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  1. nicksaviking
    In that situation I would argue that fear would cause someone to balk at not taking an offer that was favorable to them. According to everyone but Dave Cameron, this was nowhere close to a fair deal. I seriously doubt the front office was frightened to act because prospects bust all the time, why would they have been shopping Dozier at all then? I think it's more than fair to believe that they have taken the position that they'll take their chances that they can get a better deal later, no matter how slim, because the chances that De Leon himself will be a front line starter are still slimmer.
  2. nicksaviking
    I doubt fear had anything to do with it. Most people don't see De Leon as a top 10 prospect in baseball. Falvey came from Cleveland, I would guess he values velocity and breaking balls, two things De Leon does not have. Even if they did like him, they wanted more, that's not based off of fear. Being fearful would cause them to succumb to the offer of the more powerful and experienced Dodgers brass. This was the opposite of fear.
  3. nicksaviking
    I agree, I don't like calling players junk, even hypothetical ones. Unless a national guy actually used that phrase I think we can probably find a better word to refer to any possible throw-in type players. On the other side of the coin though, are you seriously asking why people are "slamming" you for criticizing the front office when you have no idea who the other players were? Why is anyone criticizing the front office when we don't know what the offer was? Simply because we just wanted this so bad and now we're disappointed?
  4. nicksaviking
    Then you need to stop saying it was a 100% certainty that it wasn't a 1:1 swap because we don't know that either. In fact we don't even know if the Twins were asking for De Leon.
  5. nicksaviking
    How are those things related? Nobody was offering a #2 starter for Dozier who is their best trade chip and there wasn't one available in free agency. Short of armed kidnapping what were they supposed to do?
  6. nicksaviking
    There have been a lot of Bond movies with good intros, not all have been good movies though. The last one, Spectre comes to mind. There was an Orson Wells movie A Touch of Evil which famously started out with a long take of a bomb being placed under a car and then the camera follows the car around a busy city while the audience is waiting for the explosion. But then we're introduced to Charlton Heston playing a Mexican. It was a really, really bad impression and pretty offensive also.
  7. nicksaviking
    Unbreakable was too far ahead of it's time. It was basically a superhero origin story made within the confines of our world as we know it. So basically it did what the more celebrated superhero movies made in the last decade have done but it did it twenty years ago and people didn't get it. The ending was disappointing though. You could tell it was trying to set itself up for sequels and someone pulled the plug on that idea at the last minute.
  8. nicksaviking
    I can only assume he said that because he assumed these players had long ago retired. There are no starting pitchers I'm interested in free agency at this point. I'd much rather give the jobs to May/Mejia/Berrios two of whom will already be squeezed out if the Twins give Hughes another shot at the rotation. I would be just fine adding a starting pitcher for the implicit purpose of going to the pen though.
  9. nicksaviking
    No way, I like being objectified! Well I assume I do, I don't think anyone has ever objectified me before, just objected to me.
  10. nicksaviking
    Isn't the integrity issue solely on the obstructionists who were illegally withholding the funds?
  11. nicksaviking
    The US can't do much to control that anymore than they can control what Isreal does with financial assistance or what Haiti did with earthquake money. Heck, they have a hard time controlling what happens to relief packages in our country: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/700-million-katrina-relief-funds-missing-report-shows/story?id=18870482
  12. nicksaviking
    Most teams, at least the ones at the forefront of innovation are using more than in-game statistics. http://nesn.com/2014/09/red-sox-among-mlb-teams-using-brain-training-in-scouting-development/ https://paw.princeton.edu/article/chris-moore-10-algorithms-field http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2015/7/15/8952915/take-me-out-to-the-brain-game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTQKQZ_QfMQ I really doubt that the Twins have done any of this yet, so there would be no data on the players for the Twins or any team to evaluate.
  13. nicksaviking
    This is starting to feel a little awkward. Nice work turning a perfectly innocent conversation about objectifying women into something we might feel a little ashamed about!
  14. nicksaviking
    At the top of your what?
  15. nicksaviking
    No but I've been pretty consistent that with players this questionable I'm going to want multiple lottery tickets. And there's a healthy gap between sucks and skepticism.
  16. nicksaviking
    What do algorithms matter? The Twins almost certainly didn't do any of the neuroscience or other proprietary testing that other clubs are doing to measure physical ability and mental acuity. If there no data points to analyze what are they supposed to evaluate?
  17. nicksaviking
    Good supporting evidence and I agree, he's likely bound for AAA again, but that's still not a fact.
  18. nicksaviking
    Well even if one deal doesn't DIRECTLY lead to another bad deal, I'm happy Falvey didn't make one with his first move and force us to talk about if this is going to be a pattern and/or if other wiser and better GM's are going to smell blood in the water manipulate him going forward. In other words, I'd hate to be next Arizona Diamondbacks.
  19. nicksaviking
    Aside from trading Dozier for De Leon, yeah I would have liked those moves, though based on the contract I'd guess both the Rays and Ramos know he won't catch much this year.
  20. nicksaviking
    Right, I didn't mean to compare him to Slama except in the fact that people can get pretty excited about numbers that aren't backed up by quality velocity or breaking pitches.
  21. nicksaviking
    How do you know they haven't?
  22. nicksaviking
    You say that like it's a certainty, they might get a better offer, we don't know. And KLaw has De Leon at 73. He's a soft tossing righty with a change and a below average slider. If he's lucky he'll be Rich Harden but with less velocity, maybe that would play in a ballpark like Dodger Stadium (or Oakland) but the Rays can have him. He put up Anthony Slama numbers in the minors and everyone's eyes popped but there was a reason he was drafted in the 24th round, that stuff isn't going to play at the majors. I'm not trading Brian Dozier for a 92 MPH heater and nobody else. I agree with posters who said it looked like the Dodgers weren't shopping for a 2B so much as they were shopping De Leon. They know he's Cinderella.
  23. nicksaviking
    Why do you think we'll have Dozier for the next two years? This won't be the only opportunity to move him. I think this big build up left many people disappointed, but this is only Act 1 of the Dozier trade saga.
  24. nicksaviking
    Brooks Baseball lists him with 298 pitches thrown. It also shows 9 swings and misses on his change up, maybe that's what he meant. Either way, I'm happy to hear Klaw's assessment. I also was/am very skeptical that a righty with a 92 MPH FB would get many strikeouts with only a changeup and a reportedly below average slider. I'd think he needs either a better breaking pitch or more velocity to continue his success at the MLB level. Or throw with his left hand.
  25. nicksaviking
    So you think Dozier would not have gotten significantly more than Forsythe AND the Dodgers were offering three players, not two? How insignificant would two additional pieces be then? And why would we care to have them?
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