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  1. jimbo92107
    How about Lewis at 3B, Javier SS, Gordon 2B, with Sano moving over to 1B/DH? We are talking about two or three years from now.
  2. jimbo92107
    If Twins sign Leach and Enlow, I will conclude that this was a good (not great) draft. We will all be watching McKay, Wright, Greene and Gore as they become front line starters. Any of those four could become a dominating ace. Meanwhile, Royce Lewis looks to be a future star, Rooker could become a star, and the #3, 4, and 5 pitchers were rated as having good potential. If one of them pans out, it will help a lot.
  3. jimbo92107
    It's been said before, when Sano hits a nice fly ball, it carries about 20 yards farther than fly balls from most hitters.
  4. jimbo92107
    It could be as simple as adding more change-ups. Watching yesterday's game, Santana was still getting huge whiffs on his change. However, it also looks like a problem with command. In his most recent complete game shutout, Santana had almost perfect control of all his pitches. That level of command has been missing since then. I have a feeling we have not seen the last of Zentana, he of perfect control. Possibly it's a matter of throwing more change-ups, getting more whiffs, then gaining confidence in his mix of pitches. In his best games, hitters look like they have no idea what E-Zen is going to throw next.
  5. jimbo92107
    I loves me some Eddie, but he needs to gain some maturity, especially at the plate. He wants to be Vlad Guerrero, but even Vlad had an eye for balls and strikes. Eddie swings at anything, and even his potent swing needs to meet the ball to get a hit. I was hoping that seeing a super-disciplined guy like like Grossman would provide him a good example, but Eddie has ignored attempts to temper his hacks with a little basic batting sense. As a result, he's not getting good pitches to hit. Why throw strikes when a guy will swing out of the zone? I bet right now Rosario gets fewer pitches in the strike zone than just about anybody else in the league. If he's got any options left, I'd send Eddie down for Granite right now. Granite is a good contact hitter with plate discipline, very fast in the OF, good arm, excellent base stealer. He may not have the "ceiling" of Rosario, but Granite's game right now would help the Twins more than Eddie's.
  6. jimbo92107
    I remember trying to throw a curve ball like Gee after watching a slow-motion video of his grip and release. I hurt my arm, of course...
  7. jimbo92107
    What's really needed is a new rule in Major League Baseball to accommodate rookies that could use a cuppa coffee in the bigs. The Coffee rule would allow a team to call up five separate non-40 guys per year, but only one at a time, while putting a guy on the 40 into a temporary pool of players that cannot play with the club, but are not off the official 40-man roster. A Limbo guy could play in the minors while the Coffee guy is up. The limit for a cuppa coffee would be three starts for a minor league pitcher, or ten games for non-pitcher. At the end of that time, the Coffee guy can either return to the minors, or swap places with the Limbo guy on the 40-man. Otherwise, the Limbo guy simply returns to the 40, with no other changes in status. A rule like this would allow Jorge to replace Mejia for a few games, or Garver to replace Gimenez for ten games, with no worries about messing up the 40. This would allow rebuilding teams like the Twins to experiment more, give a veteran a rest, etc.
  8. jimbo92107
    Give 'em the business, Busenitz! Whoa, that one took max effort.
  9. jimbo92107
    I watched some of that game yesterday. Turley's pitching chart couldn't possibly have looked like that in the minors, or he wouldn't have gotten the call. We have to cut rookie pitchers some slack for elevated heart rate. Turley clearly was nervous, flinging balls all around the zone. Cleveland has a good hitting team. A nervous pitcher getting himself in trouble with counts is not going to do well against them. Let's hope Mejia has a bit more control today than the other newbie.
  10. jimbo92107
    I'm increasingly impressed by and hopeful for Dereck Rodriguez. The converted outfielder is gradually making himself into a legitimate pitching prospect. Keep it up, young man! I mean, keep it down...well, you know.
  11. jimbo92107
    Pressly hit 98mph in that last at bat. His curve is snapping, too. He looked good.
  12. jimbo92107
    Buxton is getting close to doing it right. He hit that ball harder than he could with just a slap.
  13. 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.
  14. jimbo92107
    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.
  15. jimbo92107
    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.
  16. jimbo92107
    Mejia's pitch graph looks like a shotgun accident. First lesson in pointillism?
  17. jimbo92107
    I have a feeling the Twins will regret not taking Wright, or Gore...
  18. 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.
  19. jimbo92107
    Cishek...any relation? To whom? Nishek, obviously. They appear to have had the same little league pitching coach.
  20. jimbo92107
    GiMENez made the mistake of throwing something that looked almost like a normal pitch. 82 is too fast.
  21. jimbo92107
    Breslow may pitch the next inning because nobody cares if his arm falls off after this...
  22. jimbo92107
    The carpal funnel leads into the carpal tunnel. Channels all finger energy through that teensy hole.
  23. jimbo92107
    Unless Aaron Judge crushes another baseball, I'd say Valencia just got today's prize for exit velocity.
  24. jimbo92107
    No more Vulcan greetings. That's rough.
  25. jimbo92107
    Well, I think Craig Breslow just got his walking papers.
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