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  1. TheLeviathan
    This team has the worst 2 minute offense I have ever seen.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Our Debate A person did their best with a difficult topic, but at the end of the day their argument was predicated on two hurdles I don't think are all that hurdle-y: Adding them would inflate the union too much and what to do about their dues. There are solutions to these problems that don't have to be catastrophic for the union. For example, maybe each minor league team has one representative and as a team they split the union dues. You're adding roughly 150 representatives then, enough to be significant but not detrimental. Or maybe you send two voters. Whatever helps keep the balance from going too far one direction. They need to be fairly represented, especially since the league's ability to act like a monopoly and control career paths is protected by Congress. Right now they aren't and the only path forward is through some new formation of the union.
  3. TheLeviathan
    I don't drink, but the day he's no longer a Viking I might get black-out wasted I'll be so happy celebrating his depature.
  4. TheLeviathan
    From the "News that will Shock You" Desk..... Barr and Pierce are out. Money well spent.
  5. TheLeviathan
    I would more politely agree that the FA prices here are too low. Stroman is at least 5M short, probably more. Gray is 5M short. I think Baez is 5M short. That puts this closer to 155M, which should still be in the realm of possibility IMO.
  6. TheLeviathan
    My point was I'm not sure either care. A lot of what you and I are both saying might be well beyond what is being discussed. The reports we had midseason is that the sides weren't that far apart at a price most here think is insultingly low. I would bet the Twins putting six years on the table north of 15M renders most of the escalations vs incentives rather moot. If this gets done I'd put money on it coming in lower than either of us project with less sexy escalators or incentives too. For fun I will stick with my high end projections and tip my cap that you might well be right about the sticking point. But I still can't shake the feeling we all get shocked by the low sticker price if it gets done. Time will tell I suppose.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I think even more rare than finding a 10 WAR position player who plays 70 games is finding a team willing to give them 7 years and anything with even a chance of cracking highest AAV in the league. We are all too attached emotionally IMO....I think the Twins have a lot more leverage than we think if they are putting 6 years on the table.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I'm asking purely out of curiosity....how many contracts have that sort of incentive? It feels out of the norm by a lot and more like we're trying too hard to add cherries on top of our speculation. I'm not sure that's really going to matter to an agent. All I could find was this.
  9. TheLeviathan
    All fair, but Mike Trout is Mike Trout. Him being at 37M is exactly why I'm capping at 30M.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I'm close to this. I raise the floor a bit on a yearly basis and lower the ceiling. Those ceiling numbers are out of whack with baseball and probably not all that enticing for Buxton. 7 years, 17M base with relatively easy incentives to make the 20-22M range and games played incentives to land around 25-27. Max out at 30M if he's an MVP.
  11. TheLeviathan
    There is no one giving Buxton 30M. He might get between 20-25M on a one year deal with options, but that's it. Baseball does not hand out big contracts - term or AAV - to guys with this many red flags. An extension should have a base around 16-18M with incentives that can reach 25M.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Not defending Schefter, but I'm pretty sure the scope of his job is to just put his name on red hot tweets first.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Worrying about Colorado players is not unreasonable. However, Gray has a history that ranges from Average Pitcher to Stone Cold Bad Ass Pitcher. He is a bit erratic on that spectrum, but I don't see a single starter on the FA list with as much potential to make his contract look like a steal as he does.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Jon Gray is not a "back end" starter by any rational use of that term. If someone of Gray's quality (and moderate upside) isn't good enough to be appealing I don't know what you think is reasonably possible to do.
  15. TheLeviathan
    None, I think they'll have to eat about 7M for the next two years. That's still 18M a year to play with though. And yeah, if they Terry Ryan that money away it will be a terrible move.
  16. TheLeviathan
    A new OC will come with a new coach.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I'm totally good with this. The number one priority now is losing all the game we should lose and moving in a new direction this offseason. Some of the young defensive players looked good today and Darrisaw continues to look like a legit LT.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Baltimore doing a great Viking impersonation right now.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Woof...Cook gives up on a first down swing pass with a ton of room, bad second down call, no short drag on 3rd to counter the blitz. Ugly.
  20. TheLeviathan
    It's a bad, tired argument. It has long grown old and exhausting.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Feels like the coin flip might settle this.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Yes he did. Cousins air yardage per throw this year is also higher than Keenum's. This is just an awful take for not liking Cousins.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Keenum didn't throw checkdowns? Is this a serious take?
  24. TheLeviathan
    And today the team looks really good again. WTF?
  25. TheLeviathan
    The Twins didn't have a ready to go 3B at the time IMO with Sano moving to 1B. Right now we have Miranda or Arraez as options, so to me the situation is a bit different.
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