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Hello world!: via Twins MVB March 16, 2011 at 02:42 PM; Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
State of the Division: Mantras, Buzzwords, and Slogans: via Twins MVB March 09, 2011 at 10:24 PM; Brandon covers each team in the Central, giving his take on where each team is heading into the season.
Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About The Twins Rotation, But Were Afraid to Ask: via Twins MVB March 07, 2011 at 12:48 PM; The offseason started and the Twins had five starters for five rotation spots. The new year started and the Twins had five starters for five rotation spots. Spring Training started and the Twins had six starters for five rotation spots. As soon as Carl Pavano re-signed with the Twins in January, there was going to be a controversy [...]
Projecting the Opening Day Roster: via Twins MVB February 25, 2011 at 12:53 AM; Brandon projects how the Twins will look when they head to Toronto to open the season.
Improving The Current Roster: What Can Be Done?: via Twins MVB January 17, 2011 at 01:41 PM; Brandon suggests options to improve the Opening Day roster for the Twins.
A Blind Taste Test: via Twins MVB January 14, 2011 at 04:53 PM; Player A: 88 G, .238/.313/.302, 612 OPS, .238 TaV, 1.6 WARP Player B: 101 G, .268/.320/.394 714 OPS, .262 TaV, 1.8 WARP Without knowing anything else about these players, we can make a few notes. Player A missed a large chunk of the season, almost half, but neither of these two was making Cal Ripken Jr. sweat for [...]
How We Got Here: Assessing the Twins’ Offseason to this Point: via Twins MVB January 13, 2011 at 10:05 PM; Breaking down how the offseason has gone for the club, and predicting how the 2011 season would go if it started today.
TwinsMVB TV, Episode 1: via Twins MVB January 07, 2011 at 12:47 PM; This is episode 1 of what I hope will be a weekly feature here on MVB. If you have questions or comments, you are more than welcome to post them in the comments or send them to me on twitter, my name is @Dwade.
Oh Carl, Where Art Thou?: via Twins MVB January 06, 2011 at 04:29 PM; I have a baseball addiction, I admit it. In the middle of the Nile River, I texted one of my friends to find out where Zack Greinke had been traded and who had signed Carl Pavano. Greinke’s destination surprised me, but not as much as the fact that Pavano was still teamless. That was nearly [...]
The 2010 Warne Awards: via Twins MVB January 05, 2011 at 07:35 PM; Brandon hands out his 2010 Twins Warne Awards.
Organic Growth: A Look at the Twins’ Prospects #20-16: via Twins MVB January 04, 2011 at 06:11 PM; I’m not a prospect guy, per se, I leave that to the experts at Baseball America, Kevin Goldstein, and guys like Seth Stohs. To get the real length and breadth of a prospect’s status takes a serious investment, more than just watching their numbers rise and fall, as their numbers only tell a fraction of [...]
Twins Deal Hardy For Questionable Return: via Twins MVB December 09, 2010 at 01:24 AM; Ok, I have to drive to St. Louis in the morning, so these will be some pretty cursory thoughts with deeper analysis to come when the deal is finalized. The Twins did what I hoped they wouldn’t and–reportedly–have traded J.J. Hardy to the Baltimore Orioles. Despite assertions to the contrary, I felt like this was pretty much [...]
Snap Back to Reality: Mr. Smith Wants His Desk Back: via Twins MVB December 01, 2010 at 07:29 PM; Brandon examines a more realistic 2010-11 offseason than last week's entry.
Tsuyoshi Nishioka, J.J. Hardy, and the Twins Infield Issues: via Twins MVB November 30, 2010 at 01:59 AM; Twins’ general manager Bill Smith got what he really wanted on Black Friday, and while he didn’t have to stand in line to get it, he did have to wait. The international posting system—so laden with cloak-and-dagger secrecy that it could plausibly form the plot of a Burn Notice episode or Jason Bourne novel—is nearly [...]
The Ideal Offseason: Having A Little Fun in Bill Smith’s Office Chair: via Twins MVB November 24, 2010 at 06:35 PM; Brandon has a little fun while crafting his ideal 2011 roster.
Twins Make Arbitration Offers to Three: via Twins MVB November 24, 2010 at 02:11 AM; The Twins waited until almost the 11th hour to announce which free-agents-to-be would receive offers of arbitration, coming out with their list less than two hours before the deadline. When the list finally came out, just three of the team’s potential free agents had been made offers of arbitration. Three others were notably absent from the [...]
Possible Suspects of Interest: Players Who Should be on Twins Radar: via Twins MVB November 16, 2010 at 11:59 PM; Brandon examines a number of players that may be good fits for the Twins in 2011.
2011 Offseason Blueprint: Salary Dumps, Reclamation Projects, and Bargain Shopping: via Twins MVB November 09, 2010 at 09:06 PM; “Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” - The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus, 1883 This quote from Emma Lazarus’ famous sonnet, etched in bronze in [...]
Brief Thoughts on the AFL’s Rising Stars Game: via Twins MVB November 07, 2010 at 12:23 AM; The Arizona Fall League had its Rising Stars game on Saturday night, and among the many stud prospects were two from the Twins. Ben Revere and Carlos Gutierrez did the Twins proud as both played well in what amounts to the AFL’s all-star game, even though neither was among the most well-known players to play [...]
Two for Two: Twins’ Offseason Begins with Smart Moves: via Twins MVB October 29, 2010 at 10:47 PM; News came Friday morning that the Twins were getting their options in order in anticipation of the rapidly approaching end of the 2010 season.* The Twins announced they would be picking up Jason Kubel’s $5.25 million deal and had declined Nick Punto’s $5 million option for the 2011 season. *I said on Seth Stohs’ podcast that [...]