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  1. DJL44
    It’s fine as a plan C if someone gets injured or a way to make the most of an aging player with a bloated contract but it’s not a plan A that will lead to success. I don’t see this as a problem. The Twins only used 11 position players for most of the summer.
  2. DJL44
    Brandon Lowe would make a difference in the lineup and on defense. Nathaniel Lowe not so much.
  3. DJL44
    Is it good for your team leader in plate appearances to post an OPS below 750 and contribute nothing on defense? Neither is the best answer. Take the combined money and buy someone good in free agency.
  4. DJL44
    It’s Terrible
  5. DJL44
    If the Twins really want to win they need a better DH than Josh Bell. He’s 1.5 wins below league average as a DH. He’s also not getting any younger. Keeping Larnach is a better idea than bringing back Bell. Back to the topic of the pitching coach hire, it certainly looks like they are trying to find a pitching coach who agrees with the fastball-first philosophy of the front office. Upgrading the defense is going to be necessary to make that philosophy successful. Fastballs don’t generate as much swing-and-miss as breaking pitches. That may be one reason why Maki called so many breaking pitches. When he talks about setting up relievers, it could be interesting to see Ober come into the game in relief throwing offspeed slop after the batters have been fed a steady diet of 96 mph fastballs.
  6. DJL44
    I would like to see them add Carson Kelly if possible. Freddy Fermin, Carlos Narváez or Henry Davis would be good glove trade options. Joey Bart is a potential non-tender but probably worth his $3M projected award. He seems marginally better than using Alex Jackson. Call the White Sox and offer them cash considerations.
  7. DJL44
    DeBarge is currently 4th in the league in OPS at 1157. Bruin Agbayani has a 437 OPS.
  8. DJL44
    Definitely a high offense league - 6.2 runs per team per 9 innings so far.
  9. DJL44
    I like having the highly paid veteran soak up the saves. It makes arbitration cheaper for the younger pitchers. If Hoffman is successful he could be flipped at the deadline.
  10. DJL44
    Hopefully whichever 2B they sign this offseason.
  11. DJL44
    Radke was in the zone, but you didn’t know where in the zone or what speed.
  12. DJL44
    Ok, but that is the kind of insight you get from a high school pitching coach.
  13. DJL44
    “simplify, simplify. For example, this will look like Bradley leaning heavily on his elite cutter; Ryan trusting his fastball even more; and Jeff Hoffman spamming his slider“ That approach worked for Mariano Rivera, but most pitchers don’t have a best pitch as good as Rivera’s cutter. It sounds like they’re hiring a throwing coach, not a pitching coach.
  14. DJL44
    I remember the Twins bringing in another coaching prodigy from Tampa - Rocco Baldelli
  15. DJL44
    Still trying to figure out what word got autocorrected to “tables”
  16. DJL44
    So they can’t develop pitching because they haven’t looked at their pitchers hard enough?
  17. DJL44
    I saw Baseball America ranked the Twins minor league pitching as among the worst in Stuff+, so maybe they could use more help in the analytics department. Why can’t they draft any decent pitching?
  18. DJL44
    Men are probably too emotional to play sports.
  19. DJL44
    The whole point of analytics is to find those players and maximize their development.
  20. DJL44
    It isn’t about people, it is about what the analysts are doing and whether that analysis adds value.
  21. DJL44
    They’re well positioned to win about 82 games and lose in the wild card round. Is that the goal?
  22. DJL44
    I looked up historic worst Twins pitchers for grins JA Happ, Scott Klingenbeck, John Pacella, Jerry Fosnow, Sean Bergman, Matt Shoemaker, Terry Felton, Liam Hendriks Cody Christie turned it into an article in 2024.
  23. DJL44
    Cost of the player’s salary should never figure into an MVP vote. I don’t want the best players disqualified because they’re paid fairly for their performance. It is most/least valuable, not most under/overpaid.
  24. DJL44
    Gotta go with Wallner who was expected to bat in the middle of the lineup and was equally terrible on defense and offense.
  25. DJL44
    That could happen before they leave Fort Myers
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