clutterheart

Is Walker hurt or something? His is slugging % in July and August is not what we should expect. We all knew he would fall back a bit but not this much.

Sigh. We all know its the smart move to keep Berrios at AAA. He will be under team control if he doesn't pitch in the MLB this year. Maybe Billy can leverage that future money saved and win another Oscar. Go Pohlads!

Twin need to have Alex Meyer shadow Aaron Slegers to learn how to be over 6' 9" tall and still pitch like a pro

Is the Polanco at SS experiment is over? If so, who gets traded? Polanco or Dozier?

The Rays are a patient slow org, I don't think the Twins fall under this category. Look at all the guys who skipped AAA recently. Their problem is the Twins seem to be poor at evaluating who is ready to be pushed and who is not.

Why wouldn't they share the Trackman data with players?

He has? Why? He has always been a no bat good glove guy and this season isn't so different. His numbers is 2014: .266/.313/.323 BABIP .313 His numbers is 2015: .280/.325/.323 BABIP .327 The difference between this year and last is a few more hits are squibbing though. He started the year cold and he is now getting back to his career norms. He has had a nice end of the year but he needs to do it for a season. He is an interesting prospect. Speed + good D. But 3 months of nice hitting doesn't mean you ignore his career stats. If you look around at other systems, lots of teams have good glove no hit guys. I see him as organization filler, hopefully you are right and I am wrong.

Boy Rogers really struggles against Righties They are hitting .323 against him! When does he get moved to the pen as a LOOGY?

Agree. Twins fans need to stop comparing Walker to Adam Dunn. Dunn was a much better prospect than Walker is. I like Walker he is interesting prospect with a Huge Power tool. But he is in no way comparable to Adam Dunn. In Dunn's 21 year old season he split time between AA and AAA Walker at age 21 was in Low A the whole season Dunn's last year in the minors (aged 21) he finished with 81 SO 62 BB in 94 games hitting .334/.444/.671 Walkers YTD season as a 23 year old in AA he has 164 So and 39 BB, hitting .247/.312/.511

What do you base this on? Some quotes from Dougie Baseball? His SO rate is 35.8%!!! That suggest to me he IS up there hacking. I suspect the FO is putting those quotes out there in the hopes they could've traded him. He is seeing a slight uptick of Walks, but that has correlated with a big drop in his OPS. The numbers suggest he is being hurt by Sano being out of the line-up. He no longer has that protection so pitchers can throw Walker even more junk that he just can't lay off.

I never trust Yankee prospects. They are often overhyped. Even prospect watchers seem to buy into the NYC hype machine.

I dont know about that. Try posting something on Walker. Lots of folks use ALL CAPS to voice their opinions on that guy.

Brandon Peterson keeps getting strike outs no matter which level he is at

We've seen lots of young International FA pitchers do nice things in the rookie leagues only to flame out as they get up to A ball. But I like that Del Rosario cut down on his walks. He had pretty bad control in the DR league, didn't look great in the bullpen as a 19 year old in the GCL but he has adjusted and kept the walks down and got his strike outs up. Good adjustments from the young fella! 45 SO, 7 BB 37 IP and its looks like he is getting a bunch of ground balls.Is there any reports on his pitches?

If we are worring abiut Buxton's options something went terribly wrong in his career path. Its 20 days. Its fine.

The OF defense was really bad last year with Willingham & Arcia at the corners and its fun to watch athletic OF'ers going after a ball instead of tripping over feet

When Gagne was 21 he was at AAA with a .782 OPS. Vielma at 21 is in High A with .619 OPS. I hope you're right, but he has a way to go.

Many systems have a few light hitting good defense shortstops. Unless his hitting improves, his cieling would be a Doug Bernier type of career. Which isn't bad at all.

I am curious, why do you track isolated discipline? What does it tell you about a player? Isolated discipline never seemed useful to me. I am not a huge stat guy but i find bb% more useful.

I wonder why they promoted Diaz. He is hitting better recently singles but his power numbers are not great. Dont he and Minier play the same position (DH)

http://twinsdaily.com/_/minnesota-twins-news/minnesota-twins-minor-leagues/twins-minor-league-hitter-of-the-month-july-2015-r4006 From the link: "The Twins signed infielder Jermaine Palacios out of Venezuela in September of 2013 for $70,000 (hat tip, Jeremy Nygaard). He is long and lanky and a good athlete. He spent 2014 in the Dominican Summer League where he hit .270/.404/.399 (.802) with 11 doubles and six triples. He also stole 14 bases in 17 attempts. He was invited to Twins minor league spring training and started the season with extended spring training. He began the short season in the GCL and hit .421/.472/.589 (1.061) with nine doubles, two triples and a home run. On the final day of July, he was promoted to Elizabethton where he went 3-5 in each of his first two games. He has homered in two of his three games there. One Twins-related person said of Palacios that he is a "hard-working kid. He has the ability to play shortstop and has good quickness." Palacios has really good bat speed and the ability to hit to all fields. As impressive, the just-turned-19-year-old has a very high baseball IQ. Palacios had a huge July and has made himself one to watch as the season continues to move forward and beyond."

Huh? In 2013 he had an.880 OPS. That would put him #5 amongs tfirst baseman That is hardly replacement level. But he missed 50 games due to injuries. Logically it just makes sense that if he moved to 1B full time he would continue his HOF career, and continue to be an amazing hitter. It didn't work, and now the FO has some decisions to make. But...you can't say it the FO lacked "courage." All you can say is too bad it didn't work.

But so what? The logic is sound. It just didn't work

What? No courage? Thats just silly. Mauer put up HOF numbers as a catcher. Then his numbers started decline. Logically they moved him out from behind the plate so he could be less beat up and put up his usual fantastic stat line. Unfortunately that didn't help and his numbers continued to decline. But there was nothing wrong with the Twins thought process behind moving him away from the plate, It didn't work out. Moving him back now would be worse as he hasn't caught in 2 years.

Navarreto's hot 2nd half continues. Its great to see a 20 years old at low A make adjustments and save his season. But I doubt he can stay at catcher for more than a few years. He is a big boy at 6' 4" 220 lbs. Seems like he will out grow his catcher equipment!