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  1. Willihammer
    They were pretty much on pace until Hammer went down.
  2. Willihammer
    They don't even need to trade someone. Send Hicks down, move Cletus to CF, call up Arcia. edit: Better yet, DFA Cletus, call up Arcia and Richardson.
  3. Willihammer
    Colon also throws a plus slider and a plus change. 3 good pitches, at minimum. like just about every other successful starter in baseball. You can have all the deception in the world but if you're only throwing one or two pitches then its pretty easy to time one of them, esp. after you've seen 8 or 10 pitches from a guy already. I realize I sound like a broken record probably but it is maddening to me to watch Anderson and his mustache walk out there when a guy is struggling, and afterwards you see Mauer flash a "1." And it seems like 1/2 the time it gets hammered. And then Gardy has to trot out there. Who, in the entire organization, besides one of the few guys we brought in from outside, throws a splitter? I can't remember the last Twins pitcher to come up from the farm with a good one. You look at guys like Hiroki Kuroda. He doesn't overpower anyone, but he does throw two different fastballs, a slider, a curve, and, famously, a split. Or Halladay, with two fastballs, slider, curve, change. Fister, Wainright, same thing. Felix doesn't throw 96 anymore but he gets guys out just as much. Why is that? Why does this organization seem like its afraid of teaching guys to throw junk? /rant
  4. Willihammer
    Maybe, yeah. The As gave up AJ Cole to get a year of John Jaso. Look at how the GArza trade compares to Peavy's, and some of the other deals, from where I'm standing, teams are as much interested in shedding payroll as they are in acquiring talent. edit: I take that back. Jaso's under team control through 2015. My mistake. I guess my point is, you compare this summer's trades where guys with multi-year, xx-million commitments are moved to the guys who are finishing out a cheap contract, and the returns generally skew in favor of the cheaper contracts. This has been my impression so far at least.
  5. Willihammer
    I fully expect Willingham, if healthy, to resume being the 1st-2nd most productive hitter in this pathetic lineup after he returns. The Twins can trade him next deadline if they want to, for probably not a lot less than whatever he was worth in 2012. I just don't think teams value 2+ year encumberances even if they appear to us as bargains, more than rentals.
  6. Willihammer
    1. Clete Thomas (L) LF 2. Jamey Carroll ® 2B 3. Joe Mauer (L) C 4. Justin Morneau (L) 1B 5. Ryan Doumit (S) DH 6. Trevor Plouffe ® 3B 7. Chris Herrmann (L) RF 8. Aaron Hicks (S) CF 9. Pedro Florimon (S) SS 1. Alex Gordon (L) LF 2. Eric Hosmer (L) 1B 3. Billy Butler ® DH 4. Salvador Perez ® C 5. David Lough (L) RF 6. Miguel Tejada ® 2B 7. Mike Moustakas (L) 3B 8. Alcides Escobar ® SS 9. Jarrod Dyson (L) CF
  7. Willihammer
    I wonder if the Red Sox would entertain a Doumit for Ross swap, straight up? Contracts are about identical. Doumit is younger, might have the better bat. Ross is the better receiver.
  8. Willihammer
    This was my initial reaction, but Nick points to the end of May as the turnaround. So he has already had a "cycle" this season. I would compare him to Liriano but he doesn't have 3 plus pitches. Just that fastball that looks like Felix's changeup at 89 mph and the curveball which is a pretty good pitch. Like just about everyone else on the staff, he hasn't been able to lean on his third pitch in his third trip through the order. If he can make that changeup an equalizer against LHBs then we may have something. Until then I won't hold my breath that he'll be able to get through a lineup 3 times a night consistently.
  9. Willihammer
    Things you can do between 2 Pelfrey pitches Errand #620: hose down the dog
  10. Willihammer
    Pelfrey doesn't like to rush
  11. Willihammer
    1 in 10 Hicks PAs has ended in a strikeout looking
  12. Willihammer
    I take back what I said about how the Twins should re-sign Pelfrey
  13. Willihammer
    That's what he do
  14. Willihammer
    Devil eyes? I'm gonna need a closer look... http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/images/2007/05/26/LAZdCsAS.jpg
  15. Willihammer
    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8nfz2JW9pq8/Tw-2yCrECMI/AAAAAAAABAY/koZRHzCzgG4/s1600/2014AllStarGameLogo.jpg I like this one better personally. Although the big gray box in downtown is still prominent. No getting around that thing!
  16. Willihammer
    How much of the Twins pitch selection is being determined at a high level, and how much of it is left up to Mauer's discretion? I would ask the same about the Pirates. Maybe its just throwing to Martin instead of Mauer, his game calling, getting the low strikes that maybe he didn't get throwing to Mauer. And the abandonment of the 4 seemer (he didn't throw a single one last night).
  17. Willihammer

    Miguel Sano L-R splits

    Willihammer commented on Obie's blog entry in Blog Obie

    Miguel Sano at Minor League Central Select year. He has maintained very small splits throughout and I would agree this is a very good sign.
  18. Willihammer
    Should we wait till Mauer injures his left knee a 3rd time before moving him to 1B? I think the biggest infield hole going forward could be catcher.
  19. Willihammer
    What could we get for Rosario?
  20. Willihammer
    Tanner Mendonca, DOB: 6/18/1992, a 6'4" 215 lb. RHP, and the Twins 17th round pick (500th overall) in June 2013, a Junior out of Sacramento State. Under coach Reggie Christiansen, Mendonca lead the Hornets to a 34-25 record. For the year, he was 2-6 with a 4.88 ERA and 44 K / 36 BB in 72.0 IP. He began the 2013 season very rusty, and was demoted early in the season to the bullpen where he soon regained his form. By late March, he returned to the rotation. On Mar 30, he surrendered his only home run of the season, a 3 run shot off the bat of Alexander Listi of Dallas Baptist in a 5.2 IP, 5H / 5 BB / 4K effort. AS of this writing, Mendonca has started 6 games for the Elizabethton Twins, allowing 15 hits, 21 walks and 16 strikeouts over 16.1 IP. However, he has only surrendered 1 home run, a solo shot off the bat of JJ Altobelli on July 28th. Which is sort of surprising since opponents have hit Mendonca for a lot of fly balls. He throws a 90 mph fastball and a 73 mph curveball and some other pitch that hits 80 mph. Changeup probably. Video of Mendonca's overhand delivery is available here:
  21. Willihammer
    Florimon? I consider Florimon to be the latest iteration of your Bobby Kielty / Lew Ford / Brendan Harris / Luke Hughes, etc. Guys who can put together a few nice months and give the illusion of talent but end up disappointing as their playing time approaches significance. I'd even toss Deduno in that group. Even when you're good at spotting these diamonds in the rough, like Ryan is, the instances where one of them turns into a long term staple of the roster is pretty rare. The only guys I'd really put in that group are Burton and Fien. Wood, Bernier, Colabello, Ramirez, Escobar, Hernandez, Deduno, and Diamond - none of these guys belongs on a MLB roster IMO.
  22. Willihammer
    Hearsay, courtesy of Reusse. Its a fair question. For all we know, Sano did say "yes, sir" and got suspended anyway.
  23. Willihammer
    So were Zumaya, Rafa Perez and the aforementioned Harden. I'm all for buying low on guys with upside. I'd argue its one of Jr's strengths actually. But its a risky way to round out your roster, IMO, because so many of these guys bust. I don't see how that's really even debatable.
  24. Willihammer
    These minor league contracts almost never work out. Kazmir is probably the best of the past two years, at least. They make for compelling narratives but any production at the MLB level you have to consider a bonus I think.
  25. Willihammer
    That Reusse article has changed a little. Instead of reading it now reads Since Ryan was at the game I wonder if the "team employee" is just the translator he and Sano conversed through. Imagine a frustrated Ryan, sweating and livid, trying to pass a verbal chastisement through, say, . Might lose a little punch.
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