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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    This makes much more sense, as it's similar to the current rule system, only going back to signing date. I have no problems with this idea, though I think the players will have to make some significant sacrifices to reach an agreement.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    This early in the process, people are a mix of uninformed and radical. It happens on both sides of the aisle. As we approach the "real" nomination season, everyone swings toward the middle. That leaves people like Voldemort out in the cold, as they went so far off the cliff to cater to the uninformed radicals that they can never get back to the middle. I expect to see Rubio, Christie, Kasich, or another guy more centrist get the nod for the run at the White House. GOP voters may be increasingly radicalized but they're not entirely stupid. They're not going to nominate a guy who will lose the general election in Reagan/Mondale fashion.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    So what? Early poll results are comical when looking in hindsight. This happens every four years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_Republican_Party_2012_presidential_primaries#2011_polls In November of 2011, Newt Gingrich and Hermann Cain were leading most of the polls. Neither of them even managed to win Iowa.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    No, he's not. He's going to be skewered once the nomination process really gets underway. Remember, states like NY, CA, MN, OH, OR, WA, MA, FL, etc. get to vote along with the crazies and their electoral points will dominate the outcome. States like CA, NY, MN, etc. will not vote for Voldemort. States like OH will go to Kasich and FL to Rubio, provided they're still in the running. Too many people are getting worked up over early polling results. Four years ago, guess who won Iowa? Rick Scrotorum. Eight years ago, guess who won Iowa? Mike Huckabee. How'd that work out for them in November?
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I just don't see how it's really that big of an issue. The average MLB player salary is double the NFL. Baseball tends to have much longer careers and is much safer to play. The average MLB salary is nearly double the NHL number, another sport more dangerous than baseball. I just can't get too worked up about a player reaching FA one year earlier, particularly when it'll only come with an equally punishing sacrifice by the players, possibly a salary cap. In the end, everyone ends up at roughly the same point they were before the FA rule change.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    A few weeks ago, I began ignoring a certain GOP candidate... In this context, I'll refer to him as "Voldemort". He's a sideshow. If we stop paying attention to him - particularly the media and voters left of center - he'll go away. He's not going to win the nomination. He has absolutely no chance of becoming our next President. By continuing to give his drivel our valuable mindspace, we're only feeding the beast. His supporters - largely cork-on-the-fork stupid and entirely uninformed - merely dig in their heels in support of this monster every time someone on the left starts bashing him. We should stop playing the game. Stop giving the idiot more publicity.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    See, I care about MLB player salaries as much as I care about owner profits. I'm much more interested in doing two things: 1. Ending public subsidy of professional teams and forcing them to operate as the private businesses they claim to be. 2. Taking care of the people who don't make millions of dollars. The rest? Eh, I don't really care that much. MLB already has one of the strongest unions in the nation and the average MLB player makes more than their counterparts in the NFL and NHL. They all trail the NBA due to roster size, which skews basketball's number compared to other sports.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    But what about the Byron Buxtons of the world? Let's say Buxton doesn't get injured in 2014. He's on the team in August or maybe September and plays almost all of 2015 in Minnesota. The Twins get eight full seasons of controlled Byron Buxton. Inversely, a guy like Kyle Gibson makes out like a bandit. He plays in Minnesota for all of three seasons and then escapes via free agency, probably earning $80m or more in the process. Basing it on age - along with what Ben said about independent signings - tears apart the system in a way I don't think is beneficial. For every person it helps, it hammers another guy in return.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    The baseball draft is a much bigger crapshoot than any other draft in sports. I could easily see teams passing over a 21 year old junior or 22 year old senior for a prep guy in that situation. Age just wouldn't work because guys develop at such different rates. Seeing a toolsy position player in MLB at 20 or 21 years old isn't that rare but seeing a catcher at that age is extremely rare. I'm all in favor of changing the rules but doing it strictly based on age doesn't make a lot of sense. Players at different positions (and pitchers) don't have the same development cycle. But if players wanted to reduce controlled years from six to five and close the mid-April service time loophole, I wouldn't have a big problem with that, though owners should demand some kind of salary cap in return. Shortening the FA cycle really damages baseball's parity, as it gives the big market teams more opportunities to grab players at a younger age.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    That would wreak havoc with college players in the draft and the ensuing money they receive via signing bonus. They'd all be shunted into the third round and lower because the team is essentially handing away 2-3 cost-controlled years.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    He received a $6.7m signing bonus.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I simply cannot get worked up when a billionaire games a system to prevent a millionaire from becoming a more millionaire. As long as the pubic continues to feed the monstrosity that is professional sports with free money in stadiums and tax credits, none of it really matters IMO. Wake me when baseball starts to give a damn about the guys toiling away in the minor leagues.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Diehard, I just removed one ad network from the rotation. Let me know if you see any kind of improvement in performance. The changes will take about an hour to implement. I don't know if that network was the problem or not but it's the most recent addition to the rotation so there's a chance that's the problem.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    This is part of a larger problem with the software itself, which is why it hasn't been fixed to this point. I'm starting preliminary work on a complete software upgrade that should happen some time before the start of the 2016 season. It will include a full redesign of all MinnCentric sites and an upgrade to a more modern scripting language across the sites (JQuery). Unfortunately, the software backbone is currently built on an outdated (and pretty terrible) Javascript library. For all intents and purposes, it's impossible for me to remove that library until I completely re-write the entire site and upgrade pretty much everything. The downside is that it's going to take a long time to complete because I'm only one person. The upside is that we *should* see vast improvements in site performance, script libraries, and rich-test posting in forums and articles.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Same here. Going from memory, I recall 97. Never 98 or higher. He seems to sit around 94.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, they managed to take second place in 2015 with that same rotation and a bunch of rookies in the lineup. The 2016 Twins could be a 75 win team or they could be an 88 win team. It's too early in the offseason and there are too many question marks on the roster to make any kind of realistic projection.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Berrios can't touch triple digits. Every report I've read has him in the mid 90s, tops.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    This is absurd. Your irrational hatred of Plouffe makes it hard to take anything you say seriously, Halsey. It's fine to dislike players. God knows how much I disliked Pedro Florimon but even I begrudgingly admitted he wasn't a terrible backup if he kept his OPS in the .650 range. Trevor Plouffe is a league average starter in MLB. One could make an argument he's a tick above average. Should the Twins keep him? I don't know. An argument could be make for either side. But arguing the Twins are a losing team with Plouffe on the roster is an embarrassingly bad argument, a logic black hole that makes it hard to take anything you say about the Twins seriously.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    More like his third year, as he only pitched a few innings in his draft season. Stewart isn't progressing as quickly as we'd like and there are reasons to be concerned but he has moved one level per season up to this point.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah. 3 WAR players are pretty terrible to have around and often make their teams worse by taking the field.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, yeah. He's better than Stauffer.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    If he's the fifth option and the Twins don't allow him to block younger, better players, it's an acceptable move. Don't really care for it but I won't get too upset, either.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    This is one of the areas where Ryan's conservative nature really hurts him, in my opinion. The 6/7th inning guys shouldn't start with mediocrity. Fien is a mediocre reliever. Guys like Nick Burdi or Alex Meyer aren't going to get the call to Minnesota and become the closer or 8th inning guy overnight. They're going to start in a lesser role and work their way forward in the pen. A guy like Fien blocks higher upside players from getting to the Majors quickly and testing their ability to compete. I see virtually no upside here and marginal downside. Mostly, I think it's pointless. Though if Ryan doesn't hesitate to release Fien or trade him the moment the Twins have a better option, Casey is a fine safety net.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    2001. 210 years after the Bill of Rights was ratified.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Enough sniping at one another.
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