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  1. Whammy
    AAV projection is what 12M vs 17M?
  2. Whammy
    Based on us not being in the competitive balance lottery, I'm not sure it would do us much good. I'm not totally sure how a team just below average in market size and having lost 90+ games for three straight years somehow doesn't qualify for competitive balance.... but that's for another thread
  3. Whammy
    You have my attention John Bonnes
  4. Whammy
    So, you're paying $12M + $0.5M for a kick-ass Shortstop. The perfect case for platoons. Pay big money one guy who's going to be really good 75% of the time and pay league minimum to a guy who's going to be just fine the remaining 25%. .850 OPS 75% of the time + .650 OPS 25% of the time = .800 OPS Pay for the 75% and manage the 25%
  5. Whammy
    "CF – I could probably think of three." "I could probably think of four" might have gotten a more interesting response.
  6. Whammy
    Nothing annoys me more than talking about how much money was spent (84M on three pitchers) without putting in context how many years it was for. It's just so lazy and meaningless. The bottom 5 (or bottom 10 really) should be reserved for teams that regressed since the end of the season. Say what you will about the Twins signings, but I think very few would say that they have regressed. By definition that should at least put them in the middle of the pack.
  7. Whammy
    It's much easier to just play God.
  8. Whammy
    I think it needs to be said.... This thread is awesome
  9. Whammy
    Roadtrip for a weekend series of Thorpe, Stewart, and Gonsalves at Cedar Rapids this summer.
  10. Whammy
    It's like R-AAA-AAA-AA-AIN, on your wedding day. A free rii-i-ii-i-ide when you're already late
  11. Whammy
    Part of me wants to keep loading up the minors with potential aces, since the odds of us signing a true ace in the next decade seem remote, but a) we have a lot of high upside pitchers in the low minors, and Turner intrigues me
  12. Whammy
    Buxton could very well have flourished in any system, but all organizations don't progress their prospects the same way. Maybe in another system, he would have been more fast-tracked, and he'd be struggling. Who knows. Point being, once a prospect is in the organization, it's not just cruise control. Some level of credit needs to be given for helping a prospect blossom (and the opposite, when they flame out)
  13. Whammy
    The minus dWAR is whatever as are the raw numbers of UZR/150 - If the argument would have stopped there I would have thought those numbers were strangely low and moved on. But the moment those numbers indicated Parmelee was the same (or worse) defender than Hammer.... that's when s**t got real. That's just not reality.
  14. Whammy
    Keep the city name, and move states. Rochester, MN Move the team to the PCL and have Nashville (Milwaukee's AAA) move to the International league
  15. Whammy
    This is the best condemnation of those statistics I have ever seen.
  16. Whammy
    I think of Deduno and his injury history like I thought of Jordy Nelson when I drafted him on my fantasy football team this year. Jordy had had some injury problems the last few years, but when he played, his per game fantasy numbers were near the top of the league. He went in the 5th round because of those injuries, but I was happy to take his 15pt/game when healthy and was prepared to slot in my 4th WR if those injuries came, which they never did this year (although Rodgers' injury felt like a Nelson injury). Deduno, when healthy, will be our 4th or 5th starter (like Jordy was my 3rd WR) and he may well play above that level, until his next injury comes. When that injury comes, the Twins will just go the their heap of AAAA starters (4th WR), play some matchups, and ride that guy until Deduno comes back. This way of thinking doesn't work when we are talking about a #1 or #2 starter, like it doesn't work with a RB in the fantasy football example, because the drop to your replacement level guy is too great for it to be worth the risk.
  17. Whammy
    I hope we don't sign Garza. Sincerely, All the people complaining about Pelfrey's pace of pitching
  18. Whammy
    This isn't low risk..... it's NO risk
  19. Whammy
    In any given offseason we could throw 24.5 million at the best pitcher available. He might not be QUITE to Price's level, but he'd probably be close. At that point we have Sano and "almost Price" instead of just Price and the money is equal
  20. Whammy
    Sign Drew Ship Florimon and Duensing to Sea for Montero Play Ball
  21. Whammy
    I think this has very little to do with Willingham (unless he stinks) and has everything to do with Hicks. If Hicks shows himself to have a future in our OF, then our OF and DH get too crowded in 2015 to justify 2/16 or 2/18 for Willingham
  22. Whammy
    http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10118679/mlb-nippon-professional-baseball-agree-new-posting-system 20 Million!!! First guy to bid, gets him, right? This 100% eliminates us from Tanaka-mania
  23. Whammy
    Perfect 3 year stopgap to Trea Turner
  24. Whammy
    Is that a real quote? Not only a slam on a relatively unimportant major league player, but a slam on MN. You almost never see quotes like that.
  25. Whammy
    Bonnes nailed it with this list: Ryan Eades, Melotakis, Madison Boer, Niko Goodrum, Billy Bullock You can't let guys like those prevent you from signing players that you want/need
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