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  1. Original_JB
    This is actually perfect for Boras. He's got big money guaranteed for the next 3 years, with the ability to shop his client literally the entire time he is playing for us.
  2. Original_JB
    How much more would a straight 3 year deal have cost? The opt outs are a killer.
  3. Original_JB
    It's a one year rental. The opt outs essentially say so. I hate it. Now we have a top (cheater) player who will be 'advertising' for his next job/team before he even steps on the field with us. Yeah, that's a great feeling, So now the Twins will be on pins and needles sorting out their SS position the next few years. Is he staying, is he going? Do we need to rewrite the contract? What do you do with Martin, Lewis? Expendable? But then when Correa leaves after a year? I hate this move.
  4. Original_JB
    By this point in time, as there has been no announcement, I think IF the Twins manage to get Story, it will be for both more $$$ and years than we would actually want to do. Then it would be like Donaldson right off the bat, good player, but that constant bad taste of what you're paying now, and the 'dead' years at the end of the contract. Granted, if there wasn't a self-imposed salary cap, we would never need to think that way at all; but since we do, if we get Story, that'll be it, one pricey guy is all the Twins roll with.
  5. Original_JB
    Michael Cuddyer: In Minn .272 .343 .451 .794 In Col .307 .362 .525 .886 In NYM (granted last year in MLB) .259 .309 .391 .699
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    FO sees the Tom Brady news and starts flipping through their Rolodex, "Yeah, hey Joe, listen; we got a proposition for you. Yep, just for one season; we'll do it up with a Bobblehead Day, a Jersey Day, heck, we'll even talk to Tommy Copper about a commercial and some knee sleeves".
  7. Original_JB
    I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that outside of the Twins going with Nick Gordon (since he is very inexpensive), Simmons provides more WAR/$ for the Cubs than whoever else the Twins pick up or plug in at SS.
  8. Original_JB
    So of course, he will go on to bat .260 and have like 5 errors all season, and be touted as the clubhouse glue that brought the team together.
  9. Original_JB
    "Force 4 men to stay on the dirt". Hmmmm.
  10. Original_JB
    Just read the AP story and came here to comment. I guess I'm not a fan of the exclusivity aspect but it only affects 4 teams per Friday. That said, Friday nights are one of the few nights I have the time to watch an entire game. A question. How can MLB make a deal with Apple, and grant them the exclusive broadcast rights to these games after already having contracts with various regional sports networks for them?
  11. Original_JB
    Louise Pohlad, without whom we probably wouldn't be having this discussion. Tony O. The smile alone. Our version of Mr. Baseball Hrbek The "one of us" made good Killer 'from the beginning' Puckett 'climb on my back' and 'we'll see you tomorrow night" Other than being a good player, Mauer just doesn't instill or evoke emotions in me the way gazing at such a monument should.
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    Yes, I realize more kids have more opportunities to do other things and are doing so. I guess my point was, if you don't have a critical mass of kids who play/want to play, then no one plays; it becomes 'out of sight, out of mind'. With Basketball, you need a hoop, a ball and 2 guys to have a 'game', hockey, soccer and football, you can get by with 4, but baseball, outside of just a 'catch', you need way more kids.
  14. Original_JB
    You just don't have the sheer number of kids around like you did post WWII until the end of the boomers. Out of baseball, football, basketball, and even hockey, you need more 'bodies' to play baseball. When I was a kid (early 70's), it was pretty easy to scare up 10+ kids just from a block or two around to get a game going. Unless it's organized Little League or the like, I never see kids playing a neighborhood pick-up game, even with an available field. But I just wonder how big a net you'd have to cast blockwise nowadays, to scare up not just 10 8-10yr olds, but 10 kids that are baseball players.
  15. Original_JB
    I wonder if he gave out gift baskets.
  16. Original_JB
    I hate to call it a mop-up guy because they will hopefully not be constantly pitching from behind, but they need a guy that a. throws strikes, b. has stuff that works for both L and R, c. can get through the order 1 time on roughly 50-60 pitches, so 2-3 inning stints, and d. can go every 3-4 days. I don't want a 1 inning guy stretched beyond his comfort level, nor a 'spot' starter; I want someone with a mix of pitches who can pace themselves to where they aren't totally 'spent' when their 50-60 pitches is up, because they'll be going 2x a week.
  17. Original_JB
    The top layer of the lower 'rings' get rotated out over time and a fresh blank one is inserted on the bottom for the latest winners.
  18. Original_JB
    As trophies and storied lore go, I don't think anything approaches Lord Stanley.
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    Not sure if it was Seth or Aaron, but I do think back to the days when Aaron was still a journalism major at the U living on Chinese food and how he wasn't picked to write for the school paper. Do all you guys still converse or does the Athletic look down on the sweaty masses?
  21. Original_JB
    But if as a team you aren't willing to spend outlandishly, and you still want to win/be competitive, you need to make up the difference by doing ALL the little things, you know, Moneyball for Managers.
  22. Original_JB
    almost 2 hrs? can we get a 5 min recap?
  23. Original_JB
    Perhaps in the competitive balance award money there could be some sort of wins/payroll algorithm where if you aren't spending money and you aren't winning you get less than teams that aren't spending money and are winning. So put some sort of value on regular season wins. Keeps teams from eating too many bad contracts on injured/bad players just to reach some arbitrary 'floor'.
  24. Original_JB
    And actually being favored in a game or series would be nice as well, as opposed to being a speed bump.
  25. Original_JB
    Except it won't. If there are teams spending $200M+ a year on payroll, making a $50M payroll team spend $100M/yr isn't going to fly because truly, what is there to gain? Will (should) they be a incrementally better team? Should be. But MLB isn't a game of increments. You either qualify for the playoffs (and its $$$), or you don't. The only way the floor works is if they expand the playoffs to the point where it minimizes the financial risk of spending the money. Unless, of course, MLB goes "all in" and pools 100% of the television revenue and splits it evenly amongst the teams. Then you're talking bout enough money to restructure the entire league to a whole different pay structure (becomes a true "league" as opposed to a collection of independent contractors working under a pact).
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