Twins

[Steve-o]

The question are, do they keep blaming injuries?  Do they have the wrong hitting coaches?  Or do they just have guys on the team who can't hit or won't listen to the coaches?

This is two seasons in a row they stumbled out of spring training not hitting.   

Jeez...  Maybe I ought to be a Twins Blogger 

This just in... 
Is It Time for the Twins to Shuffle the Coaching Staff?TwinsDaily.com

The Minnesota Twins have come out of the gates for the 2024 MLB regular season in about the most lethargic way possible. The lineup has been every bit the problem it was a season ago. It’s time to rip the Band-Aid off and fix the hitting process.

It hasn’t been the pitching that has scuffled out of the gate. With a lineup unable to score runs, failure to execute with runners in scoring position again, and an overall lack of execution, it’s time for the specialty coaches to come under fire.

It was well-documented just how bad the Twins were a season ago when it came to hitting with runners in scoring position. Failing to push runs across the plate is why the team found themselves hovering around .500 at the midway point, and it wasn’t until the Cleveland Guardians completely fell off that the division tilted in Minnesota’s favor.

It can’t continue to be on Lewis or some other hot rookie to prop up this lineup. The Twins' higher-paid, proven veteran talents need to produce. While Carlos Correa was among the best things going before his injury, Byron Buxton owns a 21/1 strikeout-to-walk ratio that would make Miguel Sanó blush. Ryan Jeffers has come on of late, but Edouard Julien has been slow to go, and Kyle Farmer has looked utterly worthless in his expanded role.

Where the Twins turn from here, and if they hire someone with a greater level of experience remains to be seen. The hitting coach triumvirate is not the sole reason for the slow start, but continuing down this path and hoping the slog sorts itself out would be an insufficient way to address the start. It’s time to make a change, in an effort to keep this season from going entirely off the rails. What shape that change takes is up to the front office, but there has to be one.

[Gunner55]

Duran threw a 25-pitch bullpen session Tuesday & is expected to face live batters tomorrow, but he's listed as on the 15-day IL as of 4/16. So that would make it ~ 2 weeks before he gets in a game.

[dutchboy]

On the other fishing site I picked the Twins today to win the division by 7 games.

There isn't a dominate team in the central, they are all flawed.

[Gunner55]

 Granted it's just the WSox but it's pretty nice to see some life in their bats!! Been a while ..............since we seen 5 homers in 1 game. Off to LA to play Trout & his buddies..................Ober gets the ball for a 8:38 CDT start.

[LPS]

That was a fun game.

[Steve-o]

Dingers are a good sign, but they're still not getting any clutch hitting with RISP. 

[Gunner55]

  They were 9-30 w/RISP & scored 14 of their 25 runs with 2 out for the series. That'll win a lot of games. But can they do that against teams with better records? We shall see as after 3 in LA & 3 with WSox in Chicago it's a brutal stretch of Boston, Seattle, Toronto, NYY, & Cleveland. Only 2 days off, 5/2 & 5/13, in there too.

[dutchboy]

I think the starting pitching is coming along just fine. I anticipate a loss to Detmers but otherwise they should roll right along. Jackson in bullpen doesn't impress me the couple of times i've seen him pitch but maybe he comes around also