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I've thought about this for a bit now and here's how I'd go about things if I were the GM: -I'd have called up Berrios and Chargois yesterday. Dump Ramirez. And I might consider sending Trevor May down to Rochester (if he has options left) to get stretched out as a starter. Move Nolasco, Milone, or Duffey to the pen to make room for Berrios. -I'd work on trading Nunez ASAP. Then call up Polanco. Have him split time between 2nd, SS, and 3rd the rest of the season. -Trade Suzuki, sounds like there is some interest in him right now. Call up Murphy. Add Garver to 40 man. -Trade Kintzler and Abad for whatever we can get. Call up Boshers, add Hildenberger to 40 man and call him up. -Trade Ervin Santana for best available package, eating salary is a must. Move Milone, Nolasco, or Duffey back to the rotation. Call up Melotakis. August: -Dump Nolasco for whatever we can get. Eat salary if we must. May should be stretched out by now. Recall him and insert into the rotation. - Dump Milone for whatever we can get. Add Wheeler to 40 man- call him up, insert into ration. - Dump Plouffe for whatever we can get. Add Beresford to 40 man. Call him up to be UTIL player. End of August- If my math is right, there should be 33 players on the 40 man (38 today, removed 9 players, added 4. The rotation will be Duffey, Berrios, May, Gibson, Wheeler. C: Centeno/Murphy 1B: Mauer/Vargas/Sano 2B: Dozier/Polanco SS: Escobar/Polanco 3B: Sano/Polanco RF: Kepler/Grossman CF: Buxton/Santana LF: Rosario/Grossman DH:Vargas/Sano/Mauer/Grossman SEPT: -Call up Garver and Park on the 1st. -Add Granite, Wimmers, and Baxendale to 40 man and call them up. -Once MiLB season ends add Palka to 40 man, call him and Walker up. 40 man at 37 players Offseason: -Trade Dozier. Appears that 2B at the deadline is a buyer's market. With his two years of control left, offseason might be a better time to trade him. -DFA Danny Santana. -Remove Dean from 40 man -Centeno, Landa, R Rosario other candidates to be removed from 40 man. 40 man at 32-35. Tentative Roster for 2017 ST: C: Centeno/Murphy/Garver/FA? 1B: Mauer/Vargas/Park 2B: Polanco SS: Escobar 3B: Sano RF: Kepler/Grossman CF: Buxton LF: Rosario/Grossman DH: Park/Vargas Bench: IF: Beresford OF: Grossman/Granite? Bat: Vargas/Park Catcher #2 SP: Berrios SP: Gibson SP: May SP Duffey SP: Buy Low High Risk/Reward FA. (Wheeler in AAA, Hughes potential return in second half) Bullpen: (Very Fluid) CL/SU: Chargois CL/SU: Hildenberger CL/SU:Pressly MR: Boshers MR: Tonkin MR: Melotakis LOOGY: Rogers In AAA: Hitters: Murphy/Garver/Stuart, Vielma, Granite, Palka, Walker Pitchers: Wheeler, Jay, Gonsalves, Slegers, Wimmers, Baxendale, Reed, Jones, Bard

Comparing Dozier to Bryant is like comparing apples to an Apple iPhone. Sure, they may have "apple" in their name, but it's not exactly the same thing.

Dozier will be turning 30 next May. So, he'll be in his decline phase when it's time to compete again. Smart teams would sell high on him now or in the offseason.

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I agree with everything you said here. But... Milton? We traded Eric Milton a long time ago. Although... We probably should move Nunez. I'd be nice to sell high for once. He's the perfect deadline trade candidate.

I have no problem keeping Granite in AA the rest of the year and then add him to the 40 man in the offseason.

FWIW, after last night's game, Park is now hitting .286/.388/.476 at AAA with a 22.4% and 10.4% K and walk rates, respectively. Then if you look at what he's done since July 9th (7 games), after taking a few days off for his hand injury he is hitting .333/.429/.667 with a 14.3 K% and a 10.7 BB%.

But you know, he's aggressive! /sarcasm I hope to God that's one thing that changes with a new (hopefully!) FO. We can't be pushing our minor leaguers to be over aggressive at the plate.

Over his last 4 starts Gonsalves 13.1 K/9 (37.1%!) and a 2.31 FIP.

Just so we're clear, since Sano has returned from the DL and moved back to 3rd, he's hitting .269/.367/.481.

You mean that guy that has averaged a sub 2.00 ERA, sub 3.00 FIP, and a K/9 > 9.50 between AAA and MLB this year?

By what, making the gameday experience less about the game and more about the "experience?"

These are all good candidates, although I'd stay away from anyone from the Angels organization. But if it's Antony, I may have to get a new favorite baseball team.

Ack! Formatting, my eyes!!!

Having worked in Economics/Finance through even one business cycle one thing about human nature is abundantly clear: People expect things that are going well to continue to go well indefinitely. Conversely, people expect things that are going poorly to continue to go poorly indefinitely. Case in point- the housing bubble, stock market collapse and market rebound from '06-'10. People falsely assumed that the price of housing would continue to go up forever and made business and personal financial decisions based on that reasoning. During the resulting downturn of the stock market people sold at the bottom of the market expecting the sell off to continue, but it didn't. The S&P 500 reached it's Aug-Sept '08 levels by early 2011. Many investors after loosing their shirt from selling in Oct '08- Mar '09, were then weary about re-entering the market despite it doubling in 2-3 years after the sell-off and were thus priced out. Might the pro sports industry be in a bubble? Based on valuations that is certainly possible. We'll see how the unbundling of traditional media and increased competition from competing entertainment options in a slow-growth economy affect revenues and valuations. I highly doubt it will continue to grow at this pace in the medium term.

I think it's really an asymmetric information problem. It becomes difficult from a management or ownership perspective to determine who is and isn't part of the problem.

I think you're right, but it wasn't very clear. I had to re-read it and think about it.

If the culture in the FO is toxic, you might not have any choice but to fire competent people if they've been infected with the bureaucratic malaise of the country club.

Timing was a total shock. But I'd be lying if I wasn't jumping for joy right now. I am literally jumping for joy at my office. My co-workers think I'm a bit crazy now.

I think you're right on with your thinking here.

Anyone else alarmed that Kiriloff has yet to draw a walk? Even Rosario walked at 9.1% of the time at E-town.

That hardly qualifies as credit worthy.

In July the Twins offense has the highest walk rate, third lowest K rate, 3rd highest ISO. Sure, their BABIP is a bit high for this month- .331, but it's not that much higher than the .316 median BABIP for the month. So there are some signs that the offense is improving fundamentally.

Yup, all players are lazy bums nowadays! Not like they used to be back in my day... Get off my lawn you damn kids! /sarcasm

It would be nice to see Arreaz get promoted. I doubt there is anything left for him to learn at CR.