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  1. ThejacKmp
    With season tickets you pay by the game so no one is going to have to pay for those games. That would be real nuts. I don't mind the Twins playing two games in Puerto Rico but agree it should be a 1 home game and 1 road game situation.
  2. ThejacKmp
    Add Gimenez to the bullpen matrix!
  3. ThejacKmp
    Gimenez should be added to the reliever matrix
  4. ThejacKmp
    Is it weird that there's no Leach news at all?
  5. ThejacKmp
    Okay, questions I've always had about being DFA. What do those guys do during that period? Do they go home? Go back to wherever they will end up if they aren't claimed? Work out at the Twins spring training facility? Do they still keep health insurance or are they cast adrift?
  6. ThejacKmp
    Love the bullpen use graph. Super useful.
  7. ThejacKmp
    Is JJ Schwarz going back to school for sure? Crazy that a guy talked about as 1 overall is still on the board.
  8. ThejacKmp
    Yeah this. I known huge Twins fans right now whose knowledge of the Twins minor league system comes down to three guys - right now maybe Gonsalves, Gordon and Garver? And to be fair to them, if I didn't read TD I would have no concept of the minor leagues either - I wouldn't be checking the box scores every day and keeping track of players.
  9. ThejacKmp
    What would you suggest?
  10. ThejacKmp
    Way better but I'm not sure its MLB's fault. How are you going to get the average fan interested in guys they're not going to see for 3-5 years? Some of whom won't even sign? The NFL has guys trying out for the team 100 days later and each team has at least two guys they're hoping will see regular PT. A fan watches because they'll know someone on the field next year. MLB has none of that. The video is also a big part - how much video exists of some of these high school guys? The NFL has video of every guy because they're all in college and they all play games on TV. There's no way to tell how good the competition is either, not an issue in the NFL. MLB is destined to be for draftniks only.
  11. ThejacKmp
    Or they both flame out. (knocks on wood)
  12. ThejacKmp
    I always forget that going to school means that have to at least pretend to take classes. That is certainly a factor.
  13. ThejacKmp
    I may just not understand what you're saying but the Twins still have to pay Rooker at #35, he's not signing for free right? So they still would need savings elsewhere to get Enlow signed to #35 money. That either comes from college senior signings later or from Lewis savings, likely the former.
  14. ThejacKmp
    And can we say surprising? Starting pitching quality was supposed to be the Twins problem this year, not depth. They had a ton of mediocre back-end starters and no front end. Now they have two front-end guys (albeit with some potential regression) and are picking up castoffs to start games. Baseball is a funny sport.
  15. ThejacKmp
    For the game the Twins put up a 1.507 OPS. Holy geeze.
  16. ThejacKmp
    Yeah but to what? There's no one better out there. Until Santiago/Hughes come back, I'm okay with Gibson. He has his ups and downs but they have no one better.
  17. ThejacKmp
    And i think the savings at 1:1 are a direct cause of the great Day 2. Unless you're super enamored with any of the other top guys (I wasn't completely sold though I liked Greene and Wright a lot), I think Lewis is okay considering the other guys they got as a result.
  18. ThejacKmp
    It's hard because while I agree wholeheartedly with the Twins organization having some troubling issues with spending money, the criticism cites the one time I don't think it's fair to call them cheap. It's like when someone is bashing the political party you hate but they're doing it by citing the one thing you don't mind about that party. Unless the Twins don't spend their allotted draft money overall (seems unlikely), they can't be called cheap for the draft. They didn't even invent this strategy. I also feel very uncomfortable about the language used: those that aren't critical are the unreasonable ones. I think it's pretty clear that the people blasting the Twins for being cheap for the Lewis pick are ignorant of the draft process. You can call it stupid, you can say their strategy is bogus but calling it cheap shows a reflexive knee-jerk assumption with no consideration of the bigger picture. No one is too stupid to understand the draft but a lot of people are too lazy to read a single article that explains it.
  19. ThejacKmp
    This may be a dumb question but those admittedly slightly-ridiculous lists have some high ranked guys still remaining that I've heard smarter people here excited about: Tanner Burns, Tristan Beck, Jake Eder. Are these guys unlikely to sign or do the Twins have a shot to throw savings at them in these middle rounds (9-15)? Do those kind of guys ever sign if offered $1 million (e.g.) in the 11th round?
  20. ThejacKmp
    I trust that those choices are close enough and I don't know well enough to say that Lewis+Rooker+Enlow is wrong. And likely none of us do. I think a lot of the criticism here is pretty shortsighted. We're arguing that we know how to drill for undersea oil because we read the Wikipedia page.
  21. ThejacKmp
    Sammons
  22. ThejacKmp
    They may have gone to him first but that doesn't mean that they liked him better. That just means they thought he was the guy most likely to cut a deal. He was a guy who many saw a big drop for (if he doesn't go the Rays at 4 he may have dropped even further) so he might be willing to deal. Going to Lewis next doesn't mean they didn't like Lewis more, it might just mean they had a concept how low Lewis would go but wanted to see other options. That's the reality - they liked all 5 of the top guys. They'd take any of them if they had the 7th pick. The decision at #1 just doesn't take place in a vacuum. The Twins had to consider the ramification of each pick down the line. Lewis = Enlow. With McKay, you don't get Enlow. That's opportunity cost at it's finest.
  23. ThejacKmp
    I agree. Find the shin-less QB. Hard to blow out the knee if is connected directly to the ankle.
  24. ThejacKmp
    It's not a personal shot. Just saying, understand the rules. You can't say cheap after one day of the draft. It's just not possible. That's like calling the Twins the AL Central champs because they're up right now. This thing has to play itself out. The word cheap cannot be used except in the highly unlikely case the Twins don't use their full allotment of draft money. Let's hold off on calling people cheap until them. Note: I hate the Pohldads. I booed when they honored Carl. I didn't feel great about booing the dead but that man was terrible. Made his fortune foreclosing on farmers in the Depression, tried to move and contract the Twins. Why we honored him, I don't know.
  25. ThejacKmp
    Perhaps more arguments on TD should be solved with a Monopoly game. I'm sure there's some way to play online. Maybe they could be a sponsor of TD?
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