Done that way, it actually doesn't seem so bad. Now when you look at it on the B-Ref schedule and results page, not good.
It's sure a good thing we got Duffey and Berrios out of the rotation and put Albers and Dean in. If we hadn't done that, we might have had a bunch of short starts and a long losing streak.
14 strikeouts and one walk tonight for Jose Berrios in 8 innings. 71 of his 100 pitches were strikes. 3 runs on 5 hits (2 homers).
This is pure speculation, but every time I read something about Berrios with the Twins, it was about how Neil Allen was working with him to do this, and Eddie Guardado was working with him to do that, and Bert Blyleven was working with him to do something else. I'm sure it's all well-intentioned, and it might even have been good advice, but when you hear that many things from that many people, it can sometimes do more harm than good. You're out there thinking about how your hands have to be here, and your feet have to be like this, and you've got to make sure your arm slot is such-and-such, and it just gets to be too much. I wonder if they wouldn't do better to tell him to just forget everything and throw the ball like he does in AAA.
And to no one's surprise, he is called up.
Byron Buxton has been called up by the #MNTwins, according to @RocRedWings manager Mike Quade.
Solo home runs cant hurt.
Solo HRs cant hurt.
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Done that way, it actually doesn't seem so bad. Now when you look at it on the B-Ref schedule and results page, not good.
It's sure a good thing we got Duffey and Berrios out of the rotation and put Albers and Dean in. If we hadn't done that, we might have had a bunch of short starts and a long losing streak.
Maybe we need to promote the AAA umpires?
Or the Red Wings' catcher.
This is pure speculation, but every time I read something about Berrios with the Twins, it was about how Neil Allen was working with him to do this, and Eddie Guardado was working with him to do that, and Bert Blyleven was working with him to do something else. I'm sure it's all well-intentioned, and it might even have been good advice, but when you hear that many things from that many people, it can sometimes do more harm than good. You're out there thinking about how your hands have to be here, and your feet have to be like this, and you've got to make sure your arm slot is such-and-such, and it just gets to be too much. I wonder if they wouldn't do better to tell him to just forget everything and throw the ball like he does in AAA.
And to no one's surprise, he is called up.
Brian Dozier has more home runs this month than the Twins have losses in a row. POSITIVE!
Looking at baseball-reference this morning....
WAR Position Players
1. Trout (LAA) 8.9
2. Betts (BOS) 7.8
3. Altuve (HOU) 7.3
4. Donaldson (TOR) 6.8
5. Machado (BAL) 6.2
6. Cano (SEA) 6.1
7. Seager (SEA) 6.0
8. Eaton (CHW) 5.5
9. Dozier (MIN) 5.4
10. Pedroia (BOS) 5.3
Correa (HOU) 5.3
also, look at all those 2Bmen on the leaderboard.