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  1. roger
    A bit surprised they didn’t offer three. Certainly more than I expected. And kind of crazy one was claimed, what earlier today? Wondering if they negotiated with all three and weren’t able to get their number? So they now have three open spots for Rule 5 and/or free agents. Probably still need one or two more.
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    The split contract remains in effect even though he cleared waivers? If so, agree with those above that the $300k minor league payday may have caused some to back off claiming him. Both interesting and smart. Who knows, may set the AAA on fire and be back, or not!
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    Tender all of them, Seth. Question? If they tender a contract, can they later DFA to open a spot on the 40-man when adding free agents?
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    Byron Buxton has the talent, tools you may say, to some day be considered among the greatest players to ever play the game. Now I don't have a clue if that will happen. The great news is that if he does, we will get to watch it happen right here at the friendly confines of Target Field. Now let Royce Lewis get healthy and join him together with one or two of those young stud pitchers and let the party begin!
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    Was a great day for this old guy. The next most important thing for me to happen is for baseball to figure out some way that many of us can watch the game in 2022. You know, the 55% of us that weren't able to see any games last year. Not concerned about pitchers as I know they will have five starters ready to go come opening week. But I am just as happy as a pig in you know what that Buxton will be here for most/all of his career.
  6. roger
    Now, get the new hitting coach to teach Kepler how to bunt and go the other way. Arraez, Polanco, Buxton, Donaldson, Kirilloff, Garver and the Sanó we saw at year’s end can be one hell of a lineup.
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    Very interesting that your list includes six bullpen arms. Considering the Twins bullpen will likely have eight, bringing all of these back leaves only two spots. Go out and sign one good late inning guy could be all that is needed, or will get done this winter. Well, that and getting Rogers and Duff extended a bit.
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    To me, Hunter is a HOF caliber player and belongs in Cooperstown. Unfortunately, I don't have a vote. Do I expect he will get there, probably not. And that is unfortunate.
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    Have a question that is unrelated to Buxton, however, related to a comment in your piece. Why do most people often comment that the Twins have only two pitchers in their tentative starting rotation for 2022, Ober and Ryan? Why aren't they saying thee, including Randy Dobnak? Doesn't Dobnak have more starts, ie, more experience, than either of them? Granted, he wasn't healthy in 2021 and the results weren't satisfactory, but when healthy previously he was an effective starter. We don't know what the Twins plans for 2022 are, however, I suspect they may include Dobnak along side the other two as potential starters next spring.
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    Interesting, thanks Steve. And thanks to you and TD for keeping us up to date on this year’s AFL. Wallner seems to be the one to benefit from this experience the most. With so many of the corner power guys disappointing of late, I have a tough time getting excited. Maybe this is his beginning to separate himself from those other disappointments. The other player to be noticed by me was Laweryson. The extra work gave him another opportunity to shine, and he ran with it.
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    Don't the Twins have a very good relationship with Maeda? And doesn't he like it here? If so, both could be positives in attracting this guy. May even go so far as to have Maeda do a little recruiting? As for needing him, the Twins need all the good players they can get.
  12. roger
    Thanks for the update, Nick. Not much to get excited about, eh? Still see Dobnak as a starter.
  13. roger
    With no Twins on my tv, watched a lot of Wichita games. Mostly when one of the young studs was starting the game. Don’t recall anything of note from Palacios D, bad or good. But maybe being consistent and solid is good. On the other hand, don’t recall any players who wowed me, other than several plays by Whitfield...and he is gone.
  14. roger
    So often we comment without knowing all the facts. The pitcher had just hit Telis. Was it intentional and what pitch, a hard fastball? Where did he hit him, was it near the head? Apparently he had also hit one of their hitters last time out. Same two questions? Were there other HB from him or that team recently? Not saying La Tortuga should have sucker punched him. But depending on the answers to the above questions, may understand it.
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    Like the idea, Seth. Will admit I didn’t know he was that good defensively at short.
  16. roger
    Your example above confirms you likely don’t have any experience investing in real estate. When comparing the apartment building cost to Motel 6, you assume the cost of operating the apartments is the mortgage payment plus 10% of that amount for management. Haven’t taken a look at any apartment p&l’s in a long time, but do know that you are no where near actual operating costs. First, management fees will either be a fixed cost, percentage of revenue, or some combination thereof. Assuming rent includes utilities, operating costs will include utilities, real estate taxes, insurance, pest control, security contracts, repairs and maintenance, reserves for replacement, on site management (often someone getting free rent), advertising and marketing, legal, accounting, reserves for bad debts and other costs I likely forgot. The point is that your financial example doesn’t carry water. As for buying a project, don’t know what the market is in the three non Twin Cities markets. I did get a recent email from a Denver broker who sold one of my hotels 20 plus tears ago. Their listing included a couple office buildings and I believe two apartments. One was a larger complex for around $500k per unit. on the other hand the Polahd’s own United Properties, so setting something up in the St Paul market may be easy.
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    Wasn't that long ago that the Wild was days from training camp with their best player unsigned. Heck, sounded to the public that he wasn't even in the U.S. Then one morning the G.M. got a phone call from the agent saying, get on a plane and come to Florida so the three of us can sit down and talk. The result was that he was under contract two days later and in training camp when it started. The top dogs in the Twins FO need to pick up the phone and say we're coming to Georgia tomorrow, can we talk. Then sit down, discuss how each side is viewing the situation and make a deal before leaving.
  18. roger
    Do you really think that teams are going to go thru everything involved with buying, owning, operating and leasing during fall/winter apartment complexes in four small/smaller towns to solve this problem? Ain't gonna happen. What I expect will happen is that the Twins will talk to their partners in each market and tell them the Twins will pay for it, but they should set up some type of housing arrangements that meet the rules set forth by the league. In Cedar Rapids, for example, they have most players staying with families. At least they did pre-COVID. In other towns they may need to do something else. Although I am aware how much government is getting into private business, I had never heard of anything regarding 30 day or longer stays. Again this is something that would be set by local/state government, but I can assure you it didn't apply when I was operating our hotels, granted that was from 1970 thru about 2010. Can assure you we had many people staying with us for a lot longer than 30 days and no one at our company ever even thought of this concern, if it was one.
  19. roger
    A bit surprised they added six. I know others are higher than I on Vallimont, he was a surprise to me Not really any surprises on the released quartet, yet each player cut did provide some value to the Twins. Will they open a spot so they can make a pick at the Rule 5? If so, who goes? It will then be interesting to see who the next three, four or five cuts are to open spots for those free agent pitchers and shortstop. Looking at the 40-man, making another five cuts isn’t clear, at least to me.
  20. roger
    One hurdle for buying anything is that team affiliations often change. For that and other reasons, don’t see MLB teams investing in real estate in the small towns so many of these teams are located. Thus, I see an entire smorgasboard of methods of addressing this concern. Curious what you are referring to about longer than 30 day stays. Spent over 45 years owning and operating hotels in many midwest and plains States. Give me a customer who would stay 30 days or more and I was happy, real happy. May even offer him/her a weekly or monthly rate.
  21. roger
    One problem with the assumption from the start...not all teams that lose 100 games or more are tanking. Some are just flat out bad teams. There may be reasons for this, such as a team that is in a rebuild and willing to lose a lot by playing lots of young guys with the hope/intent that they will be better/good a year or two down the road. As for fixing it, or even deciding if it needs fixing, is way beyond my pay grade.
  22. roger
    Thanks for bringing us this great news, Lucas. Long overdue. Expect there will be no set format for how this is achieved as minor league cities vary greatly. Hopefully, most of the arrangements will include some ability to cook meals, which I didn't see mentioned.
  23. roger
    Very interesting, Seth. Thanks for bringing this to us. Wasn't aware that his wife remains an active officer in the AF. Assume they met while at the academy. Was also not aware that he has two brothers who are in the process of becoming AF pilots. We all owe this family much more than a thank you. This award also reminds me of the morning so long ago when I was a kid and Feller came out to our Wisconsin farm to shoot some geese. Got a chance to go out with him, although after probably 65 years the memory is mostly gone. As for baseball, most of us are forgetting that as of now Griffin is one of the five likely starters come opening day. Until such time as the FO does something, the most experienced starters we have are Dobnak, Ober, Jax, Barnes and Ryan, at least until Maeda returns sometime next summer. Should be interesting to see what the FO does to strengthen this staff, but personally believe that several of these kids will be on the mound come the first week of the season, whenever that may be. Will Jax be one of them? We don't know, but I expect he has a lot more to offer after getting his feet wet last summer.
  24. roger
    No, hell no. The biggest point I took from this piece is the danger of trading away young, proven stars seeing what the A's got when they traded Donaldson. Sounds like a great reason to 'not trade Buxton.' As for third base...start Miranda at St. Paul on opening day, then bring him up when Donaldson goes on the IR in late April or May. When Donaldson returns, alternate him between third and DH until July when he gets traded. Meanwhile, Miranda starts at third about three-quarters of the time until Donaldson is gone.
  25. roger
    The bigger question may be the terms of said insurance. It may not take effect until player X has been injured for X games, say 30. In most cases, Buxton gets hurt for a month or two, comes back, then is out fo another couple weeks or month. If insurance is designed for the big, long- term injury it may not help much with most of his missed time.
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