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  1. USAFChief
    So it wasn't the Sano K on three pitches with no outs, it was the guy who put the ball in play, fairly sharply. Gotcha.
  2. USAFChief
    There's a whole thread on this. Like most players, he hits better at home. Big deal. The road numbers are still quite good... .817 OPS good.
  3. USAFChief
    and shredded carrots.
  4. USAFChief
    And the vast majority don't turn out to be viable major league players. So in the end, for most, their only real value is to provide subject matter for the minor league forum on TD.
  5. USAFChief
    I would say standing pat is a big upright middle finger to fans, a statement to current players that they're not good enough to win, and a sign to future free agents that the Twins are still not a team to seriously consider if there is any way to avoid it.
  6. USAFChief
    I'd rather see the Twins actually try to think big, and fail, than think small and succeed. Thinking small is how you have Mauer and Johan in their prime but get nowhere because you're running Jason what's his name out at DH. This was an opportunity missed. This kind of opportunity doesn't come around that often.
  7. USAFChief
    I desperately want the Twins to use some of the overabundance of minor league talent I keep reading about to improve the current and near future Twins, and even I don't want to trade Gonsalves as part of a deal for Jose Reyes.
  8. USAFChief
    IF you can flip Nolasco, fine.
  9. USAFChief
    IIRC correctly, you were opposed to Tulo because you didn't want to be paying him $20m for his age 33 and 34 seasons. Now you want to pay Jose Reyes twenty TWO million for his. Apologies in advance if I'm misremembering your previous posts.
  10. USAFChief
    At $48m. Older than Tulo. .708 OPS and trending down. No.
  11. USAFChief
    Nolasco and a C prospect for Reyes works. Not more than that. Tulo made sense as a gamble. Reyes doesn't.
  12. USAFChief
    Neither of the pitchers Col received is any kind of mega prospect, either. Have to believe the inclusion of Reyes means the Twins could have gotten Tulowitski for a reasonable return by taking on more salary. I expected to be disappointed, and in that regard anyway, I'm not disappointed.
  13. USAFChief
    Is it just me, or do the Twins seem more interested in helping Rochester to a pst season slot than the Twins?
  14. USAFChief
    You don't want to trade for Tulo, but you want to send multiple guys to Cleveland for Jeff Manship??
  15. USAFChief
    The Twins were in the postseason by virtue of winning the AL West. That's not an "alignment fluke." They had to be better than 6 teams in their division to qualify. And if that's an alignment fluke, there's a bigger chance of an alignment fluke today. In 1987, a team could not have worse than the 8th best record in the AL and win their division. Today they have to be better than 4 to win their division, or have the second or third best record among teams that don't win one of THREE divisions, not two. As noted, a team could have the 11th best record in the AL and win thier division. The Twins in 87 were no bigger fluke than SF winning the WS last year, KC making the WS last year, or StL in the WS with basically a .500 record a couple years ago.
  16. USAFChief
    Your overall point about the path through the playoffs being tougher now is true. But the "fifth best record automatically equals the second wild card" is not true. Just like the Twins won the AL West in 87 with the 5th best record, the 2015 Twins (or any team) could win their division with the 5th best record in the league. They wouldn't be a wild card. For that matter, a team could technically have the 11th best record in a 15 team league and win their division.
  17. USAFChief
    I don't see any way to defend not being able to better that offer. There's a couple days left, but still.
  18. USAFChief
    I'd be working the phone every hour with Colorado trying to get a Tulo trade done. Sano and Buxton are off the table, but nobody else would be. If I can't make make that happen, I'd try to get a deal done for LuCroy, at lesser cost than Tulo, of course. I'd probably add Berrios to the "off limits" list. As a third option, if I can't do either of the above, I'd keep my fingers in the Cole Hamels discussions, and pounce if the price comes down. Again, Sano and Buxton are off limits, but Berrios is back in the mix. No current Twin prospect other than those three would be off limits. No current Twins players would be off limits, except Dozier. I'd also have ran through multiple options with the intent of finding a legit RH relief option long ago, and would be working overtime to add another.
  19. USAFChief
    Concur. I would add that I have never agreed with the philosophy of "we have too many holes to fill any of them. " If you have three holes, and fill one, now you have two. That's better than three.
  20. USAFChief
    Isn't this pretty similar to your take on KC a couple years so, when they gave up too much good young talent for Shields?
  21. USAFChief
    I'd have Sano on top, easily. It's tough to say after that. In general, a few thoughts: move Hicks, Polanco Plouffe, and Arcia up some, Buxton down some.
  22. USAFChief
    He is what he is...a decent MLB starter, sometimes pretty hittable, sometimes not, due to decent but not exceptional stuff. Which is why you don't let trading him be the stopper on acquiring someone like Tulo, if that's the piece that gets it done and everything else is reasonable.
  23. USAFChief
    It's in the Twins forum? Has a likely impact on the 2015 Twins?
  24. USAFChief
    A guy we missed on years ago, when he was offered to the Twins for Duensing.
  25. USAFChief
    Maybe so. Hard to say, you may be right. Either way...odd to say the least.
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