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  1. 70charger
    The upside is clearly the free poutine.
  2. 70charger
    Maybe because he loves it? I hope that's why anyway, and I would be very sympathetic to that answer. I doubt it's just about the money. In any case, I wish him the best. I'll have to catch a few Rockies games this year to watch the former MVP and former batting champ.
  3. 70charger
    Must be a teacher. Right?
  4. 70charger
    Another indy ball success story in the making? I don't mind minor league contracts for players that may have upside.
  5. 70charger
    Arencibia had Butera numbers last year. His OPS was about .600. Granted, that was at least 100 points lower than his last couple years, but do we think that he's a bounce back candidate?
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    I mostly agree with this, with the exception that I don't want anything to do with AJ. I'd have given Navarro a one-year stopgap contract at most. I'd be willing to live with three years for Saltalamacchia, but I wouldn't like it much. Also, the more I hear about Ryan Hanigan, the more I'm interested by the possibility.
  7. 70charger
    I agree with this, and I think Diamond is a great bullpen candidate. Maybe a long man? His left-right splits are weird, so I'm not sure he's a LOOGY.
  8. 70charger
    This is a major question this offseason, as I see it. Do we believe that Worley and/or Deduno and/or Diamond are going to become serviceable again? Especially Worley (in my opinion) has a chance to be good again, but we'll never figure it out if he's not on the 25-man, because he'll get picked up immediately somewhere else. Dare I say that those slotting Gibson into the rotation on opening day might be jumping the gun a little bit? He's got options, so assuming Worley does okay in spring training, wouldn't it be better to leave Gibson in AAA a bit and see what Worley can do?
  9. 70charger
    That isn't not a double-negative. (I actually agree with your take wholeheartedly!)
  10. 70charger
    So many people aren't reading the actual words that are right in front of them. There is absolutely zero inconsistency with saying both of the following things: 1) "We would give up our draft pick" and 2) "We do not plan to give up our draft pick." Clearly, it's not in the plan. Giving it up is not their first choice (duh). But I think it's also clear that if that's what it took to get them where they want to go this offseason, they'd in fact do it. "Would" and "will" are two very different concepts.
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    I don't think we can ignore the "substantial savings" bit. On the free agent market, you have to keep an eye on value. If we're not getting significantly more out of a guy like Arroyo (who I'm not opposed to signing) while paying him three times what Pelfrey would get, then we're getting value out of Pelfrey. A good value and a good player are, of course, very different things. But for a team with an eye on the bottom line, a world series winner is much more likely to come from home grown players whose costs are controlled, along with a few plug-in pieces that aren't star players but are good values. If this saves enough money over a guy like Arroyo to allow the Twins to go out and get a guy like Garza, then I'm all for welcoming Pelf back into the fold.
  12. 70charger
    Very interesting indeed. I'm not sold on Florimon's bat, and if Escobar can show more consistency offensively while giving up very little on defense, we may have a nice asset on our hands. I guess we'll have to see how things play out with Florimon. I have little faith, but what the heck do I know?
  13. 70charger
    1. Tickets have been easily available the last few years. 2. Tickets are one-day only. 3. You have to be okay with lots of waiting, bring a book perhaps, and bring cash to pay for the signatures of the people you want. Most good signatures are in the $15-40 range. Some are higher. On the other hand, minor leaguers are generally free, and I got a bat signed by Sano for exactly $0. I'm hoping that'll be a collector's item someday. If you've got buddies to go with you, it's much more fun. I go pretty much every year. It's a great way to get your Twins fix in middle of January.
  14. 70charger
    Well I actually am a geo-thermal-nuclear-physicist-meterologist, and if you look at the delta minus the gamma over the theta, there's a roughly 50% you might be right. Or wrong. I don't actually speak Greek. In any case, I think something is often lost in this dicussion, and that's the comparison. Is Salty a great player? No, not really, and he's not up for a Mauer contract anyway. Of course, talking about whether he's all that good is sort of a moot point if you look at who you're comparing him to. Doumit isn't a catcher; at best he's a DH, bench bat, backup catcher. Fryer isn't a major leaguer now or ever. Pinto really isn't a major leaguer either, but the hope is that he'll become one. Just because he had a September cup of coffee that looked a lot like Chris Parmelee's a few years ago, doesn't mean he's ready. Basically, in each case, I think you're comparing a serviceable-to-above-average major league catcher to a few guys that aren't in his class. The only real question as I see it is which other catchers could match his performance at his price or lower. I don't think Pierzynski is one of them. Who else is there?
  15. 70charger
    This is another well-done blueprint. Can't say as though I agree with all of it, but it's well thought-out, and it seems to make some sense. Good stuff.
  16. 70charger
    This is a blueprint I could really get behind. Well done, sir.
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    I don't think I'd go for either one either. I think Prince Fielder is going to remain good for awhile, but his prodigious weight combined with his prodigious contract are more thank likely going to make his decline phase an absolute dumpster fire. I think Mauer will age gracefully.
  18. 70charger
    I'm a lawyer. My partner is licensed by the USPTO. The Twins are doing this because it's good trademark practice. If you fail to police your trademark, a judge in a future case will find that you've abandoned the mark or acquiesced to its misuse. My thought is that the WWE, being a "sport" and certainly an athletic entertainment, is a prime target for a trademark policing action. The Minnesota Twins cannot afford to acquiesce to the misuse of the trademarked term "Twins" in any area of the sports and entertainment world. Will they win a lawsuit? If it goes to trial, probably not. Does it matter? Not in the slightest. If the Twins are vigilant about protecting their mark in all sectors of the sports and entertainment world, then judges in future cases will be more likely to rule in favor of the Twins the next time there's an infringement that actually might confuse consumers. If Twins just "let it slide," then the next time there's an infringement that actually might confuse consumers, the judge may "let it slide," because that's the way the Twins have done business in past.
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    Although Seth seems to have covered this well, I'll throw in my 2 cents, because my buddy and I were just talking about this while watching the Denver - Kansas City game last night. I was of the opinion that baseball was more on the cutting edge than football, at least as it relates to advanced statistics and "playing the odds." Frankly, if you have Peyton Manning anywhere past his own 40 yard line on fourth down and short, you should be going for it. Each and every time. The statistics show that the win probability would go up quite a bit if football coaches were less conservative in their play calling. Pretty much every coach is going to punt on fourth down unless they have to go for it. It's almost maddening. Fourth down isn't the only scenario either. So speaking of paradigm shifts, if any sport is begging for one it's football. You can make an argument that baseball is too, but I doubt baseball is at all out of the ordinary. And oddly enough, the changes in the respective sports seem to happen in opposite "directions." You're seeing quite a lot of very creative and odds-driven strategy in the high school and increasingly in the college football world. It "trickles up." If anything, the creativity in baseball trickles down from the highest levels.
  20. 70charger
    This is pretty much the ONLY criticism I think is reasonable about the Liriano deal. He was a terrible pitcher, he will be again soon, he was walking anyway, he didn't want to resign with the Twins, and literally the only thing to be done was to get something for him. You can argue that that something should have been something else, but I'm completely okay with how it went down. This trade was the furthest thing from ill-advised.
  21. 70charger
    What were we saying about bringing back the like button?
  22. 70charger
    I heard they just released version 2 of healthcare.gov on 14 floppy disks. So congratulations on your achievement.
  23. 70charger
    Yep, he must have been a good 250-260 pounds. Oh you mean pitching...?
  24. 70charger
    Consider me among the group that wants nothing to do with AJ now or ever.
  25. 70charger
    I actually think it's good and bad. As a catcher, he's not playing 10 more years. As a 1B, he probably is. Think of all the hits! Voters love counting stats. I also think that he declines more slowly, meaning that he could have some pretty impressive seasons even as an "old guy." Think Wade Boggs - he hit .300 when he was past forty years old. Of course, there will be a WAR difference without the boost from catcher, and there is the fact that bat-only type players that end up at 1B are going to be compared to Mauer from here on out. But even if Mauer isn't the clear-cut number one bat at 1B, I still think he accumulates enough WAR to make him a HOF shoo-in. Besides, I think everybody knows that he didn't want to move from catcher, and they won't penalize him for it. Call it the "Puckett effect." The circumstances are out of his control at this point. In any case, I think his body of work thus far leaves him maybe 2 or 3 more .850-.900 OPS seasons away from a no-doubter.
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