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I wonder if Sano's health played a concern, as it's only recently that our own worries about his shoulder have been assuaged.

Drew's value to the next competitive Twins team is likely as a trading asset, not as productive player on field. Than the longterm question becomes is the price worth whatever upgrade Drew could potentially net over a high second round pick in this years draft.

1 Buxton 4 Sano 28 Meyers 40 Stewart 90 Berrios

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article//mlbcom-unveils-its-top-100-prospects?ymd=20140123&content_id=66929504 Only Berrios in 50-100 at 90. Just tuned in to see Stewart at 40.

One wonders how cheaply Santana and Jimenez can be had given the addition of the draft pick a team has to give up. Good deal for the Brewers; would have been nice for the Twins to have nabbed him.

That kind of thinking sure worked well for the Twins in the recent past... Quick and easy league translations probably aren't worth much when evaluating individual players, and probably only holding up in the aggregate.

That this is evidence of either an outstanding Yankee's offseason or the Twins systemic failures in free agency doesn't really fly with me. It isn't just money the Yankees are throwing at Tanaka, it also affects how players will enter in negotation with them. And the Yankees wonder why Cano insisted on 300 million? That he didn't get it, and Seattle gave him a less-absurd contract, doesn't make the Yankees smart. Cano is worth far more to the Yankees both in terms of brand and production, and it's the Yankees who are mostly at fault for pricing Cano out of their acceptable budget. Maybe things go alright for the Yankees the next couple of years. But don't be surprised when McCann moves from behind the plate, Ellbury's wheels continue to slow and break down, and Tanaka unforseeably gives up a succession of gopher balls in Yankee's stadium, people point back to this offseason as the end of the Cashman era.

I think some of the ETAs are typos.

She writes like a graduate student. While Masters and Doctorates are hardly meaningless, they are oversaturated in the humanities, and the quality of any given degree is pretty nebulous.

As much as you diminish May and Worley, I was surprised Revere fetched that much. Revere had phantom value, and the Twins used it to buy low on pitchers who had under performed their talent. Smart stuff, actually.

It seems people read the hindsight tea-leaves any way they see fit. The Phils, imho, panicked due to a depleted market, more than the Twins undersold Ben Revere. He's still Ben Revere, Willi; how much higher could the Twins have possibly sold him?

I think this is fair. However sound the methodology might be (the process with which we can actually repeat), if the results aren't there it's time to reevaluate the methodology, but we clearly are not there in this specific case. If May and Worley don't work out, it will still be hard for me to fault the methodology (and thus the trade at the time).

I disagree. There's a variety of reasons why players succeed and fail that go well beyond what a team can anticipate.

The Twins traded an organizational strength and a player who had likely out performed his ability for an organizational need (young starting pitching). That the deal hasn't totally panned out for the Twins (or the Phillies) doesn't mean it wasn't a good trade at the time.

Typically, I'd agree, but I wouldn't discount the organizational change. I'm sure the Twins' protocol for May's development asked him to do some things that made it necessary for him to repeat the league and held down his results. If May can stay healthy and even produce league-average results--that has a lot more value coming out of the rotation at 150-180 innings than say better-than-average results at 80 innings coming out of the bullpen.

When's the last time the Twins had 5 arms in the Top 10? It's encouraging that BA still thinks highly of May, especially in context of our stacked system.

This isn't an MLB shill that decided the punishment, it's a goddamn independent arbitrator that gave Arod the season ban. While MLB might be going beyond the terms of latest CoB, clearly such a case deserves individual jurisprudence. In Arod's case, there's simply a ponderous of evidence that defies the common rules. It's just ****ing sad. Sad that we lose one of the greatest players of the game to unadulterated egoism, and worse, puts the record book in such unsteady waters.

It is extreme; there's no position that can be held that's further extreme in this particular line of thinking. It's in academia's and scholarship's best interest to cast an umbrella as wide as possible--to give room for both the radical and the traditional to have a voice, no matter how extreme or blase. That said, there's a reason this kind of writing appears in a blog with the word "radical" in the title, and not in say The Chronicle of Higher Education. Academia has it's own systemic (and serious) problems, but this blog post isn't symptomatic of it (or at least not in the way you're implying). While this kind of writing can result in a PhD, it's not because this vein of thought is reminiscent of current feminist thinking; it's because academia doesn't really care what you write about or what positions you take as long as you go through its bureaucracy and utilize its vernacular. In general, like in all profession, the more you actually posit these kind of rock-the-boat positions, the less hireable you are--so while some professors might even pen an article like this, it's rarely if ever going to make its way into the classroom much less will it contribute to the real world problems women face. In this sense, academic extremism is a bit of a farce.

Like all causes, beliefs and fields of research there exists a wide variety of voices, which all claim the same label. Modern Feminism, as found with in academia, and really how most people identify with it, simply involves freeing individuals from their pre-defined gender and sexual roles. Something any reasonable person should be able to get behind. The idea that men are inherently violent is basically absent from credible Feminist thought, and you'll only encounter it from the most juvenile and oddly extreme of voices. While the paragraph quoted is extreme and is largely academic goobly-goop, if we replace heterosexuality with heteronormativity--that is that women have always been asked to engage in relationship with men in a way that might somehow diminish them, that there is a patriarchy found in our classical notions of how a man and woman should love each other--that idea is far more reasonable than the pedantic show-boating the blogger put forth.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10261922/baseball-hall-fame-class-2014-announced [TABLE] Player Votes Pct. [TR=class: last oddrow] Greg Maddux 555 97.2 [/TR] [TR=class: last evenrow] Tom Glavine 525 91.9 [/TR] [TR=class: last oddrow] Frank Thomas 478 83.7 [/TR] [TR=class: last evenrow] Craig Biggio 427 74.8 [/TR] [TR=class: last oddrow] Mike Piazza 355 62.2 [/TR] [TR=class: last evenrow] Jack Morris* 351 61.5 [/TR] [TR=class: last oddrow] Jeff Bagwell* 310 54.3 [/TR] [TR=class: last evenrow] Tim Raines* 263 46.1 [/TR] [TR=class: last oddrow] Roger Clemens* 202 35.4 [/TR] [TR=class: last evenrow] Barry Bonds* 198 34.7 [/TR] [TR=class: last oddrow] Lee Smith* 171 29.9 [/TR] [TR=class: last evenrow] Curt Schilling* 167 29.2 [/TR] [TR=class: last oddrow] Edgar Martinez* 144 25.2 [/TR] [TR=class: last evenrow] Alan Trammell* 119 20.8 [/TR] [TR=class: last oddrow] Mike Mussina 116 20.3 [/TR] [TR=class: last evenrow] Jeff Kent 87 15.2 [/TR] [TR=class: last oddrow] Fred McGriff* 67 11.7 [/TR] [TR=class: last evenrow] Mark McGwire* 63 11.0 [/TR] [TR=class: last oddrow] Larry Walker* 58 10.2 [/TR] [TR=class: last evenrow] Don Mattingly* 47.0 8.2.0 [/TR] [TR=class: last oddrow] Sammy Sosa* 41 7.2 [/TR] [TR=class: last evenrow] Rafael Palemeiro* 25.0 4.4[/TR] [/TABLE] * = lost votes from previous year Others receiving votes: Moises Alou, 6; Hideo Nomo, 6; Luis Gonzalez, 5; Eric Gagne, 2; J.T. Snow, 2; Armando Benitez, 1; Jacque Jones, 1; Kenny Rogers, 1. --- Who in the Twins media has HOF votes?

I'm pretty sure TR and the FO realizes what they have in Presley, a stop gap.

Moved back in the second round by trading Asher Wojciechowski, I then drafted Alexander Guerrero, which I felt was pretty good value.

Let's see what did I give up: Chris Davis Soler Davidson Berrios (a pick used from Dave for Scott Diamond) Pinto (waiver wire pick up) Two second round picks for Mauer Fister J. Hamilton Bucholz C. Johnson I was okay with giving up a few prospects, none beyond Soler a top 25 type, because I was going to get two guys in the draft (turns out it's Stewart and Frazier, which I figured I woudl end up taking all along). So I feel pretty good about my offseason. Not sure I totally understand the trajectory of your team, Mike. I thought you had another chance at an elite run, and I think you undersold on some veterans--though you probably know better about the prospects you picked up than I do.

Jim, there's also this TR quote, which seems more relevant: "We'll keep him under our eye, whether it's at spring camp or somewhere else," Ryan said. "That's a sizable part of the season, but that's the price you pay for not being responsible enough to understand right from wrong." While TR does condemn Rosario's actions and indicates a kind of vigilance/probation period, I don't think TR vilifies Rosario as a never do well. Though, I doubt we'll see Rosario in a Twins uniform this year.

Nightengale had it wrong evidently. 50 game suspension.