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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Bummer. Not yet I guess.
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Agree, tweaking the mechanics can be tricky business. Only the pitcher knows what's comfortable and there are a lot of different ways to sling a baseball.
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Quick point. The comparison is not the career potential of Alex Meyer to Randy Johnson or Sam Deduno, the comparison is actually to the control issues those guys all had. I don't want to be the guy who attacks every time an Alex Meyer article pops up, so I'll let it go. We will see him this year I agree completely. Hopefully very soon. Free Alex!
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Good reporting Nick. Even looking at photos, Meyer looks like he's still a work in progress. But here again, Meyer is a top prospect. I also don't feel Terry Ryan can use "control problems" as a reason to leave Meyer in the minors. Samuel Deduno, right? It was a point of pride that nobody knew where a Deduno pitch was going to fly off to. Wildness was Deduno's calling card. I would think Ryan would want Meyer up ASAP regardless. If he struggles we'll all see it and Ryan can just send him back down with everybody's blessing. It will be fun (I think) to watch how this develops, and to see Meyer finally make his debut.
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Didn't realize it was only a couple weeks. At this point, why not. I do think the Twins would have been better off calling him up last year, even after his innings limit, even to just ride with the team.
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The "service clock" argument for Meyer needs to be retired immediately.
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I'm ok (I suppose) with Milone winning the spot. But that comes with the real possibility of Meyer and May being packed back to Rochester. Hard to get excited about that idea. Those guys could use the MLB appearances. Like others have said, the wear on the arm is the same, whether they're throwing a pitch in AAA or MLB.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Sorry 'bout that
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Can a person even be absolutely sure about that anymore?
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I would like to hear Torii say: "Granted, my UZR dipped to -18.3 at Comerica but my wRC+ is still strong and if my BABIP and slash lines see positive linear regression, I'm coming back."
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I'm glad Gibson has pitched well, because with competition for this final spot of the rotation, I'm not convinced Gibson might not have been one of the guys optioned. Looks like Milone is a couple lengths clear of the field to this point.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Would love to make it down there. I never realized the teams were all so close together until I heard Will Ferrell played in five different games in one day
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I agree. This gap between cFIP and what really happened seems to point to the Twins outfield fielding. Eduardo Escobar Chris Colabello Chris Parmelee Jason Bartlett Eduardo Nunez All these guys and more were designated outfielders at some point last year; Parmelee was probably the least bad option among these. Hopefully it's all on the past. Doesn't matter anymore if it was Gardy insisting that anyone who shagged fly balls during BP was qualified or if it was Ryan trying to "ride it out" (Ryan did acquire Sam Fuld, who despite his poor arm was able to keep many balls from hitting the ground). Schafer seemed to get to balls in left that Willingham and Kubel had no chance at, this is why I would be fine letting Schafer hold a place somewhere out there, until Buxton and others get their chance. This is also why I respect Molitor's judgment to not want to use Santana as a CF even though Santana did improve as the season went along.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    So according to cFIP the Twins have a league average staff, or thereabouts. The Twins pitchers are also at the bottom of the league in getting strikeouts, and it's not even close. If cFIP has validity (it appears so) then what does that mean for the value of a strikeout?
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    "When I hear a pitcher is throwing a “simulated game” my first thought is that he repeated the opposing lineup 10,000 times." -Jonathan Judge tweet
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    and I think Mauer throws for 380 yards in that game
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I will make the opposite prediction. It's the first two weeks of spring and he's already making mental gaffes. To me that's a sign he won't have the discipline to maintain his gains and will (again) start to lose interest when things get tough. I'm sure he's a great guy but he's not going to make it in MLB (would be happy to be wrong, etc). Give Schafer the first chance to hold the CF spot instead.
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Very interesting. Mauer was quite a star all those years and gave people a lot of enjoyment, but there still is some dissatisfaction about that last decade. And now the past few years, we're back to chasing third place again.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Absolutely. It starts with the player and Plouffe gets credit for wanting to be a better player. Which goes back to Sano joking about his diet. If Sano comes to the majors and for some reason doesn't take it seriously or is a distraction, Ryan is justified in sending him back to Rochester. But I hate to think the Twins are planning to invoke some long ago discredited wisdom about prospect development clocks, or that Sano will need to play a full season in the minors "to see how his elbow holds up" or something like that. It feels like other teams don't go by those old unwritten rules much anymore. Of course this is just the fan in me talking. Bring up Sano!
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Great link, great play. Where will Sano play? He will play third base. Nice that Molly could turn around Plouffe's defensive game. We sat through full seasons of Plouffe and Valencia playing pretty bad baseball at third. Sano couldn't be any worse than those guys were. Plouffe is a decent player now and should have some value to some teams. He should be dealt ASAP. If Sano has a nice spring then put Sano on 3B on Day 1 and if he struggles or is a little too squirrelly and you need to send him down, then send him down. This ain't rocket science. Also that might be as hard as a third baseman had ever thrown a baseball. Mauer is probably still soaking his hand in ice as we speak........
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    You are right. It doesn't look like Pinto knows where home plate is.
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Yes that is what I thought. Thanks for pointing it out (again I see). My belief was that a catcher's SB-CS stats were measured solely by whether a base runner was safe or out on a steal attempt where the pitch was delivered to home plate etc. (why would the stat be anything else?) I will take another look.
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Clarified-thanks. More like 2-8 then. I would assume most qualifying catchers have similar data, however. Still, Pinto's small sample of 5-11 or 45% would have put him among the leaders. Did Pinto attempt any catcher pick-offs in 2014 or did the coaches see those wild throws and tell him to stop throwing to bases? (It would be very defensible advice, in my opinion, but might play tricks with Pinto's confidence.) Not sure that "pickoff attempt" data is observed and recorded anywhere, so it's just an idle thought.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Also for the sake of fairness, Pinto in 2013 threw out 5 of 11 base stealers and in 159 innings was not charged with a passed ball. What changed between 2013 and 2014 (besides adding Suzuki and Steinbach). Another good question. Correction: Steinbach also coached in 2013
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It's the lefties like Wilson who probably need the practice more. It can be a 270 degree pivot and straight line sprint, unlike the nice arc a righty can take. Some people make it look easy only because they practice it over and over.
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