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  1. TheLeviathan
    I'd wait for two reasons 1) Make sure Dozier is consistent enough to warrant an investment and 2) Shorten the extension and/or buy out an extra year. I just want more data on what Dozier exactly is before I'd be comfortable giving him that much money.
  2. TheLeviathan
    A lot of intriguing talents on that list, wow.
  3. TheLeviathan
    They should ask. As Willihammer pointed out, sometimes other teams don't share your qualms about a player's warts and they value them more than you do. Hamels is young enough and under enough control to make the idea interesting.
  4. TheLeviathan
    To add to this, we have several key young pitchers set to debut or get significant time next year - an OF that can turn hits into outs is really going to be key to getting these careers off on the right foot.
  5. TheLeviathan
    I said a ridiculous spending advantage and that is pretty much indisputable. How someone translates that spending into victories is irrelevant to this discussion and to my point.
  6. TheLeviathan
    And none of that has anything to do with this conversation. We're talking within the context of a team spending 40M on two players this offseason. I agree with Chief about the mindset of the Red Sox and others being something to envy. The reality, on the other hand, is that the 40M per year they just spent on those players is only a quarter of the revenue difference between the two teams. Meaning they could do this with 6 more players of this same value before just breaking even with where the Twins are. That's a reality that is unfair to many teams regardless of their success and the truth is (as many here are prone to advocate) - spending does make a difference and there is a ridiculous spending advantage at play here. That shouldn't stop the Twins from a more aggressive mindset, but it's certainly a limitation on it relative to a team like the Red Sox.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I don't disagree with you about the mindset, I really don't and my posts in the past more than back that up. On the other hand, I'm not blind to the realities of baseball finances. The truth is that while I want the Twins to have a more aggressive mindset, I'm not so delusional as to think they can hang with some teams. The media revenues are just ridiculously out of balance. It's why I wish all sports had a salary floor and a salary cap with more shared revenues.
  8. TheLeviathan
    This kind of thing is why I wish the Twins would more aggressively shop their relievers during peak performances. I doubt he would've fetched much, but the habit persists for guys like Fien, Burton, etc.
  9. TheLeviathan
    No, but short of reanimating Ted Williams I'm not sure that was going to change with the hiring process.
  10. TheLeviathan
    That's fine, but what percentage of this needed to change for you to be satisfied then? If Molitor's work with Vavra impressed him enough to keep him on board, then that should be his decision. I think many of us wanted another outside voice at bench coach, but at this point I'm pretty comfortable with things. Gardy is gone and a more modern manager is in his place along with a fresh face at pitching coach from an organization with a lot to like. Sounds reasonable to me.
  11. TheLeviathan
    I get what you're saying Chief and I agree that even if you handed the Twins a 360M pot of revenue you still wouldn't see it spent like this...but all that said, that's a huge advantage to have. One the Twins would be out of their minds to try and match at 60% of the revenue the Red Sox make. It's why I'm so irked by the way baseball handles revenues and the wild imbalances it can cause.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Frankly I'd consider shopping Fien for a guy like Fowler or Fowler himself.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Fowler struggles in CF but would probably be elite in the corners - I'd definitely take a gamble on him.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Right, this is a guy who hasn't even been very good in Japan and he's exactly the wrong kind of player for us to target for the outfield.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Even if he has become Josh Willingham...aren't we now fully aware that playing another Josh Willingham is not good for our pitching staff? The only alternative is him taking at-bats from Vargas and I can't see how anyone would be behind either of those scenarios. I don't mind the approach behind it, but this news combined with the reports about Hunter lead me to believe the Twins are going down the wrong path for their OF issues.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I'm ok with the general idea behind this, but Wily Mo Pena hasn't really ever been relevant and certainly not even remotely so for awhile. Add to that the fact he's a poor defending corner OF and there is just nothing about this that makes much sense for this team.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I would argue that the coaching staff and general manager didn't push nearly enough for the guys with the talent to do that. I think there was a belief that you didn't need to have that kind of talent in order to be an effective pitcher. It was almost like the Twins were trying to target a market inefficiency but went too far. Furthermore, I don't think that strategy would've been employed without heavy influence from the field staff. So while Anderson's general philosophies were fine, the problem was that they went too far with it from both a team-building and coaching perspective.
  18. TheLeviathan
    I agree and that's why Anderson had to go. Somewhere along the way a sound philosophy became an offtrack dogma.
  19. TheLeviathan
    I don't think there is a dissonance. As pitchers you want to be ahead in the count and not walking people and as hitters you want to avoid swinging at pitches out of the zone. The problem is that the Twins' pitching philosophy became too overzealous and there wasn't enough "good" strikes and guys able to miss bats in the zone. "Pitch to contact" was all about enabling weak contact and staying ahead of hitters, something all great pitchers do. We just started to believe any old schmuck could accomplish that if they had "good control".
  20. TheLeviathan
    The key to changing the Twins mentality isn't to stop pounding the zone - Anderson was spot on with that strategy. But at some point you have to recognize that the best pitchers pound the zone and finish hitters themselves. We built rotations, targeted arms, and pushed players to become only half of that equation. I don't know where it went off course but hopefully a change sets it back on track again.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, I'm with Bark's - either hire would've been good with me so glad the Twins made this move.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Wow, I totally gave up on them. Boddy-Calhoun reminds me of Peanut Tillman with all these crazy strips and perfectly timed forced turnovers.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Let me check something..... November 22nd Moving along then.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Interesting. I thought this article was helpful.
  25. TheLeviathan
    He's still a thing?
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