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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    a "Twins extend Polanco" thread is a perfectly logical place for posters to bring up Gordon.
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Yeah, so, second baseman of the future. Not bad; it's ok, Polanco is a very good hitter and adequate fielder. The Gordon ship has apparent sailed. Adjust sights accordingly.
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    About another prospect, you said stats are just a piece of the puzzle. Here, you seem to be saying that stats alone will be what figures in his promotion. Can you clarify for us mortals when we're ok to consider stats, and when we're not?
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Top 10 for a pitcher still in Rookie ball seems awfully aggressive, yet you sound like you are apologizing Top 3 still seems a tad aggressive. He sure looks like a nice prospect, however.
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    Seems odd that the front office would come out and announce extensions before the extensions have been formally agreed to by the players. We all have our preferred and less-preferred players we'd like to keep around, but even though I like Taylor Rogers, I don't think a Rogers or Polanco extension is going to fire anybody up or be considered a success as the LENIII article is implying. So let's hope it's one of the big names who gets extended, one of the names in the original post on this thread.
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    I'm piggybacking on this comment. I think batters are just better than they used to be. Maybe pitchers don't throw many more pitches in a game than yesteryear (I don't have any data at my fingertips) but I think the game is just better, and a little more thought needs to go into those pitches. An extra few seconds for each pitch doesn't hurt an at-bat, but it sure adds up by the end of the game. I think the best way to speed up the game is to empower younger umpires to keep the game moving, and consider that when promoting them through the levels. Younger players will be accustomed to a slightly faster pace as they themselves are promoted. Nothing like an umpire pointing at the pitcher to get the batter's attention (or vise versa). I think it's already in the rule book that a ball or strike can be called for delay of game. That's to say nothing of when runners are on base. I am against any rule limiting throws to first, and I'm not sure how you would prohibit a pitcher from stepping off the rubber and resetting, which slows the game down. All that said, the pitch clock isn't really the eyesore I was afraid it would be, so that can stay.
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Sources are now saying that Falvey is offering the kid the rookie cards of Nationals players Danny Espinoza and Tanner Roark, along with a 2017 Chris Heisley card, all of which were still available and for a much better deal than the Harper card.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Austerity!
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    But what about those same prospects who then advanced and have hit well in AA? Wouldn't your percentages be higher for those?
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    How quickly you forget the Trade Deadline Championship they won last July-August
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    That seems to be the consensus on those guys. Opinions will vary and change over time.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I'm not disagreeing with you or the other poster that Pittsburgh got a better (ahem, significantly better) return from Houston than whatever Minnesota was thought to be offering or willing to offer. The conversation for Cole never really took off here, not sure why not, since he was obviously available. I'd like to see the Twins play in this trade market, and frankly I'm surprised they haven't yet. Kirilloff, Larnach, Rooker, probably each of them could headline a trade for major league talent. The chances of all three making it are slim.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    In the Gerrit Cole example, the prospects mentioned were not "low-value" a year ago, and Pittsburgh was looking to shed salary. This was a specific situation. It looks lopsided to you in hindsight, but a year ago, it looked a little more equal. To your statement that the Twins fan's "main conceit ... is that if the Twins were just smarter, they could convert low-value minor leaguers into quality major leaguers" -- that is exactly what they did with Palacios and Odorizzi.
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    It's possible. It's also possible that they are just very conservative with prospects, like the previous FO, and aren't pursuing trade talks like these. Hard to know. I doubt they "ran the numbers" and thought the offer wasn't any good. It's frustrating to me that they aren't playing in this particular trade market. It's my feeling (without any data) that it's ultimately going to be to their detriment to forego opportunities like those.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Well that's the thing. There's no way of knowing for sure. Maybe when Thad Levine's tell-all memoir comes out, another 20-30 years from now.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I too am a sucker for pinstripes. I don't mind any of the uniforms, though I am least enamored with the gold trim letters on white tops. I don't know if they have been mercifully retired, but I haven't seen them for a couple seasons in any case. Gold trim letters on blue tops (Baldelli) I think are fine but look a little busy. I also happen to love love love the red tops. Erv Santana always selected those when he was pitching at home. I don't remember the Knoblauch red tops of the 90s much at all. Also great selection of photos! Radke pitching in Yankee stadium? I wonder if that was his near-perfect game in 1997.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I've got to side with poster Tomj14 on this one. A year ago, there was a credible report that the Pirates were asking Gordon, Gonsalves and Zack Granite for Gerrit Cole. That's when those prospects still had some sparkle. That's what we are talking about. Moreover, regardless of Gordon's development or future here in Minnesota, there is a franchise cornerstone coming up the minors right behind him at the same position.
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It does not describe Falvey the person, but in my opinion it describes Twins baseball operations to a T. Example: Here's where "fear of failure" resonates with me: being 7 games out of first on July 27, at a critical moment when your team might be starting to gel, and then deciding to be sellers and trading your players instead. Would the Twins have overtaken Cleveland? Possible, but not likely. But possible. Fear of failing to catch Cleveland and not getting anything in return for guys entering free agency. Not everyone agrees that trading those guys was bad. I understand that. By the way, Milwaukee was 6 games out of first on August 28. That ground can be made up. Cruz was a great signing, the others maybe prudent, maybe not. We will have to watch and see.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I read the same thing and had the same reaction. I'm a fan; I wanted to read the spin there. Now I wonder if the converse of that statement isn't also true: if things don't come together this year, will ownership provide even less "flexibility" in 2020?
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I've lost a little of my reverence for Olney after this one.
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Posnanski nailed it. What Needham (and plenty of others) have questioned is this: Should Rivera as a closer be the first to be unanimous? One answer to that question is no, of course he shouldn’t be first. As stated: Ty Cobb should have been first. Joe DiMaggio should have been first. Ted Williams … Stan Musial … Willie Mays … Henry Aaron … Jackie Robinson … Tom Seaver … Cal Ripken … Greg Maddux … Ken Griffey … all of those guys and more should have been first. But they weren’t. And there’s no going back to get any of that right. Rivera did his job better than anyone in baseball history. He has the best ERA+ of any pitcher in baseball history. He has the most saves, if you care about saves. He’s fifth all-time in Win Probability added — right between Warren Spahn and Tom Seaver — and his postseason pitching record is an absurdity, 141 innings, a 0.759 WHIP, a 0.70 ERA, and so on. Is his Hall of Fame case as good as Maddux’s? As Seaver’s? As Johnson’s? As Martinez’s? As Gibson’s? No, not to me. But maybe it’s better to think of it this way: Nobody closed out a game better. Nobody. In that way, maybe nobody is better suited to close out this ridiculous streak of the greatest players not getting elected unanimously. https://theathletic.com/733813/2018/12/26/posnanski-how-the-lack-of-hall-of-fame-unanimity-became-a-thing-and-why-it-should-end-with-mariano-rivera/
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    How about this year? 150 million.
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Falvey and Levine inherited an internal core that won 85 games in 2017. They didn't build on it. They thought they did, but they didn't. You have confidence that they have a plan. I agree. I am also confident that they have a plan. I am curious to hear what you think their plan is though.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The Twins could have signed Cody Allen for just a few million more than they spent signing Martin Perez and Blake Parker. Allen has a long history of getting high leverage outs.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Who's left? Kimbrel? Like I said, Cody Allen signed not too long ago for not much more than we signed this guy.
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