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  1. Whammy
    Maybe Falvine needs to trade a couple guys away to inspire the others. Angels went with the more traditional approach
  2. Whammy
    "Gotta keep the ball down" Funny how they never say that when people hit a low fastball for a HR.
  3. Whammy
    [giggle] G Spot
  4. Whammy
    Nevermind... tried to embed a Tweet with the lineup. Failed https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DI56FnjXkAAIWZH.jpg
  5. Whammy
    Maybe I'm just not remembering correctly, but these big defensive shifts weren't a thing in 2010. Seems to me that they really ramped up in 2013/14 or so. I've always felt that the Mauer shift played a big part (along with of course the concussion) in the decline we've seen in Joe's numbers
  6. Whammy
    I bet he gets some games next year. He probably didn't want to commit to games when they were making the broadcasters' schedule because he was still hoping to have a team call him.
  7. Whammy
    Maybe the disagreement lies is the threshold for "small market" I wouldn't call the Twins a small market team. Perhaps others would.
  8. Whammy
    For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas
  9. Whammy
    Obviously calling the Houston Astros a small market team in silly. They aren't. For a few years when they were bottoming out, they acted like a small market team, but that was part of their strategy (like the Cubs did). Having said that, even though they are in the 5th largest market, I wouldn't call them a large market team either. I could see Houston having a little issue with their media market size to fan base size because of the fact that such a high percentage of their population are transplants. And, you know.... Texas loves football. Market size doesn't mean everything. The Detroit metro area isn't much larger than the Twin Cities (4.3M vs 3.6M) but they have 200M payroll and the Twins have a 100M payroll.
  10. Whammy
    Why can't they QO all those guys? Who's going to accept it? Obviously not ALL of the free agents but Cain, Moustakas, Vargas, Hosmer.... none of those guys are accepting a QO
  11. Whammy
    Cain is certainly getting a QO. How good of a prospect would a team need to forego a 1st round supplemental pick? It's an interesting topic actually.... The idea of a top 35 pick is seemingly far more valuable than when you actually make that pick and a real person (with a real ranking) is associated with that pick. For the Twins, a comparable person would be Rooker. Would a Rooker for Cain rental get laughed out of the Skype chat? Probably, but that's realistically the type of prospect they will probably get in 9 months.
  12. Whammy
    My understanding (from a passing comment earlier in this thread) is that if he finished 5th or better in the Cy Young voting in 2019, then 2020 would kick in. You could certainly argue that if you had a pitcher finish in the top 5 of the cy young, you don't mind having him on a 1/28 contract for the following year.
  13. Whammy
    It will be interesting to see if he actually opts out. The market this past winter for bats was very weak. He's got 4/88M left on his contract. Do we really see him getting more than that?
  14. Whammy
    Seems kind of unnecessary. Now both threads lack the context of the other.
  15. Whammy
    In light of the Upton deal, the "Detroit doesn't dump salary" takes seem.... poorly timed
  16. Whammy
    That's not what I heard. They were hoping to hear an update on IF he was hurt
  17. Whammy
    ..... or a good 7th inning guy
  18. Whammy
    My question to those with this line of reasoning is: Who? Who is that Free Agent pitcher who will be going for 5/100M this winter? I don't necessarily disagree that this generally might be better option, but I'm not seeing a guy out there that would make sense. Also, don't forget that we'd almost certainly be giving up our first round pick in this scenario.
  19. Whammy
    This is where I'm at. The fact that he went through waivers means that teams were worried Detroit would let him go for nothing. No prospects just $56M in payroll for the next two seasons. So, the starting point in my mind for the question of "what do we have to give up" is: $56M and a flyer prospect. As the negotiations progress and some part of that $56M gets picked up by Detroit, the level of prospect(s) changes. The only way the prospects get anywhere close to the "Gonsalves and Gordon" level (which I don't think Falvine would allow it to get to) is if Detroit was picking up at least half of what owed. So now we are talking about $14M per year for the next two years. But lets even say that the Twins are picking up all of the salary.... As some people have stated above, they think that a younger $15M Free Agent pitcher might give just as much value as Verlander. While I probably disagree, let's dig deeper into that. Do you think that those younger $15M free agents will be looking for a 2 year deal? I highly doubt it. You're likely looking at 4-5 years. Now were starting to get into those high-cost years of our young core. At the end of the day, I can't say whether they should do the deal or not because I don't know what the deal is. I don't think a $56M investment in the next two years (plus about $5M remaining this year) will overly hamper the ability of the Twins to be successful, but if that $56M investment also came at the price of some high level prospects, then I'd be a strong "NO"
  20. Whammy
    Seems to me like he's throwing offspeed more and with my untrained eyes, I swear he's getting way more downward movement on it.
  21. Whammy
    Technically isn't everyone an MVP candidate?
  22. Whammy
    I suspect MLB wouldn't allow it
  23. Whammy
    It'll probably make the Stubhub/Seatgeek maps a pain in the butt, but other than that...
  24. Whammy
    The changes look logical
  25. Whammy
    How do you know they aren't trying?
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