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  1. nicksaviking
    I'm not a big fan of grabbing local guys just because they're local guys as they seem to get a longer rope. There has to be a few dozen arms just like him they could speculate on without having to wait on the Dodgers to release him.
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    The Royals gave a 3 year deal to a 34-year-old pitcher who has had one season as a starter in the last seven years and an average at best relief pitcher. KC looks more like a black hole than a circle. I'd have rather stood pat with what the Twins have than sign guys just to sign guys. And I don't think the Twins will stand pat.
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    I mean, yeah on Gurriel, but trading away the farm for a reliever is a bad idea when this team needs to use that equity to get a top end starter still.
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    I'm interested in trading Kepler, but not for a guy who can't hit. The Twins biggest problem last year, heck, most years is consistent offense, and even if Kepler is removed from the roster, the Twins just don't have enough room to add another glove first player. If Kepler or Polanco are traded, it needs to be for pitching, and the Twins need to fill in the few remaining offensive spots on the 26-man with a good hitter.
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    I haven't been interested in free agent pitching, as I'd rather trade for young controllable arms that aren't yet past their primes, but this is an interesting one. He's still an elite pitcher, even when factoring in the ten or so starts he'll miss. There are only three free agent bats that interest me, I suppose if the Twins don't go after any of them, Kershaw would be a fun free agent to land.
  6. nicksaviking
    Good. Go into every game with the intent to win, not the intent to hopefully hang in there. I know when you have a questionable rotation, the urge is to get 'depth' to hopefully have pitchers you can just run out there every fifth day, or in an emergency, but if you're running out guys who have a blow 90 ERA+, your odds of winning are low anyway.
  7. nicksaviking
    Three World Series since 2010? Seems like plenty of teams are in line for some good luck over them.
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    You can share the intel but not screen print or copy/past their material.
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    I'm guessing the ones that don't vote for 10 now know better than to release their ballots. Those vote totals all look high. History says that Beltre won't get 100% because lots of voters demand the player is Ted Williams or Babe Ruth to vote him in on the first ballot. Helton likely gets in, but I doubt he is anywhere near 90% either. Better players in Bonds and Clemmons couldn't reach 70% just last year on their final ballot and Sheffield only had 40% last year. I'd say his percentage looks to be least 20% high at the moment.
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    We have next to no idea how much the top revenue teams are making, but based on their willingness for the big contracts and their willingness to build their own stadiums, we can be assured it is exponentially higher than the bottom clubs. You can reduce the gap if you average the revenue of all the clubs, legitimately, not what they claim, find the mid point and set the floor and ceiling 10-15M or so on each side. Or to make it more fair to the players, set the floor at the midpoint and allow teams to spend 30-40M more. I have no idea if that's 210M, It's probably much, much higher. If the Dallas Cowboys and Buffalo Bills can do it, and the LA Lakers and OK City Thunder can do it, the Yankees and Pirates can do it too.
  11. nicksaviking
    How are Festa and Raya better bets than the Marlins and Mariners pitchers? Most of those guys are still under contract for 4-5 more years. Corbin Burnes is pretty much the only pitcher I've seen mentioned on this board that's under contract for less than 2 years.
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    I also eat and drink at the three dozen or so restaurants and breweries near the stadium before and/or after. Way better food and drinks at those places anyway. Pretty sure I haven't bought more than a hot dog at Target Field in the last four years.
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    Agree that there needs to be a hard salary cap along with a hard salary floor. But the owners need to step up and make it in the players best interest too, I'm in no mood for them to bust a union. I'm sure the players would at least come to the table if the offer was a 200-220M floor. The billionaires should be making a far greater sacrifice than the millionaires; that being across the board revenue sharing. And if the big shot owners are not willing, there are way more 'have-nots' than 'haves'. The have-nots can go right ahead and kick the Yankees and Dodgers out of the league if they're not willing to make the game equitable.
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    I'm not mad at the Dodgers, I'm just jealous. Makes me like Ohtani a whole lot more too, clearly his time wasted in Anaheim caused him to do everything he can to get a ring. Good for the Royals too. For about 30 years, they've almost always been a bottom feeder in terms of signing free agents. Still, ain't a pitcher listed that they're interested in that I want.
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    Midseason trades are done out of desperation though, while offseason trades are done out of optimism. Comparing this front office's success in trades during these time frames, it seems clear that they need to do this in the offseason.
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    What free agent pitching? Almost all the available arms are back of the rotation types. If this team pushes Joe Ryan to the #2 starter role instead of trading for one, I'm going to be very disappointed. Only way to replace Sonny Gray is to trade for a new pitcher.
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    I think the wins against the Saints and Falcons and then the last two games were all a bit of a fluke in opposite directions. Dobbs was able to move around when the way-past-their-primes Cam Jordan and Calais Campbell were at LDE. Then Brian O'Niell got completely obliterated by Montez Sweat and Maxx Crosby. I mean, it's on Dobbs and the Vikings if rolling out to the ball side is your only play, but if you have an elite player who can bring down the QB and contain him, it's all the easier. I think had the Vikings thought for a second about their upcoming matchups, they would have found the results to be more predictable.
  18. nicksaviking
    I don't see a team taking both, BUT should anyone bite, Polanco AND Kepler and prospects for a top end starter would be great. The Twins would then likely still have the budget to sign a Rhys Hoskins or Justin Turner along with Lourdes Gurriel.
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    Yeah, maybe. And I'm still interested. I offer Polanco/Kepler + prospects to both the Marlins and Mariners first, but if they don't value the vets at all, I'm still willing to work out a deal.
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    Assuming people are looking at the Mariners four 26 and under starters, my order of preference would be Kirby and Woo than Gilbert and Miller. Woo's top-end ability to miss bats probably provides more upside than all of the others.
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    I think this is where everyone is getting lost. They have about 15M to spend in free agency. Less than normal, but they have fewer holes to fill than normal. If they lose Kepler, they'd have 25M, Polanco, 35M and Farmer, 41M. That's overkill, there's only a couple of logical spots to fill in free agency. And it absolutely shouldn't be a back end starter, they need better than that, which means starting pitching needs to come via trade, as is typically the case with this club. What free agent are people bemoaning not being able to get? Yamamoto and Bellinger were never coming here, but if they desperately wanted them, they could even fit them into the payroll and still meet their lower goal.
  22. nicksaviking
    We're still doing that bit after signing Correa and Donaldson? I know everyone is taking up the announced lower payroll as a weapon to bash in the front office's brains in again, but they still have money to spend. It's not enough for a #2 starter, which will have to be via trade if they want one. So they would either have to be throwing money at a #5 starter, which I'd hope they've learned to avoid doing by now, or it will have to be a 1B or OF. Hoskins seems like one of the very few logical targets for this team, unless they actually go 20M or so less in payroll than they already indicated they'd go.
  23. nicksaviking
    Even though the Vikings COULD pluck him from the practice squad, Flacco knows he’s the starting QB for a team similar to the Vikings. He’d be foolish to pass on the bird in the hand.
  24. nicksaviking
    Based on the score, not sure he needed to be there.
  25. nicksaviking
    Unfortunately for Ryan, when his contract is up, he’ll be 32, and likely at the end of his useful pitching days. And as much as I like Duran, you can’t give a reliever 7 years. He might make More sense for one of those cost certainty deals that doesn’t buy out free agency year, or maybe ONE option year, not three. I wouldn’t say no to Lewis or Julien, but Jeffers is closest to free agency and might be the best bargain.
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