Saturday Morning Notes
Good Saturday morning! It sure was
frustrating waking up this morning to an inch of snow on the ground. Almost as
frustrating as watching the Twins has been lately. Here are my thoughts on the
Twins right now:
Now, with that, here are some Saturday
morning links from around the Twins blogosphere:
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First and
foremost, just this morning, one of the longest
tenured Twins bloggers called it a blogging career. Stick and Ball Guy decided
that he will be shutting down the excellent World’s Greatest Online Magazine.
SBG built up an incredible and thought-provoking community of writers. You
could find information on the Twins, the Timberwolves, music and so much more.
Having met SBG several times and some SBG Conventions and elsewhere, he is a
terrific guy with a great family. He is a very successful person, and hopefully
we will continue to see him around the Twins blogosphere!
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Over at Puckett’s
Pond, they are doing a series called The Winning Teams, and here is a
look at the 1969 Twins.
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Here is a look at
Roger’s
Minor League Report over at Twinkie Town.
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Ed Thoma, the Baseball Outsider, wrote
about Mauer, Holm and Eli Whiteside! Great stuff!
·
For
the Love of the Game wrote some
great Twins notes and updates and shared a bunch of great pictures.
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Peanuts
from Heaven had Two Options to write
a blog post about… See what they went with.
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Is it too early
for the last
paragraph of this Hitting the Foul Pole article
yet? Sadly, if nothing else, it is a fair question at this point.
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Aaron Gleeman’s
up to #20
in his Top 40 Twins players.
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Nick Nelson
notes that the Twins have gone From Bad to
Worst.
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Parker Hageman
asked What’s
Behind the Offensive Plight?
MINOR
LEAGUE UPDATES
SethSpeaks.net Minor League Hitter of the Day – Anderson
Hidalgo, Ft. Myers Miracle
Seth Speaks.net Minor League Pitcher of the Day – Steve Hirschfeld, New Britain Rock Cats, Brad Stillings, Ft. Myers Miracle
Red Wings Ramblings
Friday
– Red Wings 4, Lehigh Valley 9 – The
Red Wings again played without Trevor Plouffe, and
Ben Revere missed his first game after bruising his knee on Thursday night.
Dustin Martin picked up the offense. He was 2-3 with two walks. Chase Lambin logged a triple. Rene Tosoni
and Toby Gardenhire each drove in a run. Scott
Diamond started and in 4.1 innings, he gave up two runs on five hits. He walked
three and struck out two. Carlos Gutierrez was charged with four unearned runs
in 2.1 innings. He gave up just two hits and a walk. Anthony Slama made his 2011 debut. In one innings, he gave up three
runs on a hit, two walks, a hit batter and two wild pitches. Yorman Bazardo got the final four
outs, two of them on strikeouts.
Andy Baldwin will get another chance to start
against Scranton/Wilkes Barre on Saturday.
Rock Cats Report
Friday
– Rock Cats 2, Portland 1 – Steve Hirschfeld made his second consecutive very good start on
Friday. He gave up one run on four hits and two walks in six innings. He struck
out four. Jake Stevens threw two shutout innings. Tyler Robertson gave up two
hits but no runs in a scoreless ninth inning. He got the win because Steve
Singleton came up in the bottom of the 9th and drove in Yangervis Solarte with a walk-off
single. Solarte had been 3-3 with a stolen base in
the game. Chris Parmelee had doubled in a run in the
bottom of the 8th to tie the game.
On Saturday, Liam Hendriks
will make the start for the Rock Cats against Portland.
Miracle Matters
Friday
– Miracle 9, Bradenton 1 – The
Miracle scored more than enough runs, but they also got tremendous pitching
again. Brad Stillings started and went the first six
innings. He gave up one run on five hits. He walked one and struck out five.
Edgar Ibarra threw two scoreless innings, striking out three. Matt Tone struckout one in a perfect
inning. There were lots of contributions from the offense. Jhonathan Goncalves went 3-5 with
two RBI. Nate Hanson had two doubles in five at bats. Brian Dozier went 2-4
with a walk. Anderson Hidalgo went 2-4 with his first homer. Danny Rams and
James Beresford each had two hits. Chris Herrmann went 1-5, which dropped his
batting average to .379, but the one hit was his first home runs of the year.
Minnesota native and St. Thomas alum Matt Schuld will make the start for the Miracle today against
Bradenton.
Snappers Bites
Friday
– Snappers, Cedar Rapids – The Friday
night game was postponed by rain. On Saturday afternoon, the Snappers will send
Adrian Salcedo to the mound. The teams are scheduled
to play a doubleheader on Sunday afternoon.
Feel free to leave
your thoughts, questions or comments.
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