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  1. 2wins87
    The rest of tomorrow's starting pitcher assignments are out: Sands, Canterino, Povich, Raya. All worth a watch. Could be a fun night on the farm.
  2. 2wins87
    Still early enough that one good game from guys like Martin, Miranda, and Sabato can turn a slow start into a reasonably good looking start. Since no one else has really commented on Sabato, I will note that his K rate now stands at 26%. That's not bad for a power bat, and would be a good improvement if he can keep it up. He'll just need to access his power more consistently like he did last night.
  3. 2wins87
    Good to see another offensive explosion from CES. He had a couple of games where it looked like his hot start would fade, but he started showing more patience and walking a bit, and now he had this game. His overall line is still amazing. I'm really impressed at how little Rodriguez is striking out. He had a 36% strikeout rate in the complex league last year. To go from 36% to 10% is unheard of. I have to expect that there will be some regression from such a small sample, but it's been enough games now to say something seems to be different in his approach. With his raw power, if he can keep the Ks around 20% that will bode very well for his prospect status moving up.
  4. 2wins87
    Got to see my second Twins win in person at Fenway. It was a pretty perfect day for baseball. Joe Ryan kept the Sox fans pretty subdued most of the game. They got into it in the 8th but the Twins' little counter rally helped to quash that. Mostly the fans were more animated cheering for shirtless drunk guys in the bleachers, booing the one fan that for some reason decided to show up in full Yankees gear to a Twins-Sox game, or just generally chanting "Yankees suck!"
  5. 2wins87
    Fenway has a very weird angle in right field. There are balls that would be foul in any other park that can end up as home runs there. Garlick ended up running into the wall too shallow and the ball ended up over his head and into the seats behind him. He didn't make a very good play on it and had no chance to adjust due to the wall, but it's a tough park for guys that aren't used to it.
  6. 2wins87
    This coverage has been great Jeremy. Early on it seemed like one of the college hitters was destined for the #8 pick. It's a type they seem very comfortable scouting and there seems to be depth this year. But some other interesting options have emerged too. I still like the idea of either Parada or Susac. There is no one in the Twins system right now that I can point to that really projects as more than a third catcher. I think developing catcher defense is still an organizational strength even after the departure of Tanner Swanson, so I think they could do well with a bat first catcher (either of whom are mostly expected to stick at catcher anyway). I've started to get pretty interested in Matt Holliday's son Jackson though. It seems the consensus top 3 high school hitters will most likely be gone, but Holliday looks like someone who will have impact on both offense and defense. I don't think this front office is going to be in on one of the high school arms, but they do still sometimes surprise.
  7. 2wins87
    As I recall, the big question from last year was whether is changeup was a good enough third pitch. The fastball and curve should play, and there is no sign of the uncharacteristic control issues he struggled with last year. I'll be looking for any more scouting based info on his changeup this year. I don't think it's necessarily right to put him a tier below guys like Woods-Richardson and Canterino though.
  8. 2wins87
    Minor quibble, but I didn't really get trying to push for 4 innings out of Rodriguez when the game was still technically within reach, with 9 other guys in the bullpen and an off day today. I had this thought before he gave up the home runs. He'd managed to dance out of trouble in his first time through the order, but it seemed dangerous to give too many of the good Dodgers' hitters a second look at him. Anyway, it actually is way too early to be getting all doom and gloom. They have a somewhat tough opening set of series, but their playoff chances will rest largely on how they do against their division opponents. Yeah, there definitely is some weakness in the pitching staff, but there are exciting young guys to watch as well.
  9. 2wins87
    I thought the 4 run lead in Monday's game was a good time to get him in for an inning or maybe even two against a Mariner's lineup that hadn't looked all that impressive yet. Rocco seemed to be managing that game as if the lead was more like two runs. For someone who comes from the Ray's school of thought it sure does take him a long time to have any trust in young bullpen arms. The game before also would have been good, though I think he was still trying to get some of the other arms into a game, so I understand that one more. Winder definitely didn't seem to have conviction behind his pitches last night. I think there was really only one squared up which was the foul ball. Mostly it seemed like his stuff was good enough to generate weak or medium contact when it was in the zone, he just needed to get it in the zone more.
  10. 2wins87
    The bullpen certainly had some trouble throwing strikes, but without Arraez's brutal inning in the field it would have been a couple runs, maybe even 0, rather than a full-blown bullpen implosion. There was also the 3-2 ball 4 call on Thielbar's last pitch that was close, but a strike by the book and I think by the zone Meals had established the rest of the night. Anyway, not a great showing by the bullpen, but also not something I expect to see often from the pen. Still would much rather have Rogers than Pagan, but I do think the bullpen can be pretty good. We'll see how Paddack looks today, which is the real value if the FO really knows what it's doing with him.
  11. 2wins87
    I agree on Arraez DHing, but I don't really think Urshela needs to be DHing much. I'm ok with Sanchez there from time to time, especially against lefties, but I don't really think he needs to be the primary DH. I don't know if its some sort of traditional bias for the DH being a power guy, I wouldn't really expect this team and Rocco to have that kind of bias, but Arraez is probably the best suited player for the DH spot on the team as one of the best overall hitters and a somewhat shaky fielder. When a lefty is pitching there are plenty of RH bats that are probably at least equivalent statistically, since Arraez does have the platoon splits you would expect, but I also never mind seeing his bat in the lineup since he has good at bats almost all the time.
  12. 2wins87
    Pretty good series overall. Definitely out-played the Mariners despite the split. I was pretty skeptical of the way the front office approached the pitching this offseason, but of course so far it looks like Wes Johnson and co. are back to their wizarding ways after last season's mixed results. We'll have to see how they fare against the better Dodger's lineup.
  13. 2wins87
    15 years? Edit: Oh "how?" and not "how long?" Movement and a different arm angle I guess.
  14. 2wins87
    I think the dislike of the sinker is pretty league-wide, so it's a really weird choice. The Angels have not seemed to be a particularly deftly run organization over the last decade so who knows. It seems like he mostly threw the sinker to right handed hitters last year, which was a continued trend over the course of his career. Maybe he thought it was more effective against righties, who have been somewhat of an issue for him over his career, but were really an issue last year. Seems like the more obvious solution would be to eliminate it all-together though given how clearly inferior it has been to his other pitches.
  15. 2wins87
    One small sample stat that has stood out to me from this weekend is Emmanuel Rodriguez's 6 BB to 2 K. He did a pretty decent job of talking free passes last year in the complex league, but his strikeout rate over 30% was also a point of caution. I'm sure that coaches are in every prospect's ear about being more selective, but I'm eager to continue watching to see if maybe something has stuck a chord with him. I'm already pretty excited about his power.
  16. 2wins87
    I'm not sure I have a full answer but probably mainly data collection and manpower. Pitch tracking and other techs have now become ubiquitous at big colleges and in high school circuits. And I don't know for sure that this is true but I think that even as data has become a bigger part of scouting, the number of traditional scouts has not decreased and has most likely increased. It's just a much more cost effective way of acquiring talent, and it's not just smaller market teams trying to find a cheaper edge, the big teams now focus just as much on building their pipelines and everyone needs to keep up with the crowd. Also I think basically every sport has a lot more infrastructure around it at the amateur level these days, which is part of why things like world records have mostly continued to keep progressing steadily over the years. Baseball is not really different and it's probably led to getting the eyes of evaluators on young players earlier and more often.
  17. 2wins87
    I think modern scouting has gotten better and better at identifying truly special talents more accurately earlier. CES seems to be a guy who has been on the rise quickly for the last few years though, so we'll just have to see how long that continues. He has certainly had the most exciting start to a season for any prospect that I can remember. Hard to fault him for not walking yet in two games when he's been crushing pitches to early in the count to get close to walks for the most part. He had 5 BBs to 26 Ks in 92 plate appearances last year, so the plate discipline definitely seems to be a weak spot still. We will see more swing and miss when he's not quite so dialed in, but it seems like improving his pitch selection could help to mitigate that. Reportedly the Twins viewed him mostly as a first baseman when they drafted him, but his hard work and defensive improvement this off-season has forced them to give him a greater opportunity to prove he can stick at the hot corner.
  18. 2wins87
    Cavavo, Rodriguez, and Kalai Rosario could potentially do a lot of damage in the middle of the mussel's lineup, with Miller hopefully setting the table
  19. 2wins87
    Seems like some genuine overreactions on Kirilloff from one game against one of the best lefties in the league. I think he might have a slow start, he is one of a few guys that I don't think was quite dialed in by the end of spring training. However, he's not going to be a super high strikeout guy, and he'll most likely be a pretty good hitter.
  20. 2wins87
    Don't forget Mauer also missed the first month of 2009 with back issues. He had a monster year but it could have really been one for the ages had he been healthy to start the season.
  21. 2wins87
    Ok so Fangraphs updated their depth charts. I noted that they projected the Twins starters for 9.7 WAR prior to the trade and 3.4 WAR for the bullpen. Rogers accounted for 1.9 of that bulletin number. After the trade they project the starters for 10.6 WAR and the bullpen for 1.8 WAR. So they lose 0.7 wins on paper in the deal. This is about what I expected, actually slightly better than I was thinking. Archer picked up 10 relief innings in their projection, I think he just lost innings overall, though he's still projected for 80 some innings as a starter. Probably guys like Winder and Jax lost some projected starting innings and picked up a couple bullpen innings as well. Most of Rogers' innings went to Pagan. The team innings totals actually don't even match the sum of the projected player's innings so it's not a perfect projection but I think it does a good enough job of setting baseline expectations. I've come around a bit on what they might hope to do with Paddack to exceed his current projection, but I don't think you can give any extra credit for what might happen. As it is, the move probably will cost them a bit this year, maybe just a game overall, but still something when they might be in a very tight race for the final playoff spot. Maybe there is decent value from this trade next year, but at the moment I just can't really get behind a trade that probably makes them worse this year.
  22. 2wins87
    Minor league app says Canterino.
  23. 2wins87
    I enjoy following prospects as much as anyone, but watching a successful team is always more fun than watching a few young guys break out on a bad team. I'm not saying Rogers is the difference between a good and bad team, and my hopes for the team for this year are really just to make the expanded playoffs and maybe get on a bit of a roll to actually win a series or two. That is certainly still a possibility, but this trade still makes the team clearly worse in 2022 on paper, when they are clearly on the bubble of playoff contention. It's not like Paddack and Pagan will likely be crucial to the team's success in 2023 either. That will depend on successful moves next offseason and solid progress from a number of prospects or recently graduated prospects. That's what annoys me about this trade.
  24. 2wins87
    I don't really buy into the idea of "proven closers" either but that's different from saying that there are definite tiers of relievers. Rogers might not quite be in the Hader and Hendriks tier but he's right below there. 5th most reliever WAR in all of baseball from 2018-2021 Any reliever, even Mariano Rivera, can blow some games from time to time. But I'm thinking more about guys like Zack Littell and Cody Stashak getting blown up by the Yankees in the middle innings of playoff games in 2019 rather than Nathan blowing saves in the 2000s. They are subtracting a very good bullpen arm. Everyone else will move up a spot in the leverage chain, and the chances of blowing a lead somewhere in the middle and late innings just goes up a bit everywhere.
  25. 2wins87
    No they can only lose them, but that's kind of the point.
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