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  1. nicksaviking
    Cleveland's homegrown starters consist solely of Salazar and Tomlin. Everyone else was acquired as undervalued high upside young arms even while it wasn't apparent to the baseball world at the time. I'm not trying to give the impression that I want the rotation fixed through free agency; the free agent arms aren't very appealing. I'm just saying if they do use free agency, go for the higher upside. Cobb and Lynn will be good signings for a team with a top heavy rotation; they'd make good #3 pitchers but the Twins already have those. A team signing Cobb and Lynn to be #1 or #2 arms is as good as conceding they won't be contending for a WS next year.
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    I don't agree that Hughes at his best could match up with what the other teams could bring in a Game 1 matchup, but I do agree that peak Hughes was the closest. However Hughes also wasn't a 4/48 kind of pitcher, he got a much more modest initial deal; he had the pedigree and the good velocity but hadn't put it all together. If this team wants to try that approach again, it's the more affordable but much higher upside Tyler Chatwood, not Cobb or Lynn, who they should be targeting.
  3. nicksaviking
    Not for Cleveland. Not for Houston.
  4. nicksaviking
    Peak Hughes or peak Santana still aren't going to get this team past Houston, Cleveland, New York or Boston. Neither will Cobb nor Lynn. Frankly, I'm not even picking a side in the spend big/be conservative debate, I just don't like the kinds of pitchers you get on these half-measure deals; nearly to a man they never have the upside to get to the elite level this team so desperately needs.
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    The nature of the 4/48M pitchers almost guarantees they'll never be the kind of guy who could lead a WS contender though. If they were already good enough to do so they'd be getting a bigger free agent deal, but the solid deal they received is just reinforcement that they don't and won't have to change their game in effort to become that guy. If the Twins can't or shouldn't sign the big shots, they should get the guys who have the ability to become a big shot but still have something to prove.
  6. nicksaviking
    I agree there are other options, but what makes you feel Boshers is more likely to be good in 2018? He's turning 30 and hasn't been good the past two years despite ample opportunities.
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    I would have rather dropped Boshers than Rosario. Though to be fair that has more to do with Boshers.
  8. nicksaviking
    It's hard to see this team knocking off CLE, HOU, NYY and BOS without significant rotation upgrades. Even if Berrios does what we hope he does, they're still way out-classed. 35-year-old Santana who got by on smoke and mirrors last year is sure to disappoint anyone who's counting on him to be more than a low end #3. I agree you don't have to get today's big-time starters, but then you better be able to identify and acquire tomorrow's.
  9. nicksaviking
    Cobb, gross. I've seen that schtick around these parts plenty enough already. I'm with Patrick Henry, "Give me strikeouts or give me death!"
  10. 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.
  11. nicksaviking
    Particularly considering how affordable veteran corner bats are these days.
  12. nicksaviking
    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.
  13. nicksaviking
    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!
  14. 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.
  15. nicksaviking
    Trick-or-treating = pan-handling. Pan-handling = hard work. Not pan-handling = lazy. Thus every homeless person in the country works harder than a Trump kid ever has.
  16. nicksaviking
    Maybe Gene Glynn gets "promoted"? I like him but he seemed to have all the right moves as the 3B coach, I hate to lose his excellent eye there. With today's stress on measurements of all kinds, getting those calls correct might be the most overlooked aspect of the game.
  17. nicksaviking
    Could be and I'd be in favor unless his current role of a quasi liaison between Molitor and the front office is compromised because the bench coach is more clearly under Molitor.
  18. nicksaviking
    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.
  19. nicksaviking
    He should have been starting game 163 at Yankee Stadium. He was the team's best starter the last two months.
  20. nicksaviking
    . Are we being televised now?
  21. nicksaviking

    JFK

    nicksaviking replied to Badsmerf's topic in The Sports Bar

    Then I'd say he wouldn't have fared too well down there considering his brain is available for viewing at the University of Iowa.
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    JFK

    nicksaviking replied to Badsmerf's topic in The Sports Bar

    I guess I always figured stuff has been concealed simply for agencies and still living participants to save face. The redacted stuff probably shows incompetence, gross negligence and all kinds of despicable acts pulled by movers and shakers trying to take advantage of the vacuum created be a dead president. I mean Civil Rights advocate Lyndon Johnson *maybe* being a KKK member? Yeah, plenty of folks would want that kept under wraps. Perhaps Jack Ruby slipped an identified agent $100 to get near Oswald so he could shoot him? That would be redacted too, and something that sounds like a total low-level wanna-be monster move. I can't imagine Ruby killing Oswald was part of a high level conspiracy. First, the conspirators would have to be pretty confident a gunshot to the gut would kill Oswald, what were the chances, 50/50 at best? Then you need to be sure a 50-year-old man dies of cancer in jail before he decides to spill his guts? I mean that end game would have had be thought up at the local Jr. High locker room.
  23. 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!
  24. nicksaviking
    With all the HRs Bautista hit at Target Field you'd think Suzuki would be over it by now.
  25. nicksaviking
    I like that we've never heard of him and he seemingly has no ties to the front office. There are few conclusions to draw other than the front office did their due diligence. We don't have to question if simply having a big name had any part in the hire.
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