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  1. nicksaviking
    ***Mod Note*** I moved the Park related posts to the new Park thread created by Seth.
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    Interesting, he used to be a "sinkerballer" back in the day: http://www.brooksbaseball.net/outcome.php?player=279571&b_hand=-1&gFilt=&pFilt=FA|SI|FC|CU|SL|CS|KN|CH|FS|SB&time=year&minmax=ci&var=pcount&s_type=2&startDate=03/30/2007&endDate=02/03/2017 He now only uses his sinker very sparingly. Maybe he was brought in to try to show Gibson and Stewart that it is possible to be cured of that disease.
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    It seems Tonkin is the guy most see as the odd man out. He's actually the kind of guy I want to see if Falvey's new strategies will benefit. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/24826-article-how-will-derek-falvey-improve-twins-pitching/ A mid-90s FB and a slider are my two of my three favorite pitches. The first being a high-90s FB. At times he has looked really good. Looking at which bullpen options on the 40-man should get the boot, it kind of seems difficult. The pen was terrible last year (last decade) but it looks to me that there are a lot of guys that are just good enough or just young enough where you don't really want to toss them out. So I can see how Tonkin could be first on the chopping block. I can also see how Justin Haley might not make the cut which would cause a lot of us to wonder how the worst team in the league, with the first pick in the Rule V draft couldn't find room for a guy.
  4. nicksaviking
    I'd guess many of our educators on this board would disagree with this take. Coming from a family of educators, I believe that typically new curriculum and techniques get the kibosh at the administrative level, not that instructional level. In this case the administration appears to be very open to new curriculum and techniques.
  5. nicksaviking
    I'm really surprised by some of the responses to this article, this is easily the most encouraging thing written about the team this year. Yes, the team has done little to add pieces, but two of the biggest flags we hung on Terry Ryan and the previous regime was their resistance to innovation and the poor player development. This article makes it abundantly clear that the new guys have made these things top priorities. Embracing new ideas and emphasizing optimal development programs for the pitchers is far more important to this club's long term health than signing some third rate veterans. I'm just fine evaluating how these new strategies impact the players we have, maybe they'll turn out how we always expected them to with proper handling.
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    Interesting. His age and low strikeouts make him look like a guy who'd be forced to take a MiLB deal. On the glass half empty side, I'd rather have a better free agent or give the job to a young guy. On the glass half full side, he's another of way too many RH relief options, which can't hurt May's odds of getting handed a starting job. Just please don't put another guy who can't miss bats in high leverage situations. Let's give this guy the bases empty in the sixth gigs.
  7. nicksaviking
    That was the last front office, seems unfair to hang that on the new guys. Even Trevor thinks he's going to start this year.
  8. nicksaviking
    Well I'd guess if the Twins sign Joe Blanton, Ryan Raburn and Justin Masterson people still won't be happy even if they match the Cubs 4 moves. There aren't any free agents that are going to significantly help this team next year, sure, I'd like something to happen, but in all honesty, I'd want something to happen because this offseason is freakin' boring and I want some actoin not because I think it would much matter come this summer.
  9. nicksaviking
    Well the Cubs were in the same position as the Twins not too long ago, however they hardly did anything in 2013 after losing 101 games in 2012. They made one big free agent splash in Edwin Jackson, which obviously was a terrible move in hindsight. Other then that, it looks like they just made minor moves signing Scott Feldman and Nate Schierholtz. The Cubs also had an awful pen in 2012 but all they added in 2013 was Kevin Gregg. Sure, one could argue that the Cubs did more in 2013 than the Twins have this year, but only minimally and to no great effect, they still lost 96 in 2013. The Cubs didn't make most of their moves until starting mid-season 2013 and not until they got the ball rolling did they start getting more active. I don't know why we won't let these guys test the waters first.
  10. nicksaviking
    I think the entire TD community will agree on that.
  11. nicksaviking
    What moves were there to make? The free agent class was awful. If you're still grousing about the Twins not taking the low-ball De Leon offer, well then it's only fair to play your ERA game with him as well. His ERA was also terrible last year. Sorry, but some problems do not have immediate solutions.
  12. nicksaviking
    Not that joke in particular, but let us know, we might have to delete the whole Sports Bar Forum to protect you from your past!
  13. nicksaviking
    ***** Moderator Note ****** Let's keep this one on topic, like many of you surely were, I was suprised when I scrolled to the top of the page I saw this was actually an article about Jorge Polanco and the shortstop position. Let's take the same rehashed Brian Dozier stuff back to one of the dozen threads we already have on that subject.
  14. nicksaviking
    It has been your insistence on characterizing a non-move as fear to try to better position your argument; you're using an inflammatory trigger word in an attempt to justify your minority opinion.
  15. nicksaviking
    Everyone but Dave Cameron seems to agree that taking the offer is a bad deal. But according to this post that's not even relevant because if the Twins say no to a bad deal, they're afraid. So if all the Dodgers offered was Gavin Lux and the Twins said no, that makes them afraid. My fear of missing out on De Leon borders on apathy.
  16. nicksaviking
    You clearly fear coming out of this situation and getting less or getting nothing. I don't fear that, and obviously neither does the front office. No one is saying they can deal him later, we are saying we can try to deal him later. Maybe we can't, but so what, all we lose out on is De Leon, that isn't something I fear.
  17. nicksaviking
    I sincerely doubt Ryan ever made a concerted effort to move Perkins, this is not the same situation. Why does there have to be a comp for this? There probably isn't one, this is fairly unique. And again, the fear would be in taking the sub-optimal deal, not refusing it. Being afraid would be to take the money and run; saying this ain't going to cut it and laying the bet on larger odds for a better reward is the bold move. No one has to agree with the tactic but I think calling it fear isn't very genuine.
  18. nicksaviking
    I think they've been making some really poor choices and that's not even hindsight, lots of the moves have been questioned from the get-go. But you're right, they're very active, so either through trading redundant pieces or flipping free agent acquisitions they have lots of avenues to recoup any foolish losses.
  19. nicksaviking
    Holland's reported demands are ridiculous for a guy coming back from TJ surgery; a two year deal with a player opt out. So basically if he can't pitch this year, or doesn't pitch well, you're stuck with him for two years. If he pitches well he's gone. In other words, I like the Twins chances of signing him!
  20. nicksaviking
    So you're not criticizing the front office, you just don't want people TELLING you not to criticize the front office? Also, I don't see anyone patting the front office on the back. I see people agreeing that not accepting the offer was for the best, but it seems odd that you'd be upset with that unless you actually are criticizing the front office.
  21. nicksaviking
    In that situation I would argue that fear would cause someone to balk at not taking an offer that was favorable to them. According to everyone but Dave Cameron, this was nowhere close to a fair deal. I seriously doubt the front office was frightened to act because prospects bust all the time, why would they have been shopping Dozier at all then? I think it's more than fair to believe that they have taken the position that they'll take their chances that they can get a better deal later, no matter how slim, because the chances that De Leon himself will be a front line starter are still slimmer.
  22. nicksaviking
    I doubt fear had anything to do with it. Most people don't see De Leon as a top 10 prospect in baseball. Falvey came from Cleveland, I would guess he values velocity and breaking balls, two things De Leon does not have. Even if they did like him, they wanted more, that's not based off of fear. Being fearful would cause them to succumb to the offer of the more powerful and experienced Dodgers brass. This was the opposite of fear.
  23. nicksaviking
    I agree, I don't like calling players junk, even hypothetical ones. Unless a national guy actually used that phrase I think we can probably find a better word to refer to any possible throw-in type players. On the other side of the coin though, are you seriously asking why people are "slamming" you for criticizing the front office when you have no idea who the other players were? Why is anyone criticizing the front office when we don't know what the offer was? Simply because we just wanted this so bad and now we're disappointed?
  24. nicksaviking
    Then you need to stop saying it was a 100% certainty that it wasn't a 1:1 swap because we don't know that either. In fact we don't even know if the Twins were asking for De Leon.
  25. nicksaviking
    How are those things related? Nobody was offering a #2 starter for Dozier who is their best trade chip and there wasn't one available in free agency. Short of armed kidnapping what were they supposed to do?
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