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  1. Thrylos
    Sports memorabilia company X pays Rod Carew Y amount of $ for Z number of autographs with the inscription "HOF". Their contract includes the clause that he cannot sign autographs with that inscription for a certain number of years. Company X owns the market for Carew "HOF" autographs.
  2. Thrylos
    About this Morris thing: people should let it rest. He does not belong to the Hall of Fame. Morris has a 39.3 career rWAR look at the following non-HOFers Dave Stieb: 53.5 David Wells: 49.4 Jimmy Key: 46.1 Doc Gooden: 45.1 and here is the kicker: Frank Viola: 43.7 so if Twins' fans want to lobby after a former P to be in the Hall, it should be Frankie V (who had a Cy Young award and a WS MVP as well) or even Brad Radke: 42.6 (but from another era)
  3. Thrylos
    Because of the spitball? (which was legal until practically the '30s and was the main pitch of another Hall of Famer - Ed Walsh...) Hard to start those witch hunts...
  4. Thrylos
    Mine (and the explanation is here) Hall of Fame Ballot: Bonds, Clemens, Bagwell, Schilling. Since players like Larkin, Alomar and Dawson have been recently elected, got to add: (hall of very good) Walker, Trammell, Raines, Palmeiro, Lofton, Martinez Biggio (even though better than Dawson) is the 11th man and loses by a hair.
  5. Thrylos
    Here is part of the issue I have with this: - Amphetamines are PEDs and now verboten like steroids - Hank Aaron is on the record in a televised interview with Bob Costas (this one) admitting that he has used amphetamines (i.e. PEDs) - Several of the guys who were not voted today were never convicted or admitted to taking PEDs; a couple of them actually proven innocent in courts of law. So the writers are going on a crusade based on I don't know what, forgetting the "innocent until proven guilty" including the ones who were proven innocent, while a. ignoring admitted PED users already in the Hall (Hank Aaron) and b. (one idiot) voting for Aaron Sele the same time. Hypocrites if you ask me. Do I like Clemens and Bonds? No. They are A%$Iols. Ty Cobb was probably a bigger one than them. Do they all deserve to be in the Hall? Heck yeah.
  6. Thrylos
    turn the "how" into "because" (i.e. dealing players like Hunter, Cuddyer, Morneau, Willingham at their highest value before they become too expensive to keep or too bad to get anything in return - eg. Liriano) and you got 50% of your answer. The rest would be not about a quarter not signing oldies but not goodies because you need proven "inning eaters" (Correia, Blackburn, Pavano), "closers" (Crapps), "infielders" (Punto, Carroll) or keep horrible players around (Butera) and about a quarter having an analytics department that is able to crunch numbers and identify targets based on performance and not on whether they can "spin the ball", "kill worms" or "battle their tails off"....
  7. Thrylos
    Well, not exactly. Here is my take: (copying and pasting from the MLB HOF website, bold for emphasis is mine : ) Since 1936, the Baseball Writers' Association of America has held the exclusive voting privilege to consider recently retired players for the National Baseball Hall of Fame Who gets into the HOF is a matter and responsibility of the HOF board that delegated that privilege to the BBWAA and the Veterans' Committee. I think that if that idiocy with the writers' voting continues (a vote for Sele, really?) the HOF should and probably will revoke that privilege and find another way of inducting retired players. In 1936 there was barely TV and the writers were the only ones who had the ability to see the players in a regular basis. In 2013 this is not the case, so the need for the writers to be the ones voting should go the way of its (almost) co-current alcohol prohibition That simple.
  8. Thrylos
    Blackburn has 2 young kids (and 2 more are on the burner.) That much for training
  9. Thrylos
    +1 Bret Boone, Tony Batista and Brian Buscher are also available and Ryan knows those guys pretty well too...
  10. Thrylos
    Love your Burris placement btw Main reason is that he has a plus (soon to be plus plus curve) and there are not many pitchers around who can claim that. One can live with an average-plus FB and a change of pace change as long as he can control that FB and throw the nasty curve any time in the count for strikes.
  11. Thrylos
    Been a while I will let you know about A in March after I come back from ST and not sure about B any more. He has had 3 pitches. Not sure how much the change has improved.
  12. Thrylos
    I have just a simple question: in a 99 + 96 loss team that has a 9th (Perkins) and 8th (Burton) inning guy, how much a priority should be a 7th inning guy? Given the 99+96 Ls (in my book, I wouldn't even waste $ extending Burton - he is 31 - trade him. Get the kids to pitch in relief and there are many college power arms coming in the pen from the recent drafts. But Ryan has millions to throw away to the likes of Correia and Burton)
  13. Thrylos
    Really? Huskey??? He was not even the worst player in that lineup that season. That would be Matt LeCroy. with an OPS+ of 46 that season vs. Huskey's 64. Huskey has a career 96 OPS+ in the majors. I can thing of many worse players to wear the Twins' uniform. He had a bad half season. So what? Are you going to include Steve Carlton in the series as well, because he really underperformed when with the Twins? Gee. If you want to do a father and son special, pick the Buteras. Neither of them can even dream to be half the players Huskey was.
  14. Thrylos
    Nope. But giving a lifetime achievement award to someone who already is in the Hall of Fame is somewhat silly. Like giving Babe Ruth a lifetime achievement award in Baseball.
  15. Thrylos
    Maybe a little known fact (at least to the ones who have not yet visited Hammond Stadium at Fort Myers.) : In addition to Hammond Stadium being the home of the Twins for Spring Training and the home of the Fort Myers Miracle in the Florida State League, it is the home of the Baseball Scouting Hall of Fame. A bit understated (a bunch of plaques on the wall), but Terry Ryan is already included among the other members. So: Terry Ryan is in the Baseball Scouting Hall of Fame. Why would a lifetime achievement award would top that?
  16. Thrylos
    Not for a while yet. But do not worry. If you are interested in going to the Twins Spring Training, the game tickets should be the least of your worries. I would suggest that you take care of the air/hotel/car first. Then show up in the ST area (i.e. drive to Hammond Stadium) a couple of hrs before the games (and plenty to see in the Minor League parks) and you will find tickets close to cost as soon as you will park.
  17. Thrylos
    Seth, we are talking about different things you are giving me the scouting stuff (upside, velocity, comparables) "soft" evidence in my book. and I am saying that the guy did it and has done it better than the other 2. Look at the numbers. "hard evidence" in my book He is topping out higher than Dickey right now, correct?
  18. Thrylos
    So, in other words, is Anthony Slama a worse bet to be more effective in the majors that (let's say) Ryan Pressly or Caleb Thielbar based on what the 3 has shown in the minors? (I don't think so, btw)
  19. Thrylos
    Those are always hard to do, but one of them sticks out like a sore thumb: Trevor Bauer (Indians). He is on the Meyer/May category: Never pitched an inning in the majors. And he was never as good a prospect as Pelfrey was I'd add Harden to the list and remove Bauer (for the reason mentioned above) "quality" is subjective and really it translates to "results". Couple of the Twins' signings have had high ceilings and one reached it but they come from injuries. (Harden, Pelfrey). Peavy was out for a while because of an injury. If Harden really comes back, he will rank ahead of Peavy and ahead of Sanchez, right at the Shields' level. Pelfrey has been a good pitcher when healthy and at least at the Santana level. Worley is young and should be ahead of the Guthries and Myerses of the world. And last time Myers started in the majors was a few years ago. Correia is Correia and we will figure out what that is, but I don't have much hope; I am thinking Blackburn, and if he is anything better, the Twins will be ahead.
  20. Thrylos
    "or what" is more like it. The startup costs are < $50-100 K a ballpark and, even though most affiliates will whine about it, the MLB clubs can foot the bill (and write it off) in a jiffy. You mention "owners" and "players". The big issue is the party you don't mention and the one that will get the most exposed by it: Umpires. PitchF/X knows the strike zone and can show how bad home plate umpires suck It is all politics
  21. Thrylos
    ok, guys (Seth and Shane) : Is Slama a prospect? He fits both of your criteria as time (not) spent in the majors. And he has actually pretty darn spiffy results better than a lot of the high ranked relievers in the high minors...
  22. Thrylos
    Congrats on the job and enjoy the move.
  23. Thrylos
    I think that it is close. And again, (great post btw.) we are talking about a best-case scenario. A scenario where all the pitchers the Twins have signed are healthy and effective. In that case, Diamond will be number 4 and the rotation would look like this: Harden Pelfrey Worley Diamond Correia If I think of these guys at their best (remember, best case scenario,) this is not that bad of a rotation. And Gibson and Hendriks and Meyer and May on the wings. The problem I have is one that will be even worse, if the Twins add another arm without subtracting someone because the above 4 are already blocked... and I am not even mentioning Blackburn.
  24. Thrylos
    Pelfrey probably... Interesting stuff. The big question is: Who is in the driver's seat and who is in a supporting role: - Are the scouts driving and the analytics people supporting them? - Is it 50-50%? - Are the analytics folks driving and the scouts supporting them? Methinks that (based on the number of the staff - ie. the "dedication" of the organization to analytics - a guy and an intern-kid, compared to that of the number of scouts and the background of the people in the decision making positions) this is all for show: They got a guy because they did not want to be seen that they did not have one like the other organizations do. Unless they invest in it, data analytics capabilities do not grow on trees.
  25. Thrylos
    I don't think that anyone who watched TK towards the end would agree with this statement Agreed. TK of the late 80s was great with the kids, not the one of the late 90s. Gardy's main weakness, relative to his predecessor, is his ineffectiveness in the postseason. TK hit home runs both times he got the Twins' there. Gardy (with better teams; including one that had both the CY and MVP winners) was one and out often and early.
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