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  1. gunnarthor
    This if off topic and your post was clearly cheeky but I do hope the Vets Committee does a decent job of examining the long list of pitchers that the BBWAA have ignored since about 1992. It wasn't just Jack Morris. The BBWAA have held incredibly high standards for starting pitchers for the last 25 years and that's hurt Johan but it also hurt guys like Cone, Brown, Appier, Saberhagen, Radke, El Presidente, Moyer etc. They don't all deserve to be HOFers of course, but they probably deserved longer looks than they got.
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    Apparently, according to this Republican, Trump voters are just big babies at this point.
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    I disagree. I don't think he'll go in first ballot but he'll get in in three or four vote cycles. The "stupid old voter" will vote for Mauer b/c of the batting titles and MVP that had never been done before while the "smart new voter" will vote for him based on JAWS or something. Since there is something for each voter, the main issue they will all tackle would be "was his peak long enough". It'll take a few years, but he'll get in.
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    This article was posted on minor league ball and the timing is good seeing we just saw Ohtani. https://www.minorleagueball.com/2018/5/13/17349416/tampa-bay-rays-are-moving-prospect-brendan-mckay-up-the-ladder McKay has been moved up to high A after killing it on both sides of the ball in A ball. I'm still not convinced that he can do both at the ML level but I'd like to see him make it so we get more of these kind of guys.
  5. gunnarthor
    Good road trip. Splitting four games with the Angels is pretty good, especially with all the injuries the team has right now. They could easily have won yesterday. I'm getting sick of these rough losses (6 walk offs already?).
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    Yeah. About a decade or so ago the Twins managed to get a bunch of decent seasons out of guys like Blackburn (two 2 WAR seasons), Slowey (one), Baker (three) types. Not great pitchers but they knew how to pitch with the stuff they had. I'm starting to think Littell could have that kind of impact. Solid back of the rotation type who might pitch above his stuff a bit.
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    Callis has a mock up - https://www.mlb.com/news/college-players-lead-in-mlb-mock-draft/c-276190214 Mocks are sort of fun if for no other reason to see how some strange things could happen. Callis has the Twins nabbing Florida RHP Jackson Kowar who, at #20, would be a pretty nice get. Callis also suggested that a hamstring injury might let Kumar Rocker to fall past the Twins to the Cubs.
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    Right wingers tend to be more emotional so it's easier for them to be lead by charismatic leaders or believe crazy theories (birther nonsense, Benghazi, immigration myths) or get easily riled up over minor things. We're long past the point of right wingers ignoring facts. They actively avoid facts and rely on feelings. Immigrants must be bad b/c that feels right. Hillary Clinton must have broken the law because she's that sort of person. The left wing media keeps saying Trump lies so they must be anti-Trump.
  9. gunnarthor
    I wonder if there is something else going on. I'm a bit surprised since he wasn't on the 40 man so there was no (obvious) need to make this move.
  10. gunnarthor
    Some were. I wasn't.
  11. gunnarthor
    mlbpipeline will make three adjustments to their top 100 as the season goes on. Today was the first one with some minor tweaks. I think Romero went up a spot or two. Not sure though. https://www.mlb.com/news/12-changes-to-the-top-100-prospects-list/c-275769288
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    That's the big question for the new FO. The reason I thought Ryan was pretty good was that he was able to keep a low payroll team competitive for basically a decade because he could replace players with guys from our system. Whether or not Levine can pull that off is an open question. Looking at the low minors, it does seem like we have a nice pipeline of talent. My guess is the Twins will keep some of our young core past arbitration but we will have to replace some and how the guys in the minors are playing will help figure out which ones.
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    In his first 19 games (72 PA), he didn't walk once and struck out 33% of the time. In his last ten games, his walk rate has been 13% and his k-rate is 25% in 44 PA. It's just too early to worry. He's making adjustments but we won't see those in his overall line for a bit. It'll take time but he's on progress. It wasn't realistic to expect him to light up AA pitching as soon as he saw it. What's important is if he can make the adjustments.
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    I think it's too early to get concerned. He was a late 1st/early 2nd draft guy for a reason. He's in AA. It might take him the entire season to get there. The SEC is not as good as AA.
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    Nice write up!
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    I hope they push him but it's probably more realistic to let him just get back into the grove of baseball and not worry. He needs to work on his strike outs and walks anyway.
  17. gunnarthor
    Good point. He's not Buerhle but he has a great pace. Makes it easier for his defenders and viewers.
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    17 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier teams were still using segregated hotels
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    I think it's cyclical although our emphasis on "launch angle" might end up just being an excuse for much more PED use than thought in the league. My guess is that as hitters see the one dimensional slugger type becoming easy to replace, hitters will strive to improve their hitting tool and not just power. We've made tons of improvements on power but we really haven't seen a 'hit' break-out yet.
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    Great article. Do you (or anyone) have any information about how well he's actually throwing strikes in the zone and how much hitters are chasing pitches out of the zone?
  21. gunnarthor
    I don't have the link but the Washington Post's plum line noted that Dems have been running successful issue campaigns without needing to bring up Trump. He's everywhere so the Dems have been able to push back against the GOP tax bill or destruction of the individual mandate. Honestly, I think the health care thing is going to be a huge issue for the midterms. This summer we'll see health care costs go up quite a bit b/c of the tax bill and I think voters will not like that, even in rural areas. This is shaping up to be a really bad election for the Republicans, despite their gerrymandered safety nets.
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    Great update, Seth! Nice to see the top five. Hopefully guys like Rooker and Baddoo make the (small) adjustments needed to take off. Graterol is really exciting. I think Mayo said he had a Luis Sevirino comp on him.
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    The general worry was 1) he was a decent starter in the minors and probably deserves more rope and 2) his back broke down from pitching more often as a reliever. Those aren't crazy thoughts. From age 21-24, May was throwing 150+ innings in the minors and he looked like a future workhorse back-end starter. A more durable Scott Baker if everything broke right but someone who might be able to throw 30 stars with a ERA+ in the 100ish range was something you could imagine. He came up in 2014 and was destroyed. He looked horrible in 9 ML starts. The next year, he made 15 starts (80 innings) and in June it really looked like he had turned a corner but for one horrific start. But they moved him to the pen. He was pretty good there and a big part of our near-playoff push. The next year he was in the pen full time but struggled (as did everyone on the Twins). He struck out a ton of guys but other than that, he wasn't good. He had two long DL trips and was sore several times. Molly ran him into the dirt and he wore down as the season went on. (Another reason Molly should have been fired). So last year the Twins said he'd get a shot to start and he promptly needed TJ surgery. So now he's 28 years old, on the 60 day DL and not quite sure what role he'll play going forward.
  24. gunnarthor
    That's what I'm worried about, too.
  25. gunnarthor
    Agreed. Obviously, it depends on how he finishes the year but I would imagine he'd be back either on a new deal or (less likely) the Twins could still just take his option.
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