Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

Hosken Bombo Disco

Community Leader
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    14,795

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    8

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Tutorials & Help

Videos

2023 Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Free Agent & Trade Rumors

Guides & Resources

Minnesota Twins Players Project

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Hosken Bombo Disco

  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    We shall see…
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Ope! Hold on, don’t pull on that yet ..
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I’m afraid so…
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Emil Pagan, not only an All Star closer (Just ask him), but also an All Star home plate backer-upper
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The line of succession for Jermaine Palacios is about as likely as the line of succession for Prince Harry ba-dum tschhh
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Onion headline tomorrow: “Mounds View kid strikes out Forest Lake kid in high leverage spot”
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Actually, four bases, if you count the trail runner.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I love the way Francona substituted that pinch runner in the bottom of the 8th. Instead of putting in the pinch runner right away after the lead off batter reaches first, like lots of managers do automatically, wait another batter or two to see what happens. If the next batter hits into a double play, you just lost the substitution and lost your batter with nothing to show for it. Also possible is a bunch of strikeouts or fly outs, and the pinch runner never makes it around the bases. Sure, that might have been a bunting situation 10-20 years ago too, but times are changing as are the players. Obviously situations are going to be different, but that was very well done by Francona. And it won them the game.
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Also how about that professional pinch running substitution, Naylor leads off with a single, and instead of Francona automatically sending in the pinch runner immediately, like average managers would, Francona waits to see what happens. If the next batter grounds into a double play, congratulations you just wasted the substitution. If the next batter gets on base, then you have more information. Obviously every situation is different, but Francona played that perfectly.
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    didn’t see the game, but I will offer this: They are Bleeders and bloopers when the other team hits them. But it’s a “nice piece of hitting” when a Twins player hits them.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    how about you know, actual saves, how do those stack up by chance
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The Twins control (controlled?) Dobnak for three more seasons. It’s a terrible decision to let him go if injuries is the reason. I think Dobnak flashed just enough potential that some rebuilding team might take a chance on him.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I guess he is signed through 2025 or something so why give up so soon. I mean the signing was kind of a shock in itself, yeah. I am assuming that a team claiming Dobnak now can pay him minimum, with the rest of the salary paid by the Twins?, but I may be wrong.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    At this point, this late in the season? Why not just wait until next spring and see what he’s got one more time.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I also like the evidence! Even better would be to add in one hitters, complete games, and other high pitch or high effort games, but that was a nice list. Be careful interpreting number of pitches thrown to mean maximum effort, however. The radio guys (or at least Gladden) kept talking about how effortless Ryan was pitching last night. You could hear in both their voices that they thought Ryan might be given a chance to finish all nine inning himself.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Once again Gleeman leaves out the important part. Even on the small stuff, media people are having trouble with this. No surprise anymore. Berrios and Gibson pitched six innings, not seven. Why? Because those were very early season starts. I love Berrios and I love no hitters but I had no issue at all with Berrios and Gibson being pulled at the time. The 6th is the right inning to do it. And Slowey’s I do not remember as well but Slowey was just not that good, not as good as Ryan, and he also had some reputation stuff with Gardy or the clubhouse if I recall. Gardy might have wanted to pull Slowey after 8 no hit innings if he thought Slowey would make it that far. Also if I recall, Kershaw was fine being pulled after 7. He has his ring and 9 figure payday. So the answer last night was to pull Ryan in the sixth like you do in every other game. Don’t set up the expectation all of a sudden that fans might see something special for once. That was the expectation I had, anyway. Otherwise you are giving the impression that game situations, even foreseeable ones, just sneak up on you and give you trouble, which most of us already suspected. But even worse would have been letting Ryan pitch a no-hit 8th and then pull him after that. So there’s that. The season motto: it could have been worse!
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Lots of fans still like to see stuff like this! Even players I bet were pulling for Ryan. Even the radio guys had the expectation that Ryan might be left in to go for it. They talked about how effortless Ryan’s 7 innings were. They mentioned that Moran was warming up, then sat back down at one point. I would have given Ryan his usual six, and go to the pen in the 7th.
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    For the record, I would not be surprised to see the Twins appear in the top six or eight of MLB teams in projected value lost to injury, however one chooses to measure that.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I am using them because other people are using them in their injury day count.
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    If Mahle needs surgery, all bets are off, and we lose his 2023 season and he becomes a guy trying to hitch on to a team as a free agent for 2024. Worth the risk?
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    You know what I’m asking for. Let’s see the list and the totals. I am not disputing injury days, but how much expected value was lost. How much was expected from Maeda and Dobnak in 2022, for example. Once we have that information, we can begin an honest conversation about this. Injury days isn’t enough, in my opinion.
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    That’s what I am looking for. I’m not saying the Twins haven’t been decimated by injuries. But I am asking how much contribution they expected from Maeda, Dobnak, etc., in 2022. It’s too easy to say “lost two pitchers for the whole year.” Dobnak is currently pitching in AAA by the way so he could be called up at any time.
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Mahle is not old, but he’s a free agent after 2023. Is he an extension candidate to you?
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    If the data supports Gleeman’s arguments, he would provide it I assume.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Maybe, but please quote the relevant part? I’d like to know how much they were expecting from guys like Dobnak and Mahle coming into the season. where do other teams stack up?
×
×
  • Create New...