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  1. mikelink45
    I don't trade them. Look at the youth that is taking over baseball. Players coming up at 19 - 21 and doing it well. Prospects are not as suspect as they used to be and the trades for players like Lopez and Pagan leave me shuddering! Yikes. How do we really value and evaluate players. We have teams falling all over themselves to sign rich contracts - will that make the Cubs or Rangers into winners? The Yankees are holding out for their own icon and the Dodgers are sitting back. Houston signed one player - Abreu and not for $300,000,000. The Braves have not gone crazy and so far St Louis has not either. These are the winning teams. There are lessons here.
  2. mikelink45
    NO. Just sign the best players available and if we run out of money before the Boras show down so be it. Fix the team - we have enough needs. I am glad you said it was an internal deadline because trying to hold out against Boras and play hardball does not work. Just tell him to call when he is getting close to having Correa sign and if we still have the money we can jump in. Just remember that Correa was a wonderful and highly overpaid player next year who did not even lead us to 500. We can sign him again and still be 500 if we do not construct the entire roster correctly.
  3. mikelink45
    Thanks for the note and the excellent recap. I appreciated seeing all the pieces in one place. The winter meetings have disappointed more than they have met expectations. Let's see what Boras and his waiting game does to the timing of FA signings. Personally I am not interested in any of the top dollar guys. Just build a strong overall team. I have commented in many threads that one great player does not make a great team. Houston built its team from within and most of us had never heard of their players before they appeared on the ASTROS. We need to continue to build our own pitchers up to meet the challenge and hold on to promising prospects. The real question is - will the FO be able to do something during this time that will give us some new articles on TD?
  4. mikelink45
    Right now, I am working on the other side of Florida on the St John's and Tolomato Rivers and we too have to adjust to damage from Ian. It is hard to explain how big and damaging that storm was. Thank you for remembering those who stepped up - there are so many who deserve to be thanked. Good luck to the team getting this done and moving on.
  5. mikelink45
    I don't care what the figure is - what I want is a complete team - we will not have DeGrom and Judge and probably not Verlander and Correa, but that does not mean that we will not have a good team. California can't win with Trout, Rendon and Ohtani. Yankees have not won the Series with Cole, Judge and Stanton. The Dodger have the best season record but did not get to the Series. The Braves were NL champions for over a decade, but only one a single WS title. It is about getting an all around team and working as a team. That is not money - Scherzer did not bring the Mets a championship. Correa did not win a championship for us. Stop thinking about writing a big check and think about fielding, hitting, pitching, managing. Think about the bench and the bullpen, the minor league support system. It is about an organization! The Braves might have only won a single series in the decade but they were always there. St Louis has consistently been a winning team, but other than Nolan they did not spend wildly. They traded and they stayed with their system. Its not moneyball anymore, its finding the right parts.
  6. mikelink45
    I wanted to move him in prior years. I think he has peaked but others might still want him, but who. When we have other good options a trade can address other needs or build the minors.
  7. mikelink45
    Of course you should try RULE V! Why not? Here are the best choices in the last decade - https://www.mlb.com/news/best-rule-5-draft-picks-past-10-years
  8. mikelink45
    I have great hope for Ryan, but he is not the ACE or number 2. Realistic expectations are essential.
  9. mikelink45
    I have not seen enough of him to agree with this essay. A short stint at the end of the season has had a lot of players look good only to be exposed in a full season. I hope you are right, but for now he is one of many we hope might give us one really good RP.
  10. mikelink45
    This is not as glamorous a list as the title would imply. Let's see Buxton got in 92 games - only 58 in CF the rest DH. Larnach had 51 games - 13 of the DH or PH. 33 LF 11 RF. Kiriloff got in 45 games, 5 DH or PH. 18 at 1B and 28 in the OF. Add up the games in the OF for all three - 120 games in the OF - we did not even get a full season from the three combined. Garlick and Contreras are not starting quality. Wallner had a late season call up and had 16 games in the OF - still not a full season. Gordon had 140 OF games - more than all the prospects and star had combined. Celestino had 141 OF games. So we have Gordon in LF, Celestino in CF, Kiriloff, Wallner, Larnach, Buxton filling the third OF position and Contreras and Garlick on the bench. Not really crowded. We need to revisit this article next September.
  11. mikelink45
    No. There are not many true Aces - and Mahle has to be healthy and he has to perform before we can make any assessment of where he is in a rotation let alone in judging him for ACE status.
  12. mikelink45
    It is about time that the team has a real Rookie of the Year. Here are our winners - including the Senator days: 1958 – Albie Pearson 1959 – Bob Allison 1964 – Tony Oliva 1967 – Rod Carew 1979 – John Castino (shared with Alfredo Griffin) 1991 – Chuck Knoblauch 1995 – Marty Cordova Are any of the players in this speculation good enough to rise above team ROY?
  13. mikelink45
    Yup
  14. mikelink45
    Spencer Steer is my choice. But I am open to a surprise. Wouldn't it be nice to see Lee tell the team to forget about all the minor league assignments and force his way on to the team? He can join a group of young 21 year olds who have jumped up before they were expected. Varland would mean that one of the expected rotation is injured - bad news. Wallner looks good only if Kepler is gone or he plays DH. Julien would be a good choice, but where do you play him. I will stick with one of our traded players.
  15. mikelink45
    Battey, Wynegar, Laudner, Mauer, Pierzynski, Harper, Suzuki, Mitterwald, Borgman, Steinback, Rosboro, Butera, Walbeck, That is not a list of greatness from top to bottom, but 5 - 6 of them are top catchers. Where does Jeffers fit into this list? He is the only catcher which has to change, but his performance so far has him outside the rank of good (not great) catchers, and the Great Mauer, Battey, Pierzynski, Harper group at the top is a long way from anything we have now.
  16. mikelink45
    Maybe it is the wind howling outside, but as I read your essay I was wondering if this was fact or speculation. Did we actually sign him? If we did it would be consistent. Someone who underperformed (because we can always fix a pitcher), someone who is an injury risk (we can fix them), and someone who tops out as a #3.. I realize now we did not sign him, a sigh of relief.
  17. mikelink45
    Not sure anymore. We have had this question every year and every year an injury happens. His value is more in CF than DH - He needs to get his average up, he needs to be in the field. I do not wish him to steal bases anymore. Every base is another nick in his physical being. I just don't have any expectations, I would like to be pleasantly surprised.
  18. mikelink45
    Not sure he will age that well. I would wait before doing the extension.
  19. mikelink45
    Jeffers has the equivalent of one seasons ABs (534) over his three year stint. I am hoping he matures as a hitter and I hope we have a hitting coach that can teach more than launch angle. Right now he is a Tim Laudner and we need better than that. He is 25 and could break out as an answer to all our needs. His minor league numbers say that he has a lot more to give.
  20. mikelink45
    We are methodical. We will wait to see what catcher is left after the others leave the table. I am not an advocate of this player, just not seeing this as a Twins signing - yet.
  21. mikelink45
    Like a couple other posts, I can only say I have no idea. Never been over to their home and they have not come and visited with me. They are rich people with a Ball team. I am a poor old guy who loves to read and listen to baseball. I have no way to judge Jim and no way to know about Joe. I just want a good competitive team.
  22. mikelink45
    Those darn Astros - must be cheating again. I think they put Abreu in a garbage can and hid him from the Twins!
  23. mikelink45
    Fun speculation, but I say no. Let our young players develop the RBI role - I think Miranda is ready and hopefully Larnach and Kiriloff will be too. Abreu would be DH not 1B if I were to sign him, but I think we have plenty of bats that just need the coaches to get them mentally ready to drive in runs. My favorite part of the essay was the suggestion that RBIs do count. Yes they do Runs and RBIs are essential statistics. Sorry Analytic guys, but winning teams score more runs that the opposition (and of course the pitchers have to hold the other team which is why I still like ERA for SP).
  24. mikelink45
    At 27 Schulfer is not a prospect, but he could be depth for the roster. Headricks is intriguing, but Lawyerson is probably gone. I am most impressed by Cardenas - nice profile. Thanks for bringing him to our attention. Will he make the prospect list and if not, why? Nowlin can not be discussed until he has some control, we do not need a young Pagan.
  25. mikelink45
    I heard that the Twins were going to shock the world and pick up Justin Jefferson after confirming that he can catch everything! So long Carlos.
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