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  1. nicksaviking
    I can find a half dozen guys I would gladly remove from the 40-man. These guys are no better than what's floating around on the DFA front and have lower ceilings than the guys waiting to be promoted. You don't lose anything by calling up a guy like Keirsey and seeing him flop because Margot is already a flop. The front office really needs to get over this hang-up.
  2. nicksaviking
    His career caught just the beginning of the era of offensive explosion. Had he started and ended his career a half decade later, he might have been the DH to break the HOF barrier. His OPS really took off in the second half of his career. I always hated that late century Yankee dynasty, but I still was happy to see Davis win. I always thought of him fondly. Kind of like the Dusty Baker situation with the Astros I suppose.
  3. nicksaviking
    I was looking to move the lower ceiling, but still exciting Lee for Miami pitching this past off season, I'm still on board. Maybe you'd still need to, but Festa is the guy I'd look to flip now at what is possibly peak value. I know he's been great, but I don't feel confident in the Twins fixing a starting pitcher with command issues. I don't think this front office has ever done that. Miami has done well with these types of pitchers however.
  4. nicksaviking
    No, fans tend to value the prospects more than teams do and teams value controllable MLB contributors more than fans do.
  5. nicksaviking
    And salary caps going through the roof, this won't in any way be a burden. In two years, Jefferson probably won't even be top 5 in WR salaries. I hope Lamb tries to top it, because Dallas on the other hand CAN'T afford it.
  6. nicksaviking
    I'm not opposed to sending Julien down to catch his breath. I'm opposed to rostering Farmer. And Vazquez. And Margot. This was an easy opportunity to rip off the band aid.
  7. nicksaviking
    So my question is, if the front office deems Julien is the guy to get sent down, how do they deem that Baldelli was justified in batting him leadoff up until a week ago?
  8. nicksaviking
    Fond memories of theses cards. I remember opening a pack before school stoked to find Kirby Puckett. An older kid at school asked check them out to see what I got and the Puckett card mysteriously disappeared. I had (still have) more than one, but I still wonder which federal penitentiary that kid resides at these days.
  9. nicksaviking
    Yeah, there are a handful of relievers that are having issues with inherited runners.
  10. nicksaviking
    For sure, and I'm willing. As to the second part, that's where I'm leery. He's put up great numbers, but that command doesn't seem to have developed. I'm nowhere close to writing him off, far from it, but I'll be holding my breath when he comes up. I'd hate to see 5-6 walks per outing and the fans and the rest of the league recognizes it as an uncurbable wart.
  11. nicksaviking
    This doesn't bother me. Though personally I'd have Lewis up DH'ing if that's what he's doing in St. Paul. He hasn't been a model of health, I'd probably try to squeeze as many MLB plate appearances as I can out of him before we deal with a new issue. If they're going to risk injury, I'd rather not waste that time in AAA. But whatever, this isn't some crime against baseball. The prospects with high draft capital haven't been delayed. The guys with gripes would only be the non-top prospects. I mean there was no reason to keep Julien in Wichita for a full season. Keirsey should obviously be up instead of Margot now and over Stevenson last year, and Camargo probably shouldn't be blocked by a clearly cooked Vazquez. It doesn't seem to be some big systemic conspiracy, but you can find guys most years that the team seemed to unfairly sidetrack for one reason or another. And fairness to the player aside, these sidetracks don't really seem to benefit the MLB W/L ratio in any way.
  12. nicksaviking
    One one hand I'd like to see Festa, but on the other I've still yet to see this team figure out a starting pitcher who has control issues. Despite those issues, I think he has a ton of value. I'm a 'play the young guys' fan, but I think I'd still look to package him with other prospects to replace Paddock with an established good arm. Though I say that really with only eyes toward the Marlins. I guess if they can't pry away Luzardo or Garrett I'm happy to roll the dice with Festa.
  13. nicksaviking
    And three of the four spots all currently go to guys who at their best are average veterans and at their worst (i.e. now, aside from Castro) are unusable, and there's no flexibility to option them. Ideally those three bench bats you listed should be optionable players you can sub out if they can't cut it. The fourth should be an actual good hitter.
  14. nicksaviking
    Agree with Stringer, should be Farmer but it'll be a young guy and Kirilloff seems like the best bet.
  15. nicksaviking
    I loathe the uber-platoon approach mostly because it leads to extremely inefficient and inflexible roster construction. But if they're going to do it, they should be doing it with better RH hitters. It's not like Margot and Farmer are some stud .850 OPS hitters against lefties. They're basically just league average hitters from their strong side. Max Kepler used to be terrible against lefties too, now he's not because he got reps. Let the young left handers get those same reps or they'll only become usable against lefties about the time they hit free agency.
  16. nicksaviking
    Rule changes are free or of minimal cost. So far I haven't seen them willingly make any changes to endure the game that requires them to sacrifice short term dividends. Billionaires are obviously different than corporations. Corporations are loyal to the company; they are the company. It's why the (barf) Green Bay Packers are the only sports team that will never threaten relocation or contraction. Billionaires have multiple companies and investments that they can buy and sell as they please. They can still be loyal to one of their companies, but they can divest whenever they want, so their long term ROI goals have to do with all the parts of their portfolios, not one individual investment. For them, their best long term ROI may very well be to take the short term cash from MLB now and put it in the investment of the future. What is that investment? One Word: Plastics.
  17. nicksaviking
    Everyone needs to cut Lopez a break. He hasn't played for the A's, Pirates, Rockies or White Sox yet. Based off of his experiences, yeah, the Mets are totally the biggest mess in the whole MLB.
  18. nicksaviking
    And for the NFL, 95% of their games are still on the broadcast channels and 5% are on the big streamers lots of folks already have. If MLB tries that approach with these 3rd tier streamers that nobody would ever subscribe to except to watch this ONE thing, they're doomed.
  19. nicksaviking
    That would be great, but as you mention, we're talking about billionaires here and we should expect their top priority to be profit. And with billionaires, money now is infinitely more important to them than money in the future. If they can take the highest sums of money right now and the result is that the league ends up dying, they'll happily take their profits, divest their interests and reinvest in another industry. So far the leaders of the MLB have shown zero long-term ambition to making this game sustainable for future generations. Hopefully there's some backroom game-plan, but I'm doubtful.
  20. nicksaviking
    Yeah, there's possibly some 'the grass is always greener on the other side' syndrome here. The FO is not alone though, I see a lot of demand for specific free agents from the fans and a lot of it seems to be adoration without a close inspection.
  21. nicksaviking
    And based on St. Peter's erroneous claim that blackouts will end, it tells me the Twins were planning on going the MLB TV route too but at the last second Joe Pohlad decided he wanted the bigger bag of money instead.
  22. nicksaviking
    I'm not going to hammer them for trading after thought prospects for a guy who looked like he might pay off, but their evaluations of their internal players seems off. It's really weird, this front office just seems to have no faith in their own fringy prospects even though the fringy ones seem to pay off almost as often as the top prospects do. I mean, this really is no different than going with Margot and Vazquez over Keirsey and Camargo. No idea what is happening but if I had to guess, it would be that they spend too much time looking at the warts and not enough time looking at the ceiling.
  23. nicksaviking
    And you could probably pay Drew Butera 1% of what you pay Vazquez to 'teach' Jeffers these intangibles. And he wouldn't cost a roster spot, you just got to buy him a coaches jersey. Or heck, Pay Tim Laudner to do it and get him off the broadcasts.
  24. nicksaviking
    As seen on MLBTR, the basement dwelling Rockies are yet again keeping their best player. They can't be talked into trading an average player at peak value, who's owed 44M over the next three years? McMahon is a 29-year-old corner bat who in his first seven big league seasons never ONCE had an OPS+ over 100. They should be drooling over the idea of getting young assets and clearing payroll for this guy who is is clearly at the ceiling of his value. I feel bad for Colorado fans. Unlike fans of Pittsburg or Oakland (RIP), this organization doesn't seem like it fails because they are cheap, they fail because they are just so incompetently run.
  25. nicksaviking
    Ryan Jeffers is 27-years-old, pretty sure he should be considered a 'leader' at this point. This team's insistence on stuffing the roster with 'leadership' players keeps costing them wins because by and large, these guys are not good on the field. I don't get it, why do you need 9-10 'leaders' to teach 3-4 guys who are in their early to mid 20s? And where are the coaches in all of this? That is a completely inefficient and backwards educational model. Do the military, school systems and labor industry have it all wrong and the Twins have it right? Doubtful.
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