Article: Game Thread: Twins v Royals, 8/12 @ 7:10pm CT

[ashbury]

Thats why we trade for guys like Santiago. Cold blooded killer with men on base..  Non-tenderable contract.

ftfy

[ashbury]

I hope this hot streak last for a couple years as opposed to a couple months per usual for Dozier

The team we trade him to this off-season will be counting on it.

[twinssporto]

 

Is there anything more meaningless than nfl preseason games?

That being said, THIS is the Vikings year. This one, not like those other ones we thought were the year.

In all seriousness, I would fly out to MN if they win the super bowl.

I heard Twins Daily will pay for out of state fans flights and accommodations.  Just a rumor I heard but probably true...

[ashbury]

Turns out Plouffe has the same first and middle names as Jeter. Pasta, and Diving.

[ashbury]

Gibson's command of his pitches just comes and goes. Right now it's ebb tide again.

[LaBombo]

Most people have probably made up their minds about bringing back Molitor and/or Antony, but my guess is that we could remove all doubt by asking them to explain what it is that they hope to accomplish by starting Trevor Plouffe at third base.

 

Edit: Ash helpfully pointed out that Sano's throwing elbow is under the weather, so I guess I'll wait until he's 100% before sharpening the pitchfork and fueling up the torch.

Edited August 13, 2016 by LaBombo

[ashbury]

That DP ball hit to Polanco, which didn't get turned, might be the kind of thing that counts against him if indeed the jury is still out on him at SS. Just a momentary hesitation to toss it to Dozier, who in turn had to hesitate because the incoming runner was so close. Game of inches.

[Comrade Bork]

The team we trade him to this off-season will be counting on it.

Only cause they will be an NL team and the pitchers will refuse to accept the fact that a high inside fastball can be hit that far in such warm humid air.

[ashbury]

Most people have probably made up their minds about bringing back Molitor and/or Antony, but my guess is that we could remove all doubt by asking them to explain what it is that they hope to accomplish by starting Trevor Plouffe at third base.

There was a note somewhere that Sano's throwing elbow is sore, so they are taking it easy on him. Now, if Escobar instead of Plouffe is your preference, this information isn't pertinent; but then the choice is not strategic either.

[ashbury]

Timely strikeout for out number 2.

[Comrade Bork]

Take a jog.

[ashbury]

Smart at bat against Morales. "If you walk him you walk him" is hell on the pitch count though.

[USAFChief]

I gotta believe at least one of those pitches in the dirt gets by Centeno.

[Aggies7]

Watching Gibson pitch is what I imagine child birth is like

Edited August 13, 2016 by Aggies7

[Comrade Bork]

What a dagger

[Aggies7]

Ha, couldn't have happened any other way

[ashbury]

Zuke's calling a good inning this inning, IMO. Comes down to Gibby executing the pitches they have agreed on; he sometimes isn't close, and Zuke has ceased calling for the curve as far as I've noticed.

 

And then Perez gets a damn flare. Sometimes you do things right and it doesn't work out.

[Jham]

Plouffe should have turned and ran after that ball instead of backpedaling...

[Jham]

Does Gibson tip his pitches?  His slider has a ton of table-top break to it, and his fastball has run, yet the K's never came to the extent projected as a prospect.

[Aggies7]

This is excruciating

[h2oface]

Plouffe trying real hard to make this game memorable.

 

[USAFChief]

 

Watching Gibson pitch is what I imagine child birth is like

Best done heavily sedated?

[ashbury]

Plouffe should have turned and ran after that ball instead of backpedaling...

Good news, if any: Sano doesn't make the play either.

 

Maybe Polanco does though? Escobar? _{^{(Nunez? )}}

[Comrade Bork]

Plouffe should have turned and ran after that ball instead of backpedaling...

Straight at him over the shoulder catch? Idk tough to say.

[Aggies7]

Best done heavily sedated?

Best not looked at.

[ashbury]

Does Gibson tip his pitches?  His slider has a ton of table-top break to it, and his fastball has run, yet the K's never came to the extent projected as a prospect.

It's possible. I'm no good at looking for signs of it, are you?

 

I've chalked it up to his command. The curve sometimes stops biting, the fastball doesn't go where he aims it, the slider is so far outside it won't tempt even some team's Rosario clone.

[USAFChief]

 

Does Gibson tip his pitches?  His slider has a ton of table-top break to it, and his fastball has run, yet the K's never came to the extent projected as a prospect.

I'd say about every third slider has a ton of break to it...of the other two, one is buried in the LH batter's box out of his hand, so it never induces a swing and miss, and one is flat and tumbles in somewhere around thigh high near the middle of the plate.

 

Same for his fastball "run."  Inconsistent, and he doesn't have the stuff to leave fastballs anywhere near the middle and get away with it very often.

[ashbury]

Watching Gibson pitch is what I imagine child birth is like

We suffer a real dearth of experts on this subject at this site, otherwise I think someone would kindly set you straight on it real quick-like. Mrs Ash, for instance, but I can't persuade her to get a login here.

[Riverbrian]

 

Plouffe should have turned and ran after that ball instead of backpedaling...

 

 

I turn on the TV and I see a bases loaded bloop barely passed the infield dirt and Plouffe playing a fairly deep 3B...  intermittently back pedaling. 

 

I had to rewind and look at it about 10 times and it bothered me more each time. 

 

That ball has no business landing. 

 

When you look at how much ground Polanco covered to almost get to the ball and the small amount of ground that Plouffe would have had to cover. 

 

I understand that he obviously mis-judged it...but... That ball was misplayed as badly as any of the dropped pop ups by Sano. 

 

 

[Deduno Abides]

I heard Twins Daily will pay for out of state fans flights and accommodations.  Just a rumor I heard but probably true...

Many people are saying that.