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  1. USAFChief
    off topic, but a pet peave of mine: I often read that the bullpen is "the easiest position to fill." Nothing could be farther from the truth. You need about 10 relievers, minimum, to get through a season. There aren't enough good relievers available to put even 5 on each team. I'd be willing to wager every single team in contention over the past 40 years was, to one extent or another, looking for bullpen help at the trade deadline. If it were true that bullpen is the easiest position to fill, we all should be calling for TR's head on a platter, no? He hasn't adequately "filled" the position of bullpen for any team he's ever been a GM on. It's possible no GM in the last 40 years of baseball has "filled" the bullpen well. Finding enough good relievers to "fill" a bullpen might be the single hardest thing a GM is faced with.
  2. USAFChief
    His control problems are part of why he has "upside." It's something that needs to be fixed, but if it is, there's huge "upside" there. Control problems aren't a reason he doesn't have upside, they're part of the explanation for why he DOES have unrealized upside.
  3. USAFChief
    Jones may not be a "good" prospect. There may be good reasons to leave him off the 40 man in favor of someone like Dean. But Jones is EXACTLY an "upside guy." He's throws extremely hard. That's sort of the definition of "upside." As in, if he maximizes his potential, there's a lot of room to grow there. That's why he was mentioned in numerous places as a candidate to be picked in the RuleV draft, and why he eventually was. Because he has "upside."
  4. USAFChief
    Not to mention, didn't TR himself identify bullpen upgrade(s) as the team's highest offseason priority?
  5. USAFChief
    Our definitions of "depth" must be different.
  6. USAFChief
    I have a bad feeling about this trade. Real bad. I hope I'm underestimating Murphy, and overestimating Hicks.
  7. USAFChief
    Per Forbes estimates, the Twins had revenues of $223M in 2015. The Arizona D'backs $211M. Which board room, and what time?
  8. USAFChief
    Yep. In much the same way as we have too many starters and too many OFers.
  9. USAFChief
    Zack Grienke. 6 yrs, D'backs. That was easy.
  10. USAFChief
    I'm coming to the conclusion payroll is tight. Hope I'm wrong.
  11. USAFChief
    Gott help us!
  12. USAFChief
    One of the best? He's off to a good start, needs another decade or so of top performance to be in the discussion. Best ever? LOL. Babe Ruth had a LIFETIME OPS of 1.164 (206 OPS+). Lifetime. He beat that nine (9!) times in his career. Changed the way the game would be played. He also went 94-46 with a lifetime 2.26 ERA in over 1200 IP. Talk to me in 15 years. Even if Trout manages to maintain his current pace, he'll be woefully short of Babe Ruth, without even considering Ruth as a pitcher.
  13. USAFChief
    We'll have to agree to disagree on the "likely cost."
  14. USAFChief
    Unless I'm missing something, Terry Ryan has never--not once--signed a reliever from another organization to more than a 1 yr contract. In going on 2 decades as Twins GM. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised.
  15. USAFChief
    None of Berrios, Burdi, Reed, or any other non-40 man Twin has much if anything to do with the decision to keep Dean over Jones. Those decisions will come, or not come, regardless who the Twins kept this winter.
  16. USAFChief
    Dunno. But the title of the thread is "Shields for Nolasco would you do it?"
  17. USAFChief
    No matter the specifics, no matter who's decision, it does seem odd that the Twins would allow him to play winter ball, he'd choose to play winter ball, and then all of a sudden, he's not going to play winter ball. There could be benign reasons for this, but let's not kid ourselves...there are no GOOD reasons for this.
  18. USAFChief
    if you could trade Nolasco for Shields it wouldn't be $65 m for Shields.
  19. USAFChief
    I think Houston made a really nice trade, too. The point is to win games at the big league level.
  20. USAFChief
    Per LENIII, yesterday: "Was told by two people that Tony Sipp and Antonio Bastardo are NOT on Twins radar. A trade might be the best route to add a LHP."
  21. USAFChief
    I have long disagreed with the "relief pitchers are unimportant, unpredictable, and interchangeable" mantra that is fairly common. Yeah, when you're filling your pen with scrap heap pickups, failed minor league starters with 89 MPH fastballs, and the like, I can see that theory. But good relievers are anything but unpredictable. Joe Nathan was among the more predictable players in baseball. Chapman. Etc etc. Adding "someone from the list...there's plenty left" isn't the goal. Adding a couple who can be realistically counted on to be dominant...that should be the goal.
  22. USAFChief
    Well, that's where we disagree. "Inactive" Seems a perfectly apt description of the Twins at the winter meetings.
  23. USAFChief
    Twas on your list, my friend.
  24. USAFChief
    If we have hardly the slightest inkling about what goes on, how do you know they weren't inactive?
  25. USAFChief
    In a heartbeat.
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