https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/page/704/?d=1enhttps://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/have-the-twins-fixed-their-velocity-problem-r9101/Bad habits are tough to get rid of in any scenario. It’s incredibly easy to get addicted to something and then continuously rely on that one thing for an extended period of time. For the Twins, that thing used to be a mentality of pitching to contact and ignoring the velocity trends in MLB in favo...9101Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/suspension-presents-twins-a-silver-lining-r9103/Yesterday was one of the largest whirlwinds the baseball world has ever seen. After the massive cancellations and postponements on March 11, Major League Baseball took action. Having been in Fort Myers intending to cover a baseball game, hypothetical tumbleweeds cross the Lee County Sports Complex...9103Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:55:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/twins-2020-position-analysis-center-field-r9100/Whenever the 2020 season starts, center field will take center stage: A position that could provide the Twins with their most decisive advantage, but also could devolve into a revolving door. Can Byron Buxton stay healthy? And if not, who will be ready to take the mantle at Minnesota's most critic...9100Fri, 13 Mar 2020 03:10:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/a-christmas-world-series-three-possible-outcomes-for-the-2020-baseball-season-r9097/In the span of 35 minutes, the world was informed that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson had contracted coronavirus in Australia, and the NBA season was indefinitely postponed after Rudy Gobert became basketball’s patient zero. Today, the NCAA cancelled both the Men’s and Women’s basketball tournaments, u...9097Fri, 13 Mar 2020 02:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/how-pecota-projections-could-miss-on-the-twins-part-two-r9093/Here are five players for whom certain aspects of the advanced system's projection could be wildly wrong, and for which the system doesn't allow flexibility. Yesterday, I broke down the way projection systems can fail to capture the real variance of a forthcoming baseball season, using the Twins’...9093Fri, 13 Mar 2020 02:00:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/on-community-r9098/One of Twins Daily’s core values is community. We are a community-driven site, supported by writers, moderators, commenters, and readers who challenge but also support each other. With that as a cornerstone, we fully support MLB’s efforts to slow the Coronavirus by suspending the MLB season for at...9098Fri, 13 Mar 2020 01:31:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/major-league-baseball-expected-to-suspend-spring-training-delay-season-r9096/According to Jeff Passan, Major League Baseball ownership groups expect Major League Baseball to join multiple sports leagues in canceling their events to limit the spread of COVID-19. It is not clear when the announcement will come, but would likely include immediate suspension of remaining sprin...9096Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:20:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/wes-johnson-assigns-homework-r9095/Minnesota Twins pitching coach Wes Johnson assigned homework to the local media this week. 'I’ll challenge you with this, then,' he told no one specifically in the media scrum. 'Go back and watch what [Dakota] Chalmers did. He didn't throw one over 96. We've had a couple other guys hit 100. There'...9095Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:20:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/coronavirus-prevention-efforts-impact-twins%E2%80%99-opening-road-trip-r9094/Bans on large gatherings, aimed to limit the potential spread of the coronavirus, have resulted in the Twins’ first road trip of the season being up in the air. MLB has a league-wide conference call scheduled for Friday, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN. The Twins were expecting to open their sea...9094Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:45:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/how-pecota-projections-could-miss-on-the-twins-part-one-r9092/Projection systems are more robust than ever... but there are still whole swaths of baseball's unpredictability for which they cannot account. According to Baseball Prospectus’s PECOTA system, the Twins have a 76.6-percent chance of winning the AL Central in 2020. FanGraphs pegs them just a bit l...9092Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:15:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/2020-minnesota-twins-top-5-progression-candidates-via-xwoba-r9091/If you frequently visit Twins Daily, which I assume you do, you probably saw Patrick’s post on the top-5 regression candidates for the Twins. Today I’ll be taking you through the top-5 players expected to improve for 2020 using the same statistic, xwOBA. If you don’t know what xwOBA is, that make...9091Thu, 12 Mar 2020 01:30:00 +0000https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-news/twins/deep-dive-into-the-twins-2020-schedule-r9088/Opening Day 2020 is almost here and the Twins enter the season as the odds-on favorite to win their division with a projected Vegas win total of 92.5 games. This article will analyze their schedule using their opponents' projected Vegas win totals, as well as point out important dates for fans Th...9088Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:00:00 +0000