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  1. arby58
    Kreidler is gonna get $16 million??
  2. arby58
    They both put a premium on speed and defense, and that not Arraez.
  3. arby58
    There’s a huge difference between hitting singles in baseball and catching touchdowns in football. If all Arraez does is score runs you would have a good analogy - sadly, he does not.
  4. arby58
    I’m a no on this. Arraez does one thing really well: he gets on base. He does the next thing - actually score runs - not nearly as well. He was tied for 102nd last year in runs scored with 67, and that is not an outlier for him. He rarely is anywhere near the top in MLBB runs scored. Arraez is mostly a singles hitter who does not run well, and in his age 30 season next year, that isn’t going to change. Kody Clemens is a better fielder, baserunner, and power hitter than Arraez. He scored more runs (72) and had a similar WAR - and he makes a lot less than $16 million. Play him there and figure out other team needs with the saved $16 million.
  5. arby58
    Paddock was younger and a starting pitcher. Don’t see them doing that with a relief pitcher.
  6. arby58
    You’re definitely a glass half-full guy. Nothing wrong with that, I just see them each as more than half empty. To the Twins credit (IMHO) they don’t just hang onto Banda because they traded for him.
  7. arby58
    If they would have put him in the pen already last year who would have made his starts? The Twins were seriously thin in starting pitching, and they were already rolling the dice on Prielipp staying in the rotation. If Abel had been available I might have agreed with you.
  8. arby58
    Rod Carew was ROY at age 21 and never looked back. He should have been prodigy number 1.
  9. arby58
    You can’t look at overall team records for starting pitchers who only pitch every 5 games. The Twins were 1-9 when SWR started, and he wasn’t a hard luck loser. He was just a loser.
  10. arby58
    You can’t really answer in a vacuum- who else might they have to protect? That’s the first discussion to have.
  11. arby58
    In that case, consider me entirely unqualified as well.
  12. arby58
    I think there’s some recency bias with Gomez. He converted 21 straight saves, then had two blown saves to end the year. That’s still a very high percentage, and if they had come anywhere else but at the end, he would have been an easy number 2 and in the conversation for number 1.
  13. arby58
    No brainer. I would have put Gomez at #2.
  14. arby58
    I’m good with this in theory, but the 1B free agent group isn’t all that promising.
  15. arby58
    The Clemens walk off was incredible. The Twins were two outs and down to their last strike on each of the batters that got on base as well as Clemens. I can’t recall a more improbable Twins comeback with two outs in the ninth inning trailing by three runs.
  16. arby58
    His was a promising year, and the Twins were correct in keeping him in the starting rotation. That said, Taj Bradley was the best story of 2026. His 2026 is what Connor might aspire to achieve in 2027.
  17. arby58
    Hard for me to figure out what Bradley needed to do more of to earn an A. He was durable, a strike out machine, and routinely hit 100 mph as a starter. Led the team in wins, ERA, Ks, games started, innings pitched. It’s an odd grading system that ranks Anderson’s small sample performance as better than Bradley’s.
  18. arby58
    There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
  19. arby58
    Not true. Literally thousands of US data centers that support cloud computing and sites like Facebook, Instagram, X, Google, navigation systems, email systems, etc. AI is the bright shiny object but data centers are not new - and your world would be dramatically different without them.
  20. arby58
    You’re able to visit this site and access its videos and make comments because of data centers. They aren’t just powering AI. They power the cloud as well.
  21. arby58
    I’d bet more pitchers successfully return from TJS than TOS.
  22. arby58
    Just out of curiosity, why do they have any promising player steal any bags? It isn’t just catchers who could get a busted thumb or torn hand ligaments. Maybe because it’s a part of baseball? Joe Mauer was a comparative advantage catcher because he hit for a high average. A catcher who can run and steal a base is a similar advantage.
  23. arby58
    This is MLB, not little league handing out participation trophies.
  24. arby58
    It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. For every Rooker you’ll have 10 Fedko McCumbers. Keep in mind that Rooker had 3 seasons of negative WAR before he found hitting religion in Oakland - nobody’s gonna give Sabato that long a leash.
  25. arby58
    He wouldn’t be the first pitcher to return from a long injury lay-off. Jose Rijo missed 5 seasons because of arm injuries before returning for a couple years (at age 36). Even more incredibly, Daniel Bard was out of baseball for 7 (!) years before returning and earning NLComeback Player of the Year in 2020.
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