34 thoughts on “2022 Game Log 140 – Royals at Twins”

  1. If they Twins are going to get back into the race--and I don't think they will--they need to beat up on a team like this.

  2. Joe Ryan leads the team in wins and strikeouts. If he goes one inning tonight he'll lead the team in innings. He also leads starters in average against and is very slightly behind Sonny Gray for the lead in WHIP among starters.

  3. If you're into team leaders, there are a few interesting races on the batting side. Team OPS lead is between Correa (.808) and Arraez (.803). In doubles, Arraez has 29 and Nick Gordon has 24. Gordon has the team triples lead with four--Buxton and Urshela have three. Miranda leads in RBI with 61; Polanco has 56. Buxton has struck out 116 times and Sanchez in right behind him with 114. Buxton and Gordon are tied for the team stolen base lead with six.

      1. Why would I play my shortstop straight away if you don't hit it there?

        In three years, we're gonna be hearing that pitching is down. NO!

        1. Exactly. I see no reason we should reward batters who lack either the ability or the willingness to hit the ball the other way.

        2. The most shifted batters are also the best. The short version is it's worthwhile to trade hits for power so fielders line up to take away the easy hits and the batters simply hit it harder to go through the shift.

          2. I know people say that. I'm not convinced of it. There are times when it's worthwhile to trade hits for power, but there are also times when it would be better to just get a base hit.

            1. I don't disagree but the last decade of shifts indicates batters/teams do disagree. I'll link to Baumann's article about the new rules but also quote one paragraph in particular:

              Rather than work around the shift, the top left-handed hitters in baseball have for the most part decided that the best option is to swing like hell and live with the occasional 115 mph lineout to a second baseman standing in short right field. Immediately after decrying the new shift rule, Sheehan diagnosed the real problem: It’s too hard to hit the ball. Even if most hitters were able to dink and dunk the ball to a specific place like Carlos Alcaraz — which they aren’t — contact is too precious a commodity to waste on anything but full-effort swings.

              1. I disagree with that quote, too. The hard-hit outs into the shift are more than "occasional". Plus, one reason it's "too hard to hit the ball" is that they're taking full-effort swings, trying to pull every pitch over the fence. With half the field open, you can cut down on your swing and get a hit even with weak contact.

                1. which is miles harder to do than it was years ago, since most every pitcher is using full-effort on every pitch, and batters are seeing 95 MPH breaking pitches

                  1. Perhaps, but I would suggest that it's easier to do than hitting a home run against those same pitchers and pitches.

  17. By the way, Kyle Garlick has a stretch where he came up at least three times in a row with a runner on third and fewer than two outs. He failed to knock in the runner every time.

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