Minnesota Twins – 2022

They really need to get one of the A’s pitchers (or both!) to really show they are willing to be competitive. Correa will help with the infield defense. As seen by his play yesterday.

Here is one of the guys the Twins picked up this off season.

https://twitter.com/TaoofStieb/status/1508187417345417223

“Picked up” on a minor league contract. For a reason, it seems

IIRC a couple years ago he just flat out missed catching a fly ball he was camped under and it hit him square in the face. With Toronto maybe?

Keep your eye on the ball but don’t try to catch the ball with your eye.

https://www.gopherpucklive.com/forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=2213

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Ouch!!!!

https://twitter.com/TFTwins/status/1511032976204877830

That is what we were told would happen when they announced the stadium was going to be open air.

Sucks to watch baseball outside when it’s 45 degrees.

The fans and players hate the weather, but the southern teams don’t want to front-load their home games at the beginning of the season when people aren’t really paying attention.

Then schedule the southern teams to play on the road in cold weather cities in early April so they can deal with it too.

They build an extra day into the Opening weekend for weather like this. I don’t get all the gnashing of teeth. It’s basically 50/50 chance the weather may suck in early April in the North.

But once you hit April, with each passing week, the odds of crappy weather go down right? I just don’t see why they wouldn’t want to start the northern teams (basically what, third of the league?) on a couple week road trip. The warmer two thirds of the league would probably only need to move a couple home series out of the summer and into the spring. I feel like baseball fans in Texas, Florida, Georgia, etc would be OK moving a couple of those ungodly hot July series into April.

Like [mention]Bertogliat[/mention] said, it’s not so much about postponements, it’s just that it absolutely sucks having to bundle up to watch a baseball game :lol: and I gotta imagine the players hate it, too.

They build an extra day into the Opening weekend for weather like this. I don’t get all the gnashing of teeth. It’s basically 50/50 chance the weather may suck in early April in the North.

But once you hit April, with each passing week, the odds of crappy weather go down right? I just don’t see why they wouldn’t want to start the northern teams (basically what, third of the league?) on a couple week road trip. The warmer two thirds of the league would probably only need to move a couple home series out of the summer and into the spring. I feel like baseball fans in Texas, Florida, Georgia, etc would be OK moving a couple of those ungodly hot July series into April.

Like @Bertogliat said, it’s not so much about postponements, it’s just that it absolutely sucks having to bundle up to watch a baseball game :lol: and I gotta imagine the players hate it, too.

Re-read Steve_MN’s post. Also, remember the opening day of Target Field?

We seem to usually have our opening day in the second week of the season. I would agree that maybe pushing that to the third week would be preferable but maybe the teams don’t want that? I mean worst case they have to bump a game into a series later in the season?

They should drop the schedule to 150 games each which would allow the season to start 1 week later and end earlier than Thanksgiving.

Also, football is a fall/winter sport. Not spring/summer

Ken Rosenthal is reporting that the Twins are working on a trade with the Padres for Chris Paddack

His batting average is terrible.

We seem to usually have our opening day in the second week of the season. I would agree that maybe pushing that to the third week would be preferable but maybe the teams don’t want that? I mean worst case they have to bump a game into a series later in the season?

This ‘was’ the 2nd week of the season

I’ve always been a Rodgers fan. I gotta get over affinity to specific players.

If the Twins are giving up Rogers I might expect another piece in addition to Paddack.

I’m sure they don’t want to resign him. Duran probably the closer of the future.

I believe his off-speed pitch is considered a curveball

Friedman is going to be really busy on the days that Duran pitches

Jose Berrios gave up 4 ER in a 1/3 of an inning today. That results in an ERA of 108.00 the Blue Jays might soon be asking what the return policy is on trades. :wink:

Good Lord the way MLB players wear their pants is annoying. Yeah yeah I’m old.

Elaborate. There are multiple wardrobe atrocities these days…. Although a bit more if you include the tops and hats.

Are you concerned about the baseball butts too?

I’m having some late night pizza. Maybe I’ll have a dream this morning that will answer that question…..

Buxton just hit a hr into the 3rd deck in left center field

It going to be another long season if they keep blowing saves again

Great weekend so far. If you’re a Mariners fan.