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  1. Willihammer
    Shockingly, all the geezers the new FO signed are big believers in veteran leadership.
  2. Willihammer
    http://www.twincities.com/2017/03/18/minnesota-twins-build-culture-club-with-five-low-cost-veterans/
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  4. Willihammer
    Leave your prediction in the comments, Sickels will tally them up and revisit at the end of the year. http://www.minorleagueball.com/2017/3/17/14958902/byron-buxton-2017-projection-of-twins
  5. Willihammer
    Santiago's decent. Definitely one of the 5 best options. Probably.
  6. Willihammer
    Ervin Santana throwing for DR against team USA right now. Third inning. Tied 2-2.
  7. Willihammer
    Hogan Pino will be there.
  8. Willihammer
    This is all perfectly consistent with the Twins standing policy of developing players in one role in the minors, and changing it at the ML level. Don't see what all the hubbubs about.
  9. Willihammer
    The Twins would have 4 of Duffey, Mejia, Berrios, Pino, and Wheeler in AAA. They'll have Romero and Jorge in AA who are already rostered. They'll have Haley and Rogers on the ML roster, who have starting experience. And if that's not enough they could add another starter when team rosters gets squeezed in a couple weeks. They'll have first dibs on waiver claims all year.
  10. Willihammer
    Sano has good zone judgment. He whiffs on strikes too often.
  11. Willihammer
    Maybe not full youth but the 5th starter job anyway. One roster spot.
  12. Willihammer
    But Vogelsong is the definition of a replacement level player. If they went full youth and it blew up in their face it wouldn't be that hard to find him or Deduno / Dean / Pino etc. mid-season and reverse course.
  13. Willihammer
    Interview with Padres hitting coach Alan Zinter up on fangraphs. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/alan-zinter-on-swing-planes-launch-positions-and-tutoring-young-padres/ Some nuggets:
  14. Willihammer
    Its not even about Berrios IMO. The front office has systematically contracted veteran leadership by bringing in Gimenez, Breslow, Stubbs, and Vogelsong. If we repeat 2015 I'll be the first to give them credit, but man, it would sure put my mind at ease if there were some tangible upside in terms of production we could cling to. None of these guys has posted a positive WAR season since 2013, with the exception of Stubbs' 2014.
  15. Willihammer
    According to Berardino, Vogelson's contract terms are: What are the chances he'd opt out if the Twins don't roster him? Seems doubtful he'd find a better offer elsewhere. Or a team with more pitching volatility.
  16. Willihammer
    #10 on BA's top 100 college draft prospects (published in January) is Houston Jr Seth Romero (LH). So far he's #2 in strikeouts with 45 K's against 109 batters faced (41.3%). In 2016 he threw 94.1 IP in 15 games (13 starts), 60 hits, 24 ER, 28 BB, and 113 Ks against 371 batters (30.5%). Someone to keep an eye on.
  17. Willihammer
    (Raises hand) I'm interested. I watch as much as I can. It seems like a really cool, friendly competition and I'd rather watch 1 WBC game featuring the US, PR, Japanese, Candian or Dominican teams than a hundred spring training games including the Twins. By the way the WBC is much more of a "world series" than the MLB tourney which is a an embarrassing misnomer in 2017 IMO.
  18. Willihammer
    I understand the conventional wisdom and agree that speed should serve as a tiebreaker if we're talking about two similarly productive bats. But we're not. If Buxton turns into a better hitter than Dozier I'll be right there with you asking that he bat higher in the order. That is a huge if. In the more likely event Buxton isn't the better hitter then having him bat at the top of the order comes at a direct cost of PAs to better hitters, namely Dozier and probably Sano and 1-2 others at minimum. Look at any team season in baseball history and you will find a descending number of PAs in the lineup, usually 15-20 PA's per slot.
  19. Willihammer
    Do you think Buxton should bat leadoff before or after he deserves to? Do you think he deserves to now? There is a tradeoff for moving hitters around in the lineup. An example, the 1998 Twins. http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/SNG0X Otis Nixon played center field and was a "speed" guy, so he owned the leadoff spot while Matt Lawton played (mostly) in a corner and batted third or lower. Lawton hit .864. Nixon hit .705. The leadoff man had 66 more PAs than the 3 hitter. Almost a hundred more than the #6 guy, where Lawton spent 29 games. I don't know how many runs batting Nixon ahead of Lawton cost the Twins that year, but it certainly cost them some. In the first inning they scored 90 runs. In the 4th and 7th they scored 95 and 98. Why? Could it be that Nixon got a much smaller share of the PAs in those innings? In every other sport the best players are given the most minutes. Not in baseball. Baseball is uniquely able to think itself into keeping its best players on the bench longer than absolutely required. Its mind boggling.
  20. Willihammer
    Pretty sure the level of competition has been easy for almost everybody to this point in the season. Faedo has been pretty dominant (26.1 IP, 13 H, 4ER, 7BB, 30K, 1 HR) in 4 starts. Perhaps the prospect guy was thinking of someone else.
  21. Willihammer
    Interesting.
  22. Willihammer
    Or literally, anyone else on the team, with the possible exception of Castro.
  23. Willihammer
    In what universe does it make sense to give Buxton more PAs than Dozier?
  24. Willihammer
    And the D-1 leader in strikeouts through 4 weeks is... UConn Jr. Wills Montgomerie, with 46 (96 batters faced). Found some video of his 13k start against TEX
  25. Willihammer
    A single vuvuzela is annoying. 100 of them is a party. Pretty cool IMO. Definitely beats a spring training game.
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