USAFChief

You can say this as many times as you wish, in whatever length sentences you wish, and it'll still be speculation, without a shred of evidence.

Yes. Edit: OMG! Ninja'd by Squirrel. The humiliation...

Start spring training, open to whichever players show up. Same for the regular season. The MLBPA will cave within a week of opening day.

Anyone qualified for Roy seems like a good definition. "Under team control" doesn't. Jorge Alcala is under team control, but I don't think he can be fairly described as a "prospect." I'll stick with under 5. I would guess that'd be true for most teams throughout history.

I'd wager a lot of money on "less than 5," but I'd want a definition of "current prospects" beforehand. I'd assume it's something like "less than 80 days of MLB service time" or thereabouts?

I'm confused...your argument is that because the Twins handed out contracts, and extensions, to lesser relievers, they wouldn't have given a contract to Pressly? That seems...counterintuitive.

How he was acquired is not relevant. Albert Pujols was a 13th round draft pick...a lottery ticket. Would you have traded peak Albert Pujols for Alcala and Celestino and considered it "quite a bit of value for a 13th round pick?"

Give me Pressly over Alcala and Celestino every time.

There have been many, but if forced to name just one, Kirby.

Well, I guess if offering an 8 yr, $200m contract is "letting him walk." The Cardinals tried very hard to retain Pujols. https://www.google.com/amp/s/syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/610475-st-louis-cardinals-reportedly-offer-pujols-8-year-contract.amp.html

Concur.

Stop it. The NY Yankees last had a sub .500 season in 1992. 28 consecutive seasons above .500. It's your contention that massive payroll discrepancy plays no part in that?

I'd forgotten. Thanks for the reminder!

Happy New Year, everyone. Special thanks to the owners of this place. Without their vision and hard work we wouldn't have this tremendous resource for Twins fans. Special to Brock; don't give being spectacularly wrong about Thorpe a second thought. ... That's not even in your "top ten" of wrongness.

Go get the perfect free agent after you're already good isn't a viable strategy. It ignores -the fact you, by design, wasted at least a year when you had everything BUT the needed FA talent, -assumes the FA talent will be there, just waiting for a Twins offer at the point you obviously need it, and -assumes the rest of the team will continue to be good enough to win in the future You already wasted the previous year(s) when they were good enough but didn't have the needed FA talent because you were foolishly waiting for some future point to purchase it.