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  1. nicksaviking
    From a player's standpoint I can see this deal being a benchmark. But this is the Rockies, the team that gave Ian Desmond $70M to play a position he's never played and re-signed Carlos Gonzalez to an above market price and have no room for him. I don't think any clubs are going model their system after the Rockies.
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    That's pretty harsh and calling them clowns seems to border on wrong side of the comment policy stipulation regarding personal attacks. I think this post would have been just as valid without the unnecessary barb and certainly less inviting of a rebuttal personal attack.
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    Is anyone going to score today? ...That was an honest question, it's been a long off season, I'm forgetting how all of this works.
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    Your clock on the wall is two hours off.
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    How does that not directly correlate to Dwight Evans himself getting into the HOF? Sheesh, BBWA I tell ya.
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    I think Dozier is going to have to have a career year to get a big deal next year. Asdrubal Cabrera, Logan Forsythe, Marwin Gonzalez, Josh Harrison, Ian Kinsler, DJ LeMahieu, Jed Lowrie, Daniel Murphy and Neil Walker will all be looking for jobs and all it's going to take is for about two of them to be desperate enough to take a cheap 1 year deal to collapse any kind of market for Dozier. And that's not counting the SS types like Elvis Andrus and the Twins' own Eduardo Escobar. These guys don't have to be better than Dozier, they just have to be better value. Personally, I'd like to see if Dozier can play LF. I see more room for him on this team going forward if he can man that spot.
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    RB - The Jake Odorizzi of Twins Daily. Man, I hope Odorizzi's performance is not reflective of Brian's today. Kidding, well done!
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    If Hughes comes back and is ready to pitch ASAP after his 10-day DL stint, I'm going to be a bit suspicious. I've never known a pitcher to recover from an oblique injury that quickly. Those tend to be the injuries that always seem to be quite innocuous but then end up costing a guy a quarter of a season. I mean if the Twins front office is being "innovative" by shelving their #5 guy because they don't need him and clearing a 25-man spot in the meantime, that's fine by me! I'd think other teams might call foul on that though. Or else it will become the new norm and MLB will have to cover its eyes and pretend it's not happening.
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    I'd suspect all of your wives are pregnant, scared and confused.
  10. nicksaviking
    Adrianza is still a poor hitter. He really only got at bats last year due to injury. In Adrianza's favor is that he plays a position that historically has accepted backups with poor bats if they have a good glove.
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    Based on the schedule, my money is on him making his first appearance in relief. I'll bet he's going to be real familiar with the bullpen before the end of May.
  12. nicksaviking
    I thought that was one of the hot new trends? Chad Greene, Andrew Miller, Mike Minor, Chris Devenski, Archie Bradley.
  13. nicksaviking
    I really want Bard back and I didn't like that he was unprotected, but Kinley had nothing to do with losing Bard. The Twins went into the Rule V draft with four open roster spots. No player needs to be blamed for losing Bard but if someone wants to point fingers, they should probably be at Rodney, Reed and Duke.
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    I agree, it's possible they do actually like Kinley over Busenitz. I'd think Busenitz is a better pitcher, but I'm removed from the situation, like any of us know how they really feel. It could also be that despite it being 2018 and everyone and their mom strikes out a batter an inning, the Twins bullpen nearly to a man still struggle in that department. Maybe they don't think Kinley is the better overall pitcher, but they want someone who can miss a bat when there's one out and a man on 3rd. I think the discussion about who should be the 25th man is always a fun, even if a pointlessly heated debate. I think the claim that the team isn't trying to win if one's preferred option isn't the choice is complete hogwash.
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    I could find a place for the money if the players and the team can't figure this out themselves.
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    I think Busenitz's smoke and mirrors last year was a bit of smoke and mirrors itself. His peripherals last year weren't good, but I think that was almost entirely because his strike out rate didn't match his outcomes. I think that was a bit fluky and he will miss a bunch of bats with a larger sample size. I'm really excited for the new young crop of relievers. Last year the pen succeeded because of, not in spite of Hildenburger, Rogers, Busenitz, Moya and company. With all the vets and the Rule V pick, it probably means the youngsters will all be yo-yo'd up and down this year, but after last season's relatively quick trigger execution of poorly performing arms, I'm fairly confident that the players who cannot be optioned are basically only getting the one chance.
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    I don't know why it can't be both. I don't think the answer to whether this team will compete this year rests on who is the 25th man vs the 26th man on a 40 man roster, nor do I think the correct choice is as black and white as it's being made out to be. It's quite possible that there is no wrong choice. Or that there is no right choice.
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    While I like Busenitz, the other young guys in the system and I still have my fingers crossed about getting Bard back, they don't have guys hitting 99 MPH. I'd say that alone demonstrates considerable upside. Busenitz hasn't been lighting it up in spring training either. Why do you think it's wasting a 25-man spot? Kinley hasn't shown he's incapable this spring and whomever gets the job is almost certainly not going to find themselves in a position to cost the team any games; this is the mop up guy.
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    I'd think all the free agency moves indicate they are. With all the new vets in the pen whomever gets the last spot is almost certainly going to be used exclusively in low leverage situations. I don't see the problem with keeping the Rule V guy. And I'm a big Busenitz guy. Nothing against Rodney, Reed or Duke, but I'm excited for the big young arms take their jobs and I hope it happens sooner rather than later.
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    Maybe Duffey can finally work on getting a 3rd pitch down in Rochester. His curve had lost it's effectiveness the past two years because he was a one trick pony. With his assignment and with so many harder throwing young guys, Duffey might be near the top of the list of most likely to be removed from the 40-man. Hope he gets that 3rd pitch.
  21. nicksaviking
    Bad news for Cleveland you mean! They're going to have to rename the award to Rooker of the Year.
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    And for all of our bickering in this thread, Polanco has done exactly that. He's taking responsibility.
  23. nicksaviking
    This is offensive to anyone in baseball who fought for a clean game and derided Bonds, McGwire and company, and that is a whole lot of people. Yeah, I'm sure Erick Aybar feels terrible that he has a job this year at the expense of a guy who cheated in an effort to keep one away from him. MLB tried and couldn't get the union to agree to tougher testing, stop laying this at the feet of MLB. They do some greedy stuff, but this isn't one of them, painting them as a villain here takes away from any argument where they actually are at fault. To get the union to agree to any testing conditions took a literal act of congress. This is on the players and the argument I'm hearing basically boils down to people are cheating but it's not fair for the DR players because they aren't as good at cheating. If you want to even it out, take it up with the MLBPA; let the league test these guys monthly and for any and all substances; the league will do it.
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    I would understand it more if he were a 16-year-old getting busted. As it were he's 24 and had already secured a 750K signing bonus as a teenager. He may have been impoverished back in the day, he wasn't when he took the PEDs.
  25. nicksaviking
    At my job there are plenty of things I could do, illegal or immoral, which would help inflate my productivity and secure a bigger piece of my company's bonus and a raise. If I were to get caught doing something prohibited, I'd surely be fired, not simply suspended.
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