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Target Field, with its apparently closer fences and limited foul territory, would project to have a higher run environment than the Dome, if all things were the same. But, we have weather to deal with now.
Now, I cannot project how the infield will play, or how bouncy outfield walls are, or ...
MLB
Minnesota Twins
Metrodome
Joe Mauer is your 2009 AL MVP and Mark Teixeira and Derek Jeter were both shut out of first-place votes! This was already mentioned in the cup of coffee, but I figured it deserved its own post.
Joe got all but one first-place vote and was second on that ballot. Some moron voted for [...]
MLB
Minnesota Twins
Joe Mauer
Mark Teixeira
Derek Jeter
Miguel Cabrera
Harry Rice (1901)
Dick Bartell (1907)
Lew Burdette (1926)
Wade Blasingame (1943)
Rich Chiles (1946)
Greg Luzinski (1950)
Lyman Bostock (1950)
Wayne Tolleson (1955)
Lee Guetterman (1958)
Mike Benjamin (1965)
Jay Payton (1972)
Ricky Ledee (1973)
Joe Nathan (1974)
Outfielder/DH Rich Chiles ...
MLB
Minnesota Twins
For the purposes of this post, any player with a negative value of Wins Above Replacement (WAR) in a given year is dead weight. I'll use the fangraphs values of WAR.
Position Players
Year -- Dead Weight (# of dead weight players)
2009 -- -3.1 (5)
2008 -- -2.7 (6)
2007 -- -3.8 (9)*
2006 -- ...
MLB
Minnesota Twins
The second spot in the lineup is a consistent source of angst amongst Twins fans. Many feel that Mauer should hit there, given a dearth of alternatives, but I'm personally loathe to move the best hitter on the team out of the #3 spot. Moving down one spot in the order doesn't take [...]
MLB
Minnesota Twins
Joe Mauer
Chone Figgins
In the sake of fairness to Delmon, and since Bill Smith is 99.9% likely to keep him around, I figured I'd take a full look at how he figures to play next year. The 2010 ZiPS projections have been out for the Twins for a while now. This is where they have [...]
MLB
Minnesota Twins
Delmon Young
With Hardy in and Gomez out, who do the Twins have under control for 2010? For today, I'm going to focus on the position players.
Taking a quick glance at the 40-man roster , the Twins have a lot more infielders than outfielders listed, but some of those players aren't under team control past ...
MLB
Minnesota Twins
Bucky Harris (1896)
Tony Cuccinello (1907)
Wally Westlake (1920)
Bob Brady (1922)
Joe Nossek (1940)
Ed Kranepool (1944)
John Denny (1952)
Jerry Remy (1952)
Jeff Blauser (1965)
Henry Rodriguez (1967)
Jose Offerman (1968)
Edgardo Alfonzo (1973)
Nick Punto (1977)
Outfielder Joe Nossek was born ...
MLB
Minnesota Twins
While doing further digging on Gomez/Hardy, I found this:
.278/.339/.399 -- Carlos Gomez, minors age 18-21
.271/.332/.405 -- J.J. Hardy, minors age 18-21 (plus 74 PA this year)
.248/.293/.352 -- Carlos Gomez, majors age 22-23
.246/.319/.388 -- J.J. Hardy, majors age 22-23
Yes, Gomez has ...
MLB
J.J. Hardy
Minnesota Twins
Carlos Gomez
Milwaukee Brewers
There was a real honest-to-goodness thunderstorm in Seattle last night. This pretty much never happens in Seattle, and the low rumble of that thunder was music to this Midwestern boy's ears. I should have expected something major was changing...
To cut to the chase, I think that swapping ...
MLB
Minnesota Twins
J.J. Hardy
Carlos Gomez
Delmon Young
I see that free agent speculation is beginning to consume the Twins' blogosphere. I'm going to try to stay out of the speculation as much as possible (mainly because in large enough doses it is prone to driving me insane), but I would like to point out that the Twins' 1st-round draft pick next ...
MLB
Minnesota Twins
Dutch Zwilling (1888)
Travis Jackson (1903)
Chief Hogsett (1903)
Johnny Vander Meer (1914)
Al Campanis (1916)
Ron Reed (1942)
Tom Paciorek (1946)
Paul Hartzell (1953)
Greg Harris (1955)
Willie McGee (1958)
Sam Horn (1963)
Orlando Merced (1966)
Travis Miller (1972)
Orlando Cabrera (1974)
Sidney ...
