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Twins Minor League Report (5/20): Pitching - FAIL.
A couple of feel-good notes from earlier today: Minnesota native and former St. Paul Saint, LRP...
Caleb Thielbar Promoted, Kyle Gibson Next?
Left-handed relief pitcher Caleb Thielbar, who played in Randolph, Minnesota and pitched for the...
Series Preview: Twins @ Braves, 5/20-5/22
Well, the expected has arrived: the Minnesota Twins starting rotation has begun to implode and the...
Twins MLB Draft Profile: Sean Manaea, SP
Who IS This Guy? He might have the highest ceiling of any pitching prospect in this year's draft...
Gleeman and the Geek, Ep 94: Reunited and It Feels So ... Meh
John rejoins Aaron and they talk about the Minnesota Twins tumble, two AAA players that could soon...
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Numbers are so clean. Until they aren’t.
Yesterday we studied strikeouts/game and runs/game for teams and found a “correlation coefficient,” which is a number between -1 and 1. 1 means there is a perfect correlation, like the temperature in Fahrenheit and the temperature in Celsius. -1 means there is a perfectly negative correlation, like the amount I spend and my checking account balance. And 0 means there is no correlation, like the amount I spend and the temperature in Celsius.
Unfortunately, the number we found was not 1, 0 or -1. It was .54. So what does that mean? ...
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Pitch To Contact - at this point, I think we can go with capital letters, don't you? That phrase and philosophy have drawn a fair amount of criticism, a chunk of which is just snark, but some of which at least tries to ground itself in statistical analysis. In a thread started yesterday on Twins Daily, there was a lot of debate on Pitch To Contact, what it means and what we really know about its effects.
When Bill James unveiled several new tools for analyzing baseball, the most fundamental ones usually started by analyzing team stats. ...
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Aaron and John's Minnesota Twin podcast moves to KFAN 100.3 FM, but that's not the only change. The Twins relatively positive start also fuels their most optimistic episode, where they talk about Kevin Correia's fantastic start, the bullpen's impact and depth and the struggles some of the younger players in the lineup are facing. Here are:
- the podcasts
- the rss feed if you want to subscribe and
- the podcast on iTunes.
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We're providing the RSS feeds below as a service to our members, but it would be much appreciated if you use it to help the community generate discussion. If you find a story you like, head over to the forums and check to see if anyone else has added a story. If not, kick off the discussion!
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Twins Daily is very excited to welcome Ticket King to our community today. Actually, Ticket King started being a part of our Twins Daily community a couple of weeks ago – you might recall that the owner Mike Nowakowski blogged about meeting Josh Roenicke at the Welcome Home Luncheon.
Ticket King also prides itself on being part of the Twin Cities community. Their offices are located in downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. They like to meet and talk with Minnesota sports fans. (Just stop by the Minneapolis office sometime and ask ...
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Aaron and John return to 612 Brew and are joined by a couple guests: Parker Hageman of Twins Daily and 612 Brew's head brewer Adam Schill. Together, they recap a ridiculously short week for the Twins, admire Big Papi's speech, wonder from whom will Oswaldo Arcia take playing time, explain why you should subscribe to Minnesota Business magazine, catch up with some top Twins prospects with hot starts, explain what happened after the last podcast, review the Darin Mastroianni injury saga, and summarize Dick Bremer's and Bert Blyleven's discussion on "cybermetrics." ...
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Aaron and John's Minnesota Twins podcast visits a bar for sale. Then they talk about Aaron Hicks historic struggles, their move to KFAN, what went right for the Twins this week, conficting explanations for how the Twins ended up with a low-K pitching staff, Oswaldo Arcia's role this week, what makes Aaron curl into the fetal position, misperceptions about the infield, batting practice misfires, charging the mound and #42. Here are:
- the podcasts
- the rss feed if you want to subscribe and
- the podcast on iTunes.
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How about a friendly game of "I know more than you about baseball"? Our friends at DraftStreet have put together a contest for Twins Daily readers that costs nothing to play BUT will distribute $300 in prizes to our readers.
Here's the link. And here's the deal....
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Aaron and John talk about the Minnesota Twins' winning opening week, bouncing back from last week's podcast, what to make of Aaron Hicks' slow start, Glen Perkins' excellence and managing the bullpen, appreciating Roger Ebert, the upcoming "Tix For Tots" event, close games and late-inning heroics, Tyler Robertson's goodbye, and "The Running Man" coming true. Here are:
- the podcasts
- the rss feed if you want to subscribe and
- the podcast on iTunes.
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Plenty of good blogs the last couple of days, whether you like the minors, the historical or some random thoughts on the Minnesota Twins series win over the Tigers:
- In AA-New Britain, our beat reporter attended the Rock Cats Welcome Home Dinner. He meets a new player that reminds him what the minor leagues are all about - really loving the game.
- It's the birthday today of one the least popular Twins of all time.
- Thrylos is excited about the way the Twins are playing and has some random thoughts on the Tigers series. Alex is excited too - despite his best efforts to not be.
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John and Aaron talk about loving Opening Day at the ballpark and on the couch, the Minnesota Twins' lowest expectations ever, moving Joe Mauer up and Brian Dozier down in the batting order, what to do with Justin Morneau, appreciating the greatness of Johan Santana, bullpen and bench usage issues, finding what you need on Ticket King, exactly how bad the rotation can get, and why baseball is so damn comforting. ...
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“Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.”
- Carlos Castenada
It was seven years ago – in 2006 – that Justin Morneau won his American League Most Valuable Player award. ...
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"John,
Thanks for the support. I sometimes wonder if I'm hollering weird photoshops and awkward puns into the void. ..."
I remember that terrible feeling. Only I really was hollering into the void. ...
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Let's see how you schlubs cleanup....
Twins Daily readers have been offered a big discount for an exclusive event. On Wednesday 4/10, Tix for Tots and the Minnesota Twins are having a Season Kickoff Party featuring Paul Molitor in the Metropolitan Club at Target Field. It's baseball. It's a good cause. But most importantly, it's a chance to convince your significant other that spending so much time on TwinsDaily isn't such a bad thing. Here are the details and how to get the discount....
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