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REPORT: Former Minnesota Twin Delmon Young Arrested In Miami
nicksaviking replied to Parker Hageman's topic in Other Baseball
Last time the judge made Delmon go to The Museum of Tolerance and speak to a Holocaust survivor. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/delmon-young-pleads-guilty-violation-anti-semitic-bashing-article-1.1378013 Maybe this time they should have him take a boat ride to impoverished Cuba. And maybe the boat should leave him there. -
I agree, there is great concern about Duffey pitching over his head in 2015, but I'd give him a long rope to find out. What he did at the end of last year showed enough upside that I'd make doubly sure it was a fluke. We already know the best and worst we can expect from Nolasco, Milone and Hughes.
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I knew it, Leia wasn't really into Han, she just has a thing for pilots. Her brother included.
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Because he is younger AND he needs time to adjust. I see him as more likely a useful piece of a championship team, and I don't think you can adjust in AAA.
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I give Duffey a longer leash than Nolasco, Milone and/or Hughes if we find out this spring that Hughes' 90 MPH FB velocity from last year is now perminant.
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How Does Carlos Quentin Fit In?
nicksaviking replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Vargas and Arcia can't go to AAA, they are out of options. All things being equal, no one would care about a minor league signing, the concern is the Twins will pin too much optimism on this aged longshot based on a handful of spring training games and sacrifice those two youngsters foolishly. Not that they will, but that is the concern. -
Twins Super (Bowl) Predictions
nicksaviking replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Baseball AND the NFL? I see Lewis Thorpe has been properly Americanized! -
Well if you had to turn it off when they graphically slaughtered the cow, you almost made it.
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I want Suzuki to get the exact minimum number of at bats it will take for another team to decide he's worth taking off of the Twins hands in July. And no offense to Suzuki, I just want to start the revolution now.
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The Park signing is pretty unique, he did get a 4-year-deal, but the $3M per year is basically money you pay a bench bat. If he falls flat, I really don't think the Twins would hesitate to eat $6M if there is a log jam for his spot and if he is that bad, I wouldn't think Arcia would get kicked to the curb, at least not because of Park. However I also don't want to lose Arcia if Park is good.
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I think Park does quite a bit better than folks expect, I'm excited about him and have never implied regret about him, quite the opposite. I think there is a ton of potential, I want him even if it's only because his swing looks like Jose Bautista. Sano is more valuable at 3B than RF in the real world and fantasy. Plouffe is a good defensive 3B but he's not great, the team isn't losing an elite defender. Plouffe is safe if average overall, there are multiple unsafe options with upside. I don't like safe, this team always does safe, let's try something else.
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However the Twins didn't have immediate replacements for Santana and Hardy, in this case they not only have a replacement but an upgrade in Sano. Besides, in this situation the return for Plouffe is only the auxiliary prize though, isn't the main prize playing time for Arcia, Kepler, Park, Polanco and/or Vargas?
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I like the Park signing, even if it is a huge gamble it's low risk. The money is minimal which means there will be much less resistance to cut him a year, maybe even two early if it comes to that. To me the only risk is as stated above, the possible loss of a guy like Arcia. But this scenario only came about once it became clear that despite what every baseball analyst thought after the Twins won the bid for Park, Plouffe could not be moved. I don't mean to disparage Plouffe, he's been a good Twins, he just doesn't look like a good offensive fit in for this team and is one of the most glaring spots to change without sacrificing potential, which is the attribute I value most at this point. I'll gladly give up depth in exchange for playing time for the young guys.
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Right, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that he'd be better offensively. I didn't say I thought he would, just that it's not as unlikely as we might suspect.
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That's a pretty low bar to set, especially considering that Sano is Plan A, Nunez/Polanco are merely Plan B. If Plan A is pretty strong, I'm not scrapping the whole operation just because Plan B isn't optimal. Odds are that Plan B never materializes anyway, this all just seems like the too usual risk-adverseness that clouds this club.
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I limited the hypothetical to offense because it was formed under the original premise that Sano and his already assumed inferior defense (and his superior bat) would be at 3B, if he failed, Nunez would likely be a defensive upgrade. And looking at RC+, OPS, OPS+, oWAR, BaseRuns, basically every offensive category, Nunez was at least better than Plouffe was last year, which was a wholly ordinary year for Plouffe. And again, the idea isn't that Nunez would replace Plouffe, it's that Sano would replace Plouffe and Nunez/Escobar/Polanco are the contingency plan. I think hedging ones contingency plans is about as conservative and wary as you can get in baseball.
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Well the key word was "chance" but really it's more of an indictment on Plouffe and his poor on base skills than an endorsement of Nunez. Also I used Nunez instead of Polanco due to Nunez being more of a known commodity, but if Polanco can draw walks and get on base, I'd probably rather have him than Plouffe. I like and use OPS a lot, but it's still just made up of two components and the Twins are very overloaded in the SLG department while woefully underrepresented in the OBP. I think this team needs to consider areas where they can improve the OBP part, surely there needs to be some semblance of balance. Plouffe is an obvious spot where we can look to improve without curbing the development of the younger players.
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You'd have to check with my wife on this one, she's in charge of both the money and my personal appearance. If I had to guess, she'd cash out our IRAs. Though last I checked, they had tanked to around $10 apiece.
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I completely agree, but this trait has tended to at least have an impact on accommodating experience/salary over potential, which I think is one of Ryan's least positive traits. I would prefer not to give Plouffe away, but I don't think he's that great offensively. If Sano couldn't cut it at 3B, than SS and 3B are probably occupied by some combination of Escobar/Nunez/Polanco. I might be in the minority, but I don't think there is a huge gap offensively between Nunez and Plouffe. I might be in the super minority on this one, but I think there's a viable chance that Nunez is even an offensive upgrade to Plouffe.
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Let's go heavy on the com light on the rom.
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Documentary, I could't handle someone else doing my nude scenes. Those I do myself, and with great frequency in the documentary version.
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I did mean starting pitcher. But to be fair, I might be in favor of Sano to the rotation, at least ahead of Nolasco.
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How Does Carlos Quentin Fit In?
nicksaviking replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I'm not sure where he fits in, and maybe he doesn't. I'd hate to lose Arcia in any way because of him. I also think Park will need time to adjust, but I do find the concern about his level of competition interesting particularly when compared to our minor leagues. If the Twins had a guy in AA who has done what Park did, there would be blood shed in efforts to get him up ASAP. -
I was surprised the Reds didn't get more for Frazier. As Phillips and Bruce are currently at their nadir, they probably assume they have little to lose seeing if they'll have more value in July.
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No, but I didn't claim to know the desire of everyone.
