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Minnesota Twins Roster

pitchers # Pos.
Scott Baker 30 P
Nick Blackburn 53 P
Alex Burnett - P
Jesse Crain 28 P
Rob Delaney 56 P
Brian Duensing 52 P
Deolis Guerra 89 P
Matt Guerrier 54 P
Bob Keppel 44 P
Francisco Liriano 47 P
Jeff Manship 49 P
Jose Mijares 50 P
Joe Nathan 36 P
Pat Neshek 17 P
Carl Pavano 48 P
Glen Perkins 15 P
Chris Province - P
Jon Rauch 60 P
Kevin Slowey 59 P
Anthony Swarzak 51 P
Loek Van Mil - P
catchers # Pos.
Drew Butera 71 C
Joe Mauer 7 C
Wilson Ramos 76 C
infielders # Pos.
Alexi Casilla 25 2B
Michael Cuddyer 5 1B
Estarlin De Los Santos - 3B
J.J. Hardy - SS
Brendan Harris 23 1B
Luke Hughes 57 3B
Justin Morneau 33 1B
Trevor Plouffe 1 3B
Nick Punto 8 2B
Matt Tolbert 20 2B
Steven Tolleson 77 2B
Daniel Valencia 79 3B
outfielders # Pos.
Jason Kubel 16 RF
Jason Pridie 11 CF
Denard Span 2 LF
Delmon Young 21 LF
designated hitters # Pos.
Jose Morales 58 DH

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2009 Top 50 Prospects

  1. Danny Valencia, 3B
  2. Ben Revere, OF
  3. Aaron Hicks, OF
  4. Angel Morales, OF
  5. Wilson Ramos, C
  6. Jose Mijares, LH RP 
  7. Anthony Swarzak, RHP
  8. Tyler Robertson, LHP
  9. Deolis Guerra, RHP
  10. Luke Hughes, 3B/2B/OF/DH 
  11. Shooter Hunt, RHP
  12. Kevin Mulvey, RHP 
  13. Trevor Plouffe, IF 
  14. Jeff Manship, RHP
  15. Chris Parmelee, 1B/OF
  16. Carlos Gutierrez, RHP
  17. Anthony Slama, RH RP 
  18. Philip Humber, RHP
  19. Brian Duensing, LHP
  20. Steve Tolleson, IF
  21. Rene Tosoni, OF
  22. Michael McCardell, RHP
  23. Deibinson Romero, 3B
  24. David Bromberg , RHP
  25. Rob Delaney, RH RP 
  26. Joe Benson, OF
  27. Jason Pridie, OF
  28. Dustin Martin, OF
  29. Alex Burnett, RHP
  30. Tyler Ladendorf, SS/3B
  31. Cole Devries, RHP
  32. Steve Singleton, 2B
  33. Dan Osterbrook, LHP
  34. Erik Lis, 1B/OF/DH
  35. David Winfree, OF
  36. Jonathan Waltenbury, OF
  37. Evan Bigley, OF
  38. Brian Dinkelman, 2B
  39. Yohan Pino, RHP
  40. Matt Macri, IF
  41. Jay Rainville, RHP
  42. Loek Van Mil, RHP
  43. Nick Papasan, IF
  44. Matthew Fox, RHP
  45. Daniel Ortiz, OF
  46. Steve Hirschfeld, RHP
  47. BJ Hermsen, RHP
  48. Paul Kelly, SS
  49. Bobby Lanigan, RHP
  50. Zach Ward, RH RP  

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Minnesota Twins Injuries

Questionable

Player Injury Type Injury Date
Jesse Crain groin 10/11/2009

60 Day DL / Out for the season

Player Injury Type Injury Date
Kevin Slowey wrist 07/04/2009
Pat Neshek elbow 02/22/2009

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Featured Poll

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Who will lead the Twins in home runs in 2009?
Justin Morneau
76 votes
Jason Kubel
13 votes
Joe Crede
4 votes
Someone else
2 votes

95 votes | Poll has closed


Looking Forward: Projecting the 2010 Twins

As the rumor mills fly, optimism abounds for the upcoming 2010 season. Just how good are the Twins going to be in 2010? What are the biggest holes that need to be filled during the off season? And just as importantly, how can we assess the effect that potential moves could have to improve the ball club? Many of you have probably heard of using "Wins Above Replacement", or "WAR" as a method to evaluate a player's total value to a team, compared to a "replacement" player, one who is freely available at no cost from AAA, in season free agents, etc. For the last couple of years, the website Beyond the Boxscore, and more recently on a Twinkie Town Fan Post by Jon Kammerer, fans have compiled a list of player by player WAR projections to project an estimated number of wins for entire teams, divisions and leagues.

I've done similar projections for the Twins the last few years, with varying levels of success. This year, I'm taking my projections in a different direction. Starting with actual 2009 statistics as a baseline, can I track the Twins' WAR projections as moves are made throughout the off season? This article gives us a start for a move-by-move assessment leading up to opening day. First things first, where do I put the Twins as of today? Bottom line, I project the Twins at 84-85 wins as the team is currently constructed. I've posted the full WAR spreadsheet on Google Docs here. I'm sure many of you will immediately be up in arms at a projection of a 2 win drop-off compared to 2009, a full three wins below Jon's analysis. I'll get into much more detail after the jump, but before we get there, let's take a deeper look at the three 2010 projections I've done to date compared to the 2009 data.

Date C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF DH SP RP Hit Pitch WAR Wins Notes
2009 Season 7.2 3.2 (1.3) 1.4 0.8 0.9 1.9 2.2 3.1 12.6 5.1 19.4 17.6 37.1 82.1 Actual 2009 season data
01 Nov 2009 6.1 3.1 0.6 0.4 1.4 1.1 2.4 2.1 2.2 12.5 5.3 19.5 17.8 37.3 82.3 End of season. No free agents
06 Nov 2009 6.1 2.9 1.2 0.6 2.9 0.3 2.7 1.7 2.3 12.5 5.3 20.7 17.8 38.5 83.5 Hardy-Gomez, Buscher
10 Dec 2009 6.1 2.9 1.2 0.6 2.9 0.3 2.7 1.7 2.3 13.5 5.4 20.7 18.8 39.5 84.5 Pavano, Bonser

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White Sox continue their trend of overpaying for mediocrity


Let's look at the offseason moves of the closest division rival, the White Sox.

Exercise options on Freddy Garcia and Matt Thornton ($3-5M)

Cut DeWayne Wise

Give Mark Kotsay $1.5M to spit seeds on the bench

Acquire Mark Teahen for Chris Getz and Josh Fields and give him a $14M 3 year deal to be a below average 3B

Sign older than dirt Omar Vizquel and on his last leg Andruw Jones to join Kotsay on the bench.

Give $3M to JJ Putz coming off injury, dump DJ Carrasco


Send 2 minor league pitchers for the opportunity to pay Juan Pierre $9M for the next 2 seasons so he can play a little bit better than DeWayne Wise.

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Dear Santa: Can I add Aroldis Chapman to my wish list? Of course, a contract for Joe Mauer comes first. Then Kouzmanoff, then Chapman, then Jed Lowrie. Can I please Santa, can I please?

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Twinkie Town 2010 Top 50...Voting for Prospect Number 12!

In our second run-off of the season, Deolis Guerra beat Chris Parmelee for the Tenth position in this year's poll.  Guerra had 75 votes (55%) of the 135 votes cast.  Parmelee had 60 votes (45%) to finish in the eleventh position of the 2010 Top 50.  Congratulations to Deolis and Chris!

In the voting for Prospect #10, all of the players scored more than five percent of the total votes cast and will be included in round twelve.  We will bring back two players who had appeared in previous rounds for round 12, Anthony Slama and Max Kepler-Rozycki.

Please continue with your suggestions for future rounds in the comments section.  In another note, I will be travelling tomorrow afternoon.  I expect I won't be arriving until 8-9pm, thus, today's poll will stay open until that time.  The next poll will be posted later tomorrow evening.  Thanks!  

Poll
Who is the ELEVENTH best prospect in the Twins system?

  381 votes | Results

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All the Headlines Fit To Not Print

The Winter Meetings are over, the Twins have offered contracts to all of their arbitration-eligible players, and so the news has, for the moment, slowed down. (This statement will be officially null and void, should Joe Mauer choose to favor us with an early Christmas present.)


So, with the headlines slowing a bit, it's time to fall back on the old standby of lazy journalists everywhere: making stuff up!  Below, some of the headlines you won't be seeing over the next few days:

Bill Smith Tenders Contract To Hot Fudge Sundae
Official team site headline: "Smith locks up important piece"

Team Has To Gently Explain Trade to Carlos Gomez for Fourth Time
"I really hope it's just a language thing," say team officials

Cuddyer's Masterpiece: Magician Makes Metrodome Disappear
On same day, Yanks' Sabathia makes fourteen hot dogs and an entire fried chicken disappear

Timberwolves, Wild DIscuss Contract Extensions With Mauer's Agent
May fill third-line right wing, shooting guard holes

Redmond Still Planning To Report To Spring Training
Security to begin extended details on January 1 in hopes of avoiding bloodbath on reporting day

ESPN SportsCenter Special: Target Field - Brett Favre Finally Speaks!
How does this affect Tiger Woods?

CERN Large Hadron Collider Experiments Prove: Prince Fielder's Pants Don't Fit
Researchers hope new theories explain how pants can be built so large

Joe Mauer Displays First Signs of Personality
Doctors hope he may utter first interesting quote within six months

Justin Morneau Still Debating Fan Letter to Spuds Mackenzie
Letter was written in 1989

Wouldn't it be a more interesting world, though?

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Len 3 notes at the end of today's story:

"The Twins acquired righthanded (sic.) pitcher Chris Province as the player to be named later in Thursday's trade that sent righthander Boof Bonser to the Boston Red Sox."

Here are the
stats on the 24-year-old right-handed sinker baller. Except for 2008, very impressive FIP and GB stats.

4 days ago The_jet_tiny cmathewson 3 comments 0 recs

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AL Central Standings

W L PCT GB STRK
Minnesota 87 76 .533 0 Lost 3
Detroit 86 77 .527 1 Lost 1
Chicago 79 83 .487 7.5 Lost 1
Kansas City 65 97 .401 21.5 Lost 3
Cleveland 65 97 .401 21.5 Lost 5

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