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  1. nicksaviking
    Nice article John, so many take aways. Very interesting that this was basically practice for the front office. I knew we hadn't gone through much arbitration but I hadn't realized the Twins were mocked in league circles for their avoidance of the process. It's not surprising I guess, they always did seem to stress not upsetting the apple cart. Not that that's necessarily bad. With all these young guys coming up and no extension offers as of yet, the new crew likely will need to be quite familiar with arbitration. It's also interesting that the guys dishing dirt on the player on behalf of the organization are actually league employees, not Twins employees. That was a wise move by whomever came up with that idea.
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    In game 7 do you want to run Santana out to face Kluber, Sale, Keuchel or Kershaw? I don't, why does this team always have to be the underdog?
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    Free agency used to be the time where everyone got excited for shiny new presents. I think a lot of teams aren't viewing them as so "shiny" and "new" any more. Most of these guys are fairly average vets "shiny" and "new" now applies to the youngsters already in the organization and when you look at the financial demand of the vets, expecting these guys who are relocating to a new organization, a new city, a new stadium, a new manager and new teammates, the odds of them being significantly better than the young guys in the system probably isn't all that good.
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    I've been saying this team needs an ace to win the world series and that adding the likes of Cobb or Lynn do nothing to achieve that goal, however I can acknowledge that nothing is absolute. Obviously it's possible to win without one, but why handicap yourself to such a degree? Go get an ace. Go get the best players, don't handicap yourself, tilt the odds in your favor. Being in a mid-market does not mean you MUST be the underdog every post season.
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    I'm all for an extension and I think the idea that it's a gamble for the Twins would be pretty short-sighted. If he doesn't pan out, they can easily afford to overpay for Buxton now. If he does pan out, they quite possibly could not afford to pay him in the future. Also a side note, man, the prestige of The Athletic clearly has faded quickly if Jim Bowden is writing for them.
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    Maybe some team will value him on his ERA+ but so far it doesn't look like it. All he really has is basically three different fastballs, a four seamer a two seamer and a cutter. When he started out no one thought he'd stay in the rotation because of his lack of secondary pitches, so credit to him that he's made it this far. But with no real offspeed or breaking pitch, only average velocity on his fastball and an alarming reliance on the sinker, his usefulness doesn't look likely to continue, at least not to me. I also don't think it's a coincidence that every free agent starter left has a very high sinker usage. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks it tends to be counter-productive when used in high doses, particularly now that nearly every batter has changed his swing to avoid hitting grounders.
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    $12M/2 years sounds low but it's better than $0M/0 years which appears to be the offer from just about everyone else. Lynn's numbers and his abilities look destined to flop, at least in the AL.
  8. nicksaviking
    I think you hold onto him until the last cut and see what happens. I'll predict the Rays end up claiming him though. They have really unsettled 1B and DH situations and seeing as they've let Morrison, Duda and Dickerson go without doing anything to fill the 1B/DH spots makes me think they're already scoping other teams' rosters to see what might shake loose later.
  9. nicksaviking
    I agree and good luck to him. I would also add, that in the hypothetical situation in which a player WANTED to stay with his club past his current contract but the club had at that time not approached him about a contract extension, jabbering away about the excitement of free agency to the media would probably be the way I'd go to see if I could get their attention.
  10. nicksaviking
    With Santana out and the tenuous certainty of every starter outside of Berrios, I think the last man in the bullpen is going to be a starter, either Slegers or Hughes would be my guess. I'd love for it to be Romero, but that's probably too bold. Gonsalves would make sense if the lefty reliever options didn't already go three deep.
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    Archer and Colome probably.
  12. nicksaviking
    I agree. One of the castoffs has to be pretty dang good though. I'm not thinking 3-4ish, more like 2-3ish. It'd have to be peak Sanchez or Hughes or Gibson hitting his long lost potential. I would be putting my money on Trevor May to most likely be the guy if he wasn't starting off the year in his current condition and likely way behind these guys in pecking order.
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    I've always been on the platform that 95% of the players are going to have to adjust to the MLB the hard way and you'll never be able to prep these guys at AAA enough to avoid it, so I'd like them to take their lumps early in the season (or in a season where taking lumps won't matter). I also think the adjustment for hitters and pitchers is completely different. The pitchers are the causation to the batters reaction. Therefore it's the batters that have to FIRST learn to adjust to the pitchers. Sometimes the batter does it in two pitches, sometimes it's two batters or two innings or two starts. However we see it an awful lot where a young pitcher comes up and he's rolling for two months, heck maybe his entire rookie year until the batters figure out the pitcher and make their adjustments. So it often isn't until that point where the pitcher actually has to learn to adjust to MLB hitting. Of course this speaks nothing of being able to throw strikes. You have to be able to get them over right away.
  14. nicksaviking
    So this quote: “It’s not a matter of not appreciating advancements in the game. It’s not that,” says Clark. “As it relates to a pitch clock or not a pitch clock, the guys - on its most fundamental basis – just don’t believe that a pace of game violation should potentially change ... the outcome of a game.” Yeah, I'm guessing the players don't want a pace of play violation to impact the outcome of the game. Isn't that the motivation being wielded to get these guys to pitch/bat faster?
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    Oscar Meyer. And yes, I am suggesting it be a Weinermobilecart.
  16. nicksaviking
    I think I've seen that movie, the bet was one dollar. It'll all work out though. Chargois and LoMo are going to band together and stick it to Falvine with the help of Jamie Lee Curtis and the dean from Indiana Jones' university.
  17. nicksaviking
    I like the move a lot. One year deals with options are really nice. I would have preferred a RH bat but there's not a lot available and Morrison did hit lefties pretty well last year. The fact that he bought into and succeded with the new flyball/launch angle phrnomenon is very encouraging. We'll have to mark down 2018 as the year the Twins signed a guy to a low dollar/no commitment deal who hit 38 HR the prior year, and it was largely met with "Eh" from the league and the fan base.
  18. nicksaviking
    Both of Hughes' off speed pitches are emphatically his worst. He only picked up his change again last year after shelving it for half a decade to try to work in more off speed stuff. If he doesn't get his velocity back he's cooked, which is too bad.
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    What year is it again?
  20. nicksaviking
    The Cape seems to be the showcase league for amateurs looking to put a mark on their draft forecast.
  21. nicksaviking
    That doesn't seem to be uncommon with 24-year-olds. I've been saying for a couple of years that hopefully he sees the light if he struggles, fails and finds that life isn't going to be quite as easy as it appeared with youthful eyes. I took awhile to learn that lesson, I'm guessing many other young folks have too. I was hoping this off season would be the year for him, but with the off field stuff and the injury, it may not be.
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    Moderator note: Let's keep this on topic. Leave out the prognosticating acumen of other posters and of ourselves.
  23. nicksaviking
    Right, but I was refuting that the current moves have anything to do with judging their "enlightenment". I'd think failure to get better pitchers more likely stems from tentativeness, frugality, an unfavorable destination for free agents or other reasons. I don't know that it has much to do with enlightenment:
  24. nicksaviking
    But it doesn't mean they were their top choices.
  25. nicksaviking
    Man, go get Archer too before the Rays sober up.
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