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Friday Flotsam (12.19.08)
December 19, 2008 by
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Among the recent minor league free agent signings, La Velle notes that the Twins have resigned Joe Gaetti. After being drafted by Colorado and putting up solid numbers in the notoriously pitcher-friendly Sally League, hitting .257/.353/.457 with 16 home runs. The following season...
Over The Baggy's Twins Draft Review 2008
December 15, 2008 by
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With the changing of the General Manager's from Ryan to Smith and Mike Radcliff handing off the draft day responsibilities to former crosschecker Deron Johnson, it is evident that the Twins sustained the philosophy behind their approach to the draft. The organization focused on...
Odds. Ends. (12.11)
December 11, 2008 by
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Update: A Punto Offer? It sounds like the Twins are ready to offer Nick Punto a contract worth 2-years, $8-million to keep him as the starting shortstop forgoing any need to fill the role through a trade opportunity. "We would like to re-sign him,'' Bill Smith said...
Odds. Ends (12.09.09)
December 09, 2008 by
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Minnesota Twins Tejada the Twin? An insider source told me that the Twins and Astros have the preliminary deal in place that would bring Miguel Tejada back to the American League. It is unclear as to what the Astros have coming to them for the former MVP. Phil Rogers reported...
Dennys Reyes: A Bargain Value.
December 09, 2008 by
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Unsurprising, the Twins announced that Dennys Reyes has opted to become a free agent after he declined to accept arbitration from the team. The 31 year old Reyes will now test a very unstable market. Early rumors indicate that Reyes is in talks with the Cincinnati Reds seeking...
The Rule V Retrospective: A Look at the Twins (Other) Draft Picks
December 02, 2008 by
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In a little over a week, Major League Baseball will conduct their 49th Rule 5 Draft dating back to 1959. Though the likelihood of the Twins partaking in the draft seems improbable, presently the Twins are carrying only 38 players on the 40-man roster leaving the team qualified to...
Odds, Ends (11.25.08)
November 25, 2008 by
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I Love the '80s. In efforts to - I don't know - honor the Metrodome the Twins have announced that all Saturday home games in 2009 the Twins will don retro jersey commemorating the initial season indoors. For those that cannot recall the 1982 Dome break-in season, don...
The Minnesota Underground: Seth Stohs' Prospect Handbook Review
November 21, 2008 by
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If you have spent any amount of time trolling the Intertubes for Twins blogs, you are probably aware that Seth Stohs, the purveyor of the seminal Twins website SethSpeaks.net, has assembled a compilation of the entire Twins organizations' cadre of minor leaguers. When he made...
Odds, Ends (11.17.08)
November 16, 2008 by
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In what was the worst kept secret in baseball, the Twins officially announced that the team and manager Ron Gardenhire have agreed on a two-year extension. Though the announcement might be meet with ire in certain circles, Gardenhire has been one of the winningest managers in baseball...
Is India the Next MLB Market?
November 11, 2008 by
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You know that cliched bit in movies like the Mighty Ducks (or the reverse of that concept in the movie The Cutting Edge) where the coach concocts a crazy scheme in which two figure skates are converted to hockey players because, you know, they can skate? And since they can skate their ...
What Could Have $50 Million Bought Your Team? Part Four
November 06, 2008 by
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Finally you are done to the filler part of your roster. On Monday we detailed the parameters of why you are only able to spend $50 million and also reviewed the starting eight. On Tuesday we went through your starting rotation. Yesterday we looked over the bullpen. All of ...
What Could Have $50 Million Bought Your Team? Part Three
November 06, 2008 by
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On Monday and Tuesday, you showed how you spent $32.27 million of your $50 million budget on eight position players and five starting pitchers. Today, you are going to detail what is often a team's hardest portion of the payroll to control. At this moment you have $17.73 million ...
Most Improved Prospects: Strikeout Rate
October 28, 2008 by
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#5 - Garrett Olson - Inf | 23 years old | 16.6% K% in 2007 - 13.5% K% in 2008 | 3.1% decrease Drafted by the Twins out of Maine's Franklin Pierce University in the 4th round (126th overall) in 2006, Olson first went to Elizabethton where he batted .313/.396/.381 ...
The Friday Flotsam
October 25, 2008 by
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The Twins named Fort Myers Miracle pitching coach, Eric Rasmussen, the new Minor League Pitching Coordinator after the Detroit Tigers wooed Rick Knapp away from the organization to be the Tigers' pitching coach. For the past ten years Rasmussen has been the Miracles' pitching...
The Fragile Pysche of Matt Garza
October 21, 2008 by
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When the Twins selected Matt Garza, then a junior out of Fresno State University, they selected a pitcher on the rise. Entering college, Garza admitted his arsenal was limited to a 90+ fastball which was feasted upon and began developing supplementary pitches. "I came into college...
The 2008 Starting Rotation: Analyzing By Game Score
October 20, 2008 by
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Game Scores, invented by Bill James, is a measuring stick of a pitcher's performance on any given day. The advance statistic accounts for all of the events a pitcher can produce in a start (walks, hits, strikeouts, home runs, innings pitched, etc) and provides ...
Most Improved Prospects: Walk Rate
October 20, 2008 by
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In 2007, the two top prospects that led the walk rate improvement list were Luke Hughes (#2) and Brian Dinkelman (#1). Dinkelman followed up in 2008 with a solid performance at high-A Fort Myers (though he was two years older than most of the competition) and was revered by Base... ...
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