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  1. nicksaviking
    He came up when he was 19 so he has a pretty huge head start with the counting stats. He's only 35, playing great defense and less than 600 hits from 3,000. I think the odds are strongly in his favor that he gets there. Even if he comes up short of the big milestones like Andre Dawson, I think he gets in as his defense is regarded as elite. However, I feel the same about him as Ashbury does in that he just doesn't feel elite in his time. That has a tendency to change though once guys start approaching the milestones. Eddie Murray and Paul Molitor come to mind from past generations that seemed to be great but not elite players until they were approaching the end. Edit: I must have forgotten about his linkage to PED's. Was it back with the Dodgers? Or are we just making assumptions? If there is a legit link, he's not getting in.
  2. nicksaviking
    Great thread. I'm wondering, in terms of your evaluations, are you generally given a specific player to evaluate, or are you asked to go out and find players who you think would be good fits for the organization? Also, do you project what kinds of players might be better fits in the future but perhaps not now? An example would be last year there seemed to be an emphasis on getting ground-ball pitchers (Correia, Pelfrey) though if the club has concerns about the defensive prowess of future infielders in the pipeline, would you instead target strikeout/fly-ball pitchers?
  3. nicksaviking
    Well he got $5.5 million last year. That was coming off TJ surgery. I'm sure he will get that much at least next year. Could be a lot more if he works out and looks good.
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    I think most of us here would agree and argue against someone who came on this site and said they wanted to burn the flag. It is offensive I do not think they should do it, I would hope they would be shamed out of just such an action. It's their right, but it is offensive. Just as people now are doing their damnedest to talk Cleveland and Washington from the contiued usage of offensive names and mascots. It is their right, but it is offensive. There are plenty of rights we all have but the discretion not to excercise them is sometimes the best option. Offensive mascots is one of those times.
  5. nicksaviking
    How about the Cleveland Naps? They were known as that once too. The papers would probably have an easy time coming up with headlines after a particularly boring 3 1/2 hour game. Strange that over 100 years ago the team knew the best way to bestow "honor" on someone was by using an actual indivudual's name. For some reason now we show "honor" by using cartoons, racist names and derogatory stereotypes. Ah what an enlightened time was 1903.
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    I WILL quote your whole post because each line is terrific. Except about being a PA announcer for that awful school! It seems obvious that a nickname change is something that we as human beings can get over with relative ease, but you can probably speak to it better than most. When the nickname was up against the wall and everyone was fighting for every inch they could, I'm sure it seemed much more integral to your idenity than it does now that it's gone. After all, you're a fan of the school and the team and the players much, much more than you are of the cartoon on the front of the uniform.
  7. nicksaviking
    When you suggested that Native Americans should get to vote on what is offensive. Again, they can vote on if they want to keep the nickname. They cannot vote on what can or cannot offend their neighbors. That's only because the Native Americans who have been protesting this for decades do not have a loud voice, as most minorities do not. They had to wait until the public finally took the time to realize how stupid it was to defend an offensive nickname. Why is it their fault that the rest of us took so long to see reason?
  8. nicksaviking
    With the retirements of Darren Oliver and Mariano Rivera, not only is Hawkins the only active former teammate of Kirby Puckett but he's the only active pitcher who ever stood on the same field with him. A-Rod and Jason Giambi also shared the same field, though I'm not sure Giambi will get a job next year and A-Rod, well... fingers crossed.
  9. nicksaviking
    The poll Rick Reilly referred to was over a decade old and Reilly has been getting panned for skewing many things in his article particularly the quotes he incorrectly attributed to his father-in-law. But that is beside the point. No, we don't get to vote on what is offensive. Additionally, no the Native Americans don't get to vote on what is offensive to themselves unless you think it is appropriate to stereotype them and believe that they all have to have the same ideas and values. We clearly don't share the same values, why do minorities have to share theirs? What you can have an opinion on is whether you think it is OK to use offensive and abusive language or mascots. They are offensive to people, that is indisputable. If you think it is OK to offend those that are, well I guess that is an opinion you can have, though I don't know why one would want to be associated with such a stance.
  10. nicksaviking
    I don't get to have an opinion on what offends others, that's the point. If one person is offended it's not an opinion, it's a straight up fact. It's not up to you to decide what offends others. It's not up to me either. Even if some Native Americans support a nickname or mascot, plenty don't. Why do those that support it get to speak for all others? You clearly are in the minority in this thread, therefore your ideas are no longer valid by your logic, I get to speak for you and will do so thusly: All Twins Daily posters vigorously protest the offensive nature of the Cleveland baseball and Washington football team names.
  11. nicksaviking
    Nice interview, this guy is exciting. Looks like the pics could use a bit of an update though, he seems to have filled out quite a bit: I think we got something here. Edit: Also, I can't find a profile video of his current delivery, but that pic of him in the Doncaster uniform is his Australian team. For all I know there should be concerns about his delivery but it's likely been adjusted in some manor since playing pro-ball.
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    Over/Under on this thread being closed in 3 hours?
  13. nicksaviking
    It probably would be offensive to white people if the team was owned, operated and populated by Native Americans for the entertainment of Native Americans in a predominantly Native American city. I'm not sure why you think you get to have an opinion about what offends the minority classes. It's not for any of us to say what offends them. I'm not sure why you broach the subject of trying to dismiss slavery, I don't think that topic was even on the table.
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    But why is it you who gets to decide which things are stupid. Native American's have been protesting these names for years. Should their efforts be in vain simply because the rest of the public was painfully slow to catch on to their cause?
  15. nicksaviking
    It's like a band aid, the longer these names are stuck on the clubs, the more painful it is to remove for those that love them. These are clearly offensive and it's really not for the majority class to determine what degree of offensiveness is acceptable. And preemptively, before someone argues that some Native Americans aren't offended, that's even more stereotyping. The fact remains that many, if not most, are offended. How would a front office detractor feel about a front office defender speaking for everyone at Twins Daily or vice versa?
  16. nicksaviking
    Good stuff, but I have a feeling that after last season Nick Martinez is going to find himself higher than 15-20 in the Rangers organization which will probably price him out of Doumit's value.
  17. nicksaviking
    I think Willingham probably had some decent value last off season. Certainly a other less competitve teams like the Twins wouldn't value him as highly, but a playoff team needing a right handed power bat likely would have been quite interested. I think our expectations last year were too high though. Simply because of his age and the fact that he was a corner OF, not a CF, almost surely meant his value couldn't touch Revere/Span. However those two both fetched top five organizational prospects. I'll bet Willingham could have gotten a MLB ready back of the rotation guy similar in stature to Worley and an orgainzational prospect in the 5-10 range. If that would have happened, many of us would have been pretty disappointed in the return at the time however. I think the real reason Willingham wasn't dealt had to do with what Ryan stated more than once last off-season; they didn't view themselves as rebuilding and they figured they needed Willingham's bat to compete.
  18. nicksaviking
    I tend to stay away from claiming facts and proof. I guess in the conversation we had regarding statistics and Kevin Correia, I wanted to simply point out that in an interview after the signing, Terry Ryan said he signed Correia because the scouts told him he was better than his numbers. That seemed like reasonable evidence that Ryan made the Correia decision based more on his scouts as opposed to his data team.
  19. nicksaviking
    I don't think (m)any folks here think they know what stats the front office uses. Simply put, due to past acquisitions and a reluctance to play a more modern version of baseball on the field and off, some of us don't think Terry Ryan puts enough reliance on the many statistics available. At least on the free agent side, some of us would prefer a stronger use of statistics than scouting.
  20. nicksaviking
    Your reply had nothing to do with my post, no one's debating they have at least a one person stats department. I think everyone can agree they have Jack Goin and at least one person who may or may not have been an intern in their employ. That does not prove that they used them to positively evaluate Kevin Correia. The previous poster tried to imply that Jack Goin recommend him even though Ryan's own words say it was the scouts who recommended Correia despite his numbers.
  21. nicksaviking
    Perhaps not, but then the people defending Ryan need to stop saying that BECAUSE he didn't make a bad free agent signing, he MUST have been using statistical analysis.
  22. nicksaviking
    You'll have to find that one because I don't remember any reference to Goin when it came to signing Correia, quite the opposite in fact. I do remeber Ryan saying his SCOUTS came back and said he was better then what his numbers: Mackey: Low-risk or not, Twins are taking philosophical gambles | 1500 ESPN Twin Cities ? Minnesota Sports News & Opinion (Twins, Vikings, Wolves, Wild, Gophers) | Sportswire: Minnesota Twins
  23. nicksaviking
    But this is not the debate, it is not about the results of these pitchers, it is about whether Ryan was targeting pitchers that statistical analysis favors. He did not appear to. Ryan's method may or may not have gotten good results from his free agents, but that is not what was at question. Good results would be a check mark in favor of his "Old School/Scouting" approach, but it does not prove that he has embraced statistical analysis.
  24. nicksaviking
    Santana had another career year in 2008. Of course he turned that into his current lucrative extension than promptly followed it up with an awful 2009.
  25. nicksaviking
    Sorry if this is posted somewhere but I can't find it, but I guess Herandez was waived and already cleared waivers (shocking, I know). He has been outrighted to Rochester, which in my opinion is terribly vindictive as they aren't even playing baseball there this time of year. Have a nice winter scraping ice off your windshield Pedro! Good news in my book, more 40-man space, bring on the free agents!
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