Kyle Gibson, who's been pretty good, against Trevor Bauer, who's been better. Go Twins!
42 thoughts on “Game 111: Twins at Clevelands”
Not an auspicious start for the Twins batters.
Crax. And now the ghost of Ty Cobb will haunt.
I got caught in a pointless phone conversation and missed how the Clevelands scored their runs. Looking at the play-by-play, perhaps it was just as well.
Bauer has all the tools from his Jack Bauer bag.
Leathah!
At least we're not going to get no-hit.
Be nice to see at least one Twin over 300. C'mon Eddie.
Gibson v. Bauer again? Hopefully better outcome than last time.
Not looking like it.
I would like Atteberry better if he would talk a little bit less.
All the pregame was how certain Twins hitters do well in Cleveland and/or against Bauer...meanwhile Gibby has not been at his best but should still be in a closer ballgame
Bert briefly talking about if the players today know what Marvin Miller did for the players and got the paid. I wish they would have let him talk about that instead of cutting him off for a highlight of some other game.
Welp....
I don't really understand why Kyle Gibson is still in this game.
Would you rather see Matt Belisle?
If Belisle has a role on the team, this would be it.
Why not? The Twins aren't going to win so might as well try to save the bullpen some innings by having Gibson get as many outs as possible.
Or, perhaps, save innings for Gibson by using someone like Belisle who has no other purpose on the team but mopup relief anyway.
Belisle hasn't pitched more than 29 pitches in any outing all season, so he's not going to do much more than a couple innings anyways.
If that.
He's thrown over forty pitches now, so apparently twenty-nine is not considered his limit.
No, but I can't imagine him pitching another inning and the fact he was allowed to go 48 pitches is probably a good indication that he might be the guy on his way out to make room for Magill.
And I would rather have had those innings on his arm than on Gibson's arm.
They could also bring in the new guy, Drake, to pitch a couple of innings.
Gibson threw 95 pitches, so it wasn't like he was overworked.
Saving him in tonight's game isn't the point. Saving him for the season is the point. Why make him throw a couple of extra innings in a game we're almost certainly not going to win anyway? To save Oliver Drake?
Clearly, what they should've done is brought Garver in earlier.
The roster move that should be made when Magill comes back is completely obvious. The Twins just don't want to do it for some reason.
rally time
rally starts next inning
I just saw the Jeff Johnson for gov commercial. WTF was that?
Bauer struck out every Twins batter at least once in 6 IP. That's hard to do.
In much better news tonight, Royce Lewis is 4-for-6 with 2 home runs for Ft. Myers tonight. Remember, the FSL is very much a pitchers league.
Lewis now batting 329/.418/.506 in 21 games at Ft. Myers, which is better than he was hitting at Cedar Rapids before being promoted.
wowza!
He's cracked the Top 15 on a lot of prospect lists.
I wonder if we see him in AA to start next year, with a projected call up early in 2020. It will be interesting to see who mans our infield in 2020. Polanco, Lewis, Sano, and Rooker is my guess with Gordon in the mix. Sano and Rooker could be splitting first base/DH, so potentially we could see Polanco, Lewis and Gordon as regulars in the line up.
Extending the line up out, I think we see Kirilloff in the mix with Buxton (if ever healthy), Rosario, and either Wade or Kepler. Kepler could end up as our first baseman too. Catchers could be Jeffers at that point the way he is raking, with a veteran lefty platoon.
Rotation: Berrios, Romero, Gonzalves, Thorpe and a veteran placeholder for Graterol.
Barring injury or any of these prospects laying and egg, I would be surprised to see the Twins sign any free agents to more than a 1 year contract next season.
Subway's "talking stomach" commercial is making me yearn for the Steve Martin/Martin Short concert promo.
Time to update the position player banner!
If Mitch Garver gets hurt while pitching, I'm going to be really pissed. A young guy you are counting on for the future should not be put in that situation.
I agree. They apparently got away with it, but I would not have done it.
Not an auspicious start for the Twins batters.
Crax. And now the ghost of Ty Cobb will haunt.
I got caught in a pointless phone conversation and missed how the Clevelands scored their runs. Looking at the play-by-play, perhaps it was just as well.
Bauer has all the tools from his Jack Bauer bag.
Leathah!
At least we're not going to get no-hit.
Be nice to see at least one Twin over 300. C'mon Eddie.
Gibson v. Bauer again? Hopefully better outcome than last time.
Not looking like it.
I would like Atteberry better if he would talk a little bit less.
All the pregame was how certain Twins hitters do well in Cleveland and/or against Bauer...meanwhile Gibby has not been at his best but should still be in a closer ballgame
Bert briefly talking about if the players today know what Marvin Miller did for the players and got the paid. I wish they would have let him talk about that instead of cutting him off for a highlight of some other game.
Welp....
I don't really understand why Kyle Gibson is still in this game.
Would you rather see Matt Belisle?
If Belisle has a role on the team, this would be it.
Why not? The Twins aren't going to win so might as well try to save the bullpen some innings by having Gibson get as many outs as possible.
Or, perhaps, save innings for Gibson by using someone like Belisle who has no other purpose on the team but mopup relief anyway.
Belisle hasn't pitched more than 29 pitches in any outing all season, so he's not going to do much more than a couple innings anyways.
If that.
He's thrown over forty pitches now, so apparently twenty-nine is not considered his limit.
No, but I can't imagine him pitching another inning and the fact he was allowed to go 48 pitches is probably a good indication that he might be the guy on his way out to make room for Magill.
And I would rather have had those innings on his arm than on Gibson's arm.
They could also bring in the new guy, Drake, to pitch a couple of innings.
Gibson threw 95 pitches, so it wasn't like he was overworked.
Saving him in tonight's game isn't the point. Saving him for the season is the point. Why make him throw a couple of extra innings in a game we're almost certainly not going to win anyway? To save Oliver Drake?
Clearly, what they should've done is brought Garver in earlier.
The roster move that should be made when Magill comes back is completely obvious. The Twins just don't want to do it for some reason.
rally time
rally starts next inning
I just saw the Jeff Johnson for gov commercial. WTF was that?
Bauer struck out every Twins batter at least once in 6 IP. That's hard to do.
In much better news tonight, Royce Lewis is 4-for-6 with 2 home runs for Ft. Myers tonight. Remember, the FSL is very much a pitchers league.
Lewis now batting 329/.418/.506 in 21 games at Ft. Myers, which is better than he was hitting at Cedar Rapids before being promoted.
wowza!
He's cracked the Top 15 on a lot of prospect lists.
I wonder if we see him in AA to start next year, with a projected call up early in 2020. It will be interesting to see who mans our infield in 2020. Polanco, Lewis, Sano, and Rooker is my guess with Gordon in the mix. Sano and Rooker could be splitting first base/DH, so potentially we could see Polanco, Lewis and Gordon as regulars in the line up.
Extending the line up out, I think we see Kirilloff in the mix with Buxton (if ever healthy), Rosario, and either Wade or Kepler. Kepler could end up as our first baseman too. Catchers could be Jeffers at that point the way he is raking, with a veteran lefty platoon.
Rotation: Berrios, Romero, Gonzalves, Thorpe and a veteran placeholder for Graterol.
Barring injury or any of these prospects laying and egg, I would be surprised to see the Twins sign any free agents to more than a 1 year contract next season.
Subway's "talking stomach" commercial is making me yearn for the Steve Martin/Martin Short concert promo.
Time to update the position player banner!
If Mitch Garver gets hurt while pitching, I'm going to be really pissed. A young guy you are counting on for the future should not be put in that situation.
I agree. They apparently got away with it, but I would not have done it.
A scoreless appearance by a Twins pitcher!