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  1. big dog
    Insurance for highly predictable outcomes tends to be either very expensive or impossible to purchase. Highly predictable outcomes are a hard way for insurers to make money otherwise. Yes, I recognize that "death" is highly predictable and lots of insurers make lots of money with life insurance. However, "date of death" is not highly predictable, except as an average for large groups of people.
  2. big dog
    Thanks, that was very fun.
  3. big dog
    We need more catcher-cam. Wow.
  4. big dog
    So...who do we have in camp whose name is a version of Ryan? That's where my money goes. Should have been Royce. What about Gryfan Jax?
  5. big dog
    Hopefully Astudillo is with the Saints.
  6. big dog
    True, although Dozier might wish he'd signed one like that a couple years ago. I guess he got a ring, though.
  7. big dog
    I wonder if the players have been thinking about what they got in the last negotiation in exchange for allowing the change to service time rules. They opened the door to this, it shouldn't have been too hard to predict what the owners would do. What are they going to give up to help out future generations whose service time could be manipulated?
  8. big dog
    Wow, I just had a flashback to Calvin Griffith at the Waseca Lions Club!
  9. big dog
    It will be interesting to see how much time Goodrum gets with Gardy now retired. He certainly did better in Detroit than I expected. Agreed on Anderson- doesn't look that good but somehow it all works, at least so far. Not a very strong group overall, that's for sure. Should be a solid edge for the Twins, especially if our guy can lay off those bad pitches a little more.
  10. big dog
    Donaldson has a chance to be a B+. He also has a chance to spend a hundred games unable to play in the field. Then what- Arreaz? Not sure he has the arm for the position, at least not as a long-term fill-in. Blankenhorn? Astudillo? If Donaldson stays reasonably healthy, we're in great shape. I think that for the division as a whole, catcher is stronger than 3B, but who knows. Grandal actually scares me more than Moncada, in part because he seems like that really solid veteran presence (and he's a much better fielder at his position, at least so far). Very worried about the Sox...
  11. big dog
    This certainly has the potential to be a much-improved division over the one the Twins won the last couple of years. Should be an exciting season. It will be interesting to see the LaRussa/youngsters combination in action. I know some people are saying LaRussa won't adjust to new ways to play the game, but he invented the new closer role with Eckersley and somehow was able to not notice Canseco's advocacy of new training regimes in the clubhouse, so he ought to be able to adapt to bat flips.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. big dog
    Waiter? I'll have whatever he's drinking. Make it a double, please.
  15. big dog
    Dislike. Intensely. Go pick an orange.
  16. 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.
  17. 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!
  18. big dog
    Andrew Albers is 35 and came up 7 years ago. Holy crap do I feel old.
  19. 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.
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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.
  23. big dog
    Or he's drinking from a very different bottle
  24. big dog
    Can Wallner play an adequate or better outfield?
  25. 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.
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