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  1. nicksaviking
    Welcome to the site. Feel free to contribute your thoughts and ideas anytime, though I'd never encourage texting and mowing so keep all your toes and be careful out there.
  2. nicksaviking
    ****Moderator Note**** Comments aimed at the content of the podcast still need to follow posting guidelines. Personal attacks are still unacceptable. Clearly this is a hot button topic but there is always room for debate. God forbid only 95% of fellow posters agree on something. We can all still be fans without complete consensus.
  3. nicksaviking
    Snipe John Mozeliak for President of Baseball Operations, and Ill trust his judgement on the guys under him.
  4. nicksaviking
    I agree. St Peter is just fine for PR, promotions, community outreach etc. I still don't feel comfortable with him heavily involved in this GM call. If I'm Pohlad and I'm serious about getting the best candidate, I call the commissioner and the owners of the high revenue clubs and tell them that if they don't want me being a revenue sharing sieve, they need to lend a layman like me a hand. If there is no search firm, and the call all falls to St Peter and Pohlad, they'll deserve all the criticism about how the decision was about money, not winning, that will certainly ensue. Even if it's not true.
  5. nicksaviking
    I really have no clue what Krivsky does for this team, but he's been a GM before, I would have preferred him over Anthony as well.
  6. nicksaviking
    I'm OK with a salary dump simply because the only players I still want on this team come next year don't make much. Plouffe, Santana, Perkins, Nolasco, Mauer, Hughes? Man, if Anthony had some kind of magic potion and was able to lose those last four, even I might be on board with giving him a real shot.
  7. nicksaviking
    The GM has to come from outside. That being said, there really isn't anything Anthony can do now to prove he's the guy, and that is an unfair position the team put him in. The Twins could win out, yet Anthony should get no credit for it. The Twins could lose out and Anthony should get no blame. He reall only has two actions to make that may affect the onfield product at this time. 1. He can call up the young player, however that should be a given, Anthony can't be credited with doing something that every other sane GM for a losing team would do. 2. Anthony can trade the vets something else any sane GM would do. The quality of the return for the vets should not be made clear until long after the Twins new GM has been hired. So my fear is that Anthony won't call up the young guys and won't trade the vets because not doing so may give the team some paper wins, which leads to a bigger fear, that St Peter and Pohlad don't know enough about baseball to realize the record the rest of the way should have zero impact on the decision.
  8. nicksaviking
    If the current Twins assistant GM was the combined spirit of Branch Rickey and Ed Barrow and said spirit had a double major in Statistical Analysis and Quntitative ESP, I still wouldn't want him. This team needs gutting and the smell of failure and stubbornness needs to be throughly exercised from the whole organization.
  9. nicksaviking
    I'm surprised by the timing, not the decision. Pohlad has never been as media visible as he has been the last couple months, something was brewing. That being said, they likely just fired the most knowledgeable baseball mind in the system. I don't think Pohlad or St Peter could manage this firing or hiring themselves; who's pulling the strings? Was there internal insurrection by guys like Anthony and Krivsky? All the widely believed "country club" talk would imply no. Were other owners and/or the commissioners office whispering in Pohlad's ear unhappy about the fact that the Twins are already on the receiving end of revenue sharing despite the new stadium? I'd think it's more likely. If so, that's great for the team if the rest of the clubs are making a concerted effort to make the team better.
  10. nicksaviking
    In a vacuum he would, but this team has a pretty big veteran conundrum to figure out. If someone had told us in February that the team was terrible, Milone would get DFA'd, Hughes would be out for the year and terrible, Nolasco/Gibson/Duffey were healthy and terrible and with ERAs over 5.00, May was still banished to the bullpen, Taylor Rogers was newly banished to the bullpen and Alex Meyer got lost during an African Safari, we'd say no way would Berrios be in Rochester at the All-Star break unless he was clinically dead. These logical expectations don't seem to work out as we'd logically expect them to.
  11. nicksaviking
    Free Hidenberger! Hmmm, when vocalized that's more of a mouthful than I anticipated. And my co-workers are confused.
  12. nicksaviking
    There you go again, saying the Twins need to rely more on analytics and less on the scouts
  13. nicksaviking
    Jepsen's 2015 in TB wasn't particularly good. His K rate was plummeting and his walk rate, FIP and WHIP were all rising. He had one really nice year in LA and a couple pretty good ones. The Twins struck gold when he put on a career best performance for them last year, but he had no track record of that kind of pitching prior and he was on the wrong side of 30. At the time of the trade the Twins really should have had no illusions about what kind of pitcher he was and where his numbers were trending. I mean in isolation, if his ERA had matched his FIP of 4.19 along with the high 4.3 BB/9 and the poor-for-a-reliever 7.3K/9, wouldn't he look closer to a DFA candidate than a get-another-team's-top-15-prospect candidate?
  14. nicksaviking
    The Twins are currently flush with middle infielders who can hit, why would the put one on the 25 who can't? Defense is secondary to offense for this club, and in this situation, I completely agree. No need to intentionally make a black hole where one isn't currently present. It seems everyone wants a defensive first SS, yet when the team gets one, the leash is about ten games before the complaining starts; see Florimon and Punto.
  15. nicksaviking
    I guess my opinion is that Polanco has shown himself at least worth of a shot going on two years, and now they've basically wasted those two eval years and left themselves only one crack at it.
  16. nicksaviking
    Agreed. I find it hard to believe this front office doesn't see the corner they are painting themselves into with Polanco. Also, even if Dozier profiles as a better overall player, Polanco's superior OBP potential may be more valuable to this team considering its current make-up.
  17. nicksaviking
    Is 8 games enough to write off CF as a possibility? Minnesota needs one of those again.
  18. nicksaviking
    Geez, shouldn't Kirilloff be in Rochester by now?
  19. nicksaviking
    If there is going to be a regime change in the front office, I'm inclined to move as many vets as possible to clean the slate for the new guy so he can remake this team according to his vision. That being said, Santana is probably the type of good-not-great pitcher that would fit into just about any vision.
  20. nicksaviking
    Hopefully this bitter pill is what it takes to give Jim Pohlad the kick in the pants to look at every option in an effort to find the real cure.
  21. nicksaviking
    If this behavior was actually prohibited though, wouldn't the rules say that the signings would be invalidated instead of penalized? If I steal a car, I don't get to keep the car if I pay a fine and do my jail time. Either way, I really would like to hear the reasoning from the Twins brass. Plenty of teams, maybe even most of them by now, have taken the penalty and reaped the benefits including many small market clubs. I'd like to know if the Twins won't do it for "ethical" reasons, fiscal reasons, if they don't like enough players or if they just can't attract enough players. I'm curious, though I'd probably be disappointed by any answer. We really need an International Draft if the Twins as they currently stand are going to compete for Latin prospects going forward. If the team is going to self-impose a handicap, they really can't rely on scouting alone and solely rely on finding the diamonds in the rough.
  22. nicksaviking
    ******Moderator Note********** I'm highlighting this post because there appears to be a disconnect between some posters and the posting policies. Being critical is fine and understandable, most of the mods are critical and frustrated. However, all posts are expected to be respectful. If a poster feels they are incapable of being critical and respectful at the same time, do not post. This is an FYI only, any response to this FYI will likely be considered off topic.
  23. nicksaviking
    I didn't like the trade because Jepsen alone wasn't going to get that team to the playoffs and I thought he looked bad in TB last year, but to be fair, Jepsen was shorter term than they expected.
  24. nicksaviking
    *****Moderator Note******** I too am frustrated that this team looks as though once again it won't take advantage of the loophole and blow past their spending cap, **** but this still needs to be kept civil. Let's refrain from putting words in others' mouths and personal attacks of other posters and Twins personnel.
  25. nicksaviking
    Good luck Phil. I don't find this good news simply because I don't wish an extensive surgery and rehabilitation on anyone.
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