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  1. d-mac
    He could also be traded too, teams are always looking to add bats.
  2. d-mac
    I think there are plenty of good catchers that'll be appropriate at 56. Okey, Rorvedt, Murphy, Cumberland. I personally don't like all glove, no hit catchers (pitch framing and selection are really the only traits that matter to me as a catcher), so I'd avoid Johnson and Rogers.
  3. d-mac
    Where the Twins are picking this year, I'd prefer to go with a college bat in the 1st round. Maybe bank some money- then throw a bunch of cash at high upside HS players with their next 4 picks. It'd be hard for me not to pick Will Craig (Dude can hit AND can draw a walk, figure out his position later) at 15. Go with Rortvedt at 56, if he's there or Gavin Lux. Then HS arms after that. I'd stay away from college pitching like the plague this year.
  4. d-mac
    This. 1000x this. At this point cleaning house and going outside for new perspective become the best business decision. The good 'ol boys club is so inefficient (i.e., lack of winning relative to the budget) I just don't understand how ownership can justify keeping it intact. Also, have you seen how empty the stadium is? Management's underperformance has to be hurting ownership's profit margin at this point, not to mention they've probably missed out on the era of the mega-huge tv deals other teams have gotten. The Twins are simply not putting a product on the field that consumers want to buy and are doing so at a high cost. Then again, it shouldn't be surprising that Jim Pohlad is a terrible businessman. He just inherited the company from good 'ol pops who made his fortune as a crony capitalist by buying distressed assets during the depression, rent seeking, and later acquiring other existing companies and getting sweet deals from politicians. He didn't create any value by producing or improving upon a good or service that consumers demanded.
  5. d-mac
    But...but... I like Vanimal!
  6. d-mac
    The roster would be a total "camel."
  7. d-mac
    We tend to agree on most things. It's ok to have a friendly disagreement from time to time.
  8. d-mac
    Hey, post-deadline waiver trades are a great place to pick up average to mediocre relievers, because they can usually picked up for a bag of balls. Which, is probably what Jepsen would have gone for in August or the offseason. If TD told Terry Ryan to jump off a bridge, should he do it? Wait... don't answer that. Most of the time I think many of us here at TD would do a better job as a GM than Ryan, however, making a deadline move just to appease a fan during a season that turned out to be a mirage is not a good idea.
  9. d-mac
    As the great and wise Ron Swanson once said: "Don't half-a** two things. Whole-a** one thing."
  10. d-mac
    More like foul tip off the protective cup.
  11. d-mac
    Like I said, I completely disagree with you on the trade. Ryan shouldn't be making decisions at the deadline out of desperation. The bullpen he assembled predictably couldn't get the job done, so he reacted and overpaid. He could have been more proactive and done a better job assembling a bullpen and then would not have been in that situation in the first place. He's just compounding bad decisions by making more bad decisions. To me this is just another instance of TR buying high or selling low.
  12. d-mac
    I guess we disagree then. 1.) As a rule I don't like trading for relief help at the deadline, especially one that has thoroughly ML average numbers. Average relievers are about as close to a commodity as there is in baseball. Only the elite bullpen arms are really only truly valuable on their own. Even then a bullpen is sort of a "sum of its parts" unit. Trading for relief help at the deadline is always done as a desperation move and as such the buying team will always have to overpay on general mediocrity. Did we all forget the lessons we learned from Matt Capps? 2.) We were/are still rebuilding. We should be acquiring young talent, not trading it away. 3.) I liked Hu as a very underrated sleeper of a prospect. I always thought he had #3 potential. 4.) It's the Rays. I can't imagine they didn't take advantage of Terry Ryan's ineptitude.
  13. d-mac
    I got a laugh out of it. Puckett is my favorite player of all time, but even I admit he was getting a little tubby at the tail end of his career.
  14. d-mac
    http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/are-these-the-best-young-hitters-in-baseball-history/ There is plenty wrong with this team, but that's not it. Guess again.
  15. d-mac
    http://i.imgur.com/wW1dH66.gif?noredirect
  16. d-mac
    If 20 players are underperforming at once, that cannot possibly be a mere coincidence.
  17. d-mac
    Speaking of Kevin Jepsen, Chih-Wei Hu, made 4 starts for the Rays AA affiliate- he put up a 0.44 ERA, 1.88 FIP, 11.51 K/9, and a 2.66 BB/9. He was recently promoted to AAA. Since the trade, Kevin Jepsen has given us 40 mediocre innings to a 4.17 xFIP and K/9 just over 7.
  18. d-mac
    Look at his HR/FB rate. He's had quite a bit of luck there. But it's not like he never hit in the minors. He put up above average numbers in AA and AAA. Pretty good for a catcher, which to me always made his Drew Butera-ish hitting line perplexing. Drew Butera hit like Drew Butera in the minors. Herrmann didn't.
  19. d-mac
    Scoscia is the longest tenured manager in baseball- he's been managing the Angels since 2000, and significantly predates Dipoto. So congrats on finding the one example in baseball history that happened under the most extreme circumstances that don't apply to us. You're red herring is awful tasty though!
  20. d-mac
    http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/614/639/9df.gif
  21. d-mac
    May and Meyer have the stuff to get swings and misses. They have the highest upside on the 40 man of anyone not named Jose Berrios. If they are able to transition to the big league rotation successfully, they are FAR more valuable to the team than in the bullpen. This team isn't going to win this year. Why not give them the chance to succeed or fail so we can figure out where they fit in our plans? If they are just going to be anointed relievers, then trading away both Span and Revere has to be viewed as a horrendous mistake. The Twins have had the 3rd LOWEST fWAR from the CF position since the beginning of 2013.
  22. d-mac
    I just quoted your post because it had a nice list of KC relievers. Not really agreeing or disagreeing, just wanted to do a little digging on the KC relievers.
  23. d-mac
    Davis had 64 starts at the major league level before being moved to the pen by the Rays, and another 24 in Kansas City. Duffy had 80 before he got moved to the pen full time this year- I also believe he had TJ surgery at some point. We all know Hochevar was a garbage starter- but the Royals gave him 128 starts before getting moved to the pen. Gee was used almost exclusively as a starter by the Mets- they gave him 110 starts w/ Mike Pelfrey-ish results. Wang is a 36 year-old, soft tossing, back-end starter with 126 starts under his belt. Meanwhile, May has had 25 career starts, and Meyer 0. And out of the 5 Royals relievers, only Duffy had comparable K% to Meyer and May.
  24. d-mac
    Last time I checked Wade Davis was a #5 starter at best before he was moved to the pen. That argument is a load of rubbish.
  25. d-mac
    Not sure why your post is scored out. But Ryan is still his boss. He can tell Molitor "use the players I give you in the way I have intended or take a hike".
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