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  1. Vanimal46
    I'm cringing already on behalf of our fly ball pitchers like E.Santana and Hughes the way our projected OF is looking like. Buxton can cover a lot of ground out there, but I don't think he's capable of covering over half of the OF, which is what he'd need if Arcia and Sano are playing next to him. Or in the case that Buxton starts in AAA, Rosario's going to need to play out of his mind defensively next to Santana and Sano/Arcia. As much as I'd like to think our offense will improve with this cast of characters, I'm also envisioning a lot of Texas leaguers dropping for hits...
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    Tread lightly Thrylos, the ABW Fan Club may be out to get you for your rankings....
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    Former NFL RB Lawrence Phillips died in his prison cell this morning at age 40 of an apparent suicide. He was the RB on the national champion Nebraska Cornhuskers in 1994 and 1995, and the 6th overall draft pick of the St. Louis Rams.
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    Not sure. Even on older articles when I click on projected standings it takes me to the same page that I linked in the OP. Hopefully someone else who knows how to navigate Fangraphs better than me can find out.
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    I mean it makes sense though. Atlanta, Philly, and Cincinnati have been selling off every valuable trade chip they have, and we've been discussing that the Brewers are going to be a bad baseball team too. I do agree that there's a lot of balance in the AL on paper. And depending on injuries, there appears to be at least 3 contenders in each division that you could make a case for. But if we are looking for the real analysis of how the standings will shape up, we need to hear from the 2015 over/under contest winner, Willihammer.
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    The relocation in the NFL that's official is the St. Louis Rams moving back to LA beginning next year. San Diego has 1 year to decide if they want to be tenants in the new Rams stadium, or remain in San Diego. I'm a little too young to know the stories behind why the Minneapolis Lakers moved to LA, and why the North Stars relocated to Dallas. I do know it sucked not having an NHL team in the "State of Hockey" for 7 years until the Wild were created. Oh well, it's fun to be a fan of a team from the get-go, and the Xcel Energy Center is still one of the best arenas to watch a game in professional sports.
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    A little early yet, but Fangraphs updated their projected standings for the 2016 season. I'll save you all a click and post the projected AL Central Standings... Indians 85-77 White Sox 81-81 Tigers 79-83 Royals 79-83 Twins 78-84 Pretty surprised that they have projected the Royals to fall off the map. The Indians have been the hot pick to be a playoff team the last 2-3 years... I'll believe it when I see it. And going into this season, I believe that the Twins are about to take a step backwards in the division before they take a step forward. Your thoughts?
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    Yep, agreed with Mike and Levi. If they were to start the season with the best talent, Kepler would be up either as the 4th OF or starting in a corner OF spot. But I fear this is the depth chart the way the Twins see it: - Rosario - Sano - Buxton - Arcia - Danny Santana - Kepler Barring injury to 2 or more of the 5 OF's above Kepler, I don't think we're going to see him in the majors until September call-ups again.
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    Can someone help clear up my confusion? I just read that the Dodgers signed a 24 year old Cuban defect SP Yasiel Sierra to a 6 year contract in the 30-33 million range. How can Sierra be able to cash in, but Lazaro isn't able to? Does it have something to do with their age difference?
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    Pictured: Chief's reaction after the line, "Let's start the winning in 2016." http://a.fod4.com/images/user_photos/1176298/tumblr_lfm14iw7tJ1qz82gvo1_500_width_600x.jpeg
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    Sounds like I missed a good championship game last night. I watched until about half time and got side tracked. Didn't watch the exciting 4th quarter. Anyone tune in last night?
  12. Vanimal46
    Maybe this will be the year we see Polanco have more than a cup of coffee in the majors... I hope so at least. How many option years does he have left? It would be a shame to use them all before we even know what he can do at the MLB level....
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    Weird, Royals Manager Ned Yost attended the State of the Union too!
  14. Vanimal46
    Nailed it. There's no reason* why elite talents need to wait until they're 19 to declare for the NBA draft. Im sure guys like Wiggins and Derrick Rose really learned a ton in their 1 semester on campus... Attending Intro to Psychology on test days and getting an A. *Other than to spark interest in college basketball and pad the NCAA's wallet
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    It didn't feel right to start up this thread after I returned from California without you Mike. Even the first week of the new year it felt like this on the thread..
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    I think you're really over estimating how many programs generate the kind of revenue needed to pay hundreds to thousands of athletes. This article is a little old, but it states that "Just 23 of 228 athletics departments at NCAA Division I public schools generated enough money on their own to cover their expenses in 2012." The money needed to pay these players will come from subsidies, and student fees. And if I were a student again, I would be more than upset that I have to pay a much higher tuition to help pay Joe Blow $50k to be the QB at my school.
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    On top of that, we already have numerous scandals of players getting benefits already from schools.. The number of scandals is going to skyrocket if any sort of compensation is involved. I can already see the headlines now of "Texas A&M under investigation for paying 5 Star QB $100k over the $20k stipend"
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    Exactly. And gunnarthor's solution could work, but it has to be X amount that all universities can afford for all student athletes. Not just the LSU's and Michigan's of the world, but the Louisiana Tech's and Central Michigan's of the world too. I'm not that far removed from college, and I worked on my alma matter's D1 hockey team (Go Mavericks!) along with living with the players too. I've seen their schedules, pretty rigorous at times. And they're not really able to go back home and work full-time in the summer months to gain extra income. An extra $20k would go a long ways for the guys I lived with. However, even with that stipend, there's still going to be the argument that they're making millions off of me, and I'm getting paid peanuts.
  19. Vanimal46
    Problem is some schools most profitable sport may be something different than football or basketball. Take the University of North Dakota for example. Their most profitable sport is hockey. Should they compensate their athletes while the University of Minnesota does not? The Gophers have bigger fish to pay off in football and basketball to keep up with the Big 10.... Or do schools become specialized, and choose their 2 sports that they want to compensate kids? I just don't know where the line ends if we open up this can of worms. Think of this example: Florida is well known to have a great football, basketball, and baseball program compared to Alabama, who's only known for football. Florida's got a lot more athletes to pay than Alabama...
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    The NCAA is not in place to have the interest of the student athletes, I think that much is clear. I just don't think there's a clear solution to this problem. Schools can't discriminate and only compensate athletes on sports that make a profit... Title IX would eat that up. I also don't think you can come up with an even salary figure that every school could afford for all athletes. If the NCAA gave schools free reign to compensate athletes how they choose, there would no longer be any parity in college athletics whatsoever. How could a school like Minnesota come close to recruiting above average talent if a team like Texas offers the player 50k more than they could afford? I think the author did a good job of writing an eloquent, heavily researched, article. But let's also keep in mind the author's profession, and what he has to gain if college athletes were to get compensated. As a sports agent, his client list would increase ten fold. Then who would be the person exploiting college athletes?
  21. Vanimal46
    In reference to the bullpen, I've been complaining that there needs to be another signing because there's a very limited track record with the Twins of young pitching being called up directly from AA.. Sure we have some potentially good arms down there in Burdi, Chargois, etc. and if they can make the MLB team out of ST, even better. It would be against the status quo of the organization promoting that quickly, and I think an aggressive model would be not seeing them until June or July if they're pitching lights out. In the mean time, what else do we have? Guys like Tonkin, Abad, Darnell, etc. could be upgraded easily with someone like a Drew Storen.
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    The NCAA has completely butchered the dates of the playoffs this year. First round of games on NYE, where most people were busy with their own engagements. Now the Championship game tonight, 1 day after the Wild Card round in the NFL. I'm sure every sports news outlet is breaking down yesterday's games, not building up this game tonight. TBH I would have completely forgotten that the championship was tonight if Bing didn't suggest reading an article about it on my home screen.
  23. Vanimal46
    There was an interesting mailbag question in last week's Gleeman & The Geek podcast.. Over/under 150 plate appearances for Kepler this year? I'm going with the under.
  24. Vanimal46
    Depends on Perkins' ego. If it would be a huge problem and turns into a clubhouse issue that his role is not the closer, it's probably not worth the risk. If Perkins is willing to take on any role that makes the team better (like what May is doing), then it's worth the upgrade.
  25. Vanimal46
    Why couldn't the Twins use Storen as a closer too? Perkins in the 7th-8th inning is a good problem to have.
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