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  1. SteveLV
    I believe the Twins will also open up room with players shifted to the DL.
  2. SteveLV
    Article says he has 2 options left, so no need to put him through waivers to send to St. Paul, no?
  3. SteveLV
    I wonder if Lee straight up gets Luzardo? Lee plus a lottery pick type player deep in the minors? That would be a tough pill to swallow, but you have to trade good stuff to get good stuff, and Lee is largely blocked on the current roster. Then Polanco and Kepler can be shopped for prospects instead.
  4. SteveLV
    Huge overpay, and the Marlins don't want those 2 Vet salaries. Maybe one, but not both, IMO.
  5. SteveLV
    IMO Paddack would have a heck of lot more trade value on the open market with his contract than any of these other 4 listed players. Pitching is ridiculously expensive and valuable.
  6. SteveLV
    $18M 2024, $19M 2025, $1M option after 2024. For a pitcher who struggled badly last year. Pitching remains exhorbitant. Gray's contract seems a bargain!
  7. SteveLV
    Good find. Couple points. We don't know if he had the rib resection procedure. TOS is notoriously difficult to diagnose. Often times it is a fallback Dx after all else comes up negative. As a result, not all TOS procedures actually address the perceived problem. But I hope they did a great job on this young man and he flourishes.
  8. SteveLV
    Let's be candid: This is a gamble. Gentleman had a good arm, suffered injury, performance lapsed, and he had procedure. Most do not recover from that surgery to return to good pitching form. Fingers crossed for the Twins.
  9. SteveLV
    I don't want a strike. I want a strong commissioner (or other leader) to get the sides together, convince the owners to open the books., negotiate a fair compensation share, negotiate a new structure that puts more money in the players' collective pockets but implements a salary floor and ceiling similar to the NFL so the teams are on equal financial footing. It will never happen, but that is, ideally, what should be done. No, the Dodgers are not guaranteed a WS. But they are 4-1 odds favorites to do so. Twins, which have a decent squad, are 30--1, same as the number of teams in the league.
  10. SteveLV
    Exactly, Vanimal. You are still going to have good and bad teams. But then the differences will be due to managers, management, scouting, drafting and some luck, not who is the richest owner willing to buy teams. I greatly prefer the former.
  11. SteveLV
    We all know he has a no-trade clause. I was looking for good teams with deep pockets that might work for both Buxton and the Twins.
  12. SteveLV
    Pete Rozelle had a vision of a NATIONAL league that would be competitive and balanced. He got it done. MLB has never had a Commissioner with the power or cajones to do the same. The MLB Commissioners have acted as employees of the owners rather than caretakers or stewards of the game as a whole. So unfortunate.
  13. SteveLV
    That is why you need a strong Commissioner to ramrod the changes that are necessary for the long-term success of the League.
  14. SteveLV
    You have to wonder whether a team like the Giants or Phillies might take a flyer on him. Deep pockets, can afford the risk. Don't want him in the American League where he could haunt us. But it seems unlikely he would agree on a trade, but you never know.... So sad to see him struggle with health.
  15. SteveLV
    Good teams in football are good teams, run by good coaches, good FO's and good scouting (and lucky, too!) What good teams in football are NOT are spending more than other teams can spend. Hope that sorts it out for you. Sure, the DBacks had a great year. Just look at Vegas, where the real smart people analyze teams' chances. The Dodgers are +400 to win the 2024 WS. The A's are +30,000 . Just noodle on that a bit. The Dodgers are, according to same very smart people in Vegas, 75 times more likely to win the WS than the A's. You will NEVER see those kinds of odds to win the Super Bowl 6 months before the season in the NFL. And the NFL actually has 2 more teams than MLB.
  16. SteveLV
    The NFL has more parity than MLB. To just use winning percentage is inaccurate. A team could be .400 and be 30 games out of first place. More importantly, you see massive swings in wins and competitiveness in the NFL from season to season. You don't see that in MLB. As far as the money is concerned, I do agree that more money should go to the players, just not all to the handful of superstars. The system should be merit based, but more money should flow to the younger players who are often times performing best of all. A hard FLOOR is the key to the discussion, as well as a set percentage that ALWAYS goes to the players. Because MLB ownership is reluctant to share information on actual revenues, I don't think anyone has an accurate number on what percentage is actually paid to the players. In the NFL it is hard-wired to 51%. I cannot fathom that the MLBPA would balk at a deal where the owners would open their books, the players would get a negotiated set percentage paid to them guaranteed, and the teams themselves have hard caps and floors to level the spending. Then the best teams would be the ones who spend their money wisely and develop the best players and make the best trades. This as opposed to the richest teams enjoying an unfair advantage over small market opponents. Can we agree on this?
  17. SteveLV
    I like watching pro football, but baseball is my first love and I played it for 26 years. It is just a simple fact that the NFL has parity, and MLB does not. I enjoy a level playing field.
  18. SteveLV
    Major League Ready raises an interesting point. Would the individual team revenue (before any redistribution) for the big market teams decline if there was an NFL style hard cap, hard floor for all teams? My hypothesis would be, No. Still big cities with big fan bases that love baseball. Would overall gross income go up for the league as a whole? I believe it would, as fans in the small market teams would feel a vested, legitimate chance to contend and beat anyone that comes into town. As I said in another thread, the old adage of a rising tide raises all ships applies, IMO. Of course this will be a major financial haircut for the big market teams, but they are part of a league and should have a responsibility to make sure the competition is viable. The current arrangement where the big market teams partially subsidize the small teams--and then those small teams have no obligation to spend the money on payroll or stadium improvements or scouting or minor league development is equally preposterous. Who voted for that BS?
  19. SteveLV
    Just to be crystal clear, I am NOT blaming the Dodgers for doing what they are doing. I am NOT blaming Ohtani or Yamamato or any other player for getting a huge contract. I am angry that MLB is getting ruined by the current salary system. The young, great players are getting screwed. The minor leaguers are getting completely screwed. The average MLB'ers are getting screwed. The older Superstars are getting over compensated. The league teams are not on equal footing and it is non-competitive by its structure, or lack thereof. NFL is fair. MLB is not. The owners, players and agents have endorsed a CBA that guarantees it is unfair. But they don't care, because they have been doing it that way for 40 years. Fear not: I will follow our plucky little team and hope against hope they catch lightning in a bottle once every few decades. But I will certainly never follow it all as closely as the NFL, and I actually like the game of baseball better.
  20. SteveLV
    There is not risk in spending money if you have lots of it, and there is no salary cap to punish you for bad contracts. Take a look at the MN Wild right now. They have 2 mammoth contracts for Paresi and Suter, neither of whom are on the team. They took a big gamble, but with the hard cap it cost them in the long run. THAT is risk. The Yankees or Dodgers dumping hundreds of millions is not a true risk in that the franchise can easily overcome spending mistakes. Trading away young players who might be superstars IS a risk.
  21. SteveLV
    chpettit19 and others, what is wrong with the NFL system with hard floor and hard cap, full revenue sharing model? I sincerely want to know the downside of that system adopted by MLB. Original JB, I know next to nothing about soccer but it sounds innovative. But if it encourages disparate spending, I am against it. I don't want to be a fan of a league with have and have nots trying to compete against each other.
  22. SteveLV
    DJL44 beat me to it. Pitching in the modern game is so much better than 50-70 years ago it is not even comparable. Multiple relievers each game throwing over 95 with wicked breaking pitches is just very difficult to hit. I think all of us would rather see the Twins have fewer K's. Get better hitters, or get your existing hitters to hit better. Julien is a terrific leadoff hitter. He should have had at least 10 more walks and 10 fewer K's based upon lousy 3rd strike calls last season. He would greatly benefit from the RoboUmp. Hopefully his reputation as a discerning eye at the plate will start to get him more close calls in the coming years.
  23. SteveLV
    The Twins are looking to trade their good player in the final year of his contract: Kepler. I hope they don't, but that is what is being reported. That is consistent with Major League Ready's post above. Burnes will go to a big market team that can afford to either re-sign him or sign someone else next year for big money instead. The only way the Twins will get top pitching talent is via trade or development. The Coles, Verlanders and Yamamatos will never play for the Twins under the current system.
  24. SteveLV
    The big markets would agree if they wanted to part of a league. Just like Dallas and NY in the NFL. A rising tide floats all boats. If you kill the competitiveness of the league, or the perception of competitiveness, you will lose fans. True parity is one of the reasons the NFL is the King of all sports leagues. Baseball is a wonderful game, but the professional sports league is in real danger.
  25. SteveLV
    Please see my thread "Baseball is Broken, Again". Unless MLB does something to make the playing field remotely equitable, they are going to lose their fans in the small markets, and perhaps they just don't care. I would be like letting Jerry Jones have no salary cap and sign every good player in football and laugh at the rest of the league. The NFL has shown how to have a competitive, fair league. Baseball is completely unfair.
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