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Twinternationals

[PT] Twins Roster Analysis – PART 1 (position players)

Welcome to Twinternationals! This is a space for Twins fans from different countries to read about their team in their native language. This section is run by Venezuelan Mariana Guzmán (@TwinsLatinos) and Brazilian Thiéres Rabelo (@TwinsBrasil). Today's entry is written in Portuguese. Por Thiéres Rabelo Graças ao bom Deus o beisebol está de volta! Na noite desta quinta-feira (10) a MLB e a Associação de Jogadores chegaram a um acordo para um novo Acordo Coletivo (CBA) e a temporada
Twinternationals

Twinternationals in Twins

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Fantasy GM

What the what??

It is great news to hear that MLB & MLBPA are getting closer to a deal, but the early info on INTL draft and the QO are very confusing. Basically what it means is that NEITHER side actually really care about either of these issues, and as a result were holding up baseball for absolutely no reason. SO what is this grand bargain that was struck between MLB & MLBPA? Well according to Jeff Passan,  they have agreed to get this...a new deadline...  LOL  they have agreed to
Doc Munson

Doc Munson in MLB CBA

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The Hot Corner

A pitch clock is coming- pros and cons

Time flies while you’re having fun, but it’s not flying quickly enough, says the MLB. During CBA negotiations, the MLB players union agreed to allow the MLB to ban shifts, to implement a pitch clock and to make bases larger (not XL pizza box size- from 15” to 18”) effective the 2023 season, subject to those agreements fitting into a total deal. Though the MLBPA appears to be on board with these changes, baseball fans as a whole are not known as being a particularly flexible folk that is eag
Fantasy GM

Which side is more disingenuous?

I like many fans am frustrated with MLB & MLBPA. Both sides are equally to blame. I have shared ideas on how to end the stalemate in previous posts.  One of the simplest that touches on multiple aspects (tanking, draft, "pre-arb" player pool) Is simply to have a Draft Tournament. With all teams not making the playoffs playing in a single elimination tournament to decide the top draft pick and subsequent draft order. This hits on tanking and the draft, the additional new TV rights to these ga
Doc Munson

Doc Munson in MLB CBA

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mikelink45's Blog

strike outs and innings pitched by starters

Does the emphasis on strike outs also commit the teams to the ridiculous 4 – 5 inning starter and a dozen or more relief pitchers per year?  Are we straining the arms by demanding near 100 mph heaters and lots of curves and sliders? I went to Brad Radtke’s baseball reference page.  He pitched 12 years for us and is one of the best pitchers in Twins history.  148 – 139 4.22 era is not HOF worthy, and he cannot be called a great pitcher, but he was a competent competitor for teams that needed
Off The Baggy

How Can You be Romantic About Baseball?

Right now Major League Baseball may be as low as it’s ever been. Back during the 1994 and 1995 strike I was just five years old, way too young to be bothered by what was taking place. At this point in my life, it’s anything but. After Rob Manfred’s address yesterday I could produce nothing more than apathy. The Minnesota Twins have long been my favorite team. Major League Baseball has been among my most invested interests for the majority of my life. Because of just thirty owners and their
Doctor Gast's Blog

BTV

BTV stands for Baseball Trade Values. It's a website that gives a trade value on every single ball player in the system, where you can put together a  fantasticized trade and when posted are given a chance to accept or deny those trades.  Although they're not perfect, they give you a good consenses of a player's worth in a trade by reading reports, talking to scouts and managers. Like every real life trade, you can't just balance the value but you need to figure in the need, undetermined va
The Hot Corner

Melissa's non-spring-training Spring Training trip guide

Let’s say earlier this winter, as you shivered at home and headed out into the dark night of 4:30 p.m. in Minnesota to rev up the snowblower, your mind drifted to baseball and spring training. Sure, there was some CBA uncertainty at the time, but that was a mere specter miles and months off in the distance. You haven’t been able to go to spring training for the last two years, so Spring Training 2022 sounds extra enticing. And Rob Manfred- that confident, seasoned, labor industry-tested lawyer,
Fantasy GM

Twins will change MLB in 2022

The Minnesota Twins this year are in position to change MLB!!   For a team that has claimed a desire to contend in 2022 it has very little in the way of pitching, and has shown little to no interest in the FA agent crop of pitchers. SO how can a team with current starters slotted in as Dylan Bundy, Joe Ryan, and Bailey Ober?   Dylan Bundy has only thrown over 162 innings twice in his career and that was 2017-2018. and coming off seasons of 65 (Covid) and 90 innings. He cannot
Back Office Twins Baseball Blog

1994 Strike Revisited

As this lockout stretches on I have been thinking back to the last time this happened.  The year was 1994 and Friends had just premiered on NBC, OJ Simpson captured all of our interest while slowly evading police in his white Bronco, and the MLB and MLBPA buzzkilled my fall by killing baseball and the World Series.  I thought it might be fun to take the issues that were being discussed during that work stoppage and see in hindsight who had it right. Drug Testing  In 1994 the owners sub
jharaldson

jharaldson in Business of Baseball

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Blog Sconnie

Report From The Fort

photo courtesy Expedia    Day 3 at the fort. Haven’t ventured to Lee County ballpark yet. Do intend to do so, probably Monday. Thus far have been to the beaches, the pool at the Airbnb, 6 mile slough, has a great meal at the Mucky Duck on Sanibel. enjoying the escape from the cold of NW Wi. it’s currently 85 degrees and Sunny   day 4: lakes park in the AM, off to the Swimming pool for the PM. Currently 82 and sunny on deck for the weekend: heading up to Orlando. U
mikelink45's Blog

Baseball in the Klondike

I enjoy the history of baseball and that is why in the past I have written about Tom Custer and Wild Bill Hickok playing baseball.  Another story that is among the lesser known baseball games was played in Skagway during the height of the Gold Rush.   The game was played on Independence day in 1901 and unlike the rest of the baseball world it was a team of black Buffalo Soldiers and White Railroad workers.  The soldiers were assigned to this remote Alaskan wilderness to bring law and o
mikelink45

mikelink45 in Baseball history

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The Hot Corner

Shortened Season- A Win for Twins?

Among my friends, I’m known as being a bit of a Minnesota sports optimist. I’m the type of person who, when it’s at the end of the NFL season and the Vikings hold a 11% chance of making it to the playoffs IF the Vikings beat the Packers at Lambeau, the Washington Football team beats the Eagles, AND the terrible, tanking Texans beat the Niners, I’m all in on following those scenarios. Next week sounds like it will feature a marathon of bargaining sessions as the MLB and its owners and the ML
Melissa Berman

Melissa Berman in Melissa's Blog

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The Hot Corner

Twins Valentine's Day Cards!

Happy Valentine's Day! Today as I watched all our other local sports teams post their annual Valentine's Day pun cards featuring their team's players, I connected the dots that the Twins can't do that this year because of the lockout. So, I made some cards instead! I hope you like them, and if not, I hope our love isn't ~Ober.~   All player images are courtesy of ESPN.com
Melissa Berman

Melissa Berman in Melissa's Blog

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The Hot Corner

Spring Training Dreaming - Increased Negotiation Pace On Deck?

A wise gal once said “Cold days like these have me dreaming about baseball.” Actually, that was me on Twitter a few days ago. Regardless, here we are on the eve of yet another meeting between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association, where on February 12 the MLB and its owners plan to make a new proposal to the MLBPA. As I’m sure we all know, thus far very little progress has been made and both sides remain quite far apart on issues ranging from service time rules to free
Melissa Berman

Melissa Berman in Melissa's Blog

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Dave The Dastardly's Blog

Gotch Your Back This Winter of Discontent!!

Okay, CBA negotiations are going nowhere fast, the start of spring training is only a wish, games are somewhere out there in the distant future, we're getting tired of reading about hypothetical trades, we're contemplating stepping in front of a pitching machine loaded with rocks... what can a fan do to get his baseball fix? Some time ago, probably 20 or so years back, during another long Minnesota winter, I began writing a baseball novel. I dicked around with it every winter since, adding
Dave The Dastardly

Dave The Dastardly in Blog

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The Hot Corner

Hello + Stealing Home from the Hot Corner

Hello Twins fans and fanatics! My name is Melissa, and I’m romantic about baseball, the Twins, and Dollar Dog Night. I'm so excited to be starting up this blog to share my hot takes, musings, and ramblings about all things Twins baseball.  My deep love for the Twins comes from a baseball and softball-centric upbringing.  Growing up, softball truly was the love of my life. Like many little girls, my mom first tried putting me in dance. My dear readers, I *hated* dance. One of
Melissa Berman

Melissa Berman in Melissa's Blog

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Greg Allen

Update on my Lockout OOTP Twins rebuild. 2022 Season Twins pre-play.

I’ve been playing the Twins season while trading, signing free agents and auditioning the Twins best minor leaguers. The bad news is that the Twins started 1-11. The good news is that I continued to trade, sign free agents and give almost all the top prospects an audition. You might be surprised at which prospect emerged. I’ve played all games except maybe a total of 1 when the AI took off while I napped! I also do pitch by pitch, which is pretty exciting, especially using the CF camera for pitc
Greglw3

Greglw3 in Greg Allen’s Blog

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Blog Sconnie

MLB Accessibility

I went off on a tangent in mikelink45’s extremely well written and thought provoking post “When Baseball was King”. But started thinking about why baseball isn’t king. In my mind a significant shift happened in the late 70s and early 80s. The sport that I think was a major contributor was the NFL and not just that the NFL broadcasted it’s games to wide regional audiences scheduled to minimize overlap and put premium matchups in prime time, there was one man… If you’ve been watching NFL game
Blog Brandon

Competitive Balance Tax Wobbly Floor

I was just thinking about the Competitive Balance Tax in Baseball and the negotiations going on and was thinking about the concept that was proposed of a 100 million floor.  for a lot of small market teams that would be too high of a floor as it makes sense to dip down when doing a rebuild.  but the thought that crossed my mind is.... why does it have to be a solid floor?  I mean with the competitive balance tax on the top end of teams payrolls they have an escalating penalty each year they are
Brandon

Brandon in CBA

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Greg Fransen

Bring on the kids

In my first-ever blog entry, I implied that the Twins couldn't compete for a playoff spot. Moreover, I think they shouldn't worry about it. However, I don't think that means they have to give up on playing competitive baseball...putting a team on the field that fans are willing, even eager to watch. Nothing would make me happier than to watch some high-level prospects test themselves against major league pitchers and hitters. Besides, it gives the team a chance to test the limits of their young
Franz

Franz in Roster construction

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Greg Allen

OOTP: Acting aggressively to rebuild Twins

Frustrated by Falvey and Levine’s approach the last two offseason and with the lockout in effect, I bought OOTP baseball for $4.99 in order to build the Twins my way using trades, free agent signings and keeping the up and coming pitching. I set the trade slider a little more to the hard side the the easy side. It seemed to carry over to free agent negotiations but I’m not sure. Prime example: I offered Byron Buxton basically the same deal the Twins signed him for and he came bac
Greglw3

Greglw3 in Greg Allen’s Blog

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