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  1. alarp33
    I was thinking about this recently. The fact that Graham is hardly ever discussed as an option, and with all the young guys close to breaking through, makes it so mind blowing that the Twins wasted a roster spot on him all last season.
  2. alarp33
    Who are you referring to? What players are you worried about offending?
  3. alarp33
    Kepler is not now, nor will ever be in a competition with Buxton. Would he be a potential CF option if Buxton were to go on the DL early in the season? Sure, but his clearest route to the Majors is Rosario continuing to be allergic to walks, a Plouffe trade, etc. If you want to worry about Kepler's feelings, I would ask what he thinks about them moving Sano to RF.
  4. alarp33
    Good thing he's a different player and person than Aaron Hicks I guess!
  5. alarp33
    You just named 22 players. The roster is 25 All those years keeping a 3rd catcher to play once every 2 weeks, we definitely could not have found room to have Valencia mash lefties 2-3 times a week. PS: How did the Blue Jays and A's find room for Valencia to platoon, did they have an extra roster spot than us?
  6. alarp33
    Why?
  7. alarp33
    I'm not sure where to find all the Statcast stats, it's easy to look up batted ball speeds, but more difficult to find the running speeds. That being said, the link you provided was 1 time, a Reds coach timed Hamilton at 3.3... that's hardly the same thing as saying he runs a 3.3 home to 1st. If Buxton is faster for 270feet (who knows if he actually is), its certainly not fair to say "Buxton has 80 speed but Hamilton is much faster"... cuz I simply don't think that's true. Regardless, both incredibly fast... hopefully Buxton will be on base often this year so we can see that speed. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/165096680/billy-burns-leads-statcast-speed-rankings
  8. alarp33
    According to Statcast, his (Buxton) speed topped out at 21.39 mph, which is A) fast enough to get you pulled over in a Massachusetts school zone and .41 miles faster than Billy Hamilton's last triple, hit on May 13 against the Braves and maxing out at 20.98 mph. It's even faster than Jarrod Dyson's triple on May 10, which clocked in at 21.03 mph.
  9. alarp33
    When you are as fast as he is, I'm not sure it matters if he "starts slowly" in comparison to his high end speed... I'd imagine anyone who runs that fast at peak speed would appear to start slow on the eye test. I think it's all about getting better jumps/ reads off the pitcher, something someone with his level of speed likely never needed to refine until he got to the majors. He was simply fast enough to steal any base he wanted in high school and the low minors, regardless of jump
  10. alarp33
    Dozier - 14 home runs, half of the 2015 number Kepler - 350+ (productive) Plate appearances Duffey- <15 starts Buxton - .260/.330/.420 leads team in WAR
  11. alarp33
    I don't think he'll ever have the type of power Trout has, but McCutcheon didn't show any sort of power in the minors, he was tall and thin like Buxton before filling out some. I think 20-25 home runs is a reasonable ceiling for Buxton
  12. alarp33
    And so do Billy Hamilton, Lorenzo Cain, Juan Lagares, Kevin Pillar, Kevin Kiermarer, etc etc. It's kind of important for Center Fielders. Buxton should be the best of the best out there in CF, it doesn't make a Gomez comparison any better, since its kind of integral to being a CFer
  13. alarp33
    So that's a no to naming any?
  14. alarp33
    Ummm... what? 2015 ROC INT AAA 13 55 11 22 30 3 1 1 8 4 0 12 2 1 .400 .441 .545 .986 0.62 2015 CHA SOU AA 59 237 44 67 116 7 12 6 37 26 0 51 20 2 .283 .351 .489 .840 0.58
  15. alarp33
    Wait, are you telling me there are players who have hit in the minors and not in the Majors? Learn something new everyday.
  16. alarp33
    Buxton played 59 games at AA after missing practically the entire 2014 season. Gomez had a full season there, which was by far his most productive minor league season. But yes, keep cherry picking infinitely small sample sizes
  17. alarp33
    Can you provide me with a list of regular center fielders who don't have plus Speed and range? I'll wait I'm not taking it as a knock on Buxton, I'm taking it as a lazy comparison used to provide a narrative that he shouldn't be the starting CFer.
  18. alarp33
    Yes, it is common for Center fielders to be fast and have good range. There is something they call Outfielders without Speed + Range.. Its Left or Right fielders. A 22 year old has a slightly unrefined approach? That must certainly be unique to Buxton and Gomez. One of which had a .383 obp in the minors, by the way. But yes, very unrefined.. ie: he didn't hit the day he made the major leagues PS: I'm curious why Andrew McCutcheon is never used as a comparison for Buxton. Is it because he doesn't play for the Twins, or because it doesn't fit the narrative as well? http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1780212-comparing-top-hitting-prospect-byron-buxton-to-andrew-mccutchen
  19. alarp33
    You basically just described 90% of Center Field prospects. You didn't mention, Buxton has consistently been ranked as the best prospect in all of baseball, while Gomez was never even close to that category of prospect. PS: If Gomez never played for the Twins, would never ever compare Buxton to him. The minor league track record of each is not even in the same ballpark.
  20. alarp33
    Minors Career; Gomez: .278/.340/.395 Buxton: .301/.383/.489 Similarities between the 2; Center Fielders, Twins (former/current). End list
  21. alarp33
    No, they aren't. Though Kepler won't make the team, he'll play every day in AAA and be in MN if a starting OF hits the DL, or Rosario struggles big time.
  22. alarp33
    1) Syndergaard had a sore elbow last Spring, which explains the May promotion instead of mid to late April (not sure why that makes a difference) 2) Perhaps you are finding less examples of service time manipulation with pitchers because there happens to just be less top pitching prospects than position players? Keith Law's top 50 prospects for 2016 has 17 pitchers, 33 position players. I would imagine that's the split most years, since there are nearly twice as many starting position players as starting pitchers on a team I really don't see any correlation at all between service time mattering for position players, and not mattering for pitchers. If anything, teams should be more willing to hold back pitchers, because they can impact less games those 1st 2 weeks than a position player can.
  23. alarp33
    While I hope you are right, Molitor fell into the Gardy trap of keeping 13 pitchers pretty quickly last year. Not to mention, I for one was pretty disappointed with how they handled Arcia last year, who may have been able to provide a bench bat. I know he was awful at AAA, but the point remains, he was an Opening Day starter, went on the DL early.. then got stuck at AAA because he didn't hit on his 5 day rehab stint. Did that get into his head, causing a snowball effect of bad at bats in AAA... or was he truly just lost all season?
  24. alarp33
    To be fair, you started this off by saying "no baseball team has ever held down a top pitching prospect for 12 days at the start of the season" and reasoned "perhaps were overvaluing the extra year of control" Those comments are far different than its less likely than position players, or just less obvious (pretty likely, since pitchers have other factors working against them like pitch counts, throwing every 5 days, etc.)
  25. alarp33
    Lots of top pitching prospects debut in May, I'm not sure how you can say no team has ever held down a top pitching prospect to get the extra year of control. It may not be as blatant as it was with Bryant, since pitchers only play every 5 days anyways. David Price for example was used in the bullpen in September, but didn't come up the following year until mid May, I'm pretty sure they got the extra year handling it that way.
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