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  1. Monkeypaws
    Pounding? Baseball ain't exactly hockey. If you can stand, walk, run a little, you can play the game. :-)
  2. Monkeypaws
    When there is nothing left to be learned in the minors, sink or swim. Or at least tread water.Buxton and Berrios are excellent examples, to be followed.
  3. Monkeypaws
    Not sure where the ERA over 5 is coming from. Well, it was good enough for him to post a winning record on a below .500 team.
  4. Monkeypaws
    Even if Odorizzi puts up the exact same numbers as last season, it still cements him in as the Twins 3rd best starter.
  5. Monkeypaws
    One simple metric that I've found a reliable indicator of how well some is pitching over the years: Innings Pitched vs. Hits allowed. in 2017: Gibson gave up 182 hits in 158 innings. Santana gave up 177 hits in 211 innings. Odorizzi gave up 117 hits in 143 innings. More like Santana or Berrios than Gibson. He must have some decent stuff.
  6. Monkeypaws
    Tunnelvision is the main problem. See Minnesota from another perspective. The Twins had a nice rebound last season, but they fail to make the shortlist of viable contenders. Top dogs will pick a recent world series champ over a possible aberration almost every time. Or a top living location: So. Cal. vs. Minnesota? If you didn't grow up here, not a lot to get excited about. The Winfields, Molitors, Morrisses, and Steinbachs will come back home, or maybe an avid fisherman. The others, well, considering most ball players are southerners or from the Caribbean, let's not hold our breath.
  7. Monkeypaws
    My services are available for a modest fee....
  8. Monkeypaws
    I think you are kinda right there - like magazines, circulation doesn't drive the profits, it's ad revenue. Still, compared to the deal the Twins had at the Metrodome, Target Field is a gravy train.
  9. Monkeypaws
    How many folks would have expected the Twins to be any kind of competition last year? Hard for me to write off the rest of the division quite yet.
  10. Monkeypaws
    Baseball isn't an immediate gratification fix. The absence of a clock suits many baseball fans just fine. Dumb,dumb,dumb,dumb,dumb,dumb,dumb,dumb, idea, I think baseball should stick to its guns. Letting people flow is good. Stop cramming every available second of free time with music, distractions, etc. Chill the #$%^ out baseball.
  11. Monkeypaws
    Oh, love me some very early spring optimism! :-D
  12. Monkeypaws
    Beware the curse of Nishi!
  13. Monkeypaws
    Your post exemplifies everything I hate about professional sports.
  14. Monkeypaws
    Moneywise, much better to give Buxton a gradually increasing long-term deal than shoot the wad on a free-agent that will command top dollar from start to finish. If he busts, which is unlikely, your losses will be much easier to recoup than 25x6 type deals, which a logical extension for BB would never approach. If he plays up to expectations, you got a deal.
  15. Monkeypaws
    The Twins could and should extend a number of those players soon. The window can grow.
  16. Monkeypaws
    Actually, excellent idea - look at Eckersley.
  17. Monkeypaws
    Same initials as Tom Kelly? That's all I got.
  18. Monkeypaws
    I'm gonna make the call - Darvish to Chicago Cubs.
  19. Monkeypaws
    I have a hard time imagining why TB would want to trade Archer - he checks all the boxes for the kind of pitcher everybody wants. IMO, it would take elite talent to even get them to think about it: yeah, Buxton or Sano type players.
  20. Monkeypaws
    I'm sure there is evidence to support both sides, but only one team wins it all, so going all in is more likely to fail than succeed. Just build a good team that doesn't need help at the deadline, like the Twins in 87 and 91.
  21. Monkeypaws
    Look at the Wild - Fletcher loves to swap picks for rentals, and so far it hasn't resulted in deeper playoff runs. Going all in guarantees only one thing: a weaker farm system.
  22. Monkeypaws
    Our cuppeth overflows.
  23. Monkeypaws
    Inefficiency and waste annoy me more than owners being conservative with their money. Morris was only a 1 year deal. No problem with that.
  24. Monkeypaws
    As you mentioned, very few players in their primes (under 30)hit free agency. Look at high profile free agents: Zito, Fielder, Pujols, etc. Albatross contracts that hamstring an organization. I'm sure there are some that work out. Greg Maddux comes to mind, but he was 27 and the and the Cubs had issues, and arguably that was a different era. Big money contracts are rarely worth it, especially for those that get themselves in the position to reap the rewards. Age, satisfaction, many factors contribute. Adding a sensible free-agent to address a weakness in a mature team? Hell yeah. Chili Davis, Jack Morris, good adds that helped put their team over the top, all low risk short term deals. Big money free-agency is a fool's game.
  25. Monkeypaws
    Better exercise would be to see how many 30+ free agents who signed 4+ year deals gave full value to the team that signed them. I'd wager it's much easier to find bad contracts than good ones.
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