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  1. Number3
    You stole my thunder or as Chris Berman would say, "Sweet Strings Viola". They also had a real home field advantage called the Metrodome. Home team won every game. I still want the Twins to battle it out and squeak into the playoffs. If they get swept in NY after losing 2 of 3 in Chicago, that probably won't happen. They just seem to continually hover on the edge of the cliff.
  2. Number3
    Trying to envision the future is a hopeless endeavor. It is imperative at this point of the 2022 season to stay in the present and only the present and deal with what is directly in front. That is that the Twins are in a first place tie with the Cleveland team in the AL Central and have a game with the New York Yankees at 1:10 this afternoon. Go out and win it. 30 games left. The Grapefruit season is longer. Try to win them all.
  3. Number3
    I will go 5-5 but would prefer to go 6-4 by winning both series against 'Sox and Guardians and splitting with Yankees who by the way are not world beaters right now. Root for Os tonight so margin will be 1 game when all of this starts.
  4. Number3
    Win tonight and the dream for 2023 may be to improve on the playoff run in 2022. Rooting for the Os tonight as well. Also get to practice against the Yankees for 4 games in Sep as well as the 8 games against the Guardians. Those 12 games may decide playoffs or no playoffs.
  5. Number3
    2022 is still in play so just beat the Red Sox tonight. I really thought they were done after the 6 game losing streak but here they are 1.5 games out with the other Sox up next.
  6. Number3
    What gets me is when the broadcasters think they are the show and not what they are broadcasting (See Joe Buck). Today very few listen to or watch an entire game and part of the reason for that, to me, is the incessant chatter. I leave the TV audio muted many times in all sports depending upon who the announcers are. There is nothing wrong with a little dead air between pitches but it seems to be the kiss of death to most of the broadcast teams who I do wish would just call the game and throw all of their notes in the trash. "And when this ball comes down, the game is ovaaaah" Now that is broadcasting. One of the old Senators announcers once said, "That ball was gone all the way. The only question was whether it was far enough."
  7. Number3
    Don't know why Buxton and Lewis are on your list but a list doesn't win games and the Twins are still the Twins. Buxton will never be able to impact a full season and Lewis has become nothing but the draft pick that wasn't. In the mean time, the sweep of SF got them off of the edge of the cliff once again in 2022 so if they can get 2 of 3 from the Red Sox, next month is still in play for this year.
  8. Number3
    Rocco is no better or worse than most of the managers and the question is always who would you replace him with? Since TK ( and some found fault with him) the Twins managers have all been average or less than (See "I hate second place" Gardenhire). The biggest mistakes they make are when they "manage" too much. Failvey (and I mean Failvey and Levine have totally botched their responsibilities from a "framing" catcher to a $35mil per year SS not worth a third of that amount to a number 1 overall pick in the MLB draft who has barely and I mean barely seen the Target field several years down the road to playing musical pitchers with the pitching staff to Sano- Buxton being the core of the lineup to being the corpse of the lineup.
  9. Number3
    Ok Yogi; problem is, it is over. There are about 9 games left against KC, LAA and Det. but Twins are underdogs in all of the other games left. They do not have anyone playing at a dependable level including the $115 million man and All Star Buxton. Ironically the pitching has been good enough that they could hang around but runs are an alien concept.
  10. Number3
    Definitely time to stop dreaming about 2022. Cleveland is disappearing in front and they will soon be looking up at Chicago. September may not matter after all. The offense is non existent and is the only team in MLB unable to score consistently. Pathetic job by the non players.
  11. Number3

    Buxton

    Number3 replied to Caw's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk

    WAR means nothing. Totally dependent upon the "R" part of it. He did carry the team for about the first 20 games. Unfortunately the season is 162 games. As far as injuries are a part of the game, Buxton remains a walking injury report and ability without availability is useless. He should be able to play hurt (not injured) and still contribute if he is the best CF in baseball. Instead they treat him like a new born. No one doubts his talent. Applying that talent reliably is apparently something the Twins do not expect him to do. Maybe afraid of losing trade value.
  12. Number3
    Meant to quote this on last post so I will add that the best manager's decisions are old fashioned hunches, not a new formula in a spread sheet and how do you think huge piles of data are organized? On a legal pad? Why don't teams pay the analysts millions of $ a year instead of the players? Or maybe they do. Just play the game and execute.
  13. Number3
    Yankees analytics: Judge hits homers, Yankees win. He doesn't Yankees lose. Twins analytics, set the MLB home run record in 2019, Twins win Central. Twins can't hit a barn door in 2022, struggling to stay above .500. Execution is the key, not analytics. If the Twins do make the playoffs and are allowed to use analytics and their opponent is not, do you think that would propel the Twins into WS champions? As many fluke hits result from the shift as are prevented by the shift. It doesn't take analytics to know if a player has a tendency to pull the ball. That is old fashioned scouting report. As many game are lost by managers "thinking" too much as are won. Just play the game and execute.
  14. Number3
    Absolutely little question that Baldelli strictly plays the analytic spreadsheets in his decision making and does not consider the human element as a high priority. He thinks he can match hitters up with pitchers like you would with unknowns in a video game. I don't think there is much doubt about this. He is plugging in numbers; not human beings.
  15. Number3
    Not the end of the world but today's game is a really need to win if not a must game. I was hoping for a 3-1 Twins result in the Rangers series but now its win this for a split. Bottom line.....don't waste these home games in August because September is no picnic.
  16. Number3
    Goal for the rest of August is keep it where it is or at least close. Rangers, Astros, Giants, Red Sox schedule is hard to get a handle on so an overall split would be ok. 8 games against Cleveland in Sep may decide it. Glad there will be Sep games that count and maybe Oct. Every game is an effective playoff game.
  17. Number3
    Sep 30, 1967, Twins vs Red Sox in effective playoff for AL pennant. Jim Kaat had the Sox's number and then his arm went out and that was it for the Twins chance at a World Series 2 years after they were in it against the Koufax Dodgers. Sorry I didn't get to hear him more on the air but his experience and dry sense of humor made a great combination. Needless to say, his era is long gone when a complete game was the goal of every starter and he was not satisfied with less. Watched that game with my college room mate who was an ardent Red Sox fan. Hard to take.
  18. Number3
    Yesterday it did actually end up as pitching by committee as a result of injury to Mahle in the 3rd inning so the extreme of pulling starters early did happen. Maybe Baldelli should have 2 lineup cards. 1 for position players and 1 for pitchers. Have 3 pitchers scheduled for 3 innings each and a pitcher in reserve for each 3 inning segment. Divide the game into 3 separate games and try to win 2 of the 3. Forget starting pitchers all together.
  19. Number3
    Didn't read every post but the general idea that Rocco needs to change his pitching staff management in what is now crunch time is obvious. The flip side is that if the offense doesn't produce more than 1 or 2 runs it makes no difference anyway. Changing the rotation order couldn't hurt followed by letting starters pitch out of their own jams. All I know is that they need to complete the KC sweep today and do better than a split against Texas (who just fired their manager by the way Rocco.) Then the fun really starts for the rest of August, all of September and hopefully still into October.
  20. Number3
    The way starting pitchers are used in the game today, I wonder if the days of the huge contracts for starters is over. There is the documentary about the history of baseball that has a segment about the old Negro Leagues and a comment by one of the pitchers always stands out. He said (paraphrase), "We knew when we went to the mound that we were paid to pitch 9 innings (or maybe more) period.". One thing the old timers would do was pace themselves until they got into trouble and then bear down. Now its all out all the time. There is a drill in the military (or used to be) where you simply ran with full gear as fast as you could as far as you could until you basically dropped. Now that is the way starters pitch and the managers almost never give them a chance to pitch out of a jam much after the 3rd inning. No wonder bull pens are totally unpredictable day to day. If it weren't for existing contracts and the archaic designation of "starting pitcher" why not pitch every game by committee? Might as well. There are only 1 or 2 Max Scherzers (sp) left anyway.
  21. Number3
    The great majority of games are exactly the way Baldelli described those two games. The losing manager usually finds a different set of words to say the same thing and the manager(s) usually have something to do with the losses. If I was a starting pitcher for the Twins I would just head for the showers after 4 innings and make Rocco come and get me.
  22. Number3
    Oh well it was a nice thought. Next up Royals who shut out the Dodgers yesterday and are playing much better unlike the team from MN. I am afraid that it might be time to trade Buxton and convince Correa that he made a bad decision (actually the Twins made a bad decision.).
  23. Number3
    For starters how about winning the game tonight against the Halos. The other thing that bugs me is that only one team can win it all and the notion that who cares if they make the playoffs defeats the whole idea of playoffs which is, rare as it may be, anything can happen. Right now only the Dodgers, Mets and maybe the Astros are bullet proof (is that phrase even allowed any more?). The Yankees just lost 5 straight. A key question is, what is the team's attitude when they take the field? We can banter on a discussion board all year long but if the Twins collectively play every game as if they already were in the playoffs, which actually they are in a sense, they have enough talent to win the Central and do it. Every series is important and the "win series" theory does work. If they lose the Halos series, or , heaven forbid, get swept, forget it. Look no further than that. The 13 of 16 games at Target the rest of the month will mean nothing.
  24. Number3
    Now 3 against the Angels is the plan. They are looking up at the Cleveland team now so time to get a streak going. Maybe Buxton can actually play a series now or is Rocco waiting until the ChiSox pass them?
  25. Number3
    I think its much more than big market /small market that is causing MLB and other sports to be less attractive. Media over exposure is a huge culprit and the way the game(s) is /are played today have made MLB in particular at times bordering on brutal to watch. As far as eventual World Series winner is concerned, the Yankees just ended a 5 game losing streak and the AL may have a surprise entry but no question Yankees and Astros are more than likely. Ditto Dodgers and Mets in the NL. All in all that is not unusual. It is the nature of the game itself and the total control exerted by the media that makes the game less than entertaining most of the time.
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