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  1. TheLeviathan
    You'd have 5M more to get bats and pitchers if you didn't spend it minimally upgrading your 1B position. 5M goes a long way with an infielder or reliever.
  2. TheLeviathan
    What is Cron? A replaceable corner player who has had one year that was pretty good. Austin was roughly what Cron was last year at 1/5 of the price. Take that 5M and add it to the price you are offering for an infielder or reliever. Having both Cron and Austin on this 40 man roster is not smart. Plain and simple. We're passing on adding better options elsewhere for a mild upgrade at best. It's the kind of nickel and dime, ill-thought roster construction of the past. I don't like it.
  3. TheLeviathan
    All of this and it shocks me that many posters here seem to think we can somehow roll with Cron and Austin on the same roster. The more time goes by, the more I hate this claim.
  4. TheLeviathan
    So....yeah....he's on the roster. Hopefully we can be done with that avenue of the discussion.
  5. TheLeviathan
    If this team marches into the year with Austin and Cron on the roster, you can just about raise the white flag on the season.
  6. TheLeviathan
    It's our modern mythos. And it's popcorn stuff, I watch all kinds of different things so I enjoy the super hero stuff as a nice slice of the pie. I'm sad to see the Netflix brand go, but it was waning in quality. DD season 3 was excellent and I'm looking forward to Punisher's second season, but everything since about midway through Luke Cage's first season has been mediocre to bad. All the Iron Fist, the Defenders, 1.5 of the Cage seasons, the back half of DD season 2, JJ season 2, etc. It's mostly been uninspiring. Still, end of a nice little era of TV.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Avoid this like the plague.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I don't know how a baseball team in 2018 keeps both Cron and Austin on the roster. And if they do....it sure as hell looks a lot like the Park situation where we had Grossman, Arcia, Mauer, and Park on the roster. I'd hope we all want those days to be over. Having a DH is fine. Having 2 or 3 of them.....not fine.
  9. TheLeviathan
    And the range of skill-set needed varies much more widely at the various IF positions than the OF ones. I like Nick's fourth point, if taken as "Let Austidillo play" I agree, let him play and see if you might have something pretty nifty.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Nope.
  11. TheLeviathan
    One look at Lemahieu's home/road splits should end anyone's interest.
  12. TheLeviathan
    For me the comparison is more along the lines of roster construction. Adding Park seriously hindered that rosters flexibility. If they keep Cron and Austin I see the same problem. If they only keep Austin...why do this at all? If they keep Cron we spent 5M for a marginal (if that) upgrade and still need a DH.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Low upside, nickel and dime moves. Those lose in the short and long term.
  14. TheLeviathan
    The Rondell White justification: "A couple million for him isn't bad!" I'm done with that.
  15. TheLeviathan
    "Limited upside" says it all.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I wasn't referring to talent, only about ill-advised roster construction.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Yup, this. It isn't anger, it's bewilderment.
  18. TheLeviathan
    This is reminiscent of Park and not in a good way.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Why acquire the more expensive guy in the first place? There is hardly time for anyone to prove anything before you are committed to Cron.
  20. TheLeviathan
    I can't follow that logic.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I guess I can't see this as being a depth move. If you make this claim, you're planning on him being more than that. Otherwise, it seems odd to want to commit a relatively significant amount of money to him. And where I struggle to see the upside is when you juxtapose what Cron can bring to what Austin can bring. There is significant downside in both of them as neither have established being a legitimate starting 1B at this point, but their upsides look roughly similar too. So....why not just keep the cheaper guy you already have on your roster? I don't know, I look at things through an upside lens. I want the Twins to make moves that will maximize their possible success. And I just don't see how this moves that needle.
  22. TheLeviathan
    What's the upside?
  23. TheLeviathan
    Don't you think this is a bit different considering his expected arbitration price? As Nick points out, I doubt the Twins make this claim without plans to have him on the roster. And that means they are planting (at least partially) their 1B/DH flag on Cron and a 5M commitment. People keep saying they don't see the downside, but the better question is.....where's the upside?
  24. TheLeviathan
    You must be new around here. Sit down, grab something with some kick in it, make yourself a drink, and let me regal you with stories of the Pohlads.....
  25. TheLeviathan
    If he's so easy to cut, and offers so little, I don't see the point in adding him. I don't see how someone can know that roster spots are limited and budgets are finite and make this point? He DOES have real costs. And 5M is NOT marginal for many of the needs on this roster
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