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  1. Azviking101
    Paddack was a massive prospect with some of the best minor league numbers I've seen from a young pitcher. Padres have had how many coaching changes the last few years? Dude needs a reset. Love it, as long as the haul isn't massive. It can't be, right? Also had a 3.78 FIP last year
  2. Azviking101
    For anyone who has the athletic, Gleeman posted an article about Story’s splits 30 minutes ago that actually makes sense.
  3. Azviking101
    OPS+ shows the exact same thing. He's trying to compare stats from the player in his mid 20s to stats in their mid 30s after years of injuries. Also he furthers his ridiculous argument by showing OPS of Arenado and Lemahieu at the bottom, but somehow me mentioning OPS is wrong? This guy is legitimately comparing Giambi's roided up days with the A's and Yankees to his 40 year old seasons with the Rockies. Insane is what it is.
  4. Azviking101
    Also, this list is mostly made up of players in the dying days of their careers. "Now here's where it gets fun: This a table of Free Agents that the Rockies signed after these players had lengthy careers with other teams. Playing at Coors should improve their wRC+ cuz Coors, right? Well, take a look:" Morneau, Giambi, Reynolds, Cuddy all entered Colorado in the dying days of their careers and each saw immediate resurgences OPS below of each player the year before joining Colorado and the first yr in Colorado Morneau- .741 and .681 in prior years. .860 first year OPS with Colorado Giambi- .697 OPS prior year. .776 and ,958 next two short seasons ( he was only averaging 180 PAs at this point in his career cause he was near his 40s) Reynolds- .681 and .731 before. .806 and ,839 with Colorado. Cuddyer- .753 and ,805 before. .806 and .919 with Colorado. Some of these are not huge changes, but all of these occur at later points in players careers when their numbers should be getting worse. Showing the stats of a player in their prime and then saying their numbers got worse in their mid to late 30s with Colorado is ridiculous.
  5. Azviking101
    "also the contrary, players whose offensive productivity decreased after they joined the Rockies from other teams. Can you guess a former Twin, winner of an MVP in Minnesota, who falls in that last category?" What on earth are you talking about? Morneau's career was over. 3 brutal seasons in a row 2011-2013 and then a career resurgence in Colorado. .860 OPS and .821 OPS in consecutive seasons with MVP votes. Did you do your homework at all? You cannot compare his Colorado numbers to his pre-concussion numbers.
  6. Azviking101
    Love it. Wonder if the Twins could take on Story and some of Andrus' salary to lighten the prospect load for Montas? Would love Trivino as well. I suspect this would put the Twins over the budget by a bit too much. Not really any use for Andrus' but Oakland would definitley appreciate it and might save Twins a better prospect.
  7. Azviking101
    The fact that this trade was done without a deal on the side already completed shows that the twins are fine not competing this year if they don’t get their guy, which at this point is very clearly Trevor Story. I don’t think Story makes this team much better but that’s a story for another time.
  8. Azviking101
    I just cannot believe that they and some fans think that they can field a solid rotation of Ryan, Ober, Bundy, Balazovic, Winder, Duran etc. It's more than likely that more than half of these guys are total busts or back of the rotation/bullpen guys. Most pitching prospects don't make it, and the Twins success numbers are worse than most. Ryan looked good in a tiny sample, but the guy throws 90% fastballs under 93 MPH. I know his release is weird, but how long until other teams catch on and crush him? I liked Ober, but at best he's a number 3. I just don't expect much from these prospects and until things change and they start to come around, I'm under the assumption that most of them are going to struggle at the MLB level this year.
  9. Azviking101
    I wasn't aware his fastball velocity was only 90 nowadays. Thought he still was in the mid 90s
  10. Azviking101

    Saddest sports city

    Azviking101 commented on glunn's blog entry in Blog glunn

    Sadly I will be negative until they do something to change that. No faith over here
  11. Azviking101
    I honestly think the Twins ownership is terrified to give away money to tell someone to leave. I think they want to milk any sort of productivity possible out of these guys. There's no other way to explain guys like Shoemaker and Happ (still no clue how they got someone to trade for him) and now Simmons being on the roster as long as they have.
  12. Azviking101
    It's time for him to go after his latest twitter post today. His views are completely contradictory of the organizations. These posts all came after he caused the Covid shutdown as OP mentioned. This has to be the last straw with him. If they don't DFA him today, then they won't.
  13. Azviking101
    I’m sorry but I stopped reading after reading Drew Maggi, 32 year old minor leaguer having a career year.
  14. Azviking101
    I think they could retool, but it will take some good free agent signings. Let's look at starting pitching free agency from last year. Twins signed Happ and Shoemaker which has been a mess. Here were some low cost free agents that have had good years. Charlie Morton, Kevin Gausman, Anthony Desclafani, Rich Hill, Carlos Rodon, Taijuan Walker, Corey Kluber, Alex Wood. They're out there, but the Twins aren't getting them.
  15. Azviking101
    How is the number 1 option unattractive? Rogers last pitched 3 days ago and just threw 3 pitches. There was no logical sense in removing him knowing you had to find someone for the last 2 innings
  16. Azviking101
    I don’t know how anyone could defend Rocco ever again after this one. Even the players are likely losing faith. No sane person would ever remove a 3 days tested Rogers after a dominant 3 pitches for Shoemaker. rocco has this ridiculous notion that if the twins are losing by even 1 run the game is likely over and he can’t use his best relievers. Well nice job idiot, this entire loss was on you.
  17. Azviking101
    Seems more like he's loafing around because he's making big bucks now. This entire situation will set the Twins back to the Terry Ryan days once again. Finally they pay big money and this is the bum they get. AAA players would provide more value simply because they know how to hustle and won't be injured 24/7. Sadly, the Twins will not be back next year. It's going to be a long time before they're good again
  18. Azviking101
    I was planning on writing more, but you covered it so perfectly I don't have to. This is 100% the truth.
  19. Azviking101
    So you don't care about the game living on in the future and your grandchildren and their children being able to watch? Because if they don't make changes this league will die.
  20. Azviking101
    The twins looked like a bunch of whiny cry babies. I will always be a Twins fan, but this wasn’t a good look for any of them. These unwritten rules are ridiculous and the twins players and coaches showed they have very thin skin and are worrying about the wrong things in an awful season so far.
  21. Azviking101
    I love watching Arraez hit righties but he’s only the number 1 valuable trade asset right now because of team control. I doubt he’d bring back as much as many think he would. While he plays a lot of positions he doesn’t play any overly well, he’s basically unplayable vs lefties. Idk why twins writers overvalue him so much.
  22. Azviking101
    I think he's referring to the the drop in production from the Twins bats overall since Rowson left. Varela has to go.
  23. Azviking101
    Diekman came in and just threw straight fastballs down the middle and cruised until Astudillos near hit
  24. Azviking101
    Obviously it’s early and Donaldson is out but Arraez might take Polanco’s job as starter soon. Gotta get Polanco out of the 2 spot also. It’s like he’s trying to erase Arraez’ hits and walks with double play grounders. He just seems to have lost all the pop in his bat that he had in 2019. He had great hitters counts all day and then swings at bad pitches and hits them weakly to 2nd.
  25. Azviking101
    Boy, this is frustrating. Good enough to start a MLB playoff game, but not good enough for opening day. I was all for moving on from Rosario and his lazy play, but that mean upgrading his position. Cave/Rooker are not an upgrade over Rosario. They're just not. Sure, Kiriloff will likely be up in a few weeks, but that will come after not playing any actual baseball games with AAA not starting up for weeks. How is playing batting practice every day going to make him a better player? The AL central is tough, it's not like the old AL Central with the winner going 86-76. They have to start fast or they'll be left in the dust, doomed to lose a one game wild card.
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