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  1. DJL44
    If you go to Baseball Reference and look up the team you will see an RField of 21 - which means they saved 21 runs above an average defense.
  2. DJL44
    1) No, and he never will be. Celestino, Gordon, Kepler. Later in the season Austin Martin. 2) You'll only see a change if they swap Kepler for a RH hitting outfielder. 3) Larnach's position 4) Urshela this season 5) This is a good question. 6) Positional flexibility means there probably isn't a set infield 7) Off day player 9) Maeda to the bullpen. Mahle should be fine. Paddack comes back late if at all. Can Ober stay healthy for a full season? The rotation is pretty unpredictable - lots of injuries and youth. They will have to be able to quickly determine who is performing well and they aren't really good at that. 10) Maeda to the bullpen helps a lot here.
  3. DJL44
    This is the third or fourth defensive metric where Polanco rated poorly. He had an awful season in the field.
  4. DJL44
    So, DH only? He's too good of a defender for that.
  5. DJL44
    Umm, not based on that logo.
  6. DJL44
    The Cardinals look like a great fit for Murphy.
  7. DJL44
    It would be kind of boring to say that every year.
  8. DJL44
    Clearly you get a letter C decorated like a baseball with a Twins logo on it. Look at the picture.
  9. DJL44
    Finish in 3rd place
  10. DJL44
    Sold. 3 years $27M for a starting caliber catcher is well worth it.
  11. DJL44
    And the only candidates they have to develop one are Jhoan Duran and Connor Prielipp. Prielipp is at least 3 years away.
  12. DJL44
    This is just objectively wrong. It's a lot harder to find someone who can give you five good innings than someone who can pitch effectively for one inning. Just look at Griffin Jax for example. He was terrible in the rotation but he was able to increase velocity and lean more on his slider in the bullpen. The vast majority of starting pitchers in baseball would be "lights out" relievers. That's where they find the relievers - guys who couldn't hack it in the starting rotation like Jax, Lopez, and Tyler Duffey (just to name players who were on the Twins in 2022). Duran is different because he never really got a chance to fail in the rotation. His injuries and lack of innings in recent seasons meant he was going to be limited in innings in 2022. His performance pretty much demanded he play in the big leagues. They compromised by putting him the bullpen. I don't see a reason to limit his innings in 2023, in fact I think he might be better served by not pitching with maximum effort every pitch.
  13. DJL44
    Nola and Wheeler have both pitched like All-Stars the past few seasons. Nola has two top 10 finishes in Cy Young voting. Wheeler got MVP votes last year. If they aren't "aces" then there aren't any in MLB.
  14. DJL44
    Or throwing the hardest split finger fastball in the history of baseball. Look at how many arms Roger Craig shredded with the splitter. I don't know if it's the max effort that causes injuries or the fatigue from pitching multiple innings, or both, or neither. If he's in the bullpen he's pitching max effort every pitch. Jhoan Duran wants to start. If the Twins won't let him he's not likely to sign a contract extension. Then you're looking at trading him in a couple seasons.
  15. DJL44
    Kenta Maeda is coming off surgery which will limit his innings. He's been successful as a reliever in the past and is actually cheaper if they use him in the bullpen.
  16. DJL44
    It is rare to get a leverage index of 2 for any inning, let alone 70 of them. This is probably not possible. His leverage was 1.6 last season. Would you rather hand the bullpen a lead 30 times a year or try to find 60 games where Duran holds the lead.
  17. DJL44
    I'm not sure if the Twins want a primary catcher. I think they would rather share the job 50/50. I'm on record as wanting them to sign Christian Vazquez as the other half. The no-hitter last night reinforced that.
  18. DJL44
    I'm going to bet Jeffers plays out his entire career before we get an automated strike zone in MLB.
  19. DJL44
    League average batting average is .243. So, you're fine with them as long as they're a league average hitter which is well above average for a catcher.
  20. DJL44
    People here are fixated on stolen base percentage when you really need to consider stolen bases allowed per inning. Jeffers allowed 31 stolen bases in 496 innings. That's one stolen base every other game which is consistent with the league median rate for stolen bases per game - 0.53. MLB Stats - MLB Team Stolen Bases per Game | TeamRankings.com Jeffers had an 18% caught stealing percentage. League average CS% is 25%. If Jeffers had been league average at catching runners he would have allowed 29 stolen bases. So the difference between Jeffers and an average major league catcher is two extra stolen bases every 500 innings. He's not throwing out as quite many runners because of his stance which is designed to allow him to frame pitches at the bottom of the strike zone. He doesn't have to get many calls with his framing to make it worth giving up 2 extra steals every 500 innings.
  21. DJL44
    Actually other than a weak arm Piazza was a pretty good catcher.
  22. DJL44
    I agree with this. The Twins have money to spend in the budget and are low on prospect capital. They need to spend some money acquiring talent this winter.
  23. DJL44
    The problem with upgrading offensively at catcher is they only play 80-100 games behind the plate. That's about the same as the offensive upgrade you get from the 80 games Buxton plays every season.
  24. DJL44
    I saw him hit a home run, therefore his slugging percentage must be wrong.
  25. DJL44
    If you look at Fielding Bible stats Jeffers is basically average defensively Fielding Bible His arm cost the team 1 run over the course of the season. That's it. He rated higher than both Narvaez and Barnhart. The total runs saved for Arm range from Realmuto (+9) to Kevin Plawecki (-5), This is the easiest thing to measure for catcher defense BTW. You either let the runner advance or you didn't. Looking over the free agent catchers Christian Vazquez is the cream of the crop defensively (11 runs saved overall). Narvaez (2), Sanchez (1), Contreras (-1), and Barnhart (-8) all rate lower than Jeffers. Vazquez has a .682 career OPS vs RHP and .731 vs LHP. Jeffers is .617 vs RHP and .794 vs LHP. They complement each other pretty well. Put them together and you have a .730 OPS catcher who is a plus defender.
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