SB Nation User Blog: DedicatedFollowerOfFashion

Delmon Young

DedicatedFollowerOfFashion — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:27:17 -0000

6 hits in his last 9 plate appearances, but his hot hitting goes farther back, in his last 15 games, Delmon has had 5 3-hit games (his state line reads .390/.429.576/1.005)

If you want to back farther, I'll go back to June 1. Since then Delmon has played 25 games and had 101 plate appearances and 33 resulted in hits (12 XBH and a stat line of .344/.366/.531/.897)

So my question I pose to you: Will Delmon keep getting those hits (hopefully for extra bases) or is this just a nice hot streak and the hits will dry up soon and we'll all go back to throwing foam objects at the TV screen whenever he is up

not Wolves related: Seattle moving to Oklahoma

DedicatedFollowerOfFashion — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:00:30 -0000

story

Its a shame that Seattle will not have a pro basketball team (unless another team is placed there). I always thought they were a pretty good basketball town. This will effect the Wolves somewhat, since OK City are in the same time zone so that means one less 9pm central time start

Lets hope this Oklahoma City thing works out for the long run. I hope a situation like this does not happen for the Wolves

so we traded for a dude today

DedicatedFollowerOfFashion — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:29:32 -0000

can someone fill me in on this Marek Zidlicky guy we got from Nashville. I gotta say, I did not watch too many Predators games last year

We traded Ryan Jones. Apparently we was a minor leaguer, was he any good? He must of been if another team wanted him.

Sorry for my ignorance, I'm relatively new when it comes to following hockey hardcore. I like to watch the game, I really did not follow it closely until last year

Livan Hernandez and his lack of walks

DedicatedFollowerOfFashion — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:02:09 -0000

does anyone have an explaination about why Livan's walk rate has plummeted this year? I was looking at his season stats and he has a Radke-like 16 walks in 103.1 innings. His graph on FanGraphs tells me he has been right around league average most of his career (see pic below)

Could it be he just throws the ball down the middle of the plate and gives up a ton of hits? Its not strikeouts because Livan just does not miss bats.

via www.fangraphs.com

Aaron Hicks signed

DedicatedFollowerOfFashion — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:35:00 -0000

Press Release from the Twins

10 players signed so far

TWINS 2008 FIRST-YEAR PLAYER DRAFT
As of June 13, 2008:

Aaron Hicks, OF
Tyler Ladendorf, SS
Bobby Lanigan, RHP
Daniel Ortiz, OF
Dan Osterbrock, LHP
Evan Bigley, OF
Michael Harrington, OF
Dave Coulon, LHP
Steve Blevins, RHP
Alex Curry, RHP
Javier Brown, SS

Hicks, Ladendorf, Ortiz, Blevins, Curry and Brown have been assigned to the Gulf Coast League Twins, while Lanigan, Osterbrock, Bigley, Harrington and Coulon have been assigned to Elizabethton.

For all the angst against the offense this year

DedicatedFollowerOfFashion — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:57:56 -0000

I don't type out many of this things because I don't want to look like an idiot.You people are pretty sharp (lookat that 15 questions post) But, I was curious how the Twins offense stacked up against the other Central Divsion foes. I know that KC's offense is bad, but I guess I haven't paid attention to Cleveland too much this year, thier numbers shocked me on how rotten they are.

(I am using BA/OBP/SLG/OPS because those are the stats I know and are comfortable with. If anyone wants to chip in with the new fancy stats go right ahead.)

In order of the standings and these team stats are good from Monday morning:

Chi .243/ .326/ .402/ .728 (221 runs scored)

Min .266/ .322/ .382/ .704 (227 runs scored)

Det .270/ .342/ .432/ .774 (246 runs scored)

Cle .232/ .313/ .362/ .675 (202 runs scored)

KC .256/ .314/ .362/ .676 (179 runs scored)

Couple things. This past week that twins have drawn a lot of walks raising thier OBP. even after all those walks, I still would of guess we would of be towards the bottom of the pack. but we actually rank 22nd in the majors in that category.

The Twins have hit only 29 HRs, second fewest in the league to KC, but to my surprise they are 24th in the league in SLG. I would of thought they would be 28th or 29th.

If you were wondering, the Twins ranked 8th in batting average, 11 points behind the BoSox.

So my conclusion, yes the Twins could walk more (55 walks in the last 11 games is a good sign) and the Twins could use more power. But, it could be worse. If Cuddy could turn around his slide and if Delmon hits for a little more power and in Justin pops a few more home runs, our offense can be really good

Craig Monroe

DedicatedFollowerOfFashion — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:23:14 -0000

I guess its still early, but what do you guys think...still worth keeping around or ditch him

Has your opinion changed since spring training? Has Gardy used him right?

yes many questions here...but I was just wondering. He seemed to have been batted around like a pinata during spring training, but now that the season has started, that has calmed down.

Myself, I guess I have no real opinion about him. He is on the roster, he seems to fit in. good enough for me.