Here’s the latest baseball news from the Land Of 10,000 Lakes…
- The Twins made Fernando Salas an offer before the right-hander re-signed with the Mets, 1500ESPN’s Darren Wolfson reports (Twitter link). Minnesota’s offer was reportedly a one-year deal, like Salas’ deal with the Mets, and Wolfson notes that Salas’ familiarity with New York was a factor in the righty choosing between the two similar contracts. The Twins made another move to add a right-handed reliever to their bullpen earlier this week when they signed Matt Belisle.
- The Twins designated Byung Ho Park for assignment in order to create roster space for Belisle, and Fangraphs’ Dave Cameron feels Park has enough “cheap upside” for several other teams to show interest. Cameron sees the White Sox, Rangers and Athletics as potential fits for Park, who is owed $9.75MM over the next three seasons. While Minnesota didn’t have much playing time available for Park with Joe Mauer and Kennys Vargas at first base and DH, Cameron makes the argument that keeping Park to gain more return on their initial investment might’ve made more sense for the Twins than signing Belisle.
- MLB.com’s Jesse Sanchez profiles Dereck Rodriguez, a right-handed pitching prospect in the Twins’ system and the son of newly-inducted Hall-of-Famer Ivan Rodriguez. The younger Rodriguez is entering his fourth season on the mound after converting from his original outfield position, and the 24-year-old is looking to land on the Double-A roster in 2017.
Was it salas that there was a gif of him sneaking a booger?
can’t explain the twins 1b situation. old man Mauer who now basically provides nothing when he’s not hitting 300 and vargas are the only options. park played one season. most Korean guys struggle year 1.
makes no sense.
And now we’re told by the analytics crowd that BA doesn’t mean that much (like W and ERA). I wonder if we added a lowercase letter before it (fBA or wBA) and told them it was “park and league adjusted, whether they’d like it any better?
Yeah, I hate the new so called better analytics.
Same I’m so glad someone else said it. It’s just a way for people to throw stats out there and make them think they’re smarter.
You do realize that’s one of the problems with average, that it’s not park adjusted.
That’s not really the point… they’re used to help project statistics for players and evaluate if their current performance is indicative of their true talent. For example, one can’t just use batting average, since a .280 batting average means very different things between Albert Pujols and Billy Hamilton. Things like BABIP and FIP are all just efforts to try to make sense of what’s happening. They’re not complete models, but sometimes they can be very useful.
Analytic bashing is so cute.
The Pirates should get Park.
He can replace Jaso as the backup first baseman and he can be Kang’s designated driver.
Best comment I’ve ever read.
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Absolutely what I was thinking!