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  1. USAFChief
    I'm not ok with the idea of dedicating a pitcher who only pitches when Paddack pitches. That's what you're proposing. As an aside, if a pitcher needs that, routinely, he shouldn't be in your rotation anyway.
  2. USAFChief
    No, I made the claim there isn't room to "piggyback" starters. Two guys who share a start, and only pitch every 5th game. It's an idea you read here from time to time. There isn't room. Nobody does that. It's unworkable.
  3. USAFChief
    Carrying reliever(s) who you don't want to actually use is silly. There is no need for a "long reliever." Similarly, there isn't room for this silly notion that you can "piggyback" a starter with another starter. You don't have enough players to dedicate TWO pitchers who only pitch every 5th day.
  4. USAFChief
    I agree...someone definitely gets one of those 13 spots!
  5. USAFChief
    Great series, Matt. Really well done. Thanks! Personally, I'd put the '65 team at the top, and I'm inclined toward the '69 team over 91, but that's just me. Once again, GREAT series.
  6. USAFChief
    I'd say, barring injury, Santana took away just about any chance Miranda had of opening the season with the Twins. There's only 13 spots. Farmer, Castro, Santana and Vazquez are locks. Kirilloff, Julien, Correa, Lewis, Jeffers, Wallner, Buxton, Kepler. One spot left. I don't see that going to Miranda.
  7. USAFChief
    Best use of Gordon. Well done.
  8. USAFChief
    Actually, per linear weights (the basis of much modern offensive theory), a HR is not worth twice what a double is. At least not in 2016, the latest I can find. A HR was worth 1.65 times a double. https://library.fangraphs.com/principles/linear-weights/ The math is indeed extensive. Just not always instructive. I do like, and agree, with the notion not all OBP is created equal. Walks are worth less than hits. Even singles.
  9. USAFChief
    I wish I had thought of that.
  10. USAFChief
    Another way to tell them apart: one is old enough to have been at Woodstock. ... Actually, forget that. Doesn't work.
  11. USAFChief
    I'm going to stick my nose into this kerfuffle just long enough to say, you arguing for Joey Gallo, post after post, using one arcane "stat" after another, only accomplishes one thing: It just proves how poorly they can measure success on a baseball field. Gallo was a disaster for the Twins lineup. A massive sinkhole that cost them daily. Arguments to the contrary do not belong in posts calling for others to be taken seriously.
  12. USAFChief
    I'll say 86. I agree with Mike. I like the floor more than the ceiling.
  13. USAFChief
    1. Neither Wacha nor Lugo are Nolasco or Correia level pitchers. Nor are they Desclafani level, for that matter. 2. However, The Twins not spending money at an appropriate level is the issue, not who KC spent on. There's $30-$40m, easy, that can and should have been added to the Twins payroll. You don't have to limit yourself to Carlos Santana and having San Fran pay for Desclafani. Sign some actual help. 3. I'm not embarrassed, I'm disappointed and a little PO'd.
  14. USAFChief
    What possible difference does $5.25M vs $6.75m make? Will he hit better at the lower salary?
  15. USAFChief
    Fubo starts at $80 and includes FSN.
  16. USAFChief
    Anthony Desclafani says hi.
  17. USAFChief
    Scratch Corbin Burnes off your wish list. Traded to Baltimore for little or nothing.
  18. USAFChief
    You still do, Thad. You still do.
  19. USAFChief
    So when you said "all of the teams" as a way to pooh-pooh the idea of trading for an actual asset, you didn't really mean "all." Got it.
  20. USAFChief
    I hear some teams sometimes address starting pitching needs through a trick called free agency, rather than depending solely on trades or minor league promotions.
  21. USAFChief
    Bally/Diamond/Amazon don't own Twins streaming rights. Nobody is "giving the Twins the business." If there was someone who wanted to purchase those rights at a reasonable price, gotta believe they'd have been sold. The problem is, apparently those rights aren't as valuable as people think.
  22. USAFChief
    I doubt the Pohalds are "agreeing" to anything. They haven't been able to sell the streaming rights to a third party. I assume games will be streamed on mlb.tv.
  23. USAFChief
    Agree on the rotation, but there's miles of space for adding a bat.
  24. USAFChief
    JD Martinez would be a fantastic gamble. The same people who who don't like him now didn't like him last offseason either. RH power, fills a middle of the order spot. We don't have enough bats to think we can fill the DH spot every day. .893 OPS in 2023. Among Twins only Royce Lewis beat that last year.
  25. USAFChief
    Wait...wut? Can you point to your past posts advocating trading for mid-30s pitchers?
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