Thought to see him get hurt when he was just getting started. This was kind of the elephant in the room regarding our pitching pipeline. Lots of promise but substantial injury concerns across the board.
Royce Lewis will be the Twins starting SS for the next 10 years starting next year. It’s in everyone’s best interest for him to play a lot at short. He’s done fine in the field but can improve a lot That ain’t gonna happen with him wandering around playing a bunch of positions he’s never going to play again. A little third base would be fine but he just needs most of his reps to be at SS.
Well written article containing some under the radar info. Getting ahead would surely make him look like a different pitcher and may get some chases on the splitter.
However I think people are expecting him to be something that he’s not. He’s a bullpen piece not some dominant reliever.
He is showing promise at short but is hardly exceptional. He needs the work. If you think Correa is here next year then… well I guess we agree to disagree. The most prudent path is to prepare him for the most likely outcome which is playing the most important position on the field next year.
He absolutely needs to go back to St. Paul and get as many reps at short. He will need to be our SS next year and can improve substantially between now and then but not if he is fooling around playing positions that are less important and that we already have covered.
If we are going to make proclamations based on SSS the last several starts don’t bode well for our club. Bundy and Archer are starting to look like the long shots they always were.
I’m not sure about what should happen. Injuries will likely decide. However they should NOT keep the 6 man rotation which allows for equal starts for Ryan and Winder as Bundy and Archer. Give your best pitchers the most starts.
Given that most of these guys have injury histories why not run them through the bullpen first like Winder? I’ve never seen a pitching logjam so not in favor of trading any of them.
Apparently everyone has forgotten that Lewis hasn’t played in two years and has big developmental needs at SS. He will be our SS next year and needs all the reps he can get. So no he will not be playing a different position this year for the Twins. And no Correa will not be playing for the Twins next year unless something really bad happens.
I agree about not pigeon holing the guy to the 9th. Let him pitch whatever inning has the toughest hitters whether that be the 7th 8th or 9th. And let him pitch two innings. If he is already heated up anoth 15-20 pitches is not going to hurt him.
You mean the Sonny Gray who got here at the end of spring training and has spent time in fort Myers’s on a rehab start? Sorry for the snark but this the oldest angle in the book. We have no idea if they make any difference at all.
I liked that winder throws strikes, in fact all our young pitchers fill the strike zone. By doing so it gets hitters in swing mode. I really liked Larnach double: back door breaking ball on the outside corner and he crushed the other way.