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Tuesday Morning Tidbits

Original post from North Dakota Twins Fan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing Memorial Day weekend. It is great to start the week off on a Tuesday and it will only make the rest of the week go that much faster. Since I work in the local school system, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel that is the school year.   As has become a weekly happening around here, I will post a few tidbits in the morning to hold readers over until I write the minor league wrap-up for Twin

Random Tuesday Twins Thoughts and Tidbits

Originally Published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ---   Here is this week's installment; and it is heavily influenced by the upcoming MLB Amateur Draft:   This is great evidence to reinforce my position to a. not believe in "mock drafts" and b. not attempt one. That mock draft had the Twins not taking a P until their 6th pick (3rd round) and taking 3 catchers with their first 4 picks. The chance of this happening is smaller than me winning the lottery (and I do not play the lottery.) This yea

Finding A Home For Justin Morneau

I don’t want to trade Justin Morneau. I don’t want to be rational about it. I want to clutch onto his comeback, keep it for my own, gaze at it among the dreck that this (and probably next) season has become. I’ve waited for this, I’ve craved it, and dammit, now I want it.   We’ll see if I feel the same way in a couple of months, because that’s when the decision will need to be made. For there to be a decision, Morneau needs stay healthy, and he needs show the same kind of production occasionally

Seeing the Future: Miguel Sano

I had the pleasure, this Memorial Day, to take in a Kane County Cougars game here in the Chicagoland area and was pleasantly surprised to find that their opponent today was the Twins' Single-A affiliate Beloit Snappers of the Midwest League. I had nice seats, 3 rows from the field on the 3rd base side and witnessed a donnybrook of a game; a 41-hit, 24-run affair that featured 2 homeruns, 4 errors and a total of 11 different pitchers.   It was a hot one at Fifth-Third Bank Stadium today (95

Twins Draft Preview IV - Highly Ranked Potential Re-drafts

Baseball America recently released their Top 500 and the following players are guys that show up on the list that the Twins have previously drafted.   [TABLE=width: 509] 2012 DRAFT ELIGIBLE POS DRAFTED BA RANK COLLEGE CLASS James Ramsey OF[TD=align: right]2011[/TD] #51 FLORIDA STATE SR [TD=colspan: 6]Has been called "baseball's Tim Tebow", turned down a $500K offer from Twins because he didn't want to move to second base.[/TD] Pat Light RHP[TD=align: right]2009[/TD] #81 MONMOUTH JR [T

Profiles of the Top 22 Pitchers for the 2012 MLB Draft: Hunter Virant

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ----   With the Twins having a severe need for pitching in the organization as well as six picks among the top 100, it is certain that more than one of those picks (and probably the second overall pick) will be used to draft a pitcher. To this respect, I am presenting profiles of the top 22 pitching prospects for the 2012 MLB draft.   I will be presenting these alphabetically, and at the end I will rank them. I will be doing about one a day and I

The importance of starting well

Memorial Day weekend is almost here and it’s usually the 40-game mark that occurs around that holiday that can be used to assess how good a team is. And most MLB Previews will tell you not to expect many surprises after that.   But does a really hot start necessarily mean post-season success? Let's take a look at some of the best starts before Memorial Day in MLB history and how those teams ended up.   The 1977 LA Dodgers side won 30 of their first 40 games in manager Tommy Lasorda’s first seaso

The American League’s young contenders

With the month of May coming to a close and the main part of the season yet to come, it’s still not too early to start looking at the race for the Cy Young contenders this year. Most of the big guns - or should that be arms? - are still in contention at the current time and the mix contains many former winners of the award.   Despite the fact that the usual suspects are in contention. there is always one wild card and that just happens to be Toronto Blue Jays’ Brandon Morrow. His hot hard or arm

Gleeman & the Geek Ep 43: Morneau, Moves and Mock Drafts

Aaron and John talk about Justin Morneau's resurgence, the Twins' options with the No. 2 pick, Jason Marquis' departure, Francisco Liriano's move back into the rotation, the best baseball movies of all time, first impressions of Cole De Vries, their PickPointz MVP picks, Johan Santana's return to greatness, and why Anthony Slama can't catch a break. Here are:   the podcasts the rss feed if you want to subscribe and the podcast on iTunes

Profiles of the Top 22 Pitchers for the 2012 MLB Draft: Marcus Stromen

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ----   With the Twins having a severe need for pitching in the organization as well as six picks among the top 100, it is certain that more than one of those picks (and probably the second overall pick) will be used to draft a pitcher. To this respect, I am presenting profiles of the top 22pitching prospects for the 2012 MLB draft.   I will be presenting these alphabetically, and at the end I will rank them. I will be doing about one a day and I

Big Ten Tournament Conclusion

Championship: Purdue 6, Indiana 5   A nearly-empty stadium in Columbus is not the usual setting for a Purdue-IU matchup. Usually the rivalry brings out the best (or worst) of the schools' respective fans in packed stadiums and arenas. The two teams made up for the lack of fan frenzy with a ninth inning brawl around third base, of all places.   After Field of Twins draft-endorsed catcher Kevin Plawecki's second homer of the tournament and 7th of the season put Purdue up 5-4 in the 8th inning, In

2012 Day-by-Day - May 26

A few hours later than normal, but here nonetheless...   Hitter of the Day: Denard Span: 2-4 HR (1), 2B (13), 2 R, 1 RBI   Pitcher of the Day: Andrew Albers - LHP - NBR - AA: 4 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 6 SO (Technically his start happened on Friday night, but wasn't official until the completion of the game on Saturday)   Recap: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AiRVhKu18uIhdDBSYUc5UGtSMkluOEFSWFdnTVdvQVE&output=html   Being a Google Docs amateur, I just realized recently the li

Twins Daily Live Twins Chat at 1:00 Today

Join Seth at 1:00 CST for a live Twins chat. Feel free to ask questions on the Minnesota Twins, the minor leagues, prospect rankings, the upcoming draft... or anything baseball-related. These chats are always fun and entertaining. This will be taking place during the Twins/Tigers series finale, so it'll be good. (Of course, if this time doesn't work for you to participate, you can come back later to read the transcript.)   ---   Twins Daily Live Twins Chat

Profiles of the Top 22 Pitchers for the 2012 MLB Draft: Chris Stratton

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch ----           With the Twins having a severe need for pitching in the organization as well as six picks among the top 100, it is certain that more than one of those picks (and probably the second overall pick) will be used to draft a pitcher. To this respect, I am presenting profiles of the top 22 pitching prospects for the 2012 MLB draft.   I will be presenting these alphabetically, and at the end I will rank them. I will be doing about one a

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

2012 Day-by-Day - May 25

Hitter of the Day: Sean Burroughs - 3B - ROC - AAA: 2-5 2 2B (3), 4 RBI, 2 R   Pitcher of the Day: Tim Shibuya - RHP - BEL - A: 5 IP, 6 H, 1 ER (3 R), 2 BB, 3 SO If you look at the above line and ask me why he was the pick of the night, my answer would simply be "because I needed to pick one". In a night where no pitcher, starter or reliever, had a good night, I went with Shibuya. He was roughed up last start, so to see him bounce back to a "respectable" outing, and to do it on a night where

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