Mr. Brooks

He actually threw 102 innings last year between mlb and milb. He threw 180+ each of the 2 prior seasons, so it shouldn't be a concern.

They are only $9 million below last year, apples to apples. The $24 million you are citing are two different numbers, 25 man versus 40 man payrolls.

The player can turn down the QO, so they are still unrestricted free agents. Restricted free agents have no ability to leave if their current team matches a FA offer, which baseball doesn't currently have.

Always possible. But, in light of the fact that they were able to get deals done with Polanco and Kepler, I'm operating under the assumption that they were negotiating in good faith.

I'm not throwing out any months though. I'm using the assumption that he was healthy when he was on the field. Unless you have explicit evidence that the team, the medical staff, and himself all allowed him to pitch while injured.

On which date was he injured? Or are you just assuming that he only started to pitch poorly after the injury? Or are you saying that there was a snippet of the season that he was good, which technically came before the injury?

Nearly every player looks good if you throw out their bad months and only count their good months.

It doesn't seem like Berrios is interested in an extension, based on reports during the offseason.

Why would you want your 12th best player playing as often as your best player? The only way your plan maximizes assets is if all 12 players are hypothetically exactly as good as each other, which isn't realistic.

Those odds must factor in that there will be a mid air collision between MIN and CLE's planes once every 100 simulations? If not, KC having 1% is nonsense.

Reed was not good last year before he got hurt.

Twins daily is like a box of chocolates...

I'm guessing more than most will have the patience for. Signing a guy having Tommy John surgery, paying him to recover, then demanding he be good out of the gate wouldn't be fair or well thought out. They made this bed when they signed this deal 2 years ago, barring a total implosion, he'll get until the trade deadline to figure it out, IMO.

The Twins have the second fewest strikeouts of any team in baseball.

His current numbers are a significant upgrade over Pineda's current numbers. But, I'm guessing the FO expected Pineda to be a process. I doubt it's a new revelation to them that guys take varying amounts of time to get a feel back after missing time with TJ surgery. Obviously Pineda may never get better than this, but I'd guess he'll get more time than this to see if he can.

Sorry, I meant it's not relevant to the change I'm looking for. Not that it has no relevance at all. Investigations have to be fair, balanced and thorough in order to accomplish change. Fair, balanced and thorough are things that are simply not possible in a YouTube video or a tweet. I think the progress on action from people who actually have the power to initiate real change has been painfully slow. Ultimately it's going to require the police unions buying in that it's in their best interest to help root out the bad apples. That will be a drastic change from their current modus operandi, which seems to be to stand with their brothers no matter what they've done. These youtube videos obviously raise public awareness, but there is no way to estimate in what way. They can sometimes hinder the change I'm looking for. For example, someone might see a youtube video that shows a one sided snippet of a good cop doing exactly what he should be doing. Relatively short videos without context could make it appear he's doing something wrong. That person now distrusts every incident of police misconduct that he sees, even legitimate ones, because he remembers how the good cop was portrayed in the previous video. Nobody is immune to that type of reflexive thinking. I'm immediately skeptical of anything that BLM protests, because they've lost my benefit of the doubt with a few obviously justified shootings that they've protested and tried to portray as unjustified. I don't know if that's fair or not, but the fact is that I can't help it. We need politicians, community leaders, and police unions to come together with a common interest, and agree on a system where bad cops are rooted out and no longer have anywhere to hide, and that good cops will get treated fairly and not be thrown under the bus for doing there job. Right now we are far from that. Community leaders are so fed up with bad cops getting away with everything, that they unfairly throw any incident that looks bad against the fan to see what sticks. And police unions are so paranoid they'll be thrown under the bus for doing their job, that they protect even the most obviously corrupt cops, in hopes that they'll in return be protected if something they do is fairly or unfairly criticized. And the politicians are too afraid to get in the middle because they don't yet know which way the voting wind is going to blow on the issue. I may be naive for thinking we can find a way for them to all come together, but I still want to try.

I'd be fine with Gordon and Rooker. That's probably not enough though.

You mean the 8 seasons that he was 26 to 33 years old? Then after 1998, he got even better with age. And not just a little bit better, massively better. Like the difference between Drew Butera and 28 year old Barry Bonds better! And I don't think your examples are accurate. Take Ryan Braun. He's a .980 OPS guy, then gets popped, and comes back and is a roughly .805 OPS guy the rest of the way. So, he came back and hit well, but not nearly the level before he was caught juicing. Here are a couple excerpts regarding PED's and baseball: From the NY Times: "Scientists say they do not believe steroids improve hand-eye coordination, but because they agree the drugs help build strength, some extrapolate that steroids would also quicken bat speed." From Scientific America: "What is that drug and how does it work? It's an anabolic steroid, also called an androgen, and it is a synthetic form of the male sex hormone testosterone. It increases muscle mass and strength, and also enhances recovery time after a workout." I assume scientists know more about this than either of us, and they seem to suggest that PED's can actually improve performance, not just aid in injury recovery. Which, I must say, makes sense, considering they are called performance enhancing drugs.

If the cop smashes the suspect with his nightstick because that is the level of force necessary to subdue the suspect, then there is no problem. If he's doing it punatively after the suspect is already subdued, then that is a crime, and should not be tolerated.

The methods we need are actual investigation and investigative journalism. Not the YouTube/ social media commentary noise that you are speaking of. Levi isn't denying it's existence, he's saying it's not productive and is therefore irrelevant to the point he's trying to make.

No need to get so creative. We have a starting first baseman just barely scraping replacement level.

Barry Bonds OPS'ing 1.462 at age 39 disagrees.

CJ Cron's batting line would be bad for a utility infielder. For a starting first baseman, it's terrible.

It's already late enough to gain a 7th year of team control. Waiting until a week into June would avoid Super 2 status.

Javier is the Twins #4 prospect, per mlb pipeline. Prospects like that are never available in the Rule V draft. He'd be a lock to go #1 overall, IMO.