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  1. nicksaviking
    3.5-4.0 is only like a top 40-50 offensive player in the game. Plus WAR gets adjusted backward for 1st basemen. I think I'd shoot for someone with more potential. Plus he'd be a lefty hitting at TF, any power grade is going to have to be reduced significantly. And we're talking about a position that can be filled by just about any player. It's become a position that even if it isn't filled internally can be filled with fairly affordable free agents.
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    Considering McKay's NCAA career BB/9 is 3.19 I'd guess he's no Maddux. Wright is currently and has for his career walked fewer batters. Not that walks are the only factor when it comes to control.
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    I'd think the odds that either of them become an ace are much less. People like to throw around the "No righthanded HS pitcher has gone 1-1", but that's a bit misleading because only three HS arms of any sort have gone 1-1. Since the draft started 17 pitchers have gone 1-1, I'd say only three were aces which generously includes Garrit Cole and Stephen Strausburg who under most circumstances would probably be considered TBD and David Price who may have finished being useful right when his rookie contract was up. If finding an "Ace" is the goal, you probably really do have to go with the guy with most upside. If it's more important to try to get a guy who won't bust, clearly the college guys make sense, but it's still a long shot. Only 5 pitchers taken 1-1 have managed even a career of 25 WAR. Cole and Strausburg likely some day will make it 7, but tossing out those two plus Aiken and Appel, there have only been 5 of 13 pitchers who have even been barely not disappointing, or 38%. If getting even a "safe" guy is that low of a percentage, I think I'd rather have the guy with the most ceiling. And I'm not saying that's Greene; it might be Wright. Probably not McKay though.
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    I wonder if it has something to do with the unintended organizational reinforcement of traditional Minnesota even-keeled temperament? Buxton and Berrios really appear to be humble and quite young men. I'm sure many of us come from a Midwestern family that worries about meeting others' expectations; we know that can be hard and cause a burden. With their restrained and quite demeanors, they appear like they might be cut from the same cloth as many of the same people that fill the stands at Target Field. Sano, Polanco and Vargas? Those guys always look like they're having a good time. I know the coach telling the kids to "Just go out there and have fun!" is a Little League cliché, but I don't know that it makes it any less beneficial.
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    If a team was willing to let them do both I'd find value. If it's the old fashioned way where they do one for 6 years, struggle and then transition to the other then I'd think all the service time lost kills the value.
  6. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I'd say the record is still up in the air, mostly because they still have over 60 games left against mostly terrible AL Central teams. The Twins (or the Tigers or White Sox or Royals) could end up with a pretty nice record simply because the other teams are so very awful. I too miss May. I was really looking forward to seeing him in the rotation again.
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    Want me to delete some for you so you can try again at post number 10,000? Only about 50 or so were any good anyway.
  8. nicksaviking
    If the Twins were going to be below average in anything, it should be this.
  9. nicksaviking
    Good recommendation, I stayed up too late last night and finished this show. I thought it was really good. It was hilariously absurd at times yet it felt much more true to life in terms of what a spy might actually do compared to the action packed Bond and Bourne stuff. It was a strong cohesive story with lots of humor and tension. I'm also a sucker for characters with moral ambiguity and that basically describes every character in the show here. Michael Dorman, the actor playing the main character was really good. I hadn't heard of him before, but I'd guess we'll see him in bigger projects soon. He nailed that role.
  10. nicksaviking
    No because it's going to end with the last out of game 7 of the World Series when Hunter Greene of the Twins blows a heater by some poor Cub with such velocity that it splits the planet in two. Going out on top baby! Bummer we'll miss the parade though.
  11. nicksaviking
    So if the front office doesn't pick the guy we want we get to get upset now. If they do pick the guy we want but he busts we get to get upset later? Seems like the only way they get a pass is if they pick the guy we want and it's the right decision.
  12. nicksaviking
    Mauer's contract was negotiated by the guy 2 GMs ago, I can't see that causing our new guy to be gun shy. These aren't the same men. And his contract was negotiated at that time because the guy 3 GMs ago (also 1 GM ago) WAS gun shy. Mauer should have been locked up at minimum 1 year earlier than he did and plenty of forward thinking GM's would have done it much, much earlier say about where Sano is at in his career now. If there's any lesson to be learned, it's the longer you wait the more you pay. Or get nothing at all.
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    There will be pitchforks if they pick the wrong guy, that's why I propose everyone here picks their preferred player and lists him in their signature. We will then have Brock lock that feature so it will be stamped on our posts until the end of time (or the end of the internet, whichever comes first). Then upon the draft and every day henceforth if our player was not selected by the Twins and he is better than the guy the Twins did select, we may denounce the team for their inferior draft acumen. Everyone who picked an inferior player must keep their trap shut about the draft.
  14. nicksaviking
    I was also interested until I checked Fangraphs and saw his average velocity was only 90 MPH. I don't care if he's AA/AAA fodder, just as long as he doesn't somehow leapfrog Melotakis. Heck, I'd rather see Randy Rosario and I'd rather see Jason Wheeler moved from the rotation and into the Twins pen first. Probably David Hurlbut too.
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    I don't put a whole lot of stock into AA and AAA age averages since both levels are littered with older baseball lifers. Stewart is young for the league, but he's not young compared to guys who hope to be regular MLB contributors in the near future; he's probably about average in those terms. If the problem is his slider, I'd give him until the All Star break to see if he can fix it. If he can't I'm in favor of him dropping it and heading to the pen to see if his FB/change combo plays up. Maybe fly him to Rochester just so he can visit with Kyle Gibson who can tell him about how the sinker has sunk his career first.
  16. nicksaviking
    He's only 12 saves from passing Mike Trombley. I wonder if the team will consider letting him achieve that honor first before replacing him.
  17. nicksaviking
    The red uniforms? Ugh, I know.
  18. nicksaviking
    Seems pretty long term to me. This half inning is lasting foreeeeeeever.
  19. nicksaviking
    Bring in Chargois, he should be fresh.
  20. nicksaviking
    Yeah, advanced statistical analysis came around at the wrong time for a guy who proudly and meticulously crafted and stayed with the exact same swing since he was a teenager. I'm no physicist, but I'd guess the more constantly repeated the causation is the more predictable the reaction is.
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    I agree, many do, but not all. And the ones that proactively make changes because they foresee a problem often irritate their employees who don't like change. At the same time, I'll bet those proactive companies perform better than the companies that drag their feet. In fact I'd bet feet dragging on modernization is a reason many companies go belly up in the first place.
  22. nicksaviking
    But if the hypothesis of this article is that his peripherals show this will not continue, wouldn't the fair thing for everyone (except Kintzler) be to not let the inevitable happen in the first place?
  23. nicksaviking
    Saves, goose eggs, Nobel Prizes; I think the other 29 teams will all decline to pick up the phone simply because of the 12% K rate.
  24. nicksaviking
    It would be nice if our team would see the writing on the wall and act prior to, not after it's too late. I would guess if asked Molitor would justify keeping him in there by talking about loyalty and doing what's fair to Brandon. Well there's 24 other players on the team who it isn't fair to if you lose games because you were being fair to a single guy.
  25. nicksaviking
    I always found the lightrail cheap. Mostly because I prefer to ride it without purchasing a ticket.
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