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  1. Vanimal46
    Absolutely not on tendering Plouffe. I'd be perfectly fine letting him go for nothing this off-season.
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    http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/d7/9f/bd/d79fbda47989a843b42caa3886329c2e.jpg
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    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-77E-H6wHAXg/UB6Sxc1mzhI/AAAAAAAAAWg/HfwN1t_eUnM/s1600/william-tell.jpg
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    These are fantastic, BTW. Right up my alley with dry, sarcastic humor.
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    Park's 1st year has been a disappointment. Hopefully that's not another remorseful signing from overseas. I think this infield roster crunch is going to solve itself one way or the other. Park could decide to go back to Korea, or Vargas could be sold to an overseas team. My prediction is one of them will be gone this off-season.
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    Giants SS Brandon Crawford became the first player since 1975, and the 4th player in MLB history to have 7 hits in 1 game yesterday. He went 7-8 and drove in the game winning run in the 14th inning. Very cool that a former Mankato Moondog has done so well in the majors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wuvezIy72M
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    Moving Plouffe is the highest priority. No reason at all for him to return in 2017, so get whatever you can for him. I'd also like for them to move Milone, and 1 of Boshers or Kintzler.
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    It's possible. Perhaps the Pohlad's see the value in paying Korn Ferry $40-50k up front to determine whether an internal hire is just as good as an external hire. For our sake, I hope Korn Ferry finds some rock stars so the answer becomes making an external hire.
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    We had a pandemic at our office today because of someone microwaving fish. I imagine this is how the conversation went:
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    http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/525db79769beddf830d61f41-1200/october-2009.jpg
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    Yep. Considering they most likely paid money up front to retain Korn and Ferry to help them with the search. If it was as easy as making an internal hire, they wouldn't have paid the money.
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    http://www.kappit.com/img/pics/201501_2307_cbhdb_sm.jpg I don't want to think of an OF consisting of Danny Santana at all. Especially for more than a couple of months.
  14. Vanimal46
    It feels like there was a memo sent out 15 years ago that we're all supposed to hate A-Rod now until the end of time. The reasons seem to boil down to PED's, which that issue differs with each fan, and the fact he was a jerk. A jerk to whom? The media? We're nobodies, and we are jerks to the Reusse's and Souhan's of the world for writing an article we don't agree with.
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    I would think the Pohlad's get more criticism from fans because they did not listen to the search firm's recommendations.
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    Fortunately the Twins are going to help skew the #4 pick in the right direction when Kohl Stewart comes up and achieves 748 WAR EDIT: The first part is sarcasm, clearly. But I do appreciate you doing the research for the discussion.
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    Agreed. Buxton, Sano, and Kepler are IMO the most important players to the franchise. If Bruno can't find a way to get through to these players he has to go.
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    Good God. What player would thrive in circumstances like that?
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    Okay, it took me a bit, but your last sentence finally got me to see the light.
  20. Vanimal46
    Why do I think McCann is way older than he really is? Just googled him expecting to see he's 35-36 years old. He's only 32.
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    Perhaps I am looking at it differently than you. You're making the argument about the data on a grand scale over the course of 15-20 years. That I can agree with, that out of all potential players selected in that category, they had the best WAR. I'm looking at it on a year to year basis. And there's examples of colossal failures where a team selects something called Greg Reynolds and Luke Hochevar over Evan Longoria, Clayton Kershaw, and Max Scherzer. Maybe that's where we're disconnecting on this discussion. In theory I agree with your stats, but there's cases every year where a team selects the wrong player. And if it weren't a crapshoot, IMO, each team would know that Clayton Kershaw is going to be the best player, he's going #1 overall, followed by Scherzer and Longoria, etc. etc.
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    Feed your cat something special today for this wonderful occasion! http://www.lovethispic.com/uploaded_images/165143-Fat-Cat-Stuck-In-Door.gif
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    Maybe we view crapshoots differently. The way I see it, if this process is not a crapshoot, shouldn't the best 15 players that year's draft has to offer go in sequence drafted #1 to #15? We have as many failures of top selected players as we do successes.
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    Sure, I agree that there's a group of 2-3 people that stand out over the rest by the time the draft rolls around. That's not much different than any other major sports' drafts. I can't speak for mickeymental, but I think he was trying to illustrate that there's no rhyme or reason for where successful players are drafted. There's as many colossal failures in the first 15 picks as there are success stories.
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    Woah, are we arguing that the MLB Draft is not a crapshoot?
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