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  1. Vanimal46
    Every year we're concerned about losing players to other teams. And every year it proves not to matter. I'd protect the givens minus Diaz, and Thorpe. If any other team selects the rest of the guys, good luck to them. Odds are they won't make an impact, and will be sold back to the Twins at a later date.
  2. Vanimal46
    Not really. It gives a contending team the first shot at offering Dozier an extension prior to him hitting the open market.
  3. Vanimal46
    I don't see why not... Dozier proved 2016 wasn't a fluke. If any contender trades for him, odds are they have an extension in mind for him. The existing contract wouldn't make a difference. If you want to keep the prospects, how do you go about fixing the pitching situation?
  4. Vanimal46
    I'm willing to bet almost every publication will have Lewis as the top prospect this winter.
  5. Vanimal46
    IMO I would add Bard to the 40 man, and DFA Chargois. I'm pretty sour about Chargois losing 3 full seasons due to arm injuries. Bard had some bad luck at the beginning of his career, but as Seth said, has been healthy and rising the last 2 seasons.
  6. Vanimal46
    I don't think they were asking too much. The market last year was saturated with good enough 2B that there wasn't enough of a demand for Dozier. As Chi said upthread, LA was the only contending team looking for a 2B at the time. The other teams had comparable fWAR production from their guys, or just extended their guy in the case of the Rangers. I was just like you last year. Wanting to trade Dozier and fit a square peg in a round hole somehow. I didn't think the Twins were that close to contention. I'm glad to be wrong and they kept him to prove 2016 wasn't a complete fluke. Nothing's stopping them from exploring the trade market with Dozier again this off-season. Hopefully there's more of a demand for his services. If not, they could always extend him for a few more years and use the farm system to acquire MLB pitchers.
  7. Vanimal46
    That class is certainly more heavy on star batters (Harper, Machado, Donaldson, Blackmon, Dozier, McCutchen) than pitchers... Kershaw will probably opt out. Corbin, Harvey, Pomeranz, and Keuchel are the intriguing names IMO. http://www.spotrac.com/mlb/free-agents/2019/starting-pitcher/
  8. Vanimal46
    I don't think it's smart to plan on any positive production from May in 2018. Too many variables that could go wrong 1 year removed from a major surgery.
  9. Vanimal46
    Out of the 5 Ted presented, my preference list would be: Cobb - best value and best production out of all ---- Chatwood - I'll take others' words for it that he has a good spin rate and some upside Lynn - Think he's going to be too expensive for the production he'd get in the AL. Cashner - somehow he does pretty well without the ability to strike people out ---- Chacin - Hard pass.
  10. Vanimal46
    What number did he wear?
  11. Vanimal46
    Sure, there's a limit for anyone on taking a loss. We can only speculate what that threshold is for the Pohlad's... I've accepted the financial constraints this ownership group put in place.
  12. Vanimal46
    Good owners also operate a sports franchise as a hobby/entertainment. I don't think there are any owners left whose primary income comes from a sports team.
  13. Vanimal46
    There are a couple of good examples - Kluber being one, and Drew Pomeranz as well. I'm probably just a bit jaded from Tim Stauffer still.
  14. Vanimal46
    Never heard of the guy until it was mentioned in this article. So no, I'm not convinced on Lamet. As a general rule of thumb, similar to nicksaviking, I don't trust any pitcher from the Padres organization. Their ballpark favors pitchers too much, and produces stats much better than their true ability.
  15. Vanimal46
    I guess they're just rolling with Croft for the time being. He's already named the starter against Iowa. Though I can't imagine Seth Green is worse than Croft.
  16. Vanimal46
    Croft looked awful against Illinois. If Illinois was even a halfway decent team, this should have been a loss. It's a coin flip next week in the battle for Floyd. Iowa gives up 235 passing yards a game, ranking 12th in the conference. It doesn't seem to matter who the coach is, the Gophers always seem to throw the ball to one guy, and one guy only. Fleck and co. need to come up with a game plan to spread the ball around.
  17. Vanimal46
    Concur. The story last winter was Dozier had a career year, and couldn't produce similar stats. Now there's 3 years of data showing he can be a ~30 HR hitter and 2 years of an OPS north of .850. Even if the contract is one less year, he answered a lot of questions whether or not 2016 was for real.
  18. Vanimal46
    Comparing Sano to Pablo Sandoval is a lazy, false narrative. Miguel Sano is a 6'4" man built like a tree. Pablo Sandoval is a 5'11" slap hitter. Just stop with this.
  19. Vanimal46
    Just like Buxton, whatever it takes to get it done I'm on board with. Both him and Buxton will most likely need north of $100 million to consider an extension.
  20. Vanimal46
    Are you ready to commit to him until he's 38 at $25 million a season?
  21. Vanimal46
    If he's looking for a Jordan Zimmerman-type contract like the article you posted says, I'm passing on Lynn.
  22. Vanimal46
    You think Buxton would sign for less than half of what Harper and Machado are projected to get next off-season during his FA years?
  23. Vanimal46
    Buxton is pretty much in the driver's seat for any contract negotiation. He's already had a share of "life changing" money, and should be in a position to gamble on himself if he chooses to do so. It's in the Twins' best interest to lock him up ASAP before next year's FA class breaks the salary scale as we know it. I just don't know if the team really had an opportunity to offer a lengthy contract extension buying out FA years.
  24. Vanimal46
    This division would be brutal to be in. Not that I disagree from a geography standpoint, it would just be very difficult to win division titles against Houston, Cubs, St. Louis, and Texas.
  25. Vanimal46
    He's with Jet Sports. So no Boras connection! And the good news is their well known clients (Sale, Kluber, Gomes) signed early extensions.
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