Michael Cuddyer’s Success with Change-ups

Monday, August 15th, 2011 Posted in Michael Cuddyer, Twins | Comments Off

Michael Cuddyer’s bounce-back 2011 season has been due in part to a pronounced success against change-ups. Cuddyer has always hit change-ups well; since 2004 his 2.77 wCH/C is the best in MLB. But 2011 is proving to be his best ...

2011 Twins Defense Preview (with Tigers and White Sox)

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Twins | Comments Off

Fielding is probably the most significant part of baseball that doesn’t have a widely accepted statistic that people can agree upon as an accurate measure. Thus, most of the time the judgement of a team/player’s defensive abilities is anecdotal…and thus ...

Can the Twins Win with this Outfield Defense?

Monday, August 16th, 2010 Posted in Twins | Comments Off

We’ve seen Delmon Young drop a few balls that hit him right in the glove, watched Denard Span make a diving catch one inning and take a bad route to a ball the next, and hoped that Jason Kubel or ...