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Twins Bench Battle Dashboard; 3/10/12

Originally posted at The Tenth Inning Stretch ----   I have been creating dashboards to look at the progression of the Spring Training battle for the 3 bullpen sports for the Twins (You can read about the rationale and details here.) I decided to create a dashboard for the 2-3 bench position battles. To quantify position players performance I am using another Bill James' measurement, the "Batting Game Score", as modified by Baseball Reference. I made 2 changes on the BR way of calculating Batt
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Updated Twins Bullpen Battle Dashboard; 3/10/2012

Originally posted at The Tenth Inning Stretch --   You can read the basic premise in detail behind this dashboard here. This is the most current iterration after yesterday's game vs the Cardinals:   http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6821589228_ed2351c4d8_o.jpg     Here is a ranking of the combatants based on average game score:   Terry Doyle 56 Matt Maloney 54.5 Jared Burton 53.5 Liam Hendriks 53.5 Aaron Thompson 53 Brendan Wise 53 Casey Fien 52.7 Jeff Manship 52.5 Carlos Gutierrez 52 Kyle W
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Updated Twins Bullpen Battle Dashboard; 3/9/2012

This was originally posted at The Tenth Inning Stretch and reposted here --- You can read the basic premise in detail behind this dashboard here. The summary is that I have created a visual dashboard that uses Bill James' Game Score to measure the performance of each pitcher who is vying for a spot on the Twins' 25-man roster (you can see their profiles here) and track their performance through spring training.   Performances are classified as "above average" (green color), "average (yellow),
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Quantifying the Twins Spring Training bullpen battle: Bullpen Battle Dashboard

Here is the basic premise: The Twins have a whole bunch of relievers in their Spring Training Camp who are batting for 3 spots on the 25-man roster. I listed and analysed these players previously. Spring training is long and it is hard to track each appearance of each player, trying to have an objective view of how this battle might be ending (or at least trending,) especially, when the usual statistics fail with such a small sample size. Yesterday I created a dashboard to look at each pitche
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Keeping track of the Twins bullpen battles; version 1

This was originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch and is reposted here ---   Previously, I listed all the players who are battling for one of the 3 bullpen spots this Spring Training. Because they are so many, I decided to create a spreadsheet and keep track of their performance this Spring day by day, using color coding and symbols to get a quick visual. In other words, creating a dashboard of their performance.   Green (+) is better than average appearance that day, yellow (0) is ave
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Notes and Thoughts from Today's Twins' Game

Originally posted at The Tenth Inning Stretch ----   Not a game report by any means; just some random, stream of conscious type notes I took while I was watching the Twins' game on TV this afternoon: Jamey Carroll's strike zone is smaller than Ben Revere's. He really gets down in the box Doumit looks like Kubel. A lot Great double steal by Revere and Carroll in a botched pick-off move. Carroll seams a very astute base runner Baker's fastball at 86 mph to start the game, then up at 87-88
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Random Tuesday Twins Thoughts and Tidbits

This was originally posted at The Tenth Inning Stretch ---   Here is this week's installment (also heavily influenced by Spring Training) : Today is Spring Training Reporting day for the Twins' minor leaguers. You can find the full MiLB Spring Training Schedule here. And if you wonder what the Twins' minor leaguers feel about the off-season and Spring Training, you should read this article by Twins LHP prospect Tony Davis, this by fellow LHP prospect Ryan O'Rourke, this by RHP prospect Dakot
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Update on the Twins Spring Training roster battles

This has been previously published at The Tenth Inning Stretch. I have highligheted the four questions the Twins need to answer this Spring Training previously. With a couple weeks in the books in Spring Training, the Twins so far have played 4 games (3 official and a "B" game that does not count in the standings or in the players' statistics officially) so there are hints of light for some of those.   The starting outfield: All indications seem that the Twins will go with Span at Center Fie
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Transactions Involving Former Twins - February edition

This was posted at The Tenth Inning Stretch and reposted here. This off-season I have been keeping track of former Twins who were signed by other teams. This is the final edition, since Spring Training has started. Here is the cumulative list of former Twins who are playing for new teams this season:   Arizona Diamondbacks:   C Henry Blanco (major league; free agent, November 2011) LHP Craig Brelsow (traded by the Oakland Athletics with Trevor Cahill for Jarrod Parker, Ryan Cook and Collin Cow
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What have we learned so far in the Twins Spring Training

First posted at The Tenth Inning Stretch Tomorrow the Twins will play their first unofficial game, and there are already a few interesting observations in this very young Spring Training. As always, you can find all the Spring Training news and analysis on this site here.   First of all, as far as the "B" game (free to fans, BTW) tomorrow goes, the Twins have announced who is playing. All of: Scott Baker, Nick Blackburn, Liam Hendriks, Jeff Manship, Jason Bulger, Carlos Gutierrez, Tyler Rober
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Random Tuesday Twins Thoughts and Tidbits

This is a regular weekly feature at The Tenth Inning Stetch and is partially reposted here. You can find the original here   Here is this week's installment (heavily influenced by Spring Training) : Wishing my best to Joel Zumaya, who's career with the Twins for all practical purposes ended last Sunday. Several media outlets have mentioned that he is considering retiring from baseball and becoming a professional fisherman. Terry Ryan indicated that the Twins most likely will replace Zumaya
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Who will replace Joel Zumaya for the Twins?

This was originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch and partially reposted here for space considerations. The original can be found here. Joel Zumaya left the mount on Saturday with elbow discomfort, cutting his workout short. Terry Ryan announced on Sunday that an MRI showed that he has torn his UCL, will undergo Tommy John surgery and not pitch for a month. It is unclear whether the Twins released him yet, but at this point that is a technicality, because by releasing him they will sa
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Joel Zumaya injury: what do we know

This was first posted at The Tenth Inning Stretch and reposted here. The original post can be found here By now we all know that Zumaya left yesterday's bullpen session with pain/discomfort on "the inside of his elbow" after he threw 15 pitches to Chris Herrmann. According to the observers he was throwing very hard. Terry Ryan announced that there will be an MRI today and the results will be announced either late today or tomorrow.   Of course, the reaction of the Twins' Territory, especiall
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How the integration barrier broke for the Twins' franchise

This was first published at The Tenth Inning Stretch earlier this month. I know it is kind of old, but I think that the topic might be interesting for the Twins Daily readers, so I am republishing it here... February is African American/Black History Month so I wanted to contribute by looking at the integration of the Twins franchise. And it did happen at the Senators' years. The Washington Senators, even though they were one of the first Major League teams to break the ethnicity barrier, in 191
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2012 Twins' uniform numbers musical chairs

Originally posted at The Tenth Inning Stretch Every new season there are a lot of old faces who are not any longer with a team and a lot of new faces who are replacing them. Usually a new player is assigned one of the departed players' uniform numbers. Here are the matches between the old and the new uniform numbers. Three of them are unassigned and Chris Parmelee switched his number from 2011. Joel Zumaya and Darin Mastoianni have not been formally assigned numbers yet.   Left the team:   5
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Exclusive: New Twins Promotion: the Gardy Bear

cross-posted from The Tenth Inning Stretch The Tampa Bays Rays have announced that they will give away The Don Zimmer Bear, a bear with the face of Don Zimmer. The mania of putting a chubby manager's face of a teddy bear and giving it away to kids in the ballpark has been virally spreading across the league. The Twins today announced that they will join in the mania give away a Gardy Bear to the first 5,000 children on Friday April 13, when the Twins play against the Rangers at Target field.
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Random Tuesday Twins Thoughts and Tidbits

This is a regular weekly feature on my blog originally posted there this morning, and partially reposted here Here is this week's installment (The spring training edition) : Looks like one of the new Twins' players will be a daddy again, for the 4th time Interesting news from the Twins' Blogosphere. The 4 bloggers (John Bonnes, Parker Hagaman, Nick Nelson and Seth Stohs - alphabetically) who were part of Twinscentric, desided to discolve their individual blogs and start Twins Dailywhich is
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Fort Myers Spring Training Guide

I posted this a week ago or so in my blog, but I am reposting it here as well in case folks were interested in going down to Fort Myers for Spring Training this spring:     As I promised last Sunday, I have been working on two Spring Training Guides: a General Guide to Fort Myers and a more specific food guide (edit: the Fort Myers Culinary Guide is now up - 2/17/2012). This is the first one and I will cover the area, the town, Hammond Stadium and other places to catch Twins' spring training ga
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