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  1. Respy

    Sano

    Respy replied to Doomtints's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk

    To the best of my knowledge, I don't recall anyone official stating when they expected him back. Regarding the injury, I'm no doctor, but I had a similar injury in high school. Sano has a 'stress reaction' in his shin. Mine was never officially diagnosed, because X-Ray didn't reveal anything, but that's kind of the point of a stress reaction: It's a precursor to a bone fracture, that can't be observed because it's too small. It can be in the muscle near the bone, in the bone tissue, or the bone itself. It needs to heal 'enough' so that it doesn't get worse when he performs baseball activities (which he's not there yet). But, considering you can't see it in the first place, the only thing to do is give it time and keep testing it. He keeps reporting soreness after activities, so his is not healed enough yet. Honestly at this point I hope the Twins can clinch the Wild Card spot and have a game or two to give Sano a chance to work on his timing during worthless at bats, before the Wild Card game. You can expect that if he plays again this year, it will be at DH only and not at third base.
  2. Respy
    Well at least the Angels lost again, and not a single wild card contention team (other than the Yankees) has won 5 games in their last 10.
  3. Respy
    Let's hope they get the game in. A scrappy, rain-soaked game I think would favor the Twins, as the Yankee baby boppers in Judge and Sanchez will have a harder time in that weather. Twins already likely to be scrapping against nemesis CC Sabathia. Good luck to the Twins. Bad luck to the Angels.
  4. Respy
    Just curious, as I've always felt that a part of the MLB All-Star voting doesn't just have to do with numbers, but more-so who I would rather watch play in an All-Star game. Call it an 'excitement factor.' It would be my guess that maybe Ted weighed more heavily on this based on his choices, but did any of the writers use this as consideration, or was it mostly stats?
  5. Respy
    Nope. But how did I miss this gem?
  6. Respy
    And the comeback player of the year goes to.... Buxton, Rosario, Mauer, Escobar, Sano, Santana. Impressive number of players really stepping it up this year.
  7. Respy
    Well the Twins should hopefully have a deep scouting report on Garcia for tonight. They need to win this one with Santana on the mound. I don't like our odds the following two days with Berrios against Sabathia (who we never beat) and Colon (who has not pitched well at Yankee stadium the last few years) against Tanaka.
  8. Respy
    I was so excited to see the forecast gradually improving all week...until today it popped back up to 80% rain with scattered strong thunderstorms. What to do if we're unable to 'crawl' and if the game is postponed? Any TwinsDaily bar crawl precedence for this?
  9. Respy
    I could go either way on this. Despite his recent resurgence and our young arms coming up through the system, and May returning next year, I'm inclined to say we should end the Gibson era. But realistically, if we could get him for $4M and only need to commit 1 year, that's a pretty darn decent price for a *reliable* back-of-the-rotation starter. If he craps out next year, they'll need to eat the money. If he does decent and the Twins are out of contention next mid-summer, they could flip him for a prospect.
  10. Respy
    Tonight will be an interesting matchup for the hot Twins offense against a hot pitcher in Lamet. The young fireballer has an ERA in the mid 2's since the All-Star break, and well over a K per inning. Twins need to make sure they take the walks he will give, then come through with RISP.
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    I know there was some talk in the offseason over whether to bring back Escobar via arbitration, or just non-tender him. Overall, he's been a necessary piece both on the piece and in the clubhouse. His numbers never pop, but he can go on short streaks or completely dominate a game. He's been especially valuable filling in when Sano has been out or benched, and also when there's an opposing lefty starter. That said, it will be hard again going into this offseason to say whether he should be on the roster next year.
  12. Respy
    Well, it was the right move there and I'm sure Joe didn't mind at all. It might be different if Joe had a 35-game hit streak.
  13. Respy
    "According to the Official Baseball Rules, such a streak is ended when a player has at least 1 plate appearance and no hits. A streak shall not be terminated if all official plate appearances result in a base on balls, hit by pitch, defensive interference or a sacrifice bunt."
  14. Respy
    Wow first run allowed by Cishek for the Rays in 19 appearances this year.
  15. Respy
    Wow the quote by Provus on the radio: "That was a bad swing. Kenny looked like he was swatting at a wasp with a rolled up newspaper."
  16. Respy
    Just saw the video replay. As he squared to bunt, his foot was way out of the batter's box, practically right behind the plate. Then he lifted it slightly and it was hit by the pitch. Is one allowed to be hit by pitch in the foot when the foot is nowhere near the batter's box?
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    I recall several times hearing that Nathan was acquired because the Twins scouts thought that Joe Nathan could be an upper-level reliever despite never having pitched in that role prior to the acquisition. I remember years ago I called in on the WCCO radio show when they were interviewing Terry Ryan, and they fielded my question: What in particular are you looking for, especially in the case of Joe Nathan, that you think best allows a player to go from mediocre or bad starter, to good or elite reliever, other than not having a choice because they are incapable of being a starter? I think I threw Juan Rincon's name in that mix too. He was unable to provide any kind of discernible answer. It'll go down as a great Twins trade, but I've never been convinced that Nathan's success as a reliever/closer was much more than luck on the scout's and Front Office's part.
  18. Respy
    And on top of that, let's presume they win a wild card spot, they win the wild card game (which they will probably make every effort to start Santana or Berrios), that throws the Division Round rotation out of whack because Santana and Berrios can't be 1-2 anymore. So if you had the choice, which would you throw out for the wild card game and only 1 game of the Division Round, and which would you throw out for Games 1 and 5 of the Division Round?
  19. Respy
    Well he's on the current 25-man, and playoff roster eligibilities are funky (they can't necessarily just swap Perkins with anyone they please), unless Perkins gets put back on the disabled list to finish the year. So I'd say there's a reasonably good chance he would be on hypothetical playoff roster.
  20. Respy
    My first as well. I noticed Ray J's is a bit far from Target Field. I live far outside the city, so I'll personally be taking the Metro Transit to the field and then I'll brunt the long walk if the weather is nice, Uber if it's raining. Then plan to follow the stumbling crowd after that!
  21. Respy
    With Castro concussion-ized, would you want Garver catching Dickey? Personally that makes me cringe.
  22. Respy
    So who's going to hit 3 homeruns today?
  23. Respy
    Ordered! First?
  24. Respy
    People forget that the goal for most pitchers nowadays is not 200 innings. Especially strikeout pitchers. Say one is averaging 5 innings a start, and 32 starts over a full season, that's 160 innings. My best guess is that since Romero pitched 90 last year, and I'd aim for getting him to 160 next year, that this year should be the average of the two, which is 125 innings. And amazingly, he's at 125.0 innings for the year. I'd be shocked if he pitched in the AA playoffs or relief for the Twins. I'd be surprised if he pitched the rest of the regular season at regular rest, which I'd presume is two more starts (August 29 and September 3). I'd expect he makes 0 or 1 more start and be done for the season. I'm OK with that.
  25. Respy
    So the pub crawl is before the game?
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