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  1. jimbo92107
    Whilst dragging refuse to a dumpster today I listened to a podcast about advanced kinesiology. They spoke of finding ways to compensate for the body's natural tendency to wear out and wear down over time, with the goal of maintaining top performance well past the age that we expect athletes to lose top performance. I wonder if Rodney is doing that sort of training. Or maybe he's just pumping steroids into his butt-tocks. Whatever it is, Rodney does appear to have Bo Jackson thighs. He must spend a lot of time pumping iron. I hope he's doing it the legal way. I didn't trust his stuff early in the season, but now he's on auto-snuff. I wonder what he did to cut down on the walks...
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    If Magill keeps snuffing out innings, Molitor will learn to trust him. I too can't see exactly why Magill is so curiously effective. Maybe it's the illusion of a "normal" looking pitcher that throws some slightly different stuff. He does seem to quick-pitch a bit, surprising some batters. He also works at a very quick pace. Magill minimizes the time a batter has to adjust to his stuff by working fast and having a quick delivery. He also attacks the zone relentlessly, further reducing the time batters have to see what he's doing. It's also possible that Molitor thinks that Magill is a guy that can stop a rally, but if you show him too often, hitters will adjust to his average stuff and start pounding it all over the field. The odd thing is that Magill seems to go three innings without hitters adjusting. Maybe he's better than he looks.
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    Bring up Bert Mejia as a long reliever, say buh-bye to Belisle.
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    Hitters need to read trends the way a card player does. Guys like Buxton and Sano should content themselves to hit outside pitches oppo, until they start seeing the pendulum swing back inside. That's when you pounce for a couple dingers, and then the pendulum swings back outside. For Sano, he should still be able to hit dingers oppo. Dozier probably is the likeliest to get hot soon, followed maybe by Kepler, who seems gradually to get better and better at everything. We'll be lucky to see Polanco get hot right away, but he is a very hard worker.... Adrianza has been showing signs of life at the plate, maybe he's more than a defensive sub. Grossman looks like he has topped out at mediocre hitting and so-so outfield. Other than that, you could still try calling up Gordon, Rooker, Wade and a catcher, maybe Willans Astudillo. They can't be much worse than the rake waving bunch we see today.
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    It's the age-old story. Velocity x Command = Effectiveness. As V goes down, C better go up, or E will go down rapidly. Unfortunately, over Time, both V and C tend to go down, unless you add a new pitch, Pn. This gives ((VC)Pn)/T = E Clearly Reed's V and C have been suffering, along with over-use, U+. Thus ((VC)Pn)/(T+U) = E Age-old story.
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    Last time out Lynn pitched an extra inning, getting by with less heat and a so-so curve ball. This time it looks like the opposition was ready for Lynn running out of gas, but the "exposure" theory also works. What is Lynn's main weapon? Low- to mid-90's heat in the early innings. After the third time through the order, two bad things happen: Opposition has seen his heater, which is slowing down, and Lynn's off-speed pitches are mlb average at best. That spells a hard 100 pitch limit. Lynn has neither the stamina nor the alternative offerings to survive after that.
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    I like Jeremy Nygaard's analysis best - go with a pitch limit, not a innings limit, assuming an average of 16 pitches per inning. Next, re-emphasize getting ahead early, get that first strike to get ahead in counts. That should help reduce pitches per inning. This is the time in Romero's career when he finds out what he can do with his heater and his slider, and keep working on the change, which could save him some pitches later in games and later in the season. Finally, try to get him to add and subtract with his fastball. He already does that some, but the more variability he achieves, the more he screws up a hitter's timing. Love, Captain Obvious
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    Santana might not even make it back to the show. If that finger doesn't heal up right, he'll never get back his mid-90's heater, or his command of the slider. I wouldn't trade any farm arms until we know if Santana, Pineda, and May get back to 100 percent. Plus injuries, of course. Meanwhile, Gordon should be up right now and stay up to the end of the season. If somehow the Twins sneak into the playoffs, we know that Polanco is ruled out. Apparent pitching depth can disappear in a heartbeat, or a car crash, or a suspension, or a hundred other things that can go wrong when you try to throw thousands of baseballs over 90 miles per hour.
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    Then I guess we know what Wade needs to work on. Kepler figured out how to hit lefties, so why not?
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    Good point, but there's still more R/H pitchers in the league, and if he can hit a lick against lefties, then it's not much of a knock.
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    Listed as OF in his profile, speed 55. They're calling him a fourth outfielder, so he's competing with Grossman and LaMarre. Should be a better hitter and fielder than either. Also Wade should have more power than Granite, but less speed.
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    Sano came into this season like a guy that doesn't care, overweight and nonchalant. He has played like it, tisking after strikeouts, injury prone from the extra weight. Buxton looks like he forgot every lesson he learned last year about hitting. Rowson's fault? I doubt it. He still steps up to the plate looking like he doesn't have a plan. Dozier is the worst disappointment, as mentioned elsewhere. Playing with little apparent motivation. In a contract year?? Really?? LoMo also has disappointed, but it could just be a bad luck acquisition. My fix remains the same. Bring up Navaretto (or a AAA C), Wade, Rooker, and Gordon. Move out Wilson, Grossman, Adrianza, and LaMarre. Get those better bats in the lineup. Even if they sputter, they're no worse than than the guys in the lineup today, and all of them have higher ceilings than the current placeholders. Right now is the time to make these moves, before the current group drags the team deeper into this hole. If the Twins are out of contention by the All Star break, then 2018 will play out like I predicted, another year for testing new players. This team still hasn't pulled together, which also should bode the end of Molitor as manager. I wanted Francona so bad...!
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    Brian Navaretto. I'm a fan, I think he's going to be very good.
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    Gordon and Gonsalves for a league average catcher? No. Freekin. Way. Not even one of those two. I would much rather call up Navaretto from AA and see what he's got. 2018 has become a testing ground for talent ready to harvest from the top two levels of the Twins minor league system. Guys like Pettit, Grossman, Wilson, etc. are placeholders, not future everyday players.
  15. jimbo92107
    "...non-zero chance to stay back there..." What the heck is that supposed to mean? He's such a bad defensive catcher that it will take massive physical therapy to get him behind home plate? I'm hoping this statement is attributable to the hardened cynicism of baseball scouts. Otherwise the Twins just drafted maybe a so-so DH somewhere down the line. I googled it. Jeffers is a power hitting catcher. Not much else from video.
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    Trevor Larnach looks athletic and strong, but a couple small flaws jumped out at me. First, that recoil on his outfield throws must go away. Coaches have to tell him to continue moving towards his target after the throw. Throw the ball, then go pick a fight with the guy that catches the ball. Second, the follow through on his swing is too stiff at the end. He needs to relax his hands and let the bat finish without him stopping it, like Joe Mauer does. That will add a few mph to his hits, and maybe spare him some pulled muscles. Trevor Larnach has the body of a serious young power hitter. Big thighs, rangy build. He'll be a masher for sure.
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    I hate to say it, but I have to agree that Busenitz is better now than Duffey. Bender seems to have fizzled after a couple good years, while Busenitz has a power arm and good command. In fact, it looks like the Twins are well stocked with good relief pitchers in AAA and AA. Bring 'em up, see what they've got. Then keep the best, and trade the rest.
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    Any of them break a leg lately? Grasping at straws...
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    More seriously, I'd go BPA unless there's an unusually good college catcher available at 20. So BPA is most likely, which will probably turn out to be some HS pitcher.
  20. jimbo92107
    Any kid named Trout in this draft?
  21. jimbo92107
    True, but Kirilloff has little left to prove in Iowa. I suspect the same might be true in Ft. Myers. If he winds up in Chattanooga by season's end, he could possibly have a cup in September, or be only a year older than Joe was when he hits the bigs sometime in '19.
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    Alex Kirilloff should be the exception to your selection rule. When a guy is "the best player in the organization this season," he should be put on the Joe Mauer fast track.
  23. jimbo92107
    Fogo de Chão. I think Esco just got himself a free steak dinner!
  24. jimbo92107
    Does this mean Griffin Jax will get to stay in the minors uninterrupted? Is he actually free to work his way through the system?
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    I'm sorry I don't have better news for Joe Mauer, a player I truly admire. He does so many things right, but if a hard, jarring impact brought back his symptoms even without banging his head... Man, that sounds a lot like what Corey Koske went through. Different parts of our bodies heal in different ways. A properly set bone can be stronger after it heals. A cut either heals by itself or can be stitched, and heals. The TJ ligament can be replaced, sewed together, and be stronger than the original. But the brain is like a mass of microcircuits that doesn't regrow quite right after it gets damaged. Instead, it appears to create new connections, but they aren't as good as the originals, more like a weak patch that is less robust than the original tissue. Worse, repeated concussions make the overall situation progressively worse, which Justin Morneau discovered after his concussions as a hockey goalie made him more vulnerable to that collision at second base. One thing we all know is that you don't have to be a pro athlete to have plenty of experience with repeated concussions. I've been knocked unconscious several times going back to my childhood playing football, baseball, wrestling and gymnastics. If I had any idea what was in store later on, I would have avoided all contact sports and joined the friggin chess club. The human brain simply isn't built to survive heavy impacts without suffering permanent damage.
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