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  1. jimbo92107
    Neil Allen: Dang Kyle, that almost hit you. That's a hint. Gibson: I have no idea what you mean. Bartender, one more towel, please.
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    Lucky me, I'm headed out to play tennis for a couple hours. I'll survey the damage later. Call me if FEMA is required. I may need another bar towel for that puddle of sarcasm...
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    Getting the impression Gibson has abandoned that whole "pitch inside and mix 'em up" idea. Gosh, this team sure could use a young ace from the draft. Any candidates? Excuse me, I'll clean up that puddle of sarcasm.
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    Yah, "best breaking pitches" shouldn't just mean the most RPM and sharpest bend. The best breaking pitches by far in the pen belong to Duffey, who can actually throw his curves to specific places, at different speeds and angles. Pressly is having a good day when he can get his benders somewhere in the zone. I'm pretty sure Pressly spent most of his time in AAA working on his arm slot and release point.
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    Mejia's pitch graph looks like a shotgun accident. First lesson in pointillism?
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    I have a feeling the Twins will regret not taking Wright, or Gore...
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    Just watched a couple videos of McKenzie Gore. Whoa...that kid might just cruise through the minors in about two years. Why draft a SS when a championship team needs ace pitching? Twins already have Polanco, Adrianza, Gordon, Vielma, and Palacios. Three of those guys are good hitters. How many ace pitchers do the Twins have? One, and he might not be around for the middle of the Sano era. I can understand that a fantastic SS prospect is hard to pass up, but the hardest thing to get is talented young pitchers. Four of them were available, depending how you wanted to take your risks. Wright could be up by September. McKay would be starting within a year. Gore could be up in two years, and Greene might be the most talented of them all, but with a longer time in the minors.
  8. jimbo92107
    Cishek...any relation? To whom? Nishek, obviously. They appear to have had the same little league pitching coach.
  9. jimbo92107
    GiMENez made the mistake of throwing something that looked almost like a normal pitch. 82 is too fast.
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    Breslow may pitch the next inning because nobody cares if his arm falls off after this...
  11. jimbo92107
    The carpal funnel leads into the carpal tunnel. Channels all finger energy through that teensy hole.
  12. jimbo92107
    Unless Aaron Judge crushes another baseball, I'd say Valencia just got today's prize for exit velocity.
  13. jimbo92107
    No more Vulcan greetings. That's rough.
  14. jimbo92107
    Well, I think Craig Breslow just got his walking papers.
  15. jimbo92107
    Sounds like proximal dislocitis. Or maybe dextal faringea. Carpal funnel?
  16. jimbo92107
    I like the subtle adjustment the Angels found to allow Meyer to control his pitches... pound his glove just before release. Who'd a thunk?
  17. jimbo92107
    Dibs on "Royce Rolls" puns! Sounds like a kid that knows how to enjoy himself.
  18. jimbo92107
    In fact, we see Erv Santana's fastball averaging about 92-93 these days. Problem is, we also know Santana can dial it up to 96, and so do hitters. That's one factor that makes his pinpoint 93 heat more effective, and the fact that he can drop his off-speed stuff on a gum wrapper. If McKay's 91-92 heat (fading after 60 pitches) has pinpoint accuracy, and his off-speed stuff is similarly accurate, then we have a possible Maddux on our hands, and a big yay for that. If not, then we have a middle rotation guy, which is not what you want from the draft's very first pick. With that, you should get somebody better than Jose Berrios, somebody that will be right near the top of BA's top mlb prospect list.
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    Exactly. McKay has a chance to be a mediocre middle rotation guy for a decade. Yay! Or, he could be an average 1B with a good bat. Yay! Great pick...for a National League team.
  20. jimbo92107
    Wright, Gore, Greene, McKay. Twins need a good starting pitcher asap to help the Sano generation win a title. Wright gets there quickest, is most likely to contribute significantly. Gore could be the best pitcher, but he's just coming out of HS. A lefty with drop and drive like Hammels or Kershaw could be a win-churning ace for years... a few years from now. Greene sounds like the physical phenom of the draft, but he's also a HS kid, so it's years away. To that you add the problem of the inverted W. If minor league coaches don't iron out that flaw immediately, he's TJ bound. McKay, like Wright, is fast to the majors, but I don't get the excitement of him as a pitcher. Low mph heat from a college guy? Unless he's got the world's most amazing off-speed stuff, I pass on that. Otherwise, he's a gifted hitting 1B, which is wonderful...somewhere in Round Two. If the Twins really do take McKay, it will remind me of the Vikings using their first pick on Laquon Treadwell, a talented WR with unimpressive speed. I will wonder why, and hope the scouts are seeing virtues I don't understand.
  21. jimbo92107
    Are Belisle and Breslow better than Hildenberger, Melotakis and Curtiss? Seems like a good time to find out how good a couple of these guys are.
  22. jimbo92107
    The Fringe 5 video shows Turley throwing slow curves for standing strikes. I really hope he's got more than that. Major leaguers are pretty good at hitting slow curves, if that's all you've got. I hope he's got equally good control of his low-90's heat. Mainly, I hope he manages to control his adrenaline. Shake hands with Santana, that should help. Touch the ultimate cool.
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    It's easy to forget how hard Nolan Ryan threw a baseball. All those pitches looked 98 mph or better, at least a couple cracked 100 mph... and he would do that all game long, sometimes more than 160 pitches. Notice there is no evidence of an inverted W. I miss pitchers like that, and bats like Parker's. Baseball has lost some of its glory. Bring back the huge fastball ace, the big lumber, the stolen base kings. The stuff of heroes makes baseball fun to watch.
  24. jimbo92107
    ^^This. If Houston's best pitcher goes down, and then they offer the Twins about half their best prospects because they think they have a shot at a ring, then you trade Santana. Otherwise, E-Zen is the team's perfect example how to pitch, for a staff that really needs a perfect example. Just for the sake of Jose Berrios I would like to keep Santana around for at least this season. Seeing the way the master demonstrates ultimate cool on the mound is the best possible thing for student Berrios to see. It may be why Berrios isn't losing his own cool after something goes wrong. It may be why Berrios has slowed his fastball to a controllable 93 mph, rather than humping it up to 96 and faster. Seeing Santana so relaxed on the mound may also be helping Duffey and Rogers, maybe even others on the staff. Santana is showing them how to win with cruise control. Best example may be the final pitch of Santana's latest shutout. After showing that he still had 94, he finished off the last batter with... a high change-up that just barely dropped into the top of the strike zone. The cajones, gentlemen. Every pitcher on the field saw that, and realized what cool it takes to throw a pitch like that to get a standing K on the last out. Pitch 91, a high change-up for strike three. Berrios saw that, and it became part of his developing psyche as a pitcher. Berrios is now starting to realize that the change-up is a real weapon.
  25. jimbo92107
    Gore's delivery reminds me more of Hammels than of Kershaw, but either one would do, eh? He gets really good pump action from that high leg kick, which allows him to deliver power to his pitches without torquing too hard on his elbow or shoulder. This also means that he will probably be able to control his power in and around the strike zone, the way Kershaw and Hammels do. At the same time, I still prefer Wright as a quick add to the Twins roster. Wright's delivery is NOT an inverted W as some have said. It's a clean and powerful motion with a classic, smooth chain and a long stride. Wright will be a power pitcher with good control. Gore will be a control pitcher whose power may develop. That's the quick impression I've gotten from limited video. Frankly, I'm okay at this point with any of the top four guys. Any or all of them have All Star potential. Beyond that, it's pure speculation. The one that looks quickest to the majors is Wright.
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