Fritzderkat

SOS--same old stuff. Uninspiring, tiresome in fact. Signing Benintendi might have made some sense.

Good on ya, Luis. It's a pleasure watching you play.

I"ve been following this team for 20 years, and essentially it's the same old story. I'm tired of it.

I'm for Urshela, have said so before. Impressed with the way Bunny hangs in there, too.

On the whole of it, I wouldn't mind having Urshela on my ball club.

Unfortunately for the oft-injured Buxton, he was half of the Buxton-Sano Promise that for years served to maintain optimism in this franchise's registered hope, present and future, and it would appear that this has failed.

I believe I have expressed the same sentiments recently. Were I to go back over the years, I may well have said the same things before. It is these Twins' legacy.

I admire Archer for hanging in there, and I like the way he goes about his business.

Seems to me there's always a great deal of flux in Twins pitching, and significant is how may times they pick somebody up to fill here or there but in short order they have a sustained injury problem. How true is this of major league pitching in general. (I can't keep track).

Is this question rhetorical or merely a joke? When in their history have the Twins had too much starting pitching? When was it last when they had four starters who were consistent and capable, let along a couple more who in a pinch they could pop in to fill a hole?

Shocked and amazed Iyam. Never in 20 years of following this club have I seen what, on paper, looks like a brilliant trade. If this pans out, all else being equal, the Twins now actually have a decent, daresay legitimate chance to beat somebody.

Hul-lo? Ranking 7th in ERA for this team ain't exactly chopped liver. And With Maida out, nobody was expecting much, even in picking up Sonny Gray.

The bullpen as the fatal flaw. Starting with the Rogers trade.

Nobody appreciates a decent catcher until they don't have one. There are few you'll find who can play good defense as well as hit. I think Jadi Molina.

In his own contribution during one of those stretches when the Twins are going through a prolonged pitching flux, Archer has been about as important to the staff as Devin Smeltzer.

Reusse is an old crab. It oozes from his fingers on the keys.

My favorite when he was here. I wish him well.

Here's to Smeltzer, big chance--for he and the Twins.

LOL.....nice and accurate comparison of Pagan to our ol buddy Kyle "meow mix" Gibson. Gibson was the epitome of "nibbling"--drove me crazy. Wish him well, but very glad he's gone!! That's funny, all the years watching him pitch, I'm thinking, Jeez, Gibby, just throw a strike.

Woe be upon us.

In the 22 years I have followed the Twins, the pitching staff, more often than not, is an annual mystery.

Having followed this team for 20 years, this would seem to be the usual state, with but a few brief exceptions.

I think the simple fact the Twins now are in this position tells me all I'll ever need to know about the Twins, and I've been following them for 20 years. In essence, yes, they've only had two pitchers during the entire time who the informed fan might regard as aces--two!--and now they're back to mining prospects again. Explains a lot, doesn't it?

Interesting to find in the record of the Falvey-Levine leadership, they managed to tack together a powerful hitting team with sub-standard pitching. After scratching their way to division titles over two seasons, much optimism about this one, they crash (not in the least because of sub-standard pitching), and now here they are, back at the bottom but left with what we are told are all kinds of good prospects, none of them proven, btw, or with the strength and status of Jose Barrios. I'm trying to find in this a measure of progress.

The Cleveland baseball club of the Major League is changing its name from the Indians to the Guardians. One may speculate why, what it intends to represent, but done is done so why quibble? Personally I'll just scratch it off as an exceptionally lousy name for a ball club. Guardians of what? Their great baseball heritage? Tris Speaker? Bob Feller? The lake? Better had they gone back to the original, the Spiders. I could get behind a team called the Spiders. Think of the logos on the caps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Spiders