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  1. KirbyDome89
    Just moving on from Simmons and allocating those ABs and defensive innings elsewhere would've been a win. If a team was willing to pay any part of what was left on his deal, it should've been a no brainer. I don't see the insult.
  2. KirbyDome89
    So take the Powerball ticket and sign him as a FA? It's nowhere near the top 5 as far as mistakes go, but the rationale that the team needed to maintain respectability was pretty laughable.
  3. KirbyDome89
    Tell me this wasn't another "he's a leader/vet and we need to maintain respectability," decision, a la Pineda.
  4. KirbyDome89
    You can argue that the Sox are a good team without needing to prop up the AL Central. It was the ONLY division in baseball to have every team other than the winner finish under .500. The Central is hands down the least competitive division in the AL, and very likely in all of baseball. The Twins lost 89 games, KC 88, and Detroit 85; drawing the line at 90 seems a little too arbitrary.
  5. KirbyDome89
    Cron was essentially a league average hitter who provided no defensive value in '19. Why would the Twins commit to him at 1B beyond that year? Kepler, Arraez, and Kirilloff are all better than that.
  6. KirbyDome89
    Sure, if they're out on him based on medicals then cut bait. If that was the case though Idk why he wouldn't have been included with the other 6. To me, the fact that he was a separate transaction suggests they preferred to retain him. I think there was a better time to make the move in that case. I could be wrong.
  7. KirbyDome89
    Feature this statement in every thread that pertains to pitching from now until Opening Day.
  8. KirbyDome89
    If they wanted the best shot at keeping him it does right? If they're done with him, ok, but then the timing of it still seems odd.
  9. KirbyDome89
    In general I'd love to see a regional reshuffling or elimination of divisions, and a more balanced schedule, but that's another topic altogether. If divisions are the ticket to postseason play, and that design is being subverted, maybe it's time to rethink it. From there, take the top 4 teams and play a 7 game ALDS and ALCS. I'm willing to go different ways with formatting and series length + number of teams but I definitely skew away from a single game elimination after playing 162 regular season games.
  10. KirbyDome89
    Kind of my point. Fair Not making a fuss, rather an observation. I don't think a 1 game WC is the most pressing issue with the sport either, but I also don't view it as great for the game long term, a la other decisions MLB has made.
  11. KirbyDome89
    Sure, but those tiebreakers are between two teams who actually tied, not teams that finished 16 games apart. It's not at the dilution point of the NBA or NHL, but I don't think there's really a regular season comp for MLB either. We agree about what the postseason is at this point.
  12. KirbyDome89
    100%. I don't know if there's necessarily a good rationale for the timing, even if the second procedure is a concern.
  13. KirbyDome89
    Me neither but those 10 teams likely don't have the 40 man room that many of the teams who missed the postseason do. He only made it by 2 teams before TX took him right?
  14. KirbyDome89
    Agreed, but then at least give me a series and try to be a little representative of what the regular season is. A 1 game WC is akin to deciding extra innings with a HR derby.
  15. KirbyDome89
    That excitement or lack thereof can just as easily occur without a 1 game WC. I'm with you on wanting regular season games to matter, I just don't see watering down the postseason as the best way to do that.
  16. KirbyDome89
    I'd take 1.5 months of an NL West race being for seeding purposes only, rather than reducing 106 wins down to a play-in game against a team that finished 16 games behind that pace. Admittedly it was a great game, but it detracts further from a regular season that's already hurting. If the Twins went 106-56 and were knocked out in a single game, would we celebrate the excitement, or would we lament the fact that a team with a record 16 games worse than our own was able to erase any chance of a WS appearance with 4-5 good innings from a starter and half a bullpen game?
  17. KirbyDome89
    Anybody else find it absolutely ridiculous that a 106 win team has to play a 1 game WC just to get into an actual playoff series?
  18. KirbyDome89
    They'd have to be absolutely certain of the former. I don't know why they couldn't clear a 40 man spot at the end of the month and wait until the offseason is in swing to actually make this decision. Hopefully it's a sign there's massive change coming via FA & trades and a lot of space needs to be available....
  19. KirbyDome89
    Agreed, but do you expect him to consistently OPS .800 against major league pitching?
  20. KirbyDome89
    Because you're trading a known commodity from a position of relative scarcity for hope? Unquestionably Pressly would've been more valuable to a team that saw itself as a contender the last three years. We're using some narrow samples to project "good," onto these guys.
  21. KirbyDome89
    Fangraphs has him as average at best at 2B and below average at 3B. Defensive metrics can be noisy so I guess there's that. I'm all for having the best defensive alignments, but I think you can do that while also rotating Arraez, Donaldson, ect through the DH spot in a 162 game season.
  22. KirbyDome89
    Do we really need to expect an Ortiz-esque second half of his career to justify paying him to stay? The most extreme example doesn't need to be the measuring stick.
  23. KirbyDome89
    His best asset is his contact skill and ability to get on base, not his ability to play multiple positions at a slightly below average clip. I agree that .5 WAR from a DH isn't what you'd traditionally want, but in this lineup the Twins don't need a "masher," at the DH position. Arraez as a part time DH, which was the argument, is the best way to utilize the position for the Twins.
  24. KirbyDome89
    (1) Player A blows through signing bonus ⇢(2) Player A experiences financial hardship subsisting on MiLB base pay ⇢ (3) The financial situation of many players is the same ⇢ (4) Financial struggles by MiLB players must be due to a lack of money management Going from 2 to 3 is a leap, and one we know isn't true. I don't view 4.5 months of part time work trying to supplement a criminally low income as a vacation. You introduced the minimum livable wage number as an acceptable income, but now it's just a guess? The goalposts are really starting to move here; we've gone from "the bare minimum income for meeting basic needs and self sufficiency isn't living check to check," to "nobody is guaranteed freedom from living check to check."
  25. KirbyDome89
    Not even remotely close to what I said. The problem is the leap(s) in logic you're using to arrive at the conclusion. You aren't addressing your original argument, or my critique of it; you're sidetracking with straw man statements. Holding up a number, described as the minimum amount necessary to survive, and explaining what players need to do in the 4.5 months they're not playing just to reach that number, while subsequently denying that MiLB players live check to check. Smh, you're making my argument for me...
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