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  1. Trov
    He is showing his second half a couple years ago was no fluke. His signing was a huge deal for Twins moving forward. In terms of looking at defense for SS the old book is out the window with new shifting being done. Range for SS will be so overrated now because the need to range way up middle or deep in the hole will not be as needed. This is because players are playing up the middle and leaving the other side wide open for many hitters. This decreases need for huge range. As long as you can make routine plays lack of range, compared to other past super star defensive SS are not needed. If he can keep up the offense, he should be considered for MVP.
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    I enjoy fact that, at current time, our biggest complaint is that our number 5 starter is not pitching as well as we want. It is fun to be a MN fan and always expect the good things to come to an end and everything will turn and by end trade deadline we are selling off all our pieces. Those same people that say during this time of season, just wait they will go back to being the Twins we know. Those people that do not even watch the games just hear about them. Those people will be yelling and screaming about how good they are come August and September and start asking who is going to the game tonight. Happened every year during their last good run.
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    In terms of Keith Law report, I recall he said Berrios would not be much of a pitcher at MLB level either. It is always hard to project players, so much of it comes down to their ability to adjust to competition. Some guys just never adjust and try their same old tricks and eventually get rocked, only to go back to same pitches.
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    At this point it is hard to say much is a "weakness" but to me it is more what is biggest question of success moving forward. Offense I am not too worried about, they have shown this is not just a hot start and different guys had picked it up through out the season. It is possible adjustments to their aggressive approach will be made and they could struggle, but not too worried. Starting staff there are huge questions going forward this season, as there were coming into season. It is great what Perez and Odo have been doing, but compared to rest of career it is was off line. Does this happen for some pitchers to have break out years, in particular when learn a new pitch like Perez, yes, but will it sustain? That is big question. Bullpen, is very similar to starting staff question. Back end of Parker and Rodgers their success is not all that surprising, nor May. The rest though that have performed well so far is surprising and they could start falling off at any time and then the real question is what will team do? Will they bring in other guys, put more innings on top end guys, or just hope the guys work through it? I think the Starters are biggest question, because two guys are working much better than expected and above career marks, over several seasons of career. I think if they start to falter it was have domino effect on bullpen and no matter how strong offense is, it is always hard for offense to carry a team over full season and in playoffs.
  5. Trov
    Too early for magic number count down? Think it is 108 going into todays game. Correct me if I am wrong.
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    It is wayyyyyy to early to call Rocco a good or a bad manager. Yes, his team is winning and guys that did not perform well last year are preforming better this year, but is that all Rocco, most likely not. So far I am a fan, and like what I have seen, how can you not. However, I am not going to say he is best manager around simply because we are winning. Gardy won plenty in regular season, but when you look at his in game calls he was really bad manager, in my opinion. The track record for Rocco is just not there to make a call yet.
  7. Trov
    It is nice to hear some good numbers from non top prospects, or on the lists. Of course we want big numbers from them too, but when guys not on radar are doing something good, to me, it means the changes to the system and staffs are paying off. What I like best from the changes is the front office did not just let Rocco hire his long time friends, like Gardy did. The coaches are earning their jobs, not just know a guy. To me, that means we are trying to get the best coaches at every position, and there is no required loyalty if they are not working.
  8. Trov
    I am so sick of the unwritten rule crap. Lewis was just having some fun, that is what is is about. If you don't want him to do things like that as opposing team, just get him out. Best way to shut someone up is to beat them. Why do you think baseball is losing interest in the younger people, because when someone shows an ounce of excitement in the game, other than walk-off hits, the other teams throws at someone and the benches clear. Screw, act like you did it before, act like you may never do it again regardless you did it before. Toss those bats, do your dance, or whatever makes the game fun for you.
  9. Trov
    It is interesting to see how new front office moves players up much faster than old front office. Any player that was having success early in season the old guys would wait until mid-season to try to get post season birth, but new guys feel moving players up faster is better. I agree with new approach, move players up faster to challenge them at high levels, then let them work over low levels and think they have it all figured out. Old guys felt moving a player too fast would hurt their confidence. That is nonsense, if failure will hurt their confidence and they will not learn from failure, then why have that player, because base baseball is mostly failing. It is nice to think that as long as players are improving and moving up system it does not matter how successful the lower levels are. It really is about how the major league team is doing.
  10. Trov
    I loved when he had to ask Gardy why fans were boooing him when he was playing well, only to be told they were saying LEWWWW. I love that he is still playing, just shows he wants to play baseball as long as his body will let him. If it makes him happy good for him.
  11. Trov
    To the people that think the article is claiming Polonco will be as good as Carew for his career, you missed the point of the article. The point is that it was showing he is putting up similar numbers, which is true. Many players at Polonco's age put up big numbers that never get sustained like Carew did. I find it interesting when anyone points out numbers are similar, or state best numbers since player X, that people draw the conclusion people are comparing those two players. Take the article as it is, a showing that Polonco is putting up some nice numbers that if he can repeat several times over he will be knocking on HOF door, but no where in article was it suggesting he is at that point.
  12. Trov
    It is nice to see Jax get to play ball full time and preform. He may be a dark horse for good rotation arm. He has never been fully committed to baseball until this year.
  13. Trov
    Detroit also had some very good pitching at that time too.
  14. Trov
    The big question, for me, is will teams adjust to his new pitch and his performances will drop off some. I expect there will be some adjustment and drop off, but hope it will not be as big of a drop off. Regardless ride his hot start as far as you can. I believe his velocity is also up, based on change in his stride from Wes Johnson. I could be wrong on that, but I thought I heard Perez was one pitcher he changed up the stride to get more velocity.
  15. Trov
    I see no way they do this. They are still trying to build up his innings. I think it would be unlikely they would want to use him in bullpen down the stretch. I think it would take some injuries to other options to go down that path.
  16. Trov
    When Sano comes back, if the Twins keep 13 pitchers Adrianza gets the boot. Adrianza is serviceable, but a huge drop off offensively and not that big of difference on defense. Gonzalez, if not playing somewhere else, will get late innings on defense most likely for Sano.
  17. Trov
    Kirilloff has been raking again over his first week. I bet we see him get a lot of work at first, and if he can cut it defensively there, he will get a call this year. This is only if he keeps raking, and Cron continues to flounder where he is. Cron has been good defensively, from my eye test, but has been replacement level at best hitting. A few big hits but if Kirilloff can continue to show his bat is ready I think he will get a chance at some point and see what he does with it. This will also require potential injuries to others as well. I do not expect team to drop Cron with how he is playing at this point, he is still at least keeping on team.
  18. Trov
    Who would have thought the Twins would have so many prospects at SS? Happy to see they all hitting well, hopefully they fielding well too. This with Polanco fielding better than anyone expected and still hitting just fine. Might have some hard decisions to be made in next season or two.
  19. Trov
    Nice article, liked all the little tid bits at the end too. My comment on the defense is both happy and very surprised. Less so on Polanco, my guess for him the FO said, once Dozier was staying for the time being, "Polanco you will be playing SS and only SS so lets put in work." Polanco signed same time as Sano and was supposed to be good defense, but when old FO kept swapping him at 2b it is not easy to get great at either side. For those who think the up the middle positions are are pretty much interchangeable, you never have played them. I think Polanco was finally given the confidence by the organization that he can play SS and maybe the new FO figured out new way to teach him. In regards to Sano, I still not a huge fan of him at 3b, but he is at least adequate so far, that is best I can say for him is adequate.
  20. Trov
    How is Palacios not on a top prospect list? I forget if he was on the TD top lists but he is not even in top 30 on MLB list. I get he had a bad year last year, but he was 19 at low A, that is young for the league on average, other than that he has put up big numbers at every level. Sure it is SSS so far this year, but if he continues this for another couple weeks I bet he moves to high A. His bb to K rate little low for a non power guy, but still think he should be in the top 30 at least.
  21. Trov
    It will be interesting to see who the new FO goes after. Greene is going to be more years away being HS kid. McKay is LH which is always upside. Both offer something of offense if pitching does not take for some reason. McKay could break out next year or year after, depending on how new FO moves prospects, old he would be 2 to 3 years most likely. Greene would be 3-5 depending on development as well. I would go Greene, he is HS kid so higher ceiling, sure higher chance of bust too, but with him being good SS too, if for some reason he does not develop more pitches as he ages he could switch to SS or some other position. I also mentioned in a completely outside the box thinking for Greene in the future would be this. Say he only learns a second good pitch to go with his fastball. He gets on path of a closer, but you also use him at a position, then in save situations he comes in to close. Overall, I just see more options and upside with Greene then with McKay with either does not pan out as a pitcher I see more potential with Greene changing to hitter.
  22. Trov
    The issue I see with Buxton is he is too coachable. Meaning, when he struggles he takes in too much coaching and overthinks everything. Hopefully, he can just sit back and go back to his basics. I don't see any need to send him down, until his lack of offense starts costing us games, compared to what his defense gives the team, compared to whoever we would replace him with.
  23. Trov
    I wonder if Stewart is working on some new things that was handed down from the FO. His drop in control calls into question him working on new pitches or new arm angles things like that. The increase in walks suggests he may be working on trying to get more strikeouts by pitching out of the zone as well. Overall, this will take adjustment, if this is what the FO is trying to get him to do, if not then he is in trouble as a prospect, which sucks as a high draft pick.
  24. Trov
    SS is the hardest position to fill, as long as you care about defense. The best part of having many guys that could fill it is they could change to almost any position. As long as they can hit normally a position can be found for them. Even more important, since they are also in high demand they fetch big returns in trade. As far as prediction goes, next year will be Polonco, barring any injury, trade, or great fall off of defense. In two to three years it will be a lot more interesting. The FO will have to decide who they think they will be best long term. I bet eventually Sano gets moved off 3b, one of them get moved there, and Dozier gets moved to a new team with one replacing him. I think the FO understands the importance of defense and wants to have one of the best defenses out there.
  25. Trov
    This article I just read has another spin on this same subject. Interesting to see how the same numbers can be spun for positive or negative. http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/78866/how-did-twins-fix-pitching-without-changing-rotation What I liked about the linked article is it shows how the new system is working, and I feel it may be possible sustain some success over the long haul. Do I expect same level as first couple weeks? No, but I do think they will be much better than last year. I am a fan of analytics, but the argument that because the FIP is higher than the ERA means it will come back to earth to me is a flawed argument. Just as saying a pitcher with a good FIP means he will have a good year. The FIP is a decent thing to look at pitchers ability to strike out players, keep walks down, and keep ball in the park, but it does not count for the other 8 guys on the field, or even the pitchers ability to field himself. This takes out a huge part of the game. I do agree a good FIP pitcher should have good numbers, but with the defense we put out last year at times even the best FIP pitchers would give up a ton of runs. Sano and Grossman at times on the corner spots with Santana in CF no pitcher will do well with that OF.
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