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  1. jimbo92107
    Pressly hit 98mph in that last at bat. His curve is snapping, too. He looked good.
  2. jimbo92107
    Buxton is getting close to doing it right. He hit that ball harder than he could with just a slap.
  3. jimbo92107
    Looks like Buxton is finally moving his hips better. I predict a major hot streak, starting two games ago with his previous home run. His swing now covers the outside part of the plate better, and his hip action is quick and compact. Boom.
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    The best thing about the late rounds is that you know there are gold nuggets somewhere in this load of gravel. Sometimes a team can even take a piece of gravel, polish it up, give it a new function, and it becomes an unexpected gem. At the moment I'm thinking of Derrick Rodriguez, but there could be something like that in any round. Sometimes it's just a matter of teaching a guy a new pitch. Sometimes it's a matter of working a guy's tail off on his fielding. As a former sports coach, I'm an optimist.
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    I remember reading about a kid like this at a California school. He was kind of fat, very out of shape, but he could throw a ball pretty hard, low 90's. Early in spring training the team's crazy strength coach started riding the kid, calling him fat, lazy, etc. He challenged the young man to really get in shape for the first time in his life. It hurt the guy's feelings, but he decided to give it a try. After a while, this kid found that he was starting to enjoy the feeling of being in better shape, so he really took to weight training. He lost several bags of weight, got a lot stronger, and his fastball velocity shot up to the upper 90's, even 100 mph. Eventually, Stephen Strasburg got drafted, made it to the show, and has been doing pretty well since then.
  6. jimbo92107
    Mejia's pitch graph looks like a shotgun accident. First lesson in pointillism?
  7. jimbo92107
    I have a feeling the Twins will regret not taking Wright, or Gore...
  8. jimbo92107
    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.
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    Cishek...any relation? To whom? Nishek, obviously. They appear to have had the same little league pitching coach.
  10. jimbo92107
    GiMENez made the mistake of throwing something that looked almost like a normal pitch. 82 is too fast.
  11. jimbo92107
    Breslow may pitch the next inning because nobody cares if his arm falls off after this...
  12. jimbo92107
    The carpal funnel leads into the carpal tunnel. Channels all finger energy through that teensy hole.
  13. jimbo92107
    Unless Aaron Judge crushes another baseball, I'd say Valencia just got today's prize for exit velocity.
  14. jimbo92107
    No more Vulcan greetings. That's rough.
  15. jimbo92107
    Well, I think Craig Breslow just got his walking papers.
  16. jimbo92107
    Sounds like proximal dislocitis. Or maybe dextal faringea. Carpal funnel?
  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.
  19. jimbo92107
    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
    ^^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.
  23. jimbo92107
    Fantastic write-up! I can tell you one big reason not to trade Ervin Santana - his effect on Jose Berrios. The super-talented youngster is watching Santana's every move on the mound, and it's gradually soaking in. You can see Berrios rapidly developing an organized, self-controlled presence on the bump. It's still a long way from the Zen-like calm of his mentor, but Berrios is quickly becoming a remarkably mature-looking pitcher. Oh, and his change up should be considered his third plus pitch at this point. Berrios can throw any of his three pitches for strike three. He should start throwing a lot more change ups with two strikes. Meanwhile, I'm sort of hoping other teams don't notice how hard Kennys Vargas hit that home run on Saturday. 116 miles for each hour it traveled. I wonder if my motorcycle can go that fast... ;-)
  24. jimbo92107
    Zentana definitely had the same calm demeanor as he did in his shutout of Baltimore. He even seemed to bring his zen to the plate with the bases loaded. I was wondering about that as he stepped up with the bags loaded. Would the same kind of calm... Bingo!
  25. jimbo92107
    "Palacios was 5-for-6 with two homers and two doubles. I suppose he “fell” a triple short of the cycle, but I’m sure he’s happy having to settled for 13 total bases on the night." That's not a cycle, that's called a REASON TO GET PROMOTED!
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