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  1. gil4
    He's on the special 26-man roster they now allow for double-header days, although Boshers on the DL might change his travel plans back to Rochester. (Hopefully it won't.)
  2. gil4
    Great article - definitely worth digging it out again. I imagine the 2014-2016 chapters would have some interesting stories as well. I don't know if he has the ability to put together sustained success in the majors, but it's nice to see his persistence rewarded.
  3. gil4
    I'm sure the sale of the most tickets is factored in (which directly leads to the sale of the most beer). How many people are going to buy tickets for a game (or trade in rain checks for a game) that's already 5-0?
  4. gil4
    Unfortunately, I can see one team giving him a multi year deal.
  5. gil4
    How long has he been using that extremely closed stance? I guess what he's been doing sort of works, I guess (apart from the 4 Ks last night), but I'd like to see him change that up in an attempt to find something that really works.
  6. gil4
    Solid yes for Plouffe. Weak probably not for Suzuki.
  7. gil4
    I wish I could use a couple of "likes" on that post.
  8. gil4
    That long swing has to play a big part in the poor pitch recognition. He has to get it started before he has a chance to identify the pitch.
  9. gil4
    I hope you're not here looking for a replacement. I guess it could be worse - you could be looking in the Star-Trib comments (or Souhan's columns.)
  10. gil4
    Once teams see his on waivers, an interested team might call the Twins and work out some trade parameters and then make the claim, but if they were unable to get a deal they probably would recognize the Twins received a better offer and wouldn't make the claim (unless they wanted to set themselves up for retaliation.) So someone might claim him, or they might be no deal in place and no claim to allow the Twins more time to work a deal once he has cleared. (Like the rest of baseball, there seem to be a lot of unwritten rules and gentlemen's agreements with these things.)
  11. gil4
    I suppose some team might claim him with the hopes of having exclusive trade rights to negotiate a better deal, but if there weren't some parameters for a trade set in advance, the Twins probably wouldn't look to favorably upon that claim.
  12. gil4
    They are put on revocable waivers, so the non-contender isn't going to get the player unless the team that waived him (most likely in the same boat) is happy to let him go for nothing. All they will accomplish is annoying the other GMs Teams will put more players on waivers than you would expect, although it wouldn't be the untouchables like Kepler, Buxton, and Sano. I'd bet Dozier, Escobar, Mauer (just in case he's willing to waive the no-trade), Suzuki, and Plouffe all clear waivers. Santana and Milone also will probably clear, and a couple of relievers might, too, just in case someone is willing to pay a premium. We'll just never hear anything about it unless they actually make a deal.
  13. gil4
    I can't say I wasn't worried.
  14. gil4
    Unless things have changed, teams usually don't put in claims to block a trade unless they have an idea that a specific rival is the intended recipient. If teams get in the habit of making claims to block trades, other teams will start retaliating.
  15. gil4
    Big groan
  16. gil4
    At least they didn't trade JJ Hardy to get him.
  17. gil4
    "I can't complain but sometimes I still do" Joe Walsh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngkQVOt8GEM
  18. gil4
    This one could last as long as the Knoblauch trade.
  19. gil4
    How many people have a place of employment that is 100% business and 0% personal? Granted, it was the GM calling, who probably only has a close relationship with a couple of the players who have been there the longest. I guess when someone gets traded mid-season, there is so much to do that the emphasis has to be on business, because there's not a lot of time for anything else.
  20. gil4
    That could be going for or against, depending on who is making the call. (That's one step away from knuckleballer on the "normal" scale.)
  21. gil4
    The HoF is definitely worth the detour. As others have mentioned, parking is a pain and the restaurants get crowded. I didn't find it all that expensive, but we didn't stay overnight in town and only had one restaurant meal there, which I don't remember being too outrageous, but then it has been 8 years, so maybe my memory is fading. I would add that if you were to ask the same question about the football HoF in Canton, I'd say "pass" unless it's on your way.
  22. gil4
    The intent was a very lite version of the Chapman deal. Capps was no Chapman (and not a great trade target), and Ramos, while he was a good prospect, doesn't match up to the haul the Evil Empire is getting.
  23. gil4
    Bill Smith did something vaguely similar in overpaying for "proven closer" Matt Capps, so I guess whether or not we can put that on Terry Ryan depends on how tightly we think he held Smith's strings.
  24. gil4
    If they are 22 and struggle for a year at E-Town, it's probably time to play indy ball or go put that degree to good use. Maybe make an exception for a college guy with a good pedigree who's just getting started (although he really should have been in a full-season league to start.) If they are 22 and rake for a month, they need to move up and find some competition, because the clock is definitely ticking and most of their peers are in hi-A or above.
  25. gil4
    Going back 55 years for an example tends to support the opposite point. The age of the prospect and the age of the competition are very important for player evaluation, especially if a young prospect is succeeding against older competition or an older prospect is struggling against young competition. Tearing up the Appy league says something different about a 19-yr-old than it does about a 22-year old. At 19, it says "good prospect." (For Kiriloff, is says SSS, but so far, so good.) At 22, it says "get this guy to an appropriate level of competition so we can find out what we have here." The Twins really didn't do that for Oliva until age 24 in 1963, which is part of the reason he didn't make the majors to stay until he was 25. I think his defense also held him back some, but the MiLB landscape was quite a bit different in the early 60s, and Tony O's path to the majors was unusual enough at the time to make it difficult to use him to make any general statements about prospect evaluation today.
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