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I'll be surprised if he makes it to the third inning.

Lmao. Thanks, Cooper.

As John Madden used to say, "Boom!"

"He's a damn good kid and my gut says he's due"

If they lose tonight, Ricky might have maybe another week to turn it around. I'd prefer someone like Jirschele to Ozzie though. I thought Hahn was supposed to be trying to transition the org to being more analytics oriented.

We should have won that game. Can't afford to go 1-4, the nightcap is a must win.

We have had so many wasted chances to win this game. Dammit

Not getting calls

Collins

Sigh. They are awful with RISP.

Come on make them pay for once. This is our chance to steal it.

Lmao way out of the zone.

We can easily steal this game. Its right there.

If he keeps batting the way he is even RR will have to do something about it.

1 Anderson 2 Moncada 3 Robert 4 Jimenez 5 Grandal 6 Encarnacion 7 Mazara 8 Abreu 9 Madrigal

We actually have a shot here. Reading the thread has the feel of a 9-2 game, its only 4-2 and we are starting to play fairly well, even Detwiler...lol.

Nice job Tim. Get a couple runs please

I was hoping with that extra day off Eloy would be in the lineup, even at DH, but guess not.

Why does the site matter? The issue is they don't want to play a team that just had like a dozen guys test positive within that same week. It doesn't matter if it's in Miami, Washington, Medicine Hat (Alberta) or Kandahar. The optics are impossible for MLB. You can't have a team voting no after half the other squad testing positive and mlb forcing them to play against some scrub taxi squad. The PR outrage would be impossible to handle and for good reason. The league is backed into a corner now.

Eloy out....not surprised...hopefully not too long because usually when he is out for a bit it takes him some time to get going when he's back at the plate.

SD also underperformed last year compared to expectations. Perhaps he should have been hitting 4th.

I understand Grandal at 1 based on the principle that OBP is most important there but since the leadoff usually comes to the plate with the fewest folks on base, wouldn't it be a waste of his power? Leadoff should be high OBP and low power which incidentally would rule out Robert as well despite his liking for that spot. Grandal at 1 would also mean back to back lefties which would then leave us like with 5 righties in a row and that could be a problem with a righty killer on the mound. The only person that potentially fits the bill is Madrigal but that would require him to consistently hit .310 in order to get to an OBP of around .360 or .370. If he has no power at all eventually teams will play with 5 IFers and only 2 OFers in order to snuff out all his soft contact in which case you can forget about a .310 average. Hes gonna have to hit some doubles in the gap to force people to play him honestly.

I think we will be ok with Giolito-DK-Cease-Rodon-Dunning. That should be a middle of the league staff for 2020 and with our offense an average staff should be sufficient for wild card.

I was reading that HotStoveIntel dude on Twitter and maybe I was reading it wrong but he implied the Twins were on roids "Nelson Cruz refuses to age, I wonder why?"

Hopefully he only sits out tomorrow's game.