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  1. yarnivek1972
    I also concur with this. The strategy of utilizing the “hot hand” is a fool’s game IMO. By the time a hot or cold streak is recognized it could be over. And what defines a hot or cold streak? 3-4 good/bad games in a row? No, IMO, the best recipe for SUSTAINED success is figuring out where each player best fits in the lineup and sticking with it as much as possible. Obviously, adjustments are made for injuries and off days. Now, if after a substantial amount of time (maybe a couple months) a change is warranted, fine. There is such a thing as overmanaging IMO.
  2. yarnivek1972
    If Sano wasn’t “up to speed”, he shouldn’t have bern activated. Days of coddling need to come to an end. He (as well as everyone else) needs to contribute or risk being replaced.
  3. yarnivek1972
    I understand it is a somewhat moot point, because Graterol is well past this level. But if a guy was only at A ball, it is highly unlikely a team would protect him. Most teams can’t afford to carry an A ball player on their roster. Indeed, that is how Johan Santana fell into the Twins’ laps. In 2000, they could afford to carry a guy that had never pitched above A ball.
  4. yarnivek1972
    Wasn’t Sano in uniform and on the bench yesterday? Or did he not arrive before the game?
  5. yarnivek1972
    The problem with trading some of these “surplus” prospects that will be rule 5 eligible this offseason is the fact that they will be rule 5 eligible. Unless they are close to contributing at the MLB level, it will be difficult for teams to roster them. It decreases roster flexibility to carry a guy on the 40 man that has no chance of contributing at the MLB level. So, a team risks making a trade essentially for nothing. That gets GMs fired.
  6. yarnivek1972
    You didn’t say no AB (and I didn’t bother to look). Yes, that would make it difficult.
  7. yarnivek1972
    You shouldn’t need to record an out to be able to calculate OPS against. ERA, yes.
  8. yarnivek1972
    Don’t players talk on the field? Can’t Odorizzi call out Cron’s name?
  9. yarnivek1972
    100 is a league average OPS+.
  10. yarnivek1972
    The Twins have a lot of guys that lack plate discipline, even moreso with Cruz on the shelf. The result is going to be a lot of bad at bats. The times when good at bats are IMPERATIVE are the RISP ABs. This is a problem that is not going to go away with this group of hitters. This is simply who they are.
  11. yarnivek1972
    What exactly is “tightness in his trap”???
  12. yarnivek1972
    I would expect Duffey to be on the Rochester Shuttle this year. But there is little reason to expect anything different from the last three years. Lots of guys that dominate AAA flop at the MLB level. Lots. As for Hildenberger, as a deceptive motion type pitcher, his biggest advantage will always be against hitters that haven’t seen him before or that haven’t seen him recently. Using him twice in the same series - particularly against a division rival - was probably not wise strategy. It merely emphasises a point almost everyone who is a frequent poster on this board has said since October of last year: the Twins need to upgrade the bullpen if they want to be a legitimate contender.
  13. yarnivek1972
    Can’t believe no one mentioned TC until well into page 2.
  14. yarnivek1972
    Or parked.
  15. yarnivek1972
    Because the starters have been doing a better job getting deeper into games. There is simply no need for 8 relievers. Sure that could change, but right now relievers are being underutilized. The Twins are essentially carrying four relievers for use almost exclusively in extremely low leverage situations: Magill, Harper, Morin and Romero. No decent team needs 4 mop up relievers. True enough that they could use one more high leverage reliever. But they could easily drop 2 of the 4 I mentioned and replace them with one good one (in a perfect world, an effective Addison Reed).
  16. yarnivek1972
    Of the top 10, there are only two that MIGHT not return in 2020 (Duffey and Gibson).
  17. yarnivek1972
    I would hope a pitcher is sent out to make room for Sano.
  18. yarnivek1972
    Erickson’s increased velocity is mentioned in the book about the 1991 season. Also, Erickson’s ERA went down another half run after that start against Boston through a shutout in Yankee Stadium late in June. That’s when he started to turn into a pumpkin.
  19. yarnivek1972
    I’d be concerned about a guy all of a sudden having a significant velocity bump in his late 20s. Late teens, early 20s MAYBE. In 1990, Scott Erickson was all of a sudden throwing his sinker 3-4 MPH harder than before and not surprisingly having greater success. We know the end of that story. By late June of 1991 he was toast and was never even close to that dominant again.
  20. yarnivek1972
    Just look at the Knoblauch trade. The Twins got Guzman, who was never as good as Jeter. The Twins got Milton, who was never as good as Pettitte, or frankly just about anyone the Yankees used as a starting pitcher during the entirety of Milton’s career. And the Twins got Brian Buchanan. All the Yankees got was 3 titles. I’d say they won that one.
  21. yarnivek1972
    I’m sure that it is technically true that the Twins as a team have a higher obp than the league average hitter. But using the logic test, being ranked 17th is below average. The reason is obvious: pitchers. Pitchers drag down the obp for all NL teams and thus the MLB average as well. But since the AL only has pitchers bat in about a dozen games as opposed to 150 for NL teams it’s not an accurate comparison. While it is true that 5 of the top 7 obp teams in MLB are NL teams, it is also true that 6 of the bottom 7 are NL, including the 4 worst. Indicating a greater level of disparity in the NL I suppose.
  22. yarnivek1972
    So far, the bullpen has allowed 19 inherited runners to score. 3 of the 4 AL teams that have allowed more are at the bottom of their respective divisions. The Twins have 3 reliable arms: Parker, Rogers and Hildenberger. That’s 3 too few for a contender over the course of the season. Mejia has been awful. Harper has allowed almost everyone he inherits to score, usually turning close games into blowouts. May has been up and down. Then there has been the AAA shuttle, which so far has not helped.
  23. yarnivek1972
    It simply reminds me how old I am to have current players say their “heroes” were players that (to my mind anyway) didn’t play that long ago.
  24. yarnivek1972
    Yeah, I’m sure Molitor made that decision. Molitor decided to retain Trevor Plouffe. Molitor decided that Sano (as opposed to Plouffe) should move to RF.
  25. yarnivek1972
    Like Addison Reed, for example. Moving him to 60 day DL would solve that problem. Edit: Actually, not even. There’s still only 39 on the 40 man since de Jong was removed.
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