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  1. USAFChief
    "Now it involves a few more people that we get to talk to about it. I think that’s helpful to share some broader perspective around where we think our team is. I was hopeful, as I said at GM Meetings, that we’d get to this place … I think, at this stage, figuring a way to add to this group was clearly the best fit for all what we aligned around.” I'll have the word salad with a side order of dissembling, please.
  2. USAFChief
    Heh. Totally worth dismantling your team and throwing away an entire season. And realistically more like at minimum 2 seasons.
  3. USAFChief
    First of all, it's Cody Christie. Of course he would.
  4. USAFChief
    From the OP: "Why Clemens Can Continue to Rake" Continue to rake??
  5. USAFChief
    He wouldn't be a bench player on a good team. That's why the Twins were able to get him for nothing.
  6. USAFChief
    Well then here's your opportunity to nearly double your life savings. Take it all out and wager the over. Easy peasy.
  7. USAFChief
    It's quite naive to think Vegas books put up lines they know are going to expose themselves to lopsided results. They could put the W/L on the 2026 Twins at 99. That would "encourage betting." They'd get all the action they could stand. But they won't. They'll put the over/under right about where their experts believe the Twins will end up, because they know that's the most reliable way to encourage wagers about equally on both sides of the line. Season W/L totals are a little more complicated than that, but that's the basis of it. They absolutely do NOT want a large majority of the wagers on one side or the other. Books try very hard to stay out of the gambling business.
  8. USAFChief
    Wow. Ironic. Books literally are in the business of being accurate.
  9. USAFChief
    You're responding to a bit. "Peter" is not an actual poster.
  10. USAFChief
    Just another example of Falvey not understanding available analytics, then.
  11. USAFChief
    4 questions most important to Falvey: 1. Does the Motel 6 offer two queen bed option, so we're not sharing a king? 2. Free breakfast? 3. Free airport shuttle both ways? 4. Walking distance to hotel where meetings actually held?
  12. USAFChief
    Reported by who?
  13. USAFChief
    A salad? At a baseball game?? Commie.
  14. USAFChief
    Fangraphs? Fangraphs?? Lol. Absolutely the worst "analysis" out there, by far.
  15. USAFChief
    Nor should one ignore BA, and, for example, quote SLG as a singular point in advocating for a hitter. Give me BA/OBP/SLG as a quick measure of a hitter.
  16. USAFChief
    You're entitled to your opinion. Not entitled to invent facts. Morneau's last season in MN was 2013. Starting in 2014, Mauer was playing exclusively 1st base (and occasionally DH.). 2014: 129 games (with a 34 game IL stint Jul-Aug) 2015: 158 games 2016: 134 games despite quad injuries and vision issues 2017: 141 games (with one IL stint and lingering off-season surgery issues) 2018: 127 games, but by now id say he's probably not a full time first baseman.
  17. USAFChief
    Joe Mauer says hi.
  18. USAFChief
    I tell myself, time and again, not to be baited into Cody Christie's twice daily click baits. And yet, here I am. I blame me.
  19. USAFChief
    I'll believe there's 2 groups willing to dump ~$200M each into the Twins for only a 10% stake when it happens.
  20. USAFChief
    What new "young players" are the Twins counting on in 2026? 1st base? Nope 2nd base? I guess, but Keaschall earned the position in 2025. SS? Nope. Same guy 3rd? Nope, same guy. LF? Maybe. I guess. At some point? CF? Nope. RF? Nope. Rotation? Nope. Not until injury requires additions, but that's the case every year. Nobody has qualified veteran starting pitching sitting around in AAA. Bullpen? I guess. Probably. Although we don't know that yet, and there's some young pen staff for pretty much every team every year. I ask again...what new "young players" are the Twins handing jobs to in 2026?
  21. USAFChief
    "Just a backup." 1. The Twins don't do "backup catcher." They've had a roughly 50/50 catcher playiing time split for years I doubt they change. 2. Even if its just a backup, the backup catcher will play at least 25% of the time. And that's if Jeffers doesn't miss any time. 3. Bad players playing at all, much less 25% of the time, is not how to win. 4. Make no mistake, this guy is a bad player. This trade does absolutely NOTHING to make the Twins better. In 2026 or any future year. Just a roster spot, because you need 13 rostered players on a team, and 2 need to be catchers.
  22. USAFChief
    LOL. A team trading for a rule 5 pick has to keep him on the 40 man till spring. And as noted, new adds must also stay on 40 man till spring. Piece of free advice: First rule of holes...when you find yourself in one, stop digging.
  23. USAFChief
    Ask Seth. He wrote this; "In addition, players added to the 40-man roster in November and those taken in the Rule 5 draft must remain on the 40-man roster until spring training" in this: I'm too lazy to find a reference, but this rule is fairly common knowledge. It prevents teams from putting potential Rule 5 targets on the 40 man right before the Rule 5 draft, and then immediately dropping them right after. New adds stay till spring.
  24. USAFChief
    They can't remove until spring the 6 first timers just put on the 40 man.
  25. USAFChief
    There's people that are unaware of this (prolly a lockout rather than strike, BTW)? Maybe at a few Tibetan monasteries?
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