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  1. gunnarthor
    This take puts all the blame for PED-use on the players despite no one in baseball thinking that is true. We saw in the ARod fiasco that the Yankee owners were begging MLB to suspend him so they would get out of paying his salary while at the same time people in the FO were emailing ARod asking him to get Cano some PEDs. Drug testing in MLB is a joke which is why their catch rate is so low. MLB pretends that they are stopping PEDs and occasionally they'll catch someone. But their aim in PR, not actually stopping PED use. If they really wanted to stop this, they would put penalties down on teams for violations which would mean teams would stop letting players train with the Angel Presenal's of the world. You are right that the players bargained for this, which makes it fine. But it's still stupid and unfairly penalizes one side and ignores the bad faith work of owners and teams. sheesh.
  2. gunnarthor
    I think Buxton will finish top five in MVP voting this year. Should be a fun year to watch him.
  3. gunnarthor
    My main problem with the punishment is that it only punishes players and actually gives some benefits to the owners (not paying salary). The Mitchell Report (as crappy and owner-favored as it was) made note that PED use was a problem caused by both players and teams. Any punishment should affect both, not just the players. But baseball doesn't really want to get PEDs out of the game, it just wants to pretend it's doing something.
  4. gunnarthor
    You don't think agents and teams know which players are juicing? You don't think teams and agents are helping/condoning such behavior? You think players are roiding up all by themselves?
  5. gunnarthor
    I suspect a lot of front offices know/suspect that their players are doing this and are ok with it so long as they don't get caught. It's hard to imagine why front offices let players continue to train with Angel Presenal back in the day if they didn't think PEDs were in use.
  6. gunnarthor
    I like the trade since Vargas wasn't part of our future but man, we certainly are collecting LH OFers. I agree with others that our AAA OF should be pretty good but I'm not seeing how they move unless we're trading Kepler or Rosario sometime.
  7. gunnarthor
    Yep. Broken legs aren't really suggestive of future injury. He'll be really good this year.
  8. gunnarthor
    Molitor is a very bad manager.
  9. gunnarthor
    I think a Castro/Garver platoon - if Molly actually does it - is a good idea. My concern is that he'll give Garver a lot of at-bats against RHP and sit him for LHP.
  10. gunnarthor
    I'm not sure Gonsalves is quite a fair comp here. Gonsalves started the year with shoulder soreness and didn't pitch until the end of May. Gonsalves and Romero are also different stuff-wise. Romero is the better pitcher who might move more rapidly (like Berrios). I'm not convinced that Gonsalves will make the majors ahead of Romero despite being at AAA.
  11. gunnarthor
    I don't really have a problem with it. Many teams, including the Twins, have had arms jump from AA to the majors. AAA isn't that important for pitchers. Right now it's just a numbers crunch but Romero will (probably) make the majors this year anyway.
  12. gunnarthor
    I like this. AA will be really interesting to watch. I hope Stewart can fix his career. Thorpe and Romero have some pretty high ceilings. I don't think either are really blocked by AAA guys - they can move Jorge to AA if needed, for example. I imagine that May will go to the AAA rotation when he's healthy.
  13. gunnarthor
    I think the Morrison signing was the FO's way to hedge on Mauer. He might be back but if I had to bet on it today, I think Morrison is our starting first baseman next year and Mauer is out.
  14. gunnarthor
    Of course not. Vargas isn't a third baseman. Sano, on the other hand, is. And he's played there, fairly well defensively, so far in his career.
  15. gunnarthor
    Here's the video of Sano yesterday. https://www.mlb.com/video/sanos-rbi-single/c-1885330183?tid=69972428 He's a bid guy but I'm not sure he's hugely over weight. He doesn't look like the Panda from a few years ago, at least.
  16. gunnarthor
    Jeez, he's our most dangerous offensive weapon. He could lead the league in homers. He was a legit all-star last year who played on a broken leg for a bit before going down. He held his own at third last year. The FO signed Morrison so they don't seem to worried about him not playing third. Despite the rumors of his weight, he's looked good so far in ST, he's crushing the ball (OPS over 1.100). Maybe we should wait with the pitchforks until he's actually failing? He'll be fine. He'll be an all-star again this year and finish top five in home runs. He's a freaking stud.
  17. gunnarthor
    I actually think Cleveland is due a rough season. They've had two straight killer post-seasons. They lost their emotional leader. Their rotation was pretty healthy last year (only used 7 starters).
  18. gunnarthor
    Holy crap. 1/12? Owners are sure winning this collusion war.
  19. gunnarthor
    Keep in mind, next season will include Harper, Machado, Kershaw, Blackmon, Donaldson, Andrew Miller, David Price has an opt out, Gio Gonzalez ... It's an insane class and one of the reasons owners are trying to keep prices low this offseason. There's a pretty good argument that Dozier won't be a top 10 free agent next year. So he could take the Twins one year offer and wait another year.
  20. gunnarthor
    I think with the collusion by owners this offseason that Dozier is more likely to accept a qualifying offer next offseason than go through free agency.
  21. gunnarthor
    I'm not too worried about Sano's bat. It looks like the FO is willing to let him play third base for the majority of the season so they signed Morrison.
  22. gunnarthor
    Yep, the Giant's also had some solid pitchers but never one worth more than 4.5 WAR in their WS seasons. If Ervin wasn't an ace last year (top 10 in ERA+, IP, WHIP, WAR, era) than those guys weren't aces either. Jon Lester has had some up and down years where he sometimes pitches like an ace and sometimes not. His 2013 season was a down year as well.
  23. gunnarthor
    Depends on what an ace is but they have a strong offense. They can win without one.
  24. gunnarthor
    A team can win the World Series without a true ace. Many have.
  25. gunnarthor
    The bullpen sure looks better written out like that.
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