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  1. AceWrigley
    Maybe we'll find out Homer Bailey is the great grandson of George Bailey and he'll have a wonderful life pitching for the Twins. Very good split-finger fastball which he upped to using almost 27% last year. Held hitters to an .182 average with it and generated a 38.2% whiff rate. Results might have been helped by the fact that a lot of pitchers ditched their sinkers while pursuing upper strike zone whiffs and hitters struggled with his sinker. Jack Morris probably likes this signing. Both fastball and splitter are good pitches, others ... not so good. Used to have an elite slider pre Tommy John then Bone Spur Surgery. Known as a very hard worker. Who knows, maybe with full post-TJ health and Wes Johnson's pitching mojo he'll have a nice season for the Twins.
  2. AceWrigley
    I'm pretty sure the Twins want him to start. Both Graterol and Thorpe will need innings limitations, so maybe they form a starter/relief sharing role with probably about 150 max innings from each of them. That is if they pitch effectively and we don't acquire another starter.
  3. AceWrigley
    Clippard actually has better stats against LH hitters than RH, and with the new 3-batter rule, I really like this signing.
  4. AceWrigley
    Any pitcher that has Dick "The Monster" Radatz as one of his comps at B-R is alright in my book.
  5. AceWrigley
    Question: Does the Mets signing Wacha and Porcello make DeGrom or Thor remotely available?
  6. AceWrigley
    Jon Lester is 13-6 vs the Yanks but he's 35 now and still can't throw to 1B.
  7. AceWrigley
    Do not dis the Dobnak.
  8. AceWrigley
    Strasburg would be an excellent add. I think he might provide the best value of all the free agent pitchers. He's a horse, he's tough, elite curveball and changeup, high quality 4-seamer, and post season success. It could make for a formidable rotation. Strasburg, Barrios, Odorizzi, Pineda and X. The 3 most similar pitchers to Strasburg on B-R are Corey Kluber, Gary Nolan and Gerrit Cole.
  9. AceWrigley
    I think Castro is looking for more playing time, and he might find it somewhere else.
  10. AceWrigley
    It looks like trading for a starting pitcher or 2 (if that's what the front office is targeting) might be the best route from a value standpoint. What if Jose and Odo end up being the only veteran starters? Is it possible the Twins Brass thinks it can fill out a viable rotation with Dobnak, Smeltzer, Thorpe, Littel, Vallimont, Sammons, Sands, Balazovic if it has to? How about Josh Lindblom who has gone 35-7 over 2 years in Korea and wants to come back to MLB at age 32, worth a look? It's hard to sign a free agent who would rather play somewhere else for whatever reasons regardless of money. Can we resign A.J. Pierzynski again and trade him for some young pitchers?
  11. AceWrigley
    Could have been the Ft. Myers Night Owls. Ft. Myers is host to the largest population of burrowing owls in Florida. Could have been a cool logo too.
  12. AceWrigley
    NO no no no no. I think I'm scarred for life.
  13. AceWrigley
    Don't know what AJ was like in the clubhouse, but I was bummed when he was traded. Always a tough competitor, I always looked forward to the Twins playing the Sox with him behind the plate. I think having a 19 year playing career and being 9th on the list of all-time games caught says a lot about how teams felt about him. Fun player to root for and watch play.
  14. AceWrigley
    Sano at 3B is fine. He probably won't win any gold gloves but he has good hands, a strong arm and athletic ability. I like his offense from the hot corner. As long as he stays in shape and keeps working on his defense, he should have a few more years at 3B. I'm just hoping Eddie has a defensive resurgence in the OF; we can't have him skating around out there like 2019. Maybe put Kepler in LF and Eddie in RF?
  15. AceWrigley
    2B Alexi Casilla honorable mention for obvious reasons.
  16. AceWrigley
    Interesting comparison, thanks.
  17. AceWrigley
    Diekman has 8 seasons of major league service and hasn't improved his walks% at all. In fact, for the 1st half of his career he's allowed 4.7 walks per 9 innings. The second half (2016-2019) he's allowed 5.3 walks per 9. And across these 2 time frames his K% has decreased slightly. Not my 1st choice for a bullpen addition.
  18. AceWrigley
    I know, right? Delmon made Manny Ramirez look good.
  19. AceWrigley
    You mean the A's Robbie Grossman, LF finalist for a possible 2019 Gold Glove? Either he was sand bagging while with the Twins, or they had a guy in a Robbie Grossman suit chasing flyballs out there. I wonder if Target Field is hard to play defense in . . .
  20. AceWrigley
    Lew Ford called. Said he's going Green and getting a new Roof.
  21. AceWrigley
    Makes you wonder how staffs ever had a 4-man rotation with starters possibly starting 35- 40 games, completing almost half of them and throwing 250-300 innings. Must have been the beer.
  22. AceWrigley
    For the sake of argument, Wheeler and Madbum are the same age, but Bumgartner has over 1,000 more innings on his arm. He pitched 200 innings in his 21 year-old season. It's not always the age, it's the mileage (thank you Indiana Jones, baseball savant). Quirky info: they were both signed as No. 1 picks of the Giants; Madbum in 2007, Wheeler in 2009. Heck, why choose. Sign both of them, and Pineda. Rotation = Bumgartner, Berrios, Odorizzi, Wheeler and Pineda. You could do a lot worse. It's not Verlander, Cole & Greinke or Scherzer, Strasburg & Corbin, but then again those 2 threesomes probably won't be together next year.
  23. AceWrigley
    Anybody think he looks like a young Bud Grant??
  24. AceWrigley
    Cal Ripken made himself into a good fielding shortstop by hard work; took so many practice grounders from his dad, practically wore pops out! He was also a master at positioning. For his size I think Sano is pretty athletic and does make some plays that are spectacular. Left to right range is probably limited though, so positioning becomes even more important for him. The best range is standing in the right place.
  25. AceWrigley
    Great season, bad post season. I picture all diehard Twins fans in Minnesota all walking around looking like the deer caught in the headlights this morning.
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