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  1. TheLeviathan
    A player's value is not the same as their trade value. I wasn't arguing he would reap some kind of huge trade reward, merely that people keep throwing out the idea that he's an easily replaced player. He's not. He's not great, but he has value. Players of value, especially those that can play a decent to good shortstop, are not easily obtained.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Some perspective: Adrianza was 28th among shortstops last year with an 82 wRC+. He was 27th by OPS. 31st in WAR. People talk about him like he's a trash heap player. He's not. It's the nature of the depth of middle infielders in the bigs, but people lose sight of that methinks.
  3. TheLeviathan
    That seems like the logical antidote.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Merely because another team did it is not good enough for me to try the same thing. Especially since Marwin had Bregman and Altuve flanking him as opposed to Schoop and Sano. I'm sure they will play him there a bit, but Adrianza was a .680 OPS player with a pretty good glove at SS. As hard as it may be to accept, this makes him a valuable player. As in, above average for what most teams have on their bench for SS. It ain't gonna be him they send packing. At least not until they think Gordon is viable.
  5. TheLeviathan
    It's Cave and then probably Romero. Or some other dude from the pen. Adrianza is this team's backup SS. He's not going anywhere. (Though he's been pretty bad so far, that's for sure)
  6. TheLeviathan
    Helluva nice win.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I hope he keeps this up. I'll gladly eat that delicious crow. And this might be the first sign that this FO can take analytics and deliver high end production by mining opportunities from struggling players. That's a very good sign.
  8. TheLeviathan
    Breaking Bad was near perfection for me. The Shield was good. This may be left field, but Star Trek TNG had a great run. DS9 as well. Dexter went off the rails long before the ending, so that made that disaster easier to handle.
  9. TheLeviathan
    My Odorizzi doubt is looking stupider by the day. And I'm fine with that. Also, Mitch Garver continues to call brilliant performances. I want the man behind the dish 75% of the time please.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I'm encouraged, but I'm far from sold on this group. I'm sold on Berrios though - he's a Game 1 playoff starter.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Sometimes you hit a buzzsaw. It happens, get 'em tomorrow.
  12. TheLeviathan
    I can't love this enough.
  13. TheLeviathan
    I was looking after your comment and Lewis isn't alone. Tucker and Senzel are struggling too. It's probably Rodgers for Colorado. He's raking in AAA and was 10th on MLB's top 100. Wander Franco has superstar written all over him too it seems.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Gotta love a W like that.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Last year Boston went 16-3 against Baltimore, 15-4 against Toronto, and 11-2 against the Royals/Tigers. Take that record (42-9) out of their overall record and they went 66-45. Still a good team, clearly, but not as gawdy. So, yeah, pound the bad teams.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I wish we had spoiler tags so I knew which moment you were talking about. I too would probably put this movie behind a few others in the franchise, but the big moments were some of the best I've ever seen on the screen. The one with Cap (you know the one).....damn.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Endgame is a masterpiece. It beautifully concludes the best franchise arch of all time.
  18. TheLeviathan
    It's not often you see a HR with that trajectory fly that fast. Thome is a good comp on that. Kepler seems so close to breaking out. He's having a nice start to his season but I feel like he's just a little push away from being a true force.
  19. TheLeviathan
    I can't judge a trade when the results are still unknown. Trading him hurt 2019, certainly. Doubly so when they had opportunity and did nothing. In the end, that's what bothers me most. I won't be the hypocrite like many here and complain about selling assets with limited team control, or fickle like relievers, in a lost season. I hope the prospects work out and I wish they'd have done more in the offseason, but I'm not going to start singing a different tune on what should have happened. The Twins acted correctly at the 2018 deadline, they failed the offseason after it.
  20. TheLeviathan
    You mean all the things you said in that last paragraph? Those. Along with the context of the position the team was at the time of the trade vs. now. How much time has passed matters. In three years and Alcala is a fringe all-star starter? Hell yeah I make that trade again. It's just not a fair way to frame the discussion. I'd prefer we talk about how dealing him, with no effort in the offseason, is the problem. It's the sum total of action/inaction.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Because your scenario takes a number of factors out of the trade that are relevant: like the performance of the team, team control, etc. Context matters a lot and rarely can you push that hypothetical fairly without a ton of caveats. It may well end up a bad trade. But we could go get Sam Dyson right now and we'd all feel a lot better right? Ain't the end of the world.
  22. TheLeviathan
    I wish there was a way to access the demographics of ticket-buyers over time. My family has gone from regular baseball game attendees to completely absent. I wonder if we're unique in that regard.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Right now the MLB demographic is old (45+), white, and male. They're the only segment of hte population with money to burning, which is why we havne't seen the breaking point. Yet. Because the people they need to replace those old white dudes are turning to other places because of the cost and a variety of other issues with baseball. At least that's my theory.
  24. TheLeviathan
    In my opinion, bleeding fans dry is a huge problem for baseball. All sports are overpriced, but relative to games played, baseball is pretty unique. Pretty soon they are going to be trying to squeeze blood out of a turnip. I hope more people, even if it's done as absurdly as St. Peter did here, realize the problem and reverse course soon. Or in our lifetimes baseball will be the new boxing or horse racing.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Pretty sure concession prices were ridiculous before any minimum wage laws.
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