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I've been hating on the Twins front office a lot, so allow me to give them props on this move. This is probably the single best and easiest move to improve the team at this point. Well done!
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Well, it probably shouldn't. It's counting against their current salary/tax thresholds so it doesn't make sense to double penalize them. People need to start thinking of it as a retirement account instead of salary payments. Ohtani is getting "paid" $47 Million; $2 Million in cash, with an additional payment of $45M into a retirement account that is guaranteeing a 4.25% return.
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Oh noooooo. The professional athlete was tired :-( This is just always the worst excuse. It was extremely lame for Royce Lewis (oh? you missed half the season and still ran out of steam? Do more cardio maybe?) and its still a lame excuse for Castro. Fact is, Catros peripherals were basically identical in the first and second half. He didn't get tired. He was lucky in the first half, and unlucky in the second half. And things evened out and he is who we thought he was. The career 701 OPS guy is a good, valuable utility player. Nothing more.
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Yep, this team's defense was already mediocre to bad last season, and this season is shaping up to be ugly. A flyball heavy pitching staff and bad OF defense? What can go wrong? Cosign on Bader. Assume he still is able to get something like 5-7.5 million. And I think he's very clearly worth that. Plus, the Twins obsessed with platoons, he's hit significantly better against LHP in his career with a .328/.291 woba L/R split.
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Alonso. And it's not happening.
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The defensive instincts of a DH. Not ideal!
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And they'll still try to blame it on the selfish players, and will succeed with the rubes.
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Well, you certainly implied it, considering the comment you replied to was "They are both a much better team than the Twins and they have a significantly better fan support. Not to mention a significantly higher payroll still. The fact that they're now going through a messy ownership fight because their beloved owner died isn't a strike against the strategy. " So...kind of, yeah.
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It ain't the players that are greedy. You started off right, blaming the do-nothing, welfare queen owners. You think the owners are going to suddenly charge a nickel a ticket if the players decided not to take a salary?
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Hal just offered a $750 million contract to Soto. Don't believe him when he's crying poor.
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Well, the Twins have won one "playoff" series in 23 years, and they couldn't even sell out those games. The Padres were arguably the second best team in baseball last season while the Twins were something like 69-79 against teams that weren't the worst team in major league history. So, why are you crapping on the Padres? You're living in a glass house.
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I wouldn't go so far as to say the people of San Diego like baseball more. But more importantly, the late owner of the Padres, and the Padres front office, gave the fans a reason to get excited about baseball.
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Deflect from what? Your comment was: 1. well actually, the Padres aren't any better than the twins based on this very narrow criteria. (they've been to an LCS in the last two decades if I'm not mistaken) 2. You don't like their contracts (ok, and?) 3. Their big spending gave them a small window (contenders most of 5 years and counting and amongst the top of the league in attendance) 4. You think they're destined to fail now. (ok, I guess it's hard to argue against your opinion? but anyone could say that about the Twins too) Tell me again how having had a good 5 year run where the team performed well, for the most part, and the fans were extremely excited was bad actually?
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This would be foolish even if they didn't get massively exposed at the end of the season. Just like it was foolish after the 2023 season. If you don't win the championship, there is room for improvement. Meanwhile the Twins sucked when the rubber hit the road, and their method of improvement has been losing players and crossing their fingers. Deep down, we all know how that's going to go. Ok...The Twins are already wallowing in mediocrity. So how many strikes is that?
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They drew a lot more fans in the covid suppressed '21 season with a 79 win team than the Twins did in 2023 with a playoff team. There is such levels of apathy for the Twins, no one really cares about them. And that's all on the front office.
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They are both a much better team than the Twins and they have a significantly better fan support. Not to mention a significantly higher payroll still. The fact that they're now going through a messy ownership fight because their beloved owner died isn't a strike against the strategy.
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Eh, I guess there could be an argument for a maximum deal length like the NBA, but the AAV will just jump up as a result. Soto would probably be something like a 5 year $350 million contract. Does that help the middle tier guys?
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This implies that there's not a lot of money for the middle tier guys right now. That comes as a surprise for Joc Pederson (2yrs/$37M), Frankie Montas (2yrs/$34M), Matthew Boyd (2yrs/$29M), Clay Holmes (3yrs/$38M), Tyler O'Neill (3yrs/$49M) etc, etc, etc. And this hasn't really changed in 15 years. They top tier get looks at 5+ year deals while the second tier guys have to settle for 2-3 years. In 2010 that meant the Twins signing Carl Pavano for 2 yrs $16.5M, and that contract value seems to have about doubled in that time. Unless we're looking at a tier below that, then we're looking at a player like Josh Bell getting $6M for 1 year, compared to someone like Jim Thome getting $3M for 1 year. I just see no evidence, none whatsoever, that the top players getting paid their fair value has hurt players below them.
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The issue with deferrals is completely overblown. Yes, his actual pay is only $2M but the Dodgers are being treated as though his salary is $47M, the 2+ the present value of the deferred money. And if a new owner is too stupid to look at the organization's debt obligations, well, that's on them. MLB pay increased less than 3% last season, about on par with inflation. It was up 7% the year prior...again, about on par with inflation.
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I can't help but shake the idea that Rodriguez is never going to be more valuable than he is right now. I know the reports on his defense are pretty good, but I can't seem to find any videos except for one. His defense is going to be the deciding factor on if he's a huge bust candidate or an eminently valuable player. Like Julien, if he's not an average or plus defender his plate approach just doesn't seem like it will carry over very well. This is the one video I can find, and to be honest, it's just fine: https://www.milb.com/video/emmanuel-rodriguez-s-sliding-catch?t=playerid-691181 He looks like an average to below average major league CF to my eye. But it's one play, so I can't draw a real conclusion.
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Even the way Rocco managed the finale of the season, one of the only days fans actually did come out in September in order to send off the boys of summer into their winter hibernation. He didn't even play Buxton and Correa. Is that the biggest deal? No, of course not. But you're not playing for anything and the few loyal Twins fans you still have left showed up and don't even get to see the stars of the franchise play for a token inning or plate appearance? I'd have been insulted if I were in the stadium.
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Technically they don't have an open roster spot, as their 40 man roster is full. Not that it wouldn't be DFA any of about a dozen people. Micheal Tonkin probably already has his bags packed.
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They agreed to a CBA that cut every team a $200 million check last season, so I don't know that I agree with the premise of your argument. And revenue sharing is basically entirely an owners issue. Those lazy, welfare queen billionaires that took massive gifts from local governments and sit on a passive 10% investment interest may actually need to think about someone other than themselves for a single minute and figure their crap out.
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Somewhere along the way the Twins forgot that they need to sell a product to consumers. They just assume they have a loyal fan base that will reward them for being a well disciplined business. Shockingly, attendance doesn't reflect that.
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