Cease vs Maeda

Gonna need Dylan to be AL Pitcher of the Week. No pressure.

 

Sox should probably try to win this series.  Getting this one today is imperative as the pitching matchup is the only one clearly in our favor with Lynn and Gio coming off stinkers.  

How many day games are we going to play? Yeesh. 

1 minute ago, Greg Hibbard said:

How many day games are we going to play? Yeesh. 

Seriously, I would like to come home from work and be able to just sit back on the couch and watch the game. Instead I have to keep trying to sneak it in during work.

20 minutes ago, Greg Hibbard said:

How many day games are we going to play? Yeesh. 

Just awful.  Gets a bit better after this series, tho.  Just get-away-day afternoon games during the weekday after today.  

Twins line-up pretty gross:

Larnach LF, Correa SS, Miranda DH, Nick Gordon CF, Solano 1B, Wallner RF, Farmer 3B, Willi Castro 2B, Vazquez C

Anderson SS, Robert CF, Benintendi LF, Vaughn DH, Sheets 1B, Grandal C, Alberto 3B, Colas RF, Andrus 2B

Moncada on the bench after a rough weekend in favor of Alberto, and Sheets at 1B while AV DHs. 

3 minutes ago, ChiSox59 said:

Twins line-up pretty gross:

Larnach LF, Correa SS, Miranda DH, Nick Gordon CF, Solano 1B, Wallner RF, Farmer 3B, Willi Castro 2B, Vazquez C

Indeed it is, as the Twins are 21st in runs scored, 22nd BA, 23rd OBP%, 25th SLG% and 26th OPS%, but their pitching is #2 in ERA in baseball at 2.48. 

Anderson - SS

Robert - CF

Benintendi- LF

Vaughn - DH

Sheets - 1B

Grandal - C

Alberto -3B

Colas - RF

Andrus - 2B

not worried about game 1, it's gm2 and 3 that looks bleak. will Lynn and Giolito figure out how to get lefties out? 

Let's go Cease, give us another stud like outing. Can the bats please wake up and get back to scoring a ton of runs. That shutout with the number of weak groundballs and lazy flyouts was embarrassing. 

Moncada needs another day off huh

1 minute ago, joejoesox said:

not worried about game 1, it's gm2 and 3 that looks bleak. will Lynn and Giolito figure out how to get lefties out? 

I agree with you and let's hope Lynn and Giolito can make huge turnaround pitching performances like Kopech just did.

 

7 minutes ago, joejoesox said:

not worried about game 1, it's gm2 and 3 that looks bleak. will Lynn and Giolito figure out how to get lefties out? 

Twins don't really have many lefties with Kepler and Kiriloff on IL and Gallo also dinged up and not playing lately.  Not that those are big names to begin with.  Its basically Larnach and Nick Gordon and bunch of righties.  

Everyday Andrus at it again 

6 minutes ago, Greg Hibbard said:

Everyday Andrus at it again 

Just like Harrison or Leury...

Anytime Buxton's not in the lineup is victory for the Sox.

I think the plan was to play Andrus everyday to prove a point to the rest of the regulars, and it’s not working out they wanted it to. Hope he gets a couple knocks today.

9 minutes ago, Greg Hibbard said:

Everyday Andrus at it again 

Andrus is the new Luery who can't even hit his weight at .158! I'm really questioning Grifol so far on his choice of players to start each game. I don't know how much longer before the Sox FO ends this Andrus experiment that has gone terribly wrong and DFA him. 

5 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Just like Harrison or Leury...

Anytime Buxton's not in the lineup is victory for the Sox.

It’s like this organization is allergic to abandoning the concept of “grinderball”. I’m going to tweet at all the beat writers every morning until he’s benched to ask when Everyday Elvis and his .379 OPS gets a day off while Moncada and Robert are babied

28 minutes ago, The Kids Can Play said:

Indeed it is, as the Twins are 21st in runs scored, 22nd BA, 23rd OBP%, 25th SLG% and 26th OPS%, but their pitching is #2 in ERA in baseball at 2.48. 

They also got Kansas City, Miami, and a depleted Astros team. We will see how good their pitching actual is.

2 minutes ago, The Kids Can Play said:

Andrus is the new Luery who can't even hit his weight at .158! I'm really questioning Grifol so far on his choice of players to start each game. I don't know how much longer before the Sox FO ends this Andrus experiment that has gone terribly wrong and DFA him. 

Way too early to go there. The A’s let him go because of his contract option. Yes, we can’t have him be another Harrison where he doesn’t show up until June. If he doesn’t look better today, I’d definitely give him a day or two off. We need Ws this week. 

Not a lot of power in this lineup.  They desperately need Yoan to be a factor against RHP.

30 minutes ago, Greg Hibbard said:

Everyday Andrus at it again 

You can’t bench the face of the franchise. 

57 minutes ago, ChiSox59 said:

Twins line-up pretty gross:

Larnach LF, Correa SS, Miranda DH, Nick Gordon CF, Solano 1B, Wallner RF, Farmer 3B, Willi Castro 2B, Vazquez C

You would think Royce Lewis has a clear path to playing time when healthy right? (Asking for someone who just stashed him on the IL in fantasy earlier today…)

MLB app game preview has Farmer at SS and Correa sitting.