The Wise One

As compared to all of last season, the ptching staff is doing better this year than last by fip, and xfip. Not so true by ERA, W%

You did not include 208, 209, nor 2010 in your statistic, yet Nolasco pitched full time in major league ball. Cherry picking?

Is it the coach or the material? Pitchers have injuries, blow ups with the managers, become trade bait in addition to plain old flameout. There were bullpen pitcherrs like Silva that thrived under Anderson. Mays and Blackburn did well for his talent until injuries derailed them. We will never know what Lohse and Garza could have been under Anderson. Santana never got better as a Twin? Baker nor Milton never got better as a Twin? The problem with sinkerball/control pitchers is, IMO, me they seem binary. Works ok, or batting practice. The pitching coach can only work with the material given him. Reclaimation projects working well under Anderson (your stance) would to me indicate that he could find/remember what worked well for a pitcher and get them to do it again and thus would not be a bad coach. Unfortumately I do not recall any Jimeniz or Kazmirs comeing through. I seem to recall the Ponsons and the like comeing through. I do not think that even the best coach in the world could revive the starting pitching careers of some of the player.

What does that have to do with no clubs claiming Ortiz when they had the chance?

I would be pleased to know what former Twins All Star pitcher, (not Lohse who was never an all star or an award recipient) would you want to be staring given their performance so far this year. If you meant any Twin All Star I would ask Are any of the former Twins who were all stars as Twins at 2b, 3b, or ss still alive much less playing baseball? Catcher, AJ. 1b, Morneau, DH Ortiz, OF Cuddy, Hunter. Four players on the field, a quite a few bullpen arms. Yup, almost a team.

Mike Marschall, one time pitcher, PHD id how the body works, and also a different thinker wrote this: Baseball pitchers tear the connective tissue fibers of their Ulnar Collateral Ligament from mis-use. That mis-use starts with taking the baseball out of their glove with the palm of their pitching hand on top of the baseball. As a result of taking the baseball out of their glove with the palm of their pitching hand on top of the baseball, baseball pitchers cannot swing their pitching arm downward, backward and upward to driveline height in one, smooth, continuous movement. Instead, with the palm of their pitching hand on top of the baseball, baseball pitchers can only swing their pitching arm downward and backward to forty-five degrees behind their body. From this position, to move their pitching arm to driveline height, baseball pitchers have to raise their pitching forearm vertically upward. When their pitching forearm approaches pointing vertically upward, the baseball pitchers’ glove foot lands and baseball pitchers immediately and powerfully start to rotate their hips and shoulders forward. This means that baseball pitchers start pulling their pitching upper arm forward. Unfortunately, with the pitching forearm pointing vertically upward and the pitching upper arm jerking horizontally forward causes the pitching forearm to dramatically move downward to the height of the pitching elbow. When the pitching arm reaches horizontal, without the protection of the muscles that attach to the medial epicondyle of the pitching elbow, their Ulnar Collateral Ligament alone absorbs the force of the downward bounce of the pitching forearm. With each ‘Reverse Pitching Forearm Bounce,’ baseball pitchers tear some of the connective tissue fibers of their Ulnar Collateral Ligament. After thousands of ‘reverse bounces,’ the Ulnar Collateral Ligament ruptures. Unfortunately, unlike tendons, ligaments do not have pain sensors. Therefore, baseball pitchers have no idea that they are tearing their Ulnar Collateral Ligament. Fortunately, to prevent Ulnar Collateral Ligament tears, when baseball pitchers take the baseball out of their glove, baseball pitchers only need to turn the palm of the pitching hand from on top of the baseball to under the baseball. With the palm of the pitching hand under the baseball, baseball pitchers can vertically pendulum swing their pitching arm downward, backward and upward to driveline height in one, smooth, continuous movement. This pitching arm action activates the muscles that attach to the medial epicondyle, such that the Ulnar Collateral Ligament does not receive any stress.

That is a long list. Years after a pitcher leaves the Twins, he gets better. That is on Anderson? A pitcher who was a starter for the Twins and is relugated to the bullpen, statistically there is an improvement but it is a different and far less valuable role. The issue is that Anderson has not developed starters. That a guy goes on to be a serviceable mop up person is really no big deal. Redman was exchanged for the closer they thought they needed. You have to give up something to get something. Tha the Twins traded him away counts against Anderson. Do you need a list of pitchers that it took 2 years of service tim before they got better? There are factors that go into a player improving including age related devlopment. Is the player development because they learn the more years they are in the league, park factors, or whatever. No, the sole factor is the pitching coach. Yup Show me someone the Twins released or did not resign for reasons other than money that went from mediocre Twin to stud performance in the next season.

Who positioned Escobar so shallow? The infielders turned outfielders get direction from the dugout. That Escobar looked bad is on the coaches for positioning him that shallow. I don't think he is the speedster that has patrolled shallow out there in the past

Uh, ok. I guess I find more creativity in the fire Gardy/TK threads

Isn't that why the Presley decision looks better and better?

At this time no loyalists has taken your bait. The same song has ben sung by so many times the choir on this board there is no point in engaging it. It has already been done a few hundred times. Much like in 1977 when a Debby Boone song hit the radio for the millionth time, you learn to tune it out the screech or change the channel. It does no good to scream "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, not again " because then as now, those tired refrains will pop up no matter what. In case you are fortuate enough to be too young to have lived through Pat Boone's kid singing, imagine hearing this every hour on the radio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnk8SKD9zcA

What team other than Tampa Bay that wins has a problem selling tickets?? Even with a convoluted plan, it will not sell tickets in Tampa or any other place. On the other hand how many games are going to be so meaningless as to not atract a crowd? As many as 48 games nay have no meaning. You are asking for a change to something that is not a problem.

If you have a winning team the games will sell out regardless of scheme. From a ticket sales stanpoint, this plan adds nothing for the teams. For a tight division race, it is a godsend for the third place team. 8 games to beat up a mediocre team to win a pennant. That is why your plan is unfeasable.

When the talent scouts can find someone who plays adequate defense and can hit Florimon will be replaced. Until then Florimon can put up a number that would be a horrible IQ once you remove the decimal point and still play everyday. Did Florimon object to a goat in the DR this winter and make someone angry?

100 % usefull in reducing complaints the Twins don't spend money. 91 % chance of an icreaase in complaints they spent money unwisely. About a .01% chance it would makee Nishi's signing look good talent wise.

When a soon to be free agent player with a contract that expires at the end of the season is not with a team for a full season the team cannot do a QO. See Matt Garza.

In a cost saving measure they will pick a playeer that should haave been picked lower, but in a slot that has a higher percentage of success

The fans also get negative when they have expectations that are not met. If one expected short term upgrades a SS, 3B, RF, and a prospect for Willingham, they are going to be negative. The scheme of the moment is not being done by the Twins, more negativity. People love expressig what they do not like

The negativity comes from that people who are negative are finding reasons to post more frequently. Short term fixes. The Twins are not good enough to lure a good short term fix player. Do you think anyone trying to build value would play for a bottom team? Pelfrey did the year before. The team has versions of him in place in positions of need out in the field. Note the length of contracts given to the pitchers this year. very top players, what was the team going to get as a short term fix? A roid free 34 year old outfielder 3 years removed from a great season. A SS who wants a very large long term contract? A DH who really didn't play the field. We should be sad that there wasn't really much for 6 year free agents signed by the Twins

Oh how fickle it is to be a prospect http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/prospects/watch/y2011/

on the other hand, he might be an improvement over some Twins. Don't know, but some of thee bright people posting from the East Coast might know if there is a big hole in his swing. I know, I know, it seems like the bench for the Twins hole in their swing is the size of a strike zone.

Solarte spent 6 years in the Twins system. As a 6 year minor league player don't they have the option to be free agents? Great hitting but it is Spring training stats. As the number of at bats is close to the number of games played I would suspect he has hit mostly late in games. Nunez did not hit well and can not field well. It wasn't hard to beat outt if Solarte can do both better. If the Yankees had any faith in Nunez they wouldn't have given Solarte a contract. It should not come as too big of shock that he made the team. If at the end of the year he hass an OPSS over .700 I would be amazed.

It is not so much who is on the opening day roster and starting but by Mother's Day whp is playing, and who is not. When there are a bunch of players who are not hitting what they weight heads should roll. If they are the manager's guys, there by his insistance, his head can go with theirs.

As a fan I have no clue what scouts observed the good players that were drafted or traded for. I do not know if they are still employed by the Twins. Nor do I know if the scouts that said Matt Bayshore and Billy Bullock et al were good players still have a job with the Twins. Deron Johnson was quoted once about keeping track of how well scouts reccomend and replacing those that do not do well. There really is no proven model for drafting players (Yes even the Cardinals have has bad years). In regards to Worley I recall them saying he needed to keep the ball down better than he had been and needed better variation on his pitch selection last year. Maybe when the 4-5 different coach tells him the same thing he will listen. The team had a bad year but did the staff? You can't make a silk purse from the sow's hindquarter.

no nitpick the question was could be available, nott is available