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  1. Richmond Dude
    Personally, I wouldn't risk breaking Polanco. I think the loss of performance at SS for him was even worse than the loss for Arraez in LF.
  2. Richmond Dude
    Good insight. As bad as last year was, I appreciated that Arraez was willing to try for what the team leadership thought was best in the circumstance.. I'm glad they have rethought it, though. I think it will help his bat to play his more natural positions.
  3. Richmond Dude
    You can argue about the other three, although I think Romo is no longer a good fit for us, but I would enjoy seeing Stewart get a chance to put things together for us.
  4. Richmond Dude
    I'd pay to watch this and, frankly, I think I would enjoy watching this, too. People always forget that these guys get days off and that means that, for a decent player who can play multiple positions and bat reasonable well, there is always plenty of playing time to be spread around.
  5. Richmond Dude
    I think that Mr. and Mrs. Buxton want to live in Minnesota and raise their children there. Understanding that is the key to understanding his contract.
  6. Richmond Dude
    Amen!
  7. Richmond Dude
    In fairness, I'm pretty sure that entitled Yankees fans call for Cashman to be fired any time he does anything or doesn't do something. I mean, if they won the WS this year, they would call for him to be fired because they didn't sweep it.
  8. Richmond Dude
    I'm not sure how this all works out, but I am patient enough to wait for the push to find out. Having said that, I wish they wouldn't do this stuff late on a Sunday night. After reading these stories, I get a headache and need a drink, but I have to work in the morning. Please be more considerate with your timing, Falvine!
  9. Richmond Dude
    That sounds reasonable. The only quibble is that if you are a team that pays into revenue sharing, you can't draft higher than 10th more than a single year in a row, so if you're 7th, you get bumped down to 10. Those that receive money from revenue sharing can't draft higher than 10th more than two years in a row. Which leaves the question of, if you were the worst team, but not eligible for the lottery, do you slot into pick number 10 before or after the lottery (e.g. if it's before, you start at 10, but if six teams behind you win the six lottery slots, you get bumped down to 16; if it's after, you're just 10 no matter who won the lottery). So there's some extra wrinkles there, which results in three issues - you may be in the lottery, you may be out of the lottery, and you may actually be required to be moved down from your position outside of the lottery system.
  10. Richmond Dude
    I'm not sure I like it, but time will tell. This appears to indicate that Lewis will not be ready this year, but Kiner-Falefa has played 3B and C, too, so could be moved around. I will really miss Garver, but we had one too many catchers and too many 1B, too, so no place for all those people to play. Best of luck, GarvSauce.
  11. Richmond Dude
    It is indeed the teams who didn't make the playoffs that are in the lottery. It appears that the worst three teams will have a 16.5% chance in the hopper, whereas the highest ten teams that didn't make the playoffs will each have a 2% chance. I don't know how the two or more rule will affect the chances (e.g. do you still have the same number of balls in the hopper and just get put in 10th if you get picked or do they remove the balls?).
  12. Richmond Dude
    Sorry. I thought I was being funny/snarky, but clearly was too sharp and didn't pull it off.
  13. Richmond Dude
    I don't need to. The data you put up shows my interpretation rather than yours. Attendance is lower for the Twins in April than it is in July. It's right in your link. We all know what the capacity of the stadium is and we all, if we watch the Twins, know that they offer special packages at an exceptionally low ticket price for April and May and still have lower attendance. If attendance is lower in April and higher in July and the average ticket price is lower in April and higher in July, it doesn't take some statistical genius to figure out that it costs more to cancel a game in July than in April, since the salaries and per diem are constant. Additionally, I'm not sure I should have to post the actual game schedule to prove that we don't play *all* 27 games in April at home. I think everyone knows that. But here's a hint if you didn't realize they play half their games away: if you turn on the TV and the Twins are wearing grey, the game is in the other team's stadium.
  14. Richmond Dude
    Two issues here: all of those games wouldn't have been at home and the average attendance includes both lower attendance spring games and often sold-out summer games. The Twins (and most other teams) lose a lot less cancelling April and early May games than they do cancelling June, July, and August games. It's one of the reasons why the Twins several years ago began selling huge mark-down tickets in April, basically saying they'll let you come in for virtually nothing in the hope you'll buy concessions, because the attendance is so low that they're happy for every body they can get.
  15. Richmond Dude
    I don't believe for a second that the Yankees lost $190M that year. They may have made $190M less profit and they may even have lost some money as a result, but I don't believe that they spend that much more on their basic franchise, absent player salaries, than everyone else does.
  16. Richmond Dude
    Gardy really screwed with Harris' head and never gave him a fair shake. The Hardy trade was when I knew that the team was simply not going to be good under Smith.
  17. Richmond Dude
    I'm not sure how to respond to this, I don't think it's accurate and there certainly isn't any evidence to support what you said.
  18. Richmond Dude
    Not only good for the Twins, but shows a lot of character in Buxton. I'm sure he could have gotten more on the market, but although I'm a Vikings fan, I always respected that Tom Brady took lower contracts to ensure there was money left for the Patriots to sign players around him, Yes, baseball doesn't have a salary cap, but we all know there are realistic limits that each team will spend. Buxton left space for the team to build a winner. And if Buxton gets the serious payday from the bonuses, it means that not only was he healthy, but likely that we're winning, too.
  19. Richmond Dude
    Personally, I really like the shirts. I wonder if they would look better with grey road pants or maybe even the white home pants?
  20. Richmond Dude
    Personally, I don't like the idea of using Garver as a DH unless Astudillo is also on the roster. Instead, on those days you may want to play both Garver and Jeffers or Sano as DH, I would put one at first base and let Sano hit. If the catcher goes down, we have a lot more options to sub at first (Kirillof, Rooker, Kepler, Arraez; assuming Kirilllof and Rooker both make the roster).
  21. Richmond Dude
    I remember how harsh they were on Buxton, including suspending him for celebrating a home run once. I thought at the time that they were going to drive him to resent the team. Sometimes, they almost seemed to penalize good hitters. I also remember one of the pitchers talking about how he was fined for having his glove on the wrong side of the locker while he was in Rochester. Having said that, I really appreciated what TR did for us in his first run. He is a personable guy with a real eye for potential. It became very clear, unfortunately, that he was unable to adapt to the Twins becoming a mid-market team once Target Field opened and that we simply weren't going to get there with him. I hope things are well with him in his current job.
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