Twins Minor League Report (5/18): Gonsalves, Stewart, Enlow Deal Out Zeroes

Your Honor FO,

We would like to present our closing arguments featuring the evidence from the last 4 hitters in todays MLB box score with current BA (OPS):

Grossman:   0.231    (0.646)

Buxton:        0.156    (0.397)

Adrianza:     0.213    (0.535)

Wilson:         0.158    (0.530)                                                 

We are not experts in advanced metrics, but it seems like sustained winning will be difficult with this strategy. If only there were something else to try (wink, wink)                                        

Your Excited Prospects,

Gordon and Wade           

Esteemed FO,

I hate to pile on, but you have seen Lynn pitch right?!                                                        

I don't want to come off as arrogant but I'm pretty sure I can best an ERA of 7.47, WHIP of 2.04, and 4ish average innings per start. 

I'm ready when you are!                                                                                                  

Yours Truly,

Gonsalves  

Esteemed FO,

 

I hate to pile on, but you have seen Lynn pitch right?!                                                        

I don't want to come off as arrogant but I'm pretty sure I can best an ERA of 7.47, WHIP of 2.04, and 4ish average innings per start. 

 

I'm ready when you are!                                                                                                  

Yours Truly,

Gonsalves  

Exactly Gonsalves can't do too much more to earn a promotion.

Stewarts start is better, but again I am not feeling he is a legit prospect at this point.  Gonsalvez is knocking at the door.  In another post people are suggesting we should trade Lynn.  Who would trade for him?  We would literally have to pick up 10 million I would think of his contract...it's messy

Stewarts start is better, but again I am not feeling he is a legit prospect at this point.  Gonsalvez is knocking at the door.  In another post people are suggesting we should trade Lynn.  Who would trade for him?  We would literally have to pick up 10 million I would think of his contract...it's messy

Regarding Lynn...... which is better: to pay 10 mil and have him lose games for us, or to pay 10 mil and have him lose games for some other team?

D. C. Twins covered by thoughts in his two posts.  Excellent.  Dump the chaff, bring up the potential and lets look at the best Twins team we can have.  Wasted money on Hughes, Lynn, and others does not matter.  We are paying to lose, how about investing in winning.

Does anyone know how Enlow looks. His box scores are never very impressive. I hoped for more from him.

I saw him last night, and I thought he looked pretty good. Of the six hits, one was a bloop, and most of the others were ground ball singles through the infield. A couple were nearly knocked down by diving infielders but took big hops on an infield that looked like it had a couple lips.

Several other comments. I thought Banuelos did a good job working with all three pitchers. I was sitting right behind the dugout, and I liked how Lewis interacted with others, from being the only guy to talk to both bat boys and then comparing notes on pitchers with other hitters. Cabbage seemed to have good wheels for his size. Rortvedt crushed the ball on his double into a brutal wind.

Solid starts by several in the minors which is great to see.  My concern is the lack of innings these starters are going.  This is one of the big issues with the Twins this season - the starters are only going 5 to 6 innings (if that) causing a great deal of stress on the bullpen.

Buxton is a notoriously slow starter, but it is becoming apparent that he has to go down to the minors to get his confidence back. I love the guy but it's painful to watch him hit--or at least attempt to hit. Down to .156, I think it's time to let him have some success in the minors and bring back LaMarre or go with Wade. Enough of Grossman. I would even start to play Gordon in the OF to get him some experience there as I don't see any other OF prospects at AAA or AA who appear ready to help the Twins any time soon if Buxton doesn't come around.

Twins still talking like Lynn is going to come around, but so will Halley's comet which will probably come sooner. Time to release Hughes, put Lynn in his spot in the bullpen, and bring up Gonsalves. Twins need a spark like what Romero provided and I think Gonsalves will also.

Your Honor FO,

 

We would like to present our closing arguments featuring the evidence from the last 4 hitters in todays MLB box score with current BA (OPS):

 

Grossman:   0.231    (0.646)

Buxton:        0.156    (0.397)

Adrianza:     0.213    (0.535)

Wilson:         0.158    (0.530)                                                 

 

We are not experts in advanced metrics, but it seems like sustained winning will be difficult with this strategy. If only there were something else to try (wink, wink)                                        

Your Excited Prospects,

 

Gordon and Wade           

Grossman was in for Morrison, who had a night off versus a tough lefty.  Adrianza won't see much playing time as soon as Sano is back and Escobar moves back to short.  Wilson is the backup to a backup.  Buxton should come around once he gets back into a groove following his injuries.  And Polanco will be back the first of July.

I know a lot of us, including me, have been disappointed in the Twins so far this spring.  Yet, they have played most of the year without four players (of the eight position players) who were projected to be their opening day starters...Castro, Polanco, Sano and Buxton (for several weeks).  That's a lot for any team to overcome.  Let's see where they are come All-Star time.  

Five shutout innings for Stewart with only two hits is good. One strikeout and four walks isn't.  I guess he is a pitcher who will not dominate a game like we have seen Berrios, Romero, Graterol or even Gonsalves.  

My question, Seth.  Do you see a pitcher with this type of stuff/ability able to be successful in the big leagues?  Or do you see his ceiling more of a AAAA type that will struggle to break into a good starting rotation?

The starters are also on a pitch count.

Very encouraging starts by those young pitchers. Hope they can "build on" those performances and gain some confidence, in addition to that much valued experience. As others have said, I'm still not sold on Kohl Stewart's future as a solid MLB pitcher, but games like the one he just had give me more reason to hope.

Zack Granite hitting .179? What's up with that?

Now 203.  Highest it's been all season...and coming off a spring where he slugged about 160.

He went on a fairly lengthy DL stint right after the Rochester season got underway...so, there is that.  But has literally not been getting the ball out of the infield.