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  1. Mr. Brooks
    How is that anything but a pick 6? We desperately need playmakers on our team.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    A couple of thoughts. I don't think injuries are fluke or happenstance, or luck. Many do, that's fine, but I don't. I believe durability is a skill, just like speed, strength, reflexes, hand/eye, etc. So, IMO, he's likely to continue dealing with injuries. And I already said, I'd spend prospects OR money. I'd personally likely never spend both as long as I have the Twins budget. I'd overpay for a FA that doesn't cost any prospects, like Darvish last year, or Kuechel this year. Or, I'd trade for a cost controlled pitcher, like Cole or Gray last year.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    Zimmer is just way too risk adverse in general. Never goes for 2 unless it's a completely obvious situation. Way too often settles for long, low probability field goals on 4th and short. Have we ever done a fake kick under Zimmer?
  4. Mr. Brooks
    I agree. They've looked good the rare times they've gone no huddle. Unfortunately, Zimmer doesn't approve. Can't risk a 15 second 3 and out, in the words of Zimmer.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    Why are you holding the ball that long on 3rd and 4?
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Moving to the AL from the NL is worth about a half run ERA on it's own, before factoring in continued regression. If those WAR trends continue linearly, he's basically Odorizzi.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah, it's amazing how quickly my opinion of Cousins has changed. I can definitely see what the skeptics saw when we signed him.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    Non-tendering by itself doesn't affect free agency. Clearing waivers afterwards does. The Twins claimed Cron off waivers, so we control him just the same as TB would have had they tendered him. Had Cron cleared waivers, as Schoop did, then he would have become a free agent.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    If teams don't care what fans think, why would they leak anything, or talk to the media at all? Sports teams aren't in the business of winning games. That, by itself has zero monetary value whatsoever. They are in the entertainment industry.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    That was an embarrassing play for a HS team, let alone a professional one. What even was that??
  11. Mr. Brooks
    The guys you mentioned cost not just money, but money and significant prospects. I don't think a low budget organization like the Twins can expend big money and big prospects on a player and get nothing in return, which is a significant risk with those guys. One or the other ($ or prospects), maybe, but not both. Both would be a death sentence, IMO. I'm not saying never do it, but they better be almost 100% sure that a guy has good years left if they do.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Inexcusable penalty, then running a route 4 yards short of the sticks on third down, which certainly seems to be Defilippo's calling card.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    Schoop is not controllable beyond this season. He became a free agent once he went unclaimed. And, even if he hadn't, he'd still be a free agent after 2019 due to service time.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    The problem is, when you get a guy in decline, you don't really know if he's better than what you have, because decline isn't always linear. Take a guy like Felix Hernandez. Someone could have sold themselves on him being in decline, but still likely to be good, two years ago. Instead he fell off a cliff, and is a massive liability. That's the risk with players 30+. You could get a year or two before that cliff, or not.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    It's different when guys like that could be pointed to as the exceptions. It's getting to be closer to the norm. It's also different when a huge sample size of (theoretically) independent voters make an unworthy selection, versus a handful of biased ex players.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    I think Flip wanted to stay with the run last week, but it's tough when your o line keeps holding and putting you in 1st and 20. Not to defend Defilippo, because I'm really not a fan.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah it's going to be nearly impossible for the Vikings to miss the playoffs, the teams behind them are awful. But, getting the top wildcard spot is the only chance they have of getting some traction in the playoffs. They can win in Dallas, I don't think they have much chance if they have to go to Chicago, or New Orleans. Going to LA doesn't scare me as much, but they did lose there once already. The division is over. I don't understand why people continue to not take the Bears seriously. They are as good as anyone in the league. We aren't in their tier.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    That's fine, and I no longer really care, but we now have to adjust our perceptions of what the HOF is. When viewed as a museum to observe the history of baseball, it still works. But it's no longer a yardstick for the best of the best to ever play. It's basically become a participation ribbon.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Definitely bet the over. Vegas has been slow to adjust to the new realities of the NFL. If someone simply bet the over on every game this year so far, they'd be winners at a 70% clip.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    We don't know if they added 2 good players. I'm okay with both signings, but let's remember both guys were non tendered by competitive teams.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    They didn't overpay for Schoop.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Why on earth would you want King Felix in your rotation?
  23. Mr. Brooks
    No.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    The 10 playoff teams from last year COMBINED to have 8 players hit. 300 or higher. Only 16 players in the entire MLB hit .300+. Nobody hits for average anymore. Walks and HR's rule the day now, whether we like it or not.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Maybe but nearly every business' goal is to maximize profit, not simply come out ahead. They might make a profit at $140 million, but they probably make a bigger profit at $110 million. It might have been back in the day that it was more of a hobby for some owners, but that was before there was the massive media money in sports that there is now. Owning a sports franchise is a business just like any other big business now, whether we like it or not.
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