Episode 423: Homers, Homers, Homers
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2019
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Twins' record-shattering power numbers, preparing for one of the toughest weeks of the season, Willians Astudillo going on the injured list, Matt Magill returning to the bullpen, Justin Morneau vs. Bert Blyleven, and how the bullpen could evolve from weakness to strength.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geese and the Geese. |
| 0:13.7 | Gleeman and the geese. |
| 0:19.8 | Talking baseball every week. |
| 0:26.1 | Because the Gleman and the geek. |
| 0:31.1 | And welcome to Gleman and the Geek show. |
| 0:34.5 | KFAN, 100.3. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm John Bowness of Twinsdaily.com with me, Aaron Gleman of Baseball Perspectus.com. |
| 0:42.3 | And this is the We Are Giddy episode, I think. |
| 0:46.4 | Is this the high water mark of the twins? |
| 0:49.9 | Please never speak from me and saying, I'm in a good month, John. |
| 0:52.4 | I appreciate you never doing that. |
| 0:54.3 | Yeah, I would say here's what we've learned, I think, these past 10, 15 days. You pranced in here. You practically. Well, no, I ran because I was late. You skipped. I didn't want to miss the show. I saw gleaming prants. Yeah. and was she was worried she was going to have to call us with you and then we've seen now the past two weeks basically |
| 1:16.2 | They've not that they've fallen apart against quality teams I mean they lost some games to Houston that was sure a little bit of a setback |
| 1:23.8 | But yeah but for the most part we've just seen the Orioles are real bad. Yes. |
| 1:27.8 | I mean, coming into the season, I wrote a Pocoda, which is, I work at Baseball Perspectus, and their projection system is named Pocoda, and it projects not only individual players, but teams every year, projects a record. It had the Twins that, I think, 83 wins this year. Second place. It projected the Orioles for the lowest win total of any team it's ever projected. |
| 1:48.0 | And that's going back 16 years. |
| 1:50.4 | Right, right. |
| 1:50.7 | And they got off to a good start. |
| 1:52.8 | They beat the Yankees in a couple games early on. |
| 1:55.4 | They were above 500, I think, after about two weeks. |
| 1:58.2 | But now we're seeing not only are they a horrible team, |
| 2:01.5 | but especially on the pitching side, they're just really bad. |
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