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About The Joe Nathan Situation: via Twinkie Talk March 14, 2010 at 10:51 AM; Repeat after me: The worst part about losing Joe Nathan for the season isn’t losing Joe Nathan for the season. Confused yet? Nathan would have been worth ~2 wins this year. His past three years were 2.2, 2.1 and 1.9 so we can say that with a pretty high degree of certainty. His likely replacements, Jon Rauch [...]
Twins Top 15 Prospects: #5: via Twinkie Talk March 14, 2010 at 10:51 AM; Who: Kyle Gibson Position: RHP How Acquired: 2009 Draft, 1st round (22nd overall) Highest Level Reached in 2009: N/A Kyle Gibson was ranked as high as a top 5 selection in last year’s draft by Baseball America before a stress reaction in his forearm sidelined him and caused him to plummet to the 22nd pick. Credit the Twins for [...]
Twins Sign Span: via Twinkie Talk March 14, 2010 at 10:51 AM; Well, once again it’s not Joe Mauer, but it’s nice to see that Denard Span will be a Twin for awhile, according to Star-Trib writer Joe Christensen. The deal will be for five years, which covers his controlled seasons, as well as an option for a 6th year. The salary breakdown, courtesy of Twins Now: 10: [...]
Twins Sign Jimerson: via Twinkie Talk February 17, 2010 at 09:23 PM; The Twins have signed OF Charlson Jimerson to a minor league deal. Jimerson, who will be 30 in 2010, has just 9 major league AB. Last year in Newark (Indy ball), he hit .335/.387/.567. Good numbers, and he has decent enough tools, so hopefully he can do some good things in the minors for the Twins this [...]
Twins Sign Hudson: via Twinkie Talk February 13, 2010 at 12:00 PM; Per MLBTR, our long winter of discontent is over and Orlando Hudson has agreed to become the newest Minnesota Twin. Hudson has been a 2-3 WAR player over the course of his career, and a lot of that value is tied to his bat. He will be 32 in 2010, although since he’s not in a [...]
Jacque Jones Is Back: via Twinkie Talk February 13, 2010 at 12:00 PM; The Twins have signed former (and I guess now current again) Twin Jacque Jones to a minor league deal. Jones also has an invitation to spring training. Star Tribune writer Joe Christensen tweeted that if Jacque doesn’t make the major league club (he won’t) he will have no problems playing in the minors. Jones hasn’t played [...]
Nick Punto Day: via Twinkie Talk February 13, 2010 at 12:00 PM; Sigh. Today is Nick Punto day, the day where Andrew Kneeland of TwinsTarget said all Twins bloggers should write down their thoughts on Nick Punto. In truth, I don’t really want to do this at all because I’ve already burned so many calories defending Nick Punto, but I imagine I will be the only person [...]
Top 15 Prospects: #9: via Twinkie Talk February 02, 2010 at 11:05 AM; Who: Carlos Gutierrez Position: RHP How Acquired: 2008 draft, 1st round (28th overall) Highest Level In 2009: AA When the Twins drafted Carlos Gutierrez in 2008, he was a closer for the University of Miami. Needless to say, I was unhappy that the Twins drafted a college reliever in the first round, but since they had picked Aaron Hicks [...]
The Biggest Twins News You’ll Hear All Day: via Twinkie Talk February 01, 2010 at 04:48 PM; The Twins have released infielder Steven Tolleson off the 40 man roster. Tolleson has been claimed by the A’s. The former University of South Carolina star has a career .276/.368/.400 line in 5 minor league seasons. His best year was 2008 in New Britain when he went .300/.382/.466. No huge loss on this one. Tolleson doesn’t [...]
Francisco Liriano And Some Twinkie Talk Publicity: via Twinkie Talk January 29, 2010 at 11:59 AM; I still am mildly skeptical about Liriano, but there is no way you can not be just a little bit excited if you are a Twins fan about his performance this winter. Last night, in the final game of the championship series of the Dominican Winter League, Liriano threw 5 scoreless innings, striking out 10 [...]
Twins Top 15 Prospects: #10: via Twinkie Talk January 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM; Who: Danny Valencia Position: 3B How Acquired: 2006 draft, 19th round Highest Level In 2009: AAA Rochester I probably like Danny Valencia less than any Twins person out there, and that’s fine with me. He certainly has improved over the course of his minor league career, as he was drafted in the 19th round as I said above, but [...]
Twins Sign Thome, I Hate Life: via Twinkie Talk January 26, 2010 at 05:17 PM; According to the Twitters of the Pioneer Press and MLBTR (MLBTR one linked cause I’m too lazy to find the Press’s) the Twins have inked Jim Thome to a one year deal that is heavily incentive based. Thome’s wOBA has declined each of the last three years, but he was still worth some 23 runs above [...]
On Jim Thome: via Twinkie Talk January 25, 2010 at 05:11 PM; All week long I begged. I pleaded. I prayed. Please don’t make me write a post on this Jim Thome nonsense. Alas. Jim Thome has, in the last three years, had wOBAs of .367, .370 and .410 the past three seasons. Even with an alarmingly high strikeout rate, Thome can still hit the ball, especially righties. But [...]
Linktastic: via Twinkie Talk January 22, 2010 at 06:17 PM; I am going to be doing a UZR primer sometime in the near future, but Marlin Maniac has it covered for now Taking a look at how many runs the Yankees might score next season (River Ave. Blues) A look at the Rick Ankiel signing (KoK) Our Tigers blog was on Hotstove.com TV (Motor City Bengals) We have [...]
Top 15 Prospects: #11: via Twinkie Talk January 21, 2010 at 05:53 PM; Up until the start of the season, we here at Twinkie Talk will be counting down our top 15 prospects. Today’s prospect is outfielder Joe Benson. Who: Joe Benson Where: Outfield How Acquired: 2006 Draft (2nd round) Highest level in 2009: Fort Myers Benson is an athlete. He was highly touted as a high school football player, but chose to [...]
On The Payroll: via Twinkie Talk January 20, 2010 at 07:35 PM; With the arbitration cases all taken care of, it’s time to see the payroll the Twins are committed to, and to see if there is any money leftover to sign a 2nd baseman. I have included my projected 2010 WAR too. The projection method I use isn’t terribly complicated, so don’t worry too much about [...]
Arbitration Agreements: Pitchers: via Twinkie Talk January 19, 2010 at 07:29 PM; And we’re back! Like I said when reviewing the hitters, I’m glad we got all this nonsense done today and didn’t have to go to any hearings. Jesse Crain Crain got roughly 2 million from the Twins. His walk rate climbed to 4.70/9, which is very steep, but he did improve as the season went along. I [...]
Arbitration Agreements: Hitters: via Twinkie Talk January 19, 2010 at 05:23 PM; First of all, let me say that it’s a good thing that the Twins were able to come to agreements with all arbitration eligible players. I think there were a couple cases they could have won (more on that later) but generally it’s better than there won’t be any hard feelings going into the 2010 [...]
Twins Top 15 Prospects: Number 12: via Twinkie Talk January 18, 2010 at 07:05 PM; Who: Billy Bullock Position: RHP How acquired: 2009 Draft Highest level in 2009: NCAA (Florida) Billy Bullock was a 2nd round pick by the Twins in the 2nd round of this past draft. Bullock has a tall lean frame and is very projectable. He stands about 6′6″, 225 lbs. Almost exactly what you would want from your pitcher. Unlike last [...]
Redmond Signs With Tribe: via Twinkie Talk January 15, 2010 at 11:05 AM; Former Twins backup catcher Mike Redmond has caught on with the Cleveland Indians. Redmond is going to be the Indians backup, presumably behind Lou Marson. The Indians traded Kelly Shoppach to the Rays in the offseason. Redmond had good success for a backup catcher with the Twins. His defensive skills eroded at the end, and he [...]