Wow. Sure, the preferred way to explain the decay of fundamentals throughout big league baseball is to shrug, place your palms up and recite the incomplete thought, “Well, The Game has changed.”
And continues to change. It continues to grow worse as the inept, in exchange for millions of dollars, continue to change The Game to become the company’s annual co-ed softball game and fish fry.
The only reasonable guarantees are that the players will show up well practiced in signaling minimal achievements to the dugout after advancing to second on a wild pitch. After that, it’s the daily updates from the injured list, ridiculously priced nomadic pitchers lost for the season to a Tommy John surgery — or two.
It stood to reason that the Twins — at least those not physically disabled — were able to overcome their team-wide ignorance of basic skills to take two of three from the swing-and-miss/stand-and-stare Mets. Ineptitude in MLB games is now cheap, traded like fist bumps.
