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  1. NYCTK
    Rafael Devers refused and was eviscerated for it. And then someone must have talked to him, and he complied. Just last night I watched a player play a position for the first time in their professional career. Luisangel Acuna moved over the 3rd because the team asked him to, having never played the position in the minors. Same team, second baseman Jeff McNeil has started playing CF occasionally, after having played the position for a total of 24 innings in the minors. Sorry, but you do what your team asks you to do, and Lewis making a stink about playing 2nd was egregiously bad form, especially for a player that has not established himself as a major league star. And I don't get excusing such whiney behavior. I'll never criticize him for injuries, but complaining cause you were asked to play a major league position as a major league baseball player? Boo-f*cking-hoo. ETA: And maybe this comes down to leadership as well. Maybe Mendoza approached those players in a way that made it less intimidating, or explained the reasoning in a way that the players bought into. Maybe Rocco doesn't have those qualities. Not firing Rocco was a huge mistake after last season, and I tend to think those intangibles are extremely valuable if impossible to quantify.
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    Royce putting up a stink being asked to play a different position was my last straw. I'm fully out on him as a player and teammate. That's something you tell your therapist, not a journalist in the midst of an embarrassing team and personal slump.
  3. NYCTK
    If the team just make sure they know their role surely they can get comfortable and become stellar...
  4. NYCTK
    Man, I didn't even notice that somehow Larnach has gotten worse against LHP. Turns out the 'just give him a chance' strategy after already giving him many chances didn't really pan out. Wallner on the other hand should still be given a chance, but I think we can all definitively say at this point that Larnach cannot, and should not, hit against lefties. Said it elsewhere, but unfortunately he's really becoming a strong non-tender candidate in the offseason. A bat-only player that has to be platooned and only carrying a 750 OPS against righties, due about $4 million next year in arbitration?
  5. NYCTK
    Sure, he can't hit for average, power, make contact, drop a bunt, or draw a walk. But aside from that, he's got some promise. He's got some aura but don't think that counts towards a player's WAR.
  6. NYCTK
    Rodriguez is just such a fascinating prospect. A strikeout rate north of 30% and a walk rate around 20%? I just cannot imagine that approach at the plate working in the major leagues. It sounds like an overly passive approach akin to Julien but I, A) would love to be proven wrong or B) see him develop his approach as he matures. But either way, the Twins were right not to listen to the fans here and throw him into Bader's role this season.
  7. NYCTK
    But it worked wonders with Buxton!
  8. NYCTK
    Last year's trade deadline.
  9. NYCTK
    It's actually incredibly how much better the umpires have gotten at balls and strikes over the last 30 years. That being said, they will implement the challenge system in coming years and I hope they do so wisely.
  10. NYCTK
    Let's be honest, this isn't a new acquisition thing. They keep insisting that Austin Martin is an OF. Does he? He's...not good. But I guess compared to Clemens, sure. Give him ABs. Let's be honest, the Twins haven't dealt with more injuries than the average team. My point was they were incredibly thin to begin the season, and therefore uniquely unprepared for any sort of absence from a contributor (with the exception of OF thanks to the great free agent signing of 4th OF Bader). I did count wrong, so Gasper probably wouldn't have made the club out of Spring Training with a fully healthy Twins team, but no team should ever expect to be fully healthy. And then, even so, DaShawn Keirsey was slated to be on the roster of a fully healthy Minnesota Twins. I'm happy he's getting some major league paychecks, but no contender would have him on their 26 man roster, and probably not even on their 40 man (unless ravaged by injury). This team's position player depth was razor thin, and the team is playing up to the standards the front office set.
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    Also, don't know that I like just focusing on HITTING as opposed to the complete player. Maybe you do a monthly MVP but I don't remember that being the case. And that of course, would not be Ty France. Let's be honest, Ty France is a pretty bad first baseman. The number of pitcher errors isn't exactly his fault, but his inability to scoop anything is part of the problem if we're being completely honest. He is the team's best hitter, but should probably be a DH at this point in his career. Looking only at the position players, the MVP would probably be Buxton or maybe, my boy, Harrison Bader. Everyone give it up for Harrison Bader, the undeniably great budget free agent acquisition!
  12. NYCTK
    I don't know why you would ever deliver AVG/SLG/OPS and just leave OBP as an inferred stat when the triple slash has always been AVG/OBP/SLG with OPS implied. Please stop this madness.
  13. NYCTK
    It's unclear it has any real impact. And yes, other catchers use the stance. For example here's a great throwing catcher, always near the top of quickest pop time, I watched nab a runner today:
  14. NYCTK
    This is very true. And a good example of actual depth. Not only the five starters with a pretty decent 4 and 5 in Woods Richardson and Paddack but two major league quality starters in AAA that most team would be comfortable in the rotation plus plenty of options for spot starts like Dobnak and others. I think maybe part of the projection that explains some of the difference is the Best Bullpen In Baseball projections. That sort of projection is both hard to make and impossible to really predict due to just wild shifts in WPA for even quality relievers. I also didn't see the Twins bullpen as very deep, meaning extending into AAA. I still really like Jax and Duran and Coulombe and mostly Sands but...Blewett and MacCaughen? OK. Sure why not.
  15. NYCTK
    Yeah, how so many fans deluded themselves into thinking this team was a quasi contender. This team never had any positional depth. Even if the roster was fully healthy, they're still rostering, and therefore playing, the likes of Keirsey and Gasper and regularly starting replacement level players like Julien, Miranda, Larnach, and France. How the projections didn't see that massive lack of depth and get to 77-78 wins is a puzzle.
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    Consider me one of the many that are completely unimpressed by the fact that Buxton has the highest stolen base percentage for this very reason. He's a good baserunner, but how he's never been a SB threat in his career is wild.
  17. NYCTK
    Bader criticisms were so clearly wrong, I was on my victory lap before spring training even started. I'm in the middle of a victory ultra marathon right now.
  18. NYCTK
    Only cause you weren't listening to the right advertisements :-) He's gonna struggle offensively for stretches, 100%. And he still may end up with an OPS+ south of 90. But people on this website were so irrationally angry, or maybe disappointed is the better word, about signing Harrison Bader. And for no reason. As it turns out, having a competent 4th OF is good actually. Here's hoping he can maintain a little bit better than replacement level play the rest of the season, and then the Twins can trade him for some A level CF or something.
  19. NYCTK
    Are the Guardians always top of the division because of stellar offensive output? I will happily serve up crow, because the vitriol directed towards Bader and the front office for what was always a very good baseball decision was ridiculous and very clearly wrong. He's arguably already been worth his contract, although the details of his contract make that harder to argue. I think he's due another 500K if he's traded, plus if/when the option is declined he's due another 1.5M. This is going to hurt his trade value, but not so much he's untradeable.
  20. NYCTK
    And Coulombe. Coulombe easiest to trade even. Every team is looking to bolster the bullpen in the second half.
  21. NYCTK
    Point being, you ain't getting a solid bat for $5M. Unless you're spending that on lottery tickets like Ty France and one of them hits. And even more to the point, you're not saving an offense with a veteran role player hired on the fringes. You need to spend at least twice that if you're going to get a legit offense boosting bat in Free Agency, a la Goldschmidt. Signing Bader was a great, and I do mean great, use of resources and I'm gonna gloat over that for the rest of the season.
  22. NYCTK
    Twins were dumb not to sign a bat only corner OF obviously... Anyone still wish Twins had Randal Grichuk (currently 220/289/390) instead?
  23. NYCTK
    He somehow made a playoff roster last year. The biggest red flag for anyone that thought the Phillies were contenders.
  24. NYCTK
    They're eating the dogs! They're eating the cats!
  25. NYCTK
    He was just missing the bottom of the zone for a stretch. I've worked with Malachi. Good man from what I could tell. Just had a bit of a bad day at work. Some umpires ARE, as Peter would like to say, scumbags. Malachi is not one of those men to my knowledge.
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