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  1. Major League Ready
    The have $45M net after contract expirations, pay increases, and arbitration raises. This assumes a payroll equal to 2021. That could be stretched a little too.
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    If they have room to give him a look, fine. However, we have Winder / Ryan / Strotman / maybe Sands / Canterino ready for a look at this level.
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    Hard to argue his "athleticism is unmatched", The part that "his production is unparalleled" even with the caveat "when healthy" is true for a 27 game stretch. I too hope for more of that production but he should not be mentioned in the same breadth as Kirby Puckett where production is concerned at least not at this point. Puckett produced a career WAR of 44.9. Rod Carew produced a career 72 WAR and had a 5 year stretch where he produced 35 WAR.
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    I hope he brings more than that.
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    They definitely have the pieces. Let's hope they are willing to include one of them very high on the list. I just don't know what to expect with how tight teams have been with top prospects. What's realistic from the Jays?
  6. Major League Ready
    Who here believes the Pineda trade comes in at 2:55 tomorrow afternoon?
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    I think the Jays or Rays are a good match. The Rays seem to be in a very aggressive state and there has been quite a bit of trade interaction with them the last couple years..
  8. Major League Ready
    It's unfortunate that both Robles and Colome have sucked. At the risk of stating the obvious, those guys could have brought back something decent.
  9. Major League Ready
    Ah ha ... I thought you meant what they got for Berrios because there was a bunch of Berrios focused posts. My bad and I absolutely agree on Pineda. I also can't imagine he does not get moved. The one I am wondering about is Robles. I guess it does not matter much because he is not going to bring much back.
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    How will we know what the alternatives were to what they end up getting? Hard to judge when we don't know what they turned down.
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    I thought we were talking about pitching. Your argument seems to be they were ranked high but why do we care how they were ranked when we now know how they have performed? What did that system produce for pitching? We can evaluate based on results and that group produced virtually nothing in terms of pitching. We don't know how this group will rate 5 years from now when we can evaluate based on results. I would be willing to bet we get a whole lot more pitching out of the current system plus whoever they get for Berrios/Pineda assuming they are dealt.
  12. Major League Ready
    No doubt the free agents were not good but a lot of people here speak as if the FO failed to bring in the right guys. Who were the right guys? Were we going to get Wainwright away from STL? James Paxton pitched 1 inning Garret Richards’s ERA is 5.15 Drew Smyly has been decent with a 4.3 ERA but he certainly would not have made a difference Corey Kluber pitched 50 innings and is now on the 60 day IL Charlie Morton has been good but his geographic preference is well known so that was not going to happen. Mike Minor has an ERA of 5.32 Jake Odorizzi has been decent with an ERA of 4.3 but how much difference would he have made. The guy I wanted (Taijuan Walker) has been great but I got no support here when I floated him as a good option. We could have traded for Blake Snell like so many here insisted was a no brainer. We could have given up a bunch of prospects for a near replacement level player. We could have traded for Darvish. He was great the first couple months but he has given up 16 runs in his last 20 innings. We would still be talking about a horrible season even with Darvish so there is a lot more to this failure than our free agents SPs, one of which was a $2M depth play.
  13. Major League Ready
    I have watched 7 or 8 games now but he has been at 1st for half the games. He looked good at 3B in the limited number of plays I have seen but you make a good point. He is going to rank quite a bit higher if he projects to stick at 3B although I don't mind the flexibility of him being able to play 3 infield positions.
  14. Major League Ready
    I would argue he has created the pipeline. Balazovic / Duran / Canterino / Ryan / Ober / Winder / Enlow / Sands / Ober / Strotman / Valimont / Varland. I would say the 1st 10 have good shot at being MLB starting pitchers. Valimont and Varland are too far off to tell. That's a better pitching pipeline than when Falvey got here in my opinion. You seem to be saying he has not created MLB players yet which is true. The difference is that the pipeline he inherited produced very little. It's going to take another couple of years to compare the current regime in terms of developing a pitching pipeline.\ BTW ... There might be 2 or even 3 more guys added to that list in the next 24 hours and 13 minutes.
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    Miranda has to be the bright spot of the season. Winder has been good but in terms of elevating a players ranking, wow! Where doe everyone think ends up in terms of ranking? Is he top 50 if he keeps this up the rest of the year?
  16. Major League Ready
    How about the Odorizzi trade? I am more upset about Nick Anderson and Tyler Wells then Baddoo. Baddoo had very limited playing time in the previous 2 years and had a handful of ABs above high A. It was not exactly reckless to expect he would not get picked up or that if he would not be ready for the MLB level. It's also easy to point to keeping Jake Cave because fans tend to be very critical of this type of role player but they are valuable to staying in contention.
  17. Major League Ready
    This makes no sense. It sounds to me like others are using the assumption our odds of resigning him are low in direct competition to the Yankees / Redsox / Dodgers, etc. Therefore, we would be making the situation worse next year assuming they can't sign a comparable free agent next year. However, the probability of being better in the long-term is increased. They still have the payroll they did not spend on Berrios and whatever prospects they get in trade. If you can't sign him, and therefore trade him, we are better of in the "long haul" by trading him.
  18. Major League Ready
    Are you saying there is not a significant trend away from trading top prospects? I most certainly am not saying there are not deals to be made but I don't consider and Kirilloff to be equivalent prospects. I find it bizarre that you are not aware of the strong preference of other teams to not part with these assets. What is the basis for your support of practices that are being abandoned by other teams? Perhaps more to the point I think trading away a player that profiles like Kirilloff, including years of control for a team with as many holes as this one has would be gross incompetence. Maybe the Twins won't be able to get a reasonable offer for Berrios and he will stay. However, you are going to be disappointed if they get a decent offer. No competent executive is going to make 2022 their Alamo as you defined it in an earlier post. You have the privilege of being indifferent to the long-term. The FO is responsible for the long-term health of the organization and they are going to manage assets accordingly.
  19. Major League Ready
    Teams are stringently avoiding this practice. Do you know something they don't. I would be interested to hear why we should follow a practice the top teams have clearly avoided.
  20. Major League Ready
    There are many fans that can't imagine a strategy that does not put heavy weight on 2022. Team's however have learned that short-term focus is a good way to be bad often. The Dodger's are a very good example. Compare how they constructed teams 15 years ago. Of course, their front office has heavy influence from the origin of these strategic practices practices which would be the Tampa Bay Rays. Many fans don't look at all of the factors and determine the optimal strategies to get back to contention. They assume a focus on next year and develop a plan from there. As we have heard here, some fans dislike taking a step in order to improve in the future, even in a losing season. This is not how good teams operate thus the refusal to give up top prospects. The FO is not going to make "2022" their Alamo" unless they believe they are out the door if the team does not contend in 2022. IMO, any baseball executive who looks at this team and goes all-in for 2022 should be terminated. They need 3 starters, one of them at least as good as Berrios, and half the BP needs to be replaced. The lost their best hitter. Short-stop needs to be addressed. Will Sano continue to be a liability? Will Buxton stay on the field and is Larnach going to adapt? I guess we should throw in will age catch up to Donaldson. Is that a scenario in which you go to your board and recommend an all-in strategy?
  21. Major League Ready
    J.A. Happ is a 15 year veteran with over 1800 IPs. If looking for a reason for his regression, I would be more inclined to believe being 38 years old likely had more influence than his coach.
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    I would hope this post and my previous posts were not so poorly constructed as to have you would believe I don't understand that a larger payroll is advantageous. My point was that others quite frequently measure the quality of a transaction by the amount spent and present that premise as if it's an obvious fact.
  23. Major League Ready
    I am with you. Winning or losing does not matter to mew at this point. Development and seeing things that make me believe they can be better next year is what I watch for at this point. Rooker continued to impress. Plus one. Jeffers was great offensively. Plus two. Sano gave us hope he can return to form. Plus 3 and 4. Hopefully Happ punched his ticket out of town. Plus again.
  24. Major League Ready
    I am really reluctant to trade Kepler given he is under team control (relatively cheap) through 2023. The return has to be substantial. It would also be more acceptable if it included a very good SS or high-end pitching prospects or one of each. Peraza plus pitching from the Yankees could make it worthwhile.
  25. Major League Ready
    You want to trade a prearb player (Arraez) for a guy who is going to be a free agent at the end of this year. I liked the move when the brought Schoop here as a FA but this makes less than zero sense. Then, you also want to trade a top prospect for a guy who prior to this year has never produced more than 1.3 WAR and will be a free agent after 2022? I hope you are advising the teams we are negotiating trades with right now.
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