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    http://www.startribune.com/twins-add-tim-stauffer-send-doug-bernier-to-rochester/304581021/ I give this move a solid "Blank Stare".
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    Completely misunderstood your post. Whoops.
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    Absolutely. I give Bruno quite a bit of credit for Dozier because the difference was night and day. One day, he was a subpar hitter. The next, he was an above average hitter. The difference was amazing. But you're right that ultimately, it comes down to the player acknowledging that changes need to be made and making those adjustments. Dozier not only listened to Bruno about his swing but he also applied a lot of hard work to defense and baserunning, ultimately becoming the most well-rounded player on the team because of it.
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    Only if they stick around. Bernier has one start this season. Nunez hasn't started since he was reactivated. I don't get Nunez on this team at all but he hasn't been terrible as a bench option. You'll get no arguments from me about the bullpen. Roster moves are made all the time to fit player development, upcoming schedule, and a host of other things. If Bernier gets one start as an insurance policy during a road trip that has the team playing in an NL park, was it really a bad decision? I agree that if Bernier, Nunez, et al are holding down playing time (not roster spots, actual playing time) from guys like Pinto, Arcia, Rosario, Hicks, Vargas, etc. then it's a problem. But right now, it's not a problem. It's not bone-headed if the Twins are using those players as temporary placeholders to improve the team right now and also work in development time for younger players who would be sitting on the bench otherwise. Roster moves should not be examined in isolation. If this turns out to be a short-term move to shore up a temporary problem, then all of this is much ado about nothing. Teams need bench players and they're bench players for a reason; they're not very good at baseball.
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    Given that the Twins hadn't scored since the first inning - and that it required a Mauer home run to win the game - I understand going with the long guy and crossing your fingers... But I didn't like seeing Perkins held out of the game until the 13th inning. Go with Perkins first and then fall back to your long guy if that doesn't pan out.
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    You can count me in the camp of "bullish on Dozier" and "bearish on Plouffe". I didn't see Plouffe coming at all.
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    In the past 28 days, Nolasco has struck out 20 hitters in 21 innings. He's still giving up way too many hits but he has looked like a different pitcher of late. He deserves to continue down this road and see how it plays out. A few other stats of note. LOB% - 59.6 (yikes!) HR/FB% - 3.7 (yeah, that won't hold up) K% - 19.3 (fairly decent) Zone% - 45.8 (this needs to improve) First Strike % - 52.8 (also needs to improve) Ricky has been a mixture of wild (throwing too many pitches), lucky (homers), and unlucky (that LOB% is brutal). It will be interesting to see if he adjusts what he can and whether luck will normalize.
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    I don't like it but baseball often works out when you don't agree with the methodology that led to that outcome. It also often fails when you agree with the methodology that led to that outcome. Baseball is an aggravating sport.
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    Yeah, in that regard, they're extremely similar. It's an interesting development because even some of the front office's staunchest defenders had to question their player development system a few years ago when things got really bad. Now that some unlikely players have emerged as very good players, it appears that maybe things weren't as bad as they seemed, we just needed to give the organization more time to get everyone pointed in the same direction. Another good reminder that baseball moves at a glacial pace compared to other sports.
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    Absolutely. The career trajectories of those two players are interesting, doubly so that they doing it at the same time on the same team. Though Dozier is slightly different in that he had a definable "light switch" moment when Bruno changed his swing.
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    To present another option, it's possible the Twins saw the incredible work ethic from Trevor all the way through the system and felt he could become a quality SS in time. Hell, given what Trevor has done at third, I'm not sure he still couldn't become a quality SS if he applied himself to it. I can't remember the last time I saw a player get just a little bit better every year I watched him play the way Trevor has over the past four seasons. It's fascinating how Plouffe has so sneakily gone from "bad" to "meh" to "good" to "this guy is possible an All-Star" right under our noses.
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    I meant to respond to this earlier. I can't lay too much fault on the Twins for keeping Plouffe at short. He's relatively athletic and his bat didn't project to anything but shortstop until he went bonkers as a 25 year old in AAA. Maybe the Twins should have played him more at third in hopes he'd become a utility guy but I can't fault them for not making a wholesale change to third when the guy's yearly OPS hovered around .720-.730 in the minors. That simply isn't a bat that will carry at third in Major League Baseball. It appeared that if the Twins were to get value from Trevor, it would have to be at short because he couldn't hit worth a damn. It's easy to forget now but Plouffe was basically written off as a bust just a few years ago. It's a good reminder that not all baseball players develop at the same pace. Trevor seems to be a hard worker, a smart guy, and a good listener because he has completely turned his career around, one small step at a time. It's kinda amazing when you look at the progression of Plouffe as a baseball player.
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    To an extent, possibly... But this isn't a good example. We have reports of people who actually watch baseball games and they pretty much unanimously agree that Plouffe is a good defender nowadays. You'll get disagreement on just *how* good he is in 2015 but most people have agreed on the general sentiment that he's at least average with the leather. And then you have Tom Barnard, a guy whose job is to be as hyperbolic and aggravating as possible. The guy with the loudest idiotic opinion gets the most listeners because... Well, because that's our modern society, I guess. Sigh. That's a rant for another day.
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    The 50 people who say Plouffe has become a pretty good defender to every one Tom Barnard. I see your overall point about the eye test but this isn't a good example of it. One guy has gone off the rails and is showing obvious bias while the rest of the world has pretty much agreed on the exact opposite. Not all opinions carry equal weight, particularly when the results are this lop-sided. Not to get all political but it's kinda like climate change. On one hand, you have virtually every climate scientist and NASA saying one thing while a politician who received a law degree (or less) says the opposite. At that point, you basically ignore the politician because it's obvious he's either insane, bought out by special interests, or both. If anything, he has done you a favor by showing a complete inability to parse information reasonably with as little bias as possible. He has indirectly told you that he is not worth listening to anymore.
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    Boyer's peripherals are downright frightening but he keeps getting the job done. Until he stops getting the job done, I'll continue worrying about the guys who have terrible peripherals and fail to get the job done.
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    I can't wrap my head around this team being six games over .500 right now. This feels like, at best, a .500 squad based on their play. Whatever. I'll take it. If they can somehow keep it up, this season will be a lot of fun.
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    Potential playoff teams get injured and collapse all the time. It's often followed by a long losing streak as it forces a rebuild. Just last year the Rangers collapsed the same way the Twins did in 2011. In no way, shape, or form was the Twins' 2011-2014 "an epic failure, one of the worst in modern baseball history". That statement was outlandish and hyperbolic, just admit it. I don't even know why I'm arguing this.
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    Yeah.
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    Still not even close to one of the biggest periods of failure in the past 50-ish years of baseball.
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    That's not even a little bit accurate. I'm not even going to bother researching it but I know Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Houston, Washington, and Detroit had worse 4+ year disasters since 2003-ish, much less modern baseball history. That tallies up to ~17% of all MLB franchises in the past dozen years and I didn't even have to research it. The Twins were a bad team but they never even lost 100 games. Most of those teams I listed (maybe all of them) did it multiple times. edit: forgot the Nationals.
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    Yeah, pretty much. I don't care for their recent roster moves but I'll wait utnil they play out for a week or two before making a decision. It's possible there is more than meets the eye with the Vargas demotion. If they run with this roster for a month and start losing, then I'll be irritated about it. If they demote Bernier and call up, say, Pinto, then I don't see a problem. It's a long season and we only see the end results, rarely the thinking behind it or the long-term planning that hasn't been enacted yet. On its face, the Vargas demotion doesn't make sense. If the Twins have more moves planned once they get out of Pittsburgh and/or off this road trip, then it might make more sense. I'll wait it out and see what happens next.
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    I was wondering the same thing earlier today. Glad somebody figured it out.
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    Those aren't quite as extreme as they look at first glance. People seem to think that because "clutchness" doesn't exist, that means RISP stats should align with bases empty stats. They don't. Bad pitchers put more men on base. Bad pitchers give up more hits and a higher OPS. RISP, Men On, etc. should generally have higher offensive numbers than bases empty situations. Here are the 2015 American League splits thus far: Bases Empty OPS: .698 Men On OPS: .740 RISP OPS: .752 The NL has generally similar numbers, though RISP is slightly lower than Men On. Statistical noise. The Twins are outperforming the league averages but not by an insane amount.
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    No one who has been around baseball for long enough to hold a front office position believes anyone is proven right or wrong in less than 1/4 of a season. Also, I doubt that Ryan has so much contempt for his own employees (Goin & Co) that he smugly tries to prove them wrong.
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