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  1. KirbyDome89
    I never said it was evil, I said I don't like it. Matt Moore isn't some fringe guy that hasn't been able to carve out an active roster spot, or a veteran player on the decline. Dumping legit MLB players on the waiver wire to save yourself from paying out the final month of contracts feels exploitative. YMMV but I'd be annoyed if teams chasing me were getting handouts. Some team, for the same cost as a ST flier, is going to scoop him, and potentially use him in a postseason game. If the Twins get him it'll be high fives all around. If he's the lefty out of the pen that's shutting them down, I doubt many people will be thrilled with what the Angels did.
  2. KirbyDome89
    Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I'm not a fan of waiver dumps like this. Anaheim is that idiot in your fantasy league that doesn't set lineups, gets eliminated early, and then unloads their roster because why not. Teams have an entire offseason, plus 4 months during the regular season, to pay for talent. They shouldn't be scooping it up in late August for peanuts.
  3. KirbyDome89
    Yep, they're not going to spend money to spite the Twins after essentially ceding the division a month ago. Hell, I doubt they'd spend the money if they were still in the race.
  4. KirbyDome89
    You made the case that Baltimore is a Cinderella team, soon to get snuffed out, and the Twins, despite qualifying for nearly all your "cute," criteria, and toiling away in the worst division in baseball, are primed to make a run. The Twins might be left standing, but it won't be because MN is suddenly unlocking some hidden talent level and Baltimore is a fraud.
  5. KirbyDome89
    Okay? Guys playing above their talent level, relying on a "formula," post hype prospects, shaky bullpen, unproven, struggles against high level pitching.... None of that also applies to the Twins?
  6. KirbyDome89
    For a team that isn't "cute," they sure do meet a lot of the criteria laid out for being labeled as such....
  7. KirbyDome89
    Run would just be analogous to whatever physical criteria Buxton wasn't meeting to be considered able to play in CF. I think it was also Rocco and the team, well into the season, relaying the message that Buxton was physically unable to be in CF, and I know a lot of the pushback towards clearing the DH/CF logjam by using him in CF centered on his inability to be out there. We could probably chalk this up to s*** PR, because I do think they were trying to save their bullets so to speak.
  8. KirbyDome89
    You aren't participating in either if you're physically unable to run, that's the oddity being pointed out here. The messaging seems to have shifted more than the goals...
  9. KirbyDome89
    He was physically unable to spend even any amount of time in CF to this point. The effort the Twins put in to ensure he never set foot in the OF was comical at times. He adds the wear and tear of 85 games played, people are constantly pointing to the grimacing, labored movement, ect as evidence he's struggling, he finally hits the IL, but now he's no longer dealing with the physical limitations that wouldn't allow him to play defense earlier in the year? Yeah, I think that's odd. I also think there's a very clear difference between incapable and unwilling.
  10. KirbyDome89
    Can I choose neither? Joking.....kinda. Gray vs. Floro/Ortega/Winder is almost two sides of the same coin at this point.
  11. KirbyDome89
    That's not really the question though right? I assume the poster is asking why now? Why after 130 games, while on the IL, are we talking about "ramping up?" If he wasn't healthy enough to play CF in April or May after an entire offseason, the idea that an IL stint this late in the season is some sort of panacea seems odd no?
  12. KirbyDome89
    No, I wouldn't go with a hard cap. Right now I view Ober the same way I view Buxton; they're best used (maxed) when available. I understand some of the concern with his innings, but he's 28 and as you've already pointed out, he has trouble staying on the field. I'm not at all confident he's back to 130+ or even 100+ innings next year no matter what type of management route the team decides to use. If he looks fatigued, or starts to slip that's another story, but by all accounts he's healthy and feeling good, so I think you roll along status quo. Also, I don't want Kuechel and Varland making starts over the next 3 weeks when this 19 game stretch should hopefully wrap the division.
  13. KirbyDome89
    .166/.290/.379 with a 45% K rate since May. Nothing about him has been even close to league average for almost 4 months now. He has provided zero defensive value this year also.
  14. KirbyDome89
    Buxton didn't crack 60 starts in CF in either '21 or '22. Taylor wasn't signed to simply be a 4th OFer, and we all knew that. Uh huh, and I never inferred that either. I asked why an article that claims to make no declarations is also uses Trout as a comp and labels some pretty paltry offensive numbers as productive. He hasn't been an "upside surprise," Taylor is emblematic of the offensive issues that have plagued this team all year, hence the nitpicking.
  15. KirbyDome89
    You lumped him in with Mike Trout. That's a neutral take not intended to shine a favorable light on Taylor? Why call a starting CFer with a .220/.270/.423 slash alongside a 34% K rate and 5.6% BB rate productive by any measure? C'mon....
  16. KirbyDome89
    You're right, it is tiresome that certain fans feel a burning desire to defend a guy who has slashed .171/.292/.397 with a 45% K rate since May. The OPS, which has been spiraling downward since the first few weeks of the season, is entirely HR driven, and those HRs occur way too infrequently, i.e. it's an incredibly poor metric to use if you're going to argue relative value. Gallo was supposed to bounce back, that was the expectation, but he's been the same unplayable guy he was last year. This has already been explained to you, but I guess I'll repeat it, the Twins can (will) walk away from Gallo after this year, and they have/had corner OF prospects, guys who have an actual shot of carving out a future in MN, playing well at AAA. This isn't hard. Gallo is a failed signing, with zero future here, and the team has internal options that can offer the same paltry floor with some actual upside. Correa and Buxton (who have also received plenty of criticism) are under contract for the next 5+ years. Is it possible for the Twins to cut bait and move on like they can with Gallo? No? Mystery solved I guess....
  17. KirbyDome89
    Gallo has been starting games since opening day, we're 75% of the way through the season, and he's amassed 0.6 WAR? Are you actually trying to claim that's some kind of positive? The guy is the definition of replaceable. His overall numbers are atrocious and he has provided no defensive value this season. What we need to stop doing is defending poor play.
  18. KirbyDome89
    .157/.281/.361 with a 46% K rate since May, and that's mostly in "favorable," matchups. There's no law that says you must have a LH hitting 1B. How is swapping in anybody else with a pulse at 1B not considered an upgrade? You don't think Farmer (using your example) could at least post a similarly putrid slash line against RH pitchers and kinda hit LH pitching plus be decent defender? That at least raises your floor, so if you do call up that inexperience AAA bat, and they flop, you're no worse off. There's no rational defense for Gallo's continued presence in the lineup. All we can say is that the FO refuses to move on from him....
  19. KirbyDome89
    Gallo has set the bar so low that it's almost impossible for Williams to be any worse at 1B. Also, there's some potential upside with Williams, i.e. he might be an actual major league caliber player. Ditto for Stevenson and Larnach, although the clock is running out on him. We know what Dobnak is, a AAAA, or maybe even just a AAA pitcher at this point. I don't want to see a guy like that anywhere near the starting rotation, or even the bullpen when there are younger options.
  20. KirbyDome89
    Starting pitching and some of the young position players are the reason this team hasn't cratered. Castro has been a solid utility guy. That isn't saving a season. Taylor is hitting .216 with an atrocious .265 OBP, a 34% K rate, and a career low 5.3% BB rate. He has an 86 OPS+ (not 90) and he has posted 1.2 WAR 116 games into the season as the everyday CF'er. C'mon...
  21. KirbyDome89
    "Only once you've opened your third eye will you be able to understand the "fact," that throwing in the towel this season and not extending a relatively affordable player in Josh Naylor is the key to winning 90+ games." - MLR
  22. KirbyDome89
    Hallelujah! Took a minute but we got there right? You immediately jumped to "here's how many 90 win seasons they have," in defense of cheap ownership selling at .5 games back in the most winnable division in baseball.... You threw out WAR in vs. out with no parameters other than a floor from which you're counting. That doesn't really tell us anything, i.e. you could acquire an army of 1.5 WAR players with 4+ years of team control and and win the WAR battle vs. a shipping out one or two years of a 3+ WAR player, but that doesn't mean your team is better off.
  23. KirbyDome89
    I do. I think even a really flawed team can find a way to go 13-9 or better during a 20ish game stretch. That doesn't mean I think it's at all likely.
  24. KirbyDome89
    I also read it as preaching patience for the current FO as well, maybe it wasn't. I can chop 3 IF singles, go 3-4, score a couple runs, and the team wins. Goal accomplished, we picked up the W. Can I rely on that outcome night after night? Unless you can convince me this FO has a crystal ball that perfectly, and consistently, predicts how to build flawed rosters that can eek out a division title and then go on lengthy playoff runs I'm out. Honestly. I hope they do win the WS. I also can't overlook some of the obvious failures when it comes to building a team. I think the process should consistently yield better results than a barely above .500 club clinging to a small lead in an atrocious division, during a stretch where they're trying to win. Is that goal really a radical departure?
  25. KirbyDome89
    I'm aware of what WAR measures. You introduced team wins as your metric for determining the success of moving established MLB talent for prospects. What I'm asking you is whether or not Cleveland's success is attributable entirely to those moves. You haven't answered that. You spit out a WAR comp between MLB players and their prospect counterparts without any parameters other than a floor and then ranted about how you "know the facts." Are they winning because they move players, or is that merely part of it? I vote the latter. All this supposed data and knowledge yet no FO has scooped you up yet. Their loss right?
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