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  On 7/7/2015 at 2:52 PM, clutterheart said:

I don't know about that.  Watching him pitch in college makes my shoulder hurt.  He is all arm.  Ouch. I am not a Dr and I am not a pitching expert but that looks to me like an injury waiting to happen.  

 

He also looked super-wild.  He was bailed out an awful lot by college kids swinging with their eyes closed, at least in that video.  Velo and slider still impressive.

 

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  On 7/7/2015 at 9:37 PM, Jham said:

Do we take any credit for Swarzak or Hendricks?

 

Swarzak seems a long time ago.....Hendriks, sure, I'll give you that, of course, it proves my point that the Twins should maybe convert starters to RP sooner.......but ya, I'll give you Hendriks.

 

Admittedly, that could change in the next few weeks, I am actually hopeful for some of these guys, maybe moreso than the Twins seem to be.

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  On 7/7/2015 at 2:39 PM, jokin said:

That's true, but only if you choose to ignore the obvious. Check the video I posted from just one year before he pitched for the Twins. And there are many more. Just check his videos from the CWS and NCAAs leading up to the draft, and then get back to me.

Sorry, but I'm not going to do all that just to see for myself that what the Twins have done has lowered Burdi's performance. I never stated anything to the contrary. I only said it doesn't make sense to use a video from 2012 and a video from 2015 to place blame on the Twins. It's not ignoring the obvious. It's using the information provided in the post.

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  On 7/7/2015 at 2:50 PM, USMCTwin said:

I can't tell if you are serious. AL league average (without the Twins) is 28% internally developed of the entire bullpen. The Twins currently sit at 43%, ergo above league average. Again I am not arguing anything about the types of players they are signing or developing only your original statement that we are falling behind the league by not developing our own bullpen internally.

 

The Twins bullpen strikeout percentage is 15.9%, dead last out of 30 teams.  The next worst is 18.1%, over two percentage points better than the Twins.  The K/9 rate is also dead last by a mile.  I'm not sure where that 43% figure is coming from.

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  On 7/8/2015 at 5:21 PM, nicksaviking said:

The Twins bullpen strikeout percentage is 15.9%, dead last out of 30 teams.  The next worst is 18.1%, over two percentage points better than the Twins.  The K/9 rate is also dead last by a mile.  I'm not sure where that 43% figure is coming from.

 

I think we are talking about different things. I never mentioned strikeouts in my post nor in my original post which this is expounding on. 

 

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  On 7/8/2015 at 5:10 PM, Tibs said:

Sorry, but I'm not going to do all that just to see for myself that what the Twins have done has lowered Burdi's performance. I never stated anything to the contrary. I only said it doesn't make sense to use a video from 2012 and a video from 2015 to place blame on the Twins. It's not ignoring the obvious. It's using the information provided in the post.

 

But not using the other information that is also out there that confirms that Burdi's delivery has been altered severely from his college days. and that the results this year have been just short of disastrous.  No need to be coy or obtuse, there's no denying, one year on under the MN Twins tutelage, there have been no injuries or personal crises of confidence upon which to lay blame, the Twins coaching and Burdi's response to that coaching has led directly to where Nick Burdi is at today.

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  On 7/7/2015 at 1:52 PM, USMCTwin said:

I think the notion that other teams develop their own talent and the Twins are they only team that can't is overplayed

 

So maybe we can gripe about which players they are signing, but I don't think it's fair to complain the game has evolved past the Twins for not developing their own bullpen when they are comparable to the entire AL.

 

The numbers of the few relief pitchers that have made it to the Twins support the notion that they are in no way comparable to the the entire AL (or NL), ie, much worse in the peripheral numbers that matter most for RPs, and at the bottom of MLB year after year .

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  On 7/10/2015 at 5:19 AM, jokin said:

But not using the other information that is also out there that confirms that Burdi's delivery has been altered severely from his college days. and that the results this year have been just short of disastrous.  No need to be coy or obtuse, there's no denying, one year on under the MN Twins tutelage, there have been no injuries or personal crises of confidence upon which to lay blame, the Twins coaching and Burdi's response to that coaching has led directly to where Nick Burdi is at today.

 

From 2012 to 2015, Burdi's delivery has changed, I don't think that's up for denial.  I do, however, think it might just be a tad coy or obtuse (or perhaps just presumptuous) to assume this is somehow an indictment of the Twins coaching philosophy. 

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  On 7/10/2015 at 6:28 PM, mike wants wins said:

Weird, I keep coming here expecting to see transactions, as the time/date stamp moves.....

 

Stop it already, please.

 

THIS.

 

If you want to create a thread thread on this, please do so. Otherwise, let's move on.

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  On 7/10/2015 at 6:28 PM, mike wants wins said:

Weird, I keep coming here expecting to see transactions, as the time/date stamp moves.....

 

Stop it already, please.

Moderator note:  THIS times 1000. We've heard enough on this. Either start a new thread to discuss the Burdi issue specifically or move on. This is a TRANSACTIONS thread and not a 'How the coaching staff is mismanaging Burdi' thread. So, move along. 

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With Travis Harrison on the DL and Max Kepler out with a sore shoulder, the Lookouts need outfielders

 

The Minnesota Twins signed outfielder Shannon Wilkerson from the independent York Revolution. 

 

Marcus Knecht was promoted from Ft. Myers to Chattanooga.

 

TJ White was promoted from Cedar Rapids to Ft. Myers.

 

Unconfirmed reports that Travis Blankenhorn has been promoted to Elizabethton.

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  On 7/15/2015 at 1:23 PM, matthew0211 said:

Scott Atchison was released per the Southern League transactions page.

 

My assumption all along was that he had a really quick Opt-Out date. I mean, he'd pitched in the big leagues most of the first half. He's 39. I had no problem with the Twins signing him and seeing if there was anything left more up close, but he didn't do anything special in his 2 weeks, so move on (For Twins and him).

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  On 7/15/2015 at 2:56 PM, Seth Stohs said:

Lots of moves... and I assume more are coming...

 

Brett Doe promoted to Ft. Myers.

 

Zach Tillery placed on Cedar Rapids DL.

Yorman Landa and Chris Mazza activated by Cedar Rapids from DL.

 

Tyler Kuresa promoted back to Cedar Rapids.

 

And now Jorge Fernandez to the Disabled List for CR.

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  On 7/15/2015 at 3:07 PM, Seth Stohs said:

Taylor Clemensia, a RHP from The Netherlands, has been assigned to Elizabethton. He's just 18 and hasn't pitched yet in affiliated ball. Very surprising, in my opinion.

 

I wonder where he will fall on the the Van Mil/Blyleven scale of Dutch pitchers? I hope it's toward the Blyleven side in skill and the Van Mil side in height.

 

Edit: Wow, how can you not love BBR? They even have a page showing Clemensia's Dutch League:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/team.cgi?id=156e8ece

 

No pitching stats for him, though this was 2013 and he would have been 16.  He batted in a game though!

 

Edit 2: Sadly I also see that Van Mil is no longer in baseball and he's been out since 2013.  It surprises me that he's been out two years but I didn't notice, it further surpises me that he hasn't been in the Twins organization since 2010.  It doesn't seem that long ago that we were all talking about the 7 footer.

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  On 7/15/2015 at 7:56 PM, nicksaviking said:

I wonder where he will fall on the the Van Mil/Blyleven scale of Dutch pitchers? I hope it's toward the Blyleven side in skill and the Van Mil side in height.

 

Edit: Wow, how can you not love BBR? They even have a page showing Clemensia's Dutch League:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/team.cgi?id=156e8ece

 

No pitching stats for him, though this was 2013 and he would have been 16.  He batted in a game though!

 

Edit 2: Sadly I also see that Van Mil is no longer in baseball and he's been out since 2013.  It surprises me that he's been out two years but I didn't notice, it further surpises me that he hasn't been in the Twins organization since 2010.  It doesn't seem that long ago that we were all talking about the 7 footer.

 

Van Mil was traded in 2010 for Brian Fuentes.

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Wow, I hadn't looked at FSL numbers, but the average OPS is .651 (the AL number is .717). Swim and Garver at .698 and .685 respectively suddenly look pretty good. Their defensive numbers look good, though those don't mean a lot.

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