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  1. Mr. Brooks
    What was his OPS the previous 5 seasons? Which is more likely: Adrianza at age 30 suddenly became a vastly better hitter than ever before? Or he had a career year in a relatively small sample size? I'm not saying it's impossible that he suddenly figured something out. But I think it's far more likely that he's a .680 OPS guy that got hot for a few weeks last year. And even if his 2019 hitting is legit, that's still a bottom of the league starting SS.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    I don't think they're ever going to have teams knocking down their door trying to get a deal done. So I'm not worried about getting a deal done before another team jumps in. Betts is the cost of unloading Price's contract. I wouldn't personally move off that stance. In fact, I think its it's a very generous offer to not also ask for a good prospect or two in addition to Betts.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    But that's not true. If Jake Cave continues to perform, he'll have value. In fact he already does. Just because Jake Cave has performed well enough to be capable of being a starting caliber player if needed, doesn't mean that every "bench" player is going to. It's not realistic to think you are going to have 4 of those guys on your bench. Adrianza is a good example of my argument. He's a quality backup/ utility infielder. That has value. He's not good enough to be a starting SS. Is your argument that the Twins should just cut Adrianza now? Or is it that giving him 600 plate appearances is suddenly going to transform him into a starting caliber SS? Because I don't agree with either of those arguments. And the role the team views a player in has very little impact on their trade value. Teams are doing their own independent evaluations. The Marlins aren't sitting there going, "all of our data says he can be a capable starting OF'er, but he's a backup on the Twins so I guess he has no value."
  4. Mr. Brooks
    Last year when Schoop got hurt, they didn't move Marwin to 2B, they called up Arraez. I think they'd do the same with Gordon this year if they think he's ready. I think they prefer Marwin in a super utility role, not starting anywhere, assuming someone is ready to step into a starting role. So personally, I don't think Gordon is affected in any way by Donaldson signing. Nor do I think Raley is. I think the possibility of Kepler moving to 1B (thus opening up OF playing time) was purely fan speculation. I'd be surprised if the team actually considered it.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    Gordon is a middle infielder, how is his path affected by the Donaldson signing?
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Ok, but even 10 guys rotating 9 spots leaves a couple of backups that aren't playing every day. That's my only argument is that Riverbrian tells me if a guy is likely a backup then just cut him now. That tells me he wants 13 guys all playing equal time.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    If we're eating the entire contract, we should be getting Betts for nothing. Really we should still be getting a pretty good prospect in addition to Betts, but in an effort to get the deal done, I could see forgoing that.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    Because the cream rises to the top. Even backups will get their chances over 162 games. If they outplay their expectation, they'll get more playing time. If they continue to perform during the course of that additional playing time, they'll move into one of those starting spots. Or, they'll have trade value. I don't think we're suggesting vastly different things. It's just that you suggest "forcing" the issue, whereas I suggest letting it come naturally. No two players have equal talent and ability. If it appears they do, then they simply aren't being evaluated with enough digits after the decimal point. There is no such thing as a true "tie" in a race. If you keep adding past the decimal point, you'll eventually find that one participant was faster than the other. I want the faster guy in the race, even if he's only .0001 seconds faster. 26 guys of equal ability just isn't realistic.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    I didn't say they should never play. I'm saying they shouldn't play on an equal rotation. It doesn't matter if a player is .300 or .050 OPS better. The better player should play.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    And just because I think Blankenhorn's upside is utility player, doesn't mean he's a waste of a 40 man spot. In addition to my argument in the previous post about those guys having value, there is also a chance he exceeds expectations and develops into a league average starter somewhere.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    Backups and utility guys that make the league minimum have value. I understand you think they should all play, but I couldn't disagree more. Some players are better than others. Playing someone worse and sitting someone better is just throwing away production, IMO. Even in a 7 for 6 spots rotation, like you mentioned, that's still 23 times per season, for EACH of the 6 spots that you are sitting a better player so that the 7th best of those 7 can play equally. That's the equivalent of losing a better player for the entire season, those games add up.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Xavier Rhodes, pro bowl cornerback. And the NFL wonders why they can't get anyone to take this game seriously.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    Travis Blankenhorn's upside is backup/utility infielder, IMO. Not starter. So I don't think he's affected by the Donaldson signing.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    Raley is a legitimate outfielder, not a first base candidate, IMO. I would assume that's why he wasn't mentioned.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    This would be my choice as well.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    I don't think it's a good idea to put a 20 year old kid in the majors, then spend his bullpen sessions working on a pitch that he isn't even going to throw in games. Pitching in MLB is hard enough. If his third pitch isn't ready, he should be throwing it in minor league games. All I hear is how we're a mid market team, we have to develop our own front of the rotation starters. What happened to that?
  17. Mr. Brooks
    Then again, his career numbers with RISP: .271/.306/.448 (.754) Those numbers are worse than his career overall numbers. Single season RISP numbers are far too small of a sample size to tell us much of anything.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Where in that post did you read any bashing?
  19. Mr. Brooks
    And it's disturbing that there is a voter that thinks that JJ Putz is a hall of Famer.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Jeter and Walker made it. Jeter one vote shy of unanimous.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    You can't possibly know that. Speaking English isn't a requirement for any of those 3 traits you listed. Not even a little bit.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    I can buy that in theory, but have the Twins ever used a reliever in such a fashion? Also, with Hill and Pineda out to start the year, why not let Graterol start until Pineda comes back, then move him to the pen?
  23. Mr. Brooks
    In what way? Heading into his last season as a Twin, Plouffe was a slightly above league average hitter, just as Rosario was last year. Plouffe had nearly double the bWAR, as a competent defensive 3B, as opposed to corner outfielder.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    So how is he ever going to be stretched out to become a starter if they don't start now? If he's dominant out of the bullpen this year, are you really going to send him back to the minors for two years so that he can build up his innings to start again? I'm not buying the argument that he can always go back to starting later.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Well the Twins already have a lot of really good players that don't speak English. What do you propose they do with them?
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