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  1. USAFChief
    //MOD NOTE// Let's be careful about exaggerating someone's point. That's not even close to what the OP said, and unneccesarily antagonistic.
  2. USAFChief
    Kevin Jepsen? I kid, I kid...
  3. USAFChief
    Nope.
  4. USAFChief
    To quote Jeremy...They wouldn't, would they? Brock: Might want to beef up server capacity, just in case...
  5. USAFChief
    If he was planning on any of those six being a reliable part of a dominant bullpen in 2015, that in and of itself is a huge blunder, IMO.
  6. USAFChief
    Actually, no. That's that nature of July 31 for the Twins, under Terry Ryan. St Louis was able to get a similar reliever basically free, and Milwaukee tossed in $2m. Terry Ryan felt the need to trade away two of your top 30 prospects. Not to mention, if July 31 is such a tough time to buy help, then, oh, I don't know...don't wait around until July 31. (BTW...didn't you tell us two days ago not to worry...there were 47 hrs left till the deadline? Now you tell us it's tough to trade at the deadline??) The Twins bullpen IS probably a little better, but that's because the Twins bullpen is pretty dismal, not because Jepsen is any kind of real difference maker.
  7. USAFChief
    A couple thoughts: 1. Clearly the Twins needed (and still do) bullpen help. That's not news. It's so bad, that Jepsen is a likely upgrade, probably like adding another Casey Fien. Which says more about TR's bullpen construction than it does about Jepsen. 2. That said, it isn't necessary to pay for a Jepsen with not one, but two clear low minors lottery tickets, including one with a history of success who has made many "best of" Twins prospect lists. I'd have just as soon had Broxton, and St Louis found a way to get him virtually free. Why couldn't TR do something like that. 3. Realistically, adding another Casey Fien wasn't really what the bullpen needed, or at least not ALL they needed. 3. I wonder which piece leaves the Twins bullpen. Can you imagine the meltdown if it's May?
  8. USAFChief
    c'mon jim, you're not really going to defend this, are you? St Louis just picked up a better version of Jepsen for basically nothing.
  9. USAFChief
    Hu? That can't be right, can it?
  10. USAFChief
    He's probably a bit better than "Decent," but I won't quibble. But he was basically a salary dump. And I'd take him above Boyer, for sure, for the last two months of the season.
  11. USAFChief
    Broxton to the Cardinals. For a 20 yr old posting a .700 OPS in his third yr in rookie ball, without a position. Too steep a price for TR?
  12. USAFChief
    How many 6-9 pitchers have there been? One of them is in the hall of fame. Again...if height has anything to do with it, we should be collecting them. But it most likely doesn't have anything to do with anything.
  13. USAFChief
    I particularly like being reminded that Washington had the ****'s to tell Bill Smith "Capps for Ramos? No deal. Not enough. You're going to need to add a minor leaguer to that, my friend. " And Smith said, "OK."
  14. USAFChief
    I don't think that's fair, Mike. We don't "know" anything about tall pitchers. The percentage of the population that has the ability to throw a baseball 95MPH or more is extremely small. From that extremely small percentage, we're talking about the subset of people who are extremely tall. There's simply too few examples to make any conclusions about extremely tall pitchers. There's a theory out there (one I don't buy, but it's pretty widely held) that short RH pitchers are to be avoided because of the lack of "downward plane." Well, it that's the case, the Twins should be looking to sign 6-9 guys every chance they get, rather than avoiding them.
  15. USAFChief
    I think Meyer was (still is?) worth the gamble. But it might be fair to say for a player like Span, they should have gotten another player maybe? Concur. Myers looks like he can hit. KC also got more from the deal than just Shields. TB got more than just Myers, for that matter. I think the overall point though, is that "lopsided" was probably always an unfair description of that trade.
  16. USAFChief
    Or Boyer.
  17. USAFChief
    I'll also add that while I've been a Hicks supporter, and he's recently been very good, I'm going to need to see more than a great month before I fully believe it's real. I will say, though, that it seemed to me the ABs have been much better all season, evenifthe results weren't there. And I'll also say, like every player, he'll have slumps in the future and we should be careful about writing him off again when his next one happens. Because it will happen.
  18. USAFChief
    Was it really lopsided? Or did many people who assume top prospects are always better than established major leaguers just think it was lopsided?
  19. USAFChief
    IMO Dombrowski is clearly among the top handful of GMs in the game.
  20. USAFChief
    And if it goes through, we probably have a good idea of which of the Mets or Brewers is lying when they say "No...WE'RE the ones who backed out!"
  21. USAFChief
    Thanks SSOO! Great job as always!
  22. USAFChief
    I'm not sure I'd go that far. Certainly not permanently yet. I just don't think that would have been a possibility even a few days ago.
  23. USAFChief
    I think he's right....I DO need to watch more baseball. Not sure Mrs Chief's gonna concur, though.
  24. USAFChief
    to be fair, I've only had cable since the 40's.
  25. USAFChief
    That'd fit right in with Seattle's luck, no doubt. Trade for a highly ranked dude, he tanks. Trade one away, he prolly goes all Mike Trout.
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