bean5302

Flash in the pan hot May in rookie ball without so much as a write up about him triggers Fangraphs to go nuts. Reyes may become a player worth noting someday. Not today.

Kremer is a #6 rotation arm now that his velo has dropped, and that's what should have been expected. The Twins traded the equivalent of a PTBNL to get him and he's Arb eligible next year still. He's had 3 productive starts vs 2 bad starts. That's way better than the Twins should have expected. Just as good as Gausman has with the Cubs. There may be some value moving Kremer to the 'pen and seeing some velo increase since he has no options left. 100% a non-tender candidate if we don't work out a below arb expected contract.

February was the month that sealed the Twins' fate.

Paragraphs are your friend. So is breathing.

Played a little bit of it. Feels like the builders have decided things ahead of time.

Diaw isn't a catcher, IMHO. He's got a 8% CS rate at 8 of 129 attempts. It's free base for anybody who wants it.

I would have DFA'd Bell first to get out from under his buyout... and not allow the next GM the opportunity to use it.

What is his team control worth? It's worth negative value. His arbitration value will be higher than his free agency value. Well, we could have and then both "vets" would have gotten the opportunity to join a playoff team. That would have been so horrible, right? To get a chance to sign with a team making a playoff run?

They're not 3.5 games back. This isn't a division thing. They're 6 games under .500 with 5 teams ahead of them for the last Wild Card spot. The Twins are done.

I see no legitimate reason MLB couldn't force an immediate hard cap/floor. I'd be catastrophic to the Dodgers, but nobody else.

Honestly, the Twins should just DFA Larnach and Bell.

Maybe there's a dog you can kick on your way in the door somewhere?

In terms of chances at making the post-season, MLB is more competitive than the other leagues (including the NFL). Same with the championship games. There are just different reasons for the lack of parity. In leagues with salary caps, small and mid market teams can succeed. In MLB, they can't. Jeff Passan would make the same argument I'd make a couple years ago about how teams can make the playoffs so everything is okay. MLB teams cannot advance in the playoffs based on payrolls. No team in the past decade has made the World Series in a full season while in the bottom half of payroll. The smaller market, smaller payroll teams are honestly just cannon fodder for the real competitors. I want to see much closer to full rev share, a floor system of some sort. If it's not a hard floor, I want it to have teeth. Like every $10MM under the floor, lose your top pick. Go $100MM under the floor lose all your picks for the first 10 rounds. I want to see a hard cap or at least a prospect forfeiture tax. i.e. The Dodgers can go in at $300MM, but for every $10MM over the tax, say starting at $220MM, they lose their top prospect. That means they lose their top 8 prospects who are allowed to be selected as competitive balance picks or something like that. The ceiling has to have real teeth and long term consequences. I like the "tank/rebuild" strategy overall. It sucks for a couple years, but I think it's a good alternate strategy to just "spend more!" In other salary cap leagues, there's one strategy. Get lucky in the first round of the draft.

Looks like you consider any start under a 10.50 ERA to be a good one. I guess we have different definitions of "good"

Listen here, Tom Pohlad made that call. He wasn't about to let Buxton stay on his sofa! Tom needed the $$!!