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  1. USAFChief
    Trevor May averaged 7.9 K/9 as a starter last year.
  2. USAFChief
    No team in MLB plays a "far easier" schedule. There are no terrible teams, and every team plays a majority of their games outside their own division.
  3. USAFChief
    I agree, but I don't see how they came to that conclusion over the winter. What changed?
  4. USAFChief
    Uh, yeah? If they decided Sano can't play third, surely that decision wasn't made over the offseason, right?
  5. USAFChief
    It took 84 wins to win the NLE, same as the ALC.
  6. USAFChief
    Paragraph 1: maybe, but why not move him earlier? Paragraph 2: playing RF is harder on his arm than playing third base?? No. That can't be part of any reasoning.
  7. USAFChief
    This seems at odds with your earlier post about tieing up too much money in 2020 and beyond. If you wouldn't want to sign an ace now, because you'll need the money to pay all the young superstars in 5 years, how does it make sense to wait three years, and THEN sign an ace, when all those young superstars are three years closer to arb/free agency?
  8. USAFChief
    Nope. Obama's been handed a win. He should put his foot on their throats and do a dance.
  9. USAFChief
    Good post bird. If I could add a perspective from the "spend!" side: something that also gets ignored, from the "don't tie up future payroll" side, is that money unspent today, is just as wasted tomorrow as money that's already spent. Not pending in 2014 is an opportunity that is gone, and we can be reasonably sure it won't be put in an account and spent in 2018. So there's cost to both methods. Either way, you're tieing someone's hands, sometime.
  10. USAFChief
    My guess is, barring an injury, Park is the DH for April and most of May, no matter what. The Twins didn't win the bid and sign him to a deal to send him to Rochester. The job is his for at least six weeks, and will have to be lost, not won.
  11. USAFChief
    One opinion: bringing Ryan back to stabilize the franchise was probably a good move. Familiar, respected, experienced. Certainly not intimidated by the task at hand. But I think there's reason to believe it should have been a temporary thing. One or two years, get the thing back on track, while finding a long term answer from outside the organization, a new voice with fresh perspective. Obviously I'm observing from a distance, but in my experience, looking backward rarely moves an organization forward. And that's what it feels like to me at this point...looking backward. The Smith decision didnt work out, theres a bit of panic, and the safe, comfortable move is to try to return to past success.
  12. USAFChief
    If I'm Obama, I nominate the most left wing candidate I can stomach, and watch the Senate Republicans publicly fight each other over a hearing. If I don't get a hearing, They're stalling. I win. If I get a hearing and the Senate doesn't confirm,it looks like they are stalling. I win. If I get a confirmation, I win. All the while, bad press, increasing pressure, and public squabbling. The Republican leadership is gift wrapping this.
  13. USAFChief
    Or, everybody else, ever, except Jose Bautista circa 2010 or Justin Turner circa 2014...
  14. USAFChief
    Agree with posters above...the talent of the hitters is about a gozillion times more important than how you line 'em up. Better hitters before worser hitters.
  15. USAFChief
    Senate Republicans: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/22/senate-republicans-signal-no-vote-supreme-court-nominee/80768642/
  16. USAFChief
    Also seeing as the last time they actually experienced success, they did so with FA stars on the team.
  17. USAFChief
    Please explain why you won't be here in 2018, posting that "signing fee agent X sounds good NOW, but has consequences for the future." The exact same rationale will exist then, no? On the article...Sorry, but to me, this is nothing but a long, well organized excuse. "There was no need to spend money in 2011, we thought we were good. No need to spend money in 2011-2014, we sucked. No way to know beforehand we wouldn't suck in 2015. And BP says we'll suck in 2016. Wait for 2018. Of course, in 2018 it'll represent a bad investment, because 2022."
  18. USAFChief
    Where's the evidence of that? He was always likely to hit the ball in the air the opposite way, on the ground to the right side. That's the reason teams started shifting...they can read a spray chart and adapted. It's his inability and/or unwillingness to adapt that is at least part of the problem, not the fact that he HAS adapted.
  19. USAFChief
    Murphy doesn't have enough MLB PAs to say much of anything with any degree of certainty. He does have a minor league history, though, and it indicates he's not likely to be much of an upgrade offensively over Suzuki, if at all.
  20. USAFChief
    I'm not thrilled with Clinton, but better republican-lite than republican-heavy. I also think you're selling Clinton short on her "democrat-ness."
  21. USAFChief
    I would agree .690 is a reasonably optimistic goal, but I think many here will be disappointed in that. And of course, he still has to actually do that. I also wouldnt call that a "big win" for the Twins. A big win is finding someone that actually moves the team forward.
  22. USAFChief
    Bernie has no chance in the general election. None. The sooner he goes away the better. All he's doing is helping the eventual R nominee.
  23. USAFChief
    485 PAs. He got 503 PAs in 2014, 479 last year. It's barely a factor. My own guess is, Suzuki plays slightly less than full time for at least the first third of the season. Maybe 65 percent of the time instead of 75 percent. That's because he's the incumbent, but also because I think Murphy is massively overrated around here.
  24. USAFChief
    I bet those analysts are now looking for jobs. Bastardo didn't sign with the Pirates.
  25. USAFChief
    The "locks" aren't guaranteed to make it through camp healthy. Not to mention, making the team is one thing. Being an actual asset out of the pen is another. I'll repeat from another thread...my bet is if this team is anywhere near contention, they'll be looking for bullpen help from outside the organization by mid summer. I would have rather had that help on board from day one, and at the cost of money rather than minor league talent, or at least in offseason prices or talent rather than the mid season sellers market. Too late now though, hope it works out.
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