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  1. And this is why I stopped being a dev, and am now in architecture and product ownership.....thanks for your work Brock. Really. thanks,
  2. Love the new organization chart site. If someone had time, they could put in links to MiLB pages and stats and stuff.....
  3. Not sure if you care, but at my crappy work computer, it looks 100X better on IE8.........I love the new look a lot. Can't wait to explore more when I'm back home.
  4. some teams accept that the last 2-3 years are the price you pay for the first few years, and are probably not counting on value in those last few years. You can decide to be fine with that or not. $/WAR is a great measure, if you are willing to live with low WAR, you can have a low budget, but then, you'll lose more, right? If it costs $6MM for 1 WAR, and you only spend $12MM, you get 2 wins.....or, if you pay more, you get more wins. If you pay for bad pitchers, you will generally get bad pitchers. Me? I'd rather pay for good to great pitchers, and not waste money on 1-2 WAR pitchers.
  5. Looks pretty good to me. I think they try to trade down again from there, to take Carr or someone else besides Mosely. But if they stay there, I think it is between Carr and Mosely.
  6. Not bad. Looks like it could happen.
  7. I agree with the TD owners. There was no use in keeping the thread open. I have no idea what value in making the world better or more interesting continuing to pile on thrylos would serve. At no point have I ever felt the TD owners have ever protected anyone and their ability to make themselves look good or bad....
  8. Or, whoever wrote it thinks the only way to get pitching is to trade some existing MLB players, and roll the dice with young guys.....
  9. If they don't make a trade, with no 2B or SS or SP, then I don't think it will matter....
  10. Just you. Have you ever met him? Talked to him? I don't get this kind of comment at all.
  11. His stuff looks 4/5 to me, but his results say he could be a 3 long term. There aren't many 1s in the majors, less than 30 for sure......Frankly, if he's a 3/4, that's a good, valuable player. Any player can have success for a year or two, the real test to me will be next year. If this level of success is sustained, then I'll be more of a believer that he's "really" a 3. Either way, I think he's good enough to be a legit MLB starter, and the Twins should be happy he's here right now.
  12. Not sure I agree, I think Plouffe is comfy at 3B, and Valencia showed over more than 1 year whether he was good or not....
  13. So are the teams that want to trade something legit for a pitcher....
  14. I look forward to next week, when you (hopefully) rip the Twins for once again not putting a guy on the DL right away. Unreal on Plouffe (I'm assuming they'll DL him soon).....unreal on the training staff. Just unreal. Didn't TR talk about accountability throughout the organization? What does accountability mean, exactly?
  15. Assuming neither is injured, I think KLAW has already said they are the top 2 prospects for next year, given what we know right now. That is very subject to change, as someone will step up, but both of these guys would be at or near the top. That said, they will be college seniors, and have no leverage. At this point, it is between taking real money now, or going to school and losing a year of income (and maybe making more, and maybe making less).
  16. Bill Smith was not the gm when the draft failed to produce players the last few years, in terms of adding to the MLB team. Bill Smith did not quit, rather than handle the Santana situation. Ryan is not free from being part of the problem. And, this offense was 11th in the AL last I checked, in terms if runs scored, so I don't get why people think it is fine and dandy. They did not spend money to get better, they filled New holes with cheaper guys, but rather than invest those savings, they pocketed them.
  17. Got it, thanks. It's a good analysis of WAR and what you can get in terms of prospects. Thanks for writing it.
  18. Is the WAR of the player, or the players returned? Because isn't that part of the question, how much WAR did you give up to get what WAR in return? Also, if your team as currently constructed utterly stinks, but you think you have 2-4 starters in the minors ready in, say, 2015, wouldn't you want to trade your current players and get 1-4 more guys that will be ready in 2015? It can be done, but it's hard to do well.
  19. from the free chat on espn yesterday: Can Mark Appel be a dominant pitcher in the pros? [h=6]Klaw (1:37 PM) [/h] Define 'dominant.' Is a #2 starter, top 40-45 starter in the majors, dominant? That's what he probably is.
  20. We can only project the future based on what we know today...so I'm not sure how else to assess someone other than logic and hypothesis and theory. Since we never see these guys play (unlike basketball or football), I can only really go off what access and comments we have to online scouts and commentors (like BA, Law, other ESPN scouts......). So, pick another way to assess or rank someone, but that's all we really have. Sure, BA and others will be wrong, a lot, but I'm not sure what else we have to go on.
  21. thrylos, thanks for doing this. Appreciated. I am not a scout, nor an expert on baseball. I'm just a fan. From what I read on the 'net, Appel projects as a 2 or so. That's assuming that you qualify a 1 as ACE, and most articles I read say there are 15 or so Aces on the planet at any one time. So, projecting as a 2 isn't a "bad" thing, not at all.
  22. btw,. it's time to stop calling him a future HoF player. 3 catchers in the AL Central have a higher WAR than him this year, he's missed many, many games with injuries, and this team isn't winning squat during his prime.....
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