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  1. nicksaviking
    I don't think the front office did this to send a message. But the only reason the front office would have put Nick Gordon on the 26-man roster was because he was out of options, they didn't know what to do with him and they were scared to lose him. And that's a bad reason to keep a guy. So, for my sports team, if I had to chose between a vindictive leader or a frightened and indecisive leader, I'd go with the vindictive one. But again, I think it was neither.
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    I'm not saying the incentive hasn't worked, but really, it sounds pretty ridiculous. MLBPA: You owners have to start letting the rookies who are ready onto the 26-man rosters on opening day. Owners: But then the players will get an extra year of service time and we'll have to pay them more, sooner. MLBPA: What if we give you extra draft picks as a carrot? Owners: High draft picks? That we will have to pay about 3M, IN ADDITION to the rookie who's now going to cost more money? MLBPA: Yes. Owners; Deal.
  3. nicksaviking
    Still, this is the first time a team has gone back to back in 20 years. Even Brady let another team win it every other year back in the day too.
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    I really don't think it's asking too much of a "contending" team to add to the top of the rotation to push the other good pitchers down in the order, instead of adding to the back of the rotation to push them up. If money's an issue you can do it via trade. The best teams in the league add to their rotations this way. This team has done it this way.
  5. nicksaviking
    30+% K rate? Heck no, run far, far away. That’s poison to this current roster makeup.
  6. nicksaviking
    I hope not. Unless they're also trading Kepler. They won't be signing or trading for a GOOD right handed outfield bat, they'd only be getting one as a 4th OF. This team can't suffer more roster filler or just like last year they'll end up throwing games away early in the year while they let the aging vet bats stink up the joint while the more talented players are being wasted in St. Paul.
  7. nicksaviking
    Keep the phone lines open with Miami, but good move. Gordon was redundant and I like this guy better than the other guys picked up this offseason. But that puts 15 relievers on the 40 man. Only 18 bats. That seems like a bad ratio. Weiss seems the easiest to remove by far, but don't do it for another roster filler hitter.
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    Manfred and the owners have been terrible stewards of the game for awhile now, but I'll give them credit for cracking down on awful practices such as this. John Coppella got a life time ban for the criminal international draft signing circumvention five years ago, but this has got to amount to the same punishment for a lesser crime. I can't imagine any team will touch Eppler now.
  9. nicksaviking
    If the Twins couldn't reasonably estimate their TV deal within 25M, they need new leadership on the operations side of management. They don't have 3 spots to fill unless sending down Willi Castro, Royce Lewis or Edouard Julien is in their plans. One pitcher, maybe one bat, but only if they trade a vet. I still want a Marlins pitcher, but I'll say this while also drawing eye rolls; they do seem to be short about what it will likely take to sign Jordan Montgomery, and this franchise does love to make all of us fans with the pitchforks look bad about this time of year.
  10. nicksaviking
    Saw one mock draft with him going as the QB3. And there's going to be more of that most likely. With either him of Nix I'd guess, they'll likely test well athletically.
  11. nicksaviking
    Clearly no one likes to see the strikeouts, but it doesn't seem to be a huge deterrent to many young players or the prospect wonks who rank them. His age 20 season is basically the same as last year's #1 prospect Gunnar Henderson. Except, better considering how much more E-Rod gets on base and that he was significantly better at high A ball than Henderson
  12. nicksaviking
    That might just be the stadium footprint they are talking about along with whatever redevelopment they want to add. Just using a map tool I have, the lot that Tropicana is on is 4x larger than the footprint of Target Field. Even if they keep the hotel and just demo some of the mall and convention spots, half of that lot is just pavement so I'm guessing engineering a retractable roof won't be beyond a handful of bright minds. No way they're doing a fully out door stadium with that heat.
  13. nicksaviking
    The Tropicana site is more than big enough for a modern urban setting stadium. And there are dozens of unused parking ramps on the East side of the strip because nobody drives there anymore; LV has direct flights to just about every big, medium and even small hubs in the country now. However, I agree with the rest. Like most of MLB's decisions as of late, this is really short sighted. Unless the ultimate secret goal is for this to be a short term money grab knowing that once again, there will need to be a team to relocate in the next decade. MLB has gotten so many new stadiums done this century just by having one or two teams as a threat to relocate. Certainly they'll always want at least one of those in their pocket.
  14. nicksaviking
    Not in July and August when it's 110 degrees. And while plenty of football and hockey fans like to make a weekend of it and go out to watch a game in Vegas during the cold months, few people will be planning a baseball trip in July to roast in hell. And the Raiders have NO local fans, the entire stadium is filled with fans of the opposing teams. No way the A's will be filling that stadium with 30K out of towners three times a week. After the novelty wears off in half a decade, that stadium will be deader than the one in Oakland. Nashville A's come 2040. And also: Oakland looking at minor league ballparks for a temporary home What's the big deal? Aren't they a minor league team? Really disappointed the board didn't pounce on that teed up cheap shot.
  15. nicksaviking
    Could be scouting or that these teams really hammer on a certain trait these young guys have in common. Could be that they are more comfortable with giving young guys a bigger workload. It's also largely teams that aren't afraid to spend on pitching in free agency, and calling these guys up before they are 23 does leave the team open to having them walk while they're still in their primes.
  16. nicksaviking
    I see some interesting things doing a Fangraphs age search on pitchers. 31 pitchers have debuted at age 21 or younger since 2010. Yeah, no Twins, no one's surprised. However, while there were six teams with one such pitcher, there were eight teams with multiple pitchers. And five of those teams did it THREE times. Atlanta, Houston, LAA, St. Louis and Toronto accounted for nearly half of all pitchers called up at the age of 21 or younger. So 16 teams haven't done it at all, this does clearly seem to be organizational prerogative, no way these numbers are a coincidence.
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    That was a fun read. And boy, I bet that took a looooong time to research.
  18. nicksaviking
    Yeah, that's not the plan that I want, but whatever the plan is, I want it to be in place ASAP. So much of the past few off seasons have seemed to be ad libbed. Cousins is one of the top free agents though, and unlike the MLB, the best NFL free agents seem to have deals in place as soon as free agency opens, so more likely than not, even if the Vikings instinct is to be wishy-washy, he'll force them to be decisive. I hope Jefferson starts forcing them to be decisive too.
  19. nicksaviking
    LaRussa wasn't there last year though. He was there during Cease's one excellent season in 2022. And Cease only threw 13 more innings with LaRussa while giving up half as many runs, so those fewer innings last year were almost certainly due to ineffectiveness and not due to protecting him.
  20. nicksaviking
    I'd like to see Lee's power numbers and more importantly his OBP improve in the high minors. If it does, I'll reconsider my ceiling evaluation. Unless he's playing for the Marlins, then I'd rather not see anything I might regret.
  21. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I get it, and I'm sure that's how these rankings will fall. I'm all over the highest ceiling guys at the moment. The team has so many options in AA and AAA and the majors that high floors aren't as enticing to me this year.
  22. nicksaviking
    I'm with you. My only caveat is if his workload has increased enough that the Twins get him once he starts to tire out at the end of the year. Which I wouldn't penalize him for, but might mean he's not actually one of the best 13 pitchers at that particular moment.
  23. nicksaviking
    I'm happy to have many of the other pitchers in the system, but Raya is far and away the only one I'm stoked to see. He'd be my #3 prospect right now, and if the Twins let him start going more than 4 innings this year, E-Rod is going to have a hard time holding him off for my #2 spot.
  24. nicksaviking
    Colin Coward theorized the Vikings should trade Jefferson to the Patriots for pick #3. And two first round picks. That is the Vikings should trade Jefferson AND two first round picks for #3. What a delusional moron, it would obviously be Jefferson that would require additional firsts should the Vikings move him. Which they shouldn't.
  25. nicksaviking
    PFT interviewed Justin Jefferson. They seem to think the Vikings in-house rule about the offset language is holding up a contract: https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/justin-jefferson-remains-patient-for-a-new-deal-but-will-his-patience-with-the-vikings-run-out I kind of thought they were done with that when they guaranteed Cousins entire contract, but I guess they made a one time exception for Cousins but won't for one of the best players in the league? It really seems like the front office has dropped the ball on this already. Not extending him last year was a huge mistake. If I'm Jefferson and the team bungles the QB situation, which is wholly possible no matter which path they take, I'd probably strongly consider going Tyreek Hill on the team and make them trade me. Which would likely occur after this draft, which means no immediate help with whatever he brings back in return.
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