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  1. bighat
    Yeah I guess I was kind of building it up for effect there. The bullpen plus the Shoemaker/Happ/Dobnak stuff is unsurvivable.
  2. bighat
    Last time I checked the Twins were doing perfectly horrendous with all of those guys in the regular lineup. April and May were disasters.
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    Give Terry Francona, Dave Roberts, or Kevin Cash this lineup and the Twins are 15 games over .500, not 15 below. Selling off once-in-a-lifetime talent like Buxton because your manager is overmatched and can't adjust seems foolish.
  4. bighat
    Thanks for this informative breakdown! Looking forward to following these guys, hope they'll suit up for a start in St. Paul shortly.
  5. bighat
    Checked the score - holy cow, the Twins came back from a 4-0 deficit by chipping away! We won indeed! I agreed with your other points but I wanted to respectfully disagree with your thoughts on Happ. JA Happ is the worst starter in baseball. His record is 5-5 with a 6.14 ERA in 95 innings pitched. The only pitcher who's even in the same conversation is Mike Foltynewicz down in TX, who is 2-10 with a 6.11 ERA in 97 innings pitched. Even all the xStats look bad for Happ. So quite literally, he's either the worst or 2nd worst starter in the entire game of baseball. And he's old. No contender is going to give up even a shred of their future for this guy. He was a real solid MLB pitcher in his day, just doesn't have it anymore. These things happen. Jeffers, Gordon, and Larnach coming through along with Sano - gotta love it. Keep playing these guys when they're hot! Hope Gordon is starting again tonight.
  6. bighat
    Gracias Nelson! Class act all the way, Twins wouldn't have won 2 straight division titles without you. Great guy, great teammate, we fans were really lucky to have him playing for our home team the past few years.
  7. bighat
    Wow - interested to learn more about these 2 right handers. Are they Bailey Ober clones? Even if they are, I think it's a good deal. Lightening might strike and one of those guys could prove to be a useful starter on this team. I'd like to see them in Minneapolis in short order. At first glance I like the trade. Twins needed arms, they got some. Let 'em rip.
  8. bighat
    Great questions you asked, I don't know the answers to all but I share your feelings! As for the question about Colome, it's possible but unlikely. Maybe we'll get some cash considerations or something. But honestly, what contender out there wants to bring Alex Colome into their bullpen? The guy has been awful in tight games, starting from Day 1. His recent "success" if we can call it that seems to mostly come when pitching in low leverage situations. I just don't see anyone in a pennant race taking the gamble. With the Twins luck he'll catch fire after the deadline and be lights out in August & Sept.
  9. bighat
    Lots of positive stuff last night. Polanco has put his early season struggles way back in the rear view mirror. Way back when Donaldson signed, many of us couldn't even figure out where Polanco would hit. 8th? 9th? But the guy has played himself right back into the heart of the order where he should be. About the most consistent bat the Twins have, aside from Cruz. No long slumps, no 4 strikeout games, he puts the ball in play which this team needs. Good to see Max go deep also. Nice effort Big Mike, good luck wherever you may land.
  10. bighat
    I also want the Twins to get true immediate value in 2022 if they trade Berrios. The further down in the system a player is (even a highly ranked one), the less likely they are to become a major league asset. The Twins may still have a window to compete in 2022, I don't think they should wave the white flag on next year just yet.
  11. bighat
    Join the club. The year of the juiced ball in 2019 really screwed the Twins, as the front office decided to push all in on the "HR or nothing" philosophy. But then MLB changed the balls, and now look where we are. Of course, having the worst bullpen in baseball also has something to do with it! Another game snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Saw Polanco's HR in the 8th and was like "heeyyy, look at that swagger" but the Twins bullpen quickly lit the dumpster back on fire.
  12. bighat
    How this team continues to take momentum and flush it down the toilet is incredible. Mitch Garver comes off the DL after 2 months and hits two homers! Right after the team came back in the first game....Twins lose. A couple weeks ago the Twins came to Chicago on a winning streak and Donaldson leads off two games in a row with HRs. Dude is FIRED UP! Twins lose both games. Earlier in the season the Twins finally looked to end their extra innings curse in Oakland after Buxton hits a huge 2-run HR in the 10th. Buxton jogs around the bases pumping his fist. Dugout is pumped! Twins blow it. Never seen anything like it. Incredible return for Garver, certainly something to celebrate in a dark season.
  13. bighat
    At least the Twins gave their fans an on-brand performance. Two games in a row that most teams would have won, the Twins lost 'em both by 1 run. Are they still leading the league in 1-run losses? Briefly caught Morneau talking about how bad the bullpen has been, I believe it's been 2x as bad as the league average, worst in the league, and how that more than anything has led to this disasterous season. I'd be happy if Rogers was traded, the guy is still OK but not even close to dominant, his 2019 year is getting further and further back in the rear view mirror. For fans like me who were at least hoping to watch the team play quality baseball in the 2nd half, this was a dose of harsh reality. Nothing really to look forward to except for analyzing the trade hauls.
  14. bighat
    Great points overall, but I do disagree with your take on Jeffers. You say he's "starting to figure things out", but over the past 21 days he's hitting just .111 - he's got 3 total hits in the past 3 weeks. Now he has walked 9 times during that time frame, which is something....but overall his numbers don't point to me that he's anywhere close to figuring things out. Rortvedt is fairing no better, also hitting .111 in the past 21 days. If this team was in a race right now, I'd imagine we'd be seeing a lot of Willians Astudillo at the C position right now. Frankly, I can't see how Astudillo isn't looking at these numbers and wondering why the heck he's in St. Paul right now.
  15. bighat
    Yeah...his minor league numbers this year are pretty similar to our old friend Stephen Gonsalves, who's got just about the same stats on the Red Sox AAA affiliate this year. Gonsalves is just one year older than Barnes, believe it or not. But you gotta kick the tires on these guys and I do think he deserves a shot. I'm excited to see him pitch - you never know until you run them out there and let them play. Competitors find a way, and Barnes is getting an opportunity. Let's go Charlie!
  16. bighat
    Cleveland isn't looking too good. The Twins are just 7 games back of the Tribe. Could the Twins claw their way back to .500 by the end of the season and catch the Indians for 2nd place? I doubt it, but that would at least be fun to track. Sadly, even if this team catches fire and finishes with a .500 record, it's going to be remembered as a colossal failure nonetheless. I'm most interested in seeing some rookie pitching. Actually, any new pitching. Ian Hamilton should be in the bullpen ASAP. Can we get this Barnes kid up? Will Balazovich get a start or two at the end of the year? I really hate how teams meddle with service time, because it means we often don't get to see the highest ranked prospects until next May. What kind of bizarro world is that? The BEST prospects get held back!
  17. bighat
    Good perspective. Yes, 2021 is a super frustrating year, but at least we have baseball! Last year's abbreviated season, with the cardboard heads and the rule changes, paired with the fact that we were all living through a very weird and unsettling time - that's a true "lost season". Glad we have baseball, outside, with fans back in the seats. Much more enjoyable to watch....especially when they win. Target Field is indeed a gem - I always found it strange to focus on the food prices: it's a baseball stadium, not a restaurant!
  18. bighat
    I don't say "he's not any good" but I must admit I'm confused at everyone here who is speaking about Trevor Larnach like he's the next Justin Morneau or something. You know which rookies impressed me? Aaron Judge. Pete Alonso. Yordan Alvarez. Ronald Acuna. Cody Bellinger. Heck even our own Luis Arraez. Look up those guys' rookie stats. Those guys had their fans excited because they knew they had difference makers. I'm way more excited about Kirilloff. I like Larnach but I don't think he's ready and I don't think running him out there every day to strike out 4 times (which he's done three times in the past 12 days) is helping.
  19. bighat
    Man, I remember feeling really upset about losing Randy Rosario...oh well. Twins really struck gold with Adrianza, would be great if they could use their high slot this summer to grab another winner. Ian Hamilton looked great in Spring Training, and with a terrible bullpen you'd think his shot has to be coming. What does this guy have to do to get called up?
  20. bighat
    At first I didn't like the pick - 6'0", 185? A high school player from Wisconsin? At shortstop? None of it made a whole lot of sense until...."his brother recently made his MLB debut with Cleveland". Ah okay, so there's some pedigree. This article's worth a read. Also, MLB.com had him listed as the #62 prospect, so it wasn't tooooo much of a stretch. So a bit of a gamble here from the Twins, and why not? Good luck Noah!
  21. bighat
    Heck yeah man. He's getting calls from Mike Trout and going out to dinner with Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado tonight! Looks like he's got a great arm too. Loving this kid!
  22. bighat
    Let me preface my response by saying this whole conversation is meant to be jovial, and in good fun. The Twins are on a break, I'm just shooting the breeze here and having a good time debating a player. You: "Let's not overreact! He's a rookie, those strikeout stats don't matter" Also you: "His OPS is .755" So...stats do matter, but only the good ones? We're not supposed to talk about those bad stats over there in the corner? Anyway man, I totally understand the points a lot of you are making. I guess I just have some seeds of doubt and I'm wondering if anyone else feels the same. Anyone remember Bobby Kielty? That's all I'm sayin.
  23. bighat
    I think you missed the part about Larnach striking out 4 times in back to back games. He struck out 4 times in a game last week, too. This is a problem and it looks like a big one. Seven homers isn't good enough to make up for what has become an alarming inability to make contact.
  24. bighat
    How on earth did he "earn" his spot? In two of his last 3 starts, he hasn't made it out of the 4th inning and has given up 4 or more ER. Another example of how we're so traumatized by watching Twins pitching that we think a guy with a 5.45 ERA is earning a spot. It just shows how low our standards have fallen. I think we should keep running Ober out there, just to see if anything changes, but keep your expectations reasonable. This guy doesn't look like he's got anything that's going to keep him in the majors.
  25. bighat
    A sweep would be nice, but at this point you just pray for 1 more win before the break.
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