mikelink45
-
Posts
10,087 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
27
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 mikelink45
-
What if the all star game was the end of the season? What kind of records would we have? Home Runs – 12 have 33 or more – Harmon Killebrew in 1964 had 30 and the total with 30+ first half homeruns is – 36 and Harmon is the only Twin on the list. TOP 12: • Barry Bonds, 2001 Giants, 39 • Chris Davis, 2013 Orioles, 37 • Mark McGwire, 1998 Cardinals, 37 • Reggie Jackson, 1969 Athletics, 37 • Luis Gonzalez, 2001 D-backs, 35 • Ken Griffey Jr., 1998, Mariners, 35 • Frank Howard, 1969 Senators, 34 • Sammy Sosa, 1998 Cubs, 33 • Ken Griffey Jr., 1994 Mariners, 33 • Matt Williams, 1994 Giants, 33 • Mark McGwire, 1987 Athletics, 33 • Roger Maris, 1961 Yankees, 33 I know that George Brett (390) was hitting 341 on July 10, Tony Gwynn (394) was hitting 387 on July 4, and Rod Carew (388) hit 403 on July 4. Beyond that I cannot find stats for All-Star break leaders. Maybe you can add something.
- 1 comment
-
- 2
-
-
- batting records
- all star break
- (and 3 more)
-
From the album: Batting average stars
-
Batting average stars
Images added to a gallery album owned by mikelink45 in Members Albums Category
-
-
From the album: Batting average stars
-
From the album: Batting average stars
-
I worry that somehow we messed with Andrew Vasquez who was going well enough that we jumped him to the majors and now he is struggling. Add him to Fernando Romero and we have to ask what the strategy of our pitching brain trust was. These two have way to much talent to be wasted or washed up.
-
In some ways this is a pivotable series. It is like going into halftime having just scored. The vibes for the Twins right now are the weakest they have been. When we start hearing the banged up excuses you know things aren't right. There are a lot of banged up clubs and the Yankees gained during their worst banged up stretch. What we need is the attitude that the days off are coming, lets go beat these guys. Our fielding is down (lack of concentration?), our power is down, our best pitchers just lost, and we have to forget that, move forward - tell Cleveland that they made a nice try, but we are moving on, and go into the second half with momentum and attitude.
- 9 replies
-
- 2
-
-
- minnesota twins
- texas rangers
- (and 3 more)
-
I think you are being generous the ebb is the flow out to sea and that is where our fielding is flowing!
-
Very disappointing. They all have a break coming. This was not the time to let down and it was a big let down. We do not have to lose three in a row to have a bad week or two.
-
True but of course he did not commit an error
-
we have seen one of these arms so far. Will we see more this year?
-
One more mention has to be made of Arraez. He will not continue to hit 431, but what a pleasure to see his bat control. Imagine if Buxton hit like that.
-
Two more errors tonight - Cron and Schoop, both at normal positions, just more bad fielding.
-
One comment asked if we are having more errors than in the past - the answer is yes, by far and with all the IL use and lineup flexibility we should be no more banged up and sore than any other lineup. Another person mentioned that we have had a lot of players out of position - tonight Schoop at 2B and Cron at 1B - not out of position, just not catching the ball.
- 47 replies
-
- 2
-
-
- taylor rogers
- byron buxton
- (and 3 more)
-
I am with you on official scorers - so easy to give a hit and protect the fielder and the batter rather than being accurate.
-
Today, against the Oakland team we did another error - give away and during our losing, mediocre streak we have had way too many.
-
Fascinating to read the comments. I have to agree about Odorizzi and the management, when in doubt make the change, especially when it is something like a blister and obviously enough to become an IL issue. But for the losing streak - the 1965 Twins longest losing streak was 4, 1991 it was 7, and 1987 it was six. Those were our series years so I can live with a three game losing streak. What we cannot live with is having a group of mediocre series wrapped around a losing streak. The voice of the TD fans has been calling for pitching since pre-season and nothing has changed despite a short period of Perez mania. But my issue is also a question of why we have to wait until the deadline to do a deal? An arm for an extra month seems like a good idea to me. Now it is fielding that is also surfacing as an issue. Not sure how that will be addressed. Finally, thanks Sano for giving us some hits, walks and home runs, your recent streak looks really good.
-
The last four in the honorable mention list would replace the last four in the final list for me.
- 5 replies
-
- 1
-
-
- brent rooker
- jaylin davis
- (and 3 more)
-
wasn't he a surprise high ranking prospect in Keith Laws preseason listing?
-
I enjoyed your speculation. When electronic balls and strikes come in framing will be the next judgment dropped from catcher evaluation.
-
At the half way mark the one area of Twins baseball that is really bothering me is fielding. It used to be that the fundamentals of fielding were the Twins specialty, but now that we have the bats, we seem to be slipping in the field. I went to the various web sources to see if my eye test was right on a night that Adrianza makes two errors behind Berrios in a loss to the White Sox. Looking at fielding stats in Baseball Almanac http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/fielding.php?y=2019&t=MIN I went the simple way to test the fielding - I clicked on errors. Here is our starting infield by errors: Polanco - 9 Cron - 6 Schoop - 6 Sano - 5 Utility Men - infield errors only Adrianza - 6 Gonzalez 3 Astudillo - 2 That is 37 errors in exactly one half season - by the infield (not counting catching and pitching). https://www.espn.co.uk/mlb/team/stats/_/type/fielding/name/min/table/fielding/sort/defWARBR/dir/asc According to ESPN we have only three with negative defensive WAR - Castro, Cron, and Cave (what is it with the letter C?). It might come to a surprise for many but both Sano and Astudillo are a plus 0.1! This is despite the fact that Sano has a fielding pct (old school, I know) of 937. And as expected Kepler, Rosario, and Buxton are all +s in fielding with Buxton leading with 1.2. https://www.foxsports.com/mlb/minnesota-twins-team-stats?season=2019&category=FIELDING&group=1&time=0&pos=0&splitType=0&page=1 I have a hard time evaluating catchers - framing, calling a game, SB no longer seems to matter...When I went to http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/sortable.jsp#elem=%5Bobject+Object%5D&tab_level=child&click_text=Sortable+Player+fielding&game_type='R'&season=2019&season_type=ANY&league_code='AL'§ionType=sp&statType=fielding&page=1&ts=1561813674629&position='2' I did not even see one of our catchers in among the 14 that they rank in fielding stats. And in ESPN fielding stats - including the non-qualified (batting title) Castro ranks 37. http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/fielding/_/position/c/qualified/false/order/true In fielding pct the Twins rank #10 and according to Baseball Reference the Twins are -2 in their state Rtot - Runs above average which matches our catchers total. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2019-specialpos_c-fielding.shtml I repeat - Baseball defense is the hardest to measure, but using the tools that are available we are not elite, closer to average in fielding.
-
One part of the old Twins Way that I want back is fielding. We have become sloppy in the field this past month and that is not acceptable. Adrianza has to be a fielder - we did not put him on the team for his bat.
-
What would our discussion have been at this stage in Tony Gwyn's career?
- 54 replies
-
- 1
-
-
- matt wallner
- luis arraez
- (and 3 more)
-
Okay - I just read that Lewis Thorpe is up and Adrianza is back and Wade is up and Rosario is down and Buxton is still???? This has been a fascinating year - despite being in first place all season, in spite of great production and such a strong showing there has been a tremendous amount of shifting and turn over. Some of it because of injuries, some to give a player a reset and some because we have played such long games and given the MLB roster so many innings they need a break. But who has been here? I am trying to figure that out. And I think I need help. LaMonte Wade is finally getting his chance, something I did not see coming! WIlllians Astudillo has been playing every position except pitcher (please do not put him there again) and providing entertainment for team and fans. And now he is on the IL. Adrianza was on the roster and then suffered a long IL Stint. Now Eddie Rosario is on the IL. Byron Buxton is on the IL again - how many times has that happened in his career? And we are all anxious for him to return. Luis Arraez has come up and shined despite not making past years prospect lists. Hard to look past his batting stats and see him return to the minors. Jake Cave has been up more than once and is still a viable substitute. Lewis Thorpe is up for the first time - after reading the prospect list I wonder how he got to be the new arm of the day. Of Course Zack Littell has to go down for him and that has been a recurring experience. Tyler Austin had two games at 1B for the Twins this year. Chase De Jong had a chance to prove he does not belong. Andrew Vasquez failed - has he flamed out? Fernando Romero was a promising starter, then a promising reliever and now is a minor leaguer. Adalberto Mejia went from fifth position in the rotation to a minor league status Gabriel Moya went from majors to minors to DFA Trevor Hildenberger went from one of our top relievers back to the minors. Ryan Eades made his debut and waved good-bye Devin Smeltzer made an amazing debut and then plunged to Earth and back to the minors. Kohl Stewart went 1 - 1 with a 4.50 ERA and is back in the comfort of the minors. Sean Poppen got a one day - do what you can do we aren't pulling you out game. Austin Adams completes my record of Twin call ups and send down.
-
I really appreciate these lists, but not because I think they are right or wrong, but because I would not know anything about the prospects without the great work that you all do. I cannot see the minor league games, I cannot judge the competition, but it is really fun to have players names become familiar. And it is the comments from those in the group who do have opinions and challenge the TD writers that add a lot of fun and simulate more thinking. For example, I have never seen Gordon play and all my opinions are from TD writing, but now I have seen Arraez and I love his thoughtful approach. He is 22! Gordon seems to have a second half fade in each of the steps along the way and other than his draft position I have no reason to love or not love him. So Arraez vs Gordon is an eye test and my eyes have only seen Arraez, but on the other hand, I have to believe that the fact that this 22 year old player is on the club means that he has met the eye test for the Twins too. Keep the lists going, this update is terrific, and encourage what seems to be criticism so we can have more discussions.
- 54 replies
-
- 8
-
-
- matt wallner
- luis arraez
- (and 3 more)
