Jocko87

I think the other factor not yet mentioned is the relative tax situations of Maryland, Minnesota and Florida. It affects the price greatly.

Why would you be so certain when every reasonable examination of the situation would suggest the opposite is far more likely to be true. Did they get a CBA waiver for non-baseball related debt?

I'm trying to tell you that you should because it doesn't matter. Not one bit, It would be interesting to know how much debt the Rays have, sure. The Mets sold with $350m debt for a comparison. Every sold business has debt and every transaction sorts it out. I went looking again for, as you say, Pohlad connected sources, for the debt from other businesses angle. The only thing out there is Twins Daily fan fiction. The kind that gets letters from lawyers.

Please, please, please put heavy emphasis on the speculation about the debt. Nobody serious has reported it yet the Pohlad hate will make something like that too sweet not to believe. Never mind that number is nowhere near possible per the CBA. There are restrictions on non baseball related debt for obvious reasons. Not that I doubt there is debt, quite the opposite actually. I would be willing to bet quite a lot that Tampa has a similar debt load (From operations and hurricanes) but it’s not being used as a red herring in the negotiations. As many have mentioned, debt load on a property/business/franchise is not a new problem for anyone lightly interested in these deals and it isn’t a problem for selling the Twins. What we are most likely seeing is that they are more correct on market value than Forbes (shocker) and willing to wait. The O’s are probably a pretty good marker as well. Stop talking about the debt.

He went to the Rangers as a free agent. There was never a path for him to sign with the Twins. The Rangers aren't part of the trade equation.

What are those two teams, pray tell?

Dammit! Trade retrospective incoming.

Um, play baseball?

Protect the hand! He's not getting a time benefit from hand position, his technique had improved greatly. In the 4th yesterday his technique was crap with Elly on base and got worse after the hand got hit. Watch it again. Can't throw me out doing the splits to catch a high fastball, much less Elly. Same bad technique allows a delayed steal as well. The hand two inches into his lap makes no difference, it's not worth the risk of getting it hit.

That's on Jeffers. Protect your damn hand.

Guess it should have been Kiersey for Bride.

Bader home run in three parks. Yankees big field, Yankees junior field and this one. I guess since it did go out in Great America is has to count but the statcast guys have another anomaly.

Whoda thunk we would see Wallner here. Crazy. Fire Rocco, hurdur.

Comparing the catching pipeline to the pitching pipeline is the height of game thread absurdity..

Jeffers made three errors that inning. I hope his hand is OK and this is a benching.