Codylee Riedmann is filling in for me today, as I am still on vacation in Minnesota. Many thanks go out to him! You can find Cody at TwinkieTown.com. I had originally decided to write a piece that praised the Twins, and was extremely hopeful heading into a game that would decide first place. After the [...]
Archive for July, 2008
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The Negative VORP Club of the Twins
Posted: 30th July 2008 by vacant in Adam Everett, Carlos Gomez, Craig Monroe, Glen Perkins, Michael Cuddyer, Mike Lamb, StatisticsI will be on vacation for the next two weeks. Today’s post comes courtesy of Marty Andrade. Marty writes for both his blog and about the Twins at Bleacher Report. Be sure to check his stuff out, he is one of the best writers out there! Value Over Replacement Player, or VORP, is a counting [...]
Crucial Victory
Posted: 29th July 2008 by vacant in Denard Span, Francisco Liriano, Game Thoughts, Justin Morneau, Kevin SloweyThe importance of this series between the Twins and Sox cannot be overstated, and, tonight, the Twins took the big first step towards eliminating the gap between themselves and a playoff spot. As Andrew mentioned, the next few days will feature guest bloggers, of which I am one. My name is Dan Wade and I [...]
I will be taking off soon on a 70-hour round trip back to the Midwest. It will take two weeks, and we will visit all of our relatives and friends before coming back and starting school again. I apologize, but it’s not like there won’t still be great content here. At least three other bloggers [...]
I was unable to watch tonight’s game against the Indians because I was attending the Tucson Sidewinder’s (Triple A Arizona) ten inning victory over the Omaha Royals. It was a good night for all of us, I see. I came home with two foul balls after a great game and the Twins also racked up [...]
Addressing the Everett Situation
Posted: 26th July 2008 by vacant in Adam Everett, Matt Macri, Nick Punto, OffensiveThe Twins will have an extremely tough decision facing them in a few days. On May 22 Adam Everett was placed on the 15 day disabled list after he strained his right shoulder. The Twins immediately call up Matt Macri, who posted a .367/.406/.500 line in the 14 games he played. He also hit a [...]
Should Have Seen This Coming
Posted: 26th July 2008 by vacant in Adam Everett, Carlos Gomez, Denard Span, Game Thoughts, Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, Livan Hernandez, Nick PuntoI should have seen it coming. Livan away from home = ugly. Here are some thoughts: -The obvious story is the injury of Gomez. It was Hernandez’s goal to kill his outfielders tonight, but I’ll get into that later. Gomez slammed into the outfield wall while tracking a ball, and left a few minutes later [...]
Comparing the 2007 Defense to the 2008 Defense
Posted: 25th July 2008 by vacant in Glen Perkins, Kevin Slowey, Livan Hernandez, Nick Blackburn, Pitching Rotation, Scott Baker, StatisticsYesterday I did a piece on the impact the defense makes on the Minnesota Twin’s starters. As promised, here is my article comparing the 2007 defense’s effect on the starters to 2008′s effect. Per Nick Nelson and Toby, I will be switching the FIP statistic to xFIP because it is known for more accuracy. In [...]
Twins Pitchers and the Teams' Defense
Posted: 24th July 2008 by vacant in Livan Hernandez, Pitching Rotation, Scott Baker, StatisticsThis recent series with the Yankees was disastrous in many ways. The bats, at least Minnesota’s bats, never lit up the way they have in the past. The pitching wasn’t the best it has ever been, either.The normally fundamentally-sound defense that the Twins are known for has also been lacking. While defensive blunders have been [...]
What can I say? It’s a rather slow baseball day today. Here are my rankings of every current logo in the American League, separated by division. I also have the overall rank listed by each as well. (Just because every team has about sixteen separate logos, I’m basing this list solely on the SI MLB [...]