All Things 2022 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread

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Gopher_In_NYC said:
Filed under makes way toooo much sense to ever happen.
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Another item that makes "way too much sense to happen" is the series with Milwaukee. For many years now, we've each had a 2 game home series. Of course, being only 2 games means it has to fall mid week. Also of course, being the 2nd game is a "getaway day", it ends up being a mid-week day game. So why can't they just have a 4-game Th/F/Sa/Su home series each year that alternates between cities? Back before they "fixed" the AL/NL split with the Astros, we got a 3 game series in each city each year. Being my wife is from MKE, and my in-laws are still there, we went just about every year to the games in Milwaukee. They were always packed, and they were quite fun, with at least 25% of the fans being Twins fans. If they had a long weekend series, it would draw quite a few people from Wisky that would stay and spend money here. But nope, we get mid-week games that end up being like any other game.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
I think they've tried, and still try to do that at times, but there are too many teams in the north to do that for everyone.

Baseball is meant to be be played in the summer, and the season is too long to begin with. At minimum cut out the April games and start May 1.
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I do like the grind of a baseball season but the season is obviously very long. No argument from me there.

It's true there are many northern teams, although not many are looking out the window at 42 degrees and rain. Weather this bad is still primarily in a few locations in both Central divisions. I'm sure part of the problem with having northern teams on the road early is many of the other teams don't want all the April dates either for fan interest, school in session, etc.

I'm more inclined to argue for scheduling within the division. April games and September games should be skewed toward divisional games for weather and pennant race reasons respectively. Then fill in the rest of the summer with the all the other games. I'd be annoyed as a season ticket holder if my one chance to see the Dodgers in three years was two games in early April.
 


golfing18now said:
At minimum it seems you would want to start northern teams on the road for the first half of the month or even schedule teams in your own division so you can have many opportunities to re-schedule.
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GopherWeatherGuy said:
I think they've tried, and still try to do that at times, but there are too many teams in the north to do that for everyone.

Baseball is meant to be be played in the summer, and the season is too long to begin with. At minimum cut out the April games and start May 1.
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When I was a kid, the season started a week or so into April and the Twins always seemed to open with two or three series on the west coast. Now the season starts a week or more earlier and the teams in the west and south seem less willing to front load their schedules with home games in April to accomodate the teams in the north. They have been more vocal about protecting the same summer dates that the Twins want when the weather is better, school is out and the gates are bigger.
 

The Vikings have acquired Max Kepler to play safety.

 


When the players wanted to earn more money, they simply expanded the season. Not sure how that all plans out though as the attendance can be pretty bad outside of the opener in April.

On another note, I'd love to be a fly on the wall to the reasoning of many decisions. No doubt much is going on that we aren't aware of. You've got a boat load of teams all wanting to win the World Series. Only one makes it and everyone one else supposedly chokes, didn't make the right decisions to get there and so forth.
 

I know it’s just spring training but Buxton has been on fire.

 

the change from 154 game season to 162 came about in 1961 because of expansion. and - oddly enough - only the American League played 162 games that year. the National League still played 154.

to recap - the AL added 2 more teams in 1961, including some team in Minnesota.

Wikipedia tells the rest:

In order to keep its schedule balanced, the American League season was extended by eight games. Previously, teams had played 154 games (22 games per opponent), but from 1961 AL teams would play opponents 18 times each for a total of 162 games. The National League played a 154-game schedule for the final time in 1961 before switching to 162 games when they also expanded to ten teams for the 1962 Major League Baseball season.

that, of course, was under the "balanced" schedule. In 1969 with more expansion came the move to divisional play. To keep the season at 162 games, MLB went to an "unbalanced" schedule with teams playing more games against the teams in their division, and fewer games against the teams in the other division. the unbalanced schedule went through additional tweaks to accommodate more expansion and inter-league play.
 







short ornery norwegian said:
the change from 154 game season to 162 came about in 1961 because of expansion. and - oddly enough - only the American League played 162 games that year. the National League still played 154.

to recap - the AL added 2 more teams in 1961, including some team in Minnesota.
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The Twins weren’t really an addition, rather a franchise relocation from DC. The new teams were the Angels and the new Washington Senators franchise.
 





GopherVotary said:
The Twins weren’t really an addition, rather a franchise relocation from DC. The new teams were the Angels and the new Washington Senators franchise.
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You're right. Brain flop. I was thinking that MN was a new city to the league - but of course, they were not a new franchise. I know that. Or I should know that if my brain was working. Now, where are my keys?

On the field today, last Spring Training game. Twins were leading 6-1 when Rocco pulled the regulars after 6 innings. Boston scored 9 runs in the late innings and won 10-6.

When the regulars were in, the Twins got HR's from Correa, Buxton and Urshela. Winder started and gave up 1 Run in 3 IP with 2K. Griffin Jax came in to pitch in the 6th and gave up 6 runs on 3H, 2 BB and 1HBP.
 








JimmyJamesMD said:
Winder will get his shot. There's going to be a lot of injuries with the condensed spring training. Need depth.
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For sure. I just think there's enough talent about ready to give them a shot. Hopefully one of them takes advantage of the opportunity.
 

golfing18now said:
Yeah.....I thought the same thing. 😃Perhaps the video could have gone a few more seconds?
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Nobody has brought this up but Gordon does not appear to have suffered a concussion or other injury. Rocco said today that he should be ready for the opener.
 






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