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  1. howeda7
    Disagree. See above.
  2. howeda7
    Yes, but a normal company doesn't have the variability of an MLB franchise. Since moving to Target Field the Twins have had large swings up and down in payroll depending on where the team is in regards to contending. They're not going to spend on a rebuilding team just to hit a magical % of revenue threshhold and they're not going to tell Falvine they can't sign a pitcher they really need for a contending team because it will go 10% over their budget. It would be foolish to operate that way in this case.
  3. howeda7
    Of course they have a budget, but it's not fixed the way a salary cap is. If in 2023 they have to over-spend the budget because Ryu has been released due to injury, and they need to replace him, but they were under budget the last 3 years because they weren't paying him $30 million, it should be fairly easy to get ownership to approve going over budget for that one season. A good business doesn't have a strict budget that ignores prior year shortfalls and surpluses. And an MLB team is going to be more flexible than a "normal" company.
  4. howeda7
    You have to pay the player the $22.5 million in year 4. If he's injured or cooked, you don't have to give him a roster spot. Turning down a free year (or nearly free year) makes absolutely no sense. Obviously, the hope is, he will still be an effective pitcher in year 4. If he's not, you release him, and take the $22.50 you saved the 3 previous years and find a replacement.
  5. howeda7
    Even if that's a real issue, how does the "not caring" not just shift to year 3 under your contract? If there was a salary cap, caring about the AAV makes sense. But there isn't. All that matters is the total $ amount you are risking. There are people who will to go so far as to say "I'll pay 3/$90, but not 4/$90!" What? It's a totally free year at that point and you still say, "no thanks!" It makes zero sense. And Time Value of Money is a real thing when you're talking $90 million contracts. And since there's no cap, teams have flexibility to spend extra if they have a year with larger dead contracts. If I'm the Pohlad's, I'd certainly rather spend an extra $20 million on the 2023 payroll than give a pitcher a higher salary for reason in 2020 and 2021.
  6. howeda7
    When is the last time the Twins made a major move at the Winter Meetings?
  7. howeda7
    Sergio Romo is back. Look out Yankees we're comin!
  8. howeda7
    Going 3/$90 over 4/$100 in a league without a salary cap doesn't make sense, but I see this logic a lot more lately. Even if I were a hand-off owner I would ream out a GM who used this logic.
  9. howeda7
    My sarcasm meter must be broken.
  10. howeda7
    Never assume anything.
  11. howeda7
    It's possible all they do is add a reliever and maybe a cheap 1B/3B option and go into 2020 with a $110 million payroll. $20 million less than 2018. Pathetic and inexcusable if it happens.
  12. howeda7
    Price averaged 5 innings per start last year. Unless Boston is eating 2/3 of that contract, no thanks.
  13. howeda7
    At this point I'd settle for Kuechel, trading Rosario and prospects for Alcantara and having a deep rotation without an ace and add Betances or another RP. Sign Jerrod Dyson to play LF until Kiriloff is ready and then slide him to CF when Buxton gets hurt. Gonzalez can play 3B unless we somehow land Donaldson.
  14. howeda7
    When you're in a position to go for it, you have to be aggressive and yes, overpay. Do Wild fans lament signing Parise and Suter because it didn't work out? I don't think most of them do. They pushed their chips on the table and went for it. It didn't work out. But it was still worth doing. Same for the Vikings with Cousins. No one is asking for the Twins to match the Yankees or the Dodgers or be a major FA player every year. But the Twins never have in the modern era. Not with prospects and not with $$. And if they won't go for it now, they never will.
  15. howeda7
    Twins baseball...waiting for a tomorrow that never comes.
  16. howeda7
    I blame this on the front office. If the Twins go into next season with a $105 million payroll instead of $135, it's because Falvey chose not spend $, not because he wasn't allowed to.
  17. howeda7
    Berrios is a key. To realistically win a WS, he has to become an ace. But if he does, we still need someone start game 2 at Yankee Stadium. I don't think anyone here genuinely expected them to get Cole or Strasburg. But to completely whiff on the entire next tier is unacceptable.
  18. howeda7
    They surely knew that the # of teams would go up after the big 2 signed, but they didn't know when that would occur. It happened fast. But based on the last two years it could have been mid-January. And 2 weeks ago, we were hearing 4/$80 for MadBaum. If they come in with 5/$110, was he going to turn it down and take his chances? I'd wager not.
  19. howeda7
    They should have been offering MadBaum 5/$100-120 on day 1.He'd be a Twin now. It didn't take great foresight to see that he'd be a fallback option to whoever didn't get Cole/Strasburg and we'd get shoved aside.
  20. howeda7
    I'm not big on "the Twins are saying this for PR" normally, but I'm starting to think this is true.
  21. howeda7
    I also read how people are fleeing CA due to taxes etc. But we can't possibly get a top FA to sign here. Not once. Not ever.
  22. howeda7
    I get that. I don't think we have to add any of our top 4 prospects to make it happen though. Maybe Rosario, the #3 pitcher and one more guy?
  23. howeda7
    Yep. When you have weather, geography etc. against you, you have to be aggressive. Even if it means striking early and over-paying. Favline is good at a lot of things. Being aggressive at the trade deadline and in FA do not appear to be among them.
  24. howeda7
    I'm intrigued by Eddie for Alcantara from the Marlins, but I would have done that instead of signing Pineda. A rotation of Berrios, Odorizzi, Alcantara and Pineda doesn't do it for me in a play-off series.
  25. howeda7
    Over the long-term, you're right. In this particular off-season, the Twins positioned themselves to be able to compete with the big boys and upgrade their pitching. They promised to do so. So far, they have failed. And their options are dwindling. If they come up empty, it's on Falvine and not MLB's system.
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