The Twins Nailed Lineup Flexibility

[Blyleven2011]

Of the players we acquired over the winter  Solano and Lopez the starter have performed  admirably  , Larnach  has played well and I hope all the players can stay healthy and stay  off the injured list  ...

Hitting  is needed and I miss arreaz  he is Hitting ,  and hit for the cycle the other night  , the very first cycle in marlins history  ,,,

Took a major leaguer to do it I guess ... 

Doesn't look like arreaz has peaked yet like some were saying before the trade , what a fun hitter to watch  ...

[DocBauer]

I think this early in the season, any "NAILED IT" comment might be a bit hyperbolic. But bench players who provide depth are such because they generally aren't good enough to be starters on winning ball clubs. If they were, they wouldn't be bench players. 

And that's not any sort of indictment of anyone. 

Farmer, Salono, and the surprising not mentioned Taylor have all been decent, solid starting players at times in their careers. They make great reserves! I'd rather have any and all of them instead of White, Soto, or Lamarre. It's not nearly optimal to have all 3 playing daily due to injuries, but would you rather have the AAA infield/OF instead???

Castro is nothing special. And he made the roster out of necessity. But he's fairly talented, has ML experience, can do a little bit of everything, can play decent defense almost anywhere, and still has some potential at not yet 26yo. I'd rather see Helman in his spot, but he's been injured thus far. But you could do a lot worse than Castro as the last man on the bench.

Unfortunately, Farmer is going to be out for a while after his awful beaning. And a month from now, it's very possible injury returns from some talented players could provide a nice roster crunch. But yes, the FO has done a really nice job of building their bench. 

 

[Riverbrian]

In the past 24 hours.

The Twins team OPS jumped from .659 to .701 and has moved from 26th ranked to 23rd ranked. 

You gotta love the instability of a small sample size. 

[NotAboutWinning]

Very interesting to note which teams are at the top of the injury leader board… Yankees 11, Twins 9. And which team seems to be weathering the storm better. Go Twins!!

[Riverbrian]

On 4/14/2023 at 6:54 AM, Riverbrian said:

In the past 24 hours.

The Twins team OPS jumped from .659 to .701 and has moved from 26th ranked to 23rd ranked. 

You gotta love the instability of a small sample size. 

And in order to be fair. 

The Twins team OPS fell from .701 to .664 since the Thursday night big show. The Twins have fallen from 23rd ranked to 28th ranked.