Jocko87

The whole point is to keep the window open, 24/7 like the 7/11. Talk of the window closing is a loser mindset. Very hard when these things are happening with payroll but just maintaining a top 10-15 payroll and solid farm system can keep the window open regardless of what the Dodgers do. This organization is well positioned to do just that with a little cash infusion.

Nothing new in the article.

Don’t link your own articles. It’s not a source. Also, wtf?

Exactly right.

I had the thought that AJ Preller gets a lot of press for being this great dynamic trader but does it actually pay off in the major leagues? This is a damning list, AJ Preller is actually actively bad at this. I had totally forgotten the Trea Turner as PTBNL one year after drafting him in the 1st round. Get him Derek! https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1348g0n/introducing_the_allpreller_trade_team/ Also a good list to refer to when we want our guys to just do something.

Can this phrase die already? Do the Padres not have such "self imposed" payroll limits? As for the topic, it's really hard to see this matching up and including Cease. I just can't see the Twins taking on salary in a position of strength when it would seem like that money needs spent elsewhere. Losing a high potential young starter to do it, even for one year of an ace, is quite a high price. Considering the main drivers for both sides are their umm, financial constraints, who takes on salary? Cease and Vazquez are almost a wash money wise. If it's a pure baseball move, I really like it if they can stay away from the top 7 ish prospects and Festa. Preller has a reputation for winning these things simply with high activity but I'm not sure it pans out with major leaguers.

Who’s on first? Who? First base. And so forth.

Just wait til something actually important happens...

Peak Brock is one guy that needs the rest of the depth to make it work. I just can’t see a path to a Peak Brock that also includes a peak workload. If they feel like they need him in 2 and 3 run games it will have an expiration date.

There is a better chance someone from the June draft makes it to the pen this year.

I don’t say this lightly as the resident optimist, but seeing him in the bullpen this year is a huge stretch. It is his destiny but the hurdles he will have to clear even to see 50 total innings are immense. Next year…

While I'm in full agreement that these trade scenarios are extremely sarcastic even if the authors did not write them in that tone, the rich sarcasm of Castro as the Twins best player won't be topped regardless of the clicks generator working overtime.

At this point I think the Dodgers are just trying to break everything on purpose. Everyone knows it’s broken but sometimes it needs to be laid bare how bad it could be. I’m also kinda curious about the history of the overseas free agents rules. Who pushed the carve out for 21-25 when that is such an obvious age for carnage?

I noticed the same. Management pet peeve, requiring make work in the scheduled slow times. We all know baseball comes with spring. We’ll be back….

Must be a lotta snow where the baseball writers are.

Cute to think he reads Twins Daily.

Any organization that is a top half (easily) top third in its industry despite a significant lack of financial resources is by definition a well run organization. A bidding war is not surprising. These are the situations that private equity drool and fight over. Justin Ishbia specifically targets businesses that are well run by a good management group that need capital to grow. The reason he does this is the management that succeeded without resources is best positioned to use resources smartly when they get them. Falvey is a made man.

Small distinction but very important for these things. These are not announcements, they are articles with the best info a reporter can put together. Every one of these items could still be incorrect.

That I don't know what fork in the road you are describing kinda proves my point.

There was never a path in the Twins Daily world.

I want one brother to own each team. The off-season would not be boring.

I’m now newly re-fascinated with the musical side of baseball. Iteration is iteration in any discipline and a good thing is still a good thing whoever thought of it. George Carlin — 'I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.' Also applies to baseball.

Interesting to bring aviation into it, as that is my career expertise. The point of view is really the only thing that matters. You got off your plane and assume success. The industry professional understands degree of difficulty and level of talent/luck/ability/retraining requirements that went into that success. We have a saying-any landing everyone can walk away from is a good landing, if we can reuse the plane it’s a great landing. In the same way, you notice many more mistakes by the orchestra than the average listener but we all know when an obvious error is made. I’m certainly not trying to jump on your area of expertise but I do know without doubt that within any group of high performers, from the New York Philharmonic to the Poughkeepsie municipal to the Blue Angles to the budget regional, there is a hierarchy of abilities within that group. And every single group has a top and bottom performer-it’s not optional. Within this structure, different things are required to that ranking. At the top of the scale, the gap is smaller, but the gap is always there. A quick check of the Philharmonic pay scale and first violin structure confirms that for me. That’s all a bit of distraction though, and I should have made the point this way in the first place. A 0.1 to 1% error rate for something one spends the majority of their waking hours practicing over and over again is basic expectation at the highest levels. A 97% success rate on an instant reaction to something that you aren’t sure what is coming is actually pretty darn impressive. We think we can see better than umpires and know everything with slow-mo and multiple cameras but the reality is we are just in the mosh pit cursing the concertmaster. It is a very interesting discussion though, probably better continued in the thread below. We’ve been having this very discussion for a while now about how we can use numbers better. Come on over. Moderation could move these posts as well. As for Erod, if we are still going into an umpire discussion a year from now he’s already sunk. No good players career has ever been derailed by a strike zone variation.

Well now, you’re speaking my language. As an umpire raised by musicians I am uniquely qualified to thread this needle. Using your orchestra analogy, how many of the musicians are asked to play every note? None. How many are asked to play the most complicated notes? A select few. (The major leaguers, if you will) The rest of the orchestra is just variations on the minor leagues. The minor leaguers are only asked to play the notes of which they are capable, which if we are honest is probably 75% of the notes. So now 1% seems much less impressive, doesn’t it? We could carry on with who gets solos and then gets to be a solo act but the nut of the matter is that in both music and umpiring it’s not the notes/calls that are wrong but rather the timing of the mistakes. A poorly timed gong is always a daywrecker. On the topic of Erod, he needs to unlock the ability Joe Mauer never could. When you get a cookie early in the count, destroy it. Pull it foul, who cares. Electronic strike zone or not, control the count by being aggressive when you get the chance.

This is quite interesting, especially with the White Sox sorta for sale. The Chicago boys would probably stay in Chicago if they had a chance, they seem to be in the cat birds seat at the moment. I'm ready to hear other names leak around the Twins. I'm really ready for Mat to own the White Sox and Justin to own the Twins so we can get really petty.