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  1. USAFChief
    I’m hopeful a RH hitting fourth OFer is a winter addition, and Werth seems like a decent gamble for a mild rebound, enough to be very helpful if used properly. Lackey, on the other hand, seems poised to crater, rather than rebound. Hard pass.
  2. USAFChief
    http://www.caitlinschwerin.com/i/large/1146_mudhen.jpg Otherwise known as a "coot." Often encountered in massive numbers when hunting ducks, much to the anger of the hunter.* *so I'm told
  3. USAFChief
    I'd say that DURING a rebuild, you can afford to waste a 40 man spot or three on a whim, hoping to strike gold with a hit that you can flip in a midseason trade. When you're trying to win, trying to get by on the cheap isn't a very good gamble.
  4. USAFChief
    He was a true home run FA signing...who should have been kept on the cheap, 3 yr contract he got as a FA. The extension was (and is) the problem.
  5. USAFChief
    If ownership takes the savings from the past half decade, and invests it into this season and the following half decade, I'll agree they're not part of the problem.
  6. USAFChief
    The Twins haven't lived up to their own promises regarding spending for at least the previous 4 seasons. Ownership has repeatedly stated a goal of spending at/near 50-55 percent of revenue. Using best available estimates, they haven't done that since at least 2011. This is not remotely controversial, or questionable.
  7. USAFChief
    Because they have tons of money to spend if they chose To? That's not new, I admit.
  8. USAFChief
    Not attaching pitching over the next four years, while this core costs peanuts, ISNT a risk? What is the goal here, anyway? Compete for a WS or two, or compete for the $/W trophy?
  9. USAFChief
    Limit options? I’ll ask the same question I asked a month or so ago...why preserve options when you never exercise those options? It’s rather ironic to argue that a past FA contract would hurt the Twins now...and in the same breath argue they shouldn’t spend the money now. A Sanchez deal wouldn’t have hurt the Twins at all, because they aren’t spending the money now anyway. The effect would be zero.
  10. USAFChief
    You don’t have to stop doing any of these things simply because you signed a top free agent. An argument based around saving money on free agents is exactly that...a plan to save money. It’s not a plan for a “better” way to build a winner, it’s just cheaper. And as in most things in life, you often get what you pay for. Spend the money, shop at every level of free agency. There’s no reason not to try to find bargains, I agree. There’s also no argument, not based on only money, not to sign proven quality, either.
  11. USAFChief
    And if my old home German isn’t wrong, “Craig” means “rummage through the scrap heap and end up”.
  12. USAFChief
    yes.
  13. USAFChief
    Wouldn’t adding to the top over the winter and hoping May or Romero prove worthy of being added during the season be a plan much more likely to succeed?
  14. USAFChief
    I'll believe 1 isn't a myth when it's proven not to be. 2 shouldn't be put forth as a myth...the Twins need better pitchers than they've assembled. You do that by adding to the top, not the bottom.
  15. USAFChief
    concur. And strengthens worries about his conditioning...he can't really do that while this heals.
  16. USAFChief
    CA Angels 10th?
  17. USAFChief
    KirbyDome: I think you're completely ignoring the value of 2 seasons of Brian Dozier. The point is to win baseball games. Current games count just as much as future ones, at least. In fact, in my opinion, winning current games is about all you can try to do. Thinking you can plan for five years down the road in MLB is wishful thinking, IMO.
  18. USAFChief
    no.
  19. USAFChief
    Park Bench!
  20. USAFChief
    It's interesting you bring up KC. They had a two decade period of irrelevance precisely because they always followed your advice...they spent current assets on long term hopes. They traded away every good player they had for years, always had "great" minor league systems, and watched the postseason year after year. Only when they traded some of the future for some of today did they make a run. A run we, as Twins fans, should be quite envious of...they got to two WS and brought home one trophy.
  21. USAFChief
    decline phase.
  22. USAFChief
    Amory IS in NE MS, I believe. So there's that.
  23. USAFChief
    Quite the ballgame.
  24. USAFChief
    Personally, I'm not sold on Polanco, on either side of the ball. That seems like an obvious place ripe for improvement, but I doubt the Twins will look for a SS this winter. Dozier is steady, but range and arm seem to get a little weaker every year. He's not going anywhere in 2018 though. Sano obviously will play third the majority of the time so I don't see much room for improvement there, either. Mauer' good, but he's not going to get better. The OF can't get much better, I don't think. So I think at this point you have to work on the pitching, not the backups, if you want to significantly reduce runs allowed again. I just don't see how you realistically improve the defense much.
  25. USAFChief
    That would be wrong at my workplace, too. Or on the elementary school playground, where it's most common.
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