OT: How About Those Twins?
Nice to see them hanging around still. Anyone as pleasantly surprised as me? Check out the standings here: Click the Wild Card tab http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/wildcard.jsp?ymd=20170811.
Not too shabby, eh - Go Twins! B)
sshhh, maybe if we dont talk about them they wont notice that people are watching and will keep playing competitive ball. =)
@"JimmyinSD" said: sshhh, maybe if we dont talk about them they wont notice that people are watching and will keep playing competitive ball. =)Yeah, I was thinking I probably just ended the winning streak with this post. Naah - Go Twins!
It's too bad that the organization gave up on this season a few weeks ago right before the trade deadline.
@"SFVikingFan" said: It's too bad that the organization gave up on this season a few weeks ago right before the trade deadline.No shit... I thought we got a good return for Garcia, but we took cash and a prospect for Kintzler. Anytime you take cash, you didn't get good value... And a good closer is worth it's weight in gold in the postseason. Kintzler wasn't a stud, but it's just one less reliable arm in a below average group of relievers.
@"Wetlander" said:Except for the fact that his contract was up at year end....that deal had me wanting to beat the shit out of a pholad.@"SFVikingFan" said: It's too bad that the organization gave up on this season a few weeks ago right before the trade deadline. No shit... I thought we got a good return for Garcia, but we took cash and a prospect for Kintzler. Anytime you take cash, you didn't get good value... And a good closer is worth it's weight in gold in the postseason. Kintzler wasn't a stud, but it's just one less reliable arm in a below average group of relievers.
6 game win streak... now we have Santana and Berrios along the mound over the weekend... I smell VICTORY.
BOOM
@"JimmyinSD" said:@"Wetlander" said:Except for the fact that his contract was up at year end....that deal had me wanting to beat the shit out of a pholad.@"SFVikingFan" said: It's too bad that the organization gave up on this season a few weeks ago right before the trade deadline. No shit... I thought we got a good return for Garcia, but we took cash and a prospect for Kintzler. Anytime you take cash, you didn't get good value... And a good closer is worth it's weight in gold in the postseason. Kintzler wasn't a stud, but it's just one less reliable arm in a below average group of relievers.Kintzler trade was a bust. Kid we got has like 8.00 ERA in A ball.
Hopefully we simply re-sign Kintzler in the offseason.
@"Proudhorn" said:@"JimmyinSD" said:@"Wetlander" said:Except for the fact that his contract was up at year end....that deal had me wanting to beat the shit out of a pholad.@"SFVikingFan" said: It's too bad that the organization gave up on this season a few weeks ago right before the trade deadline. No shit... I thought we got a good return for Garcia, but we took cash and a prospect for Kintzler. Anytime you take cash, you didn't get good value... And a good closer is worth it's weight in gold in the postseason. Kintzler wasn't a stud, but it's just one less reliable arm in a below average group of relievers.Kintzler trade was a bust. Kid we got has like 8.00 ERA in A ball.
Hopefully we simply re-sign Kintzler in the offseason.
Yeah, we certainly weren't trading for the future there...well the pohlad financial future maybe.
I really didnt understand the dynamics of that Garcia trade at all.
We go after him cause were in the thick of things. We lose games leading up to making a deal. The day we get him, suddenly the season is lost and he has to go.
It wasnt so much the deal that was strange, it was the talk around it.
"Were in it. We need a pitcher. Were out of it. We got him. Hes gotta go."
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