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  1. Trov
    At the 6 o'clock news I hear they upped their offer, but also offered Ozuna. At 10 o'clock news he is signed. I have a feeling once the offer to Ozuna got known Cruz knew it was a race to who signed first. With expanded DH looking like a no go this year now, Cruz had limited options, thinking only Twins. Did not take long to sign then. I am happy he is back. The rumored contracts for Ozuna were too high for my liking based on what he have in minors. If Cruz falls off cliff based on age, we move on to Rooker most likely. If Ozuna struggled we would needed to keep putting him out there because he would be making too much to cut loose.
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    The problem I have with the numbers you use to rank these teams are they are based on comparison to the rest of the league that year. You say it is best defensive teams all time, but you use numbers that compare them to other players in that year. If you truly wanted to compare all time you would need to use numbers that do not use other players as their measure. Under the numbers you used, a player that is average defender at SS over his career will some years have high numbers because his competition was weaker. However, if they were plugged into year with say Ozzie Smith or other all time great SS they would look worse under these numbers. There may not be a good number to use to make this determination, but it should be pointed out that the numbers sited compares them only to players of that year. Heck, they could have had worse year defensively, but if everyone else was even worse they look better. It is a good number to compare the team to others in the league, but the title suggests this is ranking how good the team was overall, not compared to other teams.
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    Too often offense of the player got gold gloves, which made no sense. Unless the player was on highlights over and over, they needed to be a higher level offensive player for coaches to think about them when they were voting. Then, once a guy was known for defense, regardless of how well they did there they would win it. 99 Palmero won the gold glove when he DH 128 games and started 28 at first. Shows how much managers pay attention and only think of names they know of. That is where the offense comes in. You think of good offensive players a lot, but unless they put up a ton of highlights, you never think of defense guys.
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    I agree that they most likely have an understand that DH in NL would affect his value, and they both understand the realities of the situation. I doubt there is a handshake deal based on how that happens though. My guess there is offer there, and both sides are fine with waiting to see how NL shakes out to look at how that affects other teams bidding on him. I am sure there is a number Cruz agrees to regardless of other teams.
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    What is definition of "high leverage"? I agree with you that he is not clutch. I was mostly pointing out that he appeared to like the pressure on him, which I would argue the late and close is the pressure I was meaning. Hitting middle of order much of last few seasons he had many chances with 2 outs and RISP, but that in first inning is not a pressure situation I would argue. I mean you have 8 more innings to score. I full agree he his optics were he was better than his numbers suggest. However, I still feel the numbers you site back up my pressure point. He would fail many times early in games in similar situations, but as your numbers point out, he was a little better in late game close situations. I have never been an advocate to keep him around.
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    I think it will come down to what MLB does with DH in NL. If NL has DH I think he walks for more money. If not, my guess he will have to decide retire or go with what Twins offer. I would like to see him back, but only if you can eat his contract should he fall off the cliff and be a liability.
  7. Trov
    I am on Dobnak with the addition of Simmons. I am not high on Rodgers. I know his numbers appear that it was in part luck base, but at some point those hits he gave up you need to put on him as well. At some point he needs to get the outs. I mean all his BABIP was not just weak grounders that found holes. For Josh, if he can stay on the field I am high on him, but that is a big if.
  8. Trov
    His answer about shifting is great. I hope he does push back on some of the shifts and challenge the assumptions. I am a fan of shifting generally, but feel the Twins at times shifted when it was not the best decision and got burned on it. Look at Astros in playoffs. You know the Astros knew the Twins would shift a ton, and work on hitting against.
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    Personally, all the SS available he was the one I wanted most. I do not expect much with the bat, but what he does with the glove will make a difference. Many may not see it in the box score, but it will help. Pitchers that get ground balls will feel even more confident to let the ground balls be hit. Polonco should be better at 2b than SS because much of his issues was arm not actual fielding.
  10. Trov
    I am guessing Eddie will be extra dialed in against the Twins. He has always been one that would seem to like the pressure on him. It will be fun to see him plenty against us. Hope he does not haunt us.
  11. Trov
    I do not think too many teams value Arraez that high. I think he has great value for his bat, but his defense is overall poor and he has no power. I think we as fans like him because he puts the ball in play and gets a good amount of hits. I think he has value, but it is not right in your face, at least based on current MLB evaluation of players. 2nd basemen never have that much value to other teams, unless they produce offense at a huge clip and provides above average defense, else they are pretty easy to replace. They are on par with LF, easy to replace unless their numbers and defense are off the charts.
  12. Trov
    I think it depends on if Falvene duo plan to manipulate the playing time to get an extra year of team control or not. I think he breaks with the team barring a terrible spring or injury, because I think the service time thing will become moot with new CBA. I have no info that will be true, but know service time is huge issue with players right now, and teams manipulating it by holding a player back for a few weeks to say they need more training at AAA.
  13. Trov
    Everything I keep hearing and reading about Balazovic is he will be a huge steal of a draft and one of those Cleveland type of pitchers that no one was huge on but becomes a top pitcher in the league. I have high hopes for him.
  14. Trov
    Looking forward to the upgraded defense. Hopefully his bat will rebound to what it was a few years ago. I wonder if Arrize or Polonco will be shopped around now.
  15. Trov
    For HOF voting, it is up to the hall on if off field things are something that would bar you. If you gaged players that are in by todays standards they would not be. Cobb for example. Personally, I do not feel Shilling had the numbers to get in, even if you take away his after career issues. He was very good pitcher but it is more so his post season and longevity that he is known for. I would not be upset either way for him, but feel it is not just his political views that are keeping him out. In terms of Bonds and Clemons. I would support them being in. They did take steroids, and by all accounts late in career, so did just about all of baseball it would seem. The were putting of HOF numbers before their expected use. Did it make their numbers go up even higher, most likely, but even if you take the last few years from them, you still would say they were both the best of their era, when everyone was juicing. That is just my take. In terms the FA signings. It seems the dominos are starting to fall, which that happens every off-season. One player/team sets the markets for positions and then players fly off the board.
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    With signing of Simmons I think it unlikely they seek Wong as well. That would drop our offense a ton, for much better defense on the infield, but will the increased defense make up for the much lessor offense?
  17. Trov
    Ortiz will go down for me as the worst. Many others were let got because of cost. Ortiz was let go because they wanted a right handed hitting DH because we were too left handed. The cost was minimal at time he walked. We let him go to play Matthew LeCroy. Ortiz was not a hot commodity when we let him go, so not like we were outbid. He went to Boston as a bench player that got his playing time due to injury to others ahead and the rest was history. Otriz will be the worst for years because there was no real good reason to let him go, other than we did not think he was good enough. He may become the first DH in HOF, who knows if he will or not, but he was one of best hitters after we just gave up on him. Matthew LeCroy, although not when with the Twins, might be best known for being pulled in the middle of an inning because he could not throw out a runner.
  18. Trov
    Carew refused to play for Calvin after his comments about black people. He was traded I believe, and the claim was to let LA pay him what he was worth. Overall it was a giant mess.
  19. Trov
    First, picking top 3 OF of all time is barely even possible to limit to 3. It is also difficult to compare across eras as well. I mean if Ruth got put into todays game how would he do? If Trout got put in Ruth era how would he do? We do not know. I never try to compare across eras because so many things have changed over time. The pitching velocity for one. The amount of time players spend preparing. Ruth dominated his era, but you cannot say he would dominate this era. To even compare pre integration with post is difficult. If you block out some of the top players because they were black, are you really that good? If you want to compare were is Ichiro on your list? He has all time baseball hits, just not all time MLB hits because he spent many years in Japan. That is not his fault that is where he was playing. If you want to include all the pre-integration numbers you should use Japan numbers too. If White players were hitting off of weaker pitching, or pitching against weaker hitting because they would refuse to allow better talent in their game, you should discount the numbers they put up as well.
  20. Trov
    I would pass on Bryant, unless there are plenty of other moves that come with it.
  21. Trov
    It really depends on what you value more, offense or defense? Offense Kirilloff is higher, but defense Lewis is. Lewis is not only defense but his is more of a wild card on what kind of offense he will put forward. Even if he cannot stay at short he should still play high level of defense and if he can be above average on offense he should be better overall. I really like Kirilloff and expect big things from him. However, he will be playing average defense at best from what I hear and so his bat will have to be extra special.
  22. Trov
    Essentially my point yes. Hopefully, we can start to set up a pipeline like Cleveland seems to have. I agree you never want to count on several unproven guys, but if you can each year cycle one into the 5th spot that is not a bad way to go. You can live with 1 unproved guy but not 3. However, we have seen over the years you never get through the year with just 5 regular guys but will need about 7 or 8 because of injuries.
  23. Trov
    I trust the Falvene duo to come up with what we need pen wise. They get paid the big bucks to do it, and so far the last couple years have been fine. Finding guys we never would have expected to have big innings on low cost.
  24. Trov
    One part of article that stuck out to me was, "that still leaves us giving the ball to an unproven pitcher every fifth day." I do not understand this sentiment. If you only want proven pitchers in your rotation then you will never have home grown pitchers. You will bring people through your system to pitch, because you will say, "well they are not proven so we better not put them out there." They will forever sit in the minors until they go to another team and get a chance. I am not saying who we have are ready to go, they may not be, i am not in the system knowing how close they are. My point is, at some point you need to have unproven pitchers in your rotation, and really if you can do it just one at a time I think that is a good plan. Would I be upset with a big pitching signing, no not at all, we need as much depth as possible. However, I would be fine with using some of our young guys to get a chance.
  25. Trov
    I doubt either will be signed. As pointed out the FO is not a fan of signing 30 year old relivers that are considered top of game. Too often they end up being overpaid, and managers feel like they need to put them out there in the type of situation they are paid for. Not sure Rocco would, but he did keep putting Rodgers out in saves when he had issues last year. Relievers are so volatile and at age 30 even more so. Both rely on velo, which is common for relievers and it will start to drop off at age 30 typically. How will they react to that? I know this front office typically shy away from these types of guys and piece together the pen with less expensive guys.
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