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  1. yarnivek1972
    Trading for Matt Walbeck and Dave Stevens with 2 months of Rick Aguilera. Aguilera came back to the Twins that offseason.
  2. yarnivek1972
    Any player can always get better. That he started out “better” simply indicates a higher level of natural talent. Here’s an extreme example: Jacque Jones and Ken Griffey Jr. Both came into the bigs with a great deal of natural talent and both did well pretty much from day one. But both continued to get better. Ken Griffey had otherworldly talent, but that didn’t stop him from getting better as he aged and gained experience. Jones had much less talent but he still got better and had himself a solid career. This is Sano’s fifth season at the MLB level. I’m not really looking at his numbers from 2019 because he has half as many at bats as any other year. There’s literally no improvement offensively in any important category. His defense hasn’t gotten better. He consistently grades as considerably below average.
  3. yarnivek1972
    In my experience, pepsi is more likely to be on sale at my local grocery store.
  4. yarnivek1972
    wtf is that supposed to imply??? Did I mention I turn 47 in 3 months.
  5. yarnivek1972
    To me, his lack of substantial improvement in any aspect of his game is by far the most concerning. It suggests an unwillingness to listen to coaches or an arrogance of belief that he doesn’t need to get better. As mentioned, Rosario and Kepler have shown an improvement in something every year. The last couple weeks have certainly been an improvement, but old habits tend to resurface when things start to go bad. We’ll see.
  6. yarnivek1972
    I would simply add to that to say provided they don’t add ridiculously to payroll. I’m sure they have a dollar amount that ownership will allow them to add. What that is, none of us fans have any way of knowing.
  7. yarnivek1972
    The concern I have is that his errors switched from last year when he made primarily fielding errors to this year when most have been throwing. No doubt a direct result of a different first baseman.
  8. yarnivek1972
    I think one can positively say that since reaching the majors he hasn’t developed a third pitch.
  9. yarnivek1972
    As a practical matter, a midseason call up is behind from day one. A case in point is Frank Thomas. He amassed 240 PA in 1990 and put ungodly numbers, a 177 OPS+, far better than anyone else in the running. But he isn’t even listed in the voting results. Oddly enough, the runner up, Kevin Maas, had only about 300 PA.
  10. yarnivek1972
    They still have to have players the other teams want.
  11. yarnivek1972
    I think Alanis Morisette would point out that there are two former Twins on the all star roster as relievers.
  12. yarnivek1972
    But the question is do the Yankees have the high end talent other teams want. FWIW, bleacher report ranks the Yankee farm system 20th after the 2019 draft and the Twins 10th. The commentary notes that they lack an elite level top prospect. Their number one does not rank in the top 50. The Twins have 3 that do. https://www.google.com/amp/s/syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2839611-ranking-all-30-mlb-farm-systems-post-2019-mlb-draft.amp.html
  13. yarnivek1972
    Rooker should be at the top of the list of guys the Twins are trying to trade for pitching. Cron is controlled through 2020 and if Sano is still around, I imagine he’ll slide over in 2021.
  14. yarnivek1972
    With Marwin Gonzalez going deep today, the Twins now have 10 players with at least 10 HR. Byron Buxton has 9...
  15. yarnivek1972
    There have only been 30 teams for about half of the Twins existence.
  16. yarnivek1972
    A top of the line starter is more likely to remain a top of the line starter than a good reliever is to remain good. But I’m not sure a top of the line starter controllable beyond 2019 will even be available.
  17. yarnivek1972
    I was curious about the extra inning games and where the Twins rank in innings played. It was difficult to get a definitive picture because teams have played a different number of games. The spread is more than I would expect. The Tigers have only played 82. Seattle is already at 90. The Twins are at 85 (through yesterday), which is fewer than “average”. However, they have pitched more innings than the average team. It is worth noting that the Twins are the only team below average in games played that is above average in innings. Since fielding was also mentioned, I would point out that the Twins are roughly league average in total errors and fielding percentage. However, in the “old days” even bad Twins teams were among the best fielding teams in the league. Their team UZR/150 ranks second only to the Dodgers and their range rating is by far the best in the league. Bottom line: the Twins may be making more errors but it usually is because they are getting to balls that would be clean hits against anyone else.
  18. yarnivek1972
    Because exactly this has been his pattern for the past three years. He will tantalize with a good couple weeks and then revert to his same failings.
  19. yarnivek1972
    Which also sounds a lot like the Twins just last year. Sano, Buxton, Kepler, even Berrios at times.
  20. yarnivek1972
    This comment didn’t age well.
  21. yarnivek1972
    It is worth noting that Sano has never played 120 games at the MLB level in a season. Nor will he do so this year. Indeed, he has never started even 80 games in the field in a season. He would need to start more than 50 of the Twins remaining games at a position to do that in 2019. He might. Personally, I doubt it. His size puts him at a higher risk for injury than players without the extra pounds.
  22. yarnivek1972
    Based on 2018, they would logically be in “division 2” since they had the 19th best record in mlb.
  23. yarnivek1972
    The result of this would be the 21st “best” team making the playoffs. Right now, that would be the White Sox. No thanks.
  24. yarnivek1972
    I suspect it wouldn’t take much to circumvent that. If someone REALLY wanted to. Remember in the early days of online voting, some of Dave McCarty’s old Stanford buddies almost had him elected to start.
  25. yarnivek1972
    He already was flourishing with the Twins. Would he have become otherworldly? Maybe not. But even if he maintained his 2018 Twins numbers he would be better than every Twins reliever not named Taylor Rogers, and those two would be pretty close.
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