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  1. biggentleben
    I think we agree, but in different ways. If you read scouting reports, a guy with excellent two-pitch mix at good velo with stamina enough to last in the rotation will often be pushed to develop a third pitch to a fringe-average level. Then he can put up 200 average to above-average innings as a predominantly two-pitch guy, working as a 3/4 guy in a rotation. That's how I see Gray and Archer both - dominant two-pitch guys with fringy stuff otherwise but the stamina to work a lineup multiple times (and often good K numbers to make people think they could be more than they are). A good example from the recent past is Derek Lowe. He was essentially a two-pitch pitcher, with a dominant sinker and slider. He used his change over 10% of the time multiple times in his career, but it was never a great pitch for him, working within 5 MPH of his sinker as a starter. He was able to be dominant as a closer and an inning-eater mid-rotation guy, making at least 32 starts for the next 10 years.
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    I've never complained about this particular deal. I do think it's on the high side of value, primarily because I've heard the value of a lot of teams of the pick that the Reds just gave up, and combining that with Long, who is one of their top-10 prospects is more of a #2 value, rather than a #3 that should be on the low end of his value right now. However, overall, this is not a bad deal for what Gray's overall value is. That said, I'll continue to beat the drum that many Twins fans beg for brand names when they have guys with as much or more talent sitting in AAA that are getting pushed out by additional name guys. It's why I mentioned the pitching strategy I did early in the offseason. Using guys like Gonsalves, Romero, Littell, Stewart, De Jong, Thorpe, and guys like Poppen, Jax, Wells, and more as they got ready. Rather than dump big money into a guy that you can't pull out of the rotation due to your investment, getting guys like Perez that are flyers and can be shoved to the bullpen or released if they don't succeed are great gambles. The Braves had multiple guys like that last year, two of them competing to the end of camp for a job in Anibal Sanchez and Scott Kazmir. Kazmir's money was paid for already through the deal to acquire him, so cutting him didn't hurt at all, and he wasn't able to win a job in the rotation or bullpen. Sanchez was stellar and continued that into the regular season. That's more what the Twins should target while leaving the door open for their young guys to push their way to jobs.
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    One tweet from a top athlete can have 5 figures in likes and retweets. You do realize that a large majority of the responses to a Trump tweet are automated and not real, right? Influencers are not considered based on their responses for sure.
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    "My apologies" and then continuing an unbased bashing is akin to "with all respect" and then continuing with the disrespectful comment. It negates any need to reply to the content of the message for sure.
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    Exactly. I have an incredibly busy news feed. The majority of baseball writers/scouts/news folks converse over Twitter or various Slack channels. It's used often without the tweeter in chief.
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    About the only thing that Cabrera has on Schoop is switch-hitting. I'd trust Schoop for better defense, better contact, better power, and more ability to play multiple positions around the infield if that's a need over Cabrera.
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    This is shameful. The vile stuff they leave up and won't even remove, let alone ban, the continued presence of Donald Trump on the platform, and this is what gets the ban hammer?!
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    This was a great run down as well, with a lot of thought to the mentality of Natives that would have been present.
  9. biggentleben
    Multiple videos that have come out have shown that Phillips was attempting to walk to a place between the two groups and Sandmann stepped in front of him to stop him after the crowd had opened up to allow Phillips through, knowing what his intent was. The boys are also on video adorning their MAGA gear after the rally and then harassing multiple women on their way to the mall. They were not supposed to be anywhere near the Lincoln Memorial, however, and they were told of the IPMDC19 going on at Lincoln Memorial and told to give space, so their presence there was not accidental at all. There are many more videos that have come out from members of the IPMDC19 group and the Black Israelites that show very different things than the first longer video. Odd that none of those videos has been retweeted by every Faux News fanboy/fangirl online.
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    Gray and Chris Archer are absolutely on the same page to me. I'll pay for a #3 starter if I'm trading for them, and there is value in that, but neither is an ace, no matter what split you pull up.
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    Also a draft pick that went...and that's not a small thing.
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    I tried to find it a picture of it and couldn't, but one player mentioned that at their last White House visit, Obama was on his way out of office in January of 2017, and they ate in a White House dining room set up in small tables so Obama could move from table to table talking with players, and this player wouldn't "testify in court to it", but he was pretty sure Obama hit every single table in the room during the multi-course meal. From a sports reporter in DC, he mentioned that one of the guys who really did up WH visits was Dubya, which echoed his father, who really made the visit a "thing" for any champion, not just professional sports.
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    The thing is that unless the school pays for the transportation to such a dinner, the team could be in violation for taking such an offer. Seriously, though, I have had a chance through connections with a few players on the team to find out that multiple Clemson players had to borrow money in order to rent suits and/or tuxes for the occasion due to their size making borrowing a typical "suit from a friend's dad" option not a possibility. The team is incensed that they were then served fast food. Cold fast food. With the President not even staying to speak with the team and eat with them. While I can't directly name the source of the quote, the best line back to me was this one: "You get why the Warriors and other teams didn't want to bother with the visit to the White House. Guys talk about their family members getting to sit down with other Presidents and talk ball over dinner. He didn't even stay long enough to let the whole team get into the room where the food was before he left."
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    Funny part is that this has bumped him up so much in the eyes of many people. He was not a great draft prospect entering the 2018 draft, regardless of whether football was involved or not. I had him just ahead of #50 predraft, BA had him #68, and Keith Law had him ranked highest in the mid-30s. Murray's incredibly raw and needs multiple years in the minor leagues. For some reason, this whole situation has put multiple national baseball writers out of their mind, saying Murray would be in the majors as soon as the end of this year or even 2020. Neither is remotely feasible.
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    The real crap of this is that the players were required to be at a dress code, some of them had to borrow suits and/or tuxes as they did not own one or have the money to rent one. They were not pleased about this choice of food, yet the POTUS wants to claim that they "wanted" this. Seriously, wtf.
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    The CBA has a luxury tax that is a major impact in considerations. That is what holds down a lot of these arguments. Could the Cubs sign anyone they wanted? Sure, but they have exceeded the luxury tax multiple seasons. If they do it this year, they will lose draft picks and international money.
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    He made all his starts in 2018 in a one-month period. He made 7 starts with a 6.12 ERA. Not being deceptive or anything at all. He really worked well in that role.
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    So who will now run those 1-900 lines with a Jamaican accent?!
  19. biggentleben
    My mom always said I'd be good in that job. Maybe that's part of why I've done fairly well the last few years?
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    It's an integrated Roku into an LG set...about 4-5 years old.
  21. biggentleben
    Depends on how they're used. Santiago in a long-relief, spot-starter sort of role is a "solid" addition. Last year as a reliever, he tossed 74 1/3 innings over 43 appearances, with a 3.87 ERA and 10.4 K/9. Nothing earth-shattering, but for a million dollars as a long relief type, that's a solid pickup.
  22. biggentleben
    I know that the superhero genre is a bit hit and miss, but I really enjoyed Aquaman, and what I really enjoyed was that I took the kids for the oldest boy's 7th birthday, and the movie was not beyond their grasp or beyond what I'd want them to watch. I have a boy and a girl that absolutely love Batman, but no way can they watch any of the Batman Begins, Dark Knight, or Dark Knight Rises. The visuals in the movie were tremendous on a big screen as well.
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    Would not allow me to utilize my Roku unless it was paired with a game console controller rather than the usual remote.
  24. biggentleben
    Three more since that trade even this weekend...signed Hector Santiago, who is a solid piece for a pitching staff, traded for J.D. Davis, and traded away Kevin Plawecki to the Indians.
  25. biggentleben
    Multiple reports at the time he was banned were that Rose bet on his own team. That would absolutely change how he may manage the team. Some of those reports have been called into question, but nothing has ever completely removed suspicion of Rose betting on the team he was managing. That's a major no-no. There's also way more than an "everyone else was doing it" to the 1990s. I put out a piece about a year ago with a lot of research on the offense in the 1990s, and many did similar last year on the 30th anniversary of the home run chase. The basic underlying theme: there were a lot of things going on beyond PEDs. Two expansions within 5 years, all but a handful of the league changed stadiums into smaller stadiums in about a 10 year time span, the ball changing, change in the wood used in bats, first real introduction to free weight strength training league-wide (the first full-time strength coach wasn't hired when the Twins won their last World Series for perspective), changing strike zone, and emphasis on velocity in pitching leading to a much higher average pitch velocity across the league. There are smaller factors as well involved, but those are the biggest ones as I asked around the game.
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