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  1. Trov
    How so? I can think of 1 game where he would possibly made a difference, that being the blown save by Duffy. The other blown lead by Duffy it is unlikely Rodgers gets the nod. If you can point to any other games the pen blew that Rodgers would have pitched in please point them out.
  2. Trov
    Remember when people were tearing into Twins for Ryan being the opening day starter? Who has been the best starter on the team so far? Overall our starters have done well, but he has been the best. I bet he could have went another inning or two for sure, but will take the win either way. Early season sure, but if you had to pick Berrios or Ryan right now who would be your preferred starter?
  3. Trov
    The early returns on Yankees trade is tilting Twins, despite neither player we got doing great, Donaldson is doing terrible. In terms of the Gray for Petty trade, time will tell if we made a mistake or not. High school pitchers are so hard to project. He is doing fine first 11 innings in A ball for Reds.
  4. Trov
    He started off a little slow, but picking it up. I have huge expectations for his hitting game, just where he will play on defense will be the question. He bat should play at the majors.
  5. Trov
    I hope his new eye at the plate is not just SSS and when teams start to pitch him different that he will not regress.
  6. Trov
    Everyone on here was worried about starting pitching coming into the year. There was a few guys they wanted us to have over who we have so far. The few other guys have done well, but overall so has our starting pitching. Even if we got Manea, or Rondon both we still would be losing. Until our bats can score any runs we will never win. What I am most worried about is if our offense start clicking that is when our pitching will start to falter. This is how last year went, we never had all areas firing at the same time. If we pitched well, we could not hit. If the starter gave us a chance to win the pen blew it. If pen was going well and hitting was going well our starters could not get through 2 innings. I know it is early, but this terrible offense is not fun to watch at all.
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    I know early in year, but Berrios is doing terrible in 3 starts with Jays, 11.1 innings pitched 11 Ks with a 2 whip, and 6.69 FIP. Not saying he will not bounce back, but right now I would say Twins made a good trade last year as he would have little value right now. Also, Jays on hook for 7 more years. I do not wish Berrios anything bad, but I sure hope we win the trade and Woods Richardson sure is looking good so far. Yes he is doing in minors and Berrios in Majors, but every one of our starters have done better than Berrios has so far.
  8. Trov
    If Correa continues to hit sub .200 with OPS of .586I think he opts in for next year, so I would not say he is a lock to walk. Also, if he continues to hit like that we will be a bottom feeding team again as well. The most frustrating about our hitting prospects is our stacked OF list has not performed for various reasons and now our future OF hitters look terrible right now. Of course Marten, or Lewis could get shifted there if no IF spots are open when they come up. Also corner OF is easiest to fill from trades or FA so not too worried there.
  9. Trov
    I do not understand how shifting Buck to DH would fix the issue presented. He got hurt, to what level it is, while running the bases after hitting. So if the goal is to keep him in lineup hitting, how does just DH him help this, as it was hitting that led to the issue? Last year as well, he hurt his hip running the bases, and he was hit by a pitch later on. Yes, he has got some injuries in the field over his career, but many has been from hitting and running bases too. I believe he broke a toe on a foul ball, hurt a hand on a slide once, as noted hurt hip running bases, been hit by pitches. If he was routinely getting hurt running into walls or on dives in the field I would say this idea is worth entertaining, but the fact that a lot of his value is in his defense, and there is not evidence to suggest that making him just a hitter would reduce injuries to almost none, then why lose his value in the field?
  10. Trov
    How long before Lewis gets the call up? No he will not take over for Correa, but he can play 3rd, or OF if his bat plays well, just put him in the MLB line up. Right now he would be better than what we have been throwing out there.
  11. Trov
    I did not watch the game last night, but how many times will Duffy keep getting higher leverage chances? Also, why does Rocco hate Gordon so much? He pinch hit for him early in game to get Garlick into the game against a lefty. Garlick has shown no reason to trust him this year. I get lefty lefty can be issues, but Gordon has yet to get a fair shot in actual game action for extended period. He is always first to be pulled. I am not saying Gordon is going to be amazing, but Rocco is not willing to even give him a fair shot for some reason.
  12. Trov
    Read update on Krillioff showed no new injury. That is very concerning to me that this will be a long term injury he will need to learn how to play through or never be what he could be.
  13. Trov
    He is who he is. We know who he is. You either play him or cut him. Sitting him does nothing. He has always been a guy on long slumps and long hot streaks. He will never make the changes we all want. Personally I am for cutting him to give Arraez more playing time, but do not just bench him.
  14. Trov
    Kirilloff issue is a huge deal. The fact that he had surgery and has never had pain free swing is huge. This may end his career, or greatly reduce what he may have been. Prior to his injury last year, he made great contact and hit the ball very hard. Since, it has just not had the same sound. Even if he thinks he can play through the pain, it clearly affects him. The fact that surgery did not fix it is worrisome. I had huge hopes for Kirilloff, but now I do not expect he will do much. Maybe he can get a new surgery that does the job, but he will be on the shelf again for months. I do not see how waiting will do any good if he spent all off-season feeling pain but did not address it. I think this is a huge loss and I do not expect him to play, at least not at a high level, the rest of this season if not his career. I know some will say I am overblowing this, but he needs to have pain free swings in his wrist to be productive. Having a full year of this without pain free swings even after surgery means it is unlikely he ever will.
  15. Trov
    I guess you know Kershaw's body/arm better than him. He told the manager he would be done. He was asked how he felt and if wanted to keep going in the 6th inning. He said give me 1 more inning around 80 to 85 pitches. Guess the manager should have told him, nope I do not care how you feel Kershaw, you can make history here so go out there pitch tell you either give it up, your arm is injured, or game is over. If Kershaw told his manager he was good to go and wanted to try it, then I would have some level of agreement with you, as you should trust the person and what they say, but he said he would be done.
  16. Trov
    Paddock looked terrible to start. Could not find the zone. He did not get a few possible called strikes, maybe Jeffers would have helped that. The fact the team was going to need to let the pen rest it was nice to see him recover to at least fight through a few innings. Still terrible start. New guy stepped to eat up some innings. Yes he got stretched out and got blown up in 8th but he did what was needed in this game. Lets hope the road helps get some of these bats going because we need more than Buck to hit if we want to compete.
  17. Trov
    I see no space for Upton. He hits lefties fine still at this point in career, but negative against righties, and in the field. So the only positive you get is the few times he would play against left handed pitchers for the maybe 2 to 3 at bats he gets that game. Why would you use up a valuable roster spot on a guy with very limited times he would be better than a replacement player?
  18. Trov
    Archer was effective last night, but not great. He was all over the place with command. His velo was up from recent years, which is a plus, but he will need to get his command back or some games he will get blown up bad.
  19. Trov
    At this point, if he can hold down DH, that is where I would want to see him most. He has not looked good at 3rd early on. I do not know if it will get better over time, maybe if he had a single position he could work on exclusively that could help, but he was never known for his glove. His bat needs to be in the line up, he gives great at-bats every time. He may not always get on base but he never gives an at-bat away. He will work counts, foul balls off over and over. Sanchez has not shown he will give you competitive at-bats each time out.
  20. Trov
    Without Buck explaining his comment more everyone is just speculating. He did not name names or say anyone in particular. He did not even say it was different from start of last season. Sometimes when teams are losing it leads to bad club house too. Yes, Donaldson is known to say things that rub people wrong way, never reported that I know of to be his teammates though. I have long argued good clubhouse is important in baseball though. Unlike in some other sports, baseball you spend every day, including weekends, with your teammates from late February to hopefully late October. Unlike people with normal jobs we get weekends away from co-workers we do not like, or can change jobs easier.
  21. Trov
    If Lewis can show he is healthy, and can provide offense, I bet we see him come up to play 3rd base much of this season and back up SS when needed. I know Miranda is knocking too, but there is only so many at-bats to go around. I would love to see the debates of Miranda, Lewis, and Martin all showing they deserve a chance, and having to argue if anyone on Majors should be traded or cut to make room. Hopefully it is not who gets call up because of injuries or poor performances at MLB level.
  22. Trov
    I think the pitch usage may have been what led to the signing. My guess is the Twins saw the issue, and addressed it with Bundy. Most likely they have talked to him about plans to increase the change up and slider and remove the sinker. Generally, the staff is against the sinker as it leads to more balls in play normally. Only elite sinkers are effective in the staff mind. I bet we see almost no sinkers but a lot more fastball, slider and changeups. I wonder what led to the change in 2020 to 2021 though? Was it is something Bundy changed on his own, or did the pitching coach want the change?
  23. Trov
    Whatever we do with the pen, I hope we do not do similar to what happen last year marching the same couple guys out in high leverage situations to fail. Our pen is what put us behind the 8 ball last year blowing many leads. They ended up not being terrible over the year, but one thing I thought Rocco would do is change up the high leverage guys sooner than he did. I hate making anyone the "closer" as I believe the save is a dumb stat. Now, I will agree that some guys look at the 9th different than other innings. Maybe it is the lack of more innings to come back, but there has been many guys that did great as a set up guy, only to fail when they were asked to close. Other guys had no issues coming in the 9th.
  24. Trov
    I know early, but this team offense is reminding me of 2019 team. A ton of HR. I wonder if we are back to some juiced baseballs following the lockout to increase HR and fan excitement. Maybe it is just small sample size, but some of those bombs are crazy deep.
  25. Trov
    I will be honest I had not heard of Encarnacion-Strand until this early hot weekend. He strikes me as someone that will need to keep proving he can put up numbers at each level until he is considered a serious prospect. If he can really defend at 3rd and not just a bat only that will help. From what I saw, he has always hit well, but huge concerns about his chase rate and K rate. Now, I was one that always defended Eddie for his chase rate, that sometimes there are guys that can expand the zone and get hits. They are few and far between though. The big question will be when he starts facing the same guys, scouting reports get out on him, and he faces higher competition if that chase rate really starts to hurt him with more K's and more weak contacts, or will he learn to be more selective on what he swings at.
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