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  1. Vanimal46
    If anyone is looking to get me a gift, there's a new product out called the TV Beer Mug. It's a mug that won't block your view of the TV when you're laying on the couch drinking beer!
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    Oh boy! By the time he's 26 he'll be up to speed and handle an average MLB SP workload.
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    That, and he only pitched 97 innings this year. Even with a modest 15-20% increase in IP, we're still a couple of years away from him being a legitimate 180-200 inning pitcher.
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    Call me jaded, but I don't want to bank on all of our super awesome prospects coming up within a year or so. Fool me once with all of the super awesome RP prospects, shame on you. Fool me twice with all of the super awesome RP prospects.....
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    Absolutely. And, worse case if he's not a starting pitcher after all, we just wasted several hundred innings on that arm. As we know, the shelf life of a bullpen arm isn't that long. It's a big question mark for sure.
  7. Vanimal46
    Someone should make a Twins SP jersey similar to how the Browns keep track of all their QBs...
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    What's amazing is you mention 11 players in the article, and I wouldn't lose any sleep if all of them are gone for the 2017 season. Rosterman also mentions a few, and out of his list, I would add Tonkin, Santiago, along with Rosario and Landa as borderline drops. Potentially 15 people that could be removed from the 40 man without much of a backlash from the fan base. I would look forward to that much turnover after this disaster of a season.
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    The Dodgers keep coming to mind as a potential fit for Dozier.. The dream scenario is Urias. More realistically, if Maeda could be had, I'm open to trading for him too.
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    When he was in A ball... Just a tad different than trading young MLB players.
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    I'm intrigued with AA. I would want to have a GM/POBO who sees an opportunity to make the playoffs and makes contending type trades to ensure that. He's most likely learned some lessons in his first go around as GM, and still quite young to improve on the job.
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    Funny that you ask... Brock asked Chief to take a selfie of himself during a normal game thread, and that was what he wore!
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    Of course not. But most free agent contracts aren't worth it at the end... We'll see that shortly with Erv Santana if they don't get out of that contract soon.
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    We'll have to agree to disagree. Personally I'd rather they swing for the fences by signing a Greinke/Scherzer type FA over giving contracts to middle of the rotation guys at a cheaper rate.
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    It's all about perception, right? Since Greinke struggled a bit in his first season with the Diamondbacks it appears to be a bad contract. Meanwhile, Max Scherzer has been Cy Young caliber since arriving in Washington at $30 million a season. For players like Greinke, I'm willing to bet he bounces back to top of the rotation stats next season.
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    There were 8 pitchers in FA alone last year that received 5 or more years for a contract. The youngest was Mike Leake at age 28. Everyone else (Price, Grienke, Cueto, Zimmerman, Shark, Wei-Yen Chen) were 30 and older... 2015 we saw Lester and Scherzer receive 6+ year deals... And a few 4 year deals for pitchers who were 33 and older. You could go back year after year and see countless examples of pitchers well beyond their peak years receiving multi-year deals.
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    Yes. And the contract length has been nearly industry standard for the last 10+ years of free agency. I'd be shocked to find examples of upper echelon pitchers NOT receiving 5-7 year deals.
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    David Price - 6 / $217 million signed at age 31 Max Scherzer - 7 / $210 million signed at age 31 Steven Stasburg - 6 / $175 million signed at age 28 CC Sabathia - 6 / $161 million signed at age 28 in 2008 Justin Verlander - 6 / $180 million signed at age 30 Felix Hernandez - 6 / $175 million signed at age 27 5-7 years has been the going rate for upper echelon pitchers for a long time now.
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    FTFY.
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    Can't see the design anywhere. I clicked on this article on the forums page... Maybe that's the problem?
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    http://media.steampowered.com/steamcommunity/public/images/avatars/8a/8afae6f8432097c30506c4fd56766aa2b81144ea_full.jpg Biz Journal link here
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    Celebrating the ribbon cutting of a new Tim Horton's in Dinkytown, eh?
  23. Vanimal46
    I think we would all enjoy the crawl so much more if your boy, Patty Dean was on the mound. Just for old times sake.
  24. Vanimal46
    Congrats to Beresford. Hope he makes his impact, even if he plays sparingly.
  25. Vanimal46
    The way ESPN and others pumped up Hackenberg, I figured he had at least 1 good season. Doesn't appear to be the case. Take this as you want, Hackenberg's QB rating in college: 121. Leidner: 123. Similar completion percentage too. The NFL has such a shortage of good QBs it's not out of the realm of possibility that a team drafts Leidner within the first 2-3 rounds. Whoever does draft him, good luck. They're going to need it.
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