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  1. spinowner
    I apologize to the mods for a bit of a thread derailment but this is a similarly interesting factoid. As of a year ago two grandsons of John Tyler (POTUS, 1841-1845) were still alive. I did not find anything from the internets to indicate they have passed away since then.
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    I think the surest under bet is Dozier. He gets most of his dingers on high cheese and at this stage in his career everyone knows that. Pitchers will know to stay with breaking pitches down and away, even when they are behind in the count. Unless he can make some big adjustments it's very unlikely that he'll hit more than 20 any season for the rest of his career. IMHO, of course. Now, allow me to be optimistic but reasonable. 15 from the catcher position, 10 from Mauer, 25 from Vargas and/or Park, 20 from Dozier, 25 from Plouffe, 15 from Escobar, 20 from Rosario, 15 from Buxton, 25 from Arcia and 35 from Sano. Add another 10 from Nunez and/or whoever else. 215.
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    You're describing Eduardo Escobar.
  4. spinowner
    I apologize for not being clear. Teams like the Yankees can sign free agents at their peak years. This requires overspending. They have the resources to retool every year and go for it. It's simply not feasible for the Twins to take that approach. What I envision when I talk about a consistently good roster is something like what Cleveland did in the '90's, specifically drafting and developing enough good young talent to sustain a multi-year run of above-average play. For the Twins to succeed they have to get the most out of their draftees. This takes time and patience. Baseball players take a long time to develop from draftee to major leaguer. Players can be ruined by trying to move them too fast.
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    If it's me whom you are referencing feel free to use my user name. However, I'd prefer to be quoted accurately. That's not what I said. Here's the quote: "However, last time I checked the goal in MLB is to win the WS. So the postseason is in fact a more important measure than the regular season." This does not mean that I think the goal is to win the WS every year. That's an unrealistic, unsustainable and highly risky path to follow. A few franchises have the means to do that, maybe the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers, but even those teams can't do it every year because there are simply too many intangibles in baseball. The means to the end of winning the WS (IMHO) is to assemble a consistently good roster and hope that, from time to time, the cards fall just right and a World Championship can be won. In those years where enhancements can be made without mortgaging the future I'm all for it. The Twins were not at that point last year nor are they at that point this year unless we get outlier-type performances from quite a few players.
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    It's a tough business, to be sure, and it's very common to do the best you can and still fail. I think the 29 GM's who fail each year probably are able to move on with their lives.
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    They may have had the roster best suited to win the regular season. However, last time I checked the goal in MLB is to win the WS. So the postseason is in fact a more important measure than the regular season. The 2001 Mariners are now remembered as the best baseball team that ever failed.
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    Zero or less. We'd have lost either to the Yankees or to the Royals in the postseason. And we'd be further away from contention this year and in the future because we would have had to give up another prospect or two to get those couple more wins.
  9. spinowner
    As for Buxton, I'm in favor of whatever TR and PM think is best for his development. I don't know enough about baseball and about Buxton to say whether that means AAA or the bigs and neither does anyone else on this board. But if he heads to Rochester the team should not make any significant sacrifices to acquire a stopgap center fielder. Trying to get a couple extra wins while we wait would not be worth giving up anything.
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    How'd that work out for the Blue Jays last year? How'd that work out for Oakland in 2014? Look at KC. They didn't make big sacrifices. They built their team for longer term success primarily with young players. Yes, it's better to win than to lose but if you put all your eggs in one season's basket you'd better wind up with a dominating team. Otherwise there's a high risk of ending up rebuilding for years when you should have been contending. Oh, and by the way, as we all know, this is and ever shall be an agree-to-disagree issue. (And we all love to disagree!)
  11. spinowner
    Here's where I (and many others) disagree with you (and many others). The goal (IMHO) should be to build a franchise that contends consistently over a long stretch of time. A team is more likely (IMHO) to win a World Championship by qualifying for the postseason several years in a row than by going all-in for one year.
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    I have always felt that a team needs at least one left-handed starter to have hope for any real success. I'd really like the Twins to make a move in that direction if Milone is not consistently good. The other thing is that it's better to have two #1's and three #5's in the rotation than five #3's. Your regular season record would probably not be much different either way but you'll have a much better chance of success in the postseason. Classic example: the 1987 Twins.
  13. spinowner
    Mastroianni would lead the majors in SB's if stealing first base was allowed.
  14. spinowner
    You can also do a work-around when it comes to 3B. Escobar could move there from SS with Santana taking SS or Sano could move there from the OF with Santana taking the OF position.
  15. spinowner
    The Rosario/Santana/Buxton situation reminds me a lot of the Jacque Jones/Torii Hunter situation in about 1999 or 2000. Jones played somewhat out of position in center during Hunter's stints in AAA. I can see the same thing happening with Rosario and/or Santana covering center until Buxton comes up for good. And, as I've said in the past, the Twins need to do what's best for Buxton. The Twins did him no favors by calling him up too soon last season. If putting him at AAA is what TR and PM think is best for him this April then that's what should happen, even if that means the team struggles on the big league level while he develops.
  16. spinowner
    I've never been wrong in my life. There was one time when I thought I was, but it turned out I was wrong.
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    How likely is it that he can turn things around? How often do 32 year old journeyman catchers with so-so careers suddenly become good? Not very often, I'm afraid. He'll be a backup and mentor this season, which will be the last in his playing career.
  18. spinowner
    You can't put a finer point on it than this. Herb had the knowledge and the voice and the delivery.
  19. spinowner
    I deal with foreign language speakers fairly regularly. My company's policy is to have an interpreter present rather than relying on a friend or family member. Much lower risk of mistakes in translation.
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    I think I'll probably be there.
  21. spinowner
    No, my bad. Sorry if any offense was taken. My intention was to speak in general terms, not at you specifically.
  22. spinowner
    Why do you need an exception? I believe the two Santanas on the Twins each had only their last name on their jerseys. And beyond that, we don't need names on jerseys to know who's who. Isn't that what numbers are for?
  23. spinowner
    The photo of ABW attached to this article illustrates a mistake I'm seeing more often on sports jerseys these days. His last name is Walker. It's not Walker II. Yes, he's Adam Brett Walker II but if you put his last name first it becomes Walker, Adam Brett II. Nit-picky? Maybe, but correct is correct and incorrect is incorrect.
  24. spinowner
    Of the 38 players currently on the 40-man the one I have the most trouble understanding is Logan Darnell. Yes, he's left-handed, but that's about the only significant plus I see. And he's going to be 27 years old in February. I'd have waived him before Pinto or Achter. Is there something the Twins FO sees that nobody else does?
  25. spinowner
    I have to agree with this. It should have been #1 and I'm surprised it wasn't on the top (bottom?) five list. Compared to the five who did make the list the Santana suspension was the most avoidable disappointment. By far the most avoidable. A player with his amount of experience should know he needs to be sure about everything he puts into his body. So either he was stupid enough to take the illegal supplement or he was stupid enough not to monitor what he took. And as an aside, stanazolol is probably the easiest illegal supplement to detect. The human body metabolizes it into another chemical that is then excreted, and that chemical is easy to detect and is never present in the human body except if stanazolol has been used. Getting slightly off-topic, I agree that a simple suspension without pay is not a sufficient deterrent to PED use. Santana is getting a huge payoff even after the suspension is subracted from his contract. Voiding the contract, though, is not enough because the player can still sign another big contract, if not with the team who signed the player originally then with another team. I think the player should lose all service time and be required to play for the major league minimum. No arbitration rights and no contract extensions until he accrues enough new service time to qualify for free agency. This would obviously have to be negotiated in the next CBA. If the union and management are truly serious about this issue something like this needs to be considered. The union needs to get past the idea that these restrictions interfere with player rights. Rather, the union needs to see that this protects clean players (the overwhelming majority of membership) from the actions of the rule breakers. The best clean players will be the ones getting the big payoffs instead of the cheaters.
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