Three cheers for the Twins bullpen.

 

Lineups:

 

Twins:

Brian Dozier 2B

Joe Mauer C

Ryan Doumit DH

Justin Morneau 1B

Trevor Plouffe 3B

Oswaldo Arcia LF

Chris Parmelee RF

Aaron Hicks CF

Pedro Florimon SS

(Samuel Deduno P)

 

Yankees:

Brett Gardner CF

Ichiro Suzuki RF

Robinson Cano 2B

Travis Hafner DH

Zoilo Almonte LF

Lyle Overbay 1B

Chris Stewart C

David Adams 3B

Alberto Gonzalez SS

(Phil Hughes P)

Great title. It seems to me that the Twins beat themselves last night. Let's hope that tonight is different.

"Make the bad man fly mommy!!!!!"

Well, the Hammer is out for two weeks. This really makes the Twins overloaded with LH hitters. Plouffe and Dozier are the Twins only everyday RH hitters, with Doumit, Florimon, and Hicks as switchers. Doumit and Florimon are stronger LH and Hicks RH.

Plouffe and Dozier are the Twins only everyday RH hitters, with Doumit, Florimon, and Hicks as switchers. Doumit and Florimon are stronger LH and Hicks RH.

Believe it or not Florimon's strong side is his right side. According to both coaches and his minor league stats. I'm not sure if that's a really good thing, or a really bad thing.

Almost game time. Assume fetal position.

Almost game time. Assume fetal position.

We've most likely got 6 or 7 innings of false hope to live through first.

Thread title had me bent over laughing. Soon enough the Yanks will have us all bent over.

Thread title had me bent over laughing. Soon enough the Yanks will have us all bent over.

Right.

 

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/albumpicture.php?albumid=209&pictureid=16871

 

courtesy of Snepp

What exactly happened to Dedunos strikeouts? Did that say 24 in 42 innings? Holy teaching to pitch to contact. I guess his walks are way down too..

We've most likely got 6 or 7 innings of false hope to live through first.

 

Gives us plenty of time to debate who will be tongiht's Mike Trombley/Juan Rincon/Phil Cuzzi/Jared Burton.

Gives us plenty of time to debate who will be tongiht's Mike Trombley/Juan Rincon/Phil Cuzzi/Jared Burton.

8 candidates in the pen, I'm sure somebody will step up.

Don't pull anything sprinting down the line, Robbie.

Don't know if anyone else caught this. Doogy says the Twins like Hughes this offseason.

The timing of Hammer's DL stint is pretty good, with the ASG break starting the 15th, but I'll be surprised if he's ready to go at the end of the break.

Zoilo is definitely my favorite Almonte.

Dick: "it really doesn't matter whether Hughes faces LH hitters or RH hitters this year (something about batting average.)"

 

LH hitters vs Hughes: .922 OPS.

 

RH hitters vs Hughes: .652 OPS.

0-2 you gotta throw those curveballs in the dirt man

Liking Deduno's stuff so far.

Dick: "it really doesn't matter whether Hughes faces LH hitters or RH hitters this year (something about batting average.)"

 

LH hitters vs Hughes: .922 OPS.

 

RH hitters vs Hughes: .652 OPS.

 

Maybe he meant Twins batters. As in: "It doesn't matter if he faces LH or RH Twins batters this year, because the Twins will never beat the Yankees again."

Guess you really need to drop the barrel of the bat against Deduno.

Inducing ground balls... throwing breaking balls for strikes... I'm liking this, sam my boy

Dick: "it really doesn't matter whether Hughes faces LH hitters or RH hitters this year (something about batting average.)"

 

LH hitters vs Hughes: .922 OPS.

 

RH hitters vs Hughes: .652 OPS.

 

They both have a '2' in them.

ARod is officially playing baseball again.

ARod is officially playing baseball again.

 

Just in time for a suspension?

Just in time for a suspension?

 

Timing his comeback for the 2015 playoffs. Yankees vs. The Next Great Twins Team

No K's for Deduno through 3. He sucks.

He can't hit left-handed.

No K's for Deduno through 3. He sucks.

 

I'll take 27 tappers to first base.

His GOAL should be to get Hicks over to 3rd? Sometimes I strongly dislike how low of a bar the Twins's announcers set.

 

Edit: Seriously! Bert's analysis is "bad at bat." Guarantee that if Hicks had singled and Florimon had bunted Hicks over, he'd be getting nothing but praise for a great AB...meanwhile, Hicks would still be at 2nd with one out. Ugh.