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  1. jharaldson
    I am going to take the contrary opinion here that Joe Mauer can be counted on for some kind of rebound. If part of his issue this year was recovering from the concussion and adapting to all of the changes in his life then I would expect the further in to this he gets the better he would be doing. His first 16 games after coming back from his oblique injury he had a .866 OPS and a 11.6% K%. The following 16 games tell a different story with Mauer logging a .710 OPS with a 25% K%. Obviously the sample sizes are small but they each total 10% of the season. My prediction is that we will never see another season where Joe posts an OPS over .800.
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    Selig has a number of things that went wrong under him but the threatened contraction more on Carl Pohlad. Selig went to the owners and asked for volunteers. The Expos were a default choice. Speculation was a Marlins team that wasn't taking hold in Florida despite winning was going to be the second team until Carl Pohlad raised his hand and volunteered to take baseball away from MN. The real villain in the contraction story is Carl with Selig and Contraction just being a tool Pohlad used.
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    For further comparison, from 2005-2009, the previous 5 year period, the Royals were dead last in starting pitching era and fired 2 coaches, Guy Hansen in 2006 and Bob McClure in 2011.
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    The Twins have the worst ERA for starting pitching over the last 5 years. http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=sta&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2014&month=0&season1=2010&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=15,d It isn't getting better as we are dead last again this year. Rick Anderson has been the pitching coach during that entire tenure and he absolutely needs to be held accountable for this poor performance and be let go from this team.
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    I am a little conerned with the dramitic drop in his K/9 (10 -> 6) when going from A+ to AA. That fact alone makes me think he is still lower on the rung than Meyer who has maintained a strong number.
  6. jharaldson
    Just to confirm, you are using the presence of 3 plate appearances in AA as a reason why Buxton might be ready for the majors at some point next year. If such a limited sample size is worth noting then I would also note that he has a .000 OPS, a -100 wRC+, and an astonishing 100 K% in AA.
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    I am going to challenge the list a little bit. If the point of the article is “a recurring theme of the 2014 Minnesota Twins minor league season has been injuries” then I think the list Seth presented is overly broad. Below is my assessment of injuries suffered in the 2014 season: 1. Buxton – Snakebit is the right term, the number of unrelated injuries is frustrating and has cost him the season. 2. Sano – Not injured in 2014. Injured in 2013 and continuing treatment. The spring training throw didn’t cause his elbow to blow out, it just exposed the 2013 injury was still there. 3. Meyer – Not injured 2014. 4. Stewart – Shoulder injury, 1 month, maybe more. 5. Rosario – Not injured 2014. 6. Berrios – Shoulder injury, 1 game 7. Pinto – Hip injury, 3 weeks 8. Polanco - Not injured 2014. 9. Thorpe – Not injured 2014. 10. May – Calf injury, 1 month. If you told me that of our 10 ten guys that 5 would have suffer no injury in 2014, 4 would miss 1 month or less due to injury in 2014, and 1 guy would have awful luck I would have been happy with those numbers. Sometimes I think too much attention is paid to top 10 prospect lists and people will project the future like all 10 will make it. If we have 2 or 3 really good players, 2 or 3 role players, and the rest flame out then I will think this list looks pretty good.
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    In regards to the part of conversation about everyoe being a doctor on Joe Mauer, I think there is only one person to blame and that is Joe Mauer. This thread is clearly divided on what was the cause of the bilateral leg weakness. I have seen these reasons in this thread and others: - It was a viral infection - It was coming back too fast from knee surgery - It was none of our business - It was Lyme Disease (Dark Star) - It was Joe being soft - It was poor conditioning - It was a lost season, no need to rush back - And many more All Joe had to do to clear this up was have a 15 minute conversation with a beat writer during the issue. Don't let the Twins speak for him in their random press releases from their poor medical staff. Have a one on one and tell from his perspective what is wrong. Joe Mauer is an introvert. Some of the public interaction doesn't come easy to him, He isn't the loud guy in the locker room. But as the highest paid player on the team with a nearly $200 million contract the fans of this team deserve to have accurate info as to why their star player missed half a season.
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    His HR/9 rate can only be partially explained by his good GB%. He is also well under league average for HR/FB% which contributes to the lack of HR he is getting. I am mixed on Gibson. I always hoped he could be a solid #2 and hoped his 8 or 9 K/9 rates from the minors would stick around. As it is there is still value in a high contact sinkerball pitcher but as with our previous experience with Silva they can also go to hell pretty quickly.
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    Agree, it is highly likely that at least 1 and possibly 2 of these guys will not perform at such a level where this will be a hard decision due to the nature of prospects failing.
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    I may not have been clear in my previous post but by "ducking" them I mean when he retired when decisions needed to be made and they were not the type of decisions he liked (Scouting and Player Development). Here are a couple of quotes from the article when he retired: http://www.startribune.com/sports/twins/11700821.html Terry Ryan didn't like the big contract, free agent part of the job so when that was going to start dominating his time he took his ball and went home. After the hard decisions were made and the team had some limited success before falling apart he suddenly wanted to GM again when the focus is prospects and player development as opposed to resigning huge free agents. Bill Smith was a poor GM but I respect that he at least had the guts to make the hard decisions. I fully predict that Terry Ryan will retire again in the next 4-6 years as the hard contract decisions for guys like Buxton, Sano, and Meyer come due.
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    While I don't think Smith did that great of a job the one thing I do respect him for is actually doing the job. When some of the toughest decisions in recent Twins history were coming due (Torii Hunter Free Agent, Johan Santana Trade, Joe Mauer Contract) Terry Ryan quit and went home. Bill Smith stepped forward and actually had the guts to make these decisions, right or wrong. When the tough calls were made and it was back to prospect development Terry Ryan rushes back in and takes over pushing Smith to the side. Smith is remembered for his many failures while Terry Ryan gets almost no heat at all for ducking those big issues.
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