Twins `Improvement'

Have the Twins improved this year? Perhaps. Joe Mauer looks better (hard not to though to be fair). Compare the spraycharts for games at Target Field for 2011 (left) and 2012 (right). The red dots show outs and the blue dots show hits (dots are sized to indicate whether the hit is a single, double, triple, or homerun.

 

Wow! Even a homerun in 2012! Way to go Joe. Most of his outs are still in the infield and left field. As he himself pointed out, he needs to pull more pitches to right. How about Justin Morneau–Canadian Wonderlad?

Justin doesn't pull the ball much at all...at least not with any power. He does seem to be hitting with a little more power in general this year (at least the balls are, in general, going further from home plate).

 Josh Willingham is the bomb.