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  1. Mr. Brooks
    Sorry, poor phrasing.This is what I meant. The voters can, and IMO should consider character and integrity. The post I was responding to seemed to suggest that cheating (Bonds/Clemens) and despicable views (Schilling) weren't relevant.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    Unlike the other major sports, the baseball hof has a morals clause.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    I'm sure Brian will be happy to hear that. Twins pitchers, probably not so much.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    Ok, we just need to figure out which player doesn't have a cell phone or email in 2019, and we'll know for ourselves who was removed.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    Nope, Thorpe was protected a year ago. He's been on the 40 man roster since 11/20/2017.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    You'd still have 6 teams bidding, which is plenty. It only takes 2 teams to drive up a price.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    Or, he was always going to sign for a market with a large Japanese culture, as I predicted a few posts up. I don't think there is a remotely reasonable offer that the Twins could have made that would have even gotten a response. The new posting rules are great for the Asian players, but terrible for every team that's not in LA, NY, Seattle, or San Francisco.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    Sorry, that's not what I meant to debate. Your Sano ranking is fine with me. I was debating your conclusion that 40 HR hitters aren't in demand anymore, which you pointed to Cruz's relatively conservative contract to come to. That contract is weighted by the risk that, at his age, any day now could be the day he stops hitting. If you could guarantee a team 40 HR and an .860 OPS, he'd have gotten a much bigger contract. IF Sano becomes the hitter he's capable of, IF (and I have as many doubts as you), he'll have plenty of value. He was worth 2.3 bWAR in half a season his rookie year.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    Wait, when you trade a player, the other team doesn't have to take on that player's cap hit? That makes no sense.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Will Hernandez was still sitting there in the first, and they passed. I don't know how he finished the year, but around week 12 or so, he had the highest grade PFF had ever given to a rookie guard. No matter who is taken, and who is still sitting there, Spielman has to identify who can play, and I'm not sure he can, since he passed on Hernandez who we desperately needed.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    A missed FG is not a miracle, not even a short one, we see those every week. The play that beat the Saints you'll likely never see again in your lifetime.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Here are his records vs winning and losing teams: 2014: 0-6 vs winning teams. 0-1 vs .500 teams. 7-2 vs losing teams. 2015: 2-5 vs winning teams. 1-0 vs .500 teams. 8-1 vs losing teams. 2016: 4-5 vs winning teams. 0-1 vs .500 teams. 4-2 vs losing teams. 2017: 6-3 vs winning teams. 0-0 vs .500 teams. 8-1 vs losing teams. 2018: 1-6 vs winning teams. 0-0 vs .500 teams. 7-1-1 vs losing teams. 5 year total: 13-25 vs winning teams. 1-2 vs .500 teams. 34-7-1 vs losing teams. Look at those totals. He beats up on crappy teams. He can't beat good teams. One of those years looks like an outlier, and it's not this year. His teams don't come ready to play against the good teams, and those are the teams you have to beat to win a Super Bowl.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    When you say his record in prime time games is unacceptable, what do you mean? Because it sounds like you don't want him fired, which would mean that it is acceptable to you. I disagree that the lack of preparation is the exception. It looks like it's clearly the rule to me. There is enough talent on the roster to beat bad teams ill prepared, but they are terrible against good teams.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    What were your expectations coming into the season nick? You can't tell me you didn't expect more than 8 wins and no playoffs. Falling short of expectations has to have consequences. If they don't, then your expectations were never real, they were hopes and dreams.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    Knee jerk? Spielman and Zimmer have 5 years together. They have 1 playoff win, and needed a miracle to do that. Green and Childress were both fired one year after getting to an NFC Championship game. It happens all the time in the NFL, nobody would bat an eye. If Wilf is fine with regular season wins, and no more, then fine, it's his team. But he explicitly said he was in it to win a title. I've seen enough, I don't think Zimmer is capable of winning a title, even if you let him pick any team in the league. But, that's my opinion, totally fair those who disagree.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    There is no such thing as a 38 year old who is almost guaranteed to hit 20 HR's, let alone 40. That is why Cruz was signed for what he was. If Cruz was 25 instead of 38, his contract would be much bigger.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    I'm surprised, and disappointed by this. I would have thought Zygi's expectations for this year would have been much higher than 8 wins and no playoffs. Not sure at this time I'll bother to follow them next year. I feel like we've seen enough of these two. What makes them think next year they'll suddenly figure it all out?
  18. Mr. Brooks
    It doesn't matter who the coordinator is, as long as Zimmer is undermining them. This offense was rolling early in the year, until Zimmer started micromanaging Flip. Changing coordinators worked for one game, then got worse than ever. What good coordinator is going to come here with a potentially lame duck head coach breathing down their neck every call?
  19. Mr. Brooks
    BTW, team game, but Cousins now 4-25 against teams with winning records. It's crazy how quickly I've gone from, "We got this guy for 2 more years!", to, "yikes, we got this guy for 2 more years..."
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Ten years ago, when Johan got robbed sure. Now, I doubt the voters literally even look at that stat. But, even if they do, I don't care. Do you think it's the Twins job to win games, or to pad guys stats?
  21. Mr. Brooks
    If 29 other teams didn't want Nelson Cruz, we'd have gotten him for the league minimum. 29 other teams didn't want him for the same price we did. But, that's true of any negotiable item. By your logic, 29 teams won't want Harper, 29 teams won't want Machado, and nobody on the planet wanted any of our currently owned homes.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Innings pitched are considered playing time. As I said that's allowed. Wins are considered performance, that's not allowed under the CBA. The team's job is to win games, not to help players pad their stats. I highly doubt wins have any bearing whatsoever on contract negotiations anymore, in 2019.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    Tomlin has equity. Zimmer has 1 playoff win in 5 years, and needed a Minneapolis miracle to get that. I agree that Spielman has failed, I think he needs to go as well. But Zimmer isn't helping, this team is consistently unprepared and/or under motivated. They had everything to play for today, the Bears had nothing to play for. Yet it was the Bears who played like their hair was on fire, and the Vikings who looked like they'd rather be napping. That's on the coaching staff.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    1-6 against teams with a winning record.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    This team's problems go way deeper than a couple offensive linemen.
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