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  1. Prince William
    For the sake of what you appear to not understand. The FO had some players when they got here. Most failed to develop. That really isn't on the FO. If a top 100 player failed to develop it would also be on the failed analysis of the ranking people who historically do not get much right
  2. Prince William
    A few? Romero, Gonsalves, Stewart, Mejia, Jorge Duffey and May turned out to be fine starting pitching if you were a tanking team Rogers, May and Duffey are failed starters that are fine relievers. A few. were in the top 100. Do you know what it means to be just in the top 100? It means that you are warmer than a warm body as a player. It means you were a top draft pick, or might be called up. Woo hoo. Pressly became a lights out when he finally listened to the current FO and used his slider more
  3. Prince William
    The subjectivity of such a statement as "worse off" makes it really an undebatable comment. Last year's win total obviously makes it so. Considering that Ervin Santana, Hector Santiago, Tommy Millone have all been spending time in the league last year, you have to ask would those three plus Duffey as a starter had won as many games as last year's team did? How about the starters drafted by the previous regime? Kohl Stewart anyone? The previous regime had no starting pitching other than Berrios and Gibson. That in no way is in good shape. Is Berrios what he is because of the current regime or the past regime? The previous regime wanted Buxton to beat out base hits. Would Buxton be as big being the hitter he was the first 2 years? You can have an opinion based on win of one year. Myopia is what it is
  4. Prince William
    Ownership hired them to have an idea of winning. but not an expectation of winning every year. No mid market team can do that
  5. Prince William
    Horse Hockey. Fans wants winners at any cost. Do you see winning at any cost out of anything beyond the Yankees, Dodgers and the like? No the issue becomes tanking. Would you seriously think that anyone wants their team to tank in spite of not having success for multiple years? In the news recently Jeter quit because he felt like the main owner was more interested in profit than winning Jeter was the true fan and a player. A higher CBT was a negotiation ploy. Much to my amazement, that really would have been unchanged. The players want the lower tiers paid. That is greed? Owners charging as much as they can for any service, ticket, parking or item of food they can is not greed? The last baseball team to go bankrupt was a long long time ago. Increased parity is evidenced by the increased tanking If the owners were truly interested in parity there would be a direct tie in to spending and revenue sharing. That does not exist. Owner greed
  6. Prince William
    Checks start when the season starts. I read somewhere recently that the union has be pooling the licensing money for a few years for a strike fund. 110 million was the number in their fund as I might faultily recall. 110 million is a very large number .It is tiny when split 1200 ways compared to say 4.5 billion split 1200 ways
  7. Prince William
    I am not the one making any claims on the numbers, you initiated it. Show the work
  8. Prince William
    It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the minimum is important to a large swath. It still doesn't mean in the end, that is where the union will give up the most concessions
  9. Prince William
    Twitter as a source? I suppose it is a step up from wiki
  10. Prince William
    The money is made in arbitration. Perhaps you might want to read up on that process. What will the union drop, shorter length of time for arbitration. Prove your 50% claim. On the Twins 55% of the IP were not pre arb. 61% of the PA were not pre arb players. From my perspective, considering the weakness of the Twins with injuries and ineffectiveness, it is unlikely your statistic would match the reality
  11. Prince William
    To answer the question of draft him, why yes. First round, no way. He has no leverage for the bonus despite Boras. If he wants to sign he can. It will not be a multi million dollar contract. If he wants to pitch indy ball or overseas to prove his value that is his option and risk.
  12. Prince William
    My point was that the union were looking out for the top earners of the union membership not the bottom, not the future bottom players, not the players in the minors with no futures. How you got to what you did is baffling. The players do not care if the season collapses, just look at how little PR they put out about their cause. Both sides, it is a big game of chicken. That is how the super agent works. The union is doing the same tactic. The player that bought a house while knowing there could be a strike is a fool, as would be the mortgage company. When the contract is signed, the gains will be for the top end player, not the bottom, not the minor leagues. They will be the monetary lambs like every other contract. You watch the players not the owners. A simplistic but true statement. . Somebody had to organize, market, coordinate and a whole lot of other stuff to get to the point of you watching the players. One doesn't exist without the other. A fair distribution is never going to happen. The owners won't let it happen, the union has never made it happen.
  13. Prince William
    I did not see where anyone equated "wealthy" is all the same. Perhaps you could tell me which post it is. Time may be money but relative wealthy is not relative time. Greed is greed.
  14. Prince William
    It was reported that Boras is the agent for most of the players on the union council and he has been advising. Both sides have huge faults. People should not forget that it will be unlikely that the pre arbitration and minor league players are going to benefit from this CBA
  15. Prince William
    When the MLBPA first thing they give up is expanding arbitration it should be evident that their concern is for the player who make the most money get more money. That is greed
  16. Prince William
    Returning to Appell, he had the money for housing, food, trainers and anything else need to succeed. Money did not buy success.
  17. Prince William
    The union leaders are the same way, just a couple less steaks per year.
  18. Prince William
    Was it half the mistake the Yankees made at 2/34. I think that if it was an analytic based decision they ought to have fired the analyst.
  19. Prince William
    Signing your own players to an even minor overpay is not a bad thing. He is the epitome of 3 outcome baseball. He should be rewarded for various reasons
  20. Prince William
    Please tell me how the analytics department made a difference in less than 4 months on the job . Thoroughly research it. By all means PM it to me when you have done so. It would be an interesting story on an essentially overnight transformation on how someone does their work. Why I can demand this out of you is that Jack Goin started with the Twins in 2001
  21. Prince William
    Batting wise the swing plane revolution happened after 2015. The average speed of fastballs started climbing after 2012. More direct to your attempt at a shot. Seriously? Which direction do the years go in? 2010, was before 2012. Is Bien such a genius that in less than 6 months there was a complete up and running analytic department enough to change how Bochy managed, the players used? Bien started in July 0f 2012. What evidence can you prove for your FALSE narrative. I will give you that maybe analytics could have had an influence for 14, but not likely as the players added in 14 were still older players coached by an old manager. So please try a lot harder next time you want to accuse people of a false narrative of using facts
  22. Prince William
    a team shouldn't need 13 all at once. hopefully only2 or3 prospects a year are needed
  23. Prince William
    Rice University Pitchers in Professional Baseball - Minor League Ball You can update the list if you would like MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from "Rice University (Houston, TX)" | Baseball-Reference.com
  24. Prince William
    I have a fun fact. The 2010, 2012 and 2014 WS was won by a team that largely ignored analytics. Tampa and Oakland have won how many?
  25. Prince William
    75 k was a low base, Some teams were none were less than 100k. The team with the 5 lowball signees had almost all of the rest above 125k. What dollar amount is fair.? Be realistic. Some are college educated but so are a lot of baristas
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