Besides Kepler and Sano none of the hitters on the Twins roster that is under 30 years old have shown signs of plate discipline in the minors. Is that on Brunansky?
Since 2011 until now, Perkins velocity according to fangraphs: 94, 94.9, 94.9, 93.4, 93.7, 91.2. Only like 3.5mph lost since his peak, nothing that isn't manageable.
MIke Pelfrey ace? No. Mike Palfrey good? Meh. Career ERA+ of 90, career FIP of 4.24. He is what he is. A mediocre pitcher. Just like Santana's minor league numbers were mediocre and a .400 BABIP last year suddenly made people forget that. Or Escobar's minor league numbers were mediocre and after last year that was forgotten?
We need to organize more Mormon backed hate legislation. The Prop 8 stuff in California worked well to polarize people against the anti-gay legislation around the US, the marriage crap here in MN worked the other way and got the legislation to approve it here. A few more hate mongering bills and the US will be right there with Ireland because of the backlash.
Vargas, Pinto and Arcia sitting in a tree... wait, oops. Wrong forum. Santana to AAA. Nunez, Stauffer, DFA'd. Voila room for the AAA players who should be playing at the MLB level to see if they're actually capable of doing so. This Twins are in first place crap suddenly turns them off of the rebuilding they need to do?
Fro and OFX both de-friended me on Facebook a while ago, and now they don't post here? What jerks. I miss MNrob, though his cray-cray was the old ESPN boards. I see Dave on Facebook with a few other BYTO posters. Though I have forgotten which Facebook person is Levi and which is Pseudofool.
I'm just shocked Pelfrey and his awesome downware arm angle suck. In his 5 seasons where he's thrown more than 150 innings his best ERA+ was 113. His other ERA+ were: 81, 107, 78, 77. That's the track record worthy of a two year deal.
The decrease in the, "Just rub some dirt on it" mentality, the increased use of MRI, the increased use of specialists such as Dr. Andrews and the increased awareness of injuries are just a few reasons why surgeries maybe more frequent. Or maybe the MMR vaccine. It causes autism, right Jenny McCarthy?
At this point why should the Twins worry about Willingham getting at bats? Besides injury currently, his season last year was atrocious and he has no real value to the team past this year. It would be great to think about how he's a power hitting DH but do the Twins need to play a 35 year old DH more than Pinto or Arcia? Unless he comes back from the injury absolutely rakes and can be traded for a living person he has no use past this year.