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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    If they buy out arb seasons with an extension, I don't think it matters. Don't know that for sure, though... but it makes sense because players who sign extensions usually get more money than they would through arbitration, though it's a modest amount more ($1-2m per season).
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    As I mentioned a week or two ago, I think the loss of Castro actually hurts Garver. Playing ~50 games and chatting up one of the better framers and receivers in the league 100 other days of the season could be a boon for Garver's game going forward. Because as it stands now, I wince when I see Garver in the starting lineup because I know I'm going to suffer through at least 4-5 really ugly catches in the game.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh no, I don't think they could get away with a flat rate. But if you can offer $7m instead of $2m and then $11m instead of $6m, you can get the final couple of years for maybe $15m per instead of $20m per. Do that three times and it's an extra player you can extend. Normally, that would be hard for a team to pull off but the Twins have about $20-25m committed for next season and zero dollars committed for the following season.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, it makes sense from both sides of the deal, which is why it's frustrating that no one signed this kind of deal for so long. The team gets the potential for an additional 1-2 years of competition by signing several of these deals (and the only downside is the loss of 3-ish percent to inflation each season). A couple of years of contention can be worth tens of millions of dollars to the team, which makes a few percentage points on 2-3 players irrelevant. On the other hand, the players get money valued higher (pre-inflation), get "rich quicker" through bigger early payments, and can grow that money over 3-4 seasons, which could be an enormous amount of money to the player if done correctly.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    My point is that I'd like to see them more expensive next year. If you offer those guys $6-8m for the first season instead of $2-3m, you can try to negotiate lower rates at the end of the extension, which allows you to keep one more player. It makes all the sense in the world to operate this way because the Twins are flush with cash now but won't be in 2022. And Darvish has shown that players can be open to this kind of deal.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Darvish's contract is mildly front-loaded.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd love to see a team work a bunch of extensions that are front-heavy in comparison to what we see most of the time. I'd love it even more if my favorite team was the first club to do it. There's no reason to pay Buxton $2m in 2019 and $30m in 2023 or whatever. Start him off in the $6-10m range and keep the later years flat around $15m or something around that number. It gives tons more flexibility in later years to maintain competitiveness for a longer period of time.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    My guess is that they plan to go hard at extending some combination of Berrios, Buxton, Sano, Rosario, Kepler, et al.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    But then why give up the draft pick? They forked over ~$4m last season to get Littell instead of a lesser prospect. Their 2019 payroll commitment is somewhere around $20m (Pineda, Reed, and...?). They literally have no reason to give up a draft pick to move salary unless they're planning something. They could easily come in under 2018 payroll and still be quite active in the offseason while eating Hughes' entire salary.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Maybe. I'm not super high on Gonsalves, either. But you're right, they're not terribly different pitchers.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Paraphrasing here but the postgame interview was hilarious. Marnie: You already hit two home runs in the game. Did you go into the ninth thinking home run? Eddie: Hell yeah, why not?
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I have to admit that I've underestimated the guy. I thought he'd be a pretty good regular but never envisioned anything like this happening.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I’ve been frustrated by all those one run losses over the past few weeks but I never lost faith in the offense. There’s too much talent there to be that bad for a long stretch of play. I mostly worried whether the starting pitching would hold up but I’m pretty confident in that as well. Cleveland is not a great team. This division can be won and Detroit sure as hell isn’t going to do it.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Fourteen months ago, some were calling for Eddie to be cut. *cackles maniacally*
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I doubt recent performance is much of a factor. This move makes sense, as the candidates are: 1. May: no way do you call this guy up and end his rehab for one start when you don't need to make a decision for a couple more weeks, especially given his recent performance. 2. Slegers: eh, whatever. 3. Gonsalves: maybe you want to call him up but do you really want to do it for one start when he doesn't really align well in the rotation to do so? Also, he had an absolutely terrible outing last time around (0.2 IP). 4. Littell: a good enough prospect but likely nothing to write home about, a guy you don't really care whether you bounce him around a bit in spot starts. Slegers and Littell make the most sense here and the Twins have already seen Slegers.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I suspect this was a "who lines up that day?" situation, not some in-depth analysis of a prospect's readiness. Because no matter how bad or great the start is, the player is headed back to Rochester the moment the game ends.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    If this deal was about budgetary constraints, the front office would have taken salary relief this season. The entirety of the salary relief is next season, the year Minnesota has Mauer coming off the books and virtually zero dollars committed to payroll. This wasn’t about salary relief. There’s something going on here, we just don’t know what it is yet.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    This whole deal seems out of character with what Falvine have done thus far in their tenure (upping payroll, taking on salary for better prospects). Makes you wonder what their long term play is here.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I was wondering when this guy would get a chance. Makes sense to use him as the 26th man in a doubleheader.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    It's pretty amazing how the league has figured out Dozier for 81 games a season for five years running now. I'm not saying Dozier will rebound to previous levels but I was tired of hearing this argument in 2014. It's kinda ridiculous to hear it in 2018.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not knocking Judge's timeline, only pointing out that he's being used in a pretty inaccurate way to judge things this front office didn't do to Twins players before 2016. Remember that this argument started with Romero, possibly the worst example to use to prove the poster's point.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I guess. But if Rooker was hitting right now, his timeline would be faster. He’s in AA exactly one year after he was drafted.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah... and let's not even bring up the path Lewis appears to be on. He could be in A+ by mid-season and on track to reach Minnesota as a 20 year old (Judge was 24 when he debuted, older than Rosario, Sano, Kepler, Polanco, Buxton, Berrios, Romero, et al).
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Most organizations do this, actually. Because it means you get an entire extra year of control over a player. You're acting as if Romero has been shafted by this organization somehow. He had 90 IP in 2016 and 125 IP in 2017. Coming into 2018, he had all of zero innings above AA. You're building this narrative around the player that simply does not exist in reality.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm generally a person who tries to separate the creator from their work because I don't want to judge what I experience based on the person behind the work. But a line of decency must be drawn in extreme cases. This is pretty obviously one of those cases.
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