How Long is the Twins Championship Window?

The money isn't gone. It's in the owner's pockets. Not the players. Or the employees.

This kind of statement makes me cringe a little, Mike. It's a not so subtle demonization, is it not? 

How is Boros spreading it around? Or Harper? Why not demonize them too while we're at it? 

I know quite a few people who are employed in the organization, in jobs ranging from the top of the hierarchy to greeters, and none of these people think they're any more "underpaid" than their pals up the freeway at Medtronic.

So who's being treated unfairly here? The players? The hundreds of gainfully employed people in the organization? 

I hate the greed myself, from owners, advertisers, players, agents...but also from fans fortunate enough to afford the occasional trip to the park and who scream for the cheap owners to give them what they want, and often think they deserve.

I'll save my venting on this subject to call for fair compensation to minor leaguers (don't expect the greedy players who have made it to give a hoot on the subject) and for reducing the whole wretched excess in the system to return the sport to a more inclusive cultural treasure. I look around the sport and can't find any real heroes these days.

We as fans don’t have the tools to expand the definition of assets beyond free agent spending.

A number of posters quote trade analyzer websites and many posters disregard those sites as hogwash.

I agree with your concept that this FO values liquidity very highly and for good reason. What’s not clear to me is the liquidity risk model being used.

We talk about players as assets, but maybe better to be thought of as inventory. Turns as speed to commercialize inventory might be a metric/framework.

Yeah, I think the liquidity risk thing is manifested in aversion to years, not so much dollars, and it's predicated on the asset manager's view of the depreciation schedule for a given asset, an obvious guessing game. 

WHat's more unclear for me is whether FO's are beginning to deploy an "active management" model where they endeavor to turn inventory more rapidly than the competition is doing in an attempt to sell high. I was thinking last year's tepid demand in free agency might be telling us something, but maybe not.

Not long.

Never as long as you think, especially with less $ than the yanks or dodgers.

It's open now, but we've already p*ssed away the chance to fill our #1 need.

Watch out for those white Sox, and I mean already this year, not the next ones to come.

Yeah, I think the liquidity risk thing is manifested in aversion to years, not so much dollars, and it's predicated on the asset manager's view of the depreciation schedule for a given asset, an obvious guessing game. 

 

WHat's more unclear for me is whether FO's are beginning to deploy an "active management" model where they endeavor to turn inventory more rapidly than the competition is doing in an attempt to sell high. I was thinking last year's tepid demand in free agency might be telling us something, but maybe not.

The above comments really caused me to sit back and think about what you said.  Damn, that's about as mind awakening writing I have seen in awhile.  Thanks.