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  1. jimmer
    Risk aversion is the name of the game. Might lose a mediocre pitcher or two from our underwhelming rotation depth. :-)
  2. jimmer
    We don't know for sure May is going to be thrust into high leverage situations. Ryan hinted at long reliever when the decision was made. Last year, he had a hair over 100 plate appearances that were high leverage and some of that had to be as a starter, right?
  3. jimmer
    wouldn't he have known those numbers and seen that performance before he declared, when the offseason started, that improving the pen was the team's #1 offseason priority? I will agree money stopped him from bothering to improve the pen from the FA pool.
  4. jimmer
    98 innings isn't a starting gig, and he's 40-50 pounds lighter than our new RF. Schwarber played 30% of his minor league innings played on the OF. Cabrera playing the OF was not a good thing. Sano has played zero at any level of professional ball and is 6 foot 5, 260+. I'd need solid proof Maddon would consider him for a full time OF job. Anyway, there was no 3B battle, so probably not worth talking about on this thread.
  5. jimmer
    There were 28 third basemen that had 400 or more PAs last year. Plouffe was tied for 15th in WAR. 2014 there were 31 third basemen that had 400 or more PAs last year. Plouffe was tied for 9th. And he was 2nd (to Dozier) for the Twins in WAR in each of the last two seasons in regards to non-pitchers. He's a good player. Not a stud, but a good player. We have way more problems than him.
  6. jimmer
    Twins are always thinking about the future. Santana and Hunter pointed that out in 2007. It's always about the future with Ryan.
  7. jimmer
    Quality depth in the way of #3-#5 type pitchers. No #1 or #2 type in the rotation. The two who could be those guys, one is now a bullpen guy, the other goes to AAA. The only reason May needs to be in the pen is because Ryan did jack to improve the bullpen, the self-admitted #1 priority this offseason.
  8. jimmer
    'The offseason was spent assuming that the Twins would trade Trevor Plouffe to open up third base for Miguel Sano.' I never assumed Plouffe would be traded. Good overall player at a low price and pretty unappreciated as a whole.
  9. jimmer
    His stats were perfectly nice when he got demoted, and he's a bullpen guy now. And let's not forget, it's been, what, less than 10 innings so far?
  10. jimmer
    He was making a strong case before supposedly losing the competition. He has no case to make for himself now. The case is closed.
  11. jimmer
    and the choice of getting Parks necessitated having to either move Plouffe in a trade or move Sano to the OF. They created the situation where they had no choice.
  12. jimmer
    Along with Alex Meyer.
  13. jimmer
    My ok meant, ok. I've given the info I thought was relevant and that's that. People will have to get out of it what they want. Disclaimer: Yankee home BABIP is 28th out of 30 and their opponents 25th. Noise it is.
  14. jimmer
    yeah, but by keeping Plouffe there they threw Sano out in RF. I'm guessing that ends up being a net negative, defensively :-)
  15. jimmer
    Ok
  16. jimmer
    Since when does defense seem to be an important consideration on this team?
  17. jimmer
    At home he batted .302/.354/.407 BABIP over .410 Away he batted .246/.293/.406 BABIP under .290.
  18. jimmer
    Well, we don't have a clear #1 or #2 type starter, so it's a coin toss. Based on the guys who will be in the rotation to start the season, I'd give it to Gibson.
  19. jimmer
    Murphy played half his games in Yankee Stadium, had a season BABIP in the high .350s, and ended up with an OPS in the .730s. I'm not sure he can sustain a .700 OPS at the MLB level away from a hitter's park and without a very high BABIP. His minor league OPS was only in the 730s.
  20. jimmer
    This decision was made last summer. But yeah, May wasn't their competition. He was assured a spot in the bullpen a long time ago.
  21. jimmer
    Man I love this post so much! When demoted May had the best WAR of any starter in the rotation by a good margin. Like he was the only one over 1.0 and he was close to 2.0. He had the most Ks/9 and the 2nd least BB/9. At the All Star break, he still led all Twins starters in WAR by half a win.
  22. jimmer
    That's probably the best idea. To just take out FA acquisition out of the equation all together. And how convenient that would be since that is what Ryan is most criticized for :-)
  23. jimmer
    As the called strike zones continue to expand, walks are going down. Hughes did the same thing from 2013 to 2014. And do we know a few more walks will kill him/his numbers? Now, is he going to continue to have a BABIP against almost 40 points higher than league average? Not sure how a 28 point differenrce in BABIP isn;t too out of the ordinary, but see below. 'Unsurprisingly, May posted an unsightly .340 BABIP last season, backed up by a subpar hard-hit rate of 29.8 percent. His approach shouldn't bear all the blame for that — his defense didn't do him any favors, and he had a minor-league BABIP of .312, so that wasn't too out of the ordinary. Still, he probably wouldn't have allowed so many hits without pounding the zone.'
  24. jimmer
    What kind of good luck do you think he was having? A well above above average BABIP against?
  25. jimmer
    I think he has the talent to be a #2-#3 type.
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