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  1. h2oface
    Has anyone seen the details (I can't find it addressed anywhere) on whether this is Canadian or US dollars? If it is Canadian, and it is Toronto paying him, the talk should be about just under $105 million in US dollars by todays exchange rate - .80
  2. h2oface
    The Dodgers don't trade their stars - Kershaw, Jansen, Turner, Seager, Taylor because they only have one year left on their contract. They keep them because they make their team better! Then they resign them or not. And their farm system is still arguably better than ours. They certainly develop better pitching than ours. The Braves didn't get rid of Freddy Freeman because they were barely a .500 team in August. I could go on and on. Not all GMs do what ours always do. When you have home grown stars, many keep them. Because they are part of the fans' family, in a sense, and they make the team better. Sure way to make your team immediately worse.......... get rid of your best players.
  3. h2oface
    Damn. And it made so much sense! "Kidding on the square" I hope.
  4. h2oface
    How would I feel? I would feel they have no clue how to run a baseball team, that the Twins ownership and FO are liars, and they have no soul.
  5. h2oface
    The mantra remains until it isn't true, and not by what they say, but what they do. The Twins are just cheap. That contract should be able to go over 200 million with incentives! “Now, we’re working through understanding all sides of this ultimately. We’ll proceed accordingly. At this stage of the offseason, we’re still just navigating our strategy and planning and trying to understand what’s available to us and what the market looks like on all periods. As is always the case, this isn’t unique to Byron or otherwise, there are people on our team that are interesting to other clubs and we just always need to work through what does that look like, what does our team look like as we navigate it.” That is one souless and lost comment by Falvey. Still trying to understand? Seriously? Looks like the same old plan.... wait and see what is left, underpay them and make them happy like Lynn, and hope for the best. It sure was fun watching the Braves this year. They had some soul.
  6. h2oface
    I agree. Regardless whether the trade "works out" or not, the trade takes the team backwards on the way to compete in 2022.
  7. h2oface
    I haven't seen anywhere whether this is Canadian money or US dollars. If it is Canadian, at the current exchange rate, this is a $104.24 million US dollar contract. A mantra is a mantra, by definition, because it is repeated over and over ...... and over and over and over. It may be tired in this case, but "the Twins are cheap" rings true one more time. Mantra intact. I really am not liking my team that much these days..... Now they can sign someone that we can pretend to like, because that is the repeat here, and the other mantra that goes along with it.
  8. h2oface
    Maeda had a roughly 60 day hot streak. (Nolasco had a 2 month hot streak. Gibson had many 2 month hot streaks. Once about 28 consecutive scoreless innings.) This cannot, in my opinion, be an absolute projection to lasting a full season. That has never happened with Kenta. It could, maybe, in the future, but it never has to this point, even with the Dodgers. I think we were quite lucky it was a very short season for him. His performance becomes magnified, and so many were acting like, and expecting in the off season articles and preseason commenting that it was a sure thing to continue. History, and injury, shows the error. It could be all we get from Kenta, and Graterol becomes the dominant closer in the show. Calling this such a massive success of a move depends on the future. I hope it reaps more benefit than 2 months of very good pitching.
  9. h2oface
    No future as a judge........
  10. h2oface
    "As with any young players, especially pitchers, expectations need to be tempered when making projections for their impact on the team next season." Ryan is 25, will be 26 in June. Ober is 26, will be 27 beginning of July. I don't really consider these guys "young". These are the prime years. Soto just turned 23 and has 4 complete seasons in the show. That is young. These guys need to get on with it, and playing baseball comes with expectations. The sooner the better. Time is relentless. Ober is a longshot, and I am sure the Twins will let it go too far if he is failing. I think Ryan will shine.
  11. h2oface
    The most likely way to see Buxton in a World Series, is, like Eddie, for another team, because the Twins can't ever win a single playoff game, much more a series, and it takes at least seven, maybe 8 postseason wins to even get to the Series these days......
  12. h2oface
    Pay Buxton more than anyone else will pay him. Whatever that is.
  13. h2oface
    Buxton in Atlanta? Hmmmmmmmm
  14. h2oface
    That was sure a depressing summary that showed all the players that played on the Twins this year that aren't even worth keeping for basically minimum money. Just ugly.
  15. h2oface
    First of all, and mostly....... and will probably be ignored in any response made by any current or former management type fan commenter here that can't always help but align themselves with the organization (ANY organization) because it helps them self validate their lives and all....... one never knows how the changes will go, and all fans, including me, hope that the FO choices are successful (unlike just about every decision they made in the off season of 2020....). Wow. Every indication and SoCal gossip was that Tingler totally lost control of a clubhouse full of pretty damn good baseball players that the FO had given him, and they totally tanked in the second half of the season. Our guys have to know the history. This hire kinda blows me away. But I have no idea what happened to that team, and in the clubhouse. But I can't say, as a fan that pays attention to more than just Twins baseball, that I am any where close to a homer cheerleader about this hire.
  16. h2oface
    I think Mauer would have been a lock if he had retired (and therefore, forfeited his remaining millions) when he had the concussion. Like Puckett and Koufax (for example), there is a consideration for the lack of a lengthly career due to injury and forced retirement. Mauer was one of the best catchers that ever played the game. But......... he continued to play, and became an underwhelming bat at first base for many years, never made adjustments and became a feared power hitter (and he certainly had the size and and time to do it), and that will keep him out of the HOF. It might not be fair, as there is no doubt he was deserving as a catcher only, but the rest of the years count, too, and they are certainly not HOF caliber. My bet is that neither one gets in. But if I had a vote, I would vote for both. Molina, too.
  17. h2oface
    The obvious. Thanks for the fansplaining. Post of the year. ?
  18. h2oface
    I don't know that being drafted #5 overall means all that much,..... as I have vivid memories of 2013s #4 pick - Kohl Stewart, and 2015s #6, Tyler Jay. Hype fades fast at times.
  19. h2oface
    The 4 man rotation, and a damn good one.
  20. h2oface
    I can now see that to use Ted Williams as the metaphor was confusing to my point. It could be any of the great hitters pre-analytics. And not the old school "analytics" that were theory without the enormous pool of recorded data (as Ted would express), but the analytics as they are known and used today. Substitute a great hitter of your choice.
  21. h2oface
    I would believe those that watched the games. Gold glovers are far to often a reputation/popularity/mystery pick, and very often not the best defender. I didn't use negative filters to watch Simmons, but I saw him make at least twice as many errors as they scored him with. Official scorers are charity workers. But Simmons has a reputation, regardless of whether he can live up to it. Hell, Dozier even won a Gold Glove! Berrios deserves it. Too bad he isn't a Twin, now.
  22. h2oface
    Well, I hope he can earn the respect of the players. It's one thing for minor leaguers to buy in, but another for the Major boys to respect the 32 year old that wasn't able to get where they are. I know, coaching is different than playing, but there is still the respect ticket. Analytics might be the trend, but it may be the main reason for the increased time it takes to play a game. Amazing that Ted Williams and others could hit without the analytics, eh? San Diego tried the young unproven but obedient to the "plan" managers, twice, and now are moving to the proven Melvin. Time will tell, but it is not a hire that conjures confidence for me at the outset.
  23. h2oface
    So many other teams, including Freddie Freeman and the Braves, don't worry about having to trade the best player on the team when his contract is expiring, and keep them all year, and then try to resign them. The Dodgers did it with Justin Turner last year. They will do it with Kershaw and Seager again this year. The Giants will be doing it with several key players. The Yankees do it all the time. The Twins always seem to get the player so alienated by that time that they are convinced that they have burned their bridge to signing the player in free agency and then make the prospect trades that never seem to pan out to be anywhere close to equal value, and then they take years to mostly fail in the system and have no value to trade. No way trading Freddy Freeman last spring would have made Atlanta a better team, as is the current mantra. The best value of a star is the last season you have them, not the hope and dreams failures of the prospect world. I think you are right about the "loud minority". It is a minority. But it is also the FO, who are only Twins' fans by contract, and they pull the strings.
  24. h2oface
    That is what they say, but then, when the game provided too many home runs and scoring, they said they changed the ball to be less tight and have more drag and not fly as well. Less excitement. Then the pitchers were too good, and the scoring went way down, and so they enforced a rule they were ignoring about doctoring the ball, and it was supposed to compensate back to more home runs and scoring. How did that work out? Seems they can't make up their mind. The best thing they could do is take away the balls a strike calls from the plate umpire, as it is disgusting to see how many wrong calls they make, and how it cheats every game that is played. It becomes fake if the most basic part of the game is always a joke, which it is as long as they continue to let umpires guess and make so many wrong calls. It doesn't have to be for years. It would make for a quicker and more real game. New fans don't buy the "it all evens out" crap. And rightfully so.
  25. h2oface
    Was Sano hitting?
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