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  1. nicksaviking
    I don't trust pitchers coming out of Oakland though. If they somehow "fix" Trevor May, I'll be suspicious as hell.
  2. nicksaviking
    I wouldn’t want May if he were a free agent. Ober is already a better bullpen option than him anyway.
  3. nicksaviking
    I got no skin in the game, but I would have thought if there was any rigging, it would have been in the Bengals favor. I thought they were the hot new "IT" team with Burrow's face being everywhere lately. Both teams are in small markets so I'd think that factor would be a push. But that was only my recent perception, it could have been the opposite too I suppose.
  4. nicksaviking
    I like them right now by default. Screw Philly.
  5. nicksaviking
    Yeah, and I know for most of the owners it’s really about banking as much money now, not ten years from now. But they need to divorce themselves from those instincts or there won’t be a league in 20 years.
  6. nicksaviking
    That's not nearly enough subscribers to keep this thing moving. That's 116K fans per team average, and the big markets will be weighing that down for the mid market teams. So what, 80-90K Twins fans tops? That seems ridiculously high actually. Advertisers won't keep ponying up for that kind of volume. They'll get more eyes on a five minute, mid-level Youtuber video. They need to get on the already established streamers. All the teams, all the time. You'd get more people to pay $3 more per month for their Hulu account to watch baseball, than you will charging them $30 per month for a baseball only channel.
  7. nicksaviking
    I was admittedly being hyperbolic, but they can’t ask people to pay $140 for a baseball only channel in addition to what people are already paying for Netflix/Apple/Amazon/Hulu.
  8. nicksaviking
    They need to sell the entire league to the major streaming services. Maybe like the NFL, Amazon buys the AL, Apple buys the NL. The big markets with their current self-sustaining broadcasting gets paid out from the deals first, the earnings will be lopsided for the first years, then after how many years it takes to pay back that equity to the big markets, then the whole league goes complete broadcast revenue sharing.
  9. nicksaviking
    Zero people over 60 are going to frame it that way though. To people of my parents generation, baseball is included in the package they already pay, if they're going to have to pay additional for a streaming service on top of whatever else they currently are paying, they won't. Especially not for a streaming service that will be 100% unwatchable for all but 3 hours a day during 6 months of the year. And retired moms and pops sitting around watching the games have to be one of the sports biggest demographics. MLB was greedy with their broadcasting rights the last couple of decades and now they're going to have to reckon with it. Likely with a financial haircut of some sort.
  10. nicksaviking
    Yeah, big risk, but if last year's draft was a barometer for how this regime evaluates players, 2nd round picks may not be terribly valuable to this club. SF may prefer a Bridgwater or even a Mike White type. They'd have to deal with some heavy fallout trading him for only a 2nd rounder though. And SF would probably prefer to deal him outside of the conference. The GM who drafted him is now in Tennessee and they have an unsettled QB situation, I wouldn't be surprised if the Vikings would have to pay more than most people would feel comfortable with.
  11. nicksaviking
    I'd be interested in Lance, but the problem is going to be that they'd have to decide on picking up his 5th year option after next year, and assuming he's sitting for a year under Cousin's, they probably will have no idea if they should pick it up.
  12. nicksaviking
    His dad coached at NDSU so he spent his elementary school years in Fargo, which is obviously Vikings country. Pretty sure he'd moved on to wherever his dad coached next by the time that photo was taken though, pretty cool he was still rocking the Moss jersey!
  13. nicksaviking
    Why would you be less sold on Larnach than Kepler? We've got a troubling three year trend on Kepler. Even if you want to buy into Kepler getting on base more with the removal of the shift, he had 9 HR and only !!!18 doubles!!! last year. He has no power and is just a slap hitter these days. Even if he bumps his OBP/BA by .030 points, he's still likely got an OPS under .700.
  14. nicksaviking
    I’m happy they brought Correa back, but no, this team isn’t better than 2019. Defense wasn’t a problem last year, and despite that, they’ve sacrificed offense for more defense. Even backup defense. Michael Taylor makes 2019 Jake Cave look like Ted Williams.
  15. nicksaviking
    I think you're being generous. This team is waaaaaaaaaay over correcting. They need more offense, not defense. I get it, there wasn't much as far as bats go in free agency, but now another no-bat player is going to take a roster spot from a young guy who may have that potential to be the bat they need? Why are they doing this? They're getting too cute with this offseason, Taylor should be a AAAA break-glass-in-case-of-emergency kind of guy. Edit: And looking at his splits last year, he hit just as poorly against lefties as he did against righties, who cares which side of the plate he stands on? Even looking at his career, he's never hit lefties all that well. What's the big push for a right handed bat unless it's someone who mashes lefties? I was more than fine moving on from Kyle Garlick, but at least there was SOME explanation for him to be on the roster.
  16. nicksaviking
    Yeah, to make up for the lack of talent (and likely the lack of most of this year's vet players), they're going to need somebody creative to slap something together. Probably a team and a system based more on speed than the other factors.
  17. nicksaviking
    Kind of seems like Sean Peyton would have already anointed his chosen city by now except he's waiting to see if Dallas comes calling. And if they do, I hope Dallas gets nailed for making a sham of the Rooney Rule.
  18. nicksaviking
    Yeah, hold on to him forever Dallas. Having a good QB, but not one that can win you the big games is going to doom you to purgatory.
  19. nicksaviking
    No interest; his power fell off the same cliff Kepler's did after the 2019 ball de-juicing. Start with Kirilloff and Miranda manning 1B, and if Kirilloff doesn't end up cutting it, then it's time to reach down for Julian, Martin, Lee or Lewis to jump in the infield mix. This team isn't going to build a WS team by chasing these below average veteran bats, they need to be rid of them and give as much playing time to the prospects so they can see which can be difference makers later.
  20. nicksaviking
    If he’s a utility guy, sure. But with or without Kepler, I’m not signing him with the idea that he’s getting handed a starting OF job.
  21. nicksaviking
    Carew’s worst years were on par with Arraez’s best year. These are not similar players. I get frustrated, but can accept that even here in 2023 some people still look at a batting average as a sacred number, but even using that, Arraez’s average last year is WAY below what Carew and Gwynn did for their careers. Arraez is more like Denard Span, is Span couldn’t play CF or steal bases.
  22. nicksaviking
    I don’t mind moving Arraez, but I’d have rather given up more to get one of the better and more controllable pitchers. They just going to trade assets for pitchers with two years of control every year,? Seems very inefficient.
  23. nicksaviking
    Wow, nice callback. You may win the persuasive argument of the week award with this find. Yeah, I'd want to be convinced he's changed his attitude and approach. Though, struggling as a top prospect does seem like it could instigate a reality check for a young guy.
  24. nicksaviking
    Trading a pitcher who will only be here in 2023 and 2024 for a pitcher who will only be here in 2024 and 2025 is just such a break-even move. They've got to get out of this cycle of pitchers with two-year windows or they'll be condemned to it in perpetuity.
  25. nicksaviking
    I think you could make a solid case that Gray, Ryan, Mahle and even Ober are better. Especially after looking at Lopez's numbers from June through the end of last year. I mean, others could argue he's the team's best pitcher too. Just pointing out that there's no slam dunk pecking order for these guys.
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