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  1. Eris
    If you were to subtract of the 5 games Buxton mixed following his knee injury the figure would be 23/30, which equates to 124 games for the season.
  2. Eris
    The 36.4 K% is just appalling. He is right down there with Joey Gallo in terms of MLB career worst K%. This year might be the end of the line for both of them. i am somewhat surprised he has not been put on the 60 day DL, as the Twins are down to there last available bat on the 40 man roster.
  3. Eris
    It has been posted by D Park that Carlos Correa’s finger is broken
  4. Eris
    Seeing Duran’s splitter get crushed reminded me of Jim Hoey. He too had a high octane FB but hitters would tee off on his splitter.
  5. Eris
    Here in NJ, cases are above where they were in February when the Omicron variant first swept the country. Being that MLB no longer tests on a daily basis and that people are infectious 1 to 2 days before showing symptoms, there is the potential to have more than a few players infected. if I am reading this article correctly, the Covid IL and replacement policy is the same as last year, including the ability to have a taxi squad. As far as I know, the Twins do not currently have a taxi squad, is this correct. https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2022-03-16/mlb-eliminates-regular-covid-19-testing?_amp=true
  6. Eris
    I think Max Kepler would be the backup 1B on the roster. Although he has not had many innings there in the majors, he did spend some time at that position while in the minor leagues.
  7. Eris
    It does make you wonder what the Rays were thinking. His minor league numbers look good. His negatives are that he only had two pitches and at 25 years he is a little old for a prospect. The general MLB philosophy is that someone with 2 pitches can only be a reliever and therefore expendable in a trade. I am wondering what Wes Johnson’s contributions to his success are. Also, if memory serves me correctly, Brad Radke only had 2 pitches
  8. Eris
    I feel that I should have placed more of a premium on finding a spouse who loved baseball back when I was dating. In fairness, I feel that my spouse misrepresented herself. She went to more baseball games with me while we were dating than she has in the 30 years we have been married.
  9. Eris
    On Celestino. While I agree that he needs to play every day for his development. He provides the Twins with a lot of defensive flexibility. He has appeared in 4 of the last 6 games although once as a PR. He has enabled the Twins to PH for for their outfielders (mostly Garlick and Larnach, sometimes Kepler) late in the game to get more favorable match ups at the plate and to upgrade their outfield defense over Larnach and Garlick. Normally a team would only carry one defensive forth outfielder. This is a role occupied by both Gordon and Celestino. When the roster contracts, Celestino will likely be sent down.
  10. Eris
    I don’t know much about how WPA is determined. Surprised that Pagan had the second highest WPA last night. I would have given him a negative WPA for the nail biter he created by issuing 2 BB and for the 2 or 3 balls in the dirt with the bases loaded. Had he pitched a clean 9th, would his WPA have been the same.
  11. Eris
    Does anyone know the duration of TOS symptoms that Archer has. Do his fingers become numb after throwing a certain number of pitches and then this numbness goes away in a day or two or does the numbness appear after multiple outings and then lasts for weeks or months. Neither Phil Hughes or Matt Harvey have returned to their pre TOS levels.
  12. Eris
    I agree with you. The Angels would be a better team if Trout moved to LF. While there is no question that Trout is the best offensive player of this generation he has become an average to below average defensive CF. In outs above average from 2016 to 2021, Trout has -3 OAA (worse than 40th on this list). https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/outs_above_average?type=Fielder&startYear=2016&endYear=2021&split=no&team=&range=year&min=q&pos=8&roles=&viz=hide Just imagine how good Buxton would be if he was on the field more than half the games
  13. Eris
    “Nothing stops the team from moving him up and down from Triple-A throughout the 2022 season.” I thought a part of the new CBA limits the number of times a player can be optioned per year to 5.
  14. Eris
    Not quite analytical, but it gives you an idea. Here are some of the lopsided stats: Yankees pitchers have a 1.78 ERA (108 IP, 21 ER) with Higashioka catching and a 3.92 ERA (151.2 IP, 66 ER) when Sanchez is receiving. Higashioka is hitting .243 with four homers, seven RBI with a 1.012 OPS, while Sanchez is at .180 with two homers, four RBI and a .619 OPS. Higashioka has no errors, one passed ball and has thrown out two of six base stealers compared to Sanchez’ three errors, one passed ball and 1-for-8 caught stealings. The Yankees are 9-2 when Higashioka starts, 6-12 when Sanchez starts. source: https://www.nj.com/yankees/2021/05/kyle-higashioka-or-gary-sanchez-yankees-pitchers-get-no-input-on-aaron-boones-daily-catcher-decision.html?outputType=amp
  15. Eris
    Towards the end of the 2021 season, when the games really started to matter, Sanchez lost his starting job to Kyle Higashioka. A Defensive first cather. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/kyle-higashioka/5517/stats?position=C It could well be that the Yankees see Rortvedt as one of their catchers of the future edited to add. One of the Yankees top prospects, Austin Wells (#5 in their system) is an offense first catcher with an ETA of 2023
  16. Eris
    If the Twins were unwilling to accept Donaldson’s contract why do we think they will spend even more money to sign a SS or SP. it is really hard to comprehend the value of a trade that makes the Twins worse at 3 positions.
  17. Eris
    Remember lots of discussions on how Liriano’s nasty slider would put a lot of stress on his elbow. Almost if having Tommy John surgery was a fore gone conclusion. When Liriano returned from TJ surgery, the issue became the consistency of his delivery. I remember seeing a chart somewhere that on Liriano’s effective outings, a plot of his release points would fit on a grapefruit. On his bad outings, the release point plot expanded to the size of a watermelon.
  18. Eris
    I am also down on Celestino. I think one of the reasons for being negative is the Twins got nothing in return for Baddoo and Wade, both of whom had better seasons than Celestino. Edited to add: It seems that Nick Gordon played CF as good as or better than Celestino. Defensively, both were slightly below league average but Gordon achieved this without any prior experience in CF.
  19. Eris
    At A+ Wallner’s stats are BB% almost 10, K% 33 Rooker at the same level has similar BB% with K% 29 Data is from Fangraphs.
  20. Eris
    Rooker in left? It is one of the challenges faced when the team drafts a bunch of bat first outfielders whose best long term position might be DH. I would not be signing any of these free agents as we have a number of positionless players (Arraez, Gordon, Rooker, Larnach, Sano?) who will need to play somewhere. Agree with Old Fox that Martin might be the best internal option.
  21. Eris
    According to MLB Trade Values, Lewis for Sonny Gray (2 years remaining on his contract) would be a reasonable trade. As a Twins fan, I would not want that trade made because I expect 2022 to be a lost year.
  22. Eris
    You forgot Shooter Hunt. With a name like that what could possibly go wrong. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=hunt--001sho
  23. Eris
    The MLBPA association are hardly saints in this process. Look at how the sold out on the minor leaguers, negotiating their salaries and conditions but not letting them be part on the union so they can actually vote. The MLBPA resistance to drug testing was one of their larger disgraces. There are proposals that would seem to make a more competitive balance. Increased revenue sharing in return for a salary floor. Such a proposal would be popular with the average to below average players as it would mean higher salaries for the none elite. They get to vote on the contract as well. Correct? I realize the opposite has been presented in the Manfred discussion. But why would the average player agree to a provision that means fewer opportunities for them I think a form of restricted free agency (as in football) would be useful. A player can be controlled by one team for upto 14 years. This is too long.
  24. Eris
    Byron Buxton needs a crash course on risk assessment. The risk to take in a close game should be much different than if having a lopsided score. I can’t remember if it was 2019 or 2020, but Buxton hurt himself running full speed into the wall vs the White Sox in a game the Twins were up by a lot.
  25. Eris
    I would be inclined to pass on all of these buy low candidates in favor of protecting more of our Rule 5 eligible pitchers. Tyler Wells was more valuable than any of the buy low candidates last year. Finding 3 starting pitchers is a significant -almost improbable task. (2 if Peneda resigns). At some point the Twins need to depend on their farm system to contribute.
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