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  1. yarnivek1972
    How is it that I only watching via gameday can tell Odorizzi was pitching terribly yet the field staff can’t see what is happening right in front of them? He should have been yanked after the 4th. He NEVER does well third time through the lineup. EVER! If this turns into a loss, it is squarely on MOY.
  2. yarnivek1972
    Up, up, up. Not a single pitch in that at bat was below the belt, let alone the knees. Good thing the Rays are bad. A good hitting team would have like 10 runs by now.
  3. yarnivek1972
    Memo to Odorizzi: At 90 MPH, you aren’t going to “blow it by” any MLB hitter. Maybe don’t pitch there?
  4. yarnivek1972
    Hey, 7 run lead. Maybe give Pressly a night off?
  5. yarnivek1972
    Hard to believe this is the same guy with 3 walks in his last 3 starts. He’s not close to hitting his spots.
  6. yarnivek1972
    Odorizzi is leaving everything up. The Rays have a bad lineup, but even AAA hitters will be able to hit the ball where he is throwing it.
  7. yarnivek1972
    Put more effort into making the players they have better? Teams do that. Teams that win do that a lot.
  8. yarnivek1972
    The Twins are just as likely to get outbid for Realmuto as for a FA because they lack high end prospects that they can afford to lose.
  9. yarnivek1972
    This exactly. Mauer isn’t going to HELP the Twins win in 2019 or thereafter. Indeed, it would be pretty safe to bet that his pressence on the roster would be a hinderence to winning. He knows he simply isn’t capable of playing even 130 games anymore. And I am sure he is well aware of the level of productivity he provides when he IS on the field. Quite frankly, if he chooses to hold “legacy” or whatever over the Twins heads I think that would be pretty selfish. What possible reason does he have to keep playing? Put it one more way: How will fans look at Joe Mauer 10-20 years from now if this core gets oh so close, but maybe one big bat in the middle would have put them over the top. But, the Twins couldn’t get that bat onto the team because he was blocked by Joe Mauer. The Twins wasted the prime years of Mauer, Morneau and Santana by not putting enough around them. Will fans really accept this team making that same mistake again?
  10. yarnivek1972
    And how has that worked out? Maybe I should rephrase: you can’t do that and expect to be a good team. And no, the Twins were not good in 2017. They were merely less bad than some teams.
  11. yarnivek1972
    It makes more sense to me to pay that than pay $6 mil and $10 mil the next two years to Realmuto in arbitration AND lose top prospects. This organization needs more prospects, not fewer. Their core is always going to be built around homegrown talent. Frankly, that’s the case for most teams.
  12. yarnivek1972
    I’ll keep saying this because no one seems to agree, you just CAN’T do that in this era of 13 man pitching staffs. It simply isn’t workable to have a guy who you know won’t be available (but still be on your active roster) for upwards of 1/3 of the games. Especially when that player’s production is FAR lower than average for his position. Even Joe Mauer at his best over the last 5 years (2017) was a below average first baseman offensively. He posted a 116 wRC+ last year which was 19th of 28 qualified first basemen. And that is the BEST he has been in 5 years. Keeping him would be foolish IMO. I would seriously rather roll with Cave at DH until Rooker is ready.
  13. yarnivek1972
    That was my point. Such a player does not exist. That’s another reason why I think Sano plays either 1B or DH the overwhelming majority of the time going forward meaning the Twins pretty much have to keep Escobar to play 3B.
  14. yarnivek1972
    Because Reusse isn’t known to pile the bulls@@it either...
  15. yarnivek1972
    Duda and Adams are both lefty hitters. Both have rather pronounced lefty righty splits, especially Duda. It seems to me the Twins would want to be pursuing a guy that can do damage against LHP.
  16. yarnivek1972
    Here’s the FA for 1b/dh. https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/free-agents/1st-base/ Let us know which one you want to go after.
  17. yarnivek1972
    Still trying to figure out how Pressly on 0 rest over Hildenberger on 2 days rest made sense to MOY.
  18. yarnivek1972
    It would help Escobar’s case if he was actually good defensively anywhere. Of course, Dozier is not a gold glove second baseman anymore either. The answer is Sano sticking at third base for the next 4-5 years, but the chances of that are 0% IMO. Then the Twins could figure out who between Polanco and Gordon they want at SS until Lewis is ready in 4-5 years. That would “solve” the problem. Let them both walk and roll with Adrianza as your reserve. That would be fine IF Sano stayed healthy, played serviceably at third AND Gordon was ready by 2019 AND Polanco stays about at his career norm. But, how likely is that. If “ands” and “buts” were candy and nuts...
  19. yarnivek1972
    The sooner this organization comes to the realization that Miguel Sano has no business playing third base, the better off it will be. Over the last two years, he’s literally been one of the worst defensively. True enough that Escobar has technically been slightly worse. However, Escobar has been hitting while Sano has not. And, Escobar makes up for astoundingly poor range by being pretty sure handed with the balls he gets to. Sano has better range than Escobar (but still very bad) and then compounds it with way too many errors. In an era where errors are barely called, that Sano makes so many is clearly concerning.
  20. yarnivek1972
    Geez, 45 pitches. 3 outs.
  21. yarnivek1972
    I’ll bet Rosario gets there as an injury replacement for someone.
  22. yarnivek1972
    Right, but Johan was clearly the best pitcher in MLB for a 3 year span and the runner up was not even close. For Bert’s best 6 years he was statistically the best, but really not by much. As to who was better overall at their peak is really hard to say even with ERA+ and WAR etc. I think if you were looking for a guy to give you one big game to dominate an opponent, I think you want Johan. If you want a guy that can give you a chance to win 30 times a year or more, that’s probably Bert.
  23. yarnivek1972
    Sure, year in and year out he was consistently great over that span. The problem was that other than arguably 1973 he was never THE best in one single year. And again, look at the other names in the top 10 on that list. Hall of Famers, multiple Cy Youngs. And largely guys that played on better teams. That mattered to the voters of the day. Things like ERA+, WAR, etc was beyond their understanding.
  24. yarnivek1972
    Johan was the best the Twins had relative to the rest of the league. There’s a reason why Bert never got much Cy Young consideration (other than being on some low win total teams). Those reasons were mostly Seaver, Carlton, Ryan, Jenkins and others who’s names I’m blanking on. There were a lot of all time great pitchers in Bert’s era. That’s a big part of why it took so long to get him in. He was probably the least accomplished of his peer group. It was just an exceptional group. Kinda like comparing Vince Coleman and Tim Raines with Rickey Hendeseon. Just because Raines and Coleman weren’t as good as Rickey, doesn’t mean they weren’t great.
  25. yarnivek1972
    I think he’ll be up after the Fort Myers season is over. I guess I don’t know for sure, but I would think they would be pretty much shut down at that point. Do they have players or staff there year ‘round?
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