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Reports are already coming out that Cole (and Boras) is now looking for a 9 or 10 year deal after seeing what Strasburg got.
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If you can afford to give $25 million a year to guy who has averaged around 100 innings per year over the last four seasons, you can afford to give $35 million to Cole or Strasburg.
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If the Twins lose ground on the starting pitching front to other top AL contenders, then this offseason is a failure. The Yankees may add Cole or Stasburg to a healthy Severino and Paxton. Boston will be hoping from bounceback seasons from Sale and Price. Cleveland and Tampa seems to be able to create starting pitching at will. The Astros will lose Cole, but have Whitley as potential future ace to go along with Verlander and Greinke. The Angels are talking to Strasburg and could add him and a healthy Ohtani to their rotation. If the biggest move they make is replacing Gibson with Bumgarner then they will likely lose ground to several of their top competitors who are making bigger additions. When you're a 101 win team that got swept out of the playoffs, that is not a successful off-season. Baseball is a competitive sport, of course the Twins success or failure needs to be measured against what other teams are doing.
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The Pineda signing is great and arguably the best deal of any starters signed so far, from the team's prospective. But reports are out that the Yankees are going to make Cole a priority. If that happens, this off-season is a total failure even if they sign Bumgarner. We'll have the exact same problem we had last season, good starting pitching depth, but our top two or three starters will all the worse that their counterparts in a playoff series. The rotations for AL contenders next year are going to be stacked at the top and the Twins just won't be competitive. Which playoff contenders would have a worse 1-3 than us?
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How can the front office claim Bumgarner is an impact pitcher when he basically performed the same as Pineda this year? Plus by all accounts he's a huge jerk who has a history of getting into conflicts with players of colors. Why anyone would want to add a potential clubhouse cancer to a team with great chemistry is beyond me. Who would you rather have for $30 million a year, Strasburg or Bumgarner and an "elite" reliver like Addison Reed?
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So basically we're going to end up replacing Pineda with a pitcher who was basically the same level as him last year, but at 3x the cost. And then the local media will pretend we actually signed an ace because he's a big name people have heard off. And even better, he's a potential clubhouse disaster given his past confrontations with players of color and the makeup of the rest of this team and the great chemistry they had last season.
