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  1. Nine of twelve
    I wish people would give up trying to judge trades too soon after they are made. (I didn't even bother to read this article.) For the umpteenth time, a trade can not be properly evaluated until the careers of the involved players have concluded. And if any of the involved players are included in other trades then it's necessary to wait for the careers of players involved in those trades to conclude. In some cases it can take decades to know. As an example, look at the Escobar/Duran trade. Escobar has had some very good years since we traded him, so based on performances up to now, the Twins clearly lost that trade. 10 years from now it would be judged an overwhelming win for the Twins if Duran has a long career as an elite reliever.
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    Without looking up stats, I think of the 2006 staff, after the first 60 or so games and before the Liriano UCL injury. Liriano, Santana, and Radke in the rotation and the bullpen was a brick wall.
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    The Royals were desperate enough to fill their rotation that they are paying him $8.5 M. 2023 would appear to be his swan song.
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    This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. His last name is Witt. The Jr. is part of his given name. But it has become standard practice throughout sports to erroneously include the Jr. on jerseys as though it was part of the last name.
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    I posted this four weeks ago today: I'd bet almost every MLB organization already has at least one good field/poor bat outfielder somewhere in its minor league system. So no team would give up anything for such a player, much less at Kepler's salary. This is especially true for a rebuilding team; a team like that would be much better off seeing what one of its minor leaguers could do. At this point I'm afraid Kepler is untradeable. And he's blocking better players who are on the rise. There's only one answer for Falvine and that's DFA. Like all Twins fans, I am very happy that Kepler seems to have rediscovered how to hit a baseball.
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    I'm totally in favor of players being recognized for their achievements, both in terms of monetary bonuses and in terms of awards and the like. I think it would be good and appropriate to have bonuses tied to full-season awards, for example an all-pro team, MVP, Cy Young, and so forth, rather than tied to ASG appearances.
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    If a team sucks it's not emulating Tampa Bay.
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    There are too many words in the OP and the thread for me to read all of it. 2twins87 has the gist of the situation. Scouting and player development are two separate functions and both are instrumental in the success of the organization. It's possible that we have developed our hitters extremely well, but that they simply aren't talented enough to do better, which means the scouting system didn't succeed. It's also possible that our hitters are extremely talented but player development didn't succeed in maximizing their skills. I don't know enough about either matter to know where our organization stands.
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    That would hardly cut payroll at all. We would still have to pay out his contract, with a slight contribution from the first team to pick him up on waivers.
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    I don't think we should spend like the Padres. I think we should spend like the Rays.
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    The Mets are not worse than the Padres. The two teams have exactly the same record. And we should also keep in mind that both teams qualified for the postseason in 2022, the Mets with a 101-win season.
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    So ****ing what? The ASG is a meaningless farce that does nothing more than prevent chosen players from getting a beneficial break from games that actually count for something. Actually, that's not quite true. The function of the ASG is to earn take money from advertisers and other sponsors, which ultimately comes from us fans. So I guess from the viewpoint of MLB it's worthwhile. But from my viewpoint it would be just as well if it didn't exist.
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    You don't even have to get hot, just kinda warm. Go 13-9 over 22 games and you are World Champs. Of course there is the matter of playing against the best MLB has to offer...
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    To add to the above: The Twins were the best of a weak division. Sound familiar? If there were 3 divisions in 1987 the Twins would have been the second wild card team. If you add this year's Tampa Bay team to the mix we would have been the third wild card. That's a lot different than winning only two 7-game series, opening at home for both of them. (In fairness, the ALCS had 2 games in Minnesota and 3 in Detroit, so in actuality the Tigers had home field advantage.) But it doesn't change the fact that even though the team was good and we won what we needed to win we had luck on our side that year. Big time.
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    Glad to see this. Now we wait to see what 2024 will bring.
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    Bummer about Lewis. Big time. But this is a golden opportunity for Miranda to try to capture some of what he had going on last year. Let's hope for good times!
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    Coming out of ST I expected far more games like this than we have seen. As many have already said, if our hitters perform up to their abilities the division is ours, maybe in a runaway.
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    No way. The Cardinals would take that deal in a heartbeat, which means we would be giving up way too much for an expensive player well past his prime.
  19. Nine of twelve
    He used a Segway.
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    We're running behind at my house due to some rewinding by someone else here. Glen Perkins just used the word "comfortability". I don't think that's quite right.
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    Yeah, he'll probably be the only one. And as far as I'm concerned I'm glad there will only be one player. The ASG is a farce and the fewer of our players having to deal with the travel and hassle the better.
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    Swing hard in case the ball hits your bat.
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    All of MLB will benefit greatly from the automated strike zone.
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    Only because it WAS a foot outside.
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    The only problem with this post is that it isn't forceful enough. The HP ump absolutely jobbed Kep and the Twins. That call was a total piece of ****.
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