bean5302

Wasn't mid-September always expected?

Does it make sense for him to **** on a major fanbase of his to and damage his relationship with an organization likely to be a potential landing spot for future roles in which Torii has expressed interest? Not really. That's why I chalk it up to Torii's long history of foot in mouth rather than an intentionally stupid move. Side note, mildly annoying TD uses British English as spell check. (organization vs. organisation) (realize vs realise). We're in the U.S. the "z" is proper.

I think there's a chance Lackey makes it to the Twins mid year next year, but that's only if everything goes right. Based on SSSS, it looks like he's going to need to make some adjustments. While he's not whiffing on pitches at only 8% swinging strike rate, he's been very passive, caught flat footed for a called strike 27% of the time. That's up there with Julien numbers. Contact rates in this tiny sample size are also mixed. 30% line drives is great, but 54% pop up on fly balls is 5x higher than desirable. That said, MiLB batted ball data can be pretty sketch. That said, Lackey's a high 1st round college draft pick, and the expectation is he'll move quickly.

Actually, it was a series of normal google searches combined with embedded gemini results which I reviewed quickly. But, yeah. the obviously formatted response is A.I. generated.

Definitely wish him the best of luck on continuing the dream. He was one of the few who made the big show, and he even got a little playing time. Nobody can take that away from him.

There's always a special clique of users who follow people around the board searching for posts they can "react" to as a form of sanctioned taunting for weeks or months on end. While folks may not get the "notification" if their post is quoted or reacted to by the /ignored user, the reaction is right there front and center. If there's somebody I consider to be a troll, I can just /ignore when they waste my time. Not everybody is so inclined. Owners/administrators/moderators have a ban hammer at your disposal. Your users do not.

You're accusing me of being outdated? The irony... It's been well documented over the past 10-15 years that innings limits don't do anything for MLB pitchers. In fact, study after study after study has concluded the same thing, and there's been a ton of research into this in recent years. There was some correlation on pitching deeper into a single game because of the effect of needing to stretch back out, but apparently, that's been largely eliminated by a change in approach in the dugout to help pitchers stay loosened up. Pitch counts in a single game which exceed 100-110 pitches due to fatigue while being close to max effort. In regard to building his arm up responsibly, it's to keep throwing pitches and getting used to the workload now so he doesn't have conditioning and fatigue problems in later seasons. Professional (MLB) Research Lack of Correlation: An analysis of professional starting pitchers found no statistical association between cumulative innings pitched, total starts, or pitch counts and being placed on the disabled list (DL) for musculoskeletal reasons. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29861301/ https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/inning-limits-dont-prevent-mlb-pitching-injuries https://www.mlb.com/news/180-innings-is-no-magic-number-for-harvey/c-150272958 The Velocity and Style Shift: Modern professional injuries are increasingly linked to max-effort throwing, chasing velocity, and a "reliever's mentality" where starters throw at peak intensity rather than pacing themselves over longer outings. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43026688/mlb-study-identifies-factors-rise-pitching-injuries Unintended Consequences: Some studies suggest that strict minor league innings limits may actually leave pitchers poorly conditioned or unprepared for the extreme workloads and pacing required in the major leagues. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43026688/mlb-study-identifies-factors-rise-pitching-injuries

He's at 122.2 innings right now (have to remember the 18.2 innings from AAA before he unexpectedly was forced into the MLB rotation). 154.1 - Taj Bradley 146.1 - Zebby Matthews 128.2 - Joe Ryan 122.2 - Connor Preilipp 121.2 - Bailey Ober

Speaking of moderation. I'd like "ignore" to function a lot more like "block" where users cannot interact with me or the content I share (i.e. cannot react to my posts, perhaps can't see them)

Historically, Twins can't miss prospects shuffle through the minors before they hit a wall in AA or AAA. The Twins gives them 17 plate appearances at AAA, forgets they didn't construct a roster correctly, then call the prospect up and roll a pair of dice. If the dice roll is 10 or higher, the prospect is untouchable no matter how inept they look they'll get infinite playing time. If the roll is 9 or lower, the prospect will get 2 weeks at a time to produce and be demoted if they don't.

We'll need them (pitchers) the way this front office constructs rosters. Oh, we'll need the left handed outfielders, too, but only if they're defensively inadequate.

If Prielipp pitches another 4 games this year, that'll still put him under 140 innings for the full season including AAA. Considering Prielipp will pitch in 28 games at that rate and average (at this pace 83 pitches). Prielipp could have gone deeper into games based on pitch counts. I'm not sure what limiting a player means around here, but Prielipp isn't of any value to the team throwing a ceremonial first pitch in game 1 and shutting him down for the year afterwards while we can all post "preeeeeccccccious" in the forums and debate endlessly about how amazing our prospects are all going to be just as soon as we play them. Annual innings limits have no correlation with injury. They do not help.

Reasonable Question: If the message to the fans was this team was going to be competitive and be aiming for a World Series, why aren't they in that position? Tom Pohlad: Not his fault for relaying his expectations the Twins would be competitive. He set the expectation on the front office, and fired Falvey almost immediately when the incompetent former head of a front office defecated the bed immediately on how he was going to accomplish the expected goal. That said, we don't know how much salary Pohlad was willing to take on, but sure seems like the Twins went el cheapo on Gausman. No reason the team shouldn't have aimed WAY higher than Dean Kremer. Also, ownership was clearly averse to investing in the team pre-season where Pohlad later realized a $100MM payroll was not going to get it done. Jeremy Zoll: Yep. The vast majority of this falls on Zoll. Given a goal and a budget, he continued the bed defecation Falvey started. The same pattern as always. A total lack of decisiveness or willing to do what needed to be done. A total lack of ability to construct a roster which makes sense or make tough decisions. Overly risk averse. He was given the keys and did his best impression of Derek Falvey instead of differentiating himself. Players: I think the team is right about within projection models based on the roster. They haven't outperformed or underperformed as a whole. Bad roster = bad results.

I may have noticed that and elected not to say anything, instead, being a true Minnesotan and passively-aggressively posting the images of the strike zone because I'm tired of people losing their minds at me every time I post analysis which doesn't favor their favorite player or whatever. LOL

Ft. Myers has played like, what, 1 game in the past week?

Hard to tell what the intent was without the pitch type/velo, but Canterino's outing looked like this. Walk GIDP Strikeout

There was no collapse. The Twins were under .500 at the break.

Little concerning Ryan was sitting at 90-92mph with his fastball which is down 2-3mph, but it's his first game back. Hopefully, the velo ticks back up in his next rehab start.

I'm sorry. Matt Canterino, next 30 Cy Youngs in a row for sure. Clearly now MLB's Number 1 prospect. Fastball 100/80 Slider 100/80 Curveball 100/80 Changeup 100/80 Command 100/80 Best pitcher in the history of baseball. No faults. Everything is perfect.

MLB and MiLB has these things called health insurance and workers compensation insurance. I'd be pretty stunned if the insurance rates were $250,000/year per player. MiLB coaches make $60k a year. Even if the Twins had a full time coach dedicated entirely to Matt Canterino (which is utterly insanely ludicrous), it'd only be $240k. Plus maybe $100k total in insurance.

Just so long as they don't coordinate their injuries like Bader and Buxton did.... I mean, like Tom Pohlad scheduled IL slots.

Exactly. Want to see the Twins play their games? Gotta live in Minnesota. That narrows down the ownership interest pool a hell of a lot. Trying to bury a ton of bad debt and force buyers to accept Joe Pohlad as a major component of the organization killed the Ishbia interest.

Glad to see he's able to throw off the mound. I don't expect anything, but it would be fun to see him have some success as a reward for his hard work. The legend of Canterino has been pretty crazy around here. He had a great ERA and a super high K rate, but his BB rate soared at AA suggesting the stuff might not be what generated all the K's. It might have just been aggressive hitters in the lower minors.

What did the Twins invest? The $1.1MM signing bonus would have been slot value for top of round 3 this year. The rest is basically just the Twins paying for his health care and miniscule MiLB salaries.

Torii's always had a case of foot-in-mouth. He regrets not going to the World Series.