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  1. ThePuck
    We might care because if the team actually decides to spend the percentage on payroll they normally would, as explained by Jim Pohlad, and the posting fee gets spread out on payroll over the next 5 years, it means less talent to be able to get.
  2. ThePuck
    It's my understanding that the money for the posting fee doesn't go towards payroll in regards to luxury tax (read that in an article about Yankees pursuing Tanaka and how it isn't included) New York Yankees begin organizational meetings | yankees.com: News 'The Yankees' interest in Tanaka is helped by the fact that the posting fee, which is likely to surpass the $51.7 million that Texas paid to negotiate with Darvish in January 2012, would not count against the luxury tax. ' So, knowing that, not not sure why we'd include it as part of payroll for the next five years either. Seems we have some money left over from payroll this year to at least help the fee needed if we were going to go that route.
  3. ThePuck
    Why would we consider Tanaka's posting fee as part of payroll from 2014-18?
  4. ThePuck
    In fairness, they pitched in two different eras. Bert's ERA+ as a Twins was 118, Radke's was 113 and Radke pitched in the steroid era. Not saying Radke was as good as Bert, but a 113 ERA+ for a career is a bit better than league average. Jack Morris only had an ERA+ of 105.
  5. ThePuck
    Wasn't it Correia Ryan was talking about when he said he left money on the table? If we believe that, and someone else was willing to pay him even more, doesn't that mean Correia wasn't overpaid? :-)
  6. ThePuck
    If talking about the 30 teams, not just the White Sox, MLB Puig and Cespedes have been pretty darn good as well.
  7. ThePuck
    You think Boston's 154M team is lacking star power and highly paid players?
  8. ThePuck
    No one is saying it isn't...or at least I'm not, but with the run support he got in those games, he was gonna win a huge chunk anyway. He did his part, for sure, in 18 of those wins. In 2005, Santana had 10 no decision. 8 of those were quality starts. The other two, he gave up 4. With run support like Radke got when he won 20, Santana very likely gets at least 20 instead of being stuck at 16.
  9. ThePuck
    I'm not sure I get what you're saying here...so, maybe :-)
  10. ThePuck
    and he would have won those games anyway with ALL the run support he got. Again, no one is saying he didn't pitch well, but he got huge run support. Now, pointing to the stats you're pointing to NOW, in this post, those are some numbers to sink your teeth into.
  11. ThePuck
    No one is saying he didn't pitch very well that year...what we're saying is win/losses is a bad barometer to judge pitching. Wins should just be a team stat.
  12. ThePuck
    Santana never won the CY Young while having only 16 wins.
  13. ThePuck
    The games Radke started that year when we won the Twins scored at least least 11 runs 5 times, at least 8 runs 13 times, at least 6 runs 16 times. As far as his wins specifically, 16 times at least 5 runs scored. Compare that to someone like King Felix who went 13-12 one season, while having 30 quality starts out of his 34 start. His team only scored more than 6 runs 3 times. In his 13 wins specifically, they only scored at least 5 runs 4 times.
  14. ThePuck
    There's nothing to digest there cause it's not true. In any event, the win/loss stat is a horrible way to judge pitchers...as evidence by the fact Santana finished 3rd in 2005 while Colon won...likely finishing 3rd because he only won 16 games. He had an ERA of 2.87, over 230 IP, while leading the league in ERA+, Ks, WHIP, H/9, K/9. The only thing Colon had him beat in was the win-loss record. Radke finshed 3rd in the year he won 20 and an argument could be made he shouldn't have finished that high, but he definitely shouldn't have finished higher.
  15. ThePuck
    Exactly! We have enough legitimate reasons to be 'negative' (or, more precisely, realistic in our views) after enduring 3 seasons in a row of at least 96 losses, we don't need to make up things to be negative about. and I wouldn't count out Pujols either...
  16. ThePuck
    My guess it's a joke based on the fact that Washington is one of two states where pot is legal and Lincecum is known to take the occasional hit :-)
  17. ThePuck
    I told you that in confidence man...so not cool :-)
  18. ThePuck
    Hey, me too! Except I was 38 :-)
  19. ThePuck
    Oh, I completely agree...or at the very least, a good chunk. I also don't think it falls solely on the GMS even though I do agree that the GM should be held accountable.
  20. ThePuck
    Signing/trading for MORE than just one quality starter that wasn't in the rotation last year would be a start. I also don't think a rotation should be based on how we think a guy(s) will be. Pelfrey has only had flashes of good in his career and Gibson has had none. I don't really like the hope method...unless that hope is based on some actual real past success in the majors.
  21. ThePuck
    With all respect and IMO... Garza isn't happening...the other two are very unlikely as well...and although they are likely big improvements over what we have, not sure any would be considered top line. #2-#5 contributed the the worst rotation in baseball by a decent margin. One change at the top isn't going to make this rotation decent... I like the optimism though.
  22. ThePuck
    Indeed it wasn't too tough to see...In 2011, Baker pitched like 20 games, Liriano had an ERA over 5.00 and Pavano was 35 with an ERA in the low 4.00s. And shouldn't teams always be looking to improve no matter what? For all the talk about how players won't come to perennial losing teams, this was only our first really bad season after a decade of very good records. Wouldn't that have made it a prime time to improve the 26th ranked rotation in ERA?
  23. ThePuck
    He didn't even pass the basic eye test...he was just bad. One question: Besides the fact already stated, that xFIP and Sierra are a better indicator of future success, since he had such a big gap between ERA and FIP, doesn't that show how dependent he is on the help of the defense? And followup to that question, if he is that dependent on defense, how should we expect different results next year? There's no foreseeable improvement on the defensive front going into next season, is there?
  24. ThePuck
    Shocking news :-) joking aside, thanks for the update.
  25. ThePuck
    The short answer will likely be: Because of Bill Smith. The long answer will likely be: Because of Bill Smith aka the one-armed man, aka Bartman, aka Phil Cuzzi, aka the lone shooter (and please ignore the noise coming from behind the grassy knoll). :-)
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