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  1. 70charger
    I think all three of us who have replied are on the same page, but maybe talking past each other. I'll go ahead and take responsibility for being the inscrutable one. To simplify my point, you would 100% expect a total failure at drafting and development to put a team where the Twins have been over the last several years. That failure indicates everything about the process. (Which may be where I was unclear? I didn't think I suggested anything other than a general indictment of the Twins' process.) The actual results in the win-loss column would be exactly what you would expect for a team at the very bottom of the chart that was posted originally. Thus, at least for the Twins, this chart is not confusing in the slightest. It indicates what we already know.
  2. 70charger
    Which is more or less what I said. And which is exactly what the last several years proves. I suppose I should add that this win-loss analysis does depend on the team having failed to acquire high impact free agents (i.e. isolating the draft in the analysis) which I think we all agree is mostly true. But if you fail at that and you fail at the draft, you end up with our 2011-2016. Some fluctuations may be noise but with the lack of impact free agents, only a massive failure at the draft could explain the Twins' utter futility over the last several years. When it comes to our team, these results are laughably easy to interpret.
  3. 70charger
    So the drafts that were most likely to produce the successful core of the first decade of the 2000s aren't here, by definition. The drafts that happened over the last few years are unlikely to have produced many players yet, by simple timing. And in between we have five of six seasons of absolutely tragic win-loss records. And Jeff Sullivan is unsure how to interpret the results? Sounds like they've already been interpreted. I'd be shocked if they were interpretable any other way...
  4. 70charger
    Why is Radke so criminally underrated?
  5. 70charger
    There's a pretty vast difference between, say, signing one guy for $5 million or signing five guys for $1 million each. You may call the latter quantity over quality; I'd probably say it's both. Either way, before making any real statements on this, I'd assert the necessity of defining our terms. For example, a guy like Rosario at $85k - for me - definitely falls into the definition of a "quantity" guy. That said, when you get a chance to break the bank for a guy like Sano, for whatever reason, you do it.
  6. 70charger
    Besides, which is more rude: getting a shot in bigs that lasts two appearances, or not getting a shot, not playing in the majors, and not being added to the 40-man?
  7. 70charger
    Baseball decisions should never be made on the excitement level of the family. Look, it's a cutthroat business and the players know that when they sign the dotted line. We all like feel-good stories, but that's no way to run a baseball team.
  8. 70charger
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  10. 70charger
    Welcome to the big leagues. Also, you got this!
  11. 70charger
    Hope he likes Oklahoma City. (Yikes.)
  12. 70charger
    Would prefer [international] pool cash, but I appreciate the reference.
  13. 70charger
    Athletic.
  14. 70charger
    Will Rosario go down in history? Or will he tell his grandkids about how he struck out Pujols?
  15. 70charger
    Surely he can't look worse!
  16. 70charger
    Yeah, I quote myself. What's it to you?
  17. 70charger
    Yes. Yes we can.
  18. 70charger
    But if you stay until the end, and then hang around for another half an hour contemplating the existential consequences of the loss, there's hardly any traffic. So there's that.
  19. 70charger
    It's 11-2. Can we see Rosario?
  20. 70charger
    I don't think that's a double for very many people.
  21. 70charger
    Yeah you will. Just always wear the gear and keep your head on a swivel.
  22. 70charger
    Ha ha ha ha ha gross.
  23. 70charger
    It was the Pirates. You're thinking of the Pirates. Oh wait, you said not to tell you. My bad.
  24. 70charger
    What he said. Also Buxton is good at defense.
  25. 70charger
    And here I thought it was a six run lead against the Astros.
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