![]() ![]() “We’re going to sit down and I think answer some pretty hard questions,” Baldelli said. But further examination shows 118 of the team’s runs have been scored across 12 games while they’ve produced 225 in the other 70, an average of 3.2 runs per contest.īaldelli suggested his team needed to make significant adjustments, with coaches devising different approaches and players working to better implement those changes. The Twins are 5-26 in those contests.Įven so, the Twins entered Wednesday 18th in the majors in runs scored with 343, a figure that is better than every other team in their division. Wednesday was the 31st time in 82 games the Twins scored two or fewer runs, which represents 38 percent of the team’s games. “There has to be some urgency. Nothing changes unless there is some urgency.” It feels like we’ve been like that for a long time. … I’m hoping that me getting this out, them getting it out as a group and feeling this together as a team is what is going to help lead us to where we need to be. “You can’t win every game clawing for a run, two runs. “We’re scrapping just to score a run right now,” Baldelli said. He’s disappointed with a group that doesn’t need to be much better than average offensively to run away from the field in a feeble American League Central. Whether it’s a roster loaded with strikeout-prone players, a lack of adjustments made to the team’s approach by coaches or a failure to implement those changes by the players, Baldelli’s seen enough. The Twins can’t hit a fastball to save their lives and are taking far too many of them for called strikes while chasing bad pitches, which amounts to a backward approach.Īnd lately, they’re not doing any damage. Carlos Correa and Byron Buxton, who doubled for the Twins’ only extra-base hit in the loss, are performing below expectations. The strikeouts are through the roof, on pace for an all-time Major League Baseball team record. There isn’t one problem holding the Twins back. They are just so far from where we need to be that we need to own it.” “I think that’s the issue here. It’s a huge bucket of at-bats that I’m talking about. “There is no specific at-bat,” Baldelli said. Promoted Wednesday to make his 2023 debut, Allard struck out eight over 4 2/3 innings, limiting the Twins to three hits and a walk. Allard used the approach to strike out six of the first nine Twins hitters he faced. Pu92i7N4VIĮarly on, the Twins chased anything and everything Allard threw, swinging at multiple fastballs out of the zone, while taking pitches down the middle for called strikes. On the right is a grouping of the 15 pitches they took for strikes, many of which were in the nitro zone. ![]() Why did Rocco Baldelli go off on his #MNTwins team today? On the left is a chart of Kolby Allard's 14 swings and misses, eight of which were chases. Hitting as they did against Allard apparently did the trick. After another listless performance by his middling team - which has been propped up by a strong pitching staff and dragged down by an underperforming offense - Baldelli seemed to tire of pushing patience that things would eventually come around. ![]() Whereas in previous media sessions Baldelli merely dropped suggestive hints rather than strong condemnations, he was far heavier-handed on Wednesday. The second half is here, but we have some work to do in this second half because we can’t play like this.” I’m not really pleased right now with the effort this series. We have to make some really, really legitimate adjustments to what we’re doing right now if we’re going to go out there and compete and win games against that team or really any other team. “If I’m rolling that up and trying to portray it any other way, I’m lying. “There’s no way we can walk out of this with any positives,” Baldelli said. The loss dropped the Twins to 40-42 overall. The Twins finished the three-game set hitless in 23 at-bats with runners in scoring position while scoring only three runs and striking out 31 times. ![]() Baldelli ordered the clubhouse closed following a performance he deemed “flat,” one in which the Twins made “no adjustments really in the game almost whatsoever.” Facing soft-tossing left-hander Kolby Allard, who entered the game with a career 6.07 ERA, the Twins struck out 14 times and finished with four hits as Atlanta completed a series sweep. ![]()
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