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  1. Otto von Ballpark
    With Garver's current BB% and power (or lack thereof), a .250 average is only like a 78-80 wRC+. Could he be worse? Sure. But there's just nothing that is particularly encouraging about performance so far. League average for catchers is a 97 wRC+. Garver is worse than league average in ISO, K% -- I guess his BB% is close. His BABIP is actually a bit higher than average.
  2. Otto von Ballpark
    One at-bat. 1-for-7 versus the Twins, but the one hit was a 3-run, 9th inning, tie-breaking homer off Glen Perkins in July 2015.
  3. Otto von Ballpark
    Interesting. Ubaldo scuffled a bit in Cleveland, but rebounded with a solid 2013 season. 1.09 ERA as Cleveland was 6-0 in his September starts that year, including beating the Twins on the last day of the season as they claimed a postseason berth by just 1 game. They also got pick #31 in the 2014 draft as compensation for Ubaldo leaving as a free agent, and they selected Justus Sheffield who they used to get Andrew Miller. Given that is also took Pomeranz 5 years and 2 additional trades to do much, I'd say Cleveland did all right there. Obviously DeRosa didn't provide comparable benefits, although they did manage to flip him for Chris Perez who at least had a couple seasons as a decent closer. And it took Archer another trade before he broke through (and arguably, he's never really broken through to be an ace in MLB). A bad trade, but perhaps not one that really hurt them -- they haven't really been held back by a lack of rotation depth the past few years. Same goes for missing out on Pomeranz.
  4. Otto von Ballpark
    Left to right, they are Davis, Vasquez, Wells, Grzelakowski, Blankenhorn, and Diaz.
  5. Otto von Ballpark
    Ervin is throwing again, at least: http://www.startribune.com/twins-send-byron-buxton-to-class-aaa-rochester-to-get-healthy-and-then-some/485754881/
  6. Otto von Ballpark
    By the way, Buxton is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment tomorrow (Tuesday June 19) for Rochester. http://www.startribune.com/twins-send-byron-buxton-to-class-aaa-rochester-to-get-healthy-and-then-some/485754881/
  7. Otto von Ballpark
    Just noticed the 2018 stat line for a common Buxton "early career struggles" comp -- Jackie Bradley Jr is hitting .184/.280/.301 this season, for a 59 wRC+. Maybe some guys are just going to inconsistent?
  8. Otto von Ballpark
    Hey, Stewart himself is 9 months younger than Bartolo Colon!
  9. Otto von Ballpark
    "Within 30 days" means he needs to be activated by July 31. If he was activated on July 27th or later, that would mean he finishes the year with less than 2 years service time, effectively giving the Twins an extra year of club control before free agency. Guessing it won't come to that, of course, unless something else comes out about his injury.
  10. Otto von Ballpark
    From the same link, about minor league assignments: So it sounds like his "rehab" is limited to 15 days.
  11. Otto von Ballpark
    I don't think he has to be added back to the roster immediately. This link says within 30 days: https://www.thecubreporter.com/book/export/html/3544 But once he is added, you are correct that he is out of options so he'd have to stay in MLB or on the MLB disabled list.
  12. Otto von Ballpark
    Sacrebleu!
  13. Otto von Ballpark
    The poster here just said "veteran bat" and when Jason Tyner is your DH, you can't afford to be too choosey. I'd take a left handed Abreu over a right handed Nevin any day.
  14. Otto von Ballpark
    We outrighted Glenn Williams with a career average of .425. Of course, it was at the end of the season, and he had spent the last 3 months of the season on the DL...
  15. Otto von Ballpark
    Bobby Abreu was still quite good in 2006, and was traded at the deadline with a SP for 4 prospects no better than Slowey. Of course, that was more of a money deal, but like Thome around the same time, I think he could have been a wise investment for those Twins.
  16. Otto von Ballpark
    Verlander barely waived his no-trade to go to Houston, which had the best record in the AL. Reports suggested he was holding out to go to the defending champion Cubs until the last second. The Twins weren't even the 2nd wild card favorite until pretty late in the process. I think it is fair to conclude he wasn't coming here at that time.
  17. Otto von Ballpark
    Lucroy was paired with Jeffress, who at the time was a pretty good closer. Plus, Lucroy only went to the Rangers after a he vetoed a deal to Cleveland which would have only returned one top 100 prospect. So, it's complicated. Also your original post didn't say Lewis and Kirilloff alone, but rather said it would take 1-2 "very good" pieces in addition to them. I suppose that is subjective, but I have a hard time seeing the Marlins hanging up if Lewis and Kirilloff are indeed on the table together. I think any additional pieces would be fairly modest (Garver? one of the AAA starters? or a lotto ticket?). But I'll drop it since I'm not advocating it or anything.
  18. Otto von Ballpark
    Washington wasn't willing to trade either, much less both. I suspect any such demands from Miami were posturing rather than negotiation, and not really reflective of what an actual return would need to look like. I don't think they'd actually nickel and dime the Twins if we really offered Lewis and Kirilloff (not that I advocate such an offer).
  19. Otto von Ballpark
    Correct. Romero has already burned his first 2 option years, 2017 and 2018.
  20. Otto von Ballpark
    Interesting to look at the practical side of Sano going to Fort Myers. Fort Myers has their all star break starting today, so immediately Sano gets 3 days with no games where he can presumably work at the Fort Myers complex. Then they have a 3 game series at home. Again, time to work at the complex, plus get some reps in games. Then comes an 8 day road trip. I wonder if they will send Sano on those? It would take him away from the complex, and probably make it harder to focus on work other than that day's game. In fact, looking at the Fort Myers schedule, after this all-star break, their max consecutive home games during the next month is only 4. Will be interesting to see how they handle that with Sano.
  21. Otto von Ballpark
    If Gordon comes up now, and goes back down when Polanco is activated, he will almost certainly burn an option year in 2018. Not a huge deal, but waiting until the trade deadline to call him up isn't a big deal either.
  22. Otto von Ballpark
    Kirilloff was "raised in a deeply religious family" and home-schooled / online school, and he was committed to Liberty University (founded by Jerry Falwell) before the draft. https://www.twincities.com/2016/06/11/minnesota-twins-alex-kirilloff/
  23. Otto von Ballpark
    How much more of a professional can he be than ~300 pounds?
  24. Otto von Ballpark
    "2.095 years service" at B-Ref isn't really a decimal number -- it actually means 2 years, 95 days. 172 days makes a full service year. With opening day March 29, Sano just reached 3 full years service time on Wednesday June 13. In theory, we could have optioned him 2 days earlier and kept him under 3 years service, but unless we kept him in the minors for the rest of the 2018 season, it wasn't going to matter. I suppose it could have come into play if he suffered a serious injury while in the minor leagues -- but if that happens, plus his performance questions, I don't think the extra year of control would be particularly valuable anyway.
  25. Otto von Ballpark
    Sanchez has been injured for most of the year, so it's a pretty small sample. And that 1.93 ERA is a 4.17 FIP, thanks to a .203 BABIP (his career mark, and the league average, is .300).
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