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  1. d-mac
    Leach? The hell? Holy reach batman.
  2. d-mac
    Seems that way, unless Tampa or Milwaukee takes him.
  3. d-mac
    Luckily, the Twins play in the AL.
  4. d-mac
    I was having problems too. Seems like BA went down for a bit. Kept getting a server error. Reload MLB. Draft tracker seems to be working now.
  5. d-mac
    *badum tss*
  6. d-mac
    Lol interesting with the Lewis pick. I'm not opposed to some deal making in this draft. So let's see what they do with their next two picks today.
  7. d-mac
    Don't worry everyone. I'm here. Got back from a ten day vacation last week, so I've been busy at work catching up and not had much time to be on here. But I wouldn't miss the draft!
  8. d-mac
    Sadly, no.
  9. d-mac
    eggonface.gif glasshouse.gif
  10. d-mac
    I hate to be Debbie downer, but the Twins pitching is still really, really bad. Of the 19 pitchers to throw a pitch for the Twins this year, just 5 have an xFIP of under 4. To put that in context, 9 Major League teams (4 AL) have a team xFIP below 4. That is nearly a 3rd of all teams. The Twins have 12 pitchers that have a xFIP over 5, including all but one starter (Santana, his was 4.52 but that'll be near 5 after today's game). The Twins are dead last in xFIP in all of baseball and nearly a third of a run worse than the next worst American league team.
  11. d-mac
    Parker, I hope you didn't write that text at the top of those pictures you shared. Some of the worst grammar I've ever seen. 20 on the on the scouting scale.
  12. d-mac
    I care very little about velocity. I mean it's great and like you said it gives a pitcher more room for error, but it's hardly the only thing that determines a pitcher's success. I care about missing bats, avoiding hard contact, and avoiding walks. McKay checks all of those boxes. Would I prefer his fastball averaged 95? Well, duh. He's not perfect, just like none of the top group of players in this draft are perfect. When it comes to pitchers, people tend to get caught up on shiny fastball velocity. Worst case scenario, he can't cut it as a pitcher or he gets hurt. Then you just turn him into a position player and you've already got an advanced college hitter.
  13. d-mac
    Really, Greene of the 30-40 grade breaking ball and non-existent change up is an ace? I see him as either getting moved to SS at some point or ending up as a reliever. Or do you mean Wright? The Jekyll/Hyde type pitcher with command/control problems? His stuff may be better than most pitchers in this draft, but that's not exactly a high bar to clear. I think most years he would go in the 7-15 range. Sure, he's been dominant the past few starts but besides the usual SSS concerns, I'd like to see a better body of work coming from a top college pitcher before I'm comfortable taking him 1-1.
  14. d-mac
    No I don't. I just don't see a lot of upside in the top part of this draft, either pitcher or hitter. Which figures, of course it happens to be the draft when we pick first. Which is why I like McKay. I think the risk/reward is slanted towards taking a high floor type in this draft and McKay has a high floor as either a hitter or pitcher- or- finding an underslot guy and spread that money around to 35 and 37. *Edited for grammar*
  15. d-mac
    In a perfect world, yes. I just don't see "ace" potential anywhere in this draft.
  16. d-mac
    Which, I have none.
  17. d-mac
    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ McKay pitches against better competition than Gibson did in the B12 and much better than Wimmers in the B1G. And he bests both in K rate and has much control than Wimmers ever did. I have no idea how Wimmers ever got the label as control artist he really struggled with walks his first to years at OSU. Also, Gibson was never the same pitcher after his arm injury.
  18. d-mac
    Does Wright have much more upside than McKay, though? McKay bests Wright in contact suppression, walks, and strikeouts. It's not like Wright is a fireballer or has some outstanding swing and miss pitches. His upside is based on the always nebulous "projection" buzzword.
  19. d-mac
    As far as college pitchers go, just based on age and lack of development time command/control will always win out over stuff. It's much more difficult for a college pitcher lacking command/control (both are needed to get outs at the major league level) to develop it than say a younger HS arm. But high school arms may never develop either (or both) the command/control or the stuff to get major league hitters out. Both McKay and Wright pitch in high quality college conferences, so it seems completely irrational to knock a guy that allows over 30% fewer hits per nine, 20% fewer walks per nine, and 25% more K's per nine because his fastball sits 1-2 mph lower than a pitcher that focuses solely on pitching.
  20. d-mac
    Sometimes I think KLaw gets a bit lazy with his analysis on some players and tends to default to stereotypes based on position and body type.
  21. d-mac
    I love me some LaMonte.
  22. d-mac
    He was a bust. Really bad pick. That's why I'm not a fan of drafting high school pitchers in the top ten picks. There's just so little data on them and they aren't physically mature yet. Also, TINSTAAPP.
  23. d-mac
    Over his last 50 PA Mauer is hitting .267/.340/.422. I wouldn't stick a fork in him yet, but he is still along ways off from his heyday. Much of that I think is related to the shifts.
  24. d-mac
    Is it a different regime? I'm rhetorically ask for a friend. And by friend I mean myself. Sure, Falvine is (are?) here, but as far as I'm aware, there haven't been really any significant personnel changes. If the body if the organization is the same how can one delineate between regimes? Sure Falvine can implement new strategies, but how deep or hands on will they go or be able to have gotten with the limited time that's passed so far. They can make immediate changes to rosters and coaching staffs (which for the most part have been static since they've assumed command), but as far as implementing new organizational policies and strategies those take time and require people throughout the organization with both the expertise and willingness to implement them. And as far as I'm aware the minor league coordinators, coaches, and instructors are still the same long term TR guys. Maybe they have the expertise and willingness to implement the new policies and strategies that Falvine brought with them from outside the organization, but old traditional baseball men tend to be more stubborn than a horde of drunken Scotsmen (I can say that because I am of Scottish heritage).
  25. d-mac
    Well it's only been 5 starts this year, but Berrios has already reduced his solid BB% by over 20% from last year's stint in AAA. Or, if you prefer, his K/BB has from from 3.47 last year to 4.38 this year. I'm not sure what more he needs to show. At some point a player can only learn so much from being down in the minors. In this case these AAA hitters are clearly not challenging Berrios. The only way he is going to learn to get Major League hitters out at this point is by being challenged by them. Furthermore, I'd rather see him up here learning from Neil Allen than from the pitching coaches in the minors -the same ones that couldn't prepare any pitchers for the majors during the second TR stint. And then there is the whole issue of injury potential. There are only so many bullets in a pitcher's arm before it requires surgery. I'd rather have Berrios using his "bullets" up trying to establish himself at the Majors rather than using them up dominating overmatched AAA hitters.
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