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One thing I like about Clark is that he strikes me as a vocal, rah, rah type. That might be the kind of thing this team needs. None of the leaders on this current team seem to be that type.

Not that it needs re-iterating but... ETTD.

I sort of doubt we even need to inquire to know....

I think Harris will instead use a promotion or two to shake things up. Perez? Clark? Both?

The euphoria is somewhat premature I'd guess. High energy costs are going to take a while to come down and the month they have been high still has to percolate through the economy, plus we likely have a bad inflation report coming. But I'm not going to complain if the animal spirits of the market want to bid up my IRAs.

Neither am I, but we can still speculate on it! 😃

Maybe we can get back what we lost since the start of the year.

Right, I did say that he had a point about Keith and I do think Keith might get his chance. Personally, I weould like to see keith get a shot at being a full-time player, but I just don't think I am in a better position than Hinch to make that decision.

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How is a fan to know better about these things than Hinch? If a player is sick or has a slight injury which may affect his performance, Hinch is going to know that a lot better than a fan. And even a sick or injured player can have a big day. Rennie Stennett gor 7 hits in one game with an injured ankle. If Hinch goes more off of long-term trends than other managers (and I don't know that he does), maybe that is the right approach. As a fan, I definitely think looking at long-term trends is the best way to go because we don't know enough to do otherwise. It would be like an amateur trying to time the market.

This team's slogan so far this season should be "Oh, wait, you mean we have to play today? Oh, okay, sure".

Tork is what he is, a low average guy who can put the ball in the seats and has learned to play 1b somewhat above average. I would put it that from a team building perspective, replacing him is not as high priority as shoring up the OF and replacing Torres and Baez in the short term (and KM looks like one of those) but that it's fairly likely someone will come along with a better bat but a glove that won't play in the majors where it played in the minors and bump him out of his gig - for instance a Max Anderson type, though I'm not sure Max in particular is a good enough example of his 'type' to do it himself... Riley I'm more worried about. Seems like a guy who isn't bringing his brain to the table in his career thinking.

To his point, Colt has a future and Carp really doesn’t, so if Hinch always sits Colt against LHPs, he better be darn sure Colt’ll never ever hit them, because it’s going to limit what we’ll be able to get from Colt during his career; and also, last night was the second time in three games we got hamstrung having Jahmai bat against a RHP late after pinching for Colt at DH earlier. He struck out swinging both times. We risk that becoming a potential game-plan by opponents. Fun fact: Colt had a better OPS+ against LHPs than RHPs in 2024.

Torkelson is an MVP candidate!

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You aren’t wrong to make the assumption. A quick glance at the schedule and it looks like this one of only two Mon-Thu series all season long. The other is next month against Cleveland.

I don’t see Tork with a long term future here at all, and Riley is 50-50 at best. Our best hope to get anything out of Tork is a trade with the Angels.

Well, I’m a Moran. I thought this was a three game series not a four game series. This is what you get when you have dispassionate robots creating schedules.

Nothing like a 3% gap up to start the day.

It’s not getaway day. This is a seemingly rare Monday- Thursday 4 game set. Tomorrow is a 1:40 start.

I can’t believe they’re playing another night game. The Twins don’t do afternoon getaway games? The people of the Twin Cities certainly can’t all be taciturn Norwegian bachelor farmers who love the cold.

Speaking of China. I tend to believe there were probably some quiet but powerful threats of economic retaliation from that quarter if Trump didn't end this. Of course, the Chinese being as subtle as Trump is lurid, they'll be perfectly happy if no-one ever knows.

Tork is anti-clutch. .207 with runners in scoring position .172 career average with runner on second 6-62 with bases loaded or on 2nd & 3rd

NBC is losing their butt on the Big Ten deal.