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Early returns indicate that position player coaching is starting to work, especially the baserunning.

I think it might be 35 in the last 50 now, since we are 2-1 since the tweet posted.

We gotta give a lot of the credit to our start so far to McKinstry, Dingler and Tork. A month ago we all had them as below average bench pieces.

Especially considering three key position pieces are still out.

Sorry to hear. Radio feed can be paused on the MLB app.

It’d be really nice to see this team at full strength for a while. How much better would they be with a healthy Meadows and Vierling along with Gleyber being back. With Tork and Dingler stepping up, there wouldn’t really be a glaring weak spot aside from Maeda

I was briefly listening to the Twins radio broadcast on xm at the start of the game while I was running an errand and the Twins announcers were saying that the Twins social media employees were really trying hard to drive up interest in the team this year because the fan base has been very lackadaisical so far. Part of that is they aren’t really good, the other part is a segment of fans are boycotting until the Pohlads sell the team.

emmitt finnie and amadeus lombardi continue to play very well.

I tried that on the FDS app but couldn't get it synced up because the radio was a couple pitches ahead of the video. No way to pause the radio to sync it to the video.

You must be upper management.

It's a little early to be writing them off...but I agree they don't look impressive. The Tigers on the other hand are giving me a really good feeling. Last year was fun, but there was luck involved. This year, there is no luck about it so far. They are just playing great ball. Their hitting will likely slow down, but their pitching should get better. For what it's worth, I was just looking at their playoff odds on fangraphs and B-ref and they have the highest probability of any team in the American League.

Big LOL to all the pundits who had the Twins winning the central. And there were a lot of them.

Tigers social media guy feeling frisky today.

Yeah not many, ironically one of the few that comes to mind that did work out is one where we presumably didn't want to pay the amount to keep him(I say presumably cause it could have been his choice) and that's Scherzer's deal with Washington. Don't remember the exact details of it but I know he was dominant there just about every year and won multiple Cy Youngs so I'm sure Washington was more than happy with it.

Islanders and Rangers both officially eliminated. Three teams left with three to play are Montreal (87), Columbus (83) and Detroit (81). Habs can clinch with a regulation win today. One point by the Habs tonight eliminates the Wings but not the Jackets.

That's a good idea, thanks

How many huge, long-term deals turn on well? Small %. I'm fine if Det never goes that route again, although I'd like to see them retain their own stars

Gotta be 15k or im out

Bad as Baez has been, we dodged a bullet with Correa. Yeah, I wanted the Tigers to sign him too, but not at $33 million. He's a good player (or he was) but he is not a superstar - not even close.

One thing is for sure. The Twins appear to be undisciplined and unmotivated. Which is two things.

I don't agree with that second part. Someone might be desperate enough. The Tigers found someone 6 games into the 2002 season - someone who knew they weren't going to be the guy. There are plenty of coaches that need a shot to pull off a turnaround.

That's exactly why they wouldn't fire him. The appearance of instability when a franchise fires people all over the place reduces the sale price. Plus, if they were to fire Baldelli, hire someone else, then sell the team, the new manager would probably get fired, too, and no decent replacement manager worth anything would take a job he knew would put him on the chopping block right out of the gate.

One way around it, kind of, is this: turn on the Twins feed on an mlb.tv app connected or cast to your TV, like a Samsung app or Apple TV box; then bring up Dan and Dan on Tigers radio on the MLB app on another device, like your phone. It's a two step process after that: (1) sync them up; (2) enjoy. I did that yesterday when Dan and Dan kept dropping out on the audio feed of the Apple TV+ app—I pulled up the guys on the MLB app on my phone and just listened to that.