Gleeman and the geek

Gleeman and the geek

Talking baseball every week, because the Gleman and the Geek.

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I am Aaron Gleeman of Baseball Perspectus.com, and no geek again.

He's abandoned us in our time of need again, but I'm joined by special guest co-host, Nick Nelson, of also, aka Nicolnelli of Twinsdaily.com. Yes, sir. He's so handsome. And we are. First of all, Tony, and by Tony Landry on the ones and two. First of all, Tony, you're double-dipping. You tell every co-host by way of that drop that they're handsome. So it loses meaning. I feel like... It's the only way I can at least make them feel better for having to spend an hour to talk about twins, basically. Yeah, but maybe we're going to wait to pronounce this thing official, but maybe it won't be, uh, we'll have something positive to talk about, but in the meantime, we were, I was prepared, uh, I had one positive thing holstered, ready to go, no matter what happened today. And that was prepared. I had one positive thing holstered ready to go no matter what happened today.

And that was Fernando Romero's start.

And I know that Nick coming into the season, I mean, Romero was a top 100 prospect,

and the twins prospect list varied a little bit at the top.

Some people had Nick Gordon, some people had Fernando the top. Some people had Nick Gordon.

Some people had Fernando Romero.

Some people had Royce Lewis.

It was all flipped around.

But I know Nick wrote even a couple times during the offseason,

basically saying this is the guy, obviously everyone likes Royce Lewis,

but this is a guy from a pitching perspective that can actually jump into the top of the rotation long term with Barrios.

And Stephen Consolvis also got a little bit of attention, but I think your point at the time was the gap between Romero and everyone else, even good pitching prospects, is significant because, as we saw in his first outing, the velocity is unlike something

we've seen maybe ever from a, or at least in this generation, from a twin starter.

And I think the biggest key that has me excited after one outing is not only is he throw

in 96, 97, tons of movement on his two seam and his four seam, and the slider looks crazy good, even the lefties, and the change-up looks like a, like a usable pitch. Yeah, I mean, not only throwing, you know, 98 and 97 consistently, deep into the game, but, I mean, the movement on some of these pitches, these tailing 98 mile per hour heaters that are, you know,

diving inside on right-handed hitters and these 92 mile per hour changeups.

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