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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    How many combined innings have those guys thrown in the postseason and why are you so convinced that 1-10 postseason innings are so much more valuable than the 200+ innings of performance a player accrues during 3-4 regular seasons? You understand what SSS is and how it falsely skews the perception of a player, right? Unless the player is Mariano Rivera or some catastrophic meltdown story like Byung-Hyun Kim, postseason stats simply don't matter going forward. They're far too infrequent and in small sizes to ever make an accurate judgment of a player. And Huston Street? Really? Dude has a 4.60 ERA in the NL West and can't even strike out 5 per 9. You have to be kidding me.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely. I agree with all of this. My only real point of contention is that Ryan wasn't shopping Willingham.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Wow, I completely forgot about the Bartlett deal.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't know what it is about this post but I'm dying over here.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    This +100.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    There were many people complaining about the (lack of) return on Josh Willingham in July of 2012, at which point he was owed roughly $17m.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    You're misunderstanding me: That was not a request. Barraging every other thread with payroll complaints and dragging that thread off-topic is not something we, as admins, enjoy seeing. It's also a large cause of many of the complaints we get about the forums in general. This thread was about Josh Willingham's knee problem and general performance, not another reason to start complaining about how Ryan did not spend a certain amount of money during this past offseason. Hell, most of us agree that he didn't spend enough money in the offseason. The difference is that most around here have already said their piece on the topic and re-hashing the same topic time and time and time again does nothing except drive complaints about the forums and negativity.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I have to admit that I want to see Walters get lit up tonight. The best thing for this team is to clear him off the roster and clear some room so Worley and maybe Albers can get some starts later in the season.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. Those two had legitimate value and he punted. Luis Castillo doesn't even rate. He was a two month rental of a mediocre, aging middle infielder. Who friggin' cares.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, possibly, but I like to at least see him pitch in a wood bat league before ranking him anywhere. I also have a tendency to heavily skew things toward performance in upper minors versus potential in lower minors.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Nah. You have Buxton and Sano at the super-star status followed by Berrios, Arcia, Meyer, Rosario at the "well above average" status. And in the "potentially very good" category, you have about 6-7 guys. It's kind of crazy how stacked this farm system is right now. Wildcard: Stewart.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Which is why I only advocate trading Glen if it brings back a starter in AA or higher. No low minors, high upside guys. The Twins have enough of those. It's time to start building around Hicks, Arcia, and Gibson.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I think Glen is clearly a dominant, elite reliever at this point. 2011/2012/2013 IP: 61.2/70.1/30.0 ERA: 2.48/2.56/2.05 K/9: 9.5/10.0/12.6 Those numbers are pure domination for 2 1/2 straight seasons.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Does Sweet Drew qualify as an average prospect? If so, 2007 when Ryan traded Son of Sal and Random Prospect X for Luis Castillo.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Luis Castillo. A bad trade of a mediocre rental player. In my opinion, the worst part of the trade was that the Twins acquired Son of Sal in the process.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Pbbbbttttt. One night stand with Jeter >>>>>>>>>>>>> Pretty much everything Get with the program, Dave. He's dreamy.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    No, an asset is something that is valuable. The fact that is it not valuable to every single person does not negate its "assety-ness". And again: The Twins paid $21m for Willingham and have received extremely good value on that $21m commitment. The fact that teams won't give up a B-level prospect and $17m for Willingham does not mean that Willingham is suddenly value-less. The cost of entry for another team is higher than it was for the Twins. For the last time. Giving up money is one thing. Giving up money and another asset is something entirely different.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Half seasons of WAR are really sketchy but I used 1 1/2 seasons of WAR to gauge the players. WAR is far from perfect but given the fact that both players are corner outfielders with the same basic profile (RH hitter, slugger, bad defense), it's one of the better metrics to compare the two. And I only used dWAR over their careers to prove a point. Both are bad defensively. The eye test and metrics tell us the same thing. They both suck in the field.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Again, Josh Willingham is an asset at $21m over three seasons. But is he an asset for $17m over 2 1/2 seasons and a B-level prospect? Not if I'm the opposing GM. And if you can only get a C-level prospect for Willingham, that's not enough to pull the trigger. The Twins are absolutely bursting at the seams with C-level prospects. Hell, going into the season they had over half a dozen B-or-higher level prospects. It was a calculated risk to keep Willingham and in my opinion, it was a good calculated risk.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins have what seems to be about 5,000 outfielders climbing through the system at any given moment. While Ryan probably felt comfortable with Revere taking over for Span, why wouldn't he feel comfortable with someone taking over for Willingham? After all, he had his choice of Parmelee, Doumit, Arcia, maybe even Plouffe. And if he later felt comfortable also trading Revere, his assumed reluctance to move Willingham doesn't make much sense. He was perfectly happy to walk into 2013 with no real centerfielder on the roster. Why would he be so concerned about starting the season with no real leftfielder on the roster?
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Because it makes the team better. Isn't that why this game is played in the first place?
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it's far more likely that Ryan was shopping both Span and Willingham but the interest in Span was much higher. Why would Ryan want to keep Willingham but not Span? Again, this argument doesn't follow a very logical train of thought to reach its conclusion. I think the Revere trade kind of fell into Ryan's lap but there's no way you can convince me that Ryan somehow felt loyalty to Willingham but not Span or that he aggressively shopped Denard but not Josh. It's completely counter to what a logical person would do and given Ryan's track record in the trade market, it's impossible to make the argument that he's not logical with his reasoning.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Except that Denard publicly stated that he did not want to leave and didn't like that his name was bandied about in trade talks. Do you believe that is somehow less damaging than trading a veteran of four MLB franchises? Very few points being argued here pass the smell test.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    They added an asset. A guy who has been nearly three times more valuable than Michael Cuddyer over the past 18 months. "Having value to the team" and "having value as a trade chit" are not synonymous. You got that player for only money but any interested teams have to pay money and give up a prospect. That diminishes the appeal of players signed to long-term deals.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Josh Willingham career dWAR: -7.1 Michael Cuddyer career dWAR: -13.7 To be fair to Cuddy, he has played in 25% more games.
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