Game Score: Twins 5, Tigers 2

"as the pitching staff continues its excellence"

hack, cough, {Colome}

but mostly true. They are on a heck of a roll.

Unless they spend $6-8M on someone they like better, Pineda will be back as a veteran #3-4 part of the rotation. He's not special. But when on the mound, he's been good to very good for 3yrs now. 

PLEASE find a way to agree on an extension for Buxton. At some point you have to gamble a bit in hope of winning. The kid just dominates and makes a difference in so many ways when he's in the lineup. Again, it's a bit of a gamble. But you just have to find a way to make it work.

Polanco is a STUD! PERIOD! 

Amazing how this team has played .500 ball and beaten or held serve against top teams since trading away our top hitter and pitcher. This confirms what I've felt for some time now.

1] Real money spent on ONE GUY, probably Stoman,  to head your rotation.

2] Trade or splurge on a 1yr deal for a #2, but keep the roster in place.

3] With apologies to our current coaches, but bring in someone who can communicate a different approach other than bombas. Homers are awesome! But we can't just live by ONE big inning. The talent on hand, including a healthy Kirilloff as well as Larnach and Miranda coming up, is fine. And K's are just part of today's game. But there just HAS to be a way to take the talent on hand and provide more efficiency.

4] I have issues with some things Rocco has done. Never more than this season. I think he's still growing in to his position. But PLEASE, give him a bench coach with experience who can get in his ear and advise him on a few things he might not be seeing clearly. I think Shelton did that. I think Bell might have been that guy. And I don't know who THE GUY might be, but Rocco needs a smart,  maybe veteran guy, who he can respect to hold the reigns a bit.

Extremely well said, sir. Especially the part about giving Rocco an experienced bench coach. Well, all of it well said.

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We're trying to finish strong.

Well, if we win our last four games, we could tie Detroit and Kansas City for last place in the American League Central Division.  How about that? ?

They are finishing better.  Just hurts to think where they might be if they hadn't made a beeline for the Earth's core in the first half of the season.

7 hours ago, DocBauer said:

but Rocco needs a smart,  maybe veteran guy, who he can respect to hold the reigns a bit.

Or, they could just get rid of Rocco and hire that guy to be the manager

Bring back Big Mike on another 2 year deal and spend the coin on Buxton.  

Not bringing back Colomé would be addition by subtraction.

If Pineda is gone and Colome is coming back I am one disappointed fan.  Come on Rocco - we have seen enough of Colome.

I assume that it was a sympathy move to allow Detroit to score one more run before the end of the game. 

13 minutes ago, mikelink45 said:

If Pineda is gone and Colome is coming back I am one disappointed fan.  Come on Rocco - we have seen enough of Colome.

I assume that it was a sympathy move to allow Detroit to score one more run before the end of the game. 

Not Rocco's call, is it?

Man , what am I going to do for the next 5 months until spring training? Maybe write a novel. I sure hope I can go to spring training this year. I have missed the last 2 due to this darn pandemic. 

I could go either way on Pineda for next year. Still hurt by the whole PED suspension thing and missing the playoff run and playoffs when the team needed him. He has been highly effective when on the field though, even though his stuff is not nearly as good as it used to be. 

3 hours ago, tarheeltwinsfan said:

Man , what am I going to do for the next 5 months until spring training? Maybe write a novel. I sure hope I can go to spring training this year. I have missed the last 2 due to this darn pandemic. 

I went to 2020 spring training. Came back first week of March just before everything blew up. I was so blissfully expecting an awesome Twins season. 

13 hours ago, DocBauer said:

PLEASE find a way to agree on an extension for Buxton. At some point you have to gamble a bit in hope of winning. The kid just dominates and makes a difference in so many ways when he's in the lineup. Again, it's a bit of a gamble. But you just have to find a way to make it work.

Agreed. Yes, Buxton has been and will likely be injury-prone. This is also the only reason they can even possibly afford an extension. If this FO can't get this done over the offseason, I hope this will be the last straw for the fanbase.

43 minutes ago, LastOnePicked said:

Agreed. Yes, Buxton has been and will likely be injury-prone. This is also the only reason they can even possibly afford an extension. If this FO can't get this done over the offseason, I hope this will be the last straw for the fanbase.

Then what? Storm Target Field?

5 hours ago, VivaBomboRivera! said:

Not Rocco's call, is it?

probably not, but I like collective inputs.  

1 hour ago, dex8425 said:

I went to 2020 spring training. Came back first week of March just before everything blew up. I was so blissfully expecting an awesome Twins season. 

Me too. I actually went to the first spring exhibition game between the Gophers & Twins, left Ft. Myers just before the whole thing got shut down.

2 hours ago, LastOnePicked said:

Agreed. Yes, Buxton has been and will likely be injury-prone. This is also the only reason they can even possibly afford an extension. If this FO can't get this done over the offseason, I hope this will be the last straw for the fanbase.

He is the only one left to watch.  I do like Sano and Polanco but the team is "eh" without Buxton.  Seeing Berrios play in the biggest game of his life and what they did to Buxton delaying his free agency by a year was a huge mistake and pretty sure he won't let the door kick him in the a$$.

7 hours ago, prouster said:

Storm Target Field?

Just the opposite. Avoid it - and every Twins revenue stream - like the plague.