twinstalker

How could it hurt?

I've never had an issue doing this prior to this year. When I had cable, I DVR'd games, when I used the FSN app, I had the option to watch from the beginning, when I used Fubo, I had it record all Twins games, and now with the mlb.tv app, as you say, I can also watch from the beginning. I haven't watched a game live in over 25 years, usually starting 30-60 minutes behind (to skip commercials), sometimes after it was over, and almost never when I knew the outcome. I guess I've watched a few playoff games where it was live, but that was more for other people's sake.

Hrbek. That's a funny name. Did he play townball, too?

They're pretty different. Miranda can hit, Julien will have to change his approach to hit, and that's not a simple thing. If they need a 40 spot, I wouldn't blink if they let Julien go. Miranda I'd hesitate, but only because he has the ability to hit at the MLB level when all is normal. But I wouldn't get my shorts in a bunch. As we see, guys off the scrap heap can replace this sort. Gasper is sort of funny, and I'd love to see a breakdown of what he hits and doesn't hit at both AAA and MLB, meaning what pitches at what speeds, etc. etc.

This is probably right, though it is the Pirates. We could probably sneak Lewis in there instead of Keaschall.

Ha! A little sarcasm, irony, and trivia thrown into the Minor League Report. I like it.

I don't understand how this happened. If he truly had a "high ankle sprain," he shouldn't have been seeing the field when he did. Recovery from that is much longer than however long he was out. You don't want to exacerbate the injury. Of course, in my day, we just limped a little after sitting out for a week or two. Oops, my uncle has something to add. "Back when I played we gutted it out and rubbed some dirt on it. Everybody was sore in some way, so it was an even playing field." And finally, his older cousin: "If it hurt too much, we just cut it off."

I don't understand where the "progressing" comes from. It sounds pretty much the opposite.

Schobel is a reminder that prospect development is not always linear. He'll need at least another month of good hitting to earn a promotion to AAA IMHO, but he's doing what he needed to do to keep advancing his career. It was starting to look like he had his the AA wall and couldn't handle more advanced pitching, but he's made adjustments and is starting to look more like the kind of player we hoped he could be. Good timing because there's a wave of infielders coming in behind from Cedar Rapids... No, Schobel is a reminder that second cracks (in this case, third) at a level are generally superior to the first time around, especially when you've passed the too old line. Hitting prospects who've taken the standard route and are as old as their competition aren't really prospects, they're organization guys. I mean, next year at AA I'd expect Schobel to be even better. Guys like McCusker and Eeles are old, but they've done nothing but succeed. They may or may not be MLB-worthy, but I'll take a chance on their weird routes before I'd get impressed by a month from a guy playing his third year in a row at the same level.

Even if you're eyeballing it, you see Paddack's run is unsustainable. So perhaps you're closing your eyes as well as not accepting objective evidence.

This is such an odd exercise. I mean, wouldn't you basically just see what players have been ranked in BA's top 100?

Why is he fine? He's never been fine before.

As long as you all keep him as the number 7 ranked prospect.

There's not a player with any time who hasn't had hot streaks. Even bat speed isn't a constant. On the other hand, Dad suddenly and miraculously found a second wind some way, some how. Maybe he's advising. Seriously, though, Clemens has some power, so when your BABIP is two hundred points higher than your career average, you look like a monster. Some of that could be real, e.g. if his bat speed is truly new and real and he's never swung a bat at 73 mph before. But no, he's not this. ABs are not independent.

If you're looking for an old catcher who can help the Wind Surge in the future, he's your man. I expect great things from him one day in Wichita. :-)

Raya's week: 10 ERA with about 17 BB/9, Thinking we should move him up the rankings. (Thanks for these, love them)

It would border on miraculous for McCusker to have a 25% K rate after being over 30% in the minors. And that's if he'd done it at age 22-23. Now in his age 27 season, McCusker's outlook isn't good based on any comps anywhere. Judge and Cruz have nothing in common with McCusker except body size. I look a bit like Bill Gates, but no one would compare us in any way except we're both in technical fields. The biggest hope for McCusker is that pitchers don't pitch him the way they need to right away, and he kills it for a short while until they do. Still, there's an outside hope that he's got some Wallner in him. That his "bad stats" are mostly about putting up his "good stats." I don't know about that with him. For one, he wasn't all that good or interesting last year, and so unless he figured something out in the offseason, I'm afraid he's not destined for any sort of greatness. He's definitely a cross your fingers guy. I took a chance on him in a draft the other day, more for early returns than anything else. If he helps me win a few games before pitchers make him look silly, I'm happy.

Bowen has done nothing. You mention it yourself...a 6+ FIP is actually unplayable. If you were to predict the amount of runs he gives up in his next start (extrapolated to 9 innings), it would be over 6, not under 3. Gonzalez, whom I liked in the deal, had a tough year. Repeating the year and doing well is not success. He will need to crush AA upon promotion this year to get back his prospect status. Though I will say I wasn't quick to take it away from him, as I've still kept him in my top 15 after ranking him 9-ish last year. Topa is still TBD and doesn't make up for the Twins 2B issues. The SP we received was injured with a prognosis of very probably not helping the Twins. The shame of it was the Twins never saying that and never adding depth along with him. So what we have is Polanco crushing for a reliever doing okay in low leverage situations. I mean, if we want to get technical about it.

Either Buxton didn't call loudly for the ball or Correa ignored him, as I've seen him do with others. One of them was clearly at fault. It wouldn't shock me if Correa heard him but said "I'm Carlos Correa, your leader" and expected Buxton to back off. I've seen it already this year in left field with Correa...and the LF did back off when it was his ball. Here Buxton didn't, and Correa backed off at the last second. It was Buxton's ball as long as he called it strongly/loudly.

That would be awful if a guy with a AAA ops of .996 and an MLB ops of .393 got labeled a AAAA player just shy of his 30th birthday. Mickey Gasper's picture is next to the definition of AAAA player.

25 plate appearances. But let's pretend that means something so I can say this: A guy like this coming in shows exactly how poor the Twins hitting development has been. We know he's bad. We've watched him for years. Bring him here, and he's immediately better than 3-4 guys we were playing.

Thanks for the weekly recap. Kyle DeBarge would be a good one to mention, as he has missed many games (I think hit on wrist). As usual, many issues with the top 20 list. Lots who should be substantially lower or off. Dasan Hill is probably the Twins third best prospect, competing with injured Soto. Glad to see you've finally put Keaschall ahead of EmRod, that only took a year. :-) Seriously, though, it makes me wonder what the thought process is. If a guy can't control the strike zone in the minors, he's going to get killed by MLB pitchers. The exception is when he doesn't care because he hits so many homers. I don't put EmRod in that (Wallner) category. Also, a ton of walks in the minors is usually a negative or at best a neutral predictor. I don't think I'd have Amick on my list, or if I did, he'd be much lower. But it doesn't really matter if you're going to continue to rate Raya highly...the credibility is gone. He's never been a good prospect, and the Twins have some good prospects. I'm pretty sure I can come up with ten pitchers in the minors I'd rather have. I repented earlier this week on DeBarge, though I think you've generally got him placed correctly, so I'm not sure he'll be much more than Eeles or even as good. Speaking of which...I'm pretty sure Eeles is still a part of the Twins. He wants to say hello to ten or more of the guys you have listed. It would be awesome for someone to find out what his surgery was for (it was a knee), how and what he's doing, and when he's expected to to start playing again. Finally, I'd be giving Danny De Andrade some love in the top 20. He was top 10 for me when he went down last year, and he seems to be deliver big extra base hits and holding his own. I don't really understand why K. Culpepper is getting all the time at SS and don't think it's a healthy reason but more of a "we drafted him in the 1st just like many of our other bad or meh decisions and now need to show we think a lot of him." I could be wrong, but I have to believe DDA is a better shortstop and younger. DDA is striking out too much, though, same as Amick but a year and a half younger.

Amick has zero traits of a 1B, except a too high K rate. Right now he's projecting as overmatched and is certainly not who I'd rank 13. Maybe he improves, but I don't think he will ever be of impact. Meanwhile, I'm guessing Payton Eeles is not on any list. One of those two will produce positive results for the Twins. Wanna bet which one? Any updates on Eeles' knee?

Well, I had them for a month, thinking I was going to pause Fubo a month ago, so I could actually watch them on either app and both worked fine. I canceled the twins.tv subscription on April 27 and was watching them through Fubo only since, when I actually did pause my Fubo on Friday. Saw the Fri/Sat games on Apple/Fox but could not re-subscribe this morning after logging into my account. Turns out I found a workaround. By the way, if you need customer service, good luck. And before sending this just now I figured out what I think the issue was. I was using a VPN that placed me in Chicago. Not sure why that would matter.

Canceled (paused) my Fubo over the summer and need to subscribe to Twins.tv. I'll give you twenty guesses as to whether their web site is functional. So, since they don't want my money, any idea how I might watch today's game?