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this is the correct answer. baseball is a funny sport. sometimes guys come out of nowhere and dominate for two months. sometimes they flame out, and other times its the start of a career resurgence. who knows? this is why we watch and why i love baseball

i don't internet enough to look up the numbers, but teams are teeing off on Pineda the third time through the order. seems like a perfect opportunity for an opener. when mejia comes back he could be a good candidate. he's used to starting games and can occasionally string together two good innings pretty sure openers are here to stay, at least for a while. with all the april off days and rain outs, there just hasn't been a need yet.

i don't recall seeing too many openers this early in the season last year either. i know it kind of caught on as the season went along, but i'm guessing by august it'll be pretty common again

i'm starting to wonder if wes johnson is some sort of wizard

sunday too. happy to see garver starting 3 of 4 over castro since astudillo went on the IL also good to see mauer back at target field. his time in the booth on espn was great... bland and typical mauer. i loved it

at this point ... 9 innings pitched into his major league career as a 30 year old rookie. i think the league will make adjustments i like the 'career minor leaguer makes the show' story as much as anyone else, but if we're still talking about ryne harper in august, it's because the twins are 10+ games out

caught this during the A's/Astro's game on mlb network tonight (bob melvin is #53) not about to start a debate or anything, but thought it was noteworthy and gave me a chuckle, so thought i'd share

i'm not sure about my dad, but i don't expect bert blyleven to say his name correctly one time this season

this is hilarious to me. the guy has been in the league since 2002 and has 320 saves(19th all time). saves are definitely a flawed stat and he's definitely no Mo Rivera but 16 year major league careers don't just happen, and he'll likely net the twins 1 or 2 mid-level prospects at the age of 41. i'm glad your "eye test" was never a major league scout

i had no interest in Odorizzi when he was worth a top ten prospect, but this, this i like a lot

he's not a pull hitter. he's been in the league since 2004 and has never been a pull hitter. he's never going to be a pull hitter. it has nothing to do with mechanics.

sign him to a ridiculous and unnecessary contract extension?

robbie grossman is currently getting on base in nearly 38% of his at bats. he should be hitting in front of sano basically every day

man, way to steal my thunder with visual aides

"It was a jump to conclusions mat. you see it would be this mat that you would put on the floor and would have different 'conclusions' written on it that you could 'jump to'"

i have no problem with a move like this. the current bullpen is terrible all around, so if chris heston comes in and pitches 3 mediocre innings before being DFA'd, whats the difference? if he catches lightning in a bottle and pitches well for two weeks before he's DFA'd, that will be an improvement over what we've got right now

i thought we learned our lesson about trading young prospects for relief pitchers with the wilson ramos/matt capps trade. or at least i hope we learned that lesson

Mauer is sitting pretty regularly against lefties, which i'm pretty sure was the plan all along. As long as Molitor keeps that up, i have no problem with Mauers playing time. Not sure he needs to be the clean up hitter though

as a rule, if Bert Blyleven and Jack Morris agree on something, i automatically believe the opposite

is he really refusing? if the alternative is a groundball out to second, i'll take the walk every time

i'd like to see Adrianza or Goodrum on the team for no other reason than it would likely mean Danny Santana is no longer on the roster. Adrianza can't hit and Goodrum definitely isn't a long term solution. But they both have one thing going for them... they aren't Danny Santana

hopefully its been ruled out. personally, i'm kinda tired of watching middle infielders play terribly in the outfield.

i'd hate to lose Tonkin without seeing what he could do when used properly. but if Molitor refuses to use him any other way, whats the point of keeping him around? i was a firm believer in Duffey as a starter, but i'm afraid that ship has sailed. i think his curveball can work well out of the pen though so i'd keep him there. personally, i'd probably DFA Breslow and if he doesn't catch on anywhere offer him a job in the analytics department

i'm not trying to be negative at all and the results were great and really thats what matters. but i thought he missed his spots repeatedly all night. gimenez would set up low and away and hughes would miss middle in, etc. he was still getting outs on those pitches, but if he keeps missing his spots that badly eventually he's going to miss over the middle of the plate. for his first start after a major surgery, he wasn't terrible. i just don't think he was as good as some others believe. still, i want nothing more than for him to succeed. he's going to be here a while yet

i thought the opposite actually. his location was off all night and he got away with it. things likely would have been different against a not white sox line up