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  1. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    "Trade for Urias straight up" is the new "move Mauer back to catcher"
  2. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    Apparently the Padres at #3 took a player who hasn't played above rookie ball: http://twitter.com/jjcoop36/status/806861913418305536 Hoping/assuming that guy isn't the return for trading the 1st pick to San Diego...
  3. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    Fangraphs recently posted an article about the current minor league free-agent position players projected to perform best next year under a particular statistical projection system that I'm not "under the hood" enough to care to read about. 4 of the top 10 are catchers. Take it for what it's worth. Maybe one of them can be what people seemed to hope the catcher Hicks would be last year.
  4. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    I streamed a bit of the presser at work (mostly Falvey and Levine's few minutes each of introducing themselves, and a couple of the first questions.) Their answers weren't too substantial; they said the "right" things without saying much. What got me was a sense of "this is really happening"--like, although the hires were first rumored and then announced weeks ago, just knowing there were people set to take those roles somehow didn't make changes in the organization's decision making seem real. Seeing those guys in front of a press conference made it actual: everything we read and hear on personnel decisions, transactions, and the state of the team will, for the most part, have Falvey or Levine as its sources now. Hearing them begin to speak on behalf of the Twins drives home that there is a change at least in the voices driving the operation, and based on that likely broad-scale changes in direction as well. I like it!
  5. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    A dearth is exactly what they don't have.
  6. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    WOW, that first Jake Mauer quote is manager cliché gold. And he's a pretty young manager too...must be a natural.
  7. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    The Tigers have registered more of their players as trademarks than the Twins have. Seems like a pretty well-constructed lineup for the Twins against a lefty, though.
  8. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    Yeah, pretty much what alarp said... The La Russa and Stewart hires are only the model for the collective Twins fan base's hope if you squint and see them as names with cachet and outsiders to the organization. I think the general desire (on this board and I imagine elsewhere, as I think the perception of the Twins management as clay-footed is widespread at this point) is to get candidates whose shine comes from already having worked in front offices, preferably analytic-leaning ones. I also question whether either ownership or realistic fans will create pressure for a quick turnaround. The last GM already diagnosed "total system failure" and most of the core of the next good team, probably, is young and will be together for some years to come.
  9. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    I'm not sure why Vargas would be considered any less than dead even with Park in contending for a future roster spot at this point.
  10. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    To piggyback on this, while it's true that the Twins are throwing a "new" and inexperienced guy into the deep end at the trade deadline, Antony has all the organization's analytics and scouting resources at his disposal. It's not hard to imagine that he'd be more inclined to use them and less inclined to assume he can rely on his knowledge alone than a long-tenured GM would be. Edit: I realize that either the org's scouts or (especially) their analytics department can be reasonably criticized as behind the curve; my point is simply that whatever organizational knowledge was there for Ryan is there for Antony and he might be more inclined to take advantage of it.
  11. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    Who are Pozzo and Lucky in this scenario?
  12. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    Remember when the Twins were posting such a high team BB rate a couple of seasons ago (led by Dozier and Willingham I think) and the players credited Bruno and Molitor, who were in their first season as coaches? Seems like a long time ago now.
  13. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    Picks 7 through 9 were all players I semi-realistically would have wished to see the Twins get at 15. Any chance Kyle Lewis slides to 15?
  14. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    Thought it might be worth pointing out that a week ago MLB Trade Rumors published a list of 10 current trade candidates and had Plouffe at #8 (as well as Abad at #10.) This opinion doesn't represent "the industry," and doesn't necessarily mean that the Twins would get a lot for him, but it does seem that people outside the fan/homer sphere think there's some trade value there.
  15. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    So the Twins don't have more than one first-round pick, but they have several lower in the top 100. Is that just not enough money to take a high-price-tag guy at 15 and save with lower-bonus guys at the later picks? Or is it a question of spreading risk across the picks versus counting more on the first pick to work out?
  16. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    His velocity isn’t changing much the second or third time he’s seeing hitters and his release point is dropping fractionally, but not enough to explain a 900 point increase in opponents’ OPS...(Alternatively, Milone could be tipping his pitches, but there aren’t any other symptoms of that). What other symptoms of tipping his pitches might you be looking for? (Not a gotcha question, but an honestly curious one.) Opponents hitting him significantly more and harder the 2nd and 3rd times through the order seems like a big symptom already. It may not be statistically significant this early in the season, though.
  17. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    They were bullpen-only guys by the time they reached the Twins organization. The expectations for Rule V picks are not that high (the occasional Johan Santana gold-strike notwithstanding); if a team gets a good bullpen arm for multiple years from the Rule V, that's a relative success. And where's the starting spot they need one of those guys to fill?
  18. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    At first reading, this doesn't make sense. All teams are built through player development and acquisitions, no? It seems like that first point is really to critique how much analytics (and what kind of analytics) feed into the development and acquisition processes. I think that's a good point, but I'm also not sure it's the same point the rest of the article is making.
  19. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    he alternated games between the 2 middle infield positions with 17 year old Yeltsin Encarnacion This is an astoundingly wonderful name. There is a better one coming soon
  20. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    Given the overall quality of that video, I wouldn't trust it for information on the actual shape of a person.
  21. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    Wilin Rosario was DFAed by the Rockies. The rich man's Josmil Pinto?
  22. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    MLB.com (via the Twins website) has an article saying that the Twins are likely to protect Dean. I would guess that there's some mouthpiece within the organization associated with that information. What's the disconnect between what the organization sees in him and what everyone here sees?
  23. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    Beyond the more immediate reactions to the Park posting that are out there, I think there's a concern shared by some (including me) that any kind of roster crunch making one or more players look redundant hurts the Twins' trade position. At least it's some consolation that they can make room either by trading Plouffe or by trading an outfielder, and with different suitors for an OF and for a 3B, that might be some kind of leverage.
  24. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    Not only that (the second comment) but Kepler throws with his left arm. I've read speculation that it should be possible for lefty throwers to play catcher, but for whatever reason, maybe just hidebound traditionalism, all pro catchers throw righty as far as I know.
  25. whosafraidofluigirussolo
    At the same time, IIRC Boyer is on the 15-day DL, so I'm guessing that if they needed to add someone for September, moving Boyer to the 60-day would be the easiest and first thing to do to clear a roster spot.
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