All Things 2023 Minnesota Twins In-Season Thread

[howeda7]

Royce!

 

[From the Parkinglot]

That is the opposite of stinks.

 

[TRF Guy]

Lewis goes deep again

 

[howeda7]

 

[From the Parkinglot]

93 thigh high ain’t gonna play.

 

[GopherVotary]

Rocco going to empty the bullpen tonight.

 

[howeda7]

I'd let Ryan at least go until he has a runner on 2nd. Don't like it.

 

[From the Parkinglot]

Seems aggressive to ask the bullpen to get 21 outs.

 

[TRF Guy]

They happen to win and Lopez happens to struggle in game 5 that would not be a good scenario

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Seems aggressive to ask the bullpen to get 21 outs.

Or panicky. Seems like he forgot what happened when Toronto and the Dodgers had the early yank.

 

[GopherWeatherGuy]

I hate this pitching strategy

 

[From the Parkinglot]

Twins got their swing and miss stuff tonight. The bad part is it’s the twins hitters and not their pitchers.

 

[howeda7]

They're going to end up pitching Pagan with a 1 run lead in the 8th...

 

[From the Parkinglot]

Or panicky. Seems like he forgot what happened when Toronto and the Dodgers had the early yank.

If the twins don’t score it won’t make a lick of difference. My hope is that this was talked about at a team meeting this morning so there are no surprises. Everyone knows when they are coming in and it’s like clock work. Also hoping that the relievers always come in to a clean inning.

 

[TNGophfan]

And wish they had another lefty in 6th or 7th.

 

[GophersInIowa]

And wish they had another lefty in 6th or 7th.

I don’t understand using him already.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

If the twins don’t score it won’t make a lick of difference. My hope is that this was talked about at a team meeting this morning so there are no surprises. Everyone knows when they are coming in and it’s like clock work. Also hoping that the relievers always come in to a clean inning.

There’s lots of moving parts.

 

[Spaulding!No!]

Joe Mays is no longer pitching

 

[From the Parkinglot]

Joe Ryan could have done that.

 

[howeda7]

This pitching plan was ridiculous. They will never win a World Series under Falvine/Rocco.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Well it might be over already. Using this strategy has to result in zeros. If it doesn’t, we’re screwed.

 

[TNGophfan]

Thielbar has been real shaky last few weeks. And it continues.

 

[TNGophfan]

Still need to score though.

 

[TNGophfan]

Hated strategy. At least let Ryan go until he gets in trouble. I bad pitch in 2nd. Another hit off his body but he looked ok.

 

[Breakin' The Plane]

Just got boned by the exact same pre-planned managerial nonsense that did in Toronto.

 

[kg21]

Still need to score though.

and non-stop striking out makes that rather difficult

 

[TNGophfan]

Does it seem to anyone else that we throw more fastballs down the middle and opposing teams are always on edge or out of strike zone. Maybe because they know we will swing at most anything close.

 

[From the Parkinglot]

It’s funny cause Jose Abreau is exactly the kind of guy the twins should have gone after in the off season. Now not saying they should have paid him $60million over 3 years, but they needed a power hitting right handed bat in their lineup. Now next year they need the exact same thing cause you can not count on Kiriloff to be healthy and you can’t count on Solano to be as good as he was this year again.

 

[GopherVotary]

Joe Mays is no longer pitching

He was good….in 2001.

 

[howeda7]

It’s funny cause Jose Abreau is exactly the kind of guy the twins should have gone after in the off season. Now not saying they should have paid him $60million over 3 years, but they needed a power hitting right handed bat in their lineup. Now next year they need the exact same thing cause you can not count on Kiriloff to be healthy and you can’t count on Solano to be as good as he was this year again.

I was hoping the would though he did have a pretty crappy season.

Solano's OPS+ the last 4 years: 127, 103, 99, 110. You kind of can count on him.