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  1. nicksaviking
    Any trade for a starter is going to be painful. I'd pay extra to get the better pitcher for four years than the lesser pitcher for two. No more half measures.
  2. nicksaviking
    My only concern is that being the only current reliever not on a rookie contract, that the manager might cling to him in clutch situations too long even if it turns out he doesn't belong there. I don't have a problem with the signing at all, just the possibility of mis-use.
  3. nicksaviking
    Outside of Reed and Davis, I'm not too excited about the remaining free agent relief arms. I was all for getting some strikeout monsters in free agency but that doesn't look to be in the cards. No one wants to hear the "Trust the young guys" approach, but it looks like that's the hand this team is being dealt. Outside of performance issues, my biggest worry with this approach is that even if the fans are forced to watch this tactic, the team still is going to need Molitor to use it. If say Chargois and Busenitz start using their gas and are mowing guys down, what are the odds that Molitor would even run them out there in clutch situations in May or even June? I'd guess low, he likes his veterans, it's still likely to be Rodney and whoever this year's veteran spring-training invitee on a minor league deal is.
  4. nicksaviking
    It wasn't really Kinley OR Bard and Burdi though, they had the roster spots for all of them. I think we're missing an entire thread of logic (or foolishness) that just hasn't been made available to us. Kinley didn't cost the team Burdi and Bard, those actions were not cause and effect, their only relation is that they all were transactions during the same event.
  5. nicksaviking
    I'm rather indifferent on Rodney, I'm still going to be disappointed if they don't go bigger and better with free agency. But who cares if they paid more than market rate? It still ain't much. Also Rodney isn't going to determine if this team makes the playoffs, that will hinge on the starters. AZ got to the playoffs with Rodney as the closer.
  6. nicksaviking
    OK, now Zach Britton has torn his achilles and is likely out until late in the season. He's a free agent after this year but the O's would be on the hook for about 12M in arbitration salary if they keep him, so odds are they'll release him. If the Twins happened to make the same move with Britton I assume it will come with the same derision?
  7. nicksaviking
    If I was a wiseacre I'd point to their record last year. They're only getting a pass from me through the offseason. The new personnel hires have me hopeful, but if they fail to get Darvish inked and/or make a huge trade to make the front of the rotation able to match the big boys of the AL, I'm not going to be happy.
  8. nicksaviking
    No idea how this Kinley business will play out, my guess is not successfully, but fingers crossed. If I had to guess why the Twins were turned on to Kinley, my money would be on the idea that the new guy, Josh Kalk, turned them on to him. He's the Pitch FX/analytics/injury prevention wiz kid the Twins stole from Tampa. Conventional data isn't giving this guy the thumbs up, it has to be something found on a deep dive.
  9. nicksaviking
    Craig Edwards at Fangraphs had his take: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/four-deserving-hall-of-famers-omar-vizquel-new-to-ballot/ It caught my eye what he said about Johan Santana. Basically his claim is that the Sandy Koufax argument doesn't work because Koufax was much better than Santana. I could go either way on Santana objectively, while hoping he gets in some day based on my fandom, but his Koufax argument is just terrible. Koufax was one of the game's greatest pitchers ever, in context, perhaps the greatest, he's not the cutoff line for admission. His argument would be like saying Ken Griffey Jr. doesn't belong in the HOF because he's no Willie Mays.
  10. nicksaviking
    I like the idea of an Escobar extension. Not only is he a pretty good player, but giving him an extension makes any and all future plans regarding resigning, trading or extending Dozier, Polanco, Gordon and even Sano very, very flexible, and he wouldn't be so expensive that if he ended up as a bench bat that it would ever be regrettable.
  11. nicksaviking
    Well they've never signed one, if we're talking about contending in 2018 there's no reason not to break the seal now that one appears to be interested.
  12. nicksaviking
    I don't think Mauer's contract has hamstrung this club in anyway. This team isn't getting to the World Series without significantly better starters, is there another option? If Darvish is good for the next 3-4 years and the Twins have a shot at winning, I don't care if he isn't living up to his contract at the end of the deal. Got to take a shot sometime and this club might not be another chance to get a front line free agent. They don't tend to WANT to come to Minnesota even if the front office is willing.
  13. nicksaviking
    I don't know, I'd hope the front office gets the pieces they covet right off the bat and then sort out the left over pieces in the aftermath. Personally, Danny Duffey would be my top trade target as he's good and he's a lefty. If the Twins got a reliable lefty Mejia would be more available and probably a pretty decent trade chip. Gibson's got pretty good velocity on his four-seamer, that might play up quite a bit if he were to be moved to the pen.
  14. nicksaviking
    I don't know, a trade and a free agent signing are basically using two different resources, one uses prospects and one uses money, it's not like these two dis-similar moves are going to double down and deplete either of those resources extensively. I guess my view is that if the Twins were to sign a big time free agent (Darvish is the only one I see as big time this year) you'd think it would indicate that the team thinks their window of opportunity is open now. Wouldn't you want to give yourself the best chance to win now? Why waste 2018 and only next year move to shore up the remaining rotation holes? Especially when there is a trend this year where the bottom feeders are open for business. I don't recall a year where this many quality arms are available for trade. The aggressive teams aren't just making one move, they are making them in bunches and for the most part they are working in tandem.
  15. nicksaviking
    I actually think the front office miscalculated the pace of free agency. There doesn't seem to be much reason to leave four open 40-man spots unless they intended to start signing free agents or making trades prior to the draft. Ohtani slowed down all the big ticket free agents and the relievers nearly all waited until the winter meetings to start moving. I'd also guess that there would be a better chance of exposing players to the Rule V and keeping them than adding them to the 40-man and being forced to remove them later exposing them to waivers.
  16. nicksaviking
    Ugh, but it's been stuck on "Ask again later" for nearly 30 years.
  17. nicksaviking
    I haven't seen either of them approach 100 MPH as Kinley has reported to hit.
  18. nicksaviking
    They don't have enough in this year's pool to sign Severino, at this time they'll have to dip into next year's funds to do so.
  19. nicksaviking
    I actually would have liked Cishek in a vacuum, but that rumor didn't make sense to me. I always figured that half of the effectiveness of side-armed relievers was that they forced the batter into a new perspective from their previous at bat. Perhaps I'm wrong but adding Cishek or Neshak seems like it might negate some of Hildenberger's effectiveness or vice versa. At the very least you wouldn't want to use them to face the same batters in the same game would you?
  20. nicksaviking
    I think it's rare that a young reliever is a needle mover coming up through the system though. It seems to be the position where they're not exciting until actually do something on the big stage to make the fans take notice.
  21. nicksaviking
    ******Mod Note******** Let's keep this article thread on the topic of Kinley and the Rule V situation. For the unrelated Fernando Rodney signing let's use this one: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/28181-article-twins-sign-closer-rodney-to-one-year-deal/page-4?do=findComment&comment=701332
  22. nicksaviking
    Right but one aspect does not necessitate the other. I don't care for Rodney or similar signings; if this team is going to get bullpen pieces I'd like to see players of a higher caliber. However I am eager and excited to see more of Hildenberger, Busenitz, Moya, Rogers, Curtis, Reed, Chargois and company. And unlike every year that preceded this one, we already know most will be in the pen seeing as that's where most ended the season.
  23. nicksaviking
    Aren't signing old guys and relying on the guys they have two different approaches? I agree, signing old guys isn't a great idea, but last year once the dumped the old guys, the young guys they already had pitched pretty well.
  24. nicksaviking
    I haven't heard anyone make that arguement. One was a move for next year, one was a move for this year. No one is compelled to like both or dislike both. Personally I'm in the camp of liking the Pineda deal and being underwhelmed by the Rodney deal.
  25. nicksaviking
    I'm all for getting some big bad bullpen pieces, but once this team finally dumped Haley and Breslow and started relying on Hildnberger, Busenitz and Rogers, the pen was pretty solid. Heck yeah, lets improve it, but this team's Achilles heel is clearly the rotation.
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