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  1. big dog
    Arraez gets most of the starts until Kirilloff is up, with Rooker getting the rest. Cave for pinch-running, late game defense for Rooker. Once AK is up (can he have #47?) then...not sure. I'd like to see Rooker get a bunch of ABs and see how it goes. I sure liked what I saw in his tiny sample last summer.
  2. big dog
    I find myself wondering how many teams Tatis will play for during this contract. I think three. Doesn't make it a bad deal, but it does make me think there ought to be a way to structure it differently that would work better than 14 years. Moving that contract is going to take a lot of future time and energy, and even if he's worth the money will one team be able to carry that for 14 consecutive years? Maybe, but I'll bet not. Maybe in ten years every better than average player will make $25 million and this won't be anything unusual.
  3. big dog
    Waiter? I'll have whatever he's drinking. Make it a double, please.
  4. big dog
    Dislike. Intensely. Go pick an orange.
  5. big dog
    What's up with Clippard? I thought he did a good job last year and expected the Twins to re-sign him. Now he's got nothing on 2/16? I don't get it.
  6. big dog
    Nice write-up. Quick quibble: born June of 1999 should make him age 21 now, turning 22 this summer, not 23. Unless I'm missing something. Good luck to him!
  7. big dog
    Andrew Albers is 35 and came up 7 years ago. Holy crap do I feel old.
  8. big dog
    Yeah, I was going to ask about that too- hopefully it's just a thing that happened on a max effort pitch on an indoor mound. Otherwise he might have a liner into an unprotected kidney in his future. Ouch. It will be fun to see how he progresses! Lots of opportunity. He didn't actually look as heavy as I expected, given the comments I've read about him.
  9. big dog
    This team is terrible we will struggle to finish ahead of Detroit ...just trying to restore balance to the universe, nothing to be alarmed about here
  10. big dog
    Why do the above posts give me this sense of impending doom? Is there an Acme safe about to fall out of a building on the pitching rotation? JINX ALERT EVERYONE TAKE COVER
  11. big dog
    Personally, I'd rather start at the bottom of the ranking and speculate about who is in the top 10/5/3 than start at the top and speculate about who is snagging the Honorable Mentions. Besides, it's Feb 12, what else do I have going on? Something to look forward to.
  12. big dog
    Or he's drinking from a very different bottle
  13. big dog
    Can Wallner play an adequate or better outfield?
  14. big dog
    Another way to look at it is, what would the Twins get if they traded Maeda now? I'm guessing more than they gave up to get him.
  15. big dog
    In 2019 there were 15 hitters who got more than 30 games. He can be the 30th player on the roster, fine. If people want him on the team all year because he's entertaining, great. I'd rather win more games, that's fun too.
  16. big dog
    He probably compares well to the last people on a lot of good teams if you go back 20 years. How does he compare to players who won the WS the last 3 years? When you do that, using your five-minute exercise, he compares to guys who got in 20-30 games, or were exceptional fielders who played slightly more games especially as defensive replacements. I would expect the 13th field player to get a lot more action than that, especially with Baldelli. Keep him in the minors and when we have injuries he can come up for a week at a time so that people can be entertained. I guess.
  17. big dog
    Good article, but it should have come with a trigger warning (I've never said that before and don't expect to say it again, but seriously). When he came to the plate for that playoff at-bat my response was WHY?WHY?WHY? I turned to my wife and said the same thing tens of thousands of Twins fans must have been saying- "you've got to be kidding. He's going to swing at a pitch a foot out of the strike zone and probably ground into a double play." If we want versatility in the field, we should have kept Adrianza. Slow guys make diving catches in left field. Fast guys make easy catches in left field. Sorry, I was hoping that ship would sail last August but then it crashed into my dock.
  18. big dog
    Wade's 27, and if he isn't a project then he's a career backup outfielder. Agreed, we didn't get a shoo-in for the the top half of the bullpen, but I think the cost was pretty reasonable.
  19. big dog
    "Second in the AL Central?! Wow. The oddsmakers must be drinking the same Kool-Aid as White Sox Nation!" Naw, a lot more people in Chicago bet on baseball than people in Minnesota. Not saying the odds are wrong, but they are set to equalize the betting interest, not to make the best prediction of the future. Happy to have the pressure on the young team with a lot of players who think they have to perform like superstars right out of the gate. Lots of talent, not a ton of seasoning...other than LaRussa, who might have a little too much. Lots of potential, though, along with some quality vets that's for sure. Hopefully it doesn't come together for too many of them all at once.
  20. big dog
    It might be necessary; that doesn't mean it will help them win on the field. Two different arguments. I also don't buy the idea that every trade is shopped extensively and therefore the winning bid is the best one. Other teams might have valued them much more highly but not had the assets to trade or the willingness to take on the salary; teams in the division might not have been allowed to trade; Lindor might have signaled to certain teams he would never re-sign with them if traded there; there's far too much going on behind the scenes to assume that trading markets automatically send assets to the team that is both able and willing to give up the most talent. The simple question was how it affects the Twins. If anyone thinks the Indians are going to be better in 2021 because of this trade, I disagree. Does that make it a bad trade for the Indians to make? I don't care, I just think the Twins are in clearly better shape because of this trade. The Indians might know what they are doing, as you say, but I don't think what they are doing is trying to win in 2021.
  21. big dog
    That's a huge UNDER pay by the Twins in real life. I would do that trade in a heartbeat. I'm really tired of seeing Astudillo ground out swinging at pitches six inches off the plate, and I don't think we'll ever see Gordon in a Twins uni, at least not for more than a couple cups of coffee. Baez for Smelter? Make that call.
  22. big dog
    One of Polanco/Arraez is certainly a lock, and I'd bet on both. I'd like to see them re-sign Clippard for the pen.
  23. big dog
    Trading Lindor could cost the Indians four or five wins, and could give the Twins two given how he's crushed us. That's not even counting the loss of Carrasco. Maybe a good trade for the long term, but a huge gift to the Twins for this year.
  24. big dog
    Interesting question- who might be this year's Tony Batista? I don't mean who the Twins will sign, but what player out there might resemble Tony? I'm not assigning this as homework to myself, but if a good candidate pops into my brain I will be sure to let people know. Because, you know, covid.
  25. big dog
    Lance Lynn won that trade. He moved to a new team where, for whatever reason, he started pitching better and ended up getting a nice contract. The Twins may end up getting a little bit out of Rijo, too, someday.
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