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  1. USAFChief
    Sorry Cody...this made me laugh, from the paragraph on the 91 WS: "Five of the seven games were decided by one run or less."
  2. USAFChief
    it would have taken a fantastic tag, since the ball never got to Astudillo.
  3. USAFChief
    36-16. I cant even.
  4. USAFChief
    I'm pretty sure I remember reading Lindor has already made it known he won't sign an extension. I believe they're operating under that as a given.
  5. USAFChief
    wasnt Adam's DFA'd?
  6. USAFChief
    Here's an article on MLB.com speculating on pitchers who might be available this summer: https://www.mlb.com/news/starting-pitcher-trade-rumors-bauer-bumgarner Scherzer makes the list. No Grienke.
  7. USAFChief
    Someone came up with "Tater Trot Hot Dish." Like it.
  8. USAFChief
    And you want them to add a #1 starter, but not at the cost of any of their top prospects? The original post led me to believe you wouldn't trade any of them. In which case, the "significant" help won't really be significant. Adding a guy in the 4th spot of the rotation will make no difference in the post season. Add a guy that pushes Berrios down to #2. THAT has a chance to make a difference.
  9. USAFChief
    I don't want them at add "significant piece(s)." I want them to add the first guy in the playoff rotation, and/or the last guy to pitch with a lead. I want a guy to match up with the Verlanders of the world, and a guy the other team ain't coming back on in the ninth.
  10. USAFChief
    Well, $105M over three years disadvantages a lot of teams, including the Twins. But the structure of that $105M actually makes it easier to deal with, not harder. They don't have to defer his salary if they don't want to. Take $33M and put in in the bank in 2020 and 2021, add what's left this year ($20M ?) and his deferred salary is covered. edit: ninja'd. now we're even.
  11. USAFChief
    The deferred money is his 2019-2021 contract salary. He's owed $35M in each of 2019, 2020, and 2021, but those salaries are deferred, without interest, to $15M in each of 2022 thru 2028. It actually makes the contract cheaper in real dollars (tomorrow's money worth less than today) and easier to swallow year to year. It'd be no fun to pay him $15M a year for 7 years, but it's not a huge amount per year. And it might lower the price in terms of prospects.
  12. USAFChief
    I'd bet a lot of money Scherzer is the more valuable pitcher between today and the end of the 2021 season.
  13. USAFChief
    I hope Washington can be talked into dealing Scherzer. That team is about a bad week from being blown up, IMO. But that will require at least one of the A list Twins prospects. And I'd do that in a heartbeat.
  14. USAFChief
    Nobody in the Twins system should be off limits. Nobody.
  15. USAFChief
    Am I the only one worried about Randball's Stu? This marks two consecutive articles that were barely chuckle worthy. Flash in the pan?
  16. USAFChief
    Scherzer has been on my mind for a while now. Washington isnt going anywhere. Push hard for Scherzer. That moves everyone down in the rotation, and maybe Pineda becomes a weapon in the pen. Go big or go home.
  17. USAFChief
    So are lots of 4 seam fastballs. Velocity matters. His problem was location, not lack of movement.
  18. USAFChief
    Plus, I doubt they send down a reliever for a position player.
  19. USAFChief
    The bullpen needs an upgrade.
  20. USAFChief
    Rocco has a tough side, too. He don't coddle no lollygaggers.
  21. USAFChief
    Pressly was already very good when traded. The Twins best or second best reliever.
  22. USAFChief
    not nearly enough. What do the Giants want with Adrianza? Gordon is the only one that has any value, and it's not much.
  23. USAFChief
    You have SIX major league foul balls??
  24. USAFChief
    In addition to Stirnger's post above, I'd add that it was obvious Baldelli gave Berrios every opportunity to get through the 5th. He was at 105 pitches, wasn't sharp, and leaving him out there just to get the W wasn't the right call, IMO. He was lucky to get that far, despite not having allowed a run up to the fifth.
  25. USAFChief
    We have an analytics department analyzing every little detail just to find slight advantages, for the purpose of making our team just a little bit better and using a "somewhat static" "small fluctuating" "almost permanent" slotting totally ignores any slight advantage uncovered by metrics. Perhaps the analytics department determined that the best way to approach batting order is to determine who are the most likely hitters to perform well, based on more than the past 20 PAs, and trust that over time that will play out better than trying to predict who will go 2-4 tomorrow based on who went 2-4 today.
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