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  1. Thrylos
    Only issue with that train of thought is that those numbers were 2017 numbers and include Odorizzi playing mainly against the AL East, Lynn against the NL Central (both better than the 2017 AL Central that the rest of the numbers are). Also the AL Central competition in 2018 will be worse than that of 2017. I expect that the FIP numbers will go down, maybe down even half a run, just because of that, Santana and Hughes (who knows when they will be ready and how they will return) notwithstanding
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    The only regular who I might have a mild concern with is Rosario because he missed some time and this was a shorter than usual ST. I saw him at the back fields yesterday and his timing seems slightly off. Could be fine by Thursday. Other than that no worries. I think that all the young players (Buxton, Kepler, Sano) improved from last season and Adrianza might be the surprise of the season.
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    FWIW, the MLB said that there was an "absence of contemporaneous substantiation" (their words) of the accuser's claims, which in legalese is pretty close to what you typed up there...
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    Ryan LaMarre: career ST OPS: .834 career MiLB OPS: .719 career MLB OPS: .157 Would you give him a shot?
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    I just hope that both the interested parties and the rest of the world put this thing behind them, and move their attention onto the upcoming 2018 season, and we hear nothing else about it.
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    Congrats!
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    Pick one: Luke Bard: 10-1/3 IP, 2 BB, 7 K, 7 R, .225 OBA, 1.06 WHIP, 6.10 ERA Tyler Kinley: 10 IP, 6 BB, 11 K, 5 ER, .237 OBA, 1.50 WHIP, 4.50 ERA Gabriel Moya: 10 IP, 2 BB, 10 K, 1 R, .171 OBA, 0.80 WHIP, 0.90 ERA
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    If that were the case Duffey will be there ahead of Hildenberger and Moya, since he is the veteran and not these 2. This round of cuts means that at least one of Kinley and Moya will open the season with the big team.
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    I have been accused of bias against Kirilloff, and have him ranked 13th, two spots behind Baddoo, in my Twins prospect list, but his hit tool is real. As a matter of fact, if I were to compare him with Max Kepler at the same age, I'd say that Kirilloff is ahead of where Kepler was then with the hit tool, they are pretty close as far as fielding and OF routes go, but Kepler had much better arm. I don't thing that he is a wasted pick at all, I just don't think that he is an OF (as Logan Morrison is not an OF, for example, but he is not a bad player)
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    I think that he can be impressive with the bat, but I just do not think that he is an OF. I saw him play this spring at RF. In addition to the bad routes that he admitted, the huge issue is his arm. He threw 3 times to the cut off man in the game I saw. Twice he bounced the ball once, the third time he bounced it twice. Not sure how much of that is TJ-related, but there were concerns about his arm even when healthy. From here it looks like first base might be his future and I suspect that he will start taking turns in that position as well....
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    He has to complete 2 years of active service. He graduated from the Air Force academy May of 2017, so he will be in active duty until May of 2019. My understanding is that he will be in the reserves for an additional 3 years to fulfill his 5-year commitment. I suspect that the Air Force will allow him to fulfill his reserves duty during the off-season. So he will be able to engage in baseball activities 100% around June 2019, which will give him a month of EST and a short assignment in 2019 with full Spring Training in 2020.
  12. Thrylos
    Great stuff! The one additional thing I noticed seeing Rooker yesterday is that he really gets to anything in the middle of the zone and away, ball or strike and gets at it hard. The "word on the street" has been that he was a "launch angle" guy, but this is not really true, since he can get at balls on top of the zone and hit them for line drives with his compact swing. Where he has problem is in the inside pitches balls or strikes. He just cannot deal with either. If that second pitch was taken yesterday, then it was after striking out in his second PA by trying to swing at a ball that was about to hit his knee. Definitely fixable, but something to work on and I thought that it had to be noted. Huge future and the heir apparent to Joe Mauer, but he might need another year or so both with the bat and the glove at first.
  13. Thrylos
    You forgot to call the party those congressmen are attached to. Please do so. Even if it might pain (you)
  14. Thrylos
    'cause you asked: There are 2 forms of B-12: Methylcobalamin that can be used intranasally, orally, and parenterally, and hydroxocobalamin that can be used only parenterally i.e. with injection. Methylcobalamin should eventually be metabolized to hydroxocobalamin that is the active form, by a healthy body. Hydroxocobalamin and iron cocktail injections are somewhat common for anemia treatment. Bioavailability of the oral and nasal forms are about 10% of that of the injectible form, thus the preference...
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    He can play in EST games
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    Same substance that Ervin Santana tested positive. Not sure that Aybar is an automatic to make the team, since both Adrianza and Escobar can play SS. This means that Erick Aybar, Jake Cave, Zack Granite, Robbie Grossman, and potentially even Ryan Lamarre or Brock Stassi fighting for 2 positions. The suspension opens a 40-man spot until mid-season as well that opens the possibility to be filled from outside the roster. Not many free agents left out there, but the Twins are looking for a home for Kennys Vargas as well... SS Adeiny Hechavarria currently of the Rays is owed $5.9 million for 2018. Might be a trade that benefits both.
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    I am not aware of any Minor League teams in Minnesota... The Twins have MiLB teams in Dominican Republic, FL (2), TN (2), and NY. Unfortunately, I don't think that even a national minimum wage can solve the issue, since it is a job that compensation is based on a contract that two parties agree to and sign. To solve the issue the MLB (and the MLB-players association that unfortunately does not represent minor leaguers) need to agree in the next CBA on minor leaguer compensation. But the MLBPA have "bigger" fish to fry and care only for the 10% of the players who make it to the majors. The rest are on their own.
  18. Thrylos
    These guys bring two different skill sets. In the same league (IL) Cave hit .324/.367/.554, with .403 wOBA, 156 wRC+, 6.1 BB% & 27.6 K% and stole 1 base and Granite .338/.392/.475, with .386 wOBA, 144 wRC+, 7.7 BB% & 10.9 K% and stole 15 bases. They both can play CF, but Garver is much better there.
  19. Thrylos
    Scott Diamond (AKA "the Twins' Ace" TM Bert Blyleven) begs to disagree...
  20. Thrylos
    The "lone" position battle? I see several: Assuming that Escobar and Adrianza made the team, there are 1-2 bench jobs that need to be won among Vargas, Grossman, Aybar, Granite, and LaMarre. That short lived (and putative, because they might still go with 4) 5th SP battle between Hughes and Duffey The rest of the pen positions 3-4 after the 3 veterans (Rodney, Reed, Duke) and Hughes (if he does not start.) Rogers, Hindenberger, Pressly are not locks for anything. They have been parts of some of the worst pens out there, and frankly, a couple of them suck this spring (and if you cannot throw strikes against lower competition, you cannot throw strikes against higher competition.) To the names mentioned for a spot on the pen, I would add Myles Jaye. That 2017 pen was awful and its center pieces would not cut it in a contender. So it looks about half a dozen jobs need to be won still...
  21. Thrylos
    Thanks for saying what some of us have been saying regarding Sano since the beginning of the BMI police "reporting". I just hope that this ends it, at least for this site. And it is double appreciated, because just a few days ago, you yourself propagated that...
  22. Thrylos
    Thorpe is 21. Another start at Fort Myers would not hurt him. Stashak is 23. He might be the one who gets the call to Chattanooga
  23. Thrylos
    What happens though when you take a 2-time world champion and you lead it to the tear down and possible contraction? Why should Ryan take a mulligan for his failures in the 90s or even be praised for the "nearly good enoughs" in the 00s?
  24. Thrylos
    Data: 2017 Buxton: 7.4 BB%, 29.4 K%, 0.25 BB/K, .312 wOBA, 90 wRC+ Sano: 11.2 BB%, 35.8 K%, 0.31 BB/K, .361 wOBA, 124 wRC+ See that BB/K? Sano's strike zone control was better than Buxton's. And of course, their offensive production (wOBA, wRC+) was not even in the ballpark. And this is not about defense or whether someone adds value another way. It was about:
  25. Thrylos
    He pitched really well. However I do not trust the Hammond Stadium gun. It is a couple miles fast. It had Hughes at 92, a velocity he did not reach outside that ballpark. Lynn will pitch at the minor league intersquad games this coming Sunday. It will be interesting to peek at the handhelds and see what his velocity is there. Probably a truer number. So far so good. It will be interesting to see how filling a rotation full of number 3s will play for the Twins this season. If the Twins' number 3 is better than 70% of the other teams' number 3s, that will have them at about 22 games over .500 in the regular season (93-69). The post-season is the issue with this approach.
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