It’s not time to have a conversation about Juan Soto, but it’s time to have a conversation about when we should have the conversation about Juan Soto. Take it slow and things will be just fine When Tim shows up here, I’ve got to be ready to go.” The next day I showed up, it took me like two rounds to start remembering what we talked about the day before. “The first day I hit with Tim, we worked on a few things, did a few drills, just to kind of get started. “I felt it was my obligation when I showed up every day to be prepared for everything they taught me the days prior, or else I was wasting their time. “The reason I started working on it was I was taking time out of Tim’s and Craig’s day for them to sit down and work with me,” Kelenic said. The mental lapse upset Kelenic, and not because he was paying for the instruction. On the second day Kelenic worked with Laker, he initially forgot what they had worked on the day before. I explain in the story the reason Kelenic started taking notes during his offseason sessions with Tim Laker in Arizona and Laker and hitting guru Craig Wallenbrock in Pasadena, Calif. “Even after games, when I’m going good, even when I’m going bad, I write down thoughts I’m having, cues that work for me in a certain at-bat off a certain pitcher.” You put it in your phone, there’s too much information in your phone, you’ll forget about it,” Kelenic said. “You write stuff down, you’ll remember it. In this regard and others, Kelenic is old-school. But I was surprised to hear someone so young say he writes his thoughts down rather than typing them into an app on his phone. It is not unusual for a hitter to keep notes on pitchers and game sequences. I mention in the story that he took notes each time he hit during the offseason, and wanted to expand upon that here. Mariners outfielder Jarred Kelenic, the subject of my A1 feature today, was one of the best interviews I can remember, particularly for someone who doesn’t turn 24 until July. Ken’s Corner: Jarred Kelenic and the power of putting pen to paper Here’s Ken on the young Mariner’s encouraging start. Except Kelenic had three hits, including another home run, on Tuesday. Jinx proof. Speaking of reverse jinxes, Ken wrote a whopper of a feature on the rejuvenated Jarred Kelenic, which is typically followed by the subject going 0-5 with six strikeouts. He threw 5 1/3 scoreless innings to lower his season ERA to 1.19, and the bigger question has to do with the closer’s gig in Chicago. Steele is apparently a dude now, and the National League might have to contemplate that development. The article’s positive vibe makes Steele give up seven earned runs in a regrettable outing, and the laudatory article hangs around the top of the website like a hot belch. If you want to know just how bulletproof the Cubs have been so far, Patrick Mooney wrote about Justin Steele transmogrifying into an ace before Tuesday’s start, which is the jinxiest of the jinxy jinxes.Įvery baseball writer knows what happens next. Based on last season and the offseason, the Cubs were down, the Padres were up these teams were narratives passing in the night.Įxcept the Cubs have been absolutely rolling this season, and the Padres have been a little dizzy. No more stumbling block, backstabbers get downĪn April series between the Cubs and Padres was not supposed to be a humdinger. But if you’re going to pull multiple monkeys off your back, start with the small, twitchy one. There’s still the minor matter of them going 2-16 against the Yankees in the postseason since 2003, with the last win coming in 2004. With a little financial savvy back when the Twins last took a season series from the Yankees, it would have been possible. Target Field is cool, but imagine it floating on a cloud, like a ballpark from Bespin. If the Twins had traded Brad Radke before the start of the 2001 season, replaced him with a pitcher making the major-league minimum and invested Radke’s $7.75 million salary into Apple stock at 35 cents a share, they would have made a $4.6 billion profit by now. Watch as Byron Buxton’s mind is blown when he learns that 2001 was the last time the #MNTwins won a season series against the Yankees: /tyWeIiHCyO Twenty-two years? I was 6.” His incredulousness is understandable, because I, too, was definitely only six years old back in 2001. “I don’t even know how to put that in words,” Buxton told reporters postgame. That’s a season series win, and it’s their first one against the Yankees in over two decades.īyron Buxton couldn’t believe this factlet, and you can’t blame him. There aren’t any more games against them on the schedule. The Twins have won four games against the Yankees this season, and they’ve lost only two.
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