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  1. The Wise One
    From pitching 2 innings in an A game Meyer is now deemed almost ready for the major league team? Holy small sample size Batman!
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    Ignorance? OBP .269 from a guy you wanted to lead off is good and says PLAY ME? Is there someone else that Antony mentioned actually doing well this spring? From what I have seen the offense has mostly come alive in the later innings when the minor league pitchers were on the mound and our mleaguers were batting. This season may make last season's offense look good.
  3. The Wise One
    Antony called out the players who had a chance to seize a job and have not done so. That has been terribly obvious so big whoop that Antony called them out. Bartlet and Kubel are on minor league contracts. Why they were not called out is becuase they are not on the major league roster. Antony's comments would indicate the Jasons might have to produce in Rochester before being added to the roster. These players have a chance to win a job. It would be nice if there was no doubt they belong.
  4. The Wise One
    An organization should think that all of the coaches are the best at any level or they should not have been hired. Your approach to stretching out a pitcher is best described as novel. There is a reason players play in game situations versus going down to spring training and work on simulations. There is a reason for rehab starts versus simulations after they have done a couple simulations..
  5. The Wise One
    Although there are a rash of starting pitchers getting injured for the season one would think a contending club would have a reasonable plan A and Plan B. It would take issues with three pitchers to get them in trade mode for Correia. Now a near ready MLB pitcher with options remaining could be valuable to a club with a pitcher dropping or under performing. A B level pitcher might fetch an A- position player
  6. The Wise One
    Correia would probably not go anywhere except as a you take him in a trade if you want player X. If there was a player in the Rays organization that the Twins wanted and the price was May perhaps the Twins were saying you have to take Correia, also. I do not know which hole they would be trying to fill, but the last power hitter they got from them was the poster child for unfulfilled potential.
  7. The Wise One
    About 85 pitchers a year pit more than 170 innings. If you are trying to get into and through the playoffs, the innings he can pitch are valuable. Of those 80 some pitchers, maybe 15 will have a worse ERA than Correa does. He will rarely win you a game. Thus the value he has to a team is as a depedendable fill in. He is better than what you have in the minors so you go get him. A team would have to be at plan C to look at Correia. That shouldn't be happening in spring training.
  8. The Wise One
    What does the system year in and year out produce? Over time the Braves have put out a lot of talent. High level talent. You rip on the talent in the Braves system as inferior to the Twins. The level may be rated higher by websites, but the end product would appear to be much better coming out of the Braves. You all can be dismissive of that fact and change your debate. The prospect you have no idea of how good or bad they will be, or how they could help your club. Correa is viewed as a 5th starter. No prospect in return should have a rank. They should have potential.
  9. The Wise One
    Rankings and lists are pretty. Look at what was on the Atlanta roster last year as homegrown talent versus what the Twins put out there as homegrown talent. Now compare and contrast. The top 30 prospects of the Twins may be rated higher but Atlanta seems to produce better quality.
  10. The Wise One
    The fact is they signed 6 players with what sort of clue would be available? Those players cost them any reasonable shot at signnig a player this year. And cost them twice for each player. Ironic that you can't see the players they signed last year are a long shot to make it to the big leauges
  11. The Wise One
    All of these players have been seen a little bit in international tournaments and in the workouts. There is a base idea from limited data. It might be as many views in person by a scout as a high school player gets. The Cubans do play in the world tournaments that are held. Their players are not a complete secret. Nationality does not make you worth the money offered. The current Twins scouts would appear to be doing a decent job of evaluating talent. I don't know if there was a recommendation to sign any of these guys, but I would bet they all had a file on what skills they possess and what comparable level they would be at.
  12. The Wise One
    A list of the international signings http://www.mlbprospectguide.com/p/international-signings.html It is a pretty long list. Tell me how many of them as a percent do you recognize as good players. Yes they signed 6 of the top 30. There is a chance one will be a serviceable major league player. What the Cubs have to trade is 6 slots of $250k and no leverage to trade from.
  13. The Wise One
    What of this year when te can not spend more than $250,000 for a prospect? Essentially no top prospets for 2014 out of the international market. That is a setback for sining a few more players
  14. The Wise One
    All you post may be all well and true. It still does not change the fact that just because the Cardinals signed him it was a good signing. That was the claim that was made. "Based on the fact that it's the Cardinals, with 6 or 7 other teams hot on his trail with offers," and "St Louis doesn't make a lot of mistakes and I would trust them over the Twins front office and most bloggers. Likely to turn out being a good signing. " Those two posts ignore facts. Like every other team, St Louis has more misses than hits. Because St Louis signs someone does not mean they might be a good player. There is a lot unknown about the Cuban players. One of those unkowns is how good they actually are. Yadil Mujica had better stats as an infielder in Cuba than Diaz and has not been able to crack a major league team. Perhaps had he not broke his leg jumping on home plate Morales would have been a superstar. Chapmaan has had success. There is not a lot of susstained star power out of Cuba. The smart people figure out the holes in the player's game. See Cespedes' OPS year 2. As compared to the Dominican, there really hasn't been a lot of average players come out of Cuba, either.
  15. The Wise One
    I would tell you Rich Becker was great, but I would need a lot of drugs, possibly a hallucinogen or two
  16. The Wise One
    The point was just because the Cardinals signed this player does not make it a great signing. If they were confident in their first round picks Wong and Korzma they might not have signed him. The point on the first round drafting is that this talent savvy organization missed on so many draft picks. Not even serviceable players. The Twins record over the same period is similar.
  17. The Wise One
    Yet for all of the wisdom of St. Louis, their last 30 first round draft picks have produced only 1 player of 10 career bwar. Wong, Miller, Wacha and Lynn may have fine careers, but it has not happened yet. I find it a little hard to get excited that someone signed a player to a 8 million contract that has not really played in a league rated above AA that did not crush in that league. It is still anybody's guess as to what will happen.
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    He said the wind was affecting how his pitches moved. Were you there to see it? Do you know his pitches well enough to say he is lying?
  20. The Wise One
    The number 5 starter would appear to be Worley's tp lose. Deduno might make it as a bullpen pitcher. None of the players battling for a roster spot have stood out in Anthony's eyes yet. It is way to early though to make any decisions and nobody is making it easy to make that decision.
  21. The Wise One
    You really were not complaining, if I called it what I saw as I would be banned. It is good to see that you changed your opinion on farm directors hyping the positive of their players. Santana could well be pound for pound the most athletic player. He sees the rreports on what the player can and cannot do. He sees reports from the managers. You want reports from outsiders that have seen him how often?
  22. The Wise One
    What I gather from this is thata it will allow a team to better analyze defensive capabilities. Reaction time can accurately be measured, Judgemnt on what balls the player should get to based on the player's speed and quickness to recognize what is happening on the play. It could make defensive metrics more meaningful. Velocity on the ball being hit has been able to be tracked by Trackman for quite some time, 2008 or 09. The new system sounds like it can track the players movement and speed in conjunction with the ball. That is something Trackman couldn't do. In terms of staffing for data analysis. A computer interfaced with the data collection device and a programmer to write the software. You need someone who understands what the data means. Why would you need 100s? Even 10?
  23. The Wise One
    What is the downside to a little hyperbole? A reasonable person sees it for what it is. The person who wants to complain will find something to complain about regardless. Scouting reports are based on skill. Santana has yet to show an elite skill.From scouting reports and game reports. He has speed. He has a good arm. He has made some great plays in the field. He has inconsistency. He isn't great with the bat. Sorry I am not going to link everything for you. Why would talent observersers care beyond that? They are saying what he does as a ballplayer. Athletisicm per se does not make you a good ballplayer. There is no need to focus on it as a talent evelauator. What you are concerned about are the specific skills to play the game. A farm director will mention it because it is something positive to say. It would be why they would hope a player continues to develop.
  24. The Wise One
    Joe Mays, Fransico Lirians, Lester Oliveros, Joe Nathan, Grant Balfour, Pat Neshak, Scott Baker. That is the list of major league Twins to have had the procedure. Matt Bayshore, Mike Fetters, Angel Garcia, Kyle Gibson, Carlos Gutteriz, Jeff Manship, Frank Mata, and Alex Wimmers in the minors. Brian Duensing in college. This was into 2012. Maybe somebody bright with analytics could tell me in what way any of these pitchers were similar in mechanics.
  25. The Wise One
    Sigh A couple years old but about 30 seconds to find. Internet reported data about 2000-present. Might not be accurate, but as I am told with some baseball statistics, it is the best we got. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApDc5PGsBzgVdFpGbk84WnhNZlZ4VlFEY3pDVkFzNnc#gid=3 http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1675617/TJbyTeam.png
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