GAME THREAD: Guardians v Twins, 8/18 @ 12:10pm CT

[bighat]

5 minutes ago, jun said:

Please no more Colome next season. What a disaster.

He's on a 1 year contract and there's not a snowball's chance in heck he'll be back. He might find a job but he's going to take a paycut and it's not going to be in Minnesota.

Doesn't help us the remainder of this year, unfortunately!

[h2oface]

We just keep seeing team after team have late inning heat, and we got nothing.

[h2oface]

1 minute ago, bighat said:

He's on a 1 year contract and there's not a snowball's chance in heck he'll be back. He might find a job but he's going to take a paycut and it's not going to be in Minnesota.

Doesn't help us the remainder of this year, unfortunately!

Just get him out of town. NOW. No one really want to see him anymore. Regardless of a streak he may go on. No one that pays for the games wants to see Colome. It is just punishing the fans to make us watch him and to give him more chances to blow more games. You can't trade him. He has no future here and no future value. His is a dead man walking. Just release him immediately if not sooner.

[h2oface]

Duffey rarely hits 95 anymore. A 2 pitch pitcher that has lost his velo and control.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

2 hours ago, ashbury said:

Go ahead. Have three.

Mmmm!

 

Onions have layers, so i hear.

[Cap'n Piranha]

43 minutes ago, LVTwinsfan said:

Still he’s not worth waiting for, but tell me I’m silly again and see if that changes my mind

With all the data and evidence you've presented here, I'm totally convinced.

[h2oface]

92 mph out of control fastballs.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

5 hours ago, Otto von Ballpark said:

Career .452 hitter Glenn Williams!

I think LHP Brad Thomas and 1B Justin Huber round out the Australian contingent of Twins MLB players.

Concur.

 

He had a hit each* game he played (and some of 'em pinch hits) sadly his career ended up 13 games long or so...

 

 

*every if you prefer.

[bighat]

Tyler Duffey is quite the millstone around the FO's neck also. Alas, I foresee them running him out in the same role next year. I don't know why we'd expect different results.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Just now, bighat said:

Tyler Duffey is quite the millstone around the FO's neck also. Alas, I foresee them running him out in the same role next year. I don't know why we'd expect different results.

I have no problem with the front office keeping Duffey but the smarter play is to bump him down to the fifth or sixth bullpen spot.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

7 minutes ago, h2oface said:

Duffey rarely hits 95 anymore. A 2 pitch pitcher that has lost his velo and control.

He got us out of the inning.

 

Who could ask for anything more?

[Brock Beauchamp]

Okay, Twins with the big advantage going into the bottom of the inning, which means they will do everything in their power not to exploit that advantage.

[jun]

Duffey did his job.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I caught up with the thread.

 

Now i should look over the play by play...

[Brock Beauchamp]

Perfect scenario here: Arraez up, Refsnyder on second.

How will the Twins overcome this situation and find a way to fail?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Refsnyder!

 

His name starts with Re and ends with er, and i feel vaguely disappointed it isn't palindromic... but it has more aesthetically pleasing symmetry than many names.

 

All that to say it is fitting to see him on second.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Oh, damn it all.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

1 minute ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Perfect scenario here: Arraez up, Refsnyder on second.

How will the Twins overcome this situation and find a way to fail?

A credit to the 3rd baseman rather than any blame on Arraez.

 

That was well struck.

[Brock Beauchamp]

That was a stellar play, though.

[chpettit19]

That's a great catch at 3rd. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

I do not understand walking Sanó in that situation.

[h2oface]

Hittable pitches. Damn. We needed that Gordon.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Just now, h2oface said:

Hittable pitches. Damn. We needed that Gordon.

Yeah, that was a pretty terrible plate appearance.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Oh, for ****'s sake.

Cleveland deserves a W for their defense that inning.

[h2oface]

That puts Jeffers on 2 to start the bottom of the 11th. I guess Refsnyder is not the DH? Can you sub for the DH or do you lose it?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Just now, Brock Beauchamp said:

Oh, for ****'s sake.

Cleveland deserves a W for their defense that inning.

It was pretty impressive!

[Brock Beauchamp]

Yep, the Twins season in a nutshell:

Arraez ball: .650 xBA

Jeffers ball: .550 xBA

[h2oface]

1 minute ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Oh, for ****'s sake.

Cleveland deserves a W for their defense that inning.

A catch like Cave didn't make, Straw does, and saves the gave for Cleveland.

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, h2oface said:

That puts Jeffers on 2 to start the bottom of the 11th. I guess Refsnyder is not the DH? Can you sub for the DH or do you lose it?

Lose it.

[Cap'n Piranha]

Just now, h2oface said:

A catch like Cave didn't make, Straw does, and saves the gave for Cleveland.

For now. (pending further action).