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  1. jokin
    That triple was big-time- someone else on TD said it clocked out at 11 seconds? Crazy! I have a feeling Jimminy Crikket will have a link before long. Going to see the Kernels this weekend. I can't remember a time since the early 80s when it was a more exciting time for the Twins farm system.
  2. jokin
    And a BB. Perfect night at the plate. Move him up.
  3. jokin
    With nothing to lose, I have moved firmly over to the side of calling up Chris.
  4. jokin
    Big-Time Buxton!
  5. jokin
    I have been getting it. I have only claimed that Buxton has a power potential higher than his current rating.... Oh by the way....I think our boy is going to soon earn a new nickname....after his 9th inning, game-winning Grand Slam tonight (8th HR of the season)....How does "Big-Time Buxton" grab you?
  6. jokin
    That's so true...... except that someone just recently posted: I get the mechanical points in your second paragraph. Uber-talented, but young, raw players learn and adapt and tend to incorporate some of those finer mechancal underpinnings into their games as they mature. I don't think anyone on this board has said that Buxton currently possesses JUP power. Many national experts see a potential ceiling to his career arc that could possibly contain "some" JUP characteristics. You've pointed out that at this point he swings more on a level plane. But his power rating has recently been upgraded, as have other phenoms as they continue to compile experience and their bodies mature. Examples were given. By all reports, Buxton is as athletic as many of the greats, and his body is still sinewy raw- but no one has said that he has already hit peak physical maturity, no more assessments will need to be changed and that he should be classified as an all-time great. It's all about potential at this point. And some of us on TD, as well as the national experts, have pointed out that line drive hitters can still have power components in their games. That's all I'm saying.
  7. jokin
    Yep. I posted something along those lines on another thread. Here's the reprint: I'm guessing he's only off the pedestal for a short while. The League has made adjustments, now it's his turn to make his own adjustments to their adjustments. Every report says that he's very mature beyond his years and totally focused on his long-term goals. People forget, his batting peers in the Midwest League top group are anywhere from 22-25 years of age, similar age for many of the top pitchers in the League. On the matter of "premature promotions".... Would you say that Manny Machado was moved too fast when he was promoted after just 38 games at Low A at the age of 19? He produced a decent, but hardly a stop-the-presses, blow-your-socks-off, batting slash there of .276/.376/.483/.756. Or perhaps, he was prematurely promoted after finishing that same season in High A with a pretty pedestrian, if not downright awful, .245/.308/.384/.692? They actually did promote Machado with those pretty ordinary numbers to AA last year, just before his 20th birthday. His results there? .266/.352/.438/.789 in 109 games. Anything in those numbers that screamed to skip AAA altogether, and put Machado in the Orioles starting lineup for 51 games smack in the middle of the Birds first pennant race in 20 years? By all accounts, Buxton can play his premium position in CF as well as Machado can play 3B, or eventually, SS.
  8. jokin
    The K/9 ratio is entirely irrelevant to this discussion. Lannan has never been a strikout pitcher, he's an innings eating, pitch-to-contact guy, something you and the Twins claim they love. The Nats declined to trade him last year, despite Lannan's request they do so; even though he had a great Spring Training, the Nats opted to demote him to AAA as a self-described, 'very expensive insurance policy'. Lannan understandably didn't take this well, what with his team finally becoming competitive and him being a cornerstone in the rotation as they evolved to finally reach this point. This pique was reflected in his AAA numbers. He can still pitch, he isn't a savior, he's a #5 guy that gives a manager an opportunity to give his bullpen regular rest....and he was a VERY CHEAP option, with better career numbers, than Correia.
  9. jokin
    I'm from Northern Virginia and I haven't heard anything about injury concerns as the reason that the Nats let him go. So at least you admit there was nothing specific from the Twins about Lannan and injuries. Lannan isn't a great pitcher. What the Twins claimed they were looking for was guys that could perform much better than last year in eating innings and giving the team a pitcher that regularly can get through 7 innings. Lannan was the perfect inexpensive, uninjured option that they declined to consider.
  10. jokin
    I have a couple questions, JC. Pineda was apparently deemed by the Twins to be more than ready to skip E-Town. Can you glean anything beyond getting his first hit and your comments above, from one game only of course, if he looks like he "belongs" at this level and can hit the ground running? Is there talk down there about preparing him to jump right in to CF for an imminent departure of Buxton promotion?
  11. jokin
    I'm guessing he's only off the pedestal for a short while. The League has made adjustments, now it's his turn to make his own adjustments to their adjustments. Every report says that he's very mature beyond his years and totally focused on his long-term goals. People forget, his batting peers in the Midwest League top group are anywhere from 22-25 years of age, similar age for many of the top pitchers in the League. On the matter of "premature promotions".... Would you say that Manny Machado was moved too fast when he was promoted after just 38 games at Low A at the age of 19? He produced a decent, but hardly a stop-the-presses, blow-your-socks-off, batting slash there of .276/.376/.483/.756. Or perhaps, he was prematurely promoted after finishing that same season in High A with a pretty pedestrian, if not downright awful, .245/.308/.384/.692? They actually did promote Machado with those pretty ordinary numbers to AA last year, just before his 20th birthday. His results there? .266/.352/.438/.789 in 109 games. Anything in those numbers that screamed to skip AAA altogether, and put Machado in the Orioles starting lineup for 51 games smack in the middle of the Birds first pennant race in 20 years? By all accounts, Buxton can play his premium position in CF as well as Machado can play 3B, or eventually, SS. As for Sano, it appears the only thing holding him back from moving faster through the system is his defense.
  12. jokin
    Hank Aaron would beg to differ. (Not saying Buxton is the next Aaron! Just that Aaron was a line drive hitter). Hank Aaron: 6'0" 180#s Albert Pujols: 6'3" 230#s Byron Buxton: 6'2# ???#s
  13. jokin
    I don't think there was anyone alive in 1984 that said Puckett's skinny and stubby body had a chance to hit 30 HRs. Puckett was 24 when he got the early season call-up from AAA. O HRs in 84 and 4 HRs in 85...before he hit 31 in 86 as his body got much stronger. BTW, Puckett jumped from Cal League A ball in 83, to AAA for 21 games in 84, to starting in CF for the Twins in the first month of the season. I hope we see parallel fast track movement from Buck.
  14. jokin
    And your problem with those noting that the Past is Probalistically Prologue...is what, exactly?
  15. jokin
    Don't get me wrong, Colabello making the ML roster would be a spectacular story. Who, but anyone with a heart of stone wouldn't be pulling for a guy with his story, who hung in there for years in ignominy, gets to play for his ancestral home on the world stage, and is poised to finally get a MLB call-up just short of his 30th birthday. I just wanted to point out, if you look at the batting leaders in the top 10 of the IL, they are virtually all AAAA suspects, not prospects. Remember,Clete Thomas was #1 in the League at one point a couple weeks ago. Again, in a season that the Twins punted away anyway, I'd love to see what Colabello can do. I just want to be realistic about the long odds of him having it work out.
  16. jokin
    Fun with IL numbers: Chris Colabello 4th in IL in OPS (.1016) and SLG (.621) Jason Pridie 5th in IL in OPS (.971 ) and SLG (.609) Danny Valencia 6th in IL in OPS (.944) and SLG (.599) Both Pridie and Valencia play for the IL top team, Norfolk, in the Orioles organization (Where Else?), the ultimate home for discarded ex-Twins. (Note: This is not a "Twins screwed up!" post, more of a "Let's put Colabello's numbers in Perspective!" one.)
  17. jokin
    Let's wait until Buxton fills out his frame before we put the "final word" on him. He will put on at least 20 pounds in the next few years, that's virtually certain. He most likely won't hit HRs like Griffey or JUP, but I think he's got excellent prospects for multiple 30/30 seasons and even a possible career year of 40/40. Regardless, I'll be thrilled if Buxton demonstrates just some of the power potential of those other two. Remember Puckett when he first came up, a singles hitter who ended up with a HOF career in the #3 slot with a tremendous batting slash of .318/.360/.477/.837. Buxton is obviously a far bigger and superior athlete. There's no reason to argue against him having huge potential to eclipse Puckett's line. To put it in perspective to JUP, his career slash is .278/.359/.483/.842. Buxton doesn't appear to be a "hacker" like Puckett. Buck's OBP should end up being higher with much better plate discipline and his BA and SLG will be supported by his blazing speed. A career OPS above .850 and approaching .900 are lofty goals worth aspiring to.
  18. jokin
    May ERA numbers for 2 selected Twins starters after 3 starts: Our rehabbing TJ pitcher sports a 5.06 Our fully healthy "pleasant surprise", better than his numbers, new ACE? 5.71 Twins SP ERA 2013: 5.30 (2nd Worst) Twins SP ERA 2012: 5.40 (2nd Worst)
  19. jokin
    May ERA numbers for selected Twins starters after 3 starts: Our rehabbing TJ pitcher sports a 5.06 Our fully healthy "pleasant surprise", better than his numbers, new ACE? 5.71 Twins SP ERA 2013: 5.30 (2nd Worst) Twins SP ERA 2012: 5.40 (2nd Worst)
  20. jokin
    OK, good points all around (Worley certainly can't pitch any worse), but which Correia are you referring to? The May edition of Correia is sporting a 5.71 ERA in 3 starts, kind-of already acting out the regression thing you mentioned we should be coming to expect in the near future. It appears the future is now.
  21. jokin
    Peter Gammons agrees with me, Buxton is the next big thing: Per Twitter https://twitter.com/pgammo: "Byron Buxton is half Justin Upton/BJ Upton, Half amazing." The Twins are on the clock as baseball's next hot team..." I think that makes Buxton 1.5 times as good as the other prospects? Let's get this moving forward to the next wave, already.
  22. jokin
    Hey, nothing wrong with the kid being a "roto rooter". I too, eagerly anticipate the day that.... "away go (our) troubles, down the drain."
  23. jokin
    Who ever had Hendrix as a highly rated singer or songwriter? Hendrix himself admitted that he had a horrible voice and was very uncomfortable singing other people's works. And he was much more than just a "skilled guitar player," while his "musicianship" ranks in a category of its own, breaking uncharted ground with the guitar, most virtuoso guitar players acknowledge his legendary status and some wonder to this day how he did some of the things he did with the instrument. And he was a paratrooper.
  24. jokin
    Unlike the other sore-armed pitchers they signed? In Pelfrey's case, for more money, with far more serious "injury issues." And it's easy to ask, "what future performance?" are you referring to, in both his case and Worley (also coming off of surgery). Could you please provide evidence about Lannan's alleged 2012 injury issues? I can't find any injuries to Lannan with the Nationals since early in 2010 with a sore flexor tendon, from which he still had 26 ML starts and 7 rehab starts that year. The guy has had more than 30 starts/year every year since '08. He was controversially demoted last year by the Nats after Spring Training, I can find nothing public about any injury-related issues on him in 2012. Lannan's arm was certainly fine to start the season through his first 2 games. He suffered a knee injury that put him on the DL during his 3rd start.
  25. jokin
    I agree with what your numbers say. I became curious enough during this debate to dig a little and find out exactly where Sanchez stood relative to his peers and I was genuinely surprised as I looked up SP WAR values for that very reason. Everyone agrees that WAR has its flaws, but I think it was designed to be a quantitative analysis of someone's "overall production numbers."
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