All Things 2023 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread

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Ope3 said:
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ALERT - Twins on the Grid today.

I love it when I can plug in a guy that won 27 games more than a century ago. Lights out...Urban Shocker.
 
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short ornery norwegian said:
WARNING!! this post could be triggering.

so Barreiro this morning was talking about the Twins' 18-gm playoff losing streak (yeah, I'm shocked).

I decided to do a deep dive into "the streak." here's what I came up with.

Runs scored: Twins 49 (avg 2.7). Opps 107 (avg 5.9)

Twins have scored 1 run (5x) - 2 runs (5x) - 3 runs (2x) - 4 runs (4x) - 5 runs (1x) - 6 runs (1x)
Opps scored 3 runs (2x)- 4 runs (3x)- 5 runs (3x)- 6 runs(3x)- 7 runs(2x)- 8 runs(4x)- 10 runs (1x)

Opps margin of victory- 1 run(4x)- 2 runs(2x)- 3 runs(4x)- 4 runs(3x)- 5 runs(3x)- 6 runs(2x).

bottom line - in the streak, Twins have not produced enough runs (12 of 18 gms with 3 runs or less)
and the Twins pitching has not been strong (allowed 5 or more runs in 13 of 18 games).

Captain Obvious says - if they can hit a little better and pitch a little better, they will give themselves a chance to win.
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I'm going to have to dig a little deeper to verify this, but sounds like a reasonable theory.
 





GophersInIowa said:
So if Lopez is to start game 1 and they continue with the 6 man rotation, they’d have to do 2 additional bullpen games.
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I vote Gray for game 1. Lopez is too prone to bad 1st innings. If we give up a 4 spot in the first inning of game 1, we will play the rest of the series with our hands around our necks.
 



Ope3 said:
Add Dave Stieb to the list.
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Funny enough, Stieb and Stewart were my downfall today also. I know the Jays haven't been around forever, but that was a pretty thin soup to be casting about for 20 game winners/Cy Young recipients.

Nicely done on Shocker--that had to be in the 0.something range, I would suspect.

And just because my wife would think about having me committed if I strung the following words together, I have to share my prideful moment from yesterday's grid--Ernie "Macho" Camacho garnered a 0.01% when I identified him as a former Indian and A's player. Funny what still bubbles to the surface from the hundreds of Topps, Fleer and Donruss cards of the '80s.
 

howeda7 said:
I vote Gray for game 1. Lopez is too prone to bad 1st innings. If we give up a 4 spot in the first inning of game 1, we will play the rest of the series with our hands around our necks.
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I'm guessing the way it's set up Lopez will pitch before Gray since he's already a day ahead in the rotation. Not a big fan of giving a guy too many days off in between starts. Could throw them off.
 

GophersInIowa said:
I'm guessing the way it's set up Lopez will pitch before Gray since he's already a day ahead in the rotation. Not a big fan of giving a guy too many days off in between starts. Could throw them off.
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True. They could swap them by having Gray start on Friday against LAA. If they stay on a five man rotation it would line up whoever pitches this Friday to start game 1.
 

So how good has the Twins pitching been?

Thought these stats might help quantify it -

https://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/_/view/team

Complete Leaders

QUALITY STARTS QS

1 Twins 72

2 Mariners 69

3 Padres 68

Cool Site with lots of stat on it (although the formatting isn't the most intuitive) -

Pitching Statistics

Value (rank)​
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Earned Run Average
3.89 (#6)​
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Earned Runs Against/Gm
3.87 (#6)​
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WHIP
1.199 (#4)​
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Outs Pitcher/Game
26.86 (#4)​
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Strikeouts/9
9.46 (#2)​
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Hits/9
8.04 (#4)​
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Home Runs/9
1.20 (#14)​
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Walks/9
2.75 (#4)​
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Strikeouts/Walk
3.44 (#2)​
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coolhandgopher said:
Funny enough, Stieb and Stewart were my downfall today also. I know the Jays haven't been around forever, but that was a pretty thin soup to be casting about for 20 game winners/Cy Young recipients.

Nicely done on Shocker--that had to be in the 0.something range, I would suspect.

And just because my wife would think about having me committed if I strung the following words together, I have to share my prideful moment from yesterday's grid--Ernie "Macho" Camacho garnered a 0.01% when I identified him as a former Indian and A's player. Funny what still bubbles to the surface from the hundreds of Topps, Fleer and Donruss cards of the '80s.
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For the Jays, I should have gone Rocket but I really thought Stieb was a lock for 20Ws.

Great pull on Camacho!

Shocker was actually not super-rare, 2%. One of the last to legally throw a spit-ball who dominated for the St Louis Browns and Yankees.

Read a long piece about him by Bill James once, very interesting. Was a stalwart on the '27 team. Died by the next autumn due to heart conditions/pneumonia.
 
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