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  1. nicksaviking
    Morris might have been one of the last of these kinds of starters I moved to relief, but I've been in favor of this all winter. I think this move would have worked out better if they'd done it during spring camp where he could focus and learn the nuances of his new role instead of stretching him out, but I do like this bad-news/good-news dynamic. Sorry, we're moving you to the pen, BUT you're finally getting promoted to the show. Hopefully it works out as well as it did for Jhoan Duran and Taylor Rogers. I hope at minimum they get two more of these guys in the pen from St. Paul by midseason.
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    I’d like to trade down two spots with the Cowboys. Because right before the Steelers seems like the spot some dumb team might trade up for Ty Simpson. If you could get the Jets or Browns 2027 1st…….
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    As fans of the sport, we should want MLB to appeal to all of the country’s best athletes. Instead, due to horrible brand promotion and poor accessibility mostly due to no push by the league for communities to continue cheap municipal run leagues instead of expensive club leagues, MLB has voluntarily given up a huge pool of talent to other sports. You absolutely should give a damn about diversity. Giving everyone the same access now sets up the league, businesses, schools and society as a whole, the broadest talent pool in the next generations.
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    Infield hit after pretending to blow out your ACL? Baller move.
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    Claimed and DFA'd three times? You sound like the Orioles.
  6. nicksaviking
    Anyway, back to the Hope-o-Meter. The Twins beat Tarik Skubal yesterday. We get a couple percentage points back for that?
  7. nicksaviking
    Odorizzi is bad now? In the trade, the Twins only took on his final arbitration years, the final of which he was the best starter on a 100 win team. Any team that's unwilling to pay arbitration to a mid-rotation starter could only count a trade a win in terms of saving the owner money.
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    Keep it up Taj, make this fool eat his words.
  9. nicksaviking
    The Reds have DFA'd Christian Encarnacion-Strand. The Twins are now free to (half) remedy one this site's most mourned trades. As a right handed first baseman, he could really give Kody Clemens a run for his money in the On Base Percentage department. Seriously, not serious.
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    ****Moderator note***** Some tangent posts have been removed, back on topic please.
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    I took the bait and looked at your map. Every pro baseball team in the nation is in red. Strange that even stadiums like in Milwaukee and Kansas City are in red considering they are all alone in a sea of pavement and nothing else around it. Almost like pro stadiums draw enough people that the fans themselves are causing the crime that is skewing the data? Can't be, but from your same link, here's a 'Violent Crime' breakdown of the North Loop: 80% of the violent crime is assault and the rest is nearly negligible? Surely it's a coincidence that professional sports stadiums ALSO report a high number of assaults due to intoxication and heated fan arguments. Could it be that it's the STADIUMS and the million plus entitled fans they draw each year that are actually bringing the crime to the neighborhood, and it's not the NEIGHBORHOOD that brings the crime to the stadium? Anyway, can't move the team to Charlotte or Nashville. Or even Omaha or Des Moines. And if you wanted to stay in market, you also wouldn't be able to move the team to downtown Duluth, Rochester, Sioux Falls or Fargo. Sorry for the tone, but this propaganda has all gone too far. I know the propaganda isn't being created by average folks like us, but it is absolutely being digested and disseminated by average folks like us; we're doing the bad guys bidding by doing so.
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    He didn't exactly answer the Clemens comp because OBP history alone should make Roden the preferred choice.
  13. nicksaviking
    For sure, but by then most fans will have stopped watching. And getting fans to watch was very clearly the goal of this organization this offseason. And like usual, they absolutely bungled it.
  14. nicksaviking
    I'm really tempted to go with the Last Word fallacy, but alas, I am unable to lock Ash's blog entries.
  15. nicksaviking
    I think Gabriel Gonzalez is the one they are eyeing for the switch. Looks like he did get one game at 1B in St. Paul so far. I'm more than fine if they move on from both Wageman and Sabato.
  16. nicksaviking
    Taking starting pitchers who threw 94 MPH and adding 3 MPH to their velocity in relief used to be this team's specialty. Now they aren't even bothering with that route; they're just trading for low-end and signing DFA'd relievers who are already throwing it as hard as they can. I seriously can't understand what this organization is thinking. There were a lot of things that weren't working the last half decade for this club, but why did the stop doing the things that WERE working?
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    I hope it works out; Ober has been a great story for the Twins. But we've seen the low velocity guys work in short bursts before, however, it's usually not long before the league catches up to what's going on and adjusts accordingly.
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    I agree, and in the past, I don't think a lot of good Twins teams had a specific identity, most just had good young players that had good skill sets that balanced each other out. Good starters, good bullpen. The lineup had a mix of power, average, speed and decent defense but rarely did the individual players possess all of those traits. Those are just well rounded teams, that's not exactly an identity. The identity fans crave, is the actual identity of the players. Casual fans don't want to look at a roster and not recognize 70% of the names. And that's what this team has been doing for three years now. They need to stop signing stop-gap free agents, and they absolutely need to stop cycling through AAAA players constantly. Not just in season but off season too. We should be able to look at the roster and say that most of these guys are going to be here for the majority of their rookie contracts. Instead the team is intent on finding a dozen diamond in the rough late blooming 28-year-olds other teams have given up on. The odds that ONE of those types of players will be here long term is extremely unlikely yet this team is banking on a half dozen of them doing it. So maybe there is an identity to this team, and that's a roster full of Powerball tickets?
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    Yeah, one of those project players that sounds fun but you know will almost certainly never make it since he likely doesn't have enough experience. The tip off that this is a novelty is that not only did the post not list a position for this young man, it didn't even bother listing his name. Going to an actual source, his name is Uar Bernard apparently. Never played in pads before. But he's from a small Nigerian village. Hope he gets drafted because even Mr. Irrelevant gets 4M. That's still life changing money. But, while unlikely, it's not impossible. This is how Jordan Mailata got into the league.
  20. nicksaviking
    It would be great if Gray keeps producing. But, call me cynical, I’ll likely always bet against a breakout age 30 season. If he’s still playing well if/when the Twins start selling, I’m guessing moving him will be a regular talking point here.
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    I think it should be pointed out that while the Twins have lots of players with less than 3 years of experience, most of them are already pushing 30. Or beyond it. Thats obviously different than running with a roster full of young players you are hoping will be your long term core.
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    Forgot about that option, but I’m also good with it.
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    That’s why I’m not including John Moses. Wouldn’t be fair to Bell and Santana.
  24. nicksaviking
    I have it on the radio, can anyone tell me if TV happened to catch a glimpse of Brooks Lee after the Gray grand slam?
  25. nicksaviking
    Pffft. Not even close.
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