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  1. nicksaviking
    His second half OBP was .330. It could be an outlier, or it could be that once he was secure that he had the starting job he wasn't as aggressive trying to make an impact. I'm predicting an increased OBP due to seasoning and a less aggressive approach due to job security, but a decrease in slugging due reduced aggressiveness and the rigors of playing a full season. .265/.325/.420. Only 8 HR but 40 2B.
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    I didn't realize he ditched the sinker and slider, did he do that last year, and was it common knowledge? If not, they could have perhaps kept that out of the scouting reports and let teams figure that out for themselves.
  3. nicksaviking
    Pressly earned a spot last year, he was the second best BP arm last year before he went down. If spots were guaranteed prior to spring training, he should have been a lock. I think we are too assumptive that Fein is a lock due to his veteran status.
  4. nicksaviking
    Polanco looks ready, but I do want to see him play every day. I also want to see Escobar and Dozier play every day. Nunez and Santana are fine utility guys, but the team is going to have to try and make a move if they want to give Polanco regular MLB at bats.
  5. nicksaviking
    You wouldn't get any complaints from me, and using the young hard throwers was something that Ryan mentioned many times this off season as a possibility. I want corner-picking, meatball-slinging, contact-making, 92 MPH relievers no more. These are relief pitchers, they need two pitches and velocity, they don't need to be finished products. Bring them up and let them work out their kinks if they have any. Even if they bomb, it's not like the other options don't have a high likelihood of disaster. At least there is potential here with the youth.
  6. nicksaviking
    May was in the process of being the top starter for the team in June. He had two rough starts, one in April and one in May, but he finally found his control and was the only guy in the rotation that could strand a runner at 3rd with nobody out. He was on a roll and showing the potential that everyone had been hoping to see.
  7. nicksaviking
    I don't care about money for either Berrios or May, all I care about is controlling a good asset for as long as they are useful. Keeping Berrios in the minors an extra couple of weeks and keeping May a starter would seem like the best way to keep them from bolting early. As for the baseball reasons, I'd rather have 180 innings of May and 70 of Burdi/Chargois than 180 innings of Nolasco/Milone and 70 innings of May. Much rather.
  8. nicksaviking
    Burdi, Chargois, Graham and Pressly have made life tough on the front office. Small sample size surely, but I'm guessing none of them were/are front-runners for a bullpen spot but you can't really look any of them in the eye and tell them that they don't deserve a spot based on what they've done so far. If Spring Training actually is an open tryout that is.
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    May was one of the team's top two starters when he was demoted last year. He's got the build of a workhorse, four pitches, good control and strong strikeout potential. I'm missing the signs that are pointing away from him having a solid chance at being a pretty strong starter. I think this was premature considering that both Nolasco and Duffey have been struggling. I'm OK tossing out spring training and making the decisions based on real baseball trends from last year, but that still means Duffey is in and Nolasco is out. Also, May to the pen means one less spot for Burdi/Chargois/Meyer/Pressly/Reed.
  10. nicksaviking
    This news wouldn't be half as disappointing if Ryan also had said that Nolasco too is out of consideration.
  11. nicksaviking
    I think the Twins previous aversion to walks bordered on insanity, but I think they've softened a bit considering how they've been talking up the young hard throwers in the bullpen, none of whom have ideal control. A walk after all is more favorable than even a mere single, they aren't the end of the world and they don't move runners multiple bases. If you're known for always being in the zone, you will likely get fewer looking strikes than your counterparts and if you're always in the zone, you'll likely get fewer swinging strikes that don't make contact.
  12. nicksaviking
    Seeing as batters are the reactionary part of the equation to the pitchers causation, I'm generally more in favor of tossing the pitchers into the pool to see if they can swim, but I'm not at all opposed to doing it with talented young hitters either. Buxton has had hiccups at every level before coming on strong. Last year's struggles seemed natural, and I would have put my money on him coming around somewhat last September had the team not put him on the bench for the playoff push.
  13. nicksaviking
    They've given the starting gig to lesser talent and a safety net that consisted of names like Mastroianni, Schaffer and Presley the last three years. They're used to working crazy by now I'd say.
  14. nicksaviking
    Anything other than weight.
  15. nicksaviking
    Does Klaw think Fulmer will be a reliever due to his size? We know that's been a hang up of his in the past.
  16. nicksaviking
    Buxton has a lower chance of not coming north than Arcia and Santana. And Buxton's odds are very, very high.
  17. nicksaviking
    I'm not worried about Nolasco pitching well. I'm not really worried about him bombing in fact, I'm worried he will be somewhere between OK and Not Awful and the team will be indecisive about replacing him with a young guy. That goes for Hughes as well.
  18. nicksaviking
    I'm not sure of the physics, but some guys just aren't able to spin it right. If it was something you could teach someone, Matt Capps would probably still be in the league and Mike Pelfrey's 94 MPH FB would probably have gotten him a 9 figure deal by now.
  19. nicksaviking
    Tonkin might not be any good and he may need to be DFA'd, but I must not be on the same page as most people, because of all the bullpen woes last year, Tonkin didn't seem to be one of them. He got demoted twice last year, not after a string of rough outings, but both times after a single rough outing. He had no leash.
  20. nicksaviking
    And let's hope the proper course of action is blatantly obvious very early in the year and decision doesn't get dragged out.
  21. nicksaviking
    I think league wide we saw last year that the better physical attributes of young guys trumped the experience of the veterans. Just look at the All Star game, it was almost all made up of guys in their 20s, and if the Twins ranked their pitchers and hitters last year, their performances would line up pretty nearly inverse to their ages. We live in such a technological age that coaches can instruct young players at all levels of the minors much easier. These guys have film, they have detailed scouting reports and they can still watch Tom Emanski videos if need be. Even though they aren't paid like it, minor leaguer's full-time job is baseball, they practice year-round now, it's not like how it used to be. The experience gap has surely been cut from what it was when Nuke LaLoosh got all of his advice from mound visits from Crash and sleeping with his baseball groupie girlfriend.
  22. nicksaviking
    I was also against the Liriano trade saying that it was silly considering that Escobar should be considered the 40th player on the 40 man, meaning he should be first to be DFA'd. And now he's turned into one of my favorites. In the first half of 2016 if he can hit anything close to what he did in the second half the last two years, he might become my favorite.
  23. nicksaviking
    No for me on Dozier. Off the books at 32 sounds exactly right to me.
  24. nicksaviking
    Hunter had a positive UZR and positive UZR/150. Every stat showed a huge improvement over 2014. The guy was 39, he didn't magically get more athletic, it was due to the environment. Even if Sano is not good, it's not going to hurt, he's replacing another poor defender, it's not like the team is significantly downgrading the defense from something that was elite last year.
  25. nicksaviking
    Everyone was making a huge deal about Torii Hunter manning RF this time last year. Every metric said he was among the worst, if not the worst outfielder in the game in 2014, yet he was just fine last year despite having next to no range. Jim Thome could play RF at Target Field relaxing in a lawn chair, it's the size of a Manhatten efficiency.
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