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  1. TheLeviathan
    When the NHL adopted a salary cap it was one of the main components that they got in return. As a result I imagine most long-time NHL players will get multiple FA deals in their career. In MLB it seems like guys get one unless they have some ironman career ala Verlander.
  2. TheLeviathan
    The NHL does it right. Based on the age you're drafted the team is given a certain number of fixed years of control before restricted free agency happens. The MLBPA would be fools not to be pushing for something like that.
  3. TheLeviathan
    They will if service time gets cut in half before some form of free agency.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Young players in MLB deserve to hit free agency much, much sooner than they do. I imagine this will be a major outcome of the CBA negotiations. Read: There's no way in hell any agent is signing off on anything in this uncertainty.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Man it's nice being a fan in another state. I just flip on Disney Plus and enjoy. They surgically dismantled the Preds.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Well, a bunch of the fanbase just got their "Get Kyler Murray out of his sucky perfomance free" card for the week. My favorite last week was that he was rusty from being off for awhile. Meanwhile the Bears necromanced Keenum into a game and he looked like a stud.
  7. TheLeviathan
    3-1 Browns, just like everyone thought.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I s nothing a team does going to influence your willingness to buy more seats or pay a higher price for games on TV? I think you're an outlier. Casual fans do care about actions taken by ownership to improve their viewing experience. That's where the "trust" comes in....do I buy that ticket in April for a game in August? Do I buy month by month or do the full season? Decisions like that, for many fans, are driven by their sentiments regarding the bang they'll get for their buck.
  9. TheLeviathan
    That's great. Call me crazy but I'd rather tap into a network that isn't remnants of a Pittsburgh Pirates organization whose record looks this over the last ten years: Hard pass. That's not the organization I want to poach from.
  10. TheLeviathan
    What position players are you trying to get from this FA group that have high value and low risk?
  11. TheLeviathan
    I hope one day we get the full picture. It sounds like the cliff notes version is: JJ was just really immature and with a lot of rudimentary needs that KOC (and the Wilfs) just didn't have the patience for.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Which of The Codi can we get to write something actually intersting like "Anatomy of a White Sox Rebuild" Lots of good lessons to learn from the pain that fanbase endured. Ones the Twins could learn now.
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    Sel L. Theteam
  14. TheLeviathan
    Tom has so far achieved whatever good will he has through words and failed tactics. Let's just recap some facts for everyone: 1) If Tom was committed to 2026 being better he could've greenlit any number of investments this offseason that would've drastically improved the team. 2 years and 34M was all it took for the White Sox to get a 1B. Could've fished in the deep end for Pete Alonso. Could've signed Michael King. There was a whole list of guys he could've gone after with his front office. He did none of those. He spoke some words. Right before the season basically. That's it. Hiding in the closet or not, he was part of the family and the ownership group. He could've done more than speak some words. 2) He pushed the front office to be aggressive at the deadline. That tactic failed and has both short and long term ramifications. 3) He said more words just recently. 4) Joe Pohlad - well earned pirayah around these parts - has said the same words and actually done more to match those words than Tom has. This wasn't prior to spoken language or written word. It was prior to the Dawn of AI, lo these many years ago......a whole five years ago when he greenlit Carlos Correa and the largest payrolls in the Twins' history. Somehow, Tom's achievements that fall far below this have "rebuilt" trust. Joe, forgotten in the sands of time apparently. Along with the lessons we should've long learned by now.
  15. TheLeviathan
    I've been casually spit-balling an offseason plan and Bednar is also atop my list. I think you're going to have to push closer to 20M (CBA pending) to land him, but the truth is that this is a smart move no matter how 2027 plays out. If you're surprise contending? Awesome, you added a really good closer to your team. You're still in rebuild phase? Awesome, you've got a nice asset to sell at the deadline. This is how teams who aren't sure about themselves operate with budget room. Invest with best case scenario in mind, but on players that will still yield value if things go south as a team. Read: not Josh Bell.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I, for one, think PFN is great. I mean, just look how much they validated my draft takes on Deone Walker! (They do seem to match the eye test way better on a cursory glance)
  17. TheLeviathan
    Wow, you remember who Justin Lawrence is? Most of us would need therapy for that.
  18. TheLeviathan
    This would've been such a preposterous post not so long ago. #LifeofVikingsFan
  19. TheLeviathan
    No, but we do know that was part of the appeal in hiring Falvey. To bring insights from a successful development system. He appears to have forgotten to pack those when he moved here. (There was a point where I really thought it might have happened when Zebby, Festa, Ober, etc were starting to be the norms in the system. It just didn't work)
  20. TheLeviathan
    My punctuation sucked and thus communicated something I wasn't intending. Sorry about that...I didn't mean to say that they were the best (they aren't this year, that title belongs in Milwaukee and Tampa), but that the notion of a pitching pipeline is the best thing you can build. Draft position players high and then use the rest of the draft to snipe upside arms that your development system can turn into good players. That's the ideal. Those arms can come up and pitch for you long enough to generate value, trade them off (if you aren't a legit contender) and keep taking bites at the apple with your surplus value you mined out of mid round picks.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I think part of the problem is that we have a lot of that but the disagreements aren't yielding good conversations. The truth is....it doesn't require hindsight to see some transaction being bad moves. Yes, sometimes we do have to wait and see and we're all proven right or wrong at various times. But to be blunt: many of the people you are tagging "disagree" on are not relying on hindsight and are merely reinforcing what they've been right about all along. Personally, I'd rather someone disagree with me with a reply in such a way that contributes to the conversation rather than hit the thumbs down. So much of that is petty behavior. Though I appreciate you sharing these thoughts, it helps to know you have real reasoning behind that and aren't just doing it in a mean-spirited way. So, in the spirit of my post - Where do you stand on what Tom said?
  22. TheLeviathan
    What I expect is what they were hired to bring: Cleveland pitching pipeline. Which, imo, is the best. You get an arm's best few years and then spin them off for surplus. Churn, repeat.
  23. TheLeviathan
    In ten years that list at the end isn't much to write home about. Trading is fine, but then you need other pipelines feeding it...we didn't have that either.
  24. TheLeviathan
    It is largely for this reason that they won't get my trust anytime soon. Everything still feels like it has one intent and one intent only: how do the Pohlads get the price they want to sell the team. I don't buy anything about long-term competitiveness because I don't believe them that they have any intent to be here in the long-term. So it's hard to take all this corporate-babble seriously in light of that.
  25. TheLeviathan
    In a long list of failures, the greatest failure of the Falvey regime was the complete opposite of a pitching pipeline. We were constantly hunting for other people's pitchers rather than actually developing our own.
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