cHawk

https://youtu.be/af8ARHiSdQ8

Kirilloff was the replacement for Rosario, not Cave. Rosario’s value wasn’t anywhere close to what he had to be paid ($10M) whereas Cave, whilst a lot worse, is only paid $0.6M which is pretty close to his value.

They don’t have the least talent in baseball (quite far from it) but they DO NOT play as a team.

This is a loss where you blame the players. Donaldson - I have nothing. A major leaguer catches that, DP and out. He’s a good fielder, so WTF. Rortvedt - Oh FFS. What an idiotic move. A middle school catcher would get benched for that, but we didn’t enough bench depth to take him out. D!ck move by Andrus for sure, but Rortvedt let it happen to him. I thought we would be able to rely on Duffey. How foolish of me. How do you regress that much in one offseason?

Why have they completely fallen off a cliff?

Did Duffey and Thielbar take NyQuil this offseason?

Nice pitch selection Kepler

IDK who I’m supposed to blame for this. Duffey for not being able to strike anyone out? Rortvedt for being a ****ing idiot? Maeda for loading the bases?

ffs Duffey. How do you regress that much in one offseason

What the actual ****

If only our pen wasn’t historically bad at stranding runners...

Three quick outs please

We’ll take those.

At least the pen pitched pretty well today. That’s a positive, right?

Could this win be what gets the team going?

We still have to get 3 outs tho

THERE WE GO

At least Refsnyder did something

You cannot make that up

Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

I don’t think Rocco is as horrible as some say he is, but I don’t see how he can be back in 2022 unless there’s a massive turnaround.

It would be embarrassing. They would be in the history book as the worst team ever (12-150). Ironically they would’ve been remembered as a projected playoff contender.

I’m starting to wonder if these players even care at this point.

In save situations, you would much rather see them than the likes of Thielbar, Law, Anderson, etc. IDK but whenever Rocco puts a reliever in a high-leverage situation they fail every single time, no matter who it is so it probably doesn’t make a difference.

Well that's the case with Average Joe's team in all aspects of play. If a team is playing sound fundamental baseball, they should score at least one with a runner on second in any given situation. The Twins are not playing sound fundamental baseball, their opponents are. In a situation where 1 run is expected, if the offense scores 0 and the opponent scores 1, the pitching performed as expected. The offense did not perform as expected, much worse infact.