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  1. nicksaviking
    Aside from May's botched BP experience, I think Pressly was by far the 2nd best option in the pen this year. Edit: I feel confident enough after looking at the stats that I will strike this part from my statement.
  2. nicksaviking
    Yes, finding a star is remote with the Rule V, however is that the bar to set? Shouldn't the goal simply to upgrade either now or the future? Even with last night, Graham has yet to be the worst guy in the bullpen one time this year, and before he got hurt, Pressly was the only guy aside from Perkins that I had any interest in keeping. Neither guy is exciting, but I'd rather have them than the rest of the circus.
  3. nicksaviking
    The median leaguewide K/9 has risen by 14.5% since the first decade of this century, meanwhile the median HR/9 rate has dropped by 6.5%. Offenses are more willing to take a strikeout while trying for HRs which are no longer as common. Yet the Twins pitchers K rates are declining AND they are giving up more HR meaning they aren't taking advantage of the free outs. Baseball has changed, the Twins didn't change with it.
  4. nicksaviking
    I would like to add another issue. While it has barely come into play lately due to all the poor starts, the 100 pitch rule still seems to be in effect. The bullpen needed a rest and Pelfrey had been pitching pretty well all things considered. Why the hell was he pulled after 5 1/3 just so O'Rourke could pitch to the bottom of the Yankee order? I say just start bringing up the hard throwers, who cares how they've been pitching in AA or AAA. See if you can catch lightning in a bottle as there is a lot more margin for error when you throw hard and can miss bats. Besides, the results could not be any worse than what they are currently getting. Are Meyer, Burdi and Chargois likely to get torched? Yes. Are Achter, Duensing and Fein likely to get torched? Still yes.
  5. nicksaviking
    And the youngest of the bunch is 29-years-old. Maybe it was getting rid of the PEDs, maybe it was getting rid of the "greenies" maybe it's just pure Darwinism, but this is clearly a young man's game. The overwhelming odds show that you want players who are on their first contract. If you don't have enough internal young players who can help, it seems one of the best alternatives for getting them is by signing free agent vets to tradable 1-2 year contracts. It's not even about the money, that's six freakin' spots on the 25 man that are inflexible, and in most of their cases there's no real solution other than cutting them, and that's not happening.
  6. nicksaviking
    Man, let's sign that guy who is 9-for-19. That would be a revelation right about now!
  7. nicksaviking
    Very interesting monthly splits. Clearly something happened in June, BABIP sure wouldn't explain the one time spike in BB% and dip in K%. Just playing assumptions, his approach changed in June. It sure looks like someone told him that he needs to start taking more pitches, which as a weak hitting middle infielder is something that likely seemed like common sense. It looks like the numbers reverted closer to previous levels after June. So what does that mean? In the first part of the year he was swinging at everything, in June he swung at nothing but in doing so he started to learn to wait for better pitches to hit? Could all just be a fluke, but at least it's a fluke in a positive direction.
  8. nicksaviking
    Because Joe West appears to operate based on some kind of strange and nefarious agenda rather than normal human psychological expectations. Otherwise, I'm game for the stats.
  9. nicksaviking
    Yeah, that's a good take. I would also accept the take that Perkins is a human being who happened to get into some literature last year about pitch framing that he found interesting but as he continued to read more about the statistics he also found some contrasting opinions and his view might have softened. If someone on this site doesn't change my opinion about a topic using sound logic and well stated reason at least once a month, it's been a bad month for you guys and gals. I'm not going to pile on the only Twins player that has come out of the closet as willing to at least listen to modern baseball ideas.
  10. nicksaviking
    I really hope my kids, and all kids, who grow up in this social media era can figure this out. Although what many people would say to an athlete or celebrity's face is likely never going to be the same as what they would say if they were lucky enough to come face to face with them, as all too often the real life conversation would be full of stutters, stammers, um's, uh's, er's and a general misapplication of correct grammar and vocabulary. Same goes for talking to pretty girls.
  11. nicksaviking
    I'm less concerned with running out of options with pitchers than batters. A batter who ends up needing more seasoning than expected doesn't make sense to hide on the bench where he'll never play. You can stick a pitcher in the bullpen though. Not really any different than how almost all Twins Rule V picks are pitchers they hand mop up duty to.
  12. nicksaviking
    To be fair, it's harder to find a clear replacement if Mauer's playing everyday and blocking any would be usurpers.
  13. nicksaviking
    Well Pelfrey, Duensing and Boyer are the only free agents (also Hunter by the letter of the law) move them, even if it's for nothing just to open up roster spots. Otherwise, wait until the offseason. This team has a much better idea of fits and needs for the future than they have any time in the past half decade. It might not have been as wise to move players in previous years as no one was really sure of what the team really had. Things are still a bit foggy, but much more predictable. Move Plouffe this winter, there should be good demand for him. Hicks, Rosario, Arcia and Kepler will all have some degree of value. Pick your favorite two, offer up the others and trade which ever gets you the best return, trade two if you get bowled away. Offer up all of Santana, Escobar and Nunez and if someone seems particularly interested than see what Polanco is worth.
  14. nicksaviking
    Well I think a big part of this idea, even if it's subconsious, is that if the Twins de-commit from Torii Hunter now, we probably don't have to worry about the possibility of them re-committing to him in the offseason. I'd like to see Buxton, but even if he was on the 25-man, Ryan coudln't make Hunter sit in favor of the youngster, that would come from Molitor, and there's no way I buy Molitor benching Hunter for Buxton. I do want Hicks and Rosario continuing their development at the MLB level and it's those two who I think would suffer the most from a Buxton call up.
  15. nicksaviking
    Looks like the Twins have eight hits all by eight different batters.
  16. nicksaviking
    What if he doesn't shine in year one or year two? You know, like a normal player? That's what the discussion has been all about. And this has been year one by the way.
  17. nicksaviking
    People get floors and ceilngs mixed up all the time I'm sure.
  18. nicksaviking
    Roy Smalley played less than 2 years of minor league ball and he played in an era where guys routinely played little or even skipped the minors altogether. I'm OK with Buxton playing AAA if that means Arcia gets one final audition instead of the front office making a fairly uneducated guess about his future this offseason, but Buxton could probably just as easily take his lumps at the MLB level for a rebuilding team than face a bunch of journeymen junkballers in AAA.
  19. nicksaviking
    Particularly when you consider it wasn't a normal series for the Blue Jays. This was the matchup that pulled the Blue Jays into a Wild Card spot and perhaps showed that they should be the AL favorites. When it comes down to it, this may end up being the series they point to as the defining moment in their season. Had it been the Twins, excitement would have been expected as well. Though I did like Sano's classy non-celebretory trot. Jubilation when your team is winning sends a different message than when your team is actually losing.
  20. nicksaviking
    Dozier didn't. Others would consider Plouffe a top player right now too. Those guys show a recent history of not extending past free agency. But full discosure, I was in full favor of not extending Dozier past his normal free agency clock, and I'd rather deal Plouffe than extend him.
  21. nicksaviking
    I agree that the options shouldn't matter. However if someone would have suggested the same thing for Oswaldo Arcia three years ago, I would have said the same thing. Different caliber prospects obviously, but to think that what has happened with Arcia, or Hicks, couldn't happen to Buxton would be dangerous.
  22. nicksaviking
    I don't know why there is any reason to think Burdi's former delivery was causing control problems. If anything the new one is, possibly it's simply because it's foreign to him. Why try to fix something that isn't proven to be broken?
  23. nicksaviking
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qsXVt0qnWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyj2sZAWaQ4 He sure looks prettier in the second one, but if it's at the expense of results I'll take ugly. It would also explain why he was still effective last year, the Twins, and likely most teams have said before that they don't work on changing mechanics the summer after the draft. While I'm no lip reader, it sure looks like they are working on Burdi's arm slot in that video. And that stride to the plate makes me want to cry. Why do all Twins pitchers have to have a stride long enough only to step over a sidewalk crack? So much wasted velocity.
  24. nicksaviking
    His delivery in the minors looks much different than in college. He looked pretty unorthodoxed and out of control in college but the results were good. He had a longer stride and he seemed to deliver the ball from behind his ear. Now he's got a shorter stride what lookes like a 3/4 arm delivery from the videos I see. Seems to me, it would be harder to pick up a pitch that looked like it was coming from the pitcher's ear and a released a foot closer to the plate. I don't need my relievers to look pretty throwing, I would let them do what worked for them in college and only make them change if it didn't professionally or if an injury causes a change of mechanics.
  25. nicksaviking
    It sounds silly, but I'd keep riding Duffy. It is my belief that all rookies are going to struggle. Let him ride out his struggles for the rest of the season. Gibson and May sure were better after letting them flop their first year. Of course, I'm also in favor of still finding rotation spots for May and Berrios. A GM would need to get creative to make room for all three, though looking at the contract situation, he's going to have to be creative to find spots for the young guys next year anyway.
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