Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

Mr. Brooks

Verified Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    8,256

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    13

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospects Ranking

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

Minnesota Twins Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Mr. Brooks

  1. Mr. Brooks
    I think you are really underselling Royce Lewis then. He's got a really good chance of being an outright superstar, IMO.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    Hasn't it already been shown a few times on this board that the ERA improvement in 2017 (and then some) were the result of improved defense, not better pitching, and that adjusting for defense, the pitching was actually worse in 2017?
  3. Mr. Brooks
    I think Mejia will be better than some people think. Of course a rookie pitcher is going to show some flaws. All in all, I think 2017 was a promising first step towards a career as a solid 4th starter.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    The post I was responding to was discussing 2017 performance.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    In what way? I just posted facts, no commentary.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    "That's the second year he's done posted about a 530 OPS against LH pitchers." John, were you by chance vacationing in a shack in the foothills of West Virginia when you wrote this article?
  7. Mr. Brooks
    They could also be just as bad. Rookie pitchers often struggle. Look at Berrios and May's rookie seasons.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    So right around the time most of Sano, Buxton, Rosario, Kepler, Polanco are leaving in free agency?
  9. Mr. Brooks
    Gerritt Cole is a much better pitcher than Jake Odorizzi, which is why he cost more to acquire in a trade.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    That's still their choice though. They chose not to pay the required trade package, they deserve to be judged on their choices on the roster.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    So, no pitchforks then?
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Not that I disagree that Mejia needs to be able to go deeper in games, but so does Odorizzi. Odorizzi averaged 1 more out per start than Mejia did last year.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    Teams don't trade #2 pitchers, with 2 years of cheap team control for Jermaine Palacios. It's already been posted in these threads that the facts don't line up with the perception of AL East the last couple years. Jake Odorizzi faced one of the easiest average opposing hitters in baseball last year. And saying that people don't know what they are talking about, because they don't agree with your opinion really has no place on this site.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    They also could have traded for Gerritt Cole.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    Well Odorizzi was worth 0.1 fWAR last year, so he's not going to give you that many wins over the -0.3 fWAR that you cited.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    Why not? They went into this off-season with starting pitching as a priority, quite a few options, and these are the two guys they hand picked.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    I think there are a lot of pitchforks due to come out, if there isn't a good starter still being targeted.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    The Twins have no shot at Harper, Machado, or Kershaw. Not sure anyone else fits the description of colossal.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    I was using their career numbers. Basically identical career FIP and xFIP.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Not necessarily. Odorizzi could be a negative WAR player during his time with the Twins, at which point the Twins will have lost the trade, at least until Palacios debuts and has a chance to also cost his team wins. Simply being on a major league roster is no guarantee that a player is producing wins for his team.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    I don't think anyone is complaining that Palacios was traded for Odorizzi. Most things aren't black and white. I think that can get lost in threads like this. Multiple times I've had to point out that I like the trade, that I think it's a fair trade, and bringing in Odorizzi is smart. Sometimes in these threads people forget there is grey area. That disagreeing with the opinion that Odorizzi is a surefire #3 or #4 means you don't like the trade, or think Odorizzi is terrible.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah, it's a very fair trade. I wouldn't chose to lean one way or another, because it is so fair. But, if forced to, I'd lean Rays. I don't understand how that statement leads to the belief that I think Falvine are bad at their jobs. I'm among the biggest Falvine fanboys on this site.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    Great read. Hopefully the Twins have something they can work with there.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    I never used babip to compare the two. I explicitly said they get there in different ways, but in the end, more or less look like the same pitcher. Yes, Odorizzi will likely always have a babip advantage on Gibson, he's a fly ball pitcher, but for that same reason, Gibson will give up less home runs. Different paths resulting in more or less the same results.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Who disagrees with this?? Is anyone claiming they think he's trying to sabotage the team by intentionally making a bad trade? Of course he has more information than, and is a better GM than any of us. What does any of that have to do with anything I'm saying? Nowhere have I said that it's a bad trade. And saying that we don't know yet if he helps our team, isn't the same as saying he doesn't help our team, or that Falvey doesn't know what he's doing, or isn't trying to make us better.
×
×
  • Create New...