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  1. nicksaviking
    Well he's played six years with three teams and has 1301 PA batting 1st or 2nd compared to 357 batting anywhere else in the order, so it's basically all of his managers. I think it's pretty clear where teams think his skill set fits best at this point.
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    I would bet when the Nats use Revere, he'll be batting at the top of the lineup. Milone surely would not.
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    I would give Milone away to open up a spot for May, Duffey or Berrios. I really don't think he has much value. Even if he did, you can't force the Nationals to take a #5 starter if they really want a top of the lineup outfielder.
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    I agree. Otherwise it'd be the same as saying, 'New Wall Street/NASCAR/PGA regulations are really targeting white males.'
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    I agree that if the players are to be paid, this is the only way it will work. Still, what happens when Alabama says all of their football players should be paid $1M (because I'm pretty sure every cent of tax dollars in the state of Alabama goes to their football team) and the U of M says they should be paid 1K? I just don't see how any scenario that has players getting paid doesn't have an end result of about two dozen schools in an elite division and everyone else in a 2nd or 3rd tier. The Gophers better get used to playing Central Michigan yearly. If we think they have trouble keeping up with Wisconsin, Nebraska, OSU, Michigan and Michigan State now....
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    Someone has to be the biggest. I want him at 3B, but his size has very little to do with it.
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    Can you throw out a suggestion or two? The Twins have no players in terms of position, age, service time and skill set that compares to Ben Revere. There is no way to know what the Twins would have had to give up, but seeing as the Blue Jays had to give up a controllable vet and the Nationals aren't rebuilding, the Twins almost certainly would have had to trade a player that could contribute for them right now, the exact kind of player the Twins wouldn't want to trade. This doesn't look like a situation where the team could have thrown a handful of C-B prospects at the problem to fix it.
  8. nicksaviking
    No way the polls are an accurate reflection of anything at this point. Republican voters know Trump could never win and while some (many?) say they like him now, he won't get the votes when it counts because he can't win, same thing will happen with Sanders. I feel pretty comfortable predicting that a social conservative will never win the White House again, at least if our culture remains anything close to what it is today. A fiscal conservative could win but the party will need to divorce itself from the idea that all candidates have to be both. Fair or not, the public now ties social conservatives to bigotry, stubbornness, ethnocentrism and fear of change. People overwhelmingly do not want to be tied to those labels anymore and again, fair or not social media is making sure those that do are pariahs.
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    Fair or not, Hilary will win the Dem votes for two exclusively non-political reasons: A ) Most voters already know she is extremely likely to beat anyone the Republicans nominate but few are as confident with Sanders, and keeping the presidency away from the Republicans is more important to many of these voters than getting their first choice in office. B ) Super unfair, but Bernie is 74 and looks 80. Hillary is 68 and looks 58. Bernie is healthy for all I know, and Hillary did have health concerns awhile back, but his apparent age is going to be a big draw back for him. Someone said his policies are about 12 years too early and I agree. Unfortunately his age is about 12 years too late. And we have to face it, there is a gigantic bloc of voters who know jack squat about politicians and what they actually stand for. Also, doesn't both of the top two contenders getting up there in age pretty strongly suggest that a younger guy will be the running mate? Is O'Malley a shoe in to be on the ticket?
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    The Black Sox, Pete Rose, Bonds, Clemons and the entire PED era, Kent Hrbek and Eddie Gaedel are all in the HOF though. This place is a museum, all of baseball's history is depicted good and bad. I'm not sure everyone who hasn't been there understands this. What everyone is arguing is who should get plaques which are reserved for the hallowed players. If the museum is telling the story of the history of baseball, including these guys, why do the cheaters need a bust? Wouldn't that be like having a WWII HOF and adding a bust of Mussolini* along with all of the heroes of the war? * Clearly Bonds is not as vile of a human as Mussolini, the point only is why would we honor the infamous players of the game when they are already chronicled as being a part of this history? This is a private organization, if they don't feel comfortable honoring these guys, why should they have to change the rules?
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    Berrios hasn't been mis-managed. One could argue the current rotation has, but not Berrios. I would really feel more comfortable if we knew that Nolasco and Hughes had about the shortest leashes available though. I might be alone, but I'm very worried about Hughes. If we get through spring training and his fastball is still only at 90 MPH as it was last year, I'm going to feel pretty confident saying that whatever ailed him last year (if something was truly ailing him) isn't going to be reversed; his breaking stuff is just not good enough for him to get by with a 90 MPH heater.
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    It has been a looooong time since the Twins had a young player of this stature, but for the Twins, in most other situations where the roster crunch involves a young player and veterans, the young player almost always finds himself holding the short straw either on the bench or in AAA. I don't think the Twins will do that, but what if Sano plays bad defense and starts the season cold?
  13. nicksaviking
    You'd only get Storen for one year, that's way too high a price for one year of a set up guy. Toronto will at least use him as a closer. If we want Storen, we can get him next year as a free agent.
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    Yeah this bizarre situation makes most sense if the team is still planning on a trade. I might guess the Twins had ideas of trading Plouffe but for everyone's sake, including Plouffe's peace of mind, they meant to suggest Sano could play OF. Now Plouffe couldn't be traded for good value and the team seems stuck. I wouldn't be surprised if the team truly doesn't know how they are going manage this current situation.
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    That's true, but that also means Bonds knew he was likely a HOFer before he started using. He would have also known that getting caught using would almost certainly label him a cheater and keep him out of the Hall. If he didn't give a crap about getting into the Hall, why should we?
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    At 16 during my Sophmore year I stopped growing, topping out at 6'3", my best friend was a 5'6" runt who always said he would some day be as tall as his 6'4" dad. I always rolled my eyes until fall basketball tryouts happened junior year and sure enough, he was taller than me. The kid grew 9 damn inches in ten months. Oh, and he made the team, I didn't.
  17. nicksaviking
    Damn kids. They just have to have those new sneakers and three months later they're already too small.
  18. nicksaviking
    Nice write-ups Thrylos. A lot of effort put into a lot of relative unknowns, well done.
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    Fine by me, except for the biding. They're hard throwing relievers, they need no biding and minimal seasoning. There are a half dozen options which means there isn't room for them all at once, cycle through them and see who sticks. A relief pitcher who is a refined and finished product is called a starter.
  20. nicksaviking
    No, you're making an arguement against Cobb, not for Bonds. Those aren't the same thing. That's like saying politician X should be president because at least he or she is not as bad as Andrew Johnson. Also, today I'd bet there would be considerable support to retroactively ban Cobb's rotting corpse from the game.
  21. nicksaviking
    Yeah, a 32-year old with an excellent glove sounds like an mirage in today's game. A 36-year old? Eesh. Good for KC though, I'm happy for the sentimental fans, and I'm extra happy for how it ties the font offices' hands when Cain hits the market.
  22. nicksaviking
    These guys aren't being denied jobs. They had jobs that paid well, perhaps due to the subject of the unsubstantiated rumors. These guys are being denied a free plaque and a letterman's jacket with a HOF logo on it. Those giving away the free plaque [NOT TO LEAVE THESE PREMISES] and jacket get to make the rules. I just don't get the outrage. Anyone who doesn't like it can start their own Hall of Fame. Well that's probably trademarked, you might have to come up with your own name.
  23. nicksaviking
    Tyler Clippard's fastball is down to 91 MPH and his K/9 dropped two points last year. Teams are staying away from his demands for a reason.
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    Outside of Wisconsin, going to jail and going to the HOF hopefully require different standards of proof.
  25. nicksaviking
    All the good stuff is out of stock, there are no free agents left for the pen that look like much help at all. Give Burdi, Meyer, Chargois, Rogers, Melotakis, Reed and Peterson priority seating in spring training. Go with the upside over experience; make Fein and company have to out pitch THEM, not the other way around. If the Twins can get Storen on a below-market deal that would be OK by me too. I'd prefer it best if the Twins gave him the closer gig though as then their lefty "problem" could be solved by Perkins filling that role. Plus Storen in a full season as a closer could possibly be worth a QO at the end of the year. Long shots I acknowledge, both paragraphs would likely take a philosophical change to occur.
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