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  1. Mr. Brooks
    And the GM hires the development staff - as well as the scouts. So it doesn't matter whose "fault" it is, to me, the buck stops with the GM- or whatever a given team calls their top boss.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    No, it costs them a 25 man roster spot for a full season.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    If you wait until after next year then Sano is already into his ARB years and probably wouldn't have as much incentive to sign a long term extension. The incentive to the player now is that they haven't really gotten paid yet (Aside from bonus), only making roughly 500k per year. I think the window for a long term deal is the next 10 months. You either get it done in that frame or probably not at all.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    No, not that at all. I'm saying we shouldn't get upset if they don't pick who we want now, because we don't have the same data and expertise that they have. I think we should judge them based on their results. I don't think that is unfair at all given that their job is literally to scout and research and identify who the best player is going to be - and they are paid handsomely to do so. As a rube, sure I have an opinion on who I want them to take (Greene), but that is a completely uneducated opinion and I won't be upset on draft day if they take someone else.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    Except posters here aren't paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to know and see what scouts and GM's see. I don't think it's unfair for me to expect the professionals to get the pick right just because I might not be able to. Is it unfair of me to expect a professional mechanic to rebuild my transmission correctly, even though I might not be able to myself? Will someone tell me that I have to crawl under the truck and rebuild it correctly myself before I'm allowed to criticize a professional mechanic for screwing up my transmission?
  6. Mr. Brooks
    I feel the complete opposite as you Mike. I view Stewart as a complete bust at this point. I think, barring an epic improvement this year, there is almost no chance he's added to the 40 man. I don't see how any team could even remotely consider carrying him I their 25 man roster all season, in his current state.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    Close to MLB ready is a terrible reason to draft a player, IMO. We've seen plenty of examples from the Twins alone of close to MLB ready picks that through injury or ineffectiveness end up taking just as long to get here.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    Irrelevant because it has to be paid regardless? I mean, I guess. But that is true of all mlb contracts. Therefore they are all irrelevant. In which case I don't want to hear any excuses about going after an ace pitcher or two. Yes, you'll probably be overpaying for a used up arm the last few years, but that's irrelevant, right? Look, I personally don't bring up Joe's contract. He earned it at the time, he had to be retained, and that was the price. But I don't think it's fair to say its irrelevant. Like it or not, the Twins operate under a self imposed salary cap. And when you are under a salary cap, production to cost matters. It matters a lot. Of course, there is nothing we can do about that now. But that isn't the same thing as being irrelevant.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    Quality stuff here Seth. Thanks for your hard work.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah, I guess now the only question is which Twin gets thrown at in retaliation for "showing up" the opposing pitcher? My guess is Sano.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    This FO doesn't have any development time invested in Gibson. They just got here.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Cleveland's record puts them on pace for 95-67. Is that really mediocre?
  13. Mr. Brooks
    All the more reason to not let money sway the pick.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    I can't believe this is a thing. These guys are willing to hurt their team (by getting tossed) because they'd rather play "post anthem standoff" than baseball- which they are being paid for, by the way. What a bunch of clowns.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    I'm not worried about ever getting burned by Stewart. His upside, IMO is 5th starter on a bad team/ AAAA depth. I'd love to be wrong.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    By what metric does DanSan play very good of defense?
  17. Mr. Brooks
    And still waiting for the ice cold bats to come around. Hopefully this is just SSS noise, because this could be a long season if the hitters are going to be this much worse than expected.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Well the target is generally 2 out of 3 strikes (66%). So it's not like 62% is awful.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Well it's still very early, but the hitters are still not hitting very well. Only 5 games so far, but only 3 of our regulars have an OPS+ of 100 or more (Sano, Polanco, Castro). Escobar and Gimenez have been good off the bench. The other 6 regulars are still struggling at the plate.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Jose Berrios surpassed his rookie eligibility last season, and is not eligible for rookie of the year this year.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    Yikes.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    I like the lineup, I'm just not sure this is the game to start pimping it. Obviously saying that KC decided to stop throwing strikes was hyperbole. I'm sure they were trying. But it doesn't take much "patience" for a professional baseball player to lay off pitches that are 15 inches out of the strike zone. Getting a gift like that KC meltdown isn't a sustainable thing. I'd feel better about their long term potential if they had been hitting the ball hard all day with worse results.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    Let's not get carried away. Outside of Sano's home run, they didn't hit the ball very hard. In fact, their bats were pretty pathetic yesterday. KC just suddenly decided to stop throwing the ball anywhere close to the strike zone. The Twins don't have to apologize for that, but it had nothing to do with the batting order, or the Twins hitting well.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    Won't those same 40 man decisions still exist in two weeks?
  25. Mr. Brooks
    If he improves to average defensively at SS then we don't need anyone else.
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