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  1. TheLeviathan
    Honestly, this is a bad take. Stroman is a fiery, passionate kid with a ton of heart. I'll welcome more players like him to the Twins all day long.
  2. TheLeviathan
    I'm not a Ray fan. I don't think he'll translate well to the AL and I wouldn't trust him in a playoff start. They won't deal Bradley right now, too much talent and they'd be selling low. Grienke? I've made clear for months now how I feel about acquiring him. Make no mistake, they'll be selling by July.
  3. TheLeviathan
    I'm not a Ray fan. I don't think he'll translate well to the AL and I wouldn't trust him in a playoff start. They won't deal Bradley right now, too much talent and they'd be selling low. Grienke? I've made clear for months now how I feel about acquiring him. Make no mistake, they'll be selling by July.
  4. TheLeviathan
    It may be hard to differentiate the two. Players that start this late in the year are typically coming back from injury. I admit, I have no data on this, but it sure seems like those players are typically not their best the rest of the season. Now, that could be injury, it could be rust, it could be both. I'm simply saying there is a far higher degree of likelihood that a reliever we trade for is going to be what we expect in 2019. Kimbrel could be something of a wildcard. (Again, a wildcard I wanted. The downside is there, but so is the upside)
  5. TheLeviathan
    Um, it couldn't be more "reasonable". All baseball teams ask their pitchers and catchers to report a month or more in advance of the season. Why? Because baseball players, especially pitchers, need repetition to prepare their arms. Kimbrel may have been doing things on the side but that isn't the same thing. What limited data we have suggests that it is a challenge for players to come back from. Is it conclusive? Of course not, hence the words "possible" and "could". But the idea that a pitcher might struggle to come back right away after missing all of ST and two and a half months of the season is about as reasonable an assumption as one could hold methinks. (And that is to say nothing - NOTHING - about the wisdom of signing him. Just to have due skepticism about his impact this year. Had we signed Kimbrel, which I wanted, I'd have still wanted another reliever and starter. Same thing I want now)
  6. TheLeviathan
    Even if the D-backs do sell, I don't want Bradley or Ray anyway. If you're looking for the combo-platter - Toronto is the place to shop.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Right, we've seen how guys that were late to sign and missed ST really struggled. (See: Alex Cobb, Lance Lynn, etc) It's reasonable to assume that Kimbrel may be late in the summer, if at all, that he is an effective reliever. If you value 2019, it's possible we're better off trading for that help.
  8. TheLeviathan
    They just may not have trusted him to hold up as a three year investment. That's justifiable. It also makes it about the money. (Terms) As it is in 99.9% of all free agent negotiations.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I'm with you. I'm disappointed also. But we didn't lose out on Craig Kimbrel because of Wrigley, their fans, Old Style beer, elevated trains, or any other nonsense. We didn't want to match or exceed their terms. That's my point, I'm tired of hearing the litany of excuses every time we don't sign someone.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Well, why don't we just agree that the most likely scenario existed then? We simply did not offer as much money or years. The terms were inferior. And (deep breath everyone who bristled at that) that's.....ok. It's not the end of the world. It's ok for the FO to set a price and hold to it. But when players sign elsewhere they sign, the vast majority of the time, for the best terms. Not because of climate, how many parks they have, or how good the local burgers are: they sign for the best terms. We went out and did a damn fine job offering the best terms to Cruz, Schoop, Perez, and a few other revelations. We just decided the terms the Cubs offer were more than we budgeted. That's ok. (But then ya gotta go out and get the talent on the field some other way)
  11. TheLeviathan
    I said the other day that I thought trading season was going to start soon. From the sounds of the Yankees scouting Stroman and MadBum....that may well be the case. If we want arms, the time to be shopping is now.
  12. TheLeviathan
    The underbelly of this rotation still worries me.
  13. TheLeviathan
    4 shutout innings from the bullpen. If the last 72 hours taught me anything its to now conclude they will be perfect the rest of the year. Long term extensions for all!
  14. TheLeviathan
    I'll take Javy Baez.
  15. TheLeviathan
    I reopened a thread on this. Our pitchforks and torches need not leave this thread. It earned them.
  16. TheLeviathan
    There are ways to stream that are very budget friendly. I'm sure any of us whipper snappers could help you out in PM if you're so inclined.
  17. TheLeviathan
    They might have been. I don't have a lot of confidence in this bullpen going forward and the ERA ballooning that happened thanks to that game in Tampa and Parker the other night probably made quite an impact. And may be indicative of the future. That justifies concern to be sure. However, there have been people talking about how bad the bullpen is all season and the numbers just don't bear that out. Now, they may look bad if we keep the current bullpen and ride them out, but it's simply not accurate to say they've been bad so far.
  18. TheLeviathan
    They've also only blown 4 leads. There are three teams with three blown saves and a couple with four. They are 11th in baseball in K/9. They are 9th in K/BB. 10th in HRs allowed. I'm sure I don't need to explain that ERA is not a good measure of a bullpen.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Just because I can afford to pay you 100 grand for your Pontiac Aztek doesn't mean I have to. Look, I wanted Kimbrel, but there is a point at which we want our front office assessing risk and walking away from deals they feel the numbers don't justify. We shouldn't let our disappointment (which I share) cause us to think recklessness is a better idea.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Pretty well? The Twins bullpen has been pretty good so far. What we're talking about is how we upgrade to turn something we're all worried about into something we're not. But make no mistake, performance wise, this group has been good so far.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I was really hoping Randball Stu was going to have an article in which Ryan Pressly offers intimate candlelight dinners with TD posters so that they can shed all their angst and say goodbye. This'll do though.
  22. TheLeviathan
    I don't think it's fair at all. This is clickbait and TD is normally above that.
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  24. TheLeviathan
    Agreed, which is why I said we'll know the answer to that soon enough.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Guy has an OBP of about .450 and walks twice as much as he strikes out. MLB has him listed as a switch hitter and reports seem to say he can field well. Maybe he's a dude that with a swing adjustment generates a lot more power. Gotta love the bat skills though.
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