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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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?
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Major League Ready
    I think there was a good match with the Mets. Williams was an ideal target. He will probably make his debut this year and another middle IF prospect would be ideal. The question is could we have also gotten a good pitching prospect. IDK but you have to believe 2 years of Ryan would have been worth more to the Mets than 1 year of Peralta. I like the idea Williams and Culpepper for SS / 2B and Keaschall in a Castro like role. He could play every day between 1B/2B and OF. Perhaps even backup CF. Think about the athleticism of that team plus Jenkins and Rodriguez in the OF. Lewis would be the slowest guy on the team.
  15. Major League Ready
    We have no idea what offers were made. However, we can be reasonably sure there would have been good offers made for Ryan, Lopez, and Buxton. Tom Pohlad chose to focus solely on the short-term and in doing so lost the value @LastOnePicked is referencing. They have already lost virtually all value for Lopez. We will find out over the next 5 months if that lost value delivers a playoff team.
  16. Major League Ready
    The over/under in Vegas is roughly 73 wins which sounds about right to me. IMO, they would need to get a Keaschall/Arraez kind of 1st year boost out of players like Jenkins/Rodriguez/Gonzalez/Culpepper/Bradley, and Abel. Unfortunately, I think the position players will be held in AAA in favor of established players like Larnach, Wallner, and Lee.
  17. Major League Ready
    You have to believe teams are questioning Hoskins health. He was injured until the end of 2025. He appeared in 8 games at the end of the season but he only had 11 PAs. You have to believe teams are suspect of his health which would explain the Milb contract. If this is the case, it would have been a very poor decision for the Twins to put their eggs in the Hoskins basket. They have traded for more than enough injury ridden players.
  18. Major League Ready
    This makes sense to me. I thought they signed Larnach because they thought they could get something in trade. Larnach and Wallner on the same roster does not make sense given the other options with a more complete game. I really hope to see a productive Jenkins or Rodriguez in one of those spots by June.
  19. Major League Ready
    Sounds about right to me.
  20. Major League Ready
    Do you ever ask yourself why the most successful teams outside the top 5 or 6 in revenue follow this practice you condemn. I doubt you are unaware of what the Cardinals did this year or how Houston built their team or more recently the Cubs and Red Sox. Are you unaware of the myriad of trades the Guardians, Brewers, and Rays have made over the past couple of decades that have been a huge contribution to their success, or do you just choose to ignore the many examples that don't line up with you thinking? There were quite a few examples this off-season. The Cardinals traded Donovan, Contreras, and Arenado, not to mention they are paying gray $20M to pitch for another team and they traded two very good position players. Does this prompt you consider your position or do you just assume you have a better understanding of running a team that the entire Cardinals front office? The Brewers traded Peralta and the nationals traded Gore. The Ray's, Guardians, and Brewers, make this type of trade frequently. Are all of these teams incompetent? I am curious how you interpret their actions. What is it you understand they don't?
  21. Major League Ready
    I looked up the definition of blowhard to see if it said a person who looks at how successful teams have built winning teams and believe their team should follow a similar strategy. Instead, I found this definition. NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH informal derogatory 1. a person who talks in a loud, opinionated, and pompous way with little effect: Kind of ironic! In this particular case, I would define it as someone who wants his team to do pretty much the exact same thing that has led to failure and then criticize those who think that it does not show great wisdom to do the same thing and expect a very different result. I guess I should add this expectation is expressed in an opinionated, and pompous way to the definition.
  22. Major League Ready
    I think it's a fairly adept analogy. Five bucks isn't getting you anywhere and this team is going nowhere. So, does it really matter if you have 5 bucks or Joe Ryan if the goal is to get somewhere. Milwaukee, Tampa, and Cleveland understand trading guys like Peralta and Burnes CAN return players that have an impact and low cost for 7 years. Assets that produce for 7 years are far more valuable than assets that produce for 1-2 years. While this is risky. it's the best way to overcome the disadvantage of lower revenue. If we bother to look at how teams with lower revenue constructed winning rosters, we will quite often find they either drafted extremely well or executed this strategy or most likely a combination of both.
  23. Major League Ready
    I will probably be the most inclined to watch the games when someone is pitching that could be part of a long-term solution. That will be 60% of the games assuming Ryan and Ober remain healthy. of course, I will watch the games Ryan and Ober start too but there will be an extra degree of intrigue with the guys who have a chance to eventually bring us back into contention.
  24. Major League Ready
    It might help their odds of getting into the playoffs in 28 or 29.
  25. Major League Ready
    What are our alternatives? We could spend an additional $40M. That would be worth 3 wins. I doubt that propels us into greatness. We could trade away a bunch of prospects to fill our many holes. Is that what we see from successful mid-market teams. Not even a little. I would vote that the organization focus on getting better and the strategies and practices that have been responsible for the success of teams like Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Tampa. Avoiding proven strategies because we have not executed them well would be the height of incompetence.
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