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  1. drjim
    I don't think the Twins are purposefully bad, if for no other reason than it has cost them a boatload of money. I"m sure they would love to put a better team out there. And your 2011 trade deadline moves hypothetical is flawed. They were only 6 games back on July 31 and had been playing pretty good ball for 2 months - based on the history of the team it would have been especially aggressive to blow it up at that point.
  2. drjim
    Forgot about Kazmir. I'll give the Tribe credit for signing him after 2 years off.
  3. drjim
    And I agree. I accept one of Correia, but they should have signed another to go with Pelfrey (who in hindsight wasn't a terrible signing that year, the problem was the extension).
  4. drjim
    I don't agree that Pelfrey had 0% chance. I thought it was an acceptable risk to take at the time and he actually had an OK season, actually pretty close to what Feldman did. They should have went with another - and at the time they said they actually offered more money for Joe Saunders.
  5. drjim
    And realistically Liriano wasn't coming back.
  6. drjim
    Feldman was the one guy who (really) worked out. Young didn't pitch in the majors and Marcum blew out in a couple of months, as I'm sure the Twins realized he would. I remember the big debate over Marcum and it was all silly because of the medicals. So yes, Twins did not sign the one upside guy that would have been a good signing - though I'm skeptical they would have turned him into Arrieta either.
  7. drjim
    You can probable read anything you want to and we all look forward to the responses. But I do think it is possible they won't really have such a need that would make overpaying for a free agent a good use of resources. Much more likely we see money being applied to signing the young guys to extensions.
  8. drjim
    I agree that once Perkins was extended he should not have been flipped.
  9. drjim
    Completely different scenarios.
  10. drjim
    It was a blog post not an article or even an op-ed - so I think the standards on that are less.
  11. drjim
    Or at least done a mix - the rotation after 2012 was an atrocity, so someone like Correia I can live with, but would have been nice to mix another upside play or two in addition to Pelfrey. And the relievers were pretty uninspiring. They probably should have flipped Perkins and Burton. On the plus side they did keep a quality rule 5 guy in Pressly and gave some prospects their first crack at the bigs. But they should have been able to sign a few more high risk/upside flyers.
  12. drjim
    Is subjective synonymous for catering exactly to your preferences?
  13. drjim
    And I would rather dip my head in a boiling hot vat of asphalt than listen to KFAN, so there's that. I will admit to being a Reusse apologist, but he certainly mixes in some bad stuff with the good, like any writer.
  14. drjim
    A key point that year was that it was the worst pitching fa class of the last decade or so, so it is not as easy as just saying insert player x there. I would like to have seen more aggression on one hand, but on the other, that was a bad year to do it for reasons outside the Twins control.
  15. drjim
    My other complaint, in addition to these three, is I think they could have been more aggressive in signing the one year flyers with risk that are mentioned in the article - they would burn a significant amount of money doing this, but they would also potentially grab someone who performs that they could flip for prospects. I would have especially done this with relievers and backend starters. They weren't exactly floating in arms from 12-14.
  16. drjim
    Strange that media members would interact with people who interact with them and actually consume their products. You realize that the people on this board are in the small minority of fans overall right? If you are on this board making intelligent comments mass media isn't really designed for you.
  17. drjim
    I look at it completely the other way. Someone like Reusse is not really engaging in a forum like this with mostly intelligent debate, they interact most with the feedback that comes back the quickest, usually Twitter responses. That is, unfortunately the 10% you refer to. But yes, I would agree you aren't listening to sports radio or reading op-eds if you want intelligent analysis. Is anyone naive enough to think that is what those mediums provide?
  18. drjim
    Depends on the contract, but I don't necessarily agree, other than they can always use more talent, but for RH wouldn't take much for the benefits to outweigh the costs.
  19. drjim
    In reality how many vets are there to cut? Perkins and Jepsen aren't going anywhere (except maybe the DL), Nolasco will likely move into the rotation for the occasional spot start. That leaves Fien, who actually has an option. Maybe Abad, but that shows the value of the minor league deal. The rest, right now, are young guys, right? Perhaps that is some of the wisdom of not going 2-3 years on decent but not elite free agents, those are the ones who would be locked in and block young guys from emerging.
  20. drjim
    I personally thought the Buxton comment was obvious. Twins don't trade Hicks otherwise. I appreciate the reliever comments the most. I generally agree. They are short a lefty but one could emerge, but otherwise it shake out OK.
  21. drjim
    Agreed. The 10th time discussing bullpen inactivity was by far the most captivating.
  22. drjim
    Actually not really. In that time they have a new Analytics department, new director of minor league operations, new minor league field coordinator, new scouting director, new pro scouting director, new baseball operations guy to name just some of the changes. Some guys have moved into higher level assistant positions but basically every key position has a new person, almost all since Ryan took over again in 2012.
  23. drjim
    Because a year after it opened it would have been a pr disaster to blow the whole thing up, cut payroll significantly and play younger guys (like they should have). They had to try and compete with talent that just didn't add up, and the moves in the 2011-12 offseason showed this. Of course in the end it didn't matter and they just delayed the pain for a couple more seasons and took all the same criticism they would have otherwise. When Theo took over he was able to fundamentally transform everything and spend a couple of years doing it. They had been bad long enough and the string of the previous administration had been played out that the entire franchise was ready for a complete new direction.
  24. drjim
    The mlb team and entire organization are in significantly better shape than 2011. Listing a handful of moves just doesn't tell the whole story - doing things like changing the minor league coordinator, changing the major and minor league coaching staffs, turing over the training staff, shifting front office in scouting, embracing additional analytics - these things should count. As an outsider it appears to me that the entire organization, from top to bottom, was rotting under Smith, and Ryan cleaned much of that up and stabilized it. There was going to be a dip in talent, but Smith, through organizational rot and hemorrhaging talent turned a dip into a collapse. To add to this, players don't enter an organization and magically appear as productive major leaguers without some process to get from there to here. And saying they just picked high and that was all doesn't hold water, none of those #1 picks under Ryan have yet to make much of a mark on the mlb team, though it will change this year with Buxton. (And as a side note, Buxton was the second best player in that draft)
  25. drjim
    I think another difference is that Theo had more of a mandate for a complete tear down and rebuild compared to the Twins - Target Field just opening was more a handcuff for a year or two as the rebuild started. And the Cubs had better assets to move. They were different situations, Ryan has done a fine job in my mind, Theo has done an incredible job.
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