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The Twins minors' top 25 - 4/24/13

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ----   For a few years now, I have been doing a feature, pretty much on a monthly basis, which was called "Who is hot in the Twins' minors" (you can see last seasons' versions here.) This included a list of the best players in the Twins' system, based on cumulative performance year to date, broken down by position.   I am giving it a new twist this year: I am listing the best team of 25 players in the Twins' organization, by position based
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Random Twins Thoughts: the First 2013 Series Edition (Twins beat the Tigers)

Last season, I started a Random Twins Thoughts series that included a post a week every Tuesday. I was told that people actually liked those and missed them when I stopped, so I will continue them this season. I decided to change it up a bit this season and do it a bit more randomly. This first one is after the Twins competed their first series of their young 2013 season, hosting the Detroit Tigers who are the favorite to win (at least) the AL Central in the 2013 season. I will try t
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Twins 2013 Spring Training Photo Diary

Originally published in full with 56 pictures at The Tenth Inning Stretch ----- Like all good things that have an expiration date, the Twins' 2013 Spring Training had to end today. Tomorrow the games mean everything as the Twins are opening the season in a frigid Target Field against the Detroit Tigers.   As in the last few years, I attended Spring Training (you can find all my 2013 Spring Training posts here) and took several pictures. This is pretty much my photo diary without comment
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Can the 2013 Twins Compete? You Betcha!

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch --- I think that it is pretty safe to say that nobody expects the Minnesota Twins to be close to contending in 2013. As a matter of fact, a lot of fans and experts would find the new Accuscore predictions that were released today and show the 2013 Twins with a predicted record of 72-90, optimistic.   I usually do not try to predict the way the Twins will finish with an analysis. The last time I did it was in the aftermath of the Santana trad
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Random Spring Training Thoughts: 3/26/2013

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ---   I arrived North a tad too late from Fort Myers last night, so I did not quite had time to compile my last Spring Training report, so here it goes:     Mainly a drills day over at the Minor League fields yesterday with no games or scrimmages schedules. Interesting to see Ray Olmedo, who was cut earlier in the morning participate in drills with the position players who will likely stay at Fort Myers for extended spring training and get
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Random Spring Training Thoughts from Fort Myers: 3/24/2013

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch --- Today the Twins beat the Toronto Blue Jays 14-5 at Hammond Stadium with about a week remaining at Spring Training; meanwhile there were AAA vs AA and A+ vs A scrimmages at fields number 2 and 3 on the minor league side. Here are my thoughts and observations of the day     A lot of great performances today, including Joe Mauer's 6 RBI day that included a HR at dead center and Aaron Hick's 4 for 4 day, but the performance of the day happe
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Random Spring Training Thoughts from Fort Myers: 3/23/2013

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch --- Actually I spent the day at Port Charlotte, watching the Twins beat the Rays; thus, no minor league report today other that the 5 guys (Jason Christian, Nate Hanson, Chris Colabello, Bruce Pugh and Dan Turpen - of Kevin Slowey trade fame) who made the half an hour trip up North to fill in as needed. Here are my thoughts and observations from today:     I did not see it, but Scoot Diamond pitched for the AAA Twins' team against the Red
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Random Spring Training Thoughts from Fort Myers: 3/22/2013

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ---- I am officially at Fort Myers, where I will be through Monday, attending Twins' games and checking on the minor leaguers. Unlike last season, when I pretty much presented a photo diary with 20+ images a day and some commentary, this season I will be doing something different: I will be presenting some of my observations and thoughts during the day on both major and minor leaguers, as well as other Spring Training-related items. O
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2013 Twins Spring Training Battle Dashboard 3.0: The final stretch edition

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch (where the graphics are better for some reason) ----   t is already almost a month into Spring Training games for the Twins, and it is time for the second version of the dashboards. You can find all 2013 Spring Training dashboards here, for reference. Again, you can find explanations of the measures and the colors of the dashboards to quantify Spring Training performance of the combatants in both the position player and pitching battle
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2013 Twins Spring Training Battle Dashboard 2.0, pre first cuts edition

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch (with the full size images; for some reason hard to reproduce here) ----   It is already two weeks into Spring Training games for the Twins, so it is time for the second version of the dashboards. You can find all 2013 Spring Training dashboards here, for reference.   Again, you can find explanations of the measures and the colors of the dashboards to quantify Spring Training performance of the combatants in both the position player and pitch
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2013 Twins Spring Training Battle Dashboard: Version 1

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch (and with a little better colors) ----   With the Twins' Spring Training about half a month old and eight official games in the books, it is about time that I start posting these dashboards again keeping track of how the players who are batting for positions are doing. It might seem that Spring Training has been going on for a while, and it has because of the World Baseball Classic. For comparison, last year the first Twins' game of Spring
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Tracking the 2013 Twins' Spring Training Roster Battles

A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period — When March is scarcely here -Emily Dickinson   Spring Training time is one of my favorite baseball times during the season (or is it "off-season", or "pre-season"?)This is the time where all the teams have the same record and all 60 players or so who are invited in the Major League camp hope that they will be part of the major league roster. Some positions in the Twins' 25-man roster are chiseled
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2013 Spring Training Guide to Fort Myers Part III: The Food

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ----   This is my second annual food guide to Fort Myers and the third and last in the series of the 2013 Guides to Fort Myers that include the logistics guide and the baseball guide. The first was more of a culinary guide, pointing out what are the local foods, and pointing out places you can sample them. That guide is still very relevant and you can find it here. This one is a little different than last year's. It is a more traditiona
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Assessing the Starting Pitching in the Twins' Organization

(originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch) ---   For a baseball team to content, one of three things need to happen:   An organization has to develop impact starting pitchers. An organization has to trade for impact starting pitcher. An organizations has to sign impact starting pitcher free agents. I demonstrated earlier this month that the Twins' last two year abysmal record could have been predicted as earlier as 2008, based on the state of their starting pitching prospects.
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Who is the newest member of the Twins HOF, Tom Mee

(originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch) ---   Today the Minnesota Twins selected two new members to their Hall of Fame, LHP "Everyday" Eddie Guardado, and long time staffer Tom Mee. All Twins' fans know Everyday Eddie, but who is Tom Mee?   Tom Mee has been with the Twins' organization from their first season in Minnesota (1961) until their last title (1991). He was the first front office person hired when the Twins moved to Minnesota in 1960 and was asked to lead their transi
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2013 Spring Training Guide to Fort Myers Part II: The Baseball

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ---   This is the second of the three 2013 Spring Training Guides to Fort Myers that will appear here. The first one was a guide on the logistics of how to get there and where to stay etc., including some ways to get there as inexpensively as possible, if that is a consideration. The Logistics Guide can be found here. The next guide will be about food and this one is about the reason people go to Fort Myers: Spring Training baseball.   The
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2013 Spring Training Guide to Fort Myers. Part I: The Logistics.

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ---   Less than a month for Pitchers and Catchers to report to Fort Myers so it is about time for you to make your arrangements to go to Fort Myers (I made mine late last year) and it is about time for the second annual Fort Myers Guides.   Last season there were two Spring Training Guides: the Spring Training Guide to Fort Myers and the Fort Myers Culinary Guide . This season there will be three guides and will be different than last year's
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An illustration of what is in the heart of the Twins pitching problems

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ----   With Catchers and Pitchers reporting in less that one month for Spring Training 2013, I decided to get ready for my Spring Training Coverage (teaser: expect 3 new guides this month) so I was looking at the past coverage here. I stumbled upon this little piece from the end of the 2009 Spring Training. It looks really innocent. After all it is a list of all 97 pitchers in the Twins' minors in 2008 from DSL to AAA, who were still wit
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An Attempt towards an Objective 2013 Hall of Fame Ballot

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ----     'Tis the time of the year when BBWAA writers who have ballots for the Hall of Fame voting, as well as everyone else, indicate who they want to be in the Hall of Fame. There are a lot of those lists and most of them come without much explanation and most of the picks are somewhat subjective (of the type: "Jack Morris should be in because he was the best post-season pitcher like ever"). Also, you have the steroid witch hunters s
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Who will be the one who will push Plouffe at third base for the Twins?

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ---   The Twins' General Manager has been on the record many times this offseason indicating that he would like to get someone who will "push" Trevor Plouffe at third base. The Twins' field and front office staff are unhappy with Plouffe's defense in the hot corner. Plouffe has had his moments there, but he is still learning the position. Let us not forget that the powers of being who feel that Plouffe is inadequate defensively are the
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Random Tuesday Twins Thoughts and Tidbits

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ---   Here is this week's installment:     Kyle Gibson returned to Rochester about a year or so after he was injured there This is a really interesting article (and well researched too) about Baseball announcers favoring certain kind of players. Interesting to see whether there is a follow up about managers following suit. Great read. The New Britain Rock Cats (Twins' AA affiliate) will host the 2013 Eastern League All Star Game. Speaki
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Minnesota Twins Minor League Weekly Transactions: 8/18-8/24

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ---   This is the fourth instalment in this series. You can find the older ones here (most recent on top.) Promotions and demotions are listed under the team where the player currently plays (this means promotions to the Minnesota Twins will not be listed here)   Here are the transactions in all levels in the Twins organization from August 11th until yesterday August 17th:   Rochester Redwings (International League, AAA):   8-24 - Min
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Random Tuesday Twins Thoughts and Tidbits

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ----   Here is this week's installment:     The biggest recent news from the Minnesota Twins (other than the product on the field) is that they outrighted Nick Blackburn and Tsuyoshi Nishioka off the 40-man roster to Rochester. What does this mean for these two players for 2013 is still unknown, but it will be interesting to see. Speaking of waivers.... One little detail because the rules are somewhat complicated: Blackburn and Nishoka did
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Minnesota Twins Minor League Weekly Transactions: 8/11-8/17

Originally Published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ----   This is the third instalment of this series. You can find the older ones here (most recent on top.) Promotions and demotions are listed under the team where the player currently plays (this means promotions to the Minnesota Twins will not be listed here)   Here are the transactions in all levels in the Twins organization from August 11th until yesterday August 17th:   Rochester Redwings (International League, AAA):     8/16 - Minne
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Minnesota Twins' Minor League Affiliates Attendance Figures

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ---   With the Minnesota Twins about to announce another 2-year extension of their Player Development Contract with the Rochester Red Winds of the AAA International League and only their A-level relationship with the Beloit Snappers of the Midwest League being an unfinished business, I thought that it might be interesting to look at the average draw of the Twins' affiliates in all levels.   I am listing ticket sold averages for each Minnesota
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