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  1. Nine of twelve
    With all the left-handed outfield bats in the organization it would be poor management not to try to turn that surplus into different assets. My hope is that our scouting and player development departments have progressed to the point where we have empirical profiles regarding which players to trade and to trade for. I liked Wade but never pictured him as more than a role player. I hope both players involved do well for their new organizations.
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    Well, the deed is done. I'm skeptical but I hope as much as anyone on this board that he has another great season. And I'm sure his last appearance in a Twins uniform will be this year.
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    Any proposed major trade with Cleveland will almost certainly not happen. A prime directive of trading within your division is to have no doubt that you are coming out ahead. And of course that means the other team would come out behind and therefore decline the offer.
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    Acquiring Capps improved the Twins' 2010 bullpen, and this was a team that had legitimate postseason possibilities. That made it a good trade in the short term. Obviously, we now know that Smith overpaid and that made it a bad trade in the long term. Trades like that are risky and it takes excellent talent evaluation skills to make it work in one's favor. Smith seems to have been lacking in that regard.
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    Certainly the thought occurred to me. In this day and age of testing it has become difficult to get away with it but when a player who is about to have his career end due to mediocre performance suddenly becomes dominant it makes one wonder.
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    We are dinosaurs. We finally ditched our landline phone in 2020 but due partly to inertia the cable is still hooked up, so FSN it is. We are a one-TV family so if there's another show being watched by another family member I'll stream the game on a site that is not supposed to be mentioned on Twins Daily's web site. When I'm in the car it's SiriusXM (better sound quality than AM) unless the home broadcast isn't available there, in which case it's CCO. And even then I find that I sometimes enjoy listening to the opposition radio crew while the Twins are batting, even John Sterling if the Twins are having a rare good inning against the team that must not be named. As much as I love going to Target Field, I'll wait until community immunity reaches a satisfactory level before I venture there. I hope we get to that point sooner rather than later.
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    We would need to do a full trade tree as has been done on other threads regarding other trades. This was certainly not a popular trade but it wasn't horrible. Remembering the Nettles trade made me think of another one. We got Jerry Koosman from the Mets in exchange for Jesse Orosco in December of 1978. Look at the cumulative stats for those pitchers from 1979 forward and you'll see how bad that one was for our team.
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    Concur regarding beer and bratwurst. The Kramarczuk stand at Target Field has been a must-visit for me for a long time. I confess to being in the minority here in that I don't hate the White Sox. I don't want them to do well, especially against us, but having made many visits to Chicago they are the clear choice for me over the Cubs. I reserve my hatred for the team from the Bronx, whose name must not be spoken.
  9. Nine of twelve
    Does Hand have a son named Armand?
  10. Nine of twelve
    If he would truly love to play for the Twins I hope that can lead to to a home-team discount. That would make signing him worthwhile.
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    Watching a natural-born centerfielder like Buxton is a beautiful thing. I suppose the same could be said about catchers and shortstops, but neither of those positions inspired John Fogerty to write a song about them.
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    I echo this complaint (and I agree that it's minor), and I'll also mention the "deep drives" that wind up being easily caught. Those may seem contradictory on the surface, but the pop-ups to the warning track are typically hit by opposition batters and the deep drives to the medium outfield are typically hit by the Twins.
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    I disagree about distinguished. Read item number 7. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1006037-10-most-revolting-on-field-acts-in-baseball-history
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    As long as the source of the fee was agreed to by both parties it doesn't matter to me.
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    Edited for accuracy.
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    I totally agree about the balk play. It required perfect timing and execution and only someone with top-flight baseball instincts could pull it off. It was something Paul Molitor would have done.
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    In 2009 he was the best baseball player in the world, and it wasn't a fluke. And in 2010 he would have been on a World Championship team if not for injuries to Joe Nathan's right ulnar collateral ligament and to Justin Morneau's brain.
  18. Nine of twelve
    Well, yes. Putting a player on the roster should be based 100% on how the front office thinks the player will perform and 0% on how the player has performed in the past.
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    I agree, but the same should have been true for Blyleven. HOF voters don't always get it right.
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    I would like to comment on Dick Bremer. It's a very difficult line to walk to be a home-team-friendly voice without being an overt homer. As for me, I like having a Minnesotan who is a Twins fan covering the games and I think Bremer walks that line about as well as anyone can be expected to.
  21. Nine of twelve
    As has been said in another recent thread and other past threads, A and AA teams travel by bus. That means that there has to be a minimum of 8 teams within a reasonable bus ride of each other. An affiliated AA league will never, ever be located in an area that includes Fargo (or Lincoln) because the three current AA leagues are well-established and fulfill that requirement. Even the A Midwest League would have other options farther south. You can add to all this the fact that MiLB is undergoing contraction. I'm afraid having an affiliated team in Fargo is a pipe dream at best and delusional at worst.
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    This is exactly what makes his value as a Twin as high or higher than ever. As Richard posted earlier this morning, no player is off the table. I would trade him and anyone else on the roster if the value of the return was greater than the value of the giveaway. I doubt Falvine are going to get an offer that good because other GM's are very unlikely to offer value higher than Buxton's value to us.
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    In most cases I don't mind if a thread goes off on a bit of a tangent. This is not one of those cases. I don't like it when someone makes me think of this broadcaster.
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    I don't have anywhere close to the amount of time and energy this would require, but it would be interesting to see the results of an evaluation of every trade tree in Twins history.
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    You forgot to mention that Connie Mack was an icon in terms of in-game apparel.
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