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  1. USAFChief
    "Nice guys finish last.*" -L Durocher *not the actual quote
  2. USAFChief
    But I'd still rather go into a series--any series, post season or not--with Clayton Kershaw than without. Because the best doesn't always perform that way in any given game or series is no reason to stop trying to be the best.
  3. USAFChief
    Now SD is talking to Boston about flipping Hanigan for Wil Middlebrooks. If anyone ever wanted proof that prospects are just that...prospects, there it is. Rated as Boston's top prospect going into 2012. Now possibly being traded for 33 yr old Ryan Hannigan, coming off two season's of sub .230 hitting. Keep that in mind when projecting Sano and Buxton as AL All Stars by 2017. Or by 2015, if we check posts from a couple years ago.
  4. USAFChief
    Justin Upton to the Padres is being reported as a done deal. Also Derek Norris from the A's to the Padres. If so, they've added Kemp, Myers, and Upton in the OF. Who plays CF...Kemp?
  5. USAFChief
    It does make you wonder...what's the deal with Myers? Too much swing and miss seems like the obvious answer, but that's just it, it's too obvious. Tampa surely knew that when they traded for him, as does San Diego now.
  6. USAFChief

    Cuba

    USAFChief replied to JB_Iowa's topic in Other Baseball

    Juan Castro?
  7. USAFChief

    Cuba

    USAFChief replied to JB_Iowa's topic in Other Baseball

    yes.
  8. USAFChief

    Cuba

    USAFChief replied to JB_Iowa's topic in Other Baseball

    Baseball's nice 'n all, but the CIGARS, man, the CIGARS!!1!
  9. USAFChief
    Wasn't it a GM that inked those contracts?
  10. USAFChief
    To me the biggest head scratcher is $10m guaranteed for Brett Anderson. He hasn't reached 100 IP in a season since 2010, and hasn't reached 50 since 2011. I guess what we can take from all this is teams have a lot of money to throw around.
  11. USAFChief
    I agree with this. I would be very surprised if both May and Meyer don't get opportunities to pitch out of the rotation in 2015, even if neither are in the rotation out of spring training. Keep in mind Meyer only threw 130 innings last year, so it isn't realistic to think he would be in a big league rotation for six months anyway. Lets get into May or June before worrying the Twins have too many starters, or refuse to put the correct ones in the rotation.
  12. USAFChief
    The Twins had a great April offensively last year, with their second highest run total by month. In fact, April was the only month last season with a positive run differential. They went crazy offensively in August, that's true, July was dismal and September didnt quite get to April levels.
  13. USAFChief
    If that's Molina catching he "frames" it into a called stike.
  14. USAFChief
    "Harrischer."
  15. USAFChief
    Forgive me, but that doesn't look to me like a financial argument. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with "full P&L Responsibility" for a multi million dollar corporation. That looks to me like a baseball argument..."we shouldn't have signed these guys, now, we should have waited and signed those other guys, later." So that leaves me wondering whether your post is any different in substance than the other posts in these forums.
  16. USAFChief
    I would like to see the Twins hold onto Dozier. I would be actively trying to sell high on Escobar.
  17. USAFChief
    40 HR hitters existed before anyone ever took steroids, they will exist again. They're just rarer now, as they should be. Personally, if Mauer puts up an OPS north of .950, like the Twins need from him, I won't care how much of that comes from HRs.
  18. USAFChief
    I misunderstood you earlier, my bad. And I agree resources are not unlimited.
  19. USAFChief
    Sorry, Levi...I couldn't resist.
  20. USAFChief
    Much appreciated. But my guess is you'll pull your support once I'm forced to go on record with my positions on pitch framing and defensive metrics. ;-)
  21. USAFChief
    The opportunity to have someone pitch--and I'd call it an obligation, not an opportunity...pretty sure you can't have a baseball game without a pitcher--doesn't change, but the opportunity to have more choice in who that someone is does change. That's the point. As for opportunity costs, you seem to be arguing signing someone costs you the opportunity to sign someone else. Wouldn't that then result in the same opportunity costs? What's the point of saving opportunity if you can never use it, because doing so results in the loss of opportunity?
  22. USAFChief
    Looks like J Rollins to the Dodgers for a couple minor league arms, per MLBTR.
  23. USAFChief
    Well, you know that famous old cliche...you can never have enough interchangeable-name pitching.
  24. USAFChief
    Yes...bench them. Or release them and pay them not to pitch. If you sign nobody, you have the minor leaguers, and the money. The minor leaguers might win baseball games, the money won't. You have no choice as to who is in the rotation. If you sign someone, you have him, and the minor leaguers, and don't have the money. You have the choice of who's in the rotation. Two choices to win games. If the goal is to earn a large profit, option one seems like the better choice. If the goal is to win baseball games, now and in the future, the second option seems wiser.
  25. USAFChief
    My guess is Cubs management doesn't think it should take another 2-3 years to put a competitive team on the field. I'd guess they would view that as a failure.
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