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  1. Otto von Ballpark
    They haven't been #1 since 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3pQDMi4W-g
  2. Otto von Ballpark
    Surprised the Cubs are still sticking with ex-Twin Brian Duensing - and his 7.24 ERA. (Only a 6.22 FIP, though )
  3. Otto von Ballpark
    If that is accurate, 8.0 K/9 isn't that impressive anymore. League averages across our minor league affiliates range from 8.2-8.9. That includes relievers too, so 8.0 is probably close to average for starters. (Although across 14 starters, having a cumulative average isn't necessarily bad either.)
  4. Otto von Ballpark
    Burdi has 2 more weeks of rehab, but TJ surgery guys are eligible to apply for up to 30 days extra rehab too. They could also reset his rehab with a week's break, like we did with Ervin Santana earlier this season. And they just have to extend it to Sep. 1st, when they can activate him with expanded rosters even if they don't plan to pitch him. (Assuming they can bump someone else from the 40-man at that time.) If not returned, Burdi would still need MLB time next year to satisfy his Rule 5 requirements. About 2 months, if he gets activated Sep. 1 this year. Personally, I am not convinced Burdi is worth all that much trouble, though. Seems like minor league relievers with his profile are a dime a dozen these days.
  5. Otto von Ballpark
    This is sort of separate from grading the trades themselves, but I wish they would have tried something sooner -- even something small, or "addition by subtraction" -- to salvage the 2018 season, beyond (or instead of) adding Belisle.
  6. Otto von Ballpark
    Odorizzi hits 5 years service time in 3 days, I think. And with that comes the right to refuse any optional assignment. So this isn't a factor anymore.
  7. Otto von Ballpark
    I think some sources are incorrect about this. Alcala isn't Rule 5 eligible until 2019. He signed at age 19, but after the 2014 season was finished, and he was only 18 on the preceding June 5th. So he's not eligible until his 5th Rule 5 draft, starting in 2015.
  8. Otto von Ballpark
    Well, yes. I think some folks are factoring into their evaluation that the Twins haven't cut him yet. Is it fair to maybe make a conditional grade?
  9. Otto von Ballpark
    Does adding Belisle seem like the appropriate response? If you have obvious sources of the problem, I would think you would want to start removing those.
  10. Otto von Ballpark
    Keep in mind De Jong was on the 40-man roster -- Seattle likely had to cut him anyway to make room, and he's marginal enough that they didn't really care if they lost him on waivers. I think that's how we got 2 players for Duke, rather than any particular demonstration of scouting/negotiating skill. De Jong seems to join a bottleneck of marginal pitchers on the Twins 40-man roster. If he was a waiver claim, I suspect we'd be a bit more skeptical of his usefulness than you are in this trade grade.
  11. Otto von Ballpark
    Worth noting it was long relief appearance vs the Orioles, with the Yankees trailing 7-1. (Sonny Gray got rocked, maybe Lynn will take his spot?)
  12. Otto von Ballpark
    They become fans!
  13. Otto von Ballpark
    That article left off the last part of Duke's quote:
  14. Otto von Ballpark
    FWIW, this was long relief vs the Orioles, with the Yankees trailing 7-1.
  15. Otto von Ballpark
    Not saying that reporters are lying. I think it's probably being exaggerated, after the fact, as a rationalization to explain the season. Could be done by their source, could be done a bit by them too (keep in mind, they're radio talk show hosts, they are compensated to editorialize).
  16. Otto von Ballpark
    Then YOU'RE tampering!
  17. Otto von Ballpark
    Well, they haven't really traded for many guys at all. That might have been the issue, rather than not trading multiple prospects for major pieces.
  18. Otto von Ballpark
    Too many one year deals? Is that a veiled way of saying Lynn? They sure stuck with him long enough. If this is true (and I'm doubtful that it is), seems like dumping Lynn a couple months ago would have obviously been a better prescription than re-signing Belisle. Heck, Belisle's spot could have been used to evaluate more potential Lynn replacements.
  19. Otto von Ballpark
    Yup. Generally speaking, losing begets bad chemistry, winning begets good chemistry.
  20. Otto von Ballpark
    Tampering!
  21. Otto von Ballpark
    I don't know about that. Cobb's deal isn't less of a fail because it's long -- if anything, the reverse is true. Think about it this way: Lynn's contract would be worse if it was longer. As it was, he scuffled, but it was low risk.
  22. Otto von Ballpark
    Don't be fooled by that line for Jake Reed. In July he had 11 K's and 5 BB's in 13.1 innings. He was the beneficiary of a .129 BABIP. He looks more like Alex Wimmers at this point than relief prospect. I still hope we have a better plan than seeing too many of those types yet this season. Anderson at least gets some K's, but even that isn't very notable anymore in the modern game.
  23. Otto von Ballpark
    This is fair. In fact, I wondered in another post whether they let the season stagnate too long. If they were thinking "addition by subtraction", they probably could have moved on from a couple other players earlier, and given Escobar and the rest a better chance to get back in the race before the deadline.
  24. Otto von Ballpark
    I'm not quite so sure. How many other GMs have acquired 11 prospects in one week in July? There's an argument they went beyond normal GM talent procurement protocol, and took a brute force approach to adding quantity here, for questionable benefit (considering the depth our system already had). Maybe it didn't cost much either, but it's far too early to say this was unqualified success.
  25. Otto von Ballpark
    Well, that's just regression to the mean. Fangraphs still projects them to have a better record the rest of the way, and it's not even close (.513 rest of season win percentage, vs. .462 today). Nobody's really disputing that, are they? That's a very different question than putting our best team on the field to challenge Cleveland.
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