Twins Young Position Players Deserve Your Attention

[joefish]

What is our team batting average against left handed pitchers- comparing our RH hitters vs our LH  hitters? 

Are our left handed hitters doing worse than our right handed swingers?

[USAFChief]

12 minutes ago, joefish said:

What is our team batting average against left handed pitchers- comparing our RH hitters vs our LH  hitters? 

Are our left handed hitters doing worse than our right handed swingers?

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cgi?t=b&team=MIN&year=2023

Baseball reference is your friend.

 

[joefish]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cgi?t=b&team=MIN&year=2023

Baseball reference is your friend.

 

Actually Baseball Reference and I have never met. 

I even skip reading the paragraphs that are full of stats that I am too old to wanna understand. 

But thanks for the link.

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, joefish said:

 

But thanks for the link.

You're welcome.

 

[Fatbat]

We are smack dab in the middle of a youth movement and playoff bound. The FO needs to have kudos from the fans for dealing with above ave injuries and signing a couple key veteran backups (not gallo). I will always put Lewis at #1 because of his attitude and injuries. We need him in the lineup every day!! Keep Castro around and bring up Lee next year. Lets get younger and better!!!

[terrydactyls]

4 hours ago, MGM4706 said:

Trouble with Julien is he is atrocious in the field. His transfer skills on double plays are lousy. And he plays so deep to try and get easier hops that players beat out hits and are safe on double play balls because of how deep he plays. Even his recent hitting makes it appear league is figuring him out like they did with Miranda. So don't count on him yet!

 

3 hours ago, davidborton said:

Thanks from a radio listener. We get only hints of his defensive shortages from the booth but it's much clearer here on the boards.

How can Julien play "so deep"?  He has to stay in the dirt portion of the infield just like every one else.  He may be a foot or two deeper than a few, but hardly significant.

[arby58]

On 8/9/2023 at 8:55 AM, terrydactyls said:

When you strike out in over half your at bats, what difference does the field your playing in make?

The point of wRc+ is to normalize statistics for the ballpark. While a K is a K everywhere, a fly out versus a home run is definitely different with, say, the short right field porch at Yankee Field versus the pretty high wall at Target Field. Once you take that into consideration, differences in OPS start to make sense, which is why Gallo, even with his flaws, gets to league average. If he played half his games this year at Yankee Field, no doubt the batting average (and number of home runs) would be higher.

[arby58]

On 8/9/2023 at 9:38 AM, Cody Schoenmann said:

Personally, I view Larnach more as a trade piece than anything else at this moment. Wallner has supplanted him on the depth chart and i’m 99% sure the Twins are going to pick up Kepler’s $10 million team option for next season. Also, if Larnach doesn’t get traded by next season, I think Keirsey Jr. will also pass him on the OF depth chart. 

If he can't even make it out of Triple A for the Twins, his trade value is likely pretty meagre. My guess is the Twins still hope he'll catch lightning in a bottle, at least for another year or so. He's still relatively young (he's still 2 years younger than the average Triple A player).

[Cody Schoenmann]

1 minute ago, arby58 said:

If he can't even make it out of Triple A for the Twins, his trade value is likely pretty meagre. My guess is the Twins still hope he'll catch lightning in a bottle, at least for another year or so. He's still relatively young (he's still 2 years younger than the average Triple A player).

My hope is that other front offices still view Larnach as a prospect rather than a Quad-A player. If Larnach still has the prospect aura around him, he could still net a reasonably substantial return, whether a one-for-one trade or part of a larger package. The Mets were essentially confirmed to be interested in Larnach, and that likely would have been in a trade for either Mark Canha or Tommy Pham. A trade for Canha or Pham would be pretty meager, like you said, but if that's the type of player Larnach may be netting by himself, I could see him being used in a package for a player like Dylan Carlson or Ryan Mountcastle, for example.