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    Very interesting. He's under team control through 2027 I believe, so it's way too early IMO to think about a long-term extension that buys out a year or two of free agency. That in turn means there's a lot of time before salary "games" being played now might have any effect in terms of hard feelings during negotiations when Duran has the clout. So, I view this as the FO just drawing a line so that other young players see what to expect - "accept a small raise, or get none at all, no matter who you think you are." I phrase that a little combatively, for humor's sake, but to me there's nothing inherently wrong with being a tough but fair negotiator. The downside, maybe, is that different humans react differently, and one gets the sense that Jose Berrios for example was butting heads with the FO over money and all of a sudden he was traded and he expressed more surprise and regret than I would have expected. Anyway, 6 thousand here and 6 thousand there, and pretty soon you're talking 50k.
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    Super performance!
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    I haven't seen any mention here of the news that the Oakland Athletics have purchased some land for a ballpark in Las Vegas. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/as-moving-las-vegas-stadium-land-deal-oakland/aeqk570w53qeb6wrfncvcp2w Mrs Ash and I are headed down to Oakland at the end of the month and will watch the A's play the Reds. I know I'm in the vast minority, but I will miss the Coliseum, a green cathedral in a location with temperate weather and blue skies, where I have happy memories watching baseball when the snow is still piled up back home.
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    You may say that. But he's not the only one.
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    Lefty killers are apparently expected to kill, when the opportunity is given and the team already is in dire need of a spark.
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    Unless they intend to let Ober pitch, he'll be just a drain on the bullpen. Last year he got past the 5th inning only 3 times in his 11 starts, including 4 starts where he did well but was pulled. I'd like to see him up, but not the way he's been used, and if they feel they have to treat him with kid gloves then he's a ticking time bomb in the rotation; find some other role for him in that case.
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    Miranda kept the Twins in the game with his play in the bottom of the 10th. Kepler may or may not have had a chance to follow it up with a similar game-saver to send it to the 11th, but he sure didn't put himself in position to try. Very disappointing, in a late-innings period full of them.
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    Apart from 2 games not really demonstrating readiness, after 2 bad ones, I also wish they would let him pitch more than 5 innings (73 pitches) at a time before calling him up. (Last game was 6 innings but an unbelievable 67 pitches.) Let him keep going, let's find out! Otherwise he'll be the drain on the bullpen that we thought the team just got itself past. Or, will being in the majors suddenly make him the guy they trust to throw 100 quality pitches?
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    True story as to the conversation taking place, I hope. Not a true story he was telling you.
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    A series sweep for our Twins, barring injuries. Why yes, that is my standard disclaimer for the Falvey-Levine Era, thank you for noticing.
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    Shoved? Punchies? Dig that hip lingo all you cool cats out there!
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    Ask Carlos Correa. He can probably share some insights into the process.
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    Ryan currently is locked up for 5 years counting the current one. The FO has been averse to pitcher contracts longer than that, and I'm not sure the potential reward is high enough to counter the financial risk of guaranteeing salary for years that the team can still go year-to-year with, on Ryan.
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    Closer to the former than the latter IMO. Compared to a true free-agent scenario, the money commitment is a fraction. But, and this is important, it's not a free-agent scenario. From the player's perspective, he has to balance the brass ring that free-agency could represent, versus having to go nearly 2 full seasons until that moment, during which his performance could fall off to merely "average starter" or even suffer an injury. The Twins could just go year to year, but instead are underwriting the player's risk to a significant degree. For the Twins it's a fair deal. It has very high upside, but they are assuming what sounds like 4 years of risk by guaranteeing even 1 dollar beyond this year. In effect some portion of the $73.5M is an insurance policy for him. He's set for life now. Win-win, but IMO not a steal, nor would I want it to be.
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    Dang it, the site software tricked me into pressing Submit twice, again!
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    $20M per year seems market correct, and the years seem a bit short, so the risk versus reward is favorable to both sides I suppose.
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    I just saw this morning's baseball-reference.com's daily summary, and this makes two days in a row that a Yankee starter had the top performance. Great job, Twins offense! 😗
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    Where in Yankee Stadium were you seated? My son was way down the third base line today.
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    I know I'm just one data point in MLB's Big Data mining operation, but I am watching a lot more games all the way through than in the past several seasons. This game today was hard for a Twins fan to take, and yet watchable.
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    The box score reveals the game highlight for me. 2:07 to complete nine* innings and get this monstrosity behind us. * okay, eight and a half
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    Ughhhhhhh. Did not see that mentioned before. Ughhhhhhh.
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    I wouldn't call either of these "least aggressive" assignments too conservative at all. Julien is demonstrating that he's still got something to learn at the plate against major league caliber pitching, and his play on defense still has rough edges that possibly can be smoothed out so that he can be at least adequate. AAA was a good choice for him and remains so. Brooks Lee is doing well in 7 games at AA and there will be plenty of time to promote him to AAA in May/June before adding him to the 40-man irrevocably, perhaps in September. If these are the mistakes, the FO has overall done well IMO.
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    May 45th, perhaps.
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    Oops. Wrong thread this time.
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