Doc Munson

quit using big words!!! LOL and it is nto deferred money. it is still the entire sum of money paid in the same number of years. deferred money means it is paid out over MORE years

I didnt say everyone makes the PLAYOFFS, I said everyone has A playoffs. the Draft Tourney is not the "Playoffs" and pace of play is one of the biggest issue sin MLB, that is why they are coming up with all sorts of rules to shorten games. Finally pace of play for draft picks eliminates the purposeful tanking. if you are a crappy team, just play FASTER if you want the good picks. and of course it takes two. That is why over the course of 162 games it helps mitigate the outliers. AND when people start seeing the fast paced teams actually playing BETTER ball, then EVERYONE will adjust

With three easy additions to CBA, virtually ALL issues will be resolved. #1 Pace of Play. Lets not burden ourselves will all sorts of extraneous new rules to try and speed up the game. Just incentivize teams to play faster!!Games will speed back up in their own. SO... you simply incentivize teams by having all tiebreakers be pace of play. the faster the average 1st 9 innings of games the higher you are. This includes the draft order!!! you draft (partially..see below) based on pace of play, not solely your record. I GUARANTEE if playing slow makes a team drop a handful of spots in the draft, they will speed up!!!! with no artificial rules!!! #2 ELIMINATE TANKING... GOing to a weighted lottery system will NOT eliminate tanking. The only way you eliminate tanking is by making teams EARN their draft spot. And how do you make teams earn it? Well by PLAYING FOR IT of course!!!! SO what you do is you have a Draft Tournament!! EVERY TEAM plays in the post season!! if you do not make the playoffs, then you head to the Draft Tournament. Team swith the best records get the best seeds, and then it is just a regular tournament, with the winner getting the top pick, and all other picks are assigned based on how far you go in the tourney!! Again using regular season pace of play for tiebreakers. could be single elimination or 3 game series at most. This would be an exciting tourney!! would bring in TONS of additional revenue!! and teams could use prospects if they want without impacting time towards FA. broadcast rights alone would bring in MILLIONS!!! #3 Lets make managing payroll more flexible!! and truly reward smarter front offices, This rule could also allow smaller market teams to possibly compete with bigger market teams. Thsi would give FO more flexibility which would get them to sign on, and overall SHOULD/COULD help push player salaries higher which would get them on board!! What is this rule?? First need to say, you keep salary cap luxury threshold in place and its penalties. Second you create a Salary FLOOR as well (which is already being discussed) and you penalize teams for not getting to the salary floor by them losing their 1st round pick the following year should they not reach teh Salary Floor. Now that we have the constraints in place lets talk about the flexibility to manage around these constraints year to year. FLUID CONTRACTS!!!! How fluid contracts work is simple. You can pay the player as much as you want, or as little as you want each year, as long as you meet a minimum salary each year. Lets take Eduardo Rodriguez's contract for example. 5 years $77M. or $15.4M per. Each year the FO sets the starting wage at whatever they want at the beginning of the year. This has to be AT LEAST the league minimum. The team MUST pay the player that much AT LEAST. then at a certain date during the season the team has to lock in the FINAL pay for the year. It can be any amount. It can stay at $1M or it can be $50M. the only constraint is that by the end of the contract, all $77M has to be paid out. So if you are a team needing to reset the luxury tax penalty, you can do this by mixing and matching big contracts and small contracts. If you have some financial challenges, you can use the flexibility to pay less one year (knowing you will have to make it up later). You can turn a player with mediocre to average trade value into a player with LOTS of trade value. Taking again Rodriguez's contract, lets say year 1 he has a Cy Young type season (or even just an above average), and your team has the financial ability to pre-pay a good portion of the deal. then you lock in say $50M as the final salary year 1 (using an extreme example to prove the point... but it COULD happen). now that leaves him on a contract of 4 years $24M. Suddenly you have a player with significantly more trade value!!! AND if you are on a small market team, you used that $50M to get above the salary floor!! With this flexibility, teams now will NEVER have the excuse of being under a long term bad contract to prevent them from signing other players or contending for YEARS!!! These three rules will GUARANTEE no lock out, and "save" baseball... Thoughts?

yes, I am nto saying he would offset 100% of his contract. What I am saying is a team who dwould otherwise not sell as many tickets woudl have a dispraportionate benefit from signing a hihg end player than a team who consistently fills seats. that was really my point. disregard my weird specifics. lol

retaining Cave scares. LINE We are not going to sign Buxton, so we will be trading him and need as many backup options as possible. LINE Read between the lines to figure out what is going on with keeping Cave.

OK yes, this may be a "Get Off My Lawn!!" comment, but if we go this route I will be one step closer to moving on from being a lifelong Twins fan. I just hate what the game is turning/turned into. pitchers only go a few innings, defensive shifts, etc. AND to me this makes no sense from a marketing standpoint. You need stars to market your team. The Twins are actually one of the few teams who CAN afford an ace like Scherzer... Why? because right now we do not sell tickets. Scherzer will put butts in seats = $, which will drive concessions sales =$ He will drive Jersey sales =$ You can SELL a star like Scherzer (or anyone else) How are you going to SELL Cahill and Tomlin? "OK Kids lets get our Twins gear on and head out to the old ballgame... Tomlin and Cahill are piggybacking on the mound tonight!!!!!!! sure hope there are still some good seats!!" And, You do not even have a greater chance of winning going this route!! The only reason you can point to the people winning World Series' like this is because the WS has small sample sizes. I may be proven wrong, but going this way over the course of a full season you will tire out arms. For every pitcher you are able to keep fresh by less innings, you will have 1-2 relief pitchers get fatigued due to pitching their HIGHEST number of innings. And do I need to remind you how the Dodgers absolutely blew their chances by turning to short stints and using pitchers in varying roles, vs just letting their starter throw?!?!?! Lets look at the top pitching teams from last year (using the old fashioned ERA) 1= DODGERS: Buehler, Urias, Scherzer (after trade)Kershaw (before injury) all averaged at or near 6 innings. (which is sad 6 is the benchmark now) 2= GIANTS: Gausman, DeSclafini, Webb, Wood = all again through at or around 6 innings per start. and these are NOT household names. 3= BREWERS: Woodruff, Burnes, Peralta, Hauser... you guessed it at or near 6 innings. 4= RAYS: Here is your outlier with 8 pitchers starting at least 10 games. 5= WHITE SOX: 5 pitchers averaging 5 1/3 innings, a little bit below 6 innings per, but close.

I guess I give an A for the creativity, but an F- on the logic (although 90% of my own moves do not follow logic. LOL) so we finally go "all in" and a potential true Ace, right when we gut our entire offense and rely on young unproven everyday players??? I would say if we are rebuilding, lets rebuild around speed, speed, speed!! Keep Buxton and pay him, you hope Lewis is MLB ready by the end of the year. In one of your proposed low ball fliers you target Jordyn Adams from the Angels. an dshoot for the moon and try and land either Padres CJ Abrams, or Trea Turner. BUT if we are to move Buxton we need significantly more than teh #76 overall prospect, Id work with the Evil Empire and look to get Jasson Dominguez.