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  1. gunnarthor
    I like the three man booth. I'm ready for Bremer to go but the ex-players are solid. I think LaTroy was the best and I did enjoy Hunter when he did it a few times. Morneau is fine. I wish the group wasn't so homerish, it sometimes feels like they took lessons from Hawk Harrelson but I suspect they are just instructed not to criticize the home team.
  2. gunnarthor
    Yeah, my bad, I thought he was out for the year. Much better that he's not.
  3. gunnarthor
    I'm not a huge Rocco fan but I have to admit the team has done a nice job bouncing back since his "don't give a ****" talk. If we fade, I think he's gone but now I think as long as we finish over .500, the FO will keep him.
  4. gunnarthor
    All three are solid additions but I don't think any were THE best, but it's just semantics. Mahle won't help the Twins this year, the other two look good. They were good moves, maybe enough to win the central, not enough to matter in the playoffs, but one step at a time.
  5. gunnarthor
    That was a nice win. Nice to see a win streak again.
  6. gunnarthor
    I've always been a big fan of Bundy and was really glad the Twins grabbed him this year. My guess is that they give him the 1m buyout and try to resign him for more than 4m but less then 11. Other teams might be interested in him, too. I was ok with the trade that brought Pagen here even though the results haven't been great so far. I can't see this team letting Pagen go at this point though. He's cheap enough where they can't really let him go and I'm sure they think that he's really close to turning the corner.
  7. gunnarthor
    The fox mic is picking someone up.
  8. gunnarthor
    2017 team made the playoffs, the 2018 team finished second in a really weak division and won 78 games. They had a heck of a young nucleus. It wasn't like Rocco walked onto a sinking ship. I'm not sure how much praise Rocco deserves for 19-20 when you see that that core made the playoffs three out of four years but hasn't made it back since.
  9. gunnarthor
    My guess is that if the Twins with a winning record, he'll stay. If they finish below .500, he'll be fired. I don't think he's a good manager and should go but it's really hard to determine how much of this is Rocco's fault and how much are marching orders from the FO. He's made a number of bone headed mistakes the last few years - from the extra mound visit the other day to not having the right arms ready in the pen. It's also hard to say that he's the problem. The biggest issue - to me - is the pitching staff and I think that's more on the FO. Not a lot of managers are going to look great with this staff.
  10. gunnarthor
    They'll be able to provide a solid enough offense but they need a whole new pitching staff. Outside of Duran and Gray it gets ugly, fast. I also think they need a new pitching philosophy which will require an overhaul of the FO. That probably won't happen so we'll probably get more of the same but hoping it's better with Maeda and Mahle,
  11. gunnarthor
    I don't like Altuve
  12. gunnarthor
    He's 9th in the AL in fWAR despite playing about 30 games less than the leader. So, no, not a question at all on why he's an all-star. I'm very happy he was an all-star.
  13. gunnarthor
    Nice work, Sands
  14. gunnarthor
    I'd be thrilled if Sands hit someone.
  15. gunnarthor
    I think people haven't come to terms on how much pitching has dominated hitting the last few years. You complain that the Twins have 22 games with 0 or 1 runs but the Yankees have 21, Rays 18, Cleveland 26, Astros 17, Seattle 21, etc. Twins pitching staff is 23rd in ERA+ (they play in a pitcher friendly park) and the hitters are 5th in mlb in OPS+. They are top 10 in obp, slg, ops, wRC+, bWAR, fWAR, etc. Basically every stat that takes parks into account. The offense can be frustrating but it's a top 10 unit. The pitching is a bottom 10 unit.
  16. gunnarthor
    I actually like the Twins minor league bats, it's a good mix of high end potential and solid floors. Brooks Lee was an excellent draft pick (mlbpipeline ranked him #33 overall!), Wallner is close and might let us move on from Kepler, Royce Lewis looked like the real deal before his injury, and Rodriguez and Urbina are a long way away but could be absolute studs. I'm still a big fan of Martin, an on-base machine, which I think is what teams are realizing they need to get back to, and Julien and Noah Miller are also good at getting on base. I'm not quite as good with farm systems as I was a few years ago, but I feel that the team has some really good upside with the bats. But the pitching, ugh. We just keep hoping but there doesn't feel like there is much upside. Bunch of AAAA/long reliever/4-5 inning starter stuff in the system.
  17. gunnarthor
    The pitchers, as a unit, have amassed 4.7 bWAR (27th in baseball) or 7.4 fWAR (23rd). Hitters are 5th and 8th, respectively. The bats need help from the pitching pipeline that has failed to develop.
  18. gunnarthor
    Eh. He had a rough sixth, I suppose, but he had the bottom of the lineup coming up. I don't know why they pull him then. But it's our philosophy.
  19. gunnarthor
    I agree with everything you said but until there is a significant change in philosophy, it won't happen.
  20. gunnarthor
    If this is true, then something drastic needs to be done to the front office.
  21. gunnarthor
    I don't think there's a real difference in innings per start between Gray and Bundy.
  22. gunnarthor
    Rocco is even tempered, low key. That's why the FO wanted him. He's not Gardy. There are good and bad to both styles. I'm surprised how much I don't care about this team. It seems lifeless and mercenary.
  23. gunnarthor
    I think what is really concerning to me - from an enjoyment standpoint - is how bad our pitching staff is. Twins clearly think starting pitchers can't pitch three times through the order. Our starters are 28th in innings pitched this year and we saw the Twins limit Sonny Grey - no workhorse in the first place. It's doubtful any of our pitchers will even hit 120 innings this year. It doesn't look like there's a lot of hope coming either. And then you look and see Sandy Alcantara and think, "Man, the Twins could easily shave 60 innings off of his total." The games changing but it looks like the Twins are in a race to the bottom. Ugh. So that means our bullpen is throwing way too many innings and simply doesn't have the talent to do it. We have too many AAAA type arms. And we don't have a lot of youth on the pitching staff - Duran and Sands are both 24 and our youngest pitchers. We have too many 27 year-olds giving us no value. It's just musical chairs of crud.
  24. gunnarthor
    I'd rather the Twins lose in the playoffs than not make the playoffs. That's pretty obvious. But, yeah, this isn't a great team. Just looking at the latest "power rankings" from espn (lame, I know), you could argue this isn't a top 15 team in baseball. But a weak division gets them into the playoffs.
  25. gunnarthor
    They are what we knew they'd be at the beginning of the season, enough offense to carry them (3rd in r/g inAL), pretty bad pitching. It's a lot better than last year's pitching staff though, so, progress. We might still win the central but I doubt any of the three teams pulls away. We'll see.
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