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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    If the Nats are dealing, I wonder if a Storen/Milone swap would work.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    people put way too much stock into career numbers on guys who have barely had careers. Your statement here is why I don't get the dislike that so many people have had about this trade (not you specifically Brock). Murphy was an above average catcher in the minors while being young for his age every step of the way. He may not have Hicks upside, but he's a lot closer to reaching his upside and that upside is an above average major league catcher. I am on the fence about this trade, but I don't get the consternation here. He's likely going to be catching for the Twins in some capacity for 5 years providing at worse a league average offense with above average defense on a team that desparately needed an upgrade here.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    Yikes. There's a lot of ink being spilled about the loss of a powerball ticket here. My 2 cents, for what little they are worth: 1) I won't argue Jones vs. Dean, but I don't think this is really that big of a deal. Like Brock said, Jones was pretty far back on that depth chart, very unlikely to succeed, where as Dean has a real chance of spending some time in the majors (though I highly doubt he'd have been selected). 2) Let's leave David Ortiz out of this. Ryan tried unsuccessfully to trade Ortiz for a bag of balls and got nowhere. He cleared waivers as every GM in baseball didn't want him due to what he'd make in arbitration. He was a huge question mark, and every GM in baseball had a chance to get him for a song and passed. Hindsight is 20/20, and if the Twins were in the same boat, they'd have offered him arb or someone would have sent a nice prospect our way for him. These situations don't really compare. 3) Not sure where John Hicks plays into this at all. The Twins will likely need a 3rd catcher. They can stash him in AAA and call him up when needed. You need a guy like that on a 40 man, far more than you need a 12th relief pitcher.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    Beresford is probably on the 'we'll DFA somone if there's an injury" shot here. Two starters are pretty good, but beyond that, I don't see much. Santana will get a shot, I suppose Polanco will too, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if Beresford was on the 40 man by November.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    honestly, lefty relievers don't bother me too much with Rogers and O'Rourke on the 40man. I'd look long about removing 2 of the 7 starters that we have (knowing we have a couple more in the minors) and dealing Plouffe. I'd like a back end bullpen type in one move, and maybe a decent OF that can be a 4th OF when Buxton is ready, but beyond that, I'm pretty happy with prospects.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    Honestly at this point, this concerns me more than anything else. He's had elbow/shoulder issues every year. There may not be something structurally wrong per say (yet), but it doesn't appear that his arm/shoulder are holding up that well to major league workloads. I get the conerns about the K rate. Then again, we all knew he wasn't a polished pitcher when he was drafted. That takes time. He's got 2 more seasons till he's 40 man eligible and then 3 options at that point. The Twins have plenty of time to turn him into a decent pitcher. Whether he turns into that front of the rotation guy, we don't know, but based on what I'm reading if he gets there, he's likely to be more the Brandon Webb (much less Ks, not necessarily b/c the numbers line up) type ace than the Clayton Kershaw type.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    My problem with May in the pen is that there's potential dominance as a starting pitcher that's being ignored. I agree that 60 innings of dominance is better than 200 innings of meh. I don't think May's ceiling is anywhere close to 200 IP of Meh. He was pitching well abover average as a starter prior to his demotion (including leading the rotation in WAR). I don't think his ceiling should be so quickly discounted based on 25 major league starts.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    I suppose there's some truth to this, though I suspect that some of this was a Gardy issue. Not that Molitor won't do it, but I suspect that leash will be a bit shorter. As for the cash, I don't mind that. Like Chief said, Upton has a chance of being a useful piece to this team. I cannot say the same for Nolasco. We have 7 starters on the 25 man, and I think Ricky has overstayed his welcome.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    I'll pay attention. It has been a bit better of late (more than an hour or so though)... I'll watch the IE crashes in particular. That happened quite a bit.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, might be the new moneyball (little late though)... Might mean that prospects like Burdi and Reed are suddenly worth a lot more to other teams
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm not sure why Upton/Nolasco would be a bad swap. We could use an extra OF. He only has 2 years left on his deal, and he plays CF. He may be on the wrong side of his career arc, but if he's your 4th OF when Buxton is finally ready, I think we did something well. In the mean time, he can hold down the fort.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    even though the cost of relievers is rising, it isn't like these guys are getting 20M deals either. Even the best ones are struggling to hit 10M, something the Twins can afford. I don't have a problem signing a guy like Sipp or O'Day. I'm also quite fine trading Plouffe and/or Milone for a good one as well.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    I wouldn't touch Shields with a 10 foot pole right now. He really was bad last year, and that was in a pitchers park. Not that Nolasco was good, but adding more years and money along with the risk that says that last year's Shields is the new normal for Nolasco makes no sense at all.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    or a member of the White Sox.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    Not terribly worried about Sano. I'm a bit more worried about Rosario. The OF looks pretty thin for 2016 right now and it could potentially be a problem if he takes a step back. I think Arcia and Vargas might both end up being pleasant surprises at one point.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm pretty firmly undecided. I'll decide a bit more in about 2 weeks once I see what was done post winter meetings. The team as a whole overachieved a little bit last year, but I thought it was an 80 win team last year, at the beginning of the season, so the final record wasn't that much of an overachievement. I think this team is really primed to be a force in 2017, but I do think that as constructed, it is a potential WC team in 2016 and if things break right, possibly more, but I'd like to see that construction finished. There's a few too many question marks presently. I'll be much more confident if I see the following: 1) Milone shipped off for whomever. 2) Plouffe shipped off for a good reliever 3) OF picked up on a 1 year deal. 4) Nolasco sent to the pen.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    I know Sano is quite fast, but in a way that worries me. People who are that fast and that big don't stop easily, and when they collide with their tall, skinny counterpart in CF, there's a real chance of a nasty injury. Sano is built like a football player. Buxton is not. While I understand that the plan in Sano in RF, I do hope that Terry has other things in mind.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    You made this public when you created this thread. My apologies for mentioning that you reported a comment in the thread, but let's be clear, you also said in the opening post in this thread that it was going just fine (which your actions said otherwise). I don't think anyone has a problem with humor. Your Simpsons thread is a great example of that, and it is one that I know a lot of us really appreciate. But sarcastic digs are often found to be offensive, and hiding a personal shot behind it is a problem. No one knows what your original intent was with that thread, but I can say that based on the comments that we deleted, people didn't find it nearly as funny as you would have liked. I hid your thread because the bickering started immediately and the content as it was written was going to make it very difficult to preserve the thread.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    I think you have it mixed up. A qualifying offer is something a player can decline as they are free agents otherwise. Fein still has control left on his contract. Once he completed his 3 years of serfdom (for lack of a better word), the Twins have the option to tender him a contract or let him become a free agent. If the Twins tender him (which they did) the only option Fein has is to either accept the tender as offered or go to arbitration and have a neutral arbitrator decide whose number is more accurate. I suppose Fein could reject it, but it would mean he's staying home and not playing anywhere (and the Twins would still retain control due to his service time).
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, now we have an idea what Milone is worth (and I might add he's been a better pitcher too)
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    That thread hadn't hit its first page and there were already reports and deleted posts (and I find your comment that it was going fine amusing given that you reported a comment in that same thread). Perhaps if it had been constructed in a manner that wasn't designed to stir the pot, it would have stayed. But given that it succeeded in doing that right off the bat, it seemed wiser to just delete it. Believe it or not, most of us have a pretty low tolerance at this point in dealing with bickering and even more so when the thread was designed to encourage it. It gets old Dave.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm still trying to figure out why Dean was added personally. He would be on my list of guys to trade (not that he'd get much). That said, I hope TR has three goals in winter meetings: 1) Trade Milone 2) Trade Ploufe 3) Pick up a stop gap CF.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    you assume that politicians are able to fix this problem. I'm not so certain this should be taken as fact.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    I don't think non-tendering Milone is settling on a 5 man rotation. Even without Milone in house, you have Hughes, Santana, Gibson, May (options), Duffey (options), and Nolasco (like it or not, he's in this picture). As well, you have Berrios in Rochester who is basically major league ready. On the 40 man, you have a major league ready (with much lower upside) guy in Rogers as well as a wildcard in Meyer. I don't think the team's depth is hurt by trading Milone. I'd most certainly do it. I do agree that if there's no deal in place, he'd be non-tendered. He doesn't have options, so you cannot stash him in Rochester. I would think though that someone would trade something for him. Milone is a reliable 5th starter who isn't terribly expensive. That has value, maybe not a ton, but given what some teams have trotted out there every 5th day, someone will take him off our hands, for likely a better return than Sam Fuld.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    I don't understand why this thread is on its fourth page. The plan, right now, is Sano in the OF. That plan can change (and I think it will) if a decent offer for Plouffe comes through. The reality is that if no decent offer comes through, Plouffe is a 3B on the Twins next season.
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