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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    sure it does. If the Dodgers are waiting out the Twins, announcing you are walking away puts the ball in the Dodgers court. Perfectly fair to say up your ante soon or I'm keeping Dozier.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    timeline for De Leon's peak is further out that Dozier's current contract. That's not to say it won't drop, just that we won't know for a while. Agreed Dodgers have a finite window of opportunity and a lot at risk. It's not every season or every decade that a team can be in LA's shoes where you are legit World Series contenders with only one hole and that one hole glares so badly and they have a tailor made fit for a trade like this. Im impressed w/ Friedman to not just throw prospects around like candy to get Dozier.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    I disagree. It seems LA is waiting out MN because they know Dozier's value drops once the season starts. Moving on is OK if you aren't getting the right return this was already part of the Dozier trade thread re: the LEN3 article.
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    Agreed w/ Mike, spot on Nick. If Dozier isn't traded I'm not very optimistic for the rotation.
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    the guy hadn't played his "natural position" in 3 years, lets see what he can do. I'm not saying gold glove, but maybe passable if you give him a chance. If you never give him a chance and can't see the writing is on the wall for Plouffe to get non-tendered, then Moli deserves to be stuck w/ a terrible fielding team. Back to the subject at hand, I do agree that the fielding was terrible and would grade the hitters slightly lower than Nick did because the fielding was so bad. Compared to Nick's 2.08, I would have been closer to 1.9. I think Mauer, Rosario, and yes Sano should have had slightly lower grades. Rosario and Sano I would have stuck with them in LF and 3B respectively. I would have given Mauer more time off and away from 1B to rotate in Vargas more.
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    nope, I mean Vargas had to hit well enough to create a need to move Sano to 3rd. Agreed with Mike, Moli failed to prepare his team for the future, and that did impact players performance on the field.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    all he had to do was beat out Plouffe at third who was on the DL for the majority of the season
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    This is exactly the point. It takes a special player to reach such a pinnacle, the penultimate level of baseball excellence, to suck so badly and yet last at the peak of expectations of success
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    so what do the Cards do if the Twins take their offer? "Oh Gee, Sorry, I was just trying to screw over the Dodgers"
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    how long of a view does trade competition see? I mean to have a strategy that involves a competitor acquire a top end 30-40 home run second baseman so they can deplete their roster 2+ years in the future has to be a long roi.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    Denny Hocking was bad, but the stat is deceiving, he was actually one of the better players in a terribly inept period for twins baseball. WAR is a counting stat, so he accumulated badness over a long period of time with a lot of chances. In the mid-90s he was the only one that stuck around long enough to keep accumulating stats. T-Nish on the other hand...
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    FTFY
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    uhhh
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    im shocked too, but at 30% of some of the deals being spoken of before the knee...
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    dozier has peaked based on lots of well respected research that says baseball players peak between 27 and 30 and the logic that when a 28 year old takes a really big step and the assumption that the research is correct, then "he isn't going to take another big step" seems very straight forward http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=9933
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    Indeed https://mobile.twitter.com/MikeBerardino/status/804857667466493952
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    its possible http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-pitch-framing/
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    im with you, I hope for a big upgrade in one rotation spot as well as the middle infielder is a good fielding shortstop.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    looking at who was available 3 years seems reasonable. If there was another early free agency catcher and if Wilson Ramos weren't injured, then maybe you could make a case for offering Castro a 2 year 17 mil deal and he might take it, but the market is what it is and you always overpay in FA. They needed to, frankly. Revamping a roster happens one move at a time
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    i would imagine a call like that might/would/should be scheduled a day or two in advance with his agent. It might be somewhat common for players to not want to take that call directly.
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    underappreciated? Maybe, definitely not undervalued among Twins fans. Clearly mean, median and mode third baseman, and most of us(myself as much as anyone) were clamoring to trade him. I do wonder how hungover Halsey is right now....
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    he has already signed a 2 year deal with the Royals. Tongue in cheek sure, but not so far-fetched.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    or Palka
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    also according to "the aggregator not to be quoted" Castro has three offers on the table. I wonder how much longer this will string out...
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    with new management and new investment in personnel evaluation and analytics, we could see Molitor change some of his tactics. I am also a strong proponent of Castro
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