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  1. tobi0040
    If I had a nickel every time I heard "should be able to stick at Shortstop".....
  2. tobi0040
    I am hoping swapping May and Duffey between the rotation and pen was low hanging fruit for the new team. Decided in rather quickly.
  3. tobi0040
    Typo on the 2010 wild card race for May.
  4. tobi0040
    I have no issues with giving Vargas 500 AB's so we can see what we have. Personally I don't think he will out produce the random 34 year old FA signing like Napoli, but given where we are as a franchise that is fine with me. The issue is consistency. If we are potentially punting the DH role to "see what we have", what is the point of having Dozier and Ervin on this team?
  5. tobi0040
    Jorge seems really low to me.
  6. tobi0040
    I think Falvey is a great add. To Brock's point, a guy like Kohl is a good litmus test. But for the franchise to turn a corner, we are going to need several of Berrios, Romero, Gonsalves, Stewart, and unnamed top pick next year to develop into good pitchers. Sounds like we have the right guy.
  7. tobi0040
    I think the Twins need to see more of Buxton before they throw 50, 80, 100 million at him. The last month was great, but he has looked completely lost in about 90 percent of his MLB stint thus far. I say that and I am usually in the sign the young guys early camp.
  8. tobi0040
    Great article. I have thought of most of these things individually, but it was great to see them all together. The flip side would be what would have to happen for the 2017 Twins to contend. That would also be a good article and IMO, so many things would have to break right. Those two perspectives together firm my belief that we missed the boat on Dozier.
  9. tobi0040
    That is the conundrum of Dozier. He needs another year to prove last year was not a fluke. But even if that happens, he is a one year rental looking for a 80-100 million dollar deal. That is why we don't have an offer we deem fair. But as Billie Bean and the Rays have shown, you have to trade guys with 2 plus years left. And you don't pay a guy like that from 30-35.
  10. tobi0040
    The problem with waiting is Dozier is very unlikely to have more value than he does right now. Even if he produces at the same rate come July, he will only have a year and 2 months left, let alone the field of teams bidding will be smaller.
  11. tobi0040
    So we dug our heels in and are keeping Dozier. What is the plan to assemble a good major league rotation? I would have turned Dozier and Ervin into young controllable starters.
  12. tobi0040
    The reality is all the other teams knew Dozier was available and the DeLeon deal was the best offer. I think that speaks volumes regarding how he is viewed. 2B is a deeper position now and teams seem to believe 2016 was a fluke year. For instance, Forsyth has a career OPS plus of 103, while Dozier sports a 108. If you believe 2016 was a fluke they are close to the same player.
  13. tobi0040
    Thrylos. We are all in. We got Castro and are keeping Dozier. Just need Scott Feldman and we are in this thing.
  14. tobi0040
    I will hold my optimism a bit. This was one of the things Molitor was supposed to do. It does take org Buy in, but I need to see a signing or two.
  15. tobi0040
    Respect of the players should not be a decision point for the new front office. I don't think players play harder or Lolly gag because they do or don't respect the front office. I still think that Dozier gets traded to the Dodgers. We are going to play every card we can. We already tried the all these other teams are in on this. We are simply now playing the last one we have, which is this is not good enough and we are keeping him.
  16. tobi0040
    I would have hoped an interview question was something to the effect of "we are a long ways off, what is your plan to right the ship" And I hope the most impressive answer involved a detailed blueprint and some reasonable time frame that goes out longer than Dozier's current contract. I also hope the best answer involved getting younger and maximizing the value of veterans via trade, rather than keeping guys like Dozier.
  17. tobi0040
    If the deal doesn't happen now I don't think it happens. It would seem pretty rare for a blockbuster type discussion to happen and then the same trade happen 6 months later.
  18. tobi0040
    Here would be my question for those who would rather keep Dozier over taking DeLeon. An honest question. What is the path forward to build a rotation worthy of contention? And what time frame are we working on? We had a 5.08 ERA last year with a good year out of Ervin (3.38 ERA). DeLeon is a piece and IMO Dozier is the only non Sano/Buxton/Kepler asset that we may have to bring back quality young pitching.
  19. tobi0040
    I would trade Dozier and Ervin, for young pitching. They don't have to be moved together. I view everything through the lens of I don't want to maybe win 70-75 games. Have a bold game plan and execute it. I don't see a contending blueprint with Dozier in 2017 or 2018. Or one with him under a GM huge deal after that.
  20. tobi0040
    I think you have to throw the expected return out the window. Every team has known Dozier was on the market and it looks like the market says the best offer is a top 25 arm, controlled for 6-7 years. So now you have to ask, what is the best option? I don't think we have the staff to compete while we still have Dozier, so you take the best offer you have and move on. This move helps the 2019 team more than Dozier would making $18m that year with a multi year commitment.
  21. tobi0040
    I think we have reason to heavily doubt this team will be like the 2001 Twins. We had a team ERA of 5.08 last year. Anyone optimistic about Berrios, that is great but he at best will offset the 3.38 ERA that 34 year old Ervin had last year.
  22. tobi0040
    Here is why I would trade Dozier for DeLeon straight up: Keeping Dozier means we either get Dozier for 2 years that will be meaningless because our pitching staff is a ways off Or Extending Dozier, probably for around $100 million while he is 30-36 or so. Neither one of those seems like a good option to me. We can be upset that we didn't get what we thought, but those are the two options. Now we could move him at the deadline, but he could decline and even if he doesn't I don't see how 1 year and two months of a good player will be worth more than two.
  23. tobi0040
    I still think we trade him for DeLeon and a save face throw in. My view won't change until they sign a 2B
  24. tobi0040
    I can't believe we would pay Santiago $8m.
  25. tobi0040
    The roster as is features a bad rotation, bad pen, and poor infield defense. Nothing about this will allow a worst to first move.
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