JoeC

Without Moncada: 89 runs in 27 games (3.3 runs per game) With Moncada: 8 runs (and counting) in 1 game (8 runs per game) It's just basic math.

Foster!

If that sandbagger Moncada would've been a team player like Burger, would've had a grand slam. How dare he go home on that wild pitch.

By what metric?

The other thing holding Luis back (besides health) is his ability to identify pitches. A sub-5% walk rate is going to make him far more prone to feast-or-famine. For long stretches of time, pitchers know they can get Luis to get himself out swinging at bad pitches. Good walk rates (good batting eyes) are clearly indicative of guys who won't get themselves out - pitchers need to face them. Luis has immense raw talent, but not nearly enough to make up for swinging at everything in sight like a Vlad Guerrero Sr.

Couldn't he have organized the data better? Do balls horizontally (0, 1, 2, 3), and go top-to-bottom for strikes (0, 1, 2). The chart as it is takes unnecessarily long to read... not sure what is the order. Also, would be interested to know: 1) What is the ML average for each count (as others have posited) 2) How many "takes" are there for each of these counts.

Mojito made with Havana Club. My lineup (when Vaughn is eligible to return... hopefully no more than 10 days on IL?) 6 Anderson 8 Robert 5 Moncada 3 Abreu 7 Vaughn (assuming he's good to go) 2 Grandal 9 Pollock DH Burger 5 Leury / Harrison

Could be worse. Could have had Cesar for longer than 2 months.

Hasn't stopped others from suggesting Burger, Vaughn, and others at 2B.

Yeah, and the fact that TLR has had to overcome those stupid decisions means that he's overcome so much more adversity. A TRUE fan would understand that.

It'll be Robby Alomar 2.0. Or would it be 3.0? Either way, it's bad.

Where'd this closer come from?

..but as soon as the offense performs to even 50% of its capabilities, he will be one of the top 5 reasons this team is losing.

I say go for it.

Who is the HP umpire??

I'd rather see Cease at 2B.

So what happens now?

Leaving Hendriks in is the one decision I don't fault TLR for. He's your bullpen ace. The game lives or dies with him, and that's what he's paid to do. If he says he's OK, you leave him in the game. ...but then you have to tell him to walk Buxton.

He's available out of the bullpen. (Note: the more I think about it, the more this makes sense to me with Keuchel starting)

"Hold my beer" -TLR

Next thing you know the Twins will sign Joe Mays....

I'm guessing no other manager would have hit Leury in the #3 spot under any circumstances other than as a double switch, which would only be possible if we lost the DH in the middle of the game. So yes - I would say almost anybody could manage this team to a better record at this time.

Next time don't give up the home run. I'm not sure why a bat flip is considered improper when literally the entire dugout and bullpen are going to crowd around home plate to celebrate. Can you please explain why a bat flip on a game-winning bomb (and I mean BOMB) is worse than crowding around at home plate?

If there's one thing I've learned in my 35+ years on earth, it's that those two aren't mutually exclusive.

Serious question - when does the entire training staff get fired for these leg injuries?