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  1. nicksaviking
    Did you read the article? Because the tease made it sound as if they would not incur any substantial penalties. I think most teams would consider not being able to top 250k for an individual player quite a sacrafice. Everyone assumed the Cubs and Rangers liked this free agent class so they decided to go all in despite the hinderence next year. I'm just wondering if for some reason there is less of a penalty than we assumed. Again it is behind the paywall.
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    Jim Callis says the Rangers and Cubs will only face minor penalties for exceeding their international spending cap. It sounds like they found some kind of loophole. It's behind BA's paywall, does anyone have any more information about this? The rules seemed pretty clear, they should not be able to spend more than 500K next year. I really hope this is still the case and Callis just thinks the restriction is a minor penalty.
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    No doubt. Although it seems like it should be easier to find 3-4 starters with a reasonable K% than 8 position players with strong defense to compensate for the fact that they have 5 starters who don't. But dang it, playing old school baseball is worth it I guess.
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    Abreu. I'd always take the offense.
  5. nicksaviking
    Anyone can play SS, it just depends on what level of liability a club is willing to endure. There are plenty of shortstops today, who if re-evaluated by the same scouts as Guererro, would likely be told that they aren't a shortstop. I seriously doubt any scouts would say Asdrubal Cabrera or Jed Lowrie were shortstops if re-evaluated. You also have players like Hardy or Jhonny Peralta who appear too big, stiff and slow to play the position. I'd bet good money that if everything was equal, plenty of scouts would say those two are incapable of playing the position.
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    I don't know that Gardy didn't like Hardy, he may have just not liked his approach to hitting, namely grip-it and rip-it to LF. Not surprisingly Hardy did just that on his way to a great season in Baltimore and the following year the Twins had no problem letting Willingham and Plouffe employee Hardy's approach.
  7. nicksaviking
    Well that would surpress our initial optimism. As stated, his age and level hopefully indicates there is more promise in this arm.
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    Also moving the suddenly reliable Morneau could help/tank the scenario. The Twins are only two games up on having the 14th pick, but also only two games up on the 4th seed. MLB has never had the issues of teams tanking like they do in the NBA, but if the "race" is this close come the last week or two of the season, people may have some questions. The arguement that teams may be tanking the last week of the season is also going to have some creedence due to the increased reliance on the draft and the draft slotting process keeping prices lower for top picks.
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    Well to be fair, he was hurt when he was drafted. I was among those not thrilled with the pick, mostly because I was bummed about McCullers going one spot ahead of him (and would have required a large bonus) but there were plenty of other pitchers I wanted a lot more than Bard. Though he was the Twins third overall pick, not much is usually expected from that position.
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    They could then stick Jones in RF which is a pretty big hole. The Pirates RFers are currently OPSing .654.
  11. nicksaviking
    Usually these deals involve the seller eating a large chunk of money. I don't believe any recent trades have not. At the very least, the non-claim will show Ryan, that just like every other team, the Twins too will have to eat some cash to move their declining veterans.
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    But now with better stats! Get yours while supplies last! (always ask your parents permission when ordering online)
  13. nicksaviking
    I agree the Twins don't seem like they'd like to pick up a bunch of salary even though it is currently a sunk cost. They can either pay his salary and get a prospect back or pay his salary and let him walk at the end of the year, gaining nothing but whatever small uptick in attendance is caused by Morneau in the lineup.
  14. nicksaviking
    Reportedly, the deadline for a waiver claim on Morneau is noon today. I too thought it would have been in the Twins best interest to let Parmelee flail away this lost season. There would have been room to evaluate/showcase Morneau also had the Twins just put Doumit on the bench. In my opinion, Doumit has been the cause of the playing time logjam, he always seemed like a great bench bat but an impediment as a starter on a rebuilding team. I wonder if he has been placed on waivers? I'm not sure the protocol for guys on the DL.
  15. nicksaviking
    What are you talking about? Everyone seems pretty happy with this deal. Who's complaining? http://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-talk/8154-predict-return-buterible-3.html
  16. nicksaviking
    Right, I think it shows that many of us that aren't firmly in Ryan's corner do in fact evaluate his work subjectively. I have no issues congratulating him on this move and showing my displeasure with other facets of his management.
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    I'd have to think Melotakis and Bard have just as man question marks as starters. People bring up his stature but I wonder what is causing the concern? I thought we were past the point where hight was a major red flag.
  18. nicksaviking
    The point of waivers is to give the worst teams a chance at possible useful players other teams are casting off. But that's only an effort for reasonable compitition at the MLB level. Waivers is not helpful to sellers at this time of year. To maximize the value, you don't want anyone to claim him so you are free to negotiate with everyone. I don't see any way that waiting to put Morneau on waivers until he gets hot is any kind of advantage for the Twins. As Brock said, it was an oversight. He possibly would have cleared waivers if placed immediately. The Twins could have then waited to trade him when/if he got hot. Edit: I think you may be under the impression that if a player clears waivers, he must be traded immediately. He does not, the Twins can place their whole team on waivers August 1 and wait to trade any that clear at their leisure.
  19. nicksaviking
    The Luis Castillo trade tree has grown a new branch, nice move. Considering his age and production, I'd put him ahead of other pitching prospects Melotakis, Bard, Chargois and Baxendale.
  20. nicksaviking
    And the winner is, this guy: Miguel Sulbaran Minor League Statistics & History - Baseball-Reference.com Ranked #14 among Dodgers prospects. Wow, nice return. I checked this guy out when I was looking through the Dodgers minor league stats but dismissed him as he seemed to be out of Butera's league.
  21. nicksaviking
    Hicks has only two extra base hits in his last ten games, both being doubles. He is getting on base however, with hits in all but two of the games. He has nine strikeouts over that span but only one multi-strikeout game. For the year he is still hitting .295/.359/.474 with 15 HR and 96 RBI.
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    Interesting take. Which heads in particular would his insertion into the rotation cause an explosion, I'm now very intregued?
  24. nicksaviking
    I'll take the better performance, however taking the outlier (Deduno) is a pretty convenient way to swing an arguement in your favor. In almost every situtation, pitchers with more strikeouts are better pitchers and pitchers who show a decrease in strikeouts provide worse performances. You don't really think it is only happenstance that the Twins rotation is the worst at striking people out AND among the worst staffs in the league?
  25. nicksaviking
    Whoa, whoa, whoa, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Just because Andrew Albers can pitch a complete game doesn't mean we should expect six innings from the rest of the staff. A solid five innings Wednesday would still allow him to get two outs his following start if we were deciding 140 was his magic number.
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