Thrylos

Because Buxton today at the plate was as good as you and I? 4 PAs, 4 Ks. I can do that. For sure.

1. Antony is the Twins' new GM 2. Ryan is still the Twins' GM 3. The Front Office is intact 4. St Peter is still the Twins' President

deja vous all over again...

What do Santana and Nolasco have in common? Got to go to the root cause of the problem. Fire Terry Ryan, And shoot up Santana with something. Next one is 162 games. That will take care of a lot of things

Hopefully Rob Antony is not around to be part of that decision come the off-season...

Before I accept that, I'd love to see the juice/no-juice splits. For 2015 the no-juice splits suck... (*and the next CLA should allow teams to get out of multi-year contracts of players who get suspended...)

I said this on March 2nd: As far as righties go, the Twins will likely take Casey Fien up north (and hopefully not use him in high leverage situations, because he is below average in all of the above categories, and he is one of the major drivers of the low GB%, since his is only 32.1.) Fien would not be my choice. I would rather see what Trevor May can do as a reliever. Similar discussion with Pelfrey, his 91.9 mph FB average will get to the mid 90s as a reliever, plus he had the second best K% of the group in the majors and a respectable SwStr% (mostly as a starter, and will get better as a reliever.) And the cherry on top is that he led the 2014 Twins' pen with 2 Ground Balls per Fly Ball and a 57.1% GB%. May projects as an above average reliever. So May being successful in the pen, is like preaching to a choir here And I don't think I am psychic... The writing was on the wall about what May can accomplish as a reliever. Now as far as the future goes: a couple notes here: a. I do not see Perkins as having a scholarship for the closer position in 2016. As we witnessed, he is not "lights out" and he might actually serve the Twins better in a LH setup role. b. Some numbers: Perkins 2015: 2.61 ERA, 3.41 FIP, 1.117 WHIP, 22.2% K%, 33.8% GB% May as a RP 2015: 2.00 ERA, 3.37 FIP. 1.200 WHIP, 23.4 K%, 37.8% GB% (as SP & RP) High Leverage 2015: Perkins: opponents: .250/.299/.403, 27.3 K%, 6.5% BB%, 1/28 WHIP, 3.79 FIP May: opponents: .167/.186/.268, 32.6% K%, 2.3% BB%, 0.65 WHIP, 2.15 FIP Plus Perkins will be 33 and on the decline, while May has not reached his prime yet. However, there is another guy: Career as RP: 2.06 ERA, 2.03 FIP. 0.97 WHIP, 31.8 K%, 34.3% GB% (2015) (opponents: .183/.250/.243 career as RP) And he is in his prime with 3 more years to go under contract. He might whine, but I'd love to see Phil Hughes as the Twins' closer in 2016, with Perkins as the LH set up guy, and May as the RH set up guy. This is a great Free Agent SP class, with real talent and the Twins should go after one (let's say Zimmerman) leaving the 5th spot as a competition between Berrios and Meyer in ST (assuming that Pelfrey is not re-signed - 'tis Ryan after all - and Santana and Nolasco and Gibson stay put.) Add Jepsen (under contract) Pressly and another lefty, and you really got a bullpen for 2016...

Didn't Monday night football try something similar before?

Sure. But who educates the announces, to educate the rest? DickNBert think a K/9 barks and a BABIP wears diapers (and I am not even talking about WAR)

Hank Aaron admittedly took greenies (methamphetamines.) So his record his asteriskable.

I'd be surprised if, barring injury, he is not in the next 10 or so All Star games. Is that a "superstar"? His is performing at an extrapolated 6 (b)WAR season rate at age 22... And playing DH hurts his WAR. To realize how ridiculous this is, Harmon Killebrew broke the 6 WAR barrier twice in his career, David Ortiz once, and Cabrera did not break the 6 WAR barrier until age 27. There is no way that there should even be a discussion on the subject

I so desire for a lot of Twins (esp the FO) to resign...

Who is talking about Lucroy? The Mets have 2 young controllable Catchers. Go after one of them. Maybe even the As Josh Phegley or Otherwise go with Pinto. The logical progression is that prospects do not always made it and you need more than prospects to win. If all you needed is prospects, the Twins should be where the Royals are now. And they are not. Also. You are competing. Prospects are competing in the minors. That's part of the problem. You are looking at the future and the future is always tomorrow, if you don't care about the present.

Prospects, prospects, prospects... Not sure whether you watched the Yankees series, but they had 3-4 kids that were popping 97 mph. And that was one of "the bottom farm systems" based on the pundits. The Twins' was "a top farm system". Where have all the top prospects gone? Another reason that hoping that prospects will one day be amazing and keep hording them does not pay... Get top young controllable MLB talent for top "prospects" pays.

2010: 109 To put things into perspective...

Interestingly enough, the Twins have games with each of those teams. The Rays are tied with the Twins and the other 3 are tied for the second WC sport with 2 games (in the L column) ahead of the Twins. Toronto is 6 and the Yankees 7 games ahead of the Twins (one in the lead of the East and the other leading the WC race; those opportunities were swept away.)

I hope that TR is not with the Twins come the next off-season. The Twins can and should be creative with their bullpen. I would argue that they can sign one free agent starter (Zimmerman) and one free agent reliever (Soria) and have the best bullpen in the majors, and a pretty darn good rotation. How? They need to realize that they have a guy with 2.06 ERA, 0.971, and 70K in 56.7 IP as a reliever starting for them. They should make Phil Hughes their closer, have Soria and Perkins as the set up men and Jepsen and Pressly and O'Rourke (as their lefty specialist) and that makes for a darn nice pen. Zimmerman, May, Gibson, Nolasco, Santana (if they cannot trade those 2, and if they can, insert Berrios and Meyer.) Heck, you might not want to go after Zimmerman and replace him with Berrios or Meyer, and still be alright. And Duffey at the wings... 2 players or even a single player, and a bit thinking outside the box, all it will take. And keep the likes of Milone and the rest away. But this front office and thinking outside the box, do not belong in the same sentence...

FTFY

He missed from half of 2009 to half of 2012 not only because of Tommy John surgery (that healed pretty well actually and signed with the Pirates in 2010,) but 4 (FOUR!) leg and hip surgeries, including some nasty staph infections. And he became a different pitcher when he pitched with the Rangers, than previously. I took a look at the teams the Twins play and their record against Cotts. (That and a lot of additional analysis, including his health issues is here.) My bottom line rating of this trade, from there, taking into consideration a lot of factors is: Not sure what this trade was about, other maybe for Terry Ryan to be able to say that he did something. The Twins clearly have better internal options, including the departed AJ Achter who has held opposing RHBs to a .176/.176/.353 line. Depending on who the player to be named later is, this trade can be rated from "Blah" to a "Disaster", and really does nothing for the Twins in their pursuit of a wild card spot.

Turner << Butera.

Here is a funny thing: If you check the pitch values from pitchF/X, his curveball has a negative value, which means that is worse than average. Bet that has to do with the amount of pitches he is throwing into the dirt (and hitters chase...) Anyways. Good to see him throwing non-strikes, good to see him throwing his curve and change > 40% of the time, and good to see him not throwing a two-seamer. Major departure from the previous regime, which puts a smile on my face So far so good, and I hope that he keeps his spot when Milone returns, but...

Are you sure that it was not Ryan who made part of the call? He could had demoted him faster... Part of the context here is that the team was doing great even with Santana at SS (and Suzuki at C, and what's his face at CF) for a month...

Not even close. Check their minor league records.

Must be kidding Talking about a guy who has regressed every season with the stick, and his AA numbers (this season - .606 OPS) are worse than Butera's career AA numbers (.611 OPS). The guy should be a cut candidate, not a promotion candidate...

Sure. Pencil in Pinto and Polanco. Done. Those 2 are ahead of Kepler (and Buxton.)