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Game Thread: Twins vs. Detroit 5:10 PM PST (7:10 PM CDT) 8/23/2019

Blake

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Liriano was a pretty good pitcher before Anderson filled his head with doubt

He wasn't terrible with soft tossers and sinker ballers. league changed, he didn't adjust. mostly he didn't have much talent to work with. I think he actually maxed the talent od some of our pitchers. The pitchers were just mostly bad to begin with.

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Liriano was a pretty good pitcher before Anderson filled his head with doubt

Are you sure it wasn't the injury he had in 2006? Looking back, I totally forgot Liriano was starting in Detroit last season, so I guess Anderson kept on doing his "doubt talk" to him.

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He wasn't terrible with soft tossers and sinker ballers. league changed, he didn't adjust. mostly he didn't have much talent to work with. I think he actually maxed the talent od some of our pitchers. The pitchers were just mostly bad to begin with.

I agree, but Liriano was a power pitcher and to try to make him a pitch to contact pitcher is total ignorance
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I agree, but Liriano was a power pitcher and to try to make him a pitch to contact pitcher is total ignorance

I don't know, Liriano's troubles seem to have followed him wherever he went. Career walk rate of 4.0, more losses than wins. etc. He was a superstar, got injured, came back and was no longer even close to the same pitcher.

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I don't know, Liriano's troubles seem to have followed him wherever he went. Career walk rate of 4.0, more losses than wins. etc. He was a superstar, got injured, came back and was no longer even close to the same pitcher.

I just think that Anderson was detrimental to Liriano’s advancement and viewed him as a problem child. Even bad Frankie was a better pitcher than Anderson ever was, and his one size fits all pitching philosophy is not good coaching IMO. You have to be able to recognize each players strengths and weaknesses and work with them individually, in that respect I would call Anderson lazy.
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I just think that Anderson was detrimental to Liriano’s advancement and viewed him as a problem child. Even bad Frankie was a better pitcher than Anderson ever was, and his one size fits all pitching philosophy is not good coaching IMO. You have to be able to recognize each players strengths and weaknesses and work with them individually, in that respect I would call Anderson lazy.

I can agree that I'm glad he's gone.

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