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  1. USAFChief
    Having one of the larger pools to spend and ending up without a single top 30 signee is pretty poor resource allocation, IYAM.
  2. USAFChief
    Giving Jeffers and/or Caratini playing time at first base and/or DH isnt a good thing.
  3. USAFChief
    Ridiculous. And there are those who argue this type of thing isn't bad for baseball.
  4. USAFChief
    Speaking of which, Still waiting for your answer, Derek. Regards Chief
  5. USAFChief
    They do? Who? Based on what?
  6. USAFChief
    Be careful. fWAR says that OPS is somehow worth less if I stand at first base on defense. As for how many lefties, please let's leave politics out of this.
  7. USAFChief
    I'm more of a John Kruk-esque type center fielder.
  8. USAFChief
    Nm
  9. USAFChief
    *4362 But yeah, the Twins have a hitting problem, not a platoon problem.
  10. USAFChief
    To Address A Shaky Offense, The Twins Have Brought In Some Of The Worst Hitters In MLB
  11. USAFChief
    I'm not really talking about minor league signings. I'm talking about signing and/or trading, or collecting talent to supplement a MLB 26 man roster. Nobody does that entirely internally. And in the specific case of Arcia, I firmly believe it's "minor league" deal in name only. He'll be on the 26 man come opening day. "I'd bet my life on it."
  12. USAFChief
    You keep tilting at this windmill. Every MLB team needs to, and does, supplement their minor league supply line to the majors. Every. Single. Team Pretty much every single year. Nobody is churning out postseason teams solely from within. It's not simply that the Twins haven't been able to develop and deploy MLB all star level players. They've also sucked at adding outside talent. You need to do both. There's no shame adding players. None whatsoever. Everyone does. But be good at it.
  13. USAFChief
    I'd put the chances of Arcia being the Twins utility infielder on opening day at roughly 100 percent. Roughly. That's why he was signed. He might not last the season, but he'll start it.
  14. USAFChief
    100 percent chance he's the bench middle infielder day 1. Barring injury of course. At least he's a bona fide MLB shortstop.
  15. USAFChief
    Thanks for a great read!
  16. USAFChief
    What you have now is the Dodgers, Yankees, Phillies, and a couple other rich teams in the postseason every frigging year. And half the league fighting for the odd table scrap year with virtually guaranteed early postseason departure. There's your variety. And it's entirely due to money. Not skill, not good play, not luck. Money. Salary cap (and floor) in 2027. More revenue sharing. And bust the MLBPA down to size, for the good of all, for good measure.
  17. USAFChief
    I agree. But you're looking at it backwards Its not that it'll turn poor GMs into geniuses. Its that the lack of a salary cap, or some sort of equitable salary capability, turns a half dozen GMs into perennial geniuses. That's the problem. All the teams should win or lose based on their ability to identify and develop talent. Not their ability to blitz the competition with mega bank. Identify the best GMs, owners, and managers, not the richest ones.
  18. USAFChief
    Laughable. Winning in the NFL has virtually nothing to do with spending on player salaries. Its about talent evaluation (and injury luck). Every team can and does compete salary wise. Teams go from bad to good in relatively short time periods, and vice versa. NHL likewise. The NBA is a little more complicated, but it's about salary manipulation much more so than salary amount. MlB is the absolute opposite. How much a team spends is, long term, the single most important factor in winning. Teams stay good for decades, and vice versa. It's a broken system that absolutely needs to be corrected.
  19. USAFChief
    First of all, temporarily playing 2nd instead of SS, when you've been trained to play SS, is a reasonable ask. Having Keaschall learn no position, and then asking him to move from infield to outfield willy nilly, isn't the same. And finally, if Culpepper is handling SS and OPSing .900 in St Paul, he should be bumping Lee from the lineup already, and Lee can go from the bench to 2nd.
  20. USAFChief
    So the Dodgers had a full time left fielder, right fielder, 3rd baseman, SS and 1st baseman. Their regular center fielder also played some corner OF. They carried a couple utility players, as teams have done forever. Of those, Rojas played only infield. Kim and Hernandez almost exclusively infield, except to cover injury. Not one regular played multiple positions. Teams have been doing THIS forever. The Twins have operated under the philosophy of anybody can play anywhere. I think that's a mistake. It leads to nobody being actually able to play anywhere.
  21. USAFChief
    You can tell this from what, exactly?
  22. USAFChief
    I think learning to play one position well at the highest levels of the game is difficult enough.
  23. USAFChief
    I actually thought Tom's letter to season ticket holders was refreshingly light on word salad. I thought there was at least a hint of honesty about where they're at and how they got here. Lots of promises, the proof of which will be in the pudding, of course. Not off to a good start with the Bell signing, IYAM. But at the least, he acknowledged they've got work to do at all levels. As someone who has recently been at a low point in my 60+ year Fandom, I'm slightly encouraged. Pretty clear they've even admitted nephew Joe was a mistake.
  24. USAFChief
    This is exactly correct. Moving Josh Bell closer to the line doesnt change his ability to play defense.
  25. USAFChief
    Glad to see "anybody can play anywhere" is still firmly in place and survived the managerial swap. Meanwhile, Twins brass cant seem to figure out why the team always struggles to play defense.
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