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  1. farmerguychris
    Its just another evolution in the game. If it works, I envision them being the norm in 5 years. Same thing as how the glove has evolved over 100 years - the bat will as well.
  2. farmerguychris
    My first thought goes back 3-4 years when people kept complaining about us drafting all these shortstops. Now we know why as very few ever develop into a pro SS at the MLB level.
  3. farmerguychris
    Hopefully he's been practicing grabbing the skip throws from Correa.
  4. farmerguychris
    Great idea! Wish we were going to be down there this year, but hopefully it will be a success and will become an annual event!
  5. farmerguychris
    I've been very intrigued by Pitcher Lewis since I learned about his ability to throw both with good velocity AND a knuckleball. Hopeful he can stay healthy because I'd love to see how that unusual combo of pitches can play in the majors and would love to see him.
  6. farmerguychris
    While we had a full pen, we didn't have anyone proven from the lefties. Can't fault them. Still hoping to move Vazquez and use those resources for a right handed 1B/CF backup (do those exist?)
  7. farmerguychris
    I mean.....define active. Most of us have possibly told our doctors we're a bit more 'active' than we really are also right?
  8. farmerguychris
    I think our catching depth has improved greatly over the past few months. At this point in his career, time for Vazquez to be shipped out for salary relief. It would have been difficult to do this with only Carmargo as depth - but now should allow us to make that move and still be OK. Hope to see that coming soon. For the article's subject matter - I think its pretty clear can only have a 3rd catcher on the active roster IF he can play other positions as well. The flexibilty they crave can be met with our new options.
  9. farmerguychris
    Sure - give caretakers first shot at available inventory, but I'd love to have them available to everyone for purchase who are too far away to attend the event.
  10. farmerguychris
    Awesome series of articles and very interesting! I hope you'll consider doing another such article on whomever the new owners will be on how they made their money, etc. Thank you for your efforts.
  11. farmerguychris
    I would expect he's just as excited for new ownership as the fans are!
  12. farmerguychris
    IF the owners were not planning on selling the team, I envision they would in the near future be looked at nationally like the owners of the Rockies and Pirates - Purely about making as much money as possible. Ownership change can't come fast enough! They may not get a passing grade, but if they make money, I bet you can take your failing grade and shove it in their opinion.
  13. farmerguychris
    I assume as soon as the owners recognize they need to spend a Major League level of payroll?
  14. farmerguychris
    I think you're spot on. Behind Carmago, we don't have much high minor depth. If we do move Vazquez (hopefully) statistics don't show we'll likely be able to go Jeffers/Camargo all year long due to the liklihood of injuries. Before this trade our catcher basket was empty, this puts someone there at the expense of losing a borderline pen lefty. Not exciting, but makes sense.
  15. farmerguychris
    Its not any specific players that they didn't bring back - but it is their lack of investments in new players that would help the team win games. Based on the Wolves example - winning more games, lead to a significant increase in the value of the team. Thus, instead of cutting costs to clean up the books, I'm suggesting if they invested more, hopefully resulting in more wins - the Pohlads would actually generate more revenue when selling the team. They could spend more to increase the value of the team (imagine what a World Series Contender could sell for vs a non-playoff team), conversely - they elected to cut payroll by $30M. That is what is confusing me - based on what is happening next door at the Target Center.
  16. farmerguychris
    I'm perplexed by something that hopefully someone can shed some light on it for me. Big Twins fan, but also casually follow the T'wolves. When Glen Taylor began selling the Wolves, he came to an agreement with Arod and co right? But now, he's trying to get out of that deal - in part - to the value increasing drastically when they made it to the Western Conference Finals - in part by spending to improve the team. Fan morale is higher than has been in a long time. Conversly, the Twins appear to be trying to 'clear off the books' of as much promised money as possible in hopes that the team (maybe) appears to be in better financial shape for a profitable sale. Why the different methods of increasing the value and wouldn't it be better to follow the proven method of Taylor and the Wolves - increase the value of the team by winning - instead of simply cutting costs to nothing and lose fans along the way? What am I missing?
  17. farmerguychris
    Sounds good if you can convince him to play for free
  18. farmerguychris
    Sounds good, but I expect would only happen if we see someone like Vazquez or Paddock moved first.
  19. farmerguychris
    I don't like it. This is why you can pinch hit. Don't fix something that isn't broken - why I'm watching less and less NFL is because they tinker too much with a good thing.
  20. farmerguychris
    Lets be real -the only way we'll add someone who has a $6M payroll figure is if we trade someone like Vazquez along with at least $6M of his salary. Otherwise there's no point in dreaming.
  21. farmerguychris
    Sure they're redundant - but thats OK because we have 2 spots open for them to play (LF, RF). As long as both of them are making the minimum salary (or close to it), I envision keeping them both around until new ownership decides what their payroll will be looking like.
  22. farmerguychris
    Another thought.... Don't you think Falvey is essentially working to keep his job next year? In order to impress the new owners and be allowed to remain in charge of the team going forward, wouldn't they look at the success of the big league team, instead of how good our farm system is - in part to whomever we got from Lewis in trade. I think keeping Lewis on our team (at his minimum salary) is better than anything we could get in return (also at minimum salary due to restrictions in place by ownership). Can't see them trading him for this reason alone - to make the big league team as good as possible for 2025.
  23. farmerguychris
    I'd be really bummed if we ended up trading him as he's become one of my favorite players when healthy. I know we seem to be on the path of becoming more and more like the Rays, trading young stars for future prospects right before they become expensive - but hope with new owners on the way, we simply hold onto him until we know what the new owners will do with payroll. I'd prefer we just hold onto him and see how good he can become - we could have a real star on our hands if he can get, and stay healthy.
  24. farmerguychris
    His value goes beyond WAR. His ability to shift from one position to another mid-game allowed us to put our best players on the field as the opposing pitchers changed. Considering most of our 'best' players only played a shortened season due to injuries, hard to see anyone but Castro or Santana being worthy from the position side of things.
  25. farmerguychris
    I sincerely believe it will be a platoon between Miranda against lefties and Julien against righties. Both can also play other IF possitions, which is unusual for first basemen. (other than DH). Hopefully the have asked Julien to keep working on his 1st base footwork over the winter.
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