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  1. drjim
    Are you a real person or a random Star Tribune comment section generator?
  2. drjim
    I don't know if this relates exactly to your study, but it seems that while elbow injuries are up that shoulder injuries are down. I don't think this is an accident. Training measures and usage patterns are moving in this way, as it is generally considered easier (though obviously not automatic) to recover from an elbow vs. a shoulder.
  3. drjim
    I think he has more hit tool than you are giving him credit for, and he did have a 70 arm...
  4. drjim
    I don't think they get much for him. Nothing bad with having depth going into next season, more value in that than what they could get in a trade in my opinion.
  5. drjim
    Last time I checked, you play to WIN the game, not K as many people per 9 as possible!!!!11!!1!!!!!!!11!1!
  6. drjim
    But there is also evidence, as recently as last offseason, that a better market would have resulted in better pitchers. And I don't think the statements in the first paragraph are mutually exclusive. They didn't get anyone good in 12-13 because it was a terrible free agent market, but there is also ultimately an upper limit to the type of free agent the Twins can realistically sign. The can't get the absolute elite guys (Scherzer and Lester this offseason), but can certainly get better guys than Correia. Some years there are handful of players in this range (like last year), and sometimes there are virtually no one (like 12-13). This offseason is interesting because there is some depth, but the Twins may actually end the season with representative starters for all slots, depending on how they feel about May, Meyer and Milone.
  7. drjim
    Also, Duffey was drafted as a reliever and converted to a starter. Maybe the strategy does work! Those sneaky Twins, taking advantage of market inefficiencies in the draft.
  8. drjim
    I would say comparing the actions of Target Field to the Metrodome would be a fool's errand. I absolutely expect more free agent signings now, and we have clearly seen that. He spent more in each of the past three seasons than he ever did in the Dome, as he should. I would not disagree that they were "modest" signings this offseason, but I would say they are pretty realistic for the tier that the Twins are in relative to comparable franchises/markets. They aren't going to outbid the big market teams.
  9. drjim
    Baseball America had a good article on Duffy about a month ago promoting him as a sleeper. I would clearly put him after Meyer-Berrios-Stewart-Thorpe, but he might be as good as anyone else.
  10. drjim
    I'm on board with Tomas.
  11. drjim
    Because these are the options: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/league-info/potential-free-agents-for-2015/
  12. drjim
    I would target OF and SP as well. I would probably go somewhat light on OF, only looking for a 1 or perhaps 2 year deal. Can get a decent bat, but probably nothing super inspiring. SP is different. I think they have to go big or don't bother. No need to sign another #4 type, plenty of those in the organization already.
  13. drjim
    Perhaps. But also possible to acknowledge that the options the previous two years were just that bad. Hard to draw firm conclusions one way or the other in three year samples. But we can know it is within him to spend something. He did guarantee around $90 mil in new money last offseason.
  14. drjim
    Don't the actions of Ryan the very next offseason cast doubt (at the least) on your assumptions? I will admit it is hard to debate a hypothetical of whether or not Ryan would sign pitchers that didn't actually exist. But evidence shows that when decent pitchers were available he actually did sign a couple of them.
  15. drjim
    Will depend on preferences of individual list makers - some will keep him at #1, some will drop him. Probably #2 (behind Bryant of the Cubs), which says as much about the season Bryant had as it does anything about Buxton.
  16. drjim
    I'll take May (barely) in that profile, but thanks for providing the statistical comparison. Definitely a worthwhile arm to add to the system and a very solid return for 50 games of Willingham.
  17. drjim
    Relievers? Kepler? Turner?
  18. drjim
    They didn't have the kids ready to make such moves possible last year. Timing was finally right and depth was there to start moving on from the veterans. I still think it is quite underrated how well Ryan has rebuilt the depth of the organization and these recent moves are the fruit of that. They can start being more strategic rather than constantly scrambling just to field a representative team. Obviously not there yet but moving in the right direction.
  19. drjim
    I would assume Hicks is up as soon as Rochester is out of the playoffs.
  20. drjim
    So you would have preferred worse pitchers? Or no pitchers? Poor decisions before that offseason clearly put the franchise in a terrible position and Ryan did about the best he could with what he had to work with.
  21. drjim
    Fair enough. I just don't see much of a difference in practical terms. But I also don't take statements by front office people all that seriously.
  22. drjim
    What should he have said?
  23. drjim
    Good luck getting this point to stick. People will always criticize Ryan for not signing pitchers who didn't exist. It was Grienke or Sanchez, whose contract is looking worse with each injury (as expected). And expecting the Twins to outbid the Dodgers always struck me as a little unrealistic.
  24. drjim
    But Pino was the spot start. And pitched well enough to get a second.
  25. drjim
    The Future's Game is a red herring. It wouldn't have stopped a promotion if he didn't get hurt. As for the other point I disagree. There was no need for a call up before Pino and that ended up being a scramble and May couldn't be called up because he just pitched. Pino pitched well so he got a second start and May was hurt. I absolutely believe they were setting him up to start then and the timing bears that out.
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