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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Twins Fest is not an arbitrary deadline, in my opinion. Also, that was roughly the deadline the front office set during the Dozier talks the prior offseason. In Cobb's case (or Darvish), he could be introduced at Twins Fest and ready for camp in Feb, and it's a different story, whatever he signs at, 4/60 or whatever. The silver lining is the Twins have that additional free agent money to spend this offseason.
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    Since you are going down this road again (in a Rodney thread), I will say, again, that I disagree completely with just about everything above The key with Darvish/Arrieta/Cobb/Lynn was signing them in the normal period. The front office used Twins Fest (mid-late-January) as a target for trading Dozier the year before, so that would have worked as a good deadline for signing a free agent starter. I would have signed Cobb but during the normal signing period. And no, I would not have signed Rodney. What about closer, then? Dunno. These guys are supposed to have "the data." Maybe Reed or Pressley. Reed was a good signing. I would have hung on to Burdi and Chaggy, too.
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Mike Lowell pulled off several of these in MLB -- somehow Great sell by the pitcher De Jong, too.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    ooooh that's interesting. In need of an outfielder but none available. I have no idea if Buxton/Granite/Wade are about ready to come off the DL. If so, I would limp along with Rosario/Cave/Kepler for a game or three and Adrianza as th backup, until one of those three are ready, then I would just recall them from the minor league DL. If none of those three figure to be ready soon then Plan B and one of the recently acquired waiver or trade guys, I guess. Just my 2 cents. Edit: forgot about Motter. (I know right?)
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Great description of the Cave-Duffy at bat. Lots of stuff happened late but that was a huge moment I would think.
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    we have to read these stupid things before commenting?
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Pohlad's reputation for cheapness is well earned! And in fact the front office did trade away Lynn and Hughes, two of their three top paid pitchers, and Dozier, highest paid position player after Mauer. The Forsythe salary swap is getting in the weeds and I wouldn't expect a typical fan to take in and retain information like that. I would guess most typical fans just want to win and have fun, root for their favorite players, and any chance of that continuing in 2018 was brought to an abrupt halt at the trade deadline.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I lean toward yes, they should have stayed away. Twenty-nine other teams did. The front office did some things right, but as for the big things, they got most of them wrong. Posters here just are not acknowledging that. Just my opinion, I think. Sometimes I don't know what team other people are looking at.
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    So, I'll play: "That the same front office who botched the previous offseason is the same front office to trust in this next offseason." Thoughts?
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Next time maybe tease your article with a better excerpt? A person on Twitter either knowingly or unknowingly called the owner of the Twins "Carl." Therefore, another person on Twitter decided it's no use explaining to people how dumb they are? Who are the infielders the Twins are looking at since Dozier and Escobar were traded? What the sell crowd refuses to consider is the value of winning, goodwill, all those intangibles which are not worth getting into here. The Twins have a four game series with Cleveland coming up. They should have waited to sell at least until that time.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I like Cave too. I think he take's Grossman's role next year.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Fair. That hasn't been coming through in the recent posts. Yeah I was fed up with Dozier too. And Lynn. And Morrison. (and Sano and Polanco and Rodney and...) ... and the front office. I hope they reflect hard on every move they made this season.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    "much more evidence" What is it? We have a sentence from LaVelle. That's it. If someone has something on the radio they heard they haven't shared it, and I'm open to that information. I'm still looking for dollar figures, too. Anyone? Doogie? And do we have to rehash LaVelle's record as a so-called beat writer?
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    oh, so Dozier should have filed and signed the paperwork to release Lance Lynn? Interesting.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Keep Escobar and Dozier and win more games in the stretch, maybe even make the race interesting, and most important, keep good will with the fan base. The Lynn trade and a couple of those others could have still happened and we would still have had a couple prospects to show for it.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    No sir, unfortunately they are not! We should be so lucky.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Good point. People are going to believe what they want to believe. We are seeing that a lot lately and not just in baseball. I doubt it. If LaVelle said it after the trade, then it sounds a lot like damage control to me. That's fine; we all spin. The front office needs to spin. I just have a hard time believing it. I doubt the front office made Escobar an offer and he rejected it, which is what the poster I responded to is implying.
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Not sure that answers the question.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    They might not finish second. So, F I hope we can look back on this as a year of mistakes, and I hope the front office learns from those mistakes.
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I think the poster was referencing a contract extension, different than a qualifying offer. And I still also think they get a lot more out of letting the fan favorites play out the season. Just my opinion but even stronger opinion now that the deadline has happened. Losing begets lots of ill effects. I'm seeing a lot of ticket promotions on social media all the sudden. Some not so awesome. (Hey! buy frozen pizza, get free tickets! was one of the promotions-- about one step up from "someone broke into my car, and there on the dashboard...")
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    What was the offer, again?
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    disagree completely. This team has plenty of talent for a postseason run. Just need to get the best out of it.
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I love the way this is presented. Great job.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    1. Joc Pederson (L) CF 2. Manny Machado ® 3B 3. Matt Kemp ® LF 4. Yasmani Grandal (S) C 5. Brian Dozier ® 2B 6. Cody Bellinger (L) 1B 7. Chris Taylor ® SS 8. Yasiel Puig ® RF 9. Rich Hill (L) P
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Don't forget "sustainable championship contender!"
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