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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Halladay was pretty bad last year, only pitched 150 innings, and it was only the third year of his deal. CC Sabathia is inhuman. He's one of those extremely rare arms that could pitch 300 innings a season for two decades.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    A six year contract is a very long time for ANY pitcher. A better course of action is to spend less per player and pick up two pitchers for a shorter term. That way you're not worried about paying $25m to a 35 year old Greinke, who isn't that freakin good in the first place. Again, he's a good pitcher. He's not a great one. And you don't pay $25m to that kind of guy (and let's remember that the Dodgers won Greinke at $25m per, that means the Twins would have to offer $26-27m per year to get him).
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Tell that to the Giants, who couldn't give Barry Zito away. If a player is bad enough, you can't give him away, much less get a prospect in return. Best case scenario is that you get lucky and find someone insane enough to take a bad player on waivers, like the Sox did with Rios.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Every pitcher has a large chance of turning into a lemon. When it comes to a pitcher, if you can't absorb 100% of the contract with zero production in return, don't sign the contract. It's too dangerous. Pitchers are far too volatile. Doing crap like that is a good way to guarantee an underperforming team for a half decade or better.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Let's say Greinke turns into a lemon three years into the contract. You now have a declining Mauer and a worthless Greinke eating $50m. What do you do in that situation? (answer: lose a lot of games)
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Greinke signed for $25m for six years. How is that not a risk? The Twins can't afford to have two non-productive players eating up $50m of roster space from 2015-2018, which is where they may be if they signed Greinke. However, there's no excuse not to sign a guy like Jackson for 3-4 years and $45-60m. The deal is short enough to not completely hamstring the team if something goes wrong.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    In his first act as manager, Mientkiewicz has called "dibs" on every game-winning ball hit by the Miracle in 2013. After asked about this in his inaugural press conference, Mientkiewicz simply replied "My kid needs braces".
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Well if they were ​given $100m a year, they could only put $50m of that toward payroll, right? I really hate payroll arguments. The only point I care to make is that the Twins are not one of the premiere revenue franchises. That's just how it is. Complaining that they're not competing with New York, Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, etc. is just whining. The Dodgers just handed Greinke an absurd contract. They can do that because they can afford to eat $25m a year in a $200m payroll. The Twins simply can't take that risk.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    And I agree with you. I just don't think Greinke would have been a good idea. The Twins should be targeting mid-tier guys, not bidding against the Yankees, Dodgers, and Cubs of the world. If you bid against the big boys then you have something they want to and you can compete and trade with them too. That... Doesn't make sense.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    So it's important for us to know our place? What excuse did ownership use to trick, er, convince the taxpayers that the new park was needed? The state of Minnesota could be handing the Twins $100m a year and they still couldn't compete with the revenue flow of the Dodgers and Yankees. That's not trickery, that's plain ol' reality. Target Field certainly helps but it's not going to turn the Twins into a financial powerhouse. Minnesota is still a mid-sized population with mid-sized revenue streams through television and radio.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    And I agree with you. I just don't think Greinke would have been a good idea. The Twins should be targeting mid-tier guys, not bidding against the Yankees, Dodgers, and Cubs of the world.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    It doesn't seem to me as if the Dodgers are interested in shedding payroll.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't understand the lament over the Greinke signing. It's a six year deal at $25m per and Greinke has an opt-out after the third season. Greinke is a good pitcher. He's not a great one and that kind of money and years is ridiculous. I'd rather have Sanchez at five years, $75m or Jackson at four years, $60m over that Greinke contract any day of the freakin' week (plus/minus $5m to the Jackson or Sanchez contracts). The Twins should be playing in the middle of the free agent pool, not the deep end. Those contracts almost never work out for the team that "wins" the free agent whereas there's a damned good chance the Twins would be completely screwed if they had $50m a year invested in Mauer and Greinke through 2018.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I like this trade for the Twins. The Royals just got a lot worse in the longterm in an attempt to go "all in" while the Twins are in a state of rebuilding. At some point, the Royals needed to do this but I'm really skeptical that now was the time. The Royals lost 90 games last season. They're not on the cusp of winning, they were a really bad team last year. It seems to me that it would have been more prudent to wait until 2013 played out and see if your minor leaguers improved and became a solid group of hitters. Then you go after the "final pieces" to build a contender. You don't do it when 3/4 of your roster is still a question mark.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    They got talent back but they traded half a roster of former All-Stars to do it. Take your time, piecemeal out those players, pay some of the salaries you've offloaded, and the Marlins could have doubled their return. But no, Loria turned greedy and proved just how awful an owner he really can be. I'd like to see the city of Miami find a way to drag his ass into court over this crap. And Selig should be railroading his ass straight out of baseball.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    No, the Twins wouldn't look like the Marlins because Ryan is actually getting talent in return for the players they're trading. What Loria is doing in Florida is abominable.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I blame it on the old BYTO folks. They'd manage to take a conversation about Sidney Ponson and three pages later, have turned it into a conversation about penis length and its effect on socio-economic status.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    At that point, you need to overpay just to get somebody. I hope Ryan is smart enough to know that he doesn't want to be left in that position (and I think he is). As for Jackson, I haven't heard anything on him yet, which I find odd. Behind Greinke and Sanchez, he's probably the guy I'd want most on my team. Unspectacular, but young and consistent. Explain to me why it matters? If they won't pay going rates, and they won't overpay, why would it matter if they have payroll flexibility at all? They have $25MM to spend, plus another $25MM next year, plus Morneau's contract likely coming off the book. How would signing two legit MLB players right now hurt them in 2014 or 2015, when virtually the whole roster will be near minimum wage players? You misunderstand me. I hope they don't end up with only Dempster left on the market with 4-5 teams bidding for his (in all likelihood) lackluster services. I'd prefer they stay in the mix earlier with some of the better pitchers on the market like Jackson, Sanchez, and Marcum than underbid on those guys and then get stuck with overpaying for the old, declining guy.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    No reason. I don't believe in creationism but there's no reason it can't exist alongside evolution because evolution doesn't even try to explain the formation of life, just what happens to it afterward. Unless you're a crazy person and believe the earth to be 6,000 years old, like my brother does. He's an idiot. I can't believe we share genetic code.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    At that point, you need to overpay just to get somebody. I hope Ryan is smart enough to know that he doesn't want to be left in that position (and I think he is). As for Jackson, I haven't heard anything on him yet, which I find odd. Behind Greinke and Sanchez, he's probably the guy I'd want most on my team. Unspectacular, but young and consistent.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Good point, except for the part where you forgot to mention that Manship was awful at every level of the minors.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. 3 yrs for Jackson, 4 for Sanchez - which won't happen. Sanchez will get at least five years. I think you might be able to get Jackson for four, though. And maybe Marcum for three. I'd rather have any if them than Dempster.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    No, I'd rather go four years on Jackson or another younger pitcher.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Without looking, I believe Mauer's 2004 AAA stint was injury rehab. I don't think he played in AAA before playing in the majors.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Pageviews baby, pageviews. You should be thanking me when this thread alone buys you a new Mercedes. Start clicking. I look forward to seeing the keys to that new Mercedes in 2064.
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