USAFChief

Interesting idea Nick. Like others, I’d be on board if, and only if, the Twins ended up adding two good starters as a result. Trading Santana and signing Darvish makes little sense to me. Trading Santana, while adding Darvish and Cole, or Darvish and Ohtani? Ok.

You've forgotten Hideki Matsui already? I wish I could Matsui had 175 MLB HRs, and 173 of them came against the Twins. Of which, 171 came after the 7th inning, and wiped out a Twins lead. You can look it up.

Ohtani pitches Will he for our Twins come spring? Oh, he also hits.

It’s very rare for posts to get deleted. They get hidden. It’s a fine line, I know. You can’t see them, but we still can. That way we can get together for a ridicule party at our leisure. Chitown is the usual ringleader, BTW.

Been saying the same for years...the only explanation that makes sense is, the Pohlads really aren’t contributing a dime to the cost of building TF.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone at here at TD. Fully concur with the comments above...among many things in my life to be thankful for, TD is certainly one to include. Thanks everyone!

I guess it's possible but why would his KBL team agree to that?

Nitpick: Park is owed $3m in 2018, not $6m. The posting fee was paid at the time he signed. that money was budgeted for that year and is almost certainly not included in the 2018 budget. http://www.startribune.com/twins-sign-byung-ho-park-to-four-year-12-million-contract/359660611/

I think, most of all, this demonstrates the folly of depending on your minor league system to supply your relief needs. I can't remember how many times I've read the Twins didn't need to sign bullpen help, because doing so would block so and so. The Twins farm system was just overloaded with all these top end arms. They've gotten virtually nothing from that.

I don’t know for sure about his diet, but I for sure have concerns about weight. In the end, the weight is what matters anyway.

The post in question had zero to do with Clevelanf or Houston. It referenced the Twins and 5 other wild card contenders. And said post gave the Twins pockets 8s, which was the best hand pre flop, and ended up winning the pot, as the best hand preflop often does.

Twins had the best hand preflop, best hand after the flop. Should have pushed all in!

one major difference: baseball GMs get to change the cards they hold during the game. They get to add to, or subtract from the roster. I still don't think the Twins playoff chances changed significantly because of a rough series in LA. If they were adding before that, they shouldn't be subtracting after

It's as simple as, a team doesn't go from in contention, to not in contention, in 6 days in the middle of the season.

changing their minds, in less than a week, doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. At least to me.

Domo arigato.

Well played, sir. Fitting the Post Of The Year appears in the MOY thread.

That's the name the immediately came to my mind. He was as steady as a SS can be in 1991. Always made the play needed to be made, always in the right spot.

Unfortunately, while it's certainly the smallest of small sample sizes, I left Phoenix after the weekend thoroughly unimpressed with the Twins AFL contingent. None of them looked ready to contribute to the Twins any time soon, to me.

Another rude fan laughed at the "you had ONE JOB" comment. Wait, that was me.

It’s rather...illogical, since you claim to argue from logic...to state there can be varying levels of certainty in a debate, but then dismiss another’s claim because there’s “no evidence” for that position. And then spend paragraphs dismissing or refuting the very evidence you claim isn’t there. Illogical to claim you can’t use results to argue process, then spend paragraphs showing how trading Kintzler didn’t have any actual effect on results. Illogical to make claims about Otani and international FA money...which weren’t made at the time of the trade. And also haven’t proven to be worth a penny yet, BTW. The Twins were in contention for a postseason spot for EVERY single day of the 2017 season. Every. Single. Day. Including around the deadline. And speaking of which....Fangraphs’ playoff odds? As a logical argument point?? Really??? Those numbers are concocted out of thin air. They’re based on nothing. They are virtually meaningless. They are a guess, just like your guess, mine, and the guy you’re dismissing’s guess. They HAD NO business trading away pitching at the deadline. None. In fact, They should have added pitching. They were a contending team in need of pitching. Still are, BTW. That’s every bit as logical as your position...and my opinion (held at the time) is the one borne out by events. Not yours. To argue otherwise is, well, it’s illogical.

A good RH bat is a priority for the Twins this off-season, IMO. Santana would be a fantastic pickup. I could live with betting on Bautista too. There are no internal candidates likely to help, IMO.

Minimal experience? Kepler has 3000 professional PAs. Kepler will be 25 next year, BTW.

Why? Serious question. This is a common sentiment, but why? What’s the advantage? Teams carry four outfielders anyway, why not try to maximize production rather than keep trying to force a player to be good at something he’s not good at, and likely will never be as good at as a different player. You can’t platoon everywhere, or even at more than a couple positions any more, but you CAN get cheap, increased production that way. Let a RH hitter get most of Kepler’s PAs, and a few of Rosario’s, vs LH pitching. What’s the harm?