Former Twins Hitting Update 4/29/13

[big dog]

Notes about former Twins around the majors:

 

Player/ABs/Avg/OPS/Notes

 

D Ortiz /31 /.516 /1.400 /started season on DL 11 RBI

 

M Cuddyer /31 /.333 /1.000 17 RBI

 

W Ramos /20 /.300 /.991 /on 15-day DL, minor league rehab

 

N Punto /30 /.400 /.933

 

T Hunter /96 /.375 /.917 /1 HR, 0 steals, 7 2B

 

C Gomez /80 /.338 /.914 /3 HR, 15 RBI (but 2/4 in stolen bases??)

 

G Jones /68 /.324 /.896

 

J Kubel /33 /.303 /.888 /just off 15-day DL

 

AJ Pierzynski /78 /.295 /.800 /4 HR, 11 RBI

 

B Harris /44 /.273 /.679

 

D Span /90 /.278 /.679 /.356 OBP, recent highlight film catches

 

A Casilla /29 /.241 /.577

 

J Hardy /96 /.198 /.576 /3 HRs, 14 RBIs

 

B Revere /87 /.207 /.472

 

D Young DL to start year, minor league rehab

[glanzer]

Wow, lots of early success for that bunch, aside from Casilla and Revere.

[big dog]

Yeah, I'm generally happy to see ex-Twins do well (but not against us). This a pretty impressive start for them. Hopefully Hunter takes a few days off from his hot streak.

[big dog]

6/13 Update: Notes about former Twins

 

Player/ABs/Avg/OPS/Notes

 

D Ortiz /181 /.309 /1.002 /13 HR, 48 RBI

 

M Cuddyer /174 /.339 /1.000/ 10 HR, 37 RBI

 

C Gomez /239 /.326 /.960 / 11 HR, 36 RBI, 13 SB

 

AJ Pierzynski /162 /.302 /.786 /5 HR, 17 RBI

 

J Hardy /255 /.267 /.776 / 13 HRs, 39 RBIs

 

G Jones /185 /.265 /.750/ 6 HR, 29 RBI

 

T Hunter /243 /.296 /.745 / 2 HR, 24 RBI

 

J Kubel /123 /.260 /.733 / 4 HR, 21 RBI

 

D Young / 120 /.225 /.697/ 6 HR, 15 RBI

 

D Span /242 /.269 /.692 /.324 OBP

 

N Punto /152 /.263 /.662

 

B Revere /201 /.254 /.579/ 14 of 18 in SB

 

 

 

D Valencia /39 /.256 /.899/ 3 HR, 7 RBI

 

W Ramos /48 /.250 /.745 /out until at least All-Star break, hamstring

 

B Harris /87 /.218 /.634

 

A Casilla /67 /.224 /.579

 

 

Minor League notes:

Tyler Robertson- 1 IP with AAA Syracuse Chiefs; 2 hits, 1 ER, 0 K, 0 BB

 

Joe Benson- 24 AB, .333 AVG, 1.407 OPS. Missed 8 games due to injury; just 6 ABs in four games since return.

 

[drjim]

I'm starting to think the JJ Hardy trade might have been a mistake.

[Fatt Crapps]

No way, Hoey is killing it in AAA for the Brewers.

 

3.1 IP, 12 H, 11 ER

[Rosterman]

Hardy would be giving us a bit more punch than Escobar, Carroll and Florimon. Not sure how he evens out with Plouffe on his right. For $35 million, we could've kept a pretty good outfield. Garrett Jones might've been a better investment than Parmelee. Amazed as the continued consistency of A.J. And if he stayed, would Ortiz have become Mr. Minnsota Twin (shades of Willie Stargell).

[drjim]

Hardy would be giving us a bit more punch than Escobar, Carroll and Florimon. Not sure how he evens out with Plouffe on his right. For $35 million, we could've kept a pretty good outfield. Garrett Jones might've been a better investment than Parmelee. Amazed as the continued consistency of A.J. And if he stayed, would Ortiz have become Mr. Minnsota Twin (shades of Willie Stargell).

 

The only player on that list that really bothers me is Hardy. I think the rest of the moves were either defensible or made sense at the time. The Ortiz move is the all time what if, but Boston signed him for about half of what the Twins would have owed him in arby. The Twins judged the market correctly, just didn't properly predict he would explode into a borderline HOFer.

 

I'm not getting upset over letting Garrett Jones leave, but happy that he found some success. AJ and Gomez trades were fine.

[big dog]

They let Hardy go because they thought they had this wonder at short named Nishioka, correct? That's how I recall it, anyway. Oops. I'm not as big a fan of Hardy as many on the board, but he's certainly a good major league shortstop and we could have used one of those the last few years.

[kab21]

In unrelated news I watched The Real Deal record the final out of a game on TV last night. This was in Taiwan's 4 team pro league but we have Manny.

[johnnydakota]

The only player on that list that really bothers me is Hardy. I think the rest of the moves were either defensible or made sense at the time. The Ortiz move is the all time what if, but Boston signed him for about half of what the Twins would have owed him in arby. The Twins judged the market correctly, just didn't properly predict he would explode into a borderline HOFer.

 

I'm not getting upset over letting Garrett Jones leave, but happy that he found some success. AJ and Gomez trades were fine.

 

 

Wasnt it 980,000?

[big dog]

Wasnt it 980,000?

 

My recollection was some number around a million dollars. That's all I got.

[drjim]

My recollection was some number around a million dollars. That's all I got.

 

I thought arby would have been about $2.5-3 mil and he signed with Boston for $1.25.