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    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

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    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

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    Video of a few of the MiLBers throwing the football around on the backfield today 2016 Minnesota Twins PreSpring Training: Trey Cabbage, Johan Quezada, Lewis Thorpe, Lean Marrero, Roberto Gonzalez, Onas Farfan and a few more
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    Said no one ever, you can do drills til the cows come home but it still doesn't make up for lack of game experience. He was pulled so he could work on his "conditioning" which it looks like he did. Former Twins 1B coach and outfield instructor on simulating game conditions as much as possible “To me, that is the ultimate tool for an outfielder to try to improve,” Ullger said. “You can take as many fungoes as you want. Fungoes will allow you to work on your footwork, but as far as working on taking a good first step and taking the proper route to the ball, it’s working off the [hitter's] bat.
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    Mason Melotakis throwing on flat ground
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    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

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    Looking good and jovial as always
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    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

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    I didn't say Ozzy was ideal but scouts, Baseball America, etc have in the past regarded Arcia as a good fit for right field. BA 2013: He has lost some speed but runs well enough to stay in right field, where his strong, accurate arm is an asset. Arcia fits the right-field profile well, BA 2013: Arcia has filled out considerably since he patrolled center field in Rookie ball, and he’s now strictly a strong-armed right fielder. He's a slightly below-average runner.
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    Seriously? If it was just see ball get ball, part talent/part skill then why the hell not put Joe Mauer out there? Why don't more AL teams put their lumbering first baseman out in LF/RF in NL ballparks during interleague play? The reason is because it's not that easy, it's more than just nuances, it's reads off the bat, tracking while running, knowing the best route to the ball, etcetera but most of all it's reps, reps and even more reps of game action. If Sano and the Twins organization were actually serious of a move to the outfield it would have been much more plausible to start giving him reps with the outfielders midseason if anything just shagging flyballs AND play some OF in Winter ball. Instead, Sano stuck it out at DH due to a "hamstring issue" during his MLB tenure and took reps at 3B. Still after learning that he was making a move to the outfield, does he use Winter ball to get his feet wet and learn the position? No, he does the exact opposite so he could "workout" and his end result was to lose 5lbs. Something I know he lost last year in 3 days during spring training. Add that in with other tidbits I've been told it seems like Sano is almost trying to put off a move to the outfield. Regarding Arcia, for all those who think he's horrible in the field, you think you're going to get a better result with someone whose never taken a MLB or MiLB rep in the outfield in Sano? While Ozzy has been scouted and in the not so distant past regarded quite favorable as an ideal RF, I'll call in question your sanity.
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    Correct! There are plenty of OFers who don't like switching corner spots, let alone switching IF to OF, because the flyball trajectory coming off the bat to LF is completely opposite of that one going to RF.
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    Not a ghost town at the time, the players that are here are usually out by 9am, a couple like to start 7-8am, not too many, to do some running up the "Hill". In the past Buxton and Mauer have been early guys. By about 11ish, its lunch time and the hitters usually go to the indoor cages
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    Bob Sacamento - All freaking year! ST, EXST, FSL, GCL, and Instructs, not to mention a few of the draft eligible players the team brings to town in June for workouts.
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    You are looking at probably an hour maybe hour and half each way just depends how far down Estero Blvd you are. Try leaving before dawn and not returning til after sunset so you avoid the bumper to bumper one lane traffic with road construction. Definitely not the year to stay down on the beach, especially once you add in the water runoff from Lake Ocheechobee which makes the usually beautiful water look like crap. Sanibel area is just disgusting right now.
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    Most of the players (minors more than majors) are extremely friendly especially to the kids so that wouldn't be an issue just don't expect too much between workouts as "they are working". Just as long as they don't think you're out there trying to get rich off their autographs shouldn't be a problem. Right now there is next to no one out there, myself, a couple of geriatrics, and a great local photographer (William Parameter). Before Twinsfest weekend, I saw Adam Brett Walker and Bryan Haar partaking in drills as well as Oswaldo Arcia working on his first step, and Mason Melontakis throwing on flat ground. I'll be posting video to my YouTube channel, to my Flickr and Twitter, you can check out last year's spring training on all three. If I could ever get Periscope to work properly, I'd do that one too. Here are a few videos from last year to get you thru the last few weeks without baseball: Torii Hunter giving Buxton and Hicks some pointers Nick Burdi vs Max Kepler Taylor Rodgers warming up in the Pen Josh Guyer working on his delivery Miguel Sano showing Nick Burdi the AA team handshake
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    I think this has a strong chance of happening, gives Park some time to get adjusted, gives Arcia some playing time to see if he sticks or hits the waiver/trade wire. Left handed power bats like Ozzy don't grow on trees, I'm thinking 2016 is his breakout year as he's healthy, he's matured, and his poor 2015 season has left him hungry to prove himself. Side note and soapbox, I've been trying to convince anyone who'll listen in the organization (players, FO, strength conditioning, etc) the benefits of yoga and pilates for the players. Players (esp the young latinos) think its girly but if any of them could achieve a little increase in flexibility (lumbar, hamstrings, quads, etc) it'd be well worth it.
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    I have absolutely no idea who the hell Anthony Barr is nor do I care why it's any issue of him playing Nose-Tackle for the Vikings. All I know is that from being on the backfields of Fort Myers for the past three going on four years, I've seen and interacted with Miggy enough to know when someone with first hand knowledge says he doesn't want to play out there I believe him.
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    All I know is Sano reported to camp last year out of shape, to the point they were holding him out of game action while he was doing running sand drills. , baserunning drills, and lifting albeit after he "sprained" his wrist sliding. Still he was doing the Mastercleanse Diet at the end of spring as well to shed off some extra pounds. My guess is Sano didn't do as much work this offseason as some of his peers but that's pure speculation. Anyone see Kennys Vargas? He's shed some serious lbs this winter. Little birdie told me Sano doesn't want to play the outfield, hell he doesn't even want to play the field; the man just wants to hit. I'll be on the backfields this Friday and Saturday and Miggy is suppose to be shagging flyballs so this should be interesting...
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    Maddon's lineup looking like, but I'm sure it will change daily 2B Zobrist CF Heyward 3B Bryant 1B Rizzo LF Schwarber RF Soler C Montero P Pitcher SS Russell
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    At this stage in his career, Joe is a table setter, not a producer as seen in his team leading .338 OBP (of qualifiers) and he's still the only Twin who is a threat to get on base. Add in his .400 SLG, his below average strikeout rate and Mauer is the perfect #2 in the current Twins lineup that is full of .310 OBP Sano is going to K but his XBH potential is so great that it outweighs the cost, plus there is no better hitter in the organization to bat 3rd currently.
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    But you're not going to find out if Kepler is good on a MLB level because he's not going to get a chance espeically if you are trying to convince yourself that Sano is a corner OFer with Buxton in center and Arcia/Rosario in the other corner. Switching a positional player that much (3 changes in 4 years) is NEVER good for their production whether it's offensively or defensively or development. The absolutely last thing the Twins should want to do is mess with Sano's development. Miguel's "athletic" but he's not Craig Biggio athletic.
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    Yeah giving up out these contracts to "average" starting pitchers the past two years doesn't help Terry Ryan's case for rebuilding: Ervin Santana 55M/4Y, Phil Hughes 58M/5Y, Ricky Nolasco 49M/4Y and logjams you in the future or even present, go ask Tyler Duffy, Trevor May and Jose Berrios who are arguably better and much cheaper. Personally from an outsider's perspective, the Twins led by Terry Ryan seem comfortable "middle grounding it" - putting out a team that is .500 and hoping everything clicks and they end up with a wildcard spot. I'll gladly play Devil's Advocate and say the rebuilding phase wasn't done. That 2015 was an aberration and perhaps detrimental to the long standing process of the ballclub in that instead of playing the youth card they were more content on making the playoffs for one year. Time will only tell for 2016 but the rest of your division improved while the Twins kept with the status quo.
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    That Cubs trade would have netted the Twins Chicago's former top pitching prospect Juan Cruz (#6 overall after 2001 season) and midlevel prospect Todd Wellemeyer. Looks like that worked out for the Twins and AJ Pierzynski goes down as one of the most hated players on the Northside of Chicago. Still get a smile on my face when I see the video of Barrett punching AJ in the jaw. Agree with your assessment of what Plouffe gets in return, really think Twins fans overvalue him.
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    Yeah Fort Myers rotation almost has me getting season tickets (and writing it off as a business expense). I think my goal this spring is to get a picture of that rotation all together...before they're all gone to AA by July
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    Is Plouffe a better defensive 3B than Sano? Probably, maybe..most likely. With a rotation that pitches to so much contact, yes it is good to have an average defensive infield all around which likely has an influence in Plouffe over Sano at 3B. But the Twins have created now is a logjam for their best prospect/hitter. Sano wasn't going to win any gold gloves at 3B in 2016 and is a likely positional shift in 3-5 years anyway. Yet outside of 3B, his next best position is 1B which is blanketed by Mauer and his remaining 72M/3YR and the backup to 1B is the newly signed Park and his 12M/4YR. After 3B and 1B, Sano's best position is DH which is also blanketed by Mauer/Park and an Arcia, etc. So where does Sano go? Lets move him to the OF where he's played ZERO games in his entire professional career (MLB and MiLB) and where the organization already has Buxton, Rosario, Arcia, Kepler, plus depth in Santana, Benson. Side note, anyone who's complaining of Arcia's defense in OF, do you really expect the bigger more cumbersome Sano to be as good/better defensively? To me moving Sano to the already crowded outfield leads me to believe that there was NO MARKET for Trevor Plouffe this offseason. Ryan likely made calls and no team was wanting to give up even a marginal package for a league average 3B at 7M a clip in 2016 or be on the hook for same league average player in 2017 at 10M. If you look at the free agency market, Plouffe's comp David Freese, who has a very similar line the past three years, can't find a job in which he's basically the only 3B available.
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