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  1. 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.
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    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.
  3. nicksaviking
    Homerun totals have increased by 20% since 2015 and it sure didn't look like a one year fad.
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    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.
  5. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
  8. nicksaviking
    The silence on the subject is starting to get lengthy.
  9. nicksaviking
    If the Twins successful sac bunt attempts is worse than their successful stolen base percentage, why not just go with straight steals? Of all the sac attempts, there sure better have been none that involved moving over Buxton and Buxton alone.
  10. nicksaviking
    I just hope there isn't any kind of internal strife where the front office says he doesn't fit and Pohlad says tough luck, he stays. That could sink the ship pretty quick. Pohlad has to concede to the baseball guys whatever their position might be.
  11. nicksaviking
    Ugh, does Molitor have the guts to pull him?
  12. nicksaviking
    This looks promising.
  13. nicksaviking
    Especially still into October!
  14. nicksaviking
    Or one could read into it that the guys with swing-and-miss stuff will be fine because that's mostly umpire independent, and guys who need strike three called will be hurt. But I got faith! Prediction: A nervous Severino allows eight base runners in the first two innings, six of which reach on base on balls, and gets pulled prior to getting six outs.
  15. nicksaviking
    How about Old Timer's games?
  16. nicksaviking
    I'm probably the in the minority, but I think I believe in Rosario much more than I do Kepler. Lefties learning to hit lefties is a tough ask, but Rosario can and Kepler isn't. Eddie has made good contact at every level, looking at his career as a whole, last year was a clear outlier. He'll never be a superstar but aside from Sano, if someone asked me to put money on a guy who wouldn't be an offensive liability the next half decade, I'd be most confident about Rosario. It seems to me the only thing holding him back is his twice monthly poor throws. Most importantly, and I could be wrong, Eddie kind of looks like he's the Latin leader in the dugout. I want that guy.
  17. nicksaviking
    Time for a patented Rosario base on balls.
  18. nicksaviking
    Yeah I think he sprained his strike throwing muscle.
  19. nicksaviking
    Bush League!
  20. nicksaviking
    Lewis already ditched his leg kick? It seemed to be working for him, not that I'm an expert. I thought adjustments don't typically happen until after the first season of pro ball. I guess there is a new sheriff in town.
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    I'd also say the voting wasn't based on popularity so much as it was on fame. For one, too many of the voters weren't informed league wide. For another, fielding measurements amounted almost entirely to fielding percentage and total errors. I don't think these guys were voting for players because the players were popular, they were voting for players because all they had to work with was assumptions and "talk of the town" kind of hearsay. It wasn't nefarious collusion, it was lack of information. Largely due to the era but probably also due to a lack of effort to research the correct option.
  22. nicksaviking
    I don't think he's going to catch Stanton.
  23. nicksaviking
    For me: High strikeouts + High OBP = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  24. nicksaviking
    When it comes to weight, we're never going to really know how the player or the front office feels about it. We can discuss it sure, but it's not like we're ever going to know if either party is concerned about it or if or when it is actually an issue. I'd guess the best indicator we could hope for is if or when Sano is offered an extension and of what length.
  25. nicksaviking
    I'd bet Santana gets in someday on a Veteran Committee, it'll probably take his contemporaries who personally knew how good he was to vote him in. Even more so than their postseason glory, I think the thing that Koufax and Puckett had that Santana didn't was a baseball-crushing sudden announcement of premature retirement. Had Santana's career abruptly and very clearly ended following the 2010 season, or even more dramatically after his no-hitter late in that season, I'd guess people would view him much more similarly to Koufax and Puckett. His retirement has just been too drawn out, he never got that sudden rush of sympathy and resentment which lingers eternal with athletes cut short in their prime.
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