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  1. USAFChief
    What's the point of maintaining payroll flexibility, if you'll never use that payroll flexibility, because doing so would kill your payroll flexibility?
  2. USAFChief
    Concur.
  3. USAFChief
    The two best teams in the AL, Cleveland and Houston, used full time DHs. If you have legit extra bats on your bench, you can get by without one. But most teams don't. Using Robbie Grossman as a DH instead of Edwin Encarnacion because Grossman can stand in a corner OF spot once in a while might add a bit of flexibility, but it costs more runs than it helps.
  4. USAFChief
    Then make it worth his while. He wasn't staying in Detroit, with them tearing down the team. It was a matter of time. Besides which, his no trade clause wasn't the primary issue of objection for most. Opportunities like that don't present themselves often.
  5. USAFChief
    Anyone want to revisit their stance on trading for Verlander?
  6. USAFChief
    D'backs. I live here.
  7. USAFChief
    Too old. Too expensive. Hang onto those prospects!
  8. USAFChief
    Jeebus.
  9. USAFChief
    They also now get all advertising and suite revenue, which they didn't get in the dome. Seems like, at worse, a wash. The Florida facilities upgrade cost the Twins $13.8m (part of which is increased rent payments). http://m.mlb.com/news/article/40185098// The Dominican upgrade cost them $9m. https://puckettspond.com/2017/01/20/minnesota-twins-open-baseball-academy-dominican-republic/ Try again. With that, I'm going to suggest we take this elsewhere.
  10. USAFChief
    As to the topic, I still don't think it's wise to extend a Dozier. Regardless my position on salary.
  11. USAFChief
    Do you believe the Twins, over history, have been aggressive with payroll? Or cautious to the point of favoring money over success? It's not a dumb complaint depending on your answer to the above. It's hard to know exact figures, but I know this...the team was purchased for $44M and is now worth something approaching 20 times that amount. SOMEbody thinks the Twins are printing money. I'd also like to know why the Twins needed ~$70M to pay for everything over and above major league payroll in the dome, but immediately needed ~$110M the day they moved into TF. Nobody has ever offered an explanation that doesn't include "they're not actually putting a penny of their own money into TF."
  12. USAFChief
    Or even 120 games, in Mauer's case.
  13. USAFChief
    Available replacements play a role.
  14. USAFChief
    yes.
  15. USAFChief
    The Dodgers refused to give up prime assets?? How'd they get Darvish? Or their second baseman?
  16. USAFChief
    I like me some Doz, but I think you gotta let him walk after '18.
  17. USAFChief
    get liquored up...that might work now, too.
  18. USAFChief
    I was posting "move Mauer to third" on BYTO way before he got hurt. He probably should have moved there in the minors. Now it's probably too late. As for the rest of the OP, why are we moving Sano off third again? And if they do, Dozier doesn't have the arm, Rosario is an outfielder, and Escobar doesn't improve the position.
  19. USAFChief
    of course they can.
  20. USAFChief
    Among other things, both Buxton and Mauer had significantly less playing time than Dozier.
  21. USAFChief
    Dozier, by quite a bit. Buxton a distant second.
  22. USAFChief
    Yup, an actual professional hitter in the middle of the Twins lineup would really help the lineup.
  23. USAFChief
    Then I partially watched game five between the Yankees and Indians. Close to four hours for a nine inning game. And the strikeouts. 31 K's. Thirty. One. I love baseball, and I turned the game off. Baseball needs to do something about length of games. Something, or things, that are meaningful, and ruthlessly enforced. And for petes sake, figure out a way to get more balls in play. K, K, K, K, K, Walk, HR, K, K, K isn't very fun to watch.
  24. USAFChief
    And fWAR for pitchers is...even worse than for hitters.
  25. USAFChief
    An organization dedicated to winning World Series. How refreshing.
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