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Maybe he needs to be protected, maybe he doesn’t. From cup of coffee in AA or less experience to MLB position player has been done successfully. Juan Soto went up quickly. So did Baddoo. You can look up the differences in career trajectories. Olivar is unlikely to be the next coming of Soto. I doubt he needs protecting.

There some people who seem to forget what someone posted by the time they find the quote button that is hidden by the ads. There are more people who seem not to look up information

Consternation because a New York sports writer wrote an opinion column on a slow news day on why he thought a New York team should trade for Correa. Holy clickbait Batman.. Not one shred of evidence either team thought about trading for him.. That column was no closer to reality than the what relievers the Twins should sign articles

If every team has a representative the Twins’ players did not do so well. If there was a recap article, I already forgot about it

There are places that talk of the importance of pitch sequencing . That factor seem to be important to pitching yet are not accounted for in pitching metrics. That could also be an explanation of why ERA and FIP can be so different. Command also comes into play. Outcomes vary as the ball count goes up The lack of command could also play a part as the Twins stressed not walking batters could lead to more hittable pitches. If the article contained that information, my bad.

Brock Stewart has pitched in 34 games at the mlb level the last 2 years. That is 34 more games than he pitched in the 3 years prior to that, what makes people think it is going to be different? Topa had one overworked year after years of injuries and ends up injured. Funny how that woks. Yet with all the access to analytics this front office doesn’t seem to track it. The last several years seems like the Twins have been near the top in days on the d.l. When the frugal franchises do not consider days lost on the dl that should be a flag. It is not a checkered one. Tonkin would be the durable low leverage guy, he can eat a couple innings and not miss a week recovering. He had a minimal contract last year. 1 million per b ref. He was never out of work,, bur was well traveled. I do not know why anyone would think he should get that high of raise. Not that I begrudge him the money. One should respect the work and persistence of Tonkin to make it back to mlb baseball and thrive.

I’m heartbroken. I did not say it was clickbait. I said nothing negative about the article. You called it nonsense without being able to read it. Uninformed opinion on your part

To answer your question on why they signed him look no further than his statistics with Boston . Did it work out? No. Easy to throw rocks in hindsight

When you are not a caretaker you could not have read the article. Your comment on nonsense and then credibility on an article you really do not what was in it is pure compost of the bovine variety.

Perhaps the owners of the site need to make a rule that the bloggers can’t write about teams that existed before they were born. WAR as a criteria for MVP. You can have the opinion that is the most important thing, perhaps it will be someday if there is ever any agreement on defensive metrics. MVP is a baseball writers award,. The blogger seems oblivious to the rules that have been in place since the beginning. From the writers association website The ballot states Dear Voter: There is no clear-cut definition of what Most Valuable means. It is up to the individual voter to decide who was the Most Valuable Player in each league to his team. The MVP need not come from a division winner or other playoff qualifier. The rules of the voting remain the same as they were written on the first ballot in 1931: 1. Actual value of a player to his team, that is, strength of offense and defense. 2. Number of games played. 3. General character, disposition, loyalty and effort. 4. Former winners are eligible. 5. Members of the committee may vote for more than one member of a team. You are also urged to give serious consideration to all your selections, from 1 to 10. A 10th-place vote can influence the outcome of an election. You must fill in all 10 places on your ballot. Only regular-season performances are to be taken into consideration. Keep in mind that all players are eligible for MVP, including pitchers and designated hitters. That third criteria is the subjective portion. Stomp your foot and complain, thems the ru

The Twins are going to continue their pattern of amassing 5-6 fringe arms that can throw 95 or have high spin rates. What they get may depend on what the other teams facing the demise of Diamond do.

Here, is one of the many spots that say the 2020 signees will be eligible Tuesday, November 19: Teams must add eligible minor leaguers to their 40-man rosters by 5 p.m. CT or risk losing them in the Rule 5 Draft. College players drafted no later than 2021 and high school players drafted no later than 2020 are Rule 5 Draft eligible this year, as well as players signed internationally no later than 2020. You still have done nothing to disprove that the front office is any good at signing international free agents. Rodriguez and Servino (since designated) are the only 2 that have even been protected that were signed by this regime that I know of. That should not be an acceptable level

The couple that I looked at on the list were awe inspiring. It takes a lot of hubris to think they would be helpfull for the team. Helman and Kiersten are still both on the 40 man. There are your cheap speed and energy. They could do worse than the listed players, but they have not yet had the chance to prove it. Had the FO thought they were not better than their September call up they would have been designated.

The three in one year was about 15 years ago under a different management team.

So you cannot answer the question of who they have protected,. Why is that? It does prove my point that they have done a poor job in the international market You were the one who used the tram debut. Nice that you appear not to know what it means

Speed and energy guys are of no use if they don’t get on base. They are under more pressure to hit, not less

A six man rotation does not change bullpen usage. The bullpen could not sustain 550 innings as a 7 man group.

It is a vote. The vote is by the manager and 3 coaches from every team. They cannot vote for their own players. Given Guerrero’s season it probably only took a few votes to be in third place. Also as Santan probably knows a lot of coaches and managers a few more might have voted for him out of the friendship vein.

Tony Olivia, Pedro’s older brother had a passport. Pedro did not but had to get out of Cuba quickly as the border was going to be close by Castro. That is how Pedro Oliva became Tony Oliva aTwins baseball player

Rule v draft. Who have they had to protect from 17, 18 or 19?. Now add 2020.’s signing class. Polanco debuted in his age 20 season

It is not like this front office has a track record of finding international players. Non story as far as current history goes

With the seasons the MLB players had one would say the Twins lost nothing by trading a 2b. The team gained medical bills for pitchers. That should surprise anybody given the player histories. I think the trade was part of the reason they went in a different direction with Levine, but it took a while to figure out how to not make it look like a negative he was removed. Maybe in that respect then the Twins won the trade.

Wallner has a career BABIP of .359. Last year his line drive percentage exit velocity, hard hit percentage, barrel percent and sweet spot percent were all above league average. He is league average in speed. If those numbers were not flukes there is no reason to expect a precipitous drop in BABIP

Byron Buxton played 89 games in CF, good for 22 most in baseball. I guess to the voters actually being on the field matters.

Looking through Sportrac’s list of free agent left hand pitchers who made less than .5 million about the only name that had a somewhat decent season was T.J. McFarland. Looks like it is minor league signing types.