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  1. nicksaviking
    I highly doubt any team is going to view Diaz as a middle infield candidate. How many teams even carry a bench player who is strictly confined to playing 1B anymore? Let alone a guy who certainly can't hit MLB pitching. No one cares about first base anymore. You can get a half dozen guys who can post a .750 OPS for a couple million bucks each year in free agency. It has become an afterthought of a position; these days the Rule V is mostly made up of pitchers with a handful of defensive minded middle infielders and toolsy outfielders.
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    Particularly considering how affordable veteran corner bats are these days.
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    I'd kind of hate to lose Bard, I started to really like his numbers last year. But frankly, there doesn't look to be a big need for consternation this year. For a team that made the playoffs there looks to be a whole lot of players on the 40-man who should be removed regardless of the Rule V needs.
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    I agree. On the other hand if it was the White Sox in that situation and they had a tempting 60-day DLer..... we'll screw 'em!
  5. nicksaviking
    I like Polanco, and he started to show some pop too, but I'm willing to package some of the middle infield depth to get a good pitcher. I wouldn't be in favor of trading JUST Polanco (or Gordon, or Escobar, or Javier etc.) because I have no interest in the kind of pitchers a singular player on the Twins end would return, but I'm open to moving any of them in a package for someone with +potential.
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    The guy who was pitching the best since the trade deadline, who was keeping the ball on the ground and striking guys out as opposed to the aging vet who's wheels were clearly falling off, extremely HR prone against a HR happy team in a HR happy park and who was coasting along based on a reputation gained from success found only in the early months and which every statistic showed and later proved was unsustainable? Yeah, yeah.
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    He should have been starting game 163 at Yankee Stadium. He was the team's best starter the last two months.
  8. nicksaviking
    All three 1B finalists are free agents. If I was a conspiracy nut I'd think the MLBPA gave the BBWA recommendations of who to choose to try to help inflate the importance of a position that in recent years has seen a decrease in value and pay due to it's perception of being minimally important in this new era of focusing on defense. Good thing I'm not a conspiracy nut! But good news for those of you that are, Mauer is a lock for the award next year!
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    Maybe I read the tea leaves wrong, but I assumed when the Twins hired Falvey the idea was to do what Cleveland did; identify and procure a young stable of arms before they hit their peak and every other team wanted them.
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    If you wait and he improves next year as much as he improved this year it's going to be more than double the projected cost. Seth's two free agent years are basically 2/$20M. That's what you pay #4 starters these days, the Twins are already used to eating money for far inferior pitchers.
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    I can't imagine Kintzler or Belisle get big bucks though this year. I want velocity and I want strikeouts. I want free agents that can offer those things, otherwise I'd rather go with the young guys who can.
  12. nicksaviking
    Agree. It's more important for the acquisitions to be smart and projective then "safe" and presumptuous. You're bringing a guy to a new team in a new ballpark with new coaches and a new atmosphere. Don't expect the same results.
  13. nicksaviking
    I think this team needs to do better than shooting for another Santana, and in my view Lynn, an NL lifer with middling strikeout numbers isn't as good as Santana. The problem with these second or third tier starters like Lynn, Cobb, Santana, Nolasco, Pelfrey and Hughes is that they've had just enough success to get rewarded with a multi-year big-time deal so they're going to stick with what they know and what got them there; they aren't going to get better, you just have to pray they don't get worse. You want to get a guy who has the ability to lead a staff but Darvish won't come near Minnesota? Buy or trade for the guys who at one time had promise but who have recently struggled yet still have good stuff. The guys who find success after having had their teeth kicked in yet had too much pride not to keep pushing or to try another approach are the guys who make the difference for clubs who can't get the big names.
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    That might just end up being the hand we're dealt. The free agent crop is terrible outside of one pitcher all 30 teams want. I hope there are trades available, but we'll never really know who's actually for sale. I'm not at all being a defeatist particularly after seeing this team make the post season this year, but I don't want cosmetic fixes now just so some one can pretend and act like they tried.
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    I'd like a front line guy but is there one in free agency aside from Darvish?
  16. nicksaviking
    How's the baseball temperature in Portland Mike? Portland bumping Colorado for the eighth slot in the west looks to be screwing all the realignment attempts. Sorry to stereotype, but are all those young hipsters really into baseball?
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    Except for the Twins who lose the game revenue and have way more travel. That's a recipe for having the lowest payroll in baseball.
  18. nicksaviking
    How about Vancouver instead? Then you'd get your Pacific Northwest team and your Canadian team all in one package. Then you can do whatever is the biggest market lacking a team. But I vote no on all of this business. I'm not against change, but I am against my team getting shafted and nothing in this proposal looks beneficial to the Twins. Is rather go the relocation route as sad as I'd feel for some of those fans.
  19. nicksaviking
    I think it's just the fact that almost everyone (except Mauer and Kepler?) have changed their swing plane. So many guys have made a concerted effort to lift the ball. Batting averages are down and strikeouts are up meaning the batters are willing to give up outs for the increased power. Just like making sure to get the free out on a sac bunt, the other team has to take advantage.
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    Homerun totals have increased by 20% since 2015 and it sure didn't look like a one year fad.
  21. nicksaviking
    There were plenty of us saying that Santana had no business taking the mound in Yankee stadium for the WC game well before it took place. It's a different game, the Yankees and the Astros are going to get their HR, it's pretty unavoidable, so you have to take the free unproductive outs that they're willing to sacrifice to get their bombs. Maybe there was a day when a rotation full of Santana's could hold their own and win a playoff series if they were lucky, but that day is not today. I don't know how anyone could watch baseball this year and not see that. The top eight teams by K% all made the playoffs and the other four AL playoff teams were all top five. It's an arms race and the Twins are way behind. They need high upside, not high floor.
  22. nicksaviking
    Because in an age where it's all about HR and strikeouts, the Twins can ill afford to load up their rotation with league average to below average strikeout guys. We've been trying that for the last decade to no avail. This team needs to find big strikeout arms, even if it's volatile high risk/high reward types. As good as Ervin Santana has been, this team couldn't win a WS with five of him in the rotation.
  23. nicksaviking
    For me the problem isn't age so much as position. Just look at all of those names listed in the article; everyone has a good 2B which is why the Twins couldn't trade Dozier last year. Should he find himself in the free agent market, Dozier would almost certainly have to take an offer well below what his offensive numbers suggest. But to extend him, the Twins would be forced to pay for those numbers. Let his contract expire, offer him a QO and then re-sign him then if the team still needs him. I'd bet it would be cheaper then than now.
  24. nicksaviking
    If that had any bearing on the decision, I'd not only be disappointed, but quite upset. I can think of other actions that would better curry fan favor, like four dollar beers at the stadium, $140M payrolls, traditional double-headers and owner financed stadiums. If the Pohlads are making any onfield-impacting calls to appease fans, MLB needs to strip them of their ownership.
  25. nicksaviking
    The silence on the subject is starting to get lengthy.
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