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  1. Major League Ready
    Good points although there was something we could call a change. They decided to spend even on less and then proclaim this team would magically compete.
  2. Major League Ready
    Have you ever seen a team expected to win 72 games sign an elite RP? You don't need a garage for a rusted out AMC Pacer.
  3. Major League Ready
    I would have preferred they had just kept Fitzgerald.
  4. Major League Ready
    If this is their plan, they are bad at being bad. They would have gotten more "youthful talent" and probably been worse had they sold off during the off-season instead of at the deadline. It makes absolutely no sense if that's the goal. However, Tom Pohlad does seem completely inept so you might be right. The tell-tale sign that this is not the case is that Pohlad hung onto Lopez. He could lowered the payroll another $20M had he dealt Lopez. I think he actually thinks this team can contend.
  5. Major League Ready
    When Tom Pohlad took over, he made it quite clear he rejected the idea of rebuilding. He clearly stated that we had to be a contender this year. Never mind that we were rated in the bottom tier of the league and never mind he was unwilling to spend. We just have to. I mean it sounds like a ranting teenager. The Pohlad's were never the solution but making a 180 in the middle of a rebuild demonstrates a considerably higher level of incompetence.
  6. Major League Ready
    Ouch!
  7. Major League Ready
    I think a lot of people view a #3 in the context of a playoff team. A #3 SP looks different when viewed through that lens. The middle of the 3rd band among playoffs teams would be ranked 30th.
  8. Major League Ready
    You're right. I did a poor job of articulating what I meant. I meant that in terms of secondary positions, Backing up CF would be more valuable than playing a corner OF position where we have very good prospects on the horizon. So, I guess I do know what you came to that conclusion. My bad.
  9. Major League Ready
    I am not sure why you would come to that conclusion. He could play every day at 2B and in the event Buxton was out, he could cover CF. We have better back-up options at 2B than we do CF. In theory, this would eliminate the need to roster Outman.
  10. Major League Ready
    The two that are listed at one position play a premium position (SS). Organizations are reluctant to move guys off SS. They give them every opportunity just like the Twins did with Lewis, Martin, and Lee. A very high percentage of guys listed as (SS) end up playing elsewhere. If you look at the scouting reports, McGonigle and LeVries, it's quite possible they get moved to a different position. I would think Keaschall's greatest value would be to back-up CF.
  11. Major League Ready
    According to FanGraphs, Bailey Ober has 1 option remaining. He looks like depth at this point. I would start the season with him but move him to STP for depth if he is ineffective. I would rather see Matthews or Able get innings to further their development.
  12. Major League Ready
    You tell me. He had a wRC+ of 100 at the deadline last year. However, he had a 139 wRC+ for the 2nd half. If he has a 139 wRC+ at the deadline, and therefore a 139 wRC+ for the previous 7 months, will that be a bat a contender wants to add. They could take the money out of the equation and cover all or most of it given it's spent money.
  13. Major League Ready
    The 2nd year is a mutual option. He will be very tradeable at the deadline if he hits like he did the 2nd half of last year. If not, it costs them $1.25M to let him go.
  14. Major League Ready
    That would help short-term but if this team is going to be good at some point, Wallner also needs to be moved out of the OF to DH or traded. The corner OF spots need to be taken over by some combination of Jenkins / Gonzalez / Roden / Martin and perhaps Mendez or even Keaschall. Signing Larnach was a product of Tom Pohlad's insistence / delusion that this terrible team must contend this year and in the process he created what most everyone here recognizes as a dysfunctional roster.
  15. Major League Ready
    For me, the signing makes little sense as a DH. He is just not a good enough hitter to warrant a roster spot as a primary DH. We have plenty of LH hitters to fill that role so his value as a DH is primarily against LHP and that's not a good utilization of a roster spot.
  16. Major League Ready
    If that's what you took from this discussion, I don't know what to tell you. It's not that complicated and history is crystal clear. Success for mid/small market teams has been driven by the acquisition and development of low cost / controllable assets.
  17. Major League Ready
    Drafting and Development is very important to MLB success for any team, even high revenue teams. It's absolutely essential for teams in the bottom half of revenue. If a team is not successful at an essential part of success, the answer sure is hell is not to ignore that essential element of success. They need to improve that element of success, not ignore it. If you want to test this premise, we should examine the teams in the bottom half of revenue that have been successful without developing prospects. The problem is they don't exist. Trading for established MLB players and free agency has supplemented these teams but at least 75-80% of WAR typically comes from players that were drafted or acquired as prospects. There has been exactly 1 mid-market teams in the past 20 years that garnered a significant portion (46%) of their success from FAs and trades for established players if you consider Josh Reddick to have been an established player when acquired. Reddick had 1 2 war season prior to being acquired. They also acquired Bartolo Colon, Yoenis Cespedes, Coco Crisp, Grant Balfour and, Jonny Gomes in free agency. The 5 players collectively cost $19.5M. They signed 3 modest price FAs and 2 cheap FAs and they all performed well. That's the one example in the past 20 years. Is this the strategy we should pursue or should we get better at development? BTW ... The next best example is the 2019 Twins.
  18. Major League Ready
    Let's just follow your logic here. The players turned out to be bad so let's keep them because the next wave of players also might also turn out to be bad.
  19. Major League Ready
    You really don't grasp the difference between failed execution and good or bad strategy. They got an F because they followed a strategy that was highly likely to fail. To now follow an inferior strategy because they failed to execute strategies that have proven to be essential would be gross incompetence. Thus, they got the only F because they illustrated their incompetence. By they, I mean ownership because this is Tom Pohlad's doing. The organization failed to execute but taking this direction and following this strategy is on ownership.
  20. Major League Ready
    This is the 2nd time I have seen Klein this spring and his off-speed stuff looks pretty darn good to me and he has plenty of velocity. Am I being a homer / overly optimistic. He needs to spot the fastball better but does this guy have a decent chance to be part of the rebuilding the BP?
  21. Major League Ready
    How many SPs do you see Milwaukee, Cleveland or Tampa extending? Do you know something they don't? Those three teams have proven their practices are better than other organizations so it's pretty damn hard to support an argument we should do the opposite of those teams.
  22. Major League Ready
    Because a team with half the revenue of some other teams has to get twice the production per dollar spent. Spending wisely is absolutely essential to success. NFL/NBA/NHL fans understand this in leagues where spending is relatively equal. The payroll for top MLB teams is triple the bottom teams. We should all be very concerned with how wisely the available payroll is spent.
  23. Major League Ready
    I have been on this bus since it became evident the talk of building a contender around Ryan/Lopez was not just positioning for a good trade return. It's really too bad because this team was really well positioned to rebuild in a relatively short period of time. Of course, that remains true, but they will have lost the opportunity to adda couple of important pieces. Joe Pohlad and Falvey were not great but now we have a Pohlad that thinks he knows how to run a baseball team. Doing a 180 when you have started the rebuild process does not suggest competence. Thinking you are going to turn a 70-win team into a contender while doing virtually nothing to improve the team does not suggest competence. How smart do you have to be to look at well-run organizations like the Cardinals and Brewers and follow their lead. I have never had so little faith in this organization. I am confident some contributors will come from the depth we have in the minors. We will get better. We just will never be a real contender until we get rid of the Pohlads and I have never been in that camp. Now I am.
  24. Major League Ready
    How many of the pitchers who gave up a run in that game will be on the major league roster? The answer is one, Cole Sands.
  25. Major League Ready
    I think the problem with this line of thinking is that Roden was not the target of this trade. Rojas was the target and Roden was the best addition he could get in the trade.
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