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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    I wonder if Montreal is to MLB as LA is to the NFL. LA is a huge market that should have been able to support two football teams, but could not. Now you have two teams going there and they still have problems with attendance.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    OK... went and looked it up. You're right on Montreal. It's quite a bit bigger than both. Indy and Portland are very comparable for the record.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    Well, it's not my money Personally, I'd rather buy than trade. It's not that I don't mind trading, but I'd rather keep the assets. I know front loading is frowned upon to some extent, but the core is going to be pretty cheap the next few years, so spending big now makes sense A guy like Darvish should be pretty good for the first few years of the contract. I'd be fine with that knowing/hoping that the farm has ample replacements when he's in the Phil Hughes portion of his contract... that's just me. I think Falvey and Levine would have less of an issue than TR did about giving the quick hook when it was necessary.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    Honestly, they need a starter and a reliever... not sure on the bench bat. I'd argue for a second reliever before another bat personally. I don't care much about the total number, but I do care if they are well under and haven't done much to meet the org's needs. This team was a playoff team with some very glaring issues. It shouldn't take much to go from fringe to favored.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    To a point. Baseball is very popular in Central America, and there are huge cities that could support teams. I agree on travel/safety (depending on where they go), but those west coast trips are long too. I just don't see Portland/Montreal being a success. Montreal already failed once, and did so miserably. Portland isn't big enough. Indianapolis is a much larger market without a team (and I don't see one here either). and yes... expansion without fixing revenue inequality will kill the sport.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    I have to admit, it's been a while where excitement going into the offseason was merited. This is a team on the rise missing a few good pieces. Smart moves, and this team could be competing for a few years.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    buying a round of beer for TD pub crawlers somehow didn't make this list?
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    expansion won't solve the revenue problem. If anything, it makes it worse. Only way to use expansion to do this is to put another team in NY and LA, and even then, I'm not sure it solves anything. Honestly, if baseball wanted to expand, I'd think there would be much better markets in central America than Portland or Montreal.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    Agreed, but right now, Buxton isn't a superstar. He may be willing to roll the dice on himself, and that's fine, but that cost certainty has an advantage too. I'm not going to pretend to know what is and isn't reasonable, but those numbers are probably close.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    The vote tally looks like a lot like the who is the MVP thread from last month. It is truly remarkable that so many guys were worthy. Ultimately, I'd have given it to BD, Mauer, or ESAN and not Buxton. If second half Buxton had been there in the first half, this would have been a no brainer. He wasn't. Dozier and Santana were far more consistent and far less replaceable. That said, I have a sneaking suspicion that Buxton will win has fair share of these over (hopefully) the next decade or so...
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    I think they have to do it. This is the flip side to not using an option. he wasted a lot of service time figuring it out... now whether or not he'd have figured it out in the minors is certainly a fair question, but the bottom line is that he has 2 full seasons in. This contract gets a ton more expensive if second half Buxton shows up on day 1.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    Palacios shouldn't be out of the conversation in the middle infield either. We are SS rich right now.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    I'll add one... basic physics would say that higher velocity from pitchers also leads to higher exit velocity on well hit balls. With teams paying attention to things like launch angles, I think there are some pretty natural explanations as well... (not that I don't agree that these are possibilities, but I tend to think there's more than one reason).
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    Reading through this, I'm wondering if Lynn might bet on himself and do a 1 year deal knowing that he could sign a 3 year deal now for well below market rate or wait a year and potentially sign a much larger deal if he has in fact returned. It's an interesting strategy, as I don't see him getting what he would have entertained had his team wanted to lock him up before his TJS..
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    Dozier will want more than 3 years.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    Will he even sign? He signed that deal b/c he wanted to do FA... That said, I don't see him taking a 2 year deal either. I think Dozier makes more sense getting a QO. He won't take it, and we will get compensation for him when he leaves. With Gordon likely sitting in AAA next season, they will have another year to evaluate Gordon and either trying for a 1 year stop gap or bringing up the kid. Like others, that money is better spent acquiring pitching or locking up the new core.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    selling high on Gibson might get you a low A medium ceiling guy with a crap load of question marks. I don't see teams paying much for him given his play the last two years. He's had a few hot months before as well, and that's the only thing that made him finish with similar numbers to his season last year (when he was hurt)...
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    I refuse to accept that idea that we cannot afford an ace, and I'd argue that if you go into FA, you do it right and get the best one out there. As for Lynne, I'd be very curious how the K/BB rates changed over the season given that he missed all of 2016. If they improved as the season went on, I'd be a bit more comfortable here. I'd also caveat this as he's an NL only guy, which don't always transition well.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    which for Buxton is not a small risk in my opinion. Same with Sano. Both have had their fair share of injuries both in the majors and minors.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd probably lock them all up, but I don't see how taking advantage of the opportunity will somehow make it harder to get pitching.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    This probably doesn't happen if the Twins finish with 75 wins and miss the playoffs. Despite all the bunts, Molitor got results. This isn't like Gardy where it appears he has too much say over the roster, which is good. I just hope that Pickler can help him more with in-game decisions over the next couple years. I think the players liking him is a good thing, but I just want to see him consistently making the best moves to put the team in the best place to win.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, I don't think it's wise to ask him to take something off his style of play. I do, however, think that he would be wise to try and bulk up a little this offseason. It might hurt him a tad in the speed department, but a little extra padding would probably go a long way to absorb some shock. It might also help his power game. I'm not sure if the outcome would much in terms of his impact, but it might keep him on the field more.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    I have to think Mauer is more of the comeback player variety... I suppose that would be a landslide in TD voting as the other candidates would have been Hughes and Perkins... though technically Mauer wasn't hurt last year... I really cannot argue with Buxton, though his improvement was more first half to second half as Nick noted. It would have been a tough choice between Buxton and Berrios in my opinion, as both took huge steps forward. Here's to hoping both take steps forward in 2018.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    Glad I had the week off
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    Are we allowed to K two in a row?
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