Twins Player Acquisition Tree

I like this - it really demonstrates the value of the international free agents to the current Twins lineup.

I think you spelled Cuddyer's last name wrong... 

But I don't think there's a resoure out there like that, and these are kind of neat. 

As to the worthiness of the endeavor - go for it. It's a long offseason. It is kind of fun. And the 2019 list is going to make the 2018 list a lot easier to compile. 

 

I'm sort of struck by how few of the guys came here as part of a trade. Back in 2002, the last time a Twins team showed this much promise, it feels like there were a lot more trades. I'd say the same about the end of the Terry Ryan era.

 

I suspect there will be a lot more long threads in future Twins teams given all the prospects acquired at the 2018 trade deadline. 

When you research the trade history of Terry Ryan over the past decade and then compare it to the other 29 teams during the same time period.

The Twins were an orange pylon. 

The new front office has changed this. A new player acquisition door has opened and the tree has the sunlight needed to grow. 

What is the point of this? To map out the twins ancestry?

fWAR is not an accurate statistic to use to determine the team for each given year however. For instance, you forgot the twins MVP from 2019, Nelson Cruz. Because he doesn't show up in fWar because he doesn't play the defense very often. fWar is focused on Fielding. If you want to be objective about determining each seasons players, you should go by player who played the most games at the position by running a macro to https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIN/2019.shtml - rather than populating everything manually. Just one big macro for aggregation, then you can define WAR.

Also, baseball reference defines all of the twins transactions as well, so u can query that (https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIN/2019-transactions.shtml) rather than guessing or manually researching the person yourself.

What I would like to see any article on is how to reasonably quantify a managers WAR. (ie games lost in the last couple innings would mean this dude is replaceable). Just an idea on a cool topic.

Honestly, not in love with the Twins family tree. But then again, look at ancestry.com...its huge! So maybe this could be the next big thing, I'm going to buy the domain bancestry.com right now.

Uh, wut? Nelson Cruz has fWAR.......fWAR is also not focused on fielding. 

And no one has been able to come up with a good way to measure managers, despite years of effort.

As to the worthiness of the endeavor - go for it. It's a long offseason. It is kind of fun. And the 2019 list is going to make the 2018 list a lot easier to compile. 

 

I'm sort of struck by how few of the guys came here as part of a trade. Back in 2002, the last time a Twins team showed this much promise, it feels like there were a lot more trades. I'd say the same about the end of the Terry Ryan era.

 

I suspect there will be a lot more long threads in future Twins teams given all the prospects acquired at the 2018 trade deadline. 

https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/depth-charts/twins

This year they should add, I'm guessing, 7 players from the minors will debut that were acquired in trade. That changes if they sign a 1B and another SP......

sometimes I am shocked by the comments about Terry Ryan.  At one time he was one of the most revered FO figures.  Times changed and we moved on, but Terry did a good job in his time.