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  1. jokin
    Go Gophs! Vavra makes the play.
  2. jokin
    That was the doing of Chancellor Donna Shalala. Alvarez won't push for a baseball reset because the money would be drained directly from the football program, plus he'd have to add multiple women's sports to comply with Title IX.
  3. jokin
    It looks like those "Trevor May to the Rescue!" articles can be put back on the shelf for now. May's AAA line today: 2.2 IP 5 H 4 BB 1 HBP 1 WP 7 ER 5 K ERA is now 9.28
  4. jokin
    Yep. That was more like a Rob Antony booby prize deal.
  5. jokin
    Going crazy and acquiring a bunch of rental bats and draining the farm system would be ill-advised. Each fan can reach their own conclusions and make their own commitment to level of support. But in this incredibly weak 2018 AL Central, it's highly premature to just write the season off before Memorial Day. The pitching is really starting to shape up, timed right with the Romero promotion. With even more veteran and prospect impact pitching infusion just around the corner, it's shortsighted to just assume that this currently sputtering offense definitely won't fire on more cylinders as we head into the hot summer. 1987 is still within the realm of memory. All it takes is: 1) for enough players in the batting order to get hot going into October and 2) that the pitching continue its current upward trajectory.
  6. jokin
    Yep. He has an .830 OPS in May with a .517 SLG. The last 10 games his slash line is .356/.400/.689/(1,089). This is the guy many of us expected to see. The best part? He's seemingly "flipped the switch"... jacked up his hitting production in these last 10 games, right as the 2 guys who have hit ahead and behind him (Wade and Gordon) are no longer in the batting order.- replaced by much lesser hitters in English and Ramsey
  7. jokin
    That Lewis foul ball catch is pretty impressive. The kid is all of 19 and already looks like a major leaguer out there.
  8. jokin
    Looks like Jacob Pearson wants to move up on the Twins' prospect chart in a hurry.
  9. jokin
    +1
  10. jokin
    Actually, it was pretty easy to figure: Buxton Minor League Slash: .302/.379/.504/(.883) Rosario MiLB Slash: .294/.340/.484/(.824) Kepler MiLB Slash .281/.363/.446/(.809)
  11. jokin
    Slegers' promotion chances took a gut punch this afternoon. 4.2 IP 9 ER 11 Hits 2 BB 1 HBP 2 K Ouch!
  12. jokin
    Bingo. If anything, after Gonsalves, Littell deserves more consideration as depth SP before Slegers.
  13. jokin
    Yep. The Twins made a mistake early on in his minor league apprenticeship by NOT hiring Rod Carew to take Buxton under his wing on a full-time basis. Instead, Buxton is learning his craft the hard way. As you and I have said so often previously, if he had never shown MVP potential batsmanship in the past in the minors- plus flashes of that greatness in the majors- he could be more easily written off, as many on this thread are willing to do. As frustrating as Buxton's horrible stretches at the plate and reckless disregard for his bodily health are, I think maintaining a little more reticence about Buxton's alleged inevitable demise to fringe OFer is still justifiable. I think in the case of the Twins and multiple baseball experts, there is still strong consensus that the eventual Buxton Blossoming is inevitable.
  14. jokin
    One thing for sure about Buxton, he is anything but stubborn. The kid is humble to a fault. This is not an attitude problem.
  15. jokin
    Uhh, yeah. TD is on a Sano slowdown, apparently.
  16. jokin
    We're still a long, long way from that "point". In point of fact, it seems impossible that some forget, but he has already demonstrated throughout his minor league tenure and in certain 2nd Half ML stretches that he is capable of putting up MVP level numbers. As long as he still has some of those stretches, plus his other-worldly speed, there will be teams interested helping in getting him over these dreadful stretches of offensive futility.
  17. jokin
    I'd wager they will be promoted by mid-June.
  18. jokin
    FIFY
  19. jokin
    Not a major league hitter? Perhaps he's completely lost whatever he had, never to rediscover it, but consider: He's currently ranked 4th overall in the PCL in ISO @ .345 and is one off the league lead in HRs with 13. He was admittedly not good in 2017 for the Yankees, but he has a .253 ISO from 2012 to 2016, which would lead the Twins in 2018. He hit 147 HRs during that time span... far more than anyone on the Twins. (By contrast, Brian Dozier leads the Twins over those years with 117). We all know about his "horrible" K% (@ 33% from '12-'16)... but that would place him only 3rd worst on the 2018 Twins, ahead of Sano and Castro, but just behind Byron Buxton at 31%. His OPS+ would rank him 3rd on the Twins behind Rosario and Escobar. The Twins still have some 50 AL Central games vs. three of the worst pitching staffs in all of baseball. Seems like it might be worth finding out if he's got somewhere within himself anything close to his 2012-16 prime left for maybe 100 RH PT/bench bat ABs to find out. Not saying there's even a one in three chance that it will work out successfully... but, until something better comes along, little harm done.
  20. jokin
    Nary a mention of Chris Carter signed to Rochester? Pretty significant low-risk lotto pick/insurance policy. Goodbye, Kennys Vargas.
  21. jokin
    It's sad to think that Kirilloff might have accomplished the A-level dual progression last year and instead in 2018 at the tender age of 20 be among the terrific trio in Chattanooga knocking on the MLB door of the offensively-challenged Twins roster.
  22. jokin
    I'm a big fan of innovative thinking, but it was none other than Billy Martin who began three-by-three pitching corps back in the 80s. In regards to your comments.... I had a similar conversation with Tom Kelly on the radio back in the 90s. Randy Johnson was pitching in middle inning relief after coming off of the DL. He had stopped the Twins in their tracks from sealing a victory by coming in and dominating from the end of the 5th into the 8th inning. It occurred to me what a weapon he might be pitching in 40-50 competitive games in higher leverage situations at say, 3-4 innings per outing. I was somewhat surprised to hear TK respond that something like that might be a great idea, but it could never happen because the player agents wouldn't allow it. Statistical analysis can take the game in new and unexpected directions, but the financial paydays that players receive in glamorous traditional roles represent barriers that will have to be broken down. In addition to that, the potential damage done to the game from such heavy micromanaging has to be carefully considered. Meanwhile, MLB is already extremely concerned about the ever-increasing length of games in a world of ever-shrinking attention spans. We're on a slippery slope, and with the frequency of pitcher injuries already a concern and (mixing metaphors), once the dam is burst and MLB agrees to expand rosters to say, 28, and adds three more pitchers, you have the prospect of managers swamped in data-driven analysis and inevitably tempted into assigning pitchers into ever-more specialized roles...
  23. jokin
    Trevor May seems most likely going to be taking Lynn's spot in the rotation, probably based on if he does well tomorrow night for Rochester.
  24. jokin
    Very disappointing.
  25. jokin
    These examples will some day be seen as statistical outliers. Ks and BBs and pitches thrown are on an ever-expanding rate of linear progression in this century. The average RP averages ~1 K and ~1BB more per 9 IP. SPs will likely also increase velocity and resultant pitch count wildness in pursuit of ever-more Ks. By the same token, the offenses' game plans revolve around strategically stretching pitch counts to ascertain pitching weaknesses as well as an overall weapon of pitching arm attrition. The math seems both simple and inevitable. More pitches, more pitching changes, more situational pitcher-hitter match-ups is most certainly going to extend game times.
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