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  1. prouster
    I'm not saying that he looked bad or good, because I haven't seen any footage of his performance today. Generally speaking, though, I think it's ill advised to put much stock in spring training stats. He gave up a few runs, but maybe he was working on some mechanical issue or spotting his breaking ball. Or maybe he just pitched badly.
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    The only thing stopping the Padres from jumping on that offer is seeing if they can take further advantage of the MN front office.
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    They could have signed Napoli both last year and this year. They passed on him twice. Clear evidence of their weird affinity.
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    Right. I think Morrison is better than those options even though he's left handed.
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    Maybe this is beside the point, but Buxton was absolutely rushed in 2015. He came up with 60 AA games under his belt. If he didn't have a good head, it would have ruined him. I don't agree with dismissing the idea of rushing prospects as a convenient narrative. Front offices should evaluate players on a case by case basis. If a guy isn't ready, no one benefits from hastily promoting him. That's putting the player in a position to fail.
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    I think this is fair. I'll just chip in that plenty of visibly in-shape guys have had promising careers derailed by injury. It's part of the game.
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    Here are a couple of screen shots from MLB.com's reporting. The video was posted yesterday. Presumably the footage is from this week.
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    The invented reality is the one in which Sano has flouted orders and shown up to camp in inexcusably bad shape. Someone called it "obese." At least one other has said Sano "looks like an offensive lineman." It's an alternate reality in which he is "basically telling his bosses that he doesn't feel the need to do what they ask of him." Or, you know, that Sano is lazy. This despite obvious photographic and video evidence, anecdotal evidence from posters who have seen him with their own eyes, and news reports that Sano has alternated between Florida and the DR working out since December. It's one thing to say Sano needs to get back into playing shape, but it's another to distort empirical evidence into an unrecognizable picture. For the life of me, I can't follow a line of reasoning that goes, If this hypothetical thing is the case, and if this other hypothetical thing is the case, therefore we can conclude Sano has no discipline and refuses to listen to his bosses. What could it be that's driving this narrative?
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    Has he, though? Is there any evidence that suggests the team told him to hit a specific number, and he chose to ignore his bosses? Maybe there is, but I don't think anyone here has come across it. Generally, I don't understand the need to invent realities simply to argue against those realities. By all available photo and video evidence, Sano is about the same size he was last year. I buy that he's not quite in playing shape, but that's a far cry from what a few people here have described in spite of documented visual evidence. But why believe that when someone on Twins Daily says Sano is lazy and obese? I don't know. Maybe you and others can explain it to me.
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    They aren't where they need to be yet, but things seem like they're trending up. Let us never forget the days of P.J. Walter, Pedro Hernandez, Cole DeVries...
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    That could just be their position right now. Things change.
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    Darvish would have been great. He probably would have enabled them to compete for the division. But, he's not in the cards anymore. My point is that there is reason to believe the current rotation has some upside. Heck, if Hughes is actually healthy, maybe he'll contribute something. They shouldn't rely on such a sunny outcome, because it's not likely. If they need to add another 4 WAR pitcher, however, they have the pieces to trade for one. Edit: I don't think they'll get Archer before opening day, but he could definitely be a possibility at the deadline. We know they've already discussed him with Tampa. It could be a matter of assessing what they've got and circling back before making that trade. I think a deadline deal could be comparable to what they'd pay now, given the mix of deadline premium and less team control. We'll see, I guess.
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    That could very well be, but free agency has been a nightmare even for some quality players. Some guys might rather have the security of an early extension.
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    I thought they should have signed an ace? Now they should have signed a bunch of minor league depth? As some other posters have said, the plan may largely be to let progression candidates actually progress. We get ourselves tied up over acquiring a #1 or 2 starter (whatever that means), but maybe the plan is for Berrios to take a step forward. It's not unreasonable to think he's capable of producing 4-5 fWAR. He produced about 3 fWAR last year as a fairly raw 23 year old. Steamer has him projected at 2.0 fWAR, which of course includes his terrible 2016 season. Fangraphs readers project him for 4.3 fWAR. For comparison, Steamer projects 3.9 fWAR for Darvish, and Fangraphs readers project 3.7. It's possible Berrios could deliver a very similar performance for about $19.5 million fewer. Let's see how it plays out. If Berrios realizes his potential, then they already have the ace we're clamoring for. The addition of Odorizzi would then bolster the middle of the rotation, and the back end could be filled by guys returning from injury and/or promising rookies. If things don't go as planned, they have plenty of prospect capital to acquire someone during the season.
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    This is off topic, but stats aren't objective. Ever. They are all formed by humans, which means they are founded on human choice and bias. Statistical analysis is one form among many of narrating the world. The history of science is full of people developing statistics that both reproduce and justify preexisting viewpoints. The statistical concept of regression is one example. It describes an anomaly returning to some mythical norm. Did you know that the concept was invented by Charles Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton--the father of the eugenics movement? In that context, regression gains a sinister aspect, in that it applies standards of normalcy and deviance to human bodies and paves the way for "legitimate" racial hierarchies. Stats are not objective.
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    I think the larger point is that there is no such thing as a truly objective statistic. I like the trade. Odorizzi had a tough year, but there is some recent enough success to feel some optimism, especially considering they only gave up Palacios. He probably won't dominate anyone, but hopefully they won't need him to. Let's see if Berrios can take a step forward and be the anchor we're all clamoring for.
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    I get this, and I get that signing him is basically risk free. I just don't get the point of signing him in the first place.
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    Ah. If this is the case, then I agree it isn't a huge deal. But I still don't understand why they'd offer anything more than a minor league deal. If he turns that down, tell him to hit the bricks.
  19. prouster
    Exactly. Money isn't the issue. The fact that they signed him isn't really the issue. It's the roster spot.
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    I don't understand why it's not an MiLB deal. Did they just have to have him that badly?
  21. prouster
    The subtext of several of these posts is abhorrent.
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    I'm going by memory, so maybe that's true. It seems to me that pitchers haven't been bringing back huge hauls the last couple years.
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    Of course they're allowed to make that offer. My quibble is that it's not an appropriate starting place for an argument, because the reality of free agency was different.
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    I don't think so. A team receiving him would be getting half a year less of control, and deadline deals don't always fetch a premium, David Price being another Tampa example. I'm sure there are more, but I'm in public transportation and don't feel equipped to do the research.
  25. prouster
    If you had two job offers and accepted one, would you tell people the other passed on you?
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