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360 Degrees, Turn 3: A Look at the 2007 Twins Rotation

Apr 21st, 2007 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

Well, we’ve passed the fifteen game mark, and so it’s time for another 360 degrees. The purpose of this feature is to chart the progress of our starting staff throughout the year. This trip features games 11-15 on the season. The two of those games were against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays [...]



360 Degrees, Turn 2: A Look at the 2007 Twins Rotation

Apr 15th, 2007 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

Well, we’ve passed the ten game mark, and so it’s time for another 360 degrees. The purpose of this feature is to chart the progress of our starting staff throughout the year. This trip features games 6-10 on the season. The first three of those games were against the New York Yankees [...]



360 Degrees, Turn 1: A Look at the 2007 Twins Rotation

Apr 8th, 2007 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

It’s five games into the new season and that means that it’s time to take a look at our starting pitching staff in a feature I call 360 Degrees. The purpose of this feature is to chart the progress of our starting staff throughout the year. Of course, this being the first five [...]



Four 360 Degrees and Seven Trips Through the Rotation Ago

Jul 27th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, MLB, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the twentieth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching.
Perhaps the most famous speech in the history of the country was delivered at Gettysburg, PA. I’ve stood on the spot where Lincoln delivered his famous Address. The battlefields at Gettysburg are interesting, but it’s clear [...]



Here it comes, here it cuh-omes, HERE COMES YOUR 360 Degrees BREAKDOWN!

Jul 24th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, MLB, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the nineteenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching.
All week long, I was thinking “Hey Nineteen” by Steely Dan. But, then I got a little Rolling Stones jones going on and the nerves got the better of me, if you know what I mean.
This report [...]



Alice Cooper: I’m 360 Degrees

Jul 16th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, MLB, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the eighteenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching.
Alice Cooper sang in the song “I’m Eighteen” that he was “in the middle of life”. Well, if he meant that his life was half over, he was wrong about that. I actually heard the song [...]



360 Degree’s Only Sev-en-teen, Seventeen!

Jul 9th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, MLB, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the seventeenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching.
Seventeen is my number – I was born on the seventeenth day of the year in 1965. I share my birthday with a first cousin. In addition, another of my first cousins was born [...]



The Sweet 16th Edition of 360 Degrees

Jul 2nd, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, MLB, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the sixteenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching. I could have called this edition the Frank Viola Edition, but Frankie V was one of my favorite Twins ever and I was being snarky when I named the last (Christian Guzman Memorial Edition) entry, so we'll [...]



The Cristian Guzman Memorial Edition of 360 Degrees

Jun 28th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, MLB, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the fifteenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching. The further we go, the harder it is to come up with a title for these things (as we can see here), but I've also found that wikipedia has an entry on numbers and we find out [...]



A Fortnight of 360 Degrees

Jun 21st, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, MLB, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the fourteenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching. This report includes the five games ending on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. It’s clear now that the Twins pitching starting pitching staff is pitching the way we expected they would at the start of the season. [...]



Triskaidekaphobia — 360 Degrees

Jun 15th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, MLB, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the thirteenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching. This report includes the five games ending on Friday, June 15, 2006. Last time, I wrote about how the Twins pitching was pretty bad, with a 5.19 FIP. And now for something completely different. [...]



Give Me a Dozen — 360 Degrees

Jun 10th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the twelfth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching. This report includes the five games ending on Friday, June 9, 2006. This trip around the rotation was, in one sense, one of the worst trips around the rotation all year. The pitching staff had [...]



Eleventh Heaven — 360 Degrees

Jun 4th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the eleventh edition of 360 Degrees. This report includes the five games ending on Saturday with the 2005ish 2-1 loss to the Oakland A’s. What a trip around the rotation this was! It started with the last start by Scott Baker for a while – he’s now hanging [...]



A Decade of 360 Degrees

May 31st, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, MLB, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the tenth edition of 360 Degrees. This is one game late and doesn’t include the Baker start on Tuesday. I suppose 360 lashes with a wet noodle are in order. For the second consecutive time, the trip includes two starts by one pitcher – this time it’s Brad [...]



I’m all Sixes and Sevens and Nines — 360 Degrees

May 23rd, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the ninth edition of 360 Degrees.  In the previous eight rounds only five men started for the Twins.  This time we had starters number six and seven going, allowing me to go to an obscure Rolling Stones reference in the title.
And guess what?  Putting a couple of young guys in the [...]



Crazy Eight — 360 Degrees

May 17th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, MLB, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the eighth edition of 360 Degrees, a look at the last trip around the rotation.  The Twins have now played forty games, which means it’s also time for an eight-pack.  First things first.  Did you hear?  Things are about to change.  In the off-season, while SBG was advocating cutting Kyle Lohse [...]



Lucky Seven — 360 Degrees

May 13th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

Welcome, SBG fans, to the seventh edition of 360 Degrees, a look at the last trip around the rotation.  Of course, you are probably aware that this "trip" includes two starts by Johan Santana.  As KING OF SBG, THE WORLD'S GREATEST ONLINE MAGAZINE, I decreed that a trip around the rotation means five games, regardless [...]



Six of One, A Half Dozen of the Other — 360 Degrees

May 6th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

Welcome the the sixth edition of 360 Degrees.
This trip around the rotation started rather promisingly, with three starts in a row in which the starter went seven innings and gave up one run.  Of course, those starts were against Kansas City and Seattle.  The question, of course, was how the starting rotation would do when [...]



360 Degrees Takes the Fifth

May 1st, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

It's the top of the sixth and I can write the fifth edition of 360 Degrees.  One would expect nothing less, as only one starter completed six innings this time around. Let's get this over with.
IP:  24 -- Only 4.8 Innings per start
R:   29
ER: 29
H:   44
K:   18
BB: 4
HP:  3
HR: 9
ERA: 10.87
WHIP: 2.00
FIP: 6.49
QS: 1
Things started promisingly [...]



360 Degrees Cries Fore!

Apr 26th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

Welcome to the fourth edition of 360 Degrees, a trip around the rotation.  First, let's go to the numbers.
IP:  30.34
R:   19
ER: 19
H:   40
K:   22
BB: 10
HP:  1
HR: 6
ERA: 5.64
WHIP: 1.65
FIP: 4.91
QS: 3
With an ERA of 5.64 and a WHIP of 1.65, you might look at that Quality Start number and not believe that this crew actually got [...]



Another Trip Around the Rotation

Apr 20th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

Oy vey.
Welcome to another edition of 360 Degrees, our once every five games look at the Twins starting pitching rotation.
The last time we looked at the rotation, my one word summary was BETTER.  This time, the one word summary is HORRIBLE.
First let's go to the numbers:
IP:  29 1/3
R:   30
ER: 28
H:   43
K:   9!
BB: 6
HP:  1
HR: 5
ERA: [...]



2nd Time Around — 360 Degrees

Apr 17th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

Well, better late than never, I suppose.
With the trip back to SBGville this weekend and the coincidental timing of having a nephew born while I was there, well if I'd have run down the basement and started tapping away on the Internet for an hour or two, I would have had to answer to just [...]



360 Degrees

Apr 8th, 2006 | By SBG | Category: 360 Degrees, Minnesota Twins

I read the Twins blogs and there are all kinds of good things out there.  Will Young has been doing his thing with the WPA win charts (Will, I've figured out how to prevent the comment box from going goofy when someone tries to comment e-mail me and I'll tell you the trick).  Aaron and [...]



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