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  1. ashbury
    What is the purpose of putting a non-competitive offer on the table? Just a middle finger salute to the player and to the world?
  2. ashbury
    This is the year I hope our vaunted analytics staff impresses us by picking at #5 the one pitcher out of those available who proves to be the durable arm that we need at the top of the rotation. Like, um... (checking baseball-reference.com)... Dwight Gooden or Jack McDowell from the 1980s. Oh lord, teams don't go for the big arms at #5 anymore, or at least they don't succeed at that strategy, do they? Maybe we get a Mark Teixeira or Buster Posey.
  3. ashbury
    Who's A Smart Dog? WHO'S A SMART DOG? You are, Coco, yes you are.
  4. ashbury
    Should be something tasty on the menu at #5. I could be forgetting a time, but my recollection is that the Timberwolves went years, maybe decades, before ever getting one lousy break in the ping pong ball lottery, i.e. moving up in the draft from what their straight record would have awarded them. The year Shaq and Mourning went #1-2? Wolves drafted #3 and got Laettner as the booby prize, despite no team having fewer wins the previous season. (The next year with Shaq the Magic won 41 games, and still got the ping pong ball for #1!) That sort of luck. So the Twins excelled the Wolves on the first try. / edit - ninjad to a degree by Dman
  5. ashbury
    Now compare his numbers to other catchers of this era Teams might pay for "not very good" performance a time or two, or three. Not twelve.
  6. ashbury
    We don't and won't know, but we can find it comforting to think that. ?
  7. ashbury
    BTW wow, what a comprehensive review. Thanks Seth!
  8. ashbury
    That's to start the negotiations. Usually I'm skeptical but I'm inclined to think, from Rocco's comments, that the Twins might actually get the last say, to beat whatever the top offer is, with some kind of creative tweak that splits the difference or whatever at the last minute. I don't know whether FalVine will have to say, "sorry, too rich for our blood," but I do believe the Twins at least have a seat at the table and that the player would like to return. I can't believe Turner's deal won't be exceeded in some dimension by Correa's.
  9. ashbury
    Standards of performance change over time, so that 30 HR or 45 HR mean different things depending on the year, just as a .300 batting average versus .350 have different implications from one era to the next. But leading the league in something, that's kind of an absolute level of achievement in any year. The Twins have had BA leaders much more often than HR, and that means something.
  10. ashbury
    There are some who bristle at certain terminology used in sports. "Owners", "selling", etc. So let's just call it a legal agreement for services.
  11. ashbury
    The scouting reports on Julien's defense aren't complimentary, so if he could be flipped for good pitching I'd be in favor. The other two guys, well, it should need to be a blockbuster deal to pry them away.
  12. ashbury
    Well, maybe I didn't understand the point I was responding to. There will be teams bidding for him, and aren't they all receiving this windfall too?
  13. ashbury
    Doesn't every team have that to add, as a sweetener? Though, we could throw in Brian Duensing, if he thinks he can find a use for a reliever.
  14. ashbury
    This aged well. ? (As wise Yogi taught us all, in baseball we don't know nothin'.)
  15. ashbury
    Those of us of a certain age will think "Kuenn for Colavito" when the subject of trading away a reigning batting champion comes up. I don't believe Detroit ever regretted receiving the reigning HR champion in return. The situations aren't really that similar, but the concept definitely can work out, if you can find a taker. I'm not sure the term "batting champion" carries the same weight with front offices anymore, though, in terms of what they'd offer.
  16. ashbury
    I've never heard a word suggesting Boras has ethical problems, so any joking I do is based on the premise that he's kind of neutral about everything aside from getting the best dollar value for each client. In essence, my joke was him saying, "meh, you tell me." When we say "Boras", we really mean the big operation he has built. I'm sure he puts in significant time with each of his biggest clients, but surely he farms out much of the work to his subordinates, and when any ethical situations arise he makes sure there are sufficient firewalls between the two handling things for them, and then signs off on the final agreement. If, say, Bogaerts becomes a little irritated by spring that somehow Correa's contract ending up costing him money, he can console himself that it was just the market, and not Boras himself. Or, of course, vice versa. I doubt either will wind up thinking they would have done better with different representation. I think highly of Boras. I think he'd make a great Commissioner, except he would never take the cut in pay.
  17. ashbury
    Levine: "Mr Boras we need a decision from your client, so we're preparing our final, best offer for his consideration. Otherwise, regrettably, we'll have to turn to our second choice." Boras: "Which one are you speaking of? Correa, then Bogaerts? Or Bogaerts, then Correa?"
  18. ashbury
    Comparing to 2022 payrolls, that would put us only #6 in the majors (Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, Phillies, Padres). Dare to dream big! 300! #1!
  19. ashbury
    Treading water, indeed. Plus, I ask myself, who would trade for Polanco? Some bottom feeder team with prospects galore to trade to us? What good would he do them? A top team with World Series aspirations, that thinks he can contribute to that? Are we not trying for that? A team with a bunch of hopeful/unproven prospects, looking for veteran leadership? Wait, isn't that us? So I circle back to believing we trade Polanco only in a tear-down scenario. In which case I trot out my GIF of the guy going nuts and smashing everything on his desk.
  20. ashbury
    I was thinking in terms of where a player would most dread getting traded to. But in terms of general franchise health and from a fan's perspective, it's hard to fathom the failure that this franchise has become. The other teams should be complaining about their share of the lousy gate receipts (my hot button of the week it seems), if nothing else.
  21. ashbury
    Especially since relievers are the most fungible of assets at the trade deadline. Your young guys all matured at once and you now have too many good relievers? Not a problem, sell the old guy you signed last December, for a minor league prospect, and move on with your pennant drive.
  22. ashbury
    It was a different time then. A different, worse, time. ?
  23. ashbury
    As near as I can piece together what must have happened, Florida with the second pick really wanted Jared Camp and was afraid Minnesota would snare him first. So they must have offered Minnesota $50,000 to swap picks - except MLB doesn't allow trading of draft picks so they had to resort to this bit of chicanery, and they opted not to operate simply on a handshake and then pony up the $50K later in some fashion. Kudos to Terry Ryan for keeping a good poker face and still getting the man they probably wanted in the first place. I think it's completely fair to view Santana as Minnesota's actual rule-5 pick.
  24. ashbury
    Oakland comes to mind.
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