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  1. Willihammer
    Per MLBTR http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/03/mike-pelfrey-at-peace-with-his-pitching-mets.html
  2. Willihammer
    See, I knew it. We're going to get more infielders in the outfield. Only the one guy who could actually stick - Santana, hasn't logged an inning out there. Molitor seems to be buying into the labels of these two players as much as the fans. I don't see how the answer to all the Twins woes - right down to how to handle Hicks and Rosario this spring - is to fill CF with Santana and SS with Escobar. It solves everything.
  3. Willihammer
    This is unfair for two reasons - the FO put all their eggs in the Hicks basket, Gardy didn't. Secondly, we learned that Santana could play CF reasonably well and that Escobar could handle the SS job. It was not the lost season as its been made out to be.
  4. Willihammer
    Escobar is only 2 years older and to John's point, why should he be a utility man and not the everyday SS simply because Santana is also a SS? The hole is still CF and Santana patched it up perfectly fine last year.
  5. Willihammer
    The really strange thing is that while Santana has not logged any innings in the OF this spring (correct me if I'm wrong), but Escobar and Nunez have
  6. Willihammer
    Maybe the AAA of A- then?
  7. Willihammer
    Any idea what level of MLB competition the Frontier League is closest to? Maybe, Low A?
  8. Willihammer
    Graham looks like a solid pickup. https://twitter.com/MillerStrib/status/579367720996728832
  9. Willihammer
    Heh, even when Santana has a .405 BABIP season, his 130 OPS+ still doesn't quite equal Carew's CAREER OPS+ of 131. How good was that guy?
  10. Willihammer
    Then they have to embrace a lower arm slot, IMO, and find a way to command from there. Its exactly as errichi said. Throwing any higher than 3/4 is just going to kill his shoulder.
  11. Willihammer
    Took the words out of my mouth. I had shoulder issues when I pitched in high school and the first thing I did when it started was drop the arm slot. I have to think that if Meyer is doing that, his shoulder is biting him. Which kinda makes you wonder why they wouldn't just stick him in the pen, IMO.
  12. Willihammer
    If we're comparing HoF/probable HoFers to Santana, I like the Carew comp better. 4 seasons with a BABIP over .380. I never watched the man play but I understand he was more the rabbit type, like Santana, instead of the stand and hit guy that Mauer is. edit: and yes feel free to necro that when Santana takes home the batting title this year!
  13. Willihammer
    I watched Colabello collect an RBI on every weak ground ball through May it was clear that he was on a hot streak and that it would end as soon as he stopped hitting em where they ain't. Ie. when his luck ran out. Kubel had a similar stretch where he just couldn't get out but it was plain to everyone who watched that it wasn't going to last.. I'd even wager that a lot of Escobar's hits were the result of that and if you want to go back further, the 2009 season where Mauer hit about a dozen HR's into the first row of the student section in left field. The power wasn't that prodigious, not really. But Santana made so much crisp contact and displayed such an economy with his movements - his swing and his footwork, most all the hits seemed legit. .405 isn't going to keep up but someone mentioned a ~.360 BABIP in 2013. We know BABIP tends to be stable for players year to year so I fully expect this year's to split the difference and wind up around the .380 range.
  14. Willihammer
    I'm excited about the bats. Vargas is going to hit some tape measure shots and Santana is going to continue to slap slash slip and slide his way above expectations. I can't find more than 2 possible soft spots in the lineup if everyone's healthy (knock on wood).
  15. Willihammer
    Oliveros all spring 0 ERA no hits 27 K/9 only 1 walk and 1 HBP Dude was lights out.
  16. Willihammer
    Oliveros also cut
  17. Willihammer
    That's... surprising for a bullpen that allowed so many balls in play (29th in xFIP). Seems like they may be due for regression in that area.
  18. Willihammer
    I've never seen a study that's broken down the xFIP-ERA gap into batted ball components and defensive components. Its possible, but unlikely, that 100% of the Twins xFIP-ERA gap was caused by extreme batted ball luck. Actually not 100%. xFIP is regressed across all of baseball so AL pitchers will have slightly higher ERAs than xFIPs on average. Its also not park-adjusted and TF appears to be somewhat of a hitters park.
  19. Willihammer
    They definitely have talent behind Kluber. I think Bauer could be good if he focused on 3-4 pitches instead of the exotic euphuses and screwballs and stuff. Personally I'm not sold on the demise of Verlander just yet. He still threw 200 innings and made 32 starts while recovering from abdomen surgery. If he's over that I would expect a bounceback, although probably not to CYA levels. Of course the Whities could have Carlos Rodon as their FIFTH starter, so there's that.
  20. Willihammer
    It does look like the Whities and Tigers are going more a stars-and-scrubs approach while the Indians and Royals seem to be stockpiling slightly above average talents. Still they have some guys who you could see turning into the next superstars by the end of the year.
  21. Willihammer
    The Indians' don't have many franchise stars but pretty much the entire roster is in their prime age-wise. They have a ton of good-not-great players.
  22. Willihammer
    It looks like D'Arnaud's body, particularly his shoulders, are angled open toward the umpire. Whereas in several of those pics Pinto's shoulders are angled almost 90 degrees the other way. Maybe that's also impairing the ump's line of sight?
  23. Willihammer
    IIRC Rolen had exceptional hands. Can we say the same about Sano? Wait did I just a question about a minor leaguers defense? I'll walk myself out.
  24. Willihammer
    The Twins signed Morales with the intent was to flip him at the deadline, as per the rebuild. That was clear from the get-go. Pinto had an option that availed them of the PT required to do that. OK, fine. Why feed us these lines as he's headed out the door? He took one for the team.
  25. Willihammer
    I won't be disappointed, because my expectations are low. As Common says, high aspirations, low expectations. It just seems like a ripe opoprtunity IMO for the 20 year pro to, I dunno, take the talented fat kid out to lunch. Show him how to eat on the road and not put on weight. Staying in shape after his body slows down seems like something that Torii has figured out.
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