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Blog mnfireman

A blog by mnfireman in Twins Daily

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Importance of defense

Importance of defense

This years team has been terrible defensively; a lot of errors (physical and mental), misplayed balls that could have been called errors, throws to the wrong base, missed cut-off men, etc... This then makes me wonder if the pitchers are unable to relax on the mound, trying to be too perfect, not pitching "loose." Constantly throwing from the stretch, having to throw extra pitches, trying to make the perfect pitch to get the strike out, etc... could be hindering their development. We are seeing a

2014 and Beyond - Coaching staff

Love him or hate him, Gardy's fate is not in our hands. There are, as there should be, arguments to be made for keeping him, and for letting him go. Based on the fact that Terry Ryan won't commit either way, I think he is letting Gardy decide. He has a job if he wants one. I would like to see somebody different man the helm, like AAA manager Gene Glynn or, as mentioned in another posting, Dave Martinez. Both have ties to the Rays and, I believe, know how to handle younger players and a roster in

Manager - How much difference can one make?

It is commonly accepted that one manager is not worth more than another manager - that the results would be the same no matter who is at the helm.   However, if one looks at the standings over the last few years, it appears to me that a manager might make quite a bit of difference.   Bob Melvin in Oakland, Buck Showalter in Baltimore, Terry Francona in Cleveland, John Farrell in Boston, Clint Hurdle in Pittsburgh to name a few have turned teams around over the last couple of years while Mike Sci

Bullpen - Second Glance

[TABLE=class: tablehead] [TR=class: colhead] [TD=align: left]RK[/TD] [TD=align: left]TEAM[/TD] GP W L ERA SV CG SHO IP QS ER R BB SO BAA[/TR] [TR=class: oddrow team-10-7] [TD=align: left]1[/TD] [TD=align: left]Kansas City[/TD] 67 14 11[TD=class: sortcell]2.82[/TD] 19 0 0 175.1 -- 55 60 72 169 .222[/TR] [TR=class: evenrow team-10-9] [TD=align: left]2[/TD] [TD=align: left]Minnesota[/TD] 69 11 10[TD=class: sortcell]2.84[/TD] 21 0 0 240.2 -- 76 83 78 212 .221[/TR] [TR=class: oddrow team-10-11]

Starting Pitching - Second Glance

[TABLE=class: tablehead] [TR=class: colhead] [TD=align: left]RK[/TD] [TD=align: left]TEAM[/TD] GP W L ERA SV CG SHO IP QS ER R BB SO BAA[/TR] [TR=class: oddrow team-10-6] [TD=align: left]1[/TD] [TD=align: left]Detroit[/TD] 71 35 18[TD=class: sortcell]3.46[/TD] 0 2 4 447.2 -- 172 184 109 472 .239[/TR] [TR=class: evenrow team-10-7] [TD=align: left]2[/TD] [TD=align: left]Kansas City[/TD] 70 20 25[TD=class: sortcell]3.64[/TD] 0 3 5 442.1 -- 179 199 133 327 .263[/TR] [TR=class: oddrow team-10-2]

Team Batting - Second glance

[TABLE=class: tablehead] [TR=class: colhead] [TD=align: left]RK[/TD] [TD=align: left]TEAM[/TD] GP AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI AVG OBP SLG OPS[/TR] [TR=class: oddrow team-10-2] [TD=align: left]1[/TD] [TD=align: left]Boston[/TD] 75 2571[TD=class: sortcell]376[/TD] 686 162 18 83 1133 370 .267 .343 .441 .784[/TR] [TR=class: evenrow team-10-1] [TD=align: left]2[/TD] [TD=align: left]Baltimore[/TD] 73 2567[TD=class: sortcell]360[/TD] 703 161 5 98 1168 346 .274 .325 .455 .780[/TR] [TR=class: oddrow team

Previous Entries

Just throwing the stats out there, no analysis or deep reaching comments, yet! I may delve deeper into these as the season wears on, but for now I figured I would just post them and let the commentors read into and say what they want about them.   My first thoughts are that even though the offense and starting pitching have room for major improvements, the team is doing quite well and should not give up this season as no one is running away with the division yet. However, if they need to keep re

Team Batting

[TABLE=class: tablehead] [TR=class: colhead] [TD=align: left]RK[/TD] [TD=align: left]TEAM[/TD] GP AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI AVG OBP SLG OPS[/TR] [TR=class: oddrow team-10-5] [TD=align: left]1[/TD] [TD=align: left]Cleveland[/TD] 34 1177 174 318 71 8 49 552 168 .270 .334 .469[TD=class: sortcell].803[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: evenrow team-10-6] [TD=align: left]2[/TD] [TD=align: left]Detroit[/TD] 34 1257 185 358 63 8 36 545 182 .285 .351 .434[TD=class: sortcell].785[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: oddrow team-10-

Relief Pitching

[TABLE=class: tablehead] [TR=class: colhead] [TD=align: left]RK[/TD] [TD=align: left]TEAM[/TD] GP W L ERA SV CG SHO IP QS ER R BB SO BAA[/TR] [TR=class: oddrow team-10-1] [TD=align: left]1[/TD] [TD=align: left]Baltimore[/TD] 37 9 4[TD=class: sortcell]2.73[/TD] 16 0 0 118.2 -- 36 41 41 105 .212[/TR] [TR=class: evenrow team-10-5] [TD=align: left]2[/TD] [TD=align: left]Cleveland[/TD] 33 4 0[TD=class: sortcell]2.88[/TD] 7 0 0 106.1 -- 34 41 46 116 .214[/TR] [TR=class: oddrow team-10-9] [TD=alig

2013 Starting Pitching

[TABLE=class: tablehead] [TR=class: colhead] [TD=align: left]RK [/TD] [TD=align: left]TEAM [/TD] GP W L ERA SV CG SHO IP QS ER R BB SO BAA [/TR] [TR=class: oddrow team-10-6] [TD=align: left]1 [/TD] [TD=align: left]Detroit [/TD] 34 17 9 [TD=class: sortcell]3.27 [/TD] [/TD] 2 211.2 -- 77 87 51 224 .248 [/TR] [TR=class: evenrow team-10-13] [TD=align: left]2 [TD=align: left]Texas [/TD] 36 16 12 [TD=class: sortcell]3.40 [/TD] [/TD] 5 217.1 -- 82 88 73 222 .230 [

2013 Payroll

There have been alot of posts on here about all the money coming off the books next year. Let's take a look at the real numbers, as I have done on a couple off occassions this year.   The team currently has 8 players under contract for next year and they will earn $63.8 M   The team team has 4 arbitration eligible players that are estimated to receive $20 M. We are at 12 players and $83.8 M.   The team has 2 players, Matt Capps and Scott Baker, with team options totalling $15.25 M. The smart thi

Trying this again....

Figured I would update the slash lines I started last week so as to get a picture of where our 2012 Minnesota Twins are sitting compared to the rest of the American League.   Interesting to note with all the different line-ups that certain positions in the field and certain spots in line-up perform the same, good or bad, no matter who is in there. Anyway, here are this weeks updated slash lines:     C - .284/.371/.358 .729 (6) 1B - .206/.286/.352 .638 (11) 2B - .231/.280/.288 .568 (12) 3B - .20

Where do we start.....

Figured I would give this blog thing a try!   First of all, I like most of you, am a fan of baseball and the Twins in particular. It has been interesting reading some of the posts on here as to how to fix the team. I will offer no theories but instead will post some statistics using what have become the standard measuring tools - AVG/OBP/SLG & OPS for batters and WHIP, K/BB, K/9 & OPS against for pitchers. I will also note the Twins ranks among the AL teams.   And now, your 2012 Twins st

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