Twins 2022

Heard that a month ago the Twins were tied for 1st place. At the end of the season they were closer to last place and 6 games under .500

Just when Rocco convinces us that pitching doesn’t matter, the Indians & Rays are locked up 0-0 in the 12th. Oh, thats the play-offs the Twinks gagged away.

15 innings and the Indians walk it off. 11 total hits and I think 39 strikeouts in the game.

Night and day pitching difference on most of the teams in the playoffs and the Twins. Funny, not many runs are scored when you throw quality strikes, get ahead of the batter and have them go after a pitch out of the zone.
Heard Falvey or Lavigne the other day say “we need to figure out want went wrong and how to improve”. How about spending big money on some “top” pitchers. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the Pohlads own the team.

Twins will never buy the top line pitchers. They will need to develop them. Scherzer got beat, Ray got pounded, the Blue Jay starters went down in flames. The Indians did it with Bieber & Mackenzie. Both very good but neither what would be considered a mainline Superstars. Falvey and Levine talk a good game but have yet to assemble a team that can produce on the field. Now we will take another GIANT step backwards losing Correa.

Twins have some interesting problems to solve. Namely Miranda, Urshala, Kerilloff, Arreaz and even the fat kid.

Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t Urshela the only person they need to make a decision on as he is Arb eligible.

Twins fired the head trainer today. Best move they’ll make all offseason.

Hope Falvey is watching the play-offs. Another big time pitchers duel tonight in Atlanta.

He always watches. Unfortunately from afar.

Dutchboy wrote:

Hope Falvey is watching the play-offs. Another big time pitchers duel tonight in Atlanta.

No, didn’t you hear him say how satisfied they are with their roster and coaching staff? Cuz Mr Mackey really did a lot for the pitching staff….

In the presser someone questioned Falvey/Lavigne (they are one and the same aren’t they?) about Windmill Watkins. Falvey/Lavigne said you are probably referring to some of the runners he sent home but he is repected throughout the organization.
Then let him coach the players but not be the 3rd base coach.

Netguy wrote:

In the presser someone questioned Falvey/Lavigne (they are one and the same aren’t they?) about Windmill Watkins. Falvey/Lavigne said you are probably referring to some of the runners he sent home but he is repected throughout the organization.
Then let him coach the players but not be the 3rd base coach.

I’d love to see the video/article if you have a link of the presser. I don’t think I’ve ever seen more 3B coaching errors before and players out by 10 times the girth of Miguel Sano’s waistline..

The new season has begun where the Twins are in on Correa, Judge and some front end starters! Spoiler alert they will just miss out, and some pocket protectors will say they were the #2 option

Joe Maddon Sounds off on Analytics in Baseball (9/6/22)

Thanks Dutchy. That got my day off to a great start!

The day of reckoning for analytics is coming faster than people think. Next year the shifts are gone, you have more and more players and managers bitching about them, and leadership in the MLB is starting to realize what a urine poor product baseball has turned into because of it.

And yet they are bringing more & more softball rules into the game. My-O-My won’t 18-17 games be exciting!! I think doing away with the pitcher altogether & adding a batting tee the batter can set the ball on is the way to go. We can add sliding fences to the stadiums so the singles hitters can bang balls off of and over the wall. Oh the possibilities.

This is what pitching and baseball people look like.

Jeremy Peña hit a home run in the 18th inning as the Astros defeated the Mariners, 1-0, in Game 3 of the American League Division Series at T-Mobile Park.

Mariners join the list of those knocked out by pitching. Yankees will soon join the list.

Was it great pitching or bad hitting. 🤷‍♂️ Seattle was the worst offensive team in the playoffs.

Pitching.

Can you imagine the twins trying to pitch 18 innings. Every fielder probably have had to pitch because they would have used all there pitchers by the 10th inning.