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  1. Thrylos
    6-4, 213 as listed at the Oregon State site.
  2. Thrylos
    Re: Littell vs Gonsalves vs Others. Littell is the most rested. Plus the last 10 days for Gonsalves: 2 GS, 5-2/3 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 7 BB, 6 K. The Twins smartly are going with the most rested and hotter arm. That said, Omar Bencomo is the hottest starter they have, but like May, he is not on the 40-man roster. As far as May goes, when he moves up, he will move up for good, and someone will need to be taken off the roster.
  3. Thrylos
    From here: He has a two-seam fastball that sits at 89-91 and has a cutter like movement, a four-seamer that he throws at 92-93, which plays up because of high spin rate and advanced command. His main secondary offering is a true plus curveball. He also has an above average changeup that works well against LHBs. Littell is a student of the game and he spends a lot of time in advanced preparation before each start studying the opponents' hitters, a practice that will serve him well in the bigs. He has the ceiling of a mid-rotation starter with the possibility of seasons better than that. A young Phil Hughes is a good comparable for Littell, as far as the size and type of pitcher he is, as well as his potential. So total of 4 pitches.
  4. Thrylos
    Rosario, Kepler, Granite, and Wade are all left hand hitting batters, which makes your OF very inflexible. Cave too. LaMarre and Grossman are righties (or sh) and that's what they bring on the table. Zander Weil who has been hitting .311/.377/.446 in AA (better than Wade) and Jimmy Kerrigan who is hitting .299/.364/.516 between high A and AAA, are the only decent options at high levels. Add the fact that Baddoo, Kirilloff, and Arias are all LHH, the Twins are really hurting for right handed outfielders, and DFAing Palka who has a .833 OPS in the majors was a mistake.
  5. Thrylos
    OFs Carlos Aguiar & Jose Andujar, SS Luis Gomez, RHPs Yordin Mateo & Yolby Guzman for starters
  6. Thrylos
    Got to say something about consistency: I see that the always forgotten affiliate is still forgotten The DSL Twins' opening day is next Monday June 4th at the DSL Cardinals Blue. Methinks that there are at least couple of interesting prospects there to follow as well
  7. Thrylos
    I don't see it this season. Blackenhorn, Davis, Kerrigan, Rooker, and even Wiel are likely ahead of them.
  8. Thrylos
    Sub "charisma" for "character", and I am with you on this one. Different things and Lewis is definitely a charismatic individual (which is no indication of character, but people tend to confuse them sometimes.)
  9. Thrylos
    "Integrity" is extremely objective, and it is better used inwards and not to describe others. In other words, the only ones who we should be allowed to judge with our criteria should be ourselves (and maybe our progeny when they are minors.) Traits do not have race, but they have a strong cultural component, which does have racial implications. For example, different cultures treat males and females differently: To the eye of most of us of a western culture, making it illegal for women to be in certain places unescorted, at least lacks 'integrity'. In Arab countries, it practically is gospel.
  10. Thrylos
    "Character" and "makeup" are in the eyes of each beholder and, other than extremes (from Ted Bundy to Mother Theresa), we all have pretty much different criteria about what it is "positive" or "negative," as well as put variable gravity/importance on personality traits of ballplayers. What we can all agree on is the play on the field and the potential. These two guys have that and that alone will serve the Twins well in the future, as long as they get along with their teammates.
  11. Thrylos
    Twins' starting pitching ranking in the majors: 12th ERA 18th FIP 12th fWAR 10th K% 14th K-BB% 18th WHIP 17th SIERA Improving? Absolutely. They are now a solid middle of the pack starting pitching staff. ​Excelling? No way, unless most of these rankings are in the top 5-10...
  12. Thrylos
    The point is that so can be the #74th overall pick who would have zero positive professional experience.
  13. Thrylos
    They also got a 21 year old catcher with a career .408 OBP and 1.14 BB/K. Plate discipline is a great thing to have and does not really get affected that much by competition level. If a college catcher had Villalobos's numbers, he could have been a 74 overall pick. The way I see it, they effectively drafted Villalobos with the 74th pick with $0 bonus money, and instead of eating all of Hughes's contract in 2019, they are $8M ahead of the game ($7.25 for Hughes plus $800K for the pick) They can use that $ towards extensions or towards another bullpen arm that they sorely need.
  14. Thrylos
    The fact that they got something for Phil Hughes is a big win, no matter how you slice it.
  15. Thrylos
    They got a few extensions to work on as well. Got to consider that, too.
  16. Thrylos
    Slegers has shown zero evidence that he can pitch in the bigs. 6.46 ERA, 5.70 FIP, 5.3 K/9, and 1.5 K/BB do not belong in a major league rotation in a competitive team. Maybe he can pitch for Miami. At this point he is behind the 5 men already in the rotation, plus May, Santana, and Mejia. I just don't see it. And if you look at his miinor league numbers his AAA K/9 dropped from 7.2 last season to 5.2 this season, and his FIP and xFIP increased by 0.2 and 0.5 respectively. He is just not there. Among the first to lose his 40-man spot if needed for someone else...
  17. Thrylos
    They are not quite correct. Here is my write up on him from this year's prospect list: Littell was listed at 6-foot-3, 190 pounds at high school, and gained an inch and 30 pounds as he grew. He has a two-seam fastball that sits at 89-91 and has a cutter like movement, a four-seamer that he throws at 92-93, which plays up because of high spin rate and advanced command. His main secondary offering is a true plus curveball. He also has an above average changeup that works well against LHBs. Littell is a student of the game and he spends a lot of time in advanced preparation before each start studying the opponents' hitters, a practice that will serve him well in the bigs. He has the ceiling of a mid-rotation starter with the possibility of seasons better than that. A young Phil Hughes is a good comparable for Littell, as far as the size and type of pitcher he is, as well as his potential.
  18. Thrylos
    Stassi has been in the Phillies system until this season and I have seen him play many times in AA and AAA. He is below average on both sides of the ball. Also with Carter now and Vargas, he is pretty low in the pecking order as far as 1B/DH bats go.
  19. Thrylos
    He has to be added the off-season. Not September
  20. Thrylos
    Re: Kirriloff, hitting in A ball is much much different than hitting in the majors. AA is a good test for a hitter. Until Kirriloff hits well in AA, he is still far. I do not see Gonsalves and/or Littel come up until the rosters expanding and that depending on the Twins' record. May, Santana, Mejia are 3 starters ahead of them, and Duffey, Busenitz, and Curtiss are 3 arms ahead of them. I do not see the Twins spending an option year on Nick Gordon, unless a starter like Dozier or Escobar gets injured or traded before Polanco returns. Rooker is not hitting that great at AA, so there is no reason for him to lose an option. The 3 minor leaguers who I see potentially coming up are: Willians Astudillo, Zander Wiel, and/or Jimmy Kerrigan The Twins need a better catcher than Wilson and Astudillo might be it at this point. They also need a RH OF/1B and Wiel has been very consistent in AA, whereas Kerrigan (who is not a 1B) has been very good in high A and tearing the cover off the ball in 4 games with Rochester. However, the Chris Carter signing might delay those two. In short, I just do not see any more of the top prospects up this season, unless major things happen.
  21. Thrylos
    This front office has shown the willingness to make necessary moves despite bad investments of the previous front office, as well as managing the DL and the 25-man roster pretty well. This is one of these moves. Unfortunately Hughes got hurt and he has never been the same pitcher since. Glad to see that someone who will give the Twins better chance of winning will take his place.
  22. Thrylos
    I just mentioned a fact. An answer that Buxton gave when asked what side of the game he prefers. It is easy to prefer something one is good great at. However, in order to be a complete player (who Buxton is not) one has to work on things he/she are not good at and do not prefer. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not a personal attack at all.
  23. Thrylos
    True. And the key word is overall. However, recent performance is a pretty good predictor of short term success. If you want someone to fill in for 10 days only, you might want to go with the recent performance as an indicator. If you want someone to fill in for a month or two, it is a different story. And it is not the only indicator. Schedule is as well. If you are scheduled to face 10 righty starters, might make sense to get a lefty or a switch hitter up rather than a righty.
  24. Thrylos
    March. A couple of thoughts: Everyone last season said that it was the leg kick. I guess they were wrong. In an interview with the MLB Network, when Buxton was asked what he values the most personally: a great catch or a game winning home run, he said "the catch". Unless he changes his mind and works on what he does not like to work (apparently) or likes less to work on, he will not improve with the bat.
  25. Thrylos
    LaMarre was optioned when Buxton was activated. There is a rule that says that a player has to stay down for at least 10 games before recalled. Thus Cave and no LaMarre when Mauer was moved to the DL.
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