BOS 4, MIN 3: No Escobar, but at Least We Still Have Belisle

That thought certainly crossed my mind as well, and if that's the case, I put that on both Molitor and Falvine.  If Duke wasn't available, then you try to cross over to Mejia (and if you're concerned about warm up time, you get him started during the 8th--and then you doubly wonder why he's even on the roster).  Beyond that, yesterday the roster was a mess.  6 starters, down one position player, down one reliever, and then, if Duke wasn't available, you want to hold back ANOTHER reliever (on a day that Lance Lynn in pitching no less).  Ugh.

 

I can't wait to see that big Wilson haul...  Do you think we could trade Wilson for Realmuto straight up?

Yeah, in the end, I'm reminded of my dear old JV Football coach, purveyor of classic inspirational quotes like "Don't get in a pissing contest with a skunk," or, "You've got em in bed, now make love to em."  In this case I'm thinking of: "Piss-poor planning prevents perfect performance."

It may not be a perfect analogy, but I am reminded of (I think) the Castillo trade, which precipitated the end of the Johan era, and competitiveness in general, for a decade.

The front office really handicapped the Twins in this game. It is hard enough to beat the Red Sox with 25 much less 23.

If the FO was interested in winning last night (and by extension, the rest of 2018) they wouldn’t have traded those players in the first place.

I'm echoing some comments here- some reason can't like nor quote on the mobile--

But my gawd, for a team like this to gut it out like this- In Fenway - they didn't deserve this loss. Losing key guys in the trades notwithstanding, this loss is all on the MoY, and his inane BP usage this past week.

Rosario is a hero. Even lance Lynn stepped up like a mensch. Ultrashort bench, half of whom is the inexplicable B.Wilson, and still they fought.

And their MoY didn't give em a proper chance to win, a chance any number of TD posters could have set up better.

So many things have gone wrong this season, but once again this year, so many games have been fritted away by the dugout.

I was listening to the game last night in XM radio, so I had to listen to the Red Sox announcers. Before the game they made some observations about Lance Lynn. They were thinking out loud that Lynn's struggles could be weight related? (Maybe like Sano?). They observed that Lance was probably well over 300 pounds. They mentioned that when Lance was with St. Louis they had gotten him a nutritionist that worked with him and got his weight down and they think that's why he pitched better there. They were thinking that with his weight that he tires out more as the game goes on than other pitchers?? Then as the game advanced, they were talking like; he's going to walk someone here pretty soon, and then the 4th and 5th innings they were both saying someone in our lineup is going to start pounding him, it's getting to that point in the game and then when Nunez hit that double they both said, here it comes! Shortly after the Bo soxs hit that home run and those guys were talking like they knew it was coming against Lynn, it was a matter of time to them. The night before when Gibson was pitching they did not talk like that at all. It was interesting.

And wait until you see Pineda. He was around 300 before he had been on break with the surgery. It always amazes me that professional athletes don't take control of their own fitness. That is all they have to do, and are paid handsomely.