernie Yake and Frank Nigro.
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    And is Austin Martin still in the mix, perhaps? Would Lewis be a bet to play in the outfield. Who knows how durable Buxton wil
  10. Rosterman
    Why is Dalton Shuffield at the St. Paul Saints and not Brooks Lee, for the final month of the season?
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    Would look like Ober, WInder and Varland pitching against Cleveland. Question is how do they shuffle in Ober (probably for Sanchez after he gets another use in the Bundy start). Varland would be the doubleheader add. The outfield is...pathetic. When Polanco comes back we can see...The Return of Gordon! And, if Kepler is laid up, let's just bring up Wallner...over Contreras (sorry, Mark).
  12. Rosterman
    The Twins are far from a scary lineup. Once again, first and third. Can't put possible stolen base fear with Gordon at first. No one can get at least one runner home. Go figure. The outfield depth is zero. There is no bench. Would Wallner help? Of course, Polanco and Buxton would help. Anyone else in the minors? AZ bench of Caleb and Billy Hamilton, Celestino, and Leon/Sanchez is just not cutting it. Kepler needs to sit. Well, at least all the members of the Twins bullpen got work in this series before the Monday off day. When is Varland coming back? And who gets the 29th call for the Guardians double-header (Smeltzer?). Is Ober gonna be ready for that start? Below .500. Weren't we 10 games over at one point this season?
  13. Rosterman
    I find it interesting advancing Shuffield, a 2022 draft signee, to AAA. Why not Lee? Wallner deserves to be in the majors more than Cave, Billy Hamilton. Especially with the wounded outfield. Put Kepler on the IL and bring in Wallner.
  14. Rosterman
    Kepler batting cleanup? Why not get that extra at bat and have him bat lead-off. Wait, let's have Garlick lead-off and Kepler back second. And, it's only Cleveland. Let's rest Correa, Arraez in the same game.
  15. Rosterman
    Once again, the Twins don't give up! Sands, FOUR walks and two hit batters. Thank goodness for a double play. But talk about a 39 pitch inning with few strikes. We all wanted him out. He ate some innings, gave up anotehr run putting the team deeper in the hole. Good or bad? Well, at that point Baldelli felt it was a B-game and we were to see Megill and Pagan. A game with four pitchers that shouldn't be on any contending team, if you are really contending. But is there replacements? Winder, Ober, Larnach, Jeffers at some point are expected back. 40-man roster spots have to be found for all.
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    I can live with ALL these guys going away (okay, maybe not Encarnacio-Strand - but who knows what the Twins first base/third base needs will be in, say, 2023). I'm happy if Tyler Mahle and Jorge Lopez can give us a 2023 and hopefully eturn in 2024. I would like to sign Michael Fulmer over going to arbitration with Pagan. I would welcome the return of Sandy Leon as minor league depth. I would love seeing him work with our young pitchers at St. Paul - considering the Twins now have 10 candidates for the season rotation, at some point, in 2023.
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    I almost felt the manager gave up but the players didn’t, and then there just isn’t really the offense to keep things happening (we need Polanco and Buxton and even Jeffers). If Kepler is hurt, stop sending him out. Bring up Wallner.
  18. Rosterman
    The joy of the playoffs is that you can get by with 3 or 4 starters. Piggback those guys. But the key will be a healthy and productive lineup. We still need Kepler. We need Jeffers. We don't need Sano.
  19. Rosterman
    Y'know...yes, this is a positive. Seems Sano ahs always been the question in the room. We need to play him at third. We need to bat him higher in the order. Put him in the outfield to get him to play. Finally had to play without him. Do we need him? Nope. The other joy, I dreaded Baldelli having him and Sanchez bat back-to-back in a game, which no doubt would've happened repeatedly, both coming up with the bases loaded and no or one out.
  20. Rosterman
    I'm trying to figure out the pitching order for the rest of the season, if an when Ober and WInder are added back in (at the expense of whom ?), and if Varland can get 3-4 more opportunities to start.
  21. Rosterman
    He was our #1 in order starter to begin, which means he was matched up against better pitchers early on. Not that it means a whole lot if only pitching five innings or so. Mostly a work in progress. He has to master usage of his slider. Just how he spots his fastball, he would have the making of a dynamite closer. But unless he really starts to flounder nd is by-passed by others, he is a solid rotation arm...for now. Mid-order. He also will egt the innings this season, which is a plus. I also notice that he pitches better when he dominates the speed that he delivers a pitch. Maybe the revised pitch clock, batters staying in the box will help him. I like when he seems to have a thjrowing plan and just does it. But, like in his latest start, someone like Aaron Hicks really worked him in the initial at bat, which seemed to throw him off a bit. Plus the base runner pressure he received is soemthing he has to figure out. We forget that he is a rookie. We also have to remember that the pitching rich Rays found him disposable. Which doesn't make him a bad pickup, just not the stud we may think we were getting.
  22. Rosterman
    They did it! Unbelievable!
  23. Rosterman
    Sanchez will not be worth the money he may be seeking. But he may be worth the money he is worth. Chris Williams is showing some...grace. But the last thing the Twins need is a catcher that can play other positions. They need a catcher who can catch. Be interesting to see the status of Ben Rortvedt in the off-season. Does he remain on the Yankees 40-man. Not that would be turning cartwheels to bring him back. Man, that Sandy Leon can sure...bunt.
  24. Rosterman
    When we were looking at Ryan and WInder in the rotation at the beginning of the year, the thought was "what happens when they hit 125 or so innings, who takes their place." Of course, thought Sands, Balazovic, Enlow...whatever. Griffin Jax was the innings workhorse, followed by Sonny Gray, coming into 2022. So, the giving pitchers short starts, which was workable when you were carrying 14 pitchers at seasons beginning and still having the shuttle with St. Paul, you will get 30 starts from the arms and a push towards 150 innings, something to build on in 2023. With the pennant push, and a lineup that has trouble giving you runs, the Twins continue to rely too heavy on bullpen arms, which half-the-time aren't that good. Even the best bullpen pitcher is going to have a bad run thru a couyple of players in a game. Few have been brilliant. The Twins are a .500 team right now, but that is because of injuries, and a lackluster offense at the plate, for the most part. Yes, I want to see rotation arms go into the sixthy (or even 7th), consistently hit the 100 pitch mark. It is a given that even on their best days, a starting pitcher is going to give up runs...be it two runs or four runs in a start. Just like a relief pitcher is going to allow a inherited runner to score, or a pitcher is going to give up a hit or a walk or both in any given inning.
  25. Rosterman
    Mismanaged game. I'm sorry, but getting tired of pulls of a starter. A starting pitcher can give up 1-2-4 runs in a start. That is NOT a bad thing. Six hits, a couple fo walks. 100 pitches. Hamilton is a pinch runner. You want him, especially if you get to an extra inning, to be that runner on second. The love of Megill. Put on the 40-man in the off season. Managed to be gone, then back on. Okay bullpen arm, but not when contending. Sorry. Placesetter. I would've gone with Moran, or Davis.
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