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At no point did the FO state their budget was limited by the owner.

Inherited runners scoring is an incredibly important stat and most relievers are pretty bad at it. Most are so bad at it I think they know the stats won't count against them and don't take the role seriously until it's their stats on the line -- it's quite magical how inherited runners will score so often but no more than that regardless of the number of outs when the pitcher came in. Never trust a reliever's ERA. ERA only matters when the pitcher starts the inning, which means it matters for starting pitchers and closers. For every other pitcher, it's some ratio of ERA and inherited runners scoring that matters.

For every game the Twins play on the west coast that starts at 7pm (9pm Twins time), the Twins should start a game at 11am Twins time (9am their time) when the team visits Target Field.

Perhaps the issue is some of us were paying more attention. The front office definitely said publicly that the "window to compete isn't open" and that's why they did not spend more. My signature is based on many quotes from the the Twins F.O. during the offseason. Personally I don't care about Kimbrel ... but it seems convenient to forget there were other options out there.

Yes this is a placeholder move but this doesn't mean he will be bad. We can give him the chance he deserves. We know this isn't permanent so ... big deal.

Like with the Vikings and their offensive line, we all knew what the problem was with this team coming into the year, and also like the Vikings this is going on two or three years now. Let's see if this team can figure it out before imploding and get some help. There is no shame in bringing in more talented players.

Even when the Tigers did the same thing to the Twins last week?

I'm not sure why you bring in a struggling pitcher to face off against a team that has already laid down 15 hits. The buffer held, barely. The Twins got lucky here.

He won't be able to run with this injury. He will be OUT, no DH duty for quite some time.

Attendance more than doubles when the Twins play well. Who woulda guessed? OK, maybe everyone would have guessed.

The Tigers and now the Angels are racking up a lot of hits against the Twins.

Sano's not in the lineup. Interesting. Astudillo at third.

We still don't know what the heck a three eyed raven is.

Sano has played 10 games in the minors. In 44 plate appearances, he has struck out 14 times (32%). If you are referring to AAA numbers only, that's a pretty dang small sample size of 3 games ... a sample size that has his BA at .308 and OPS at .819, mind you.

His foot was firmly planted when Ohtani slid into it. To make matters worse, his cleats caught on the bag. You can see the amount of force his ankle absorbed by the way he goes flying once his cleats break free. This could have been a lot worse.

I don't know how the 60 day thing got brought up. The Twins don't even know the extent of the injury yet, so of course he's not on the 60-day IL. If the Twins have to make a roster move in a month and a half and Garver is still injured, then you might see him moved to the 60-day. Not today.

I think some people read the title of this article and went straight into typing a response. The article is pretty clearly not about what people are objecting to.

Maybe it's because we all saw Puckett do that fifty times.

Garver seemed unstoppable this year ... it seemed to me the only way he was going to be stopped was via injury. Hopefully he comes back and can still smack around the ball at will. Perhaps this is a good lesson in why GMs don't typically dump all of their cash into the catcher position, the position that is the most stressful on the body and also the most dangerous to play.

Most concerning about Sano is there is still no good explanation for why he was so terrible last year. "Not physically fit" sounds more like an excuse. Emotional offseason before the year? Puhleaze. In any case, there was no reason to keep him in the minors any longer. He was hitting in the minors like he always had, which is to say very well. His stay in the minors was on the cusp of looking punitive. I suspect Sano will start hot and then taper off as his bad habits kick in again unless Cruz (or better yet Baldelli) can keep him focused. Seems like the Vikings have had a lot of Sano-like players in the past twenty years.

HBO has been known to cut shows when the budget gets out of control. Clearly GoT was not "cut" or cancelled but as the actor salaries in this show were getting quite high, HBO knew the cost going in to the last season and could certainly have opted to "speed things up." If actors are paid by episode, we are seeing some pretty long episodes now. I think HBO is willing to allow some shows "open budgets" but then gets concerned if this is taken advantage of. Vinyl burned through $100M in one year -- axed. Deadwood was not cancelled, HBO decided the pay raises in the actor contracts were untenable and decided to not take the options on any contracts. Carnivale was cancelled because the showrunner would not accept a budget cut. With GoT, HBO was in a position where they could not cut the show completely. The show had to be wrapped up or the HBO brand would have been hurt. The show is a victim of its success and HBO wrapped up the show as quickly as it could. And I'm sorry but there were a couple of seasons where nothing of interest was happening. Previous seasons had a lot of filler, which surely HBO could see. If the Bran story line ends up being nothing, that's a heck of a lot of filler right there.

They can spend the time developing someone else, someone who has a future with the team. "Because he's there" isn't a great tactic. Duffey's bad days in the majors could be someone else's learning time.

Guzman was injured.

Duffey is a waste of time.

It's possible the team invited some scouts to come and watch him, I suppose. If true, him being traded is probably pretty far along. As poor as his bat is, he is still a good defender. This seems pretty early for a team to be looking for a good defender, but another team could be looking to dump salary. They also could be just giving him more playing time. If so, it seems to be working. Yesterday was his best day all year.