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This just in: Twins Remain Interested In Clayton Richard -
It's the opposite of a perpetual-motion machine. You apply energy, it runs a little while and then turns itself off. Dave's post was just another flick of the switch.
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"Moderators. You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means."
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That's because he's still reading from the one, drunk-dialed, text message he got the other day.
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In general I don't disagree with that view, but in this instance I do. Dozier is our best trade chip in a long while. You need to get up-the-middle talent in return. That is what is always scarce. CF, we have covered, we hope. SS, I doubt a team trades a top notch one to get a 2B - they might put him (or their current SS) at 2B themselves if it came to that. Catcher, I am no longer high on investing deeply at that position after having had the experience we've had with Mauer - I've posted elsewhere on that and won't take the time/space here. That leaves starting pitching as the centerpiece.
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Sweet. LA fans reading our game thread. Welcome, SoCal'ers. Please read the posting guidelines.
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"We strike at midnight, when the monsters who prowl on hind legs are asleep. Are you in?"
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You heard.... making your post a...
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One has little to do with the other. Dozier is a trade candidate because of an excess of MLB talent at his position. Much the same as we traded AJ when Mauer was ready. It might be true that something could be obtained for ESan, and I won't protest if the return is good, but we are not dealing from an excess at his position, and we don't have any productive use I know of for the salary a trade would likely free up. I advocate trying to improve the major league roster going into each season - except for the case at the beginning of a rebuild when the prospect shelf is bare, and that is not us now. Worst to first is rare, so I want improvement this year; there is value in not subjecting our several good young players to a losing atmosphere. Falvey has been quoted that he needs to be overwhelmed in order to trade Dozier, but for me Santana is the real case where a trade offer would need to surprise me. All that said, if ESan was the additional key that unlocked Urias, I would not hesitate. I just doubt it.
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Baseball America Top 10 Twins Prospects
ashbury replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
Plonk's gonna be a ten-year starter in the majors, for some other team if not us. I have him about on a par with Kepler as a prospect. Well, neither qualifies as a prospect anymore. What's the word for after that? Player, then. -
Bud: Did you see that other thread's headline? "Sale to the Red Sox". Lou: Who got sold? Bud: No, Sale. Lou: No Sale? I thought you said the Red Sox got somebody. Bud: They did. Lou: Who? Bud: No, Sale. It was a trade. Lou: Who got traded? Bud: Not that I know of. Lou: What? Bud: No, but DaveW does have a rumor concerning second base. Lou: For a pitcher, right? Bud: Yeah, Tomorrow. Lou: That's what he keeps telling us. What's wrong with Today? Bud: We already signed ourselves a catcher.
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I thought you already started a Secret Santana thread, elsewhere on this site.
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I'm confident there will be an article, not merely a TD member's forum thread, if actual news happens.
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Concur.
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Right. Got it. So... it's Seattle?
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Sorry, folks, but now I am obligated to lock the thread. It's in the Moderators' Handbook, or something.
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Mrs Ash: Where have you been? You look like hell. Ash: I went to a trade rumor, and a game thread broke out.
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Watch out if one of the owners or mods takes the Under.
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Of course not. So passé. http://www.seabreeze.com.au/Img/Photos/Stand_Up_Paddle/2234899.jpg
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Ka-ching! Your check for fifty cents will no doubt be in the mail shortly.
