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  1. Brandon Warne
    You can draft for need and end up with Mark Appel. You can draft best available, and get Byron Buxton, who made the big leagues as a high school pick when Appel was still at DOUBLE-A.
  2. Brandon Warne
    Hey kid I know we drafted you yesterday and you still have two high school games left, but if you can be a future Hall of Famer we'll throw you in there right away.
  3. Brandon Warne
    Every game I cover, so it's roughly every other home game.
  4. Brandon Warne
    Thought I'd try find a landing place for the pregame blogs I write when I'm covering. Here's tonight's. It got a bit longer than I'd have liked, but meh.... https://t.co/JOSqSbcQc5 I'll just post them in this thread and hopefully can get some more eyes on them. If you have suggestions about styling, please feel free to say so!
  5. Brandon Warne
    Tonkin's stuff is pretty good. He throws a four-seamer that PFX says its a two-seamer -- due to movement -- with a 9.8 percent whiff rate and his slider had a 13.3 percent whiff rate. Neither are absurd numbers, but as far as I know comfortably above average. The holding runners thing matters, but he's still useful.
  6. Brandon Warne
    I originally thought Boshers or Rogers and leaned Buddy because he hadn't pitched much. But the longer we go here I'm not as sold. I still think Boshers but I'm like 60/40 between him and Rogers right now.
  7. Brandon Warne
    Hey guys, I wrote an article about the hierarchy of this bullpen. http://www.todaysknuckleball.com/minnesota-twins/adjusting-twins-bullpen-hierarchy/ I wrote about what I think it ought to be, and I did so just before Jepsen was removed from the closer's role. Give it a read and lemme know what you think.
  8. Brandon Warne
    I've said it on twitter and I'll echo it here -- for various reasons I still can't believe they're doing the dance parties. You can single out a number of reasons, but it just doesn't feel right. Bad record, it was a last year/Torii thing.....I just don't think it's great.
  9. Brandon Warne
    Sometimes I feel like we -- I also write at Fangraphs -- are in a rush to be so smart that we also want to be really dickish. You know, as if Eduardo Escobar hasn't been a fine shortstop prior to this year. Or Kyle Gibson not being a decent starter -- or at least not the "first guy out" on the depth chart. Snark only works if it's smart.
  10. Brandon Warne
    Hey guys I wrote about the litany of unanswered questions and (possibly) difficult decisions around the Twins right now. Feel free to give it a read. As you might expect, it is lengthy: http://www.todaysknuckleball.com/minnesota-twins/unanswered-questions-tough-decisions-loom-twins/
  11. Brandon Warne
    Because for better or worse the baseball mantra is "you can never be too left-handed." I don't really care what hand he throws with. He hasn't been good in a while -- or healthy I don't think -- but it's worth a shot if he can do something different than what the current pen does. I'm skeptical of that.
  12. Brandon Warne
    It might be worth trying but you and I both know how MLB decisions are made. 1. Give veteran a shot 2. Let kid prove he's worth it 3. Let veteran absolutely prove he has nothing 4. Kid gets the shot I don't think the Twins are the only team to do this. And beyond that, I don't think it's completely wrong. But! This year it's been the sort of deal where they've had to go back to the vet. Or in this case, they plunged deeper into the minors (Dean) rather than going back to the vet (Milone). I just don't get that.
  13. Brandon Warne
    Chargois is deserving until he comes up and walks the first three batters he faces and then Terry ruined him. You can't win right now no matter what you do -- and that's not a joke, based on results either. Let's keep in mind we're still talking about a pitcher who is fewer than 20 innings removed from walking 5.5 -- FIVE. POINT. FIVE. -- batters per nine last year. I'd err on the side of caution too, and I don't have any skin on the line.
  14. Brandon Warne
    Like Darin Mastroianni? Pat Dean? I just don't understand how we've all decided John Hicks is a loss. That was a weird, frankly brutal situation but the fallout was Berrios making it to the big leagues, ultimately. I just can't get too wound up about it.
  15. Brandon Warne
    In a bullpen that gets no grounders, I actually kind of like it. If you'd have told me this morning the Twins would sign a lefty today, I'd have bet the house on Duensing though. Burnett is interesting. He's been tough on lefties before and costs nothing. Worth a shot. He's not a needle mover, but at this best he's been a steady bullpen arm. I see no issue.
  16. Brandon Warne
    Can I just say you guys have been great in your responses here. Thanks for keeping me sane.
  17. Brandon Warne
    I am not complicit on said meme. If it's good, I'll join.
  18. Brandon Warne
    Yeah but it's A. not a .400+ BABIP and B. a player with a previous track record. I'm cool with disagreement. No worries.
  19. Brandon Warne
    He was a minus-2 win player with the Yankees and has been a plus-2 win player for the Twins. There's a 14-point gap in OPS+. Those are both pretty significant.
  20. Brandon Warne
    As I wrote today -- and I'm not saying you have to have read it, just making conversation -- there's a big divide between what Nunez did with the Yankees and the Twins. He's been better than that as a Twin by a fair margin.
  21. Brandon Warne
    I feel like Plouffe would bring back more, but maybe the money is the key difference. Thoughts?
  22. Brandon Warne
    There's a reason the team doesn't think he can stick at short. Tonight is the first time he started there, and they've had ample opportunity to play him there and just haven't. All I'm saying is the same arguments made for Polanco -- he can hit! he's not great defensively! -- apply for Nunez with less question marks for now.
  23. Brandon Warne
    Tend to agree, honestly. But for me I wonder what his value looks like now, what it would/could look like in July, and the same question in the offseason, when needs and wants might be easier to attain.
  24. Brandon Warne
    Under 70 PA? Let's maybe see this over 150-200 before we jump up and down at all.
  25. Brandon Warne
    I've read a lot of very hot takes on Twitter and some more reasoned ones here at TD about how the Twins should handle Nunez. Then I wrote about it. http://www.todaysknuckleball.com/minnesota-twins/what-to-do-with-eduardo-nunez/
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