Article: Can The Twins Find Hitting Inspiration Up North?

[Mike Sixel]

 

  On 9/1/2016 at 1:10 PM, markos said:

This is a little off-topic, but is AA on your shortlist? 

 

I literally have no idea who they should hire. There are just so many unknowns about how a GM/POBO really works, and what constraints their owners had/have them under.....I just don't have enough knowledge about any of them to have a solid opinion.*

 

*which is probably true of players too, but that doesn't stop me.

[Otto von Ballpark]

 

  On 8/31/2016 at 8:48 PM, notoriousgod71 said:

Bautista has told the Blue Jays he isn't giving them a hometown discount so we have absolutely no shot.

Wouldn't that actually suggest the Twins have a better shot?  If he wanted to stay in Toronto enough to take a hometown discount, we'd pretty much have no chance to sign him -- we'd have to out-bid them by a considerable amount.  At least this suggests we could out-bid them slightly and win his services.

 

Not that I endorse it or think it is likely for any number of other reasons, but in theory, the Twins chances at landing a player should only improve the less likely he is to re-sign with his current team.

[notoriousgod71]

 

  On 9/1/2016 at 2:18 PM, spycake said:

Wouldn't that actually suggest the Twins have a better shot?  If he wanted to stay in Toronto enough to take a hometown discount, we'd pretty much have no chance to sign him -- we'd have to out-bid them by a considerable amount.  At least this suggests we could out-bid them slightly and win his services.

 

Not that I endorse it or think it is likely for any number of other reasons, but in theory, the Twins chances at landing a player should only improve the less likely he is to re-sign with his current team.

 

To me it signifies he wants to cash in with the highest bidder. The Twins won't be, and shouldn't be, that team for a player of his age with this disastrous team.