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He has made the same mistakes all year they're just being magnified right now with the offense not bailing him out quite as much.

EGF should make the state tournament but he will see plenty more competition throughout the season with the schedule East Side plays than he ever would in North Dakota. Warroad should be their top competition in the section this season but TRF always figures it out come playoff time and competes with very good coaching. Look at last years schedule Orono, Delano, Totino, Cathedral, Alexandria, Greenway, Warroad, Roseau, Bemidji, and Moorhead plus a couple with Central and Red River.

East side plays a very tough schedule and he will face much better consistent competition and see much less of the running time blowouts every other game. If he played at Central the only competition he may face would be Red River, maybe a Bismarck team, and maybe a Fargo team, and that is basically all for North Dakota teams. Crookston has had a couple decent years but yeah they're nothing special. Thief River and Warroad would be in the ND state tournament every year even when they are "down". Warroad down 3 of their top 6 players beat Grafton by a couple goals last year. EGF played Orono, Delano, Totino, Cathedral, Alexandria, Greenway, Warroad, Roseau, Bemidji, and Moorhead. A number of those teams could've played in North Dakota and would've probably made it to face Central in the state championship. If Cathedral was in ND no doubt in my mind they would have won the state championship and beat Central. He'd play less garbage on a ND schedule? Are you serious? EGF plays Park Rapids once and Lake of the Woods once and they have had a few solid teams but generally struggle lately and then they have rival Crookston twice who has gone downhill the last few seasons and Detroit Lakes once and they are pretty up and down and that is pretty much it for struggling teams. Meanwhile in North Dakota you'd get Fargo North, Fargo South, Devils Lake, Sheyenne, Grafton, and West Fargo and I believe all are X2, you could probably throw a couple more teams into this group as well. It is a good move for a good hockey player that wants to compete at a higher level but not have to leave home. Wouldn't be surprised to see more and more of the higher quality talents start to do this.

After the last two days the Twins 3rd base coach might need to start looking for a different job. Yesterday he tried to send Cron against Puig and it wasn't a close play at all. Today the Twins battle back and he tries to score Adrianza from 1st for the win on a bullet one hopper off the wall with 1 out. I screamed at my TV not to send him but that coach evidently has no brain. Hold Adrianza up and you have 2nd and 3rd with 1 out for Schoop. Not that I like Schoop's chances but I'd bet there is a decent chance Cleveland walks him to set up the force anywhere and get left on left with Kepler up.

Smeltzer can't stop the skid as he was awful. 7 hits and 3 walks in 4.1 innings and a lot of high 80's fastballs in the middle of the plate. The inning that knocked him out started with the perfect example of the way things are for the Twins right now as Smeltzer and Cron ran into each other on a bunt and instead of getting a quick out to start the inning there is a runner on for the top of the order.

They have the talent to do so. They can still make the playoff losing one of those games. The loss would probably have to come to Notre Dame though with the way Ohio State's schedule sets up and I'd say it is more likely Michigan loses to Ohio State than it is Notre Dame.

6 walks in 4.1 innings for Gibson. What an absolutely awful outing.

The Twins have had a really solid year but Rocco has definitely struggled with in-game management more than a few times. No way Dyson should've been pitching when he didn't arrive until half way through the game. He took out Berrios at around 80 pitches last night through 7 instead of letting him try to finish things off himself and with the way he looked last night he probably would've finished it without going over 100 pitches. Poppen makes the game close in the 9th and Rocco goes to Rogers in a game he should've never had to pitch in. Today they pulled Pineda after 6 at just 80 pitches and he was pitching well. Knowing you don't want to use Rogers and Dyson just arrived why wouldn't you try to get another inning out of Pineda and then use Duffey for the 8th instead of the 7th and let Romo close it instead of pitching the 8th like he did.

I wanted Stroman bad and Syndegard would've been an upgrade but the price was outrageous and not worth it. I would've maybe took a shot at Wheeler from the Mets but seeing a lot of the Mets asking prices it probably would've been too much there too. After Stroman was moved there really wasn't an upgrade that I wanted the Twins to make at starter. To me guys like Ray and Minor aren't an upgrade that is gonna help you win a playoff series they are more of what the Twins have in the rotation after Berrios. I'm good with that kind of strategy for putting together the rotation this off season. I feel like you can leave one spot for Thorpe/Smeltzer/some other minor leauger to work themselves into but any more than 1 spot would be a mistake.

Houston is looking real tough after adding Grienke. Yanks and Red Sox really didn't do anything. Twins add another solid reliever in Dyson and he is signed for next year too. Really was hoping to add another starter that was signed through at least next year too but guess the price was too high. Gonna have to either sign/trade for starters in the off season though or decide to get new deals done with Gibson, Odorizzi, and Pineda becuase they definitely don't have 3 guys coming in the minors that are gonna be ready to start next season.

Puig and one of their top prospects Taylor Trammel that will head to San Diego in the 3 team deal.

And Puig is coming to Cleveland in return and he will probably have a suspension pending when he gets there after the Reds and Pirates brawl tonight.

Lucky he made it that long with some of the moves he made/tried to make.

Yeah it is hard to ever figure out what exactly the Mets are thinking. Blue Jays didn't exactly get a lot back for him either. The Mets 4th and 6th prospects but neither are top 100 guys. Some reports on Twitter that the Twins had been talking plenty to Toronto but the Jays didn't circle back for teams final offers before taking the Mets deal.

Romo is solid. Can be a decent 6th/7th inning guy. Didn't really give up much to get him. Plenty of ammunition to go get Stroman and Giles.

Sounds like he is close and could be back tomorrow. Seems like the Twins always give the guy they are sending down 1 more game before he heads to Rochester. I'd be completely fine if I never have to see Cave again. Rosario and Kepler can both play center better than Cave so next time they need an outfielder they should bring up Rooker. He'd definitely add more at the plate.

Hell of a game with a ton of back and forth. Parker was awful. The missed strike 3 call hurt but the response from the Twins was great. That ball Sano hit was absolutely smashed had to be close to 500 feet with where it landed. I wasn't really worried after Rogers walked the 9 hitter but don't know why they went after Hicks with a first pitch fastball. He has really struggled with breaking balls as a righty and that mistake cost them. Thought Kepler had swung the game back to the Twins but it just seemed to hang up there forever. The Twins have shown much better than I expected these last couple games against the Yanks, was really worried this weekend a sweep might be coming.

Somewhat true but a team like Toronto has sucked all year and they have a couple of very attractive pieces that could fill huge needs for the Twins in Stroman and Giles. I know you are gonna have to pay a good price for those guys but I'm alright with that. It also helps fill a need in the rotation for next year with 3/5 of the current rotation scheduled to be free agents. I just don't think the front office of the Twins has had a huge sense of urgency because of the big division lead which is disappointing to me when the things you need to upgrade have been very obvious for a long time.

Huge to get the win today but no doubt they need help. A starter like Marcus Stroman and a couple of reliable bullpen arms are exactly what this team needs. I really don't understand why they didn't start making moves around the all star break but I guess that is the common theme throughout baseball that all the trades seem to come on the couple days around deadline day.

At the very least has to keep it in front of him and only give up the tying run and not the go ahead too. Rocco could've helped out too with the obvious intentional walk to Davis with 1st open to set up a better matchup. Also was screaming at the TV for him to pull back Rosario after the Schoop double. You knew Oakland was gonna intentional walk whoever came up to setup the double play so pull Rosario back and let him pinch hit for Garver with the bases loaded. Hopefully the last couple nights give Falvey a little sense of urgency to start getting some of these moves done instead of waiting until the 31st to make moves.

Maybe, maybe not.

Mankato is a better program than Arizona State with a much better arena as well and fits very well with the rest of the conference.

Definitely an easy choice Mankato.

UND continues to miss out on way too many good Minnesota kids for my liking. Tristan Broz a Junior to be out of Blake committed to Minnesota and Carsen Richels a Senior to be from Blaine committed to New Hampshire.