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  1. 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.
  2. USAFChief
    Thanks for a great read!
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. USAFChief
    You can tell this from what, exactly?
  9. USAFChief
    I think learning to play one position well at the highest levels of the game is difficult enough.
  10. 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.
  11. USAFChief
    This is exactly correct. Moving Josh Bell closer to the line doesnt change his ability to play defense.
  12. 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.
  13. USAFChief
    I'm curious, who do you see playing 1st base full time?
  14. USAFChief
    You are forgetting-or don't know-that all OBP is not created equally. Walks are not as valuable as singles (or other XBHs). If you like Fangraphs math, I've linked the linear weights explanation below. Long story short, a single creates about 30% more runs than a walk. https://library.fangraphs.com/principles/linear-weights/ Now I don't know exactly how accurate that is, but I DO know, instinctively, that a base hit is worth more than a walk, even though they contribute the same toward OBP. Ergo OBP built on BA is more valuable than the same OBP built on walks. A single often moves runners more than one base, for the most obvious thing. Of course, SLG needs to be accounted for as well. Personally, I see Arraez as a likely bounce back candidate.
  15. USAFChief
    You might gain some credibility if you were to acknowledge the Twins DO, in fact, recieve on the order of $210M per year in revenue sharing.
  16. USAFChief
    Bull****. Hard to take anyone seriously who thinks this.
  17. USAFChief
    Other than sell or buy, what other role would a team take on in a trade?
  18. USAFChief
    I sorta doubt DPRK drug lords would want to get mixed up with shysters like MLB owners.
  19. USAFChief
    Still no news? Im shocked...not.
  20. USAFChief
    As to the signing of Josh Bell, this is exactly what teams mired in perpetual suckitude do to help ensure they stay there. Always have the next wave of superstars juuuuust around the corner. Sure to arrive and thrive within a year or two. Trade away actual assets for more future superstars. Sign low level free agents to plug a couple of the numerous holes every year. Wonder why they never get anywhere Lather, rinse, repeat. I'd imagine the Pirates front office is jealous.
  21. USAFChief
    Are you sure? My guess is Bell js the everyday first baseman.
  22. USAFChief
    Here's a source claiming otherwise: https://www.thetribune.ca/sports/mlb/#:~:text=Under the new collective bargaining,million USD%2C if not more 48% of local revenues are pooled, then redistributed. As of 2023, that was around $110M per team. Add another ~$90M per team in national MLB revenue (TV etc). Of course that also means the Twins only keep 52% of local revenue. Forbes estimates are likely fairly accurate. Only my opinion, but I think its highly implausible the Twins have accumulated $400-$500M in debt from baseball operations.
  23. USAFChief
    Alex Jackson, Eric Orze and Grant Hartwig say "Hi!"
  24. USAFChief
    Box.
  25. USAFChief
    Jackson is out of options, correct?
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