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  1. nicksaviking
    Yes, at the very best, Pelfrey is an impulse buy when you're standing at the checkout line at the supermarket. You get him if you've already loaded your cart with the main course. You don't first go to browse the tabloids and gum.
  2. nicksaviking
    As far as I know, WAR doesn't consider save percentage at all. Relievers have low WAR mostly due to low innings pitched. Perkins has a good WAR for a reliever because he has terrific stats that are dependant/derived from a stellar ability to strikeout batters.
  3. nicksaviking
    I guess it probably depends on what is agressive. Teams would pay a lot of money to have Kuroda on their team. In fact, I'd guess if Kuroda was Tanaka's age and on the market now, he likely would have gotten the same or larger contract than Darvish did. $10-12 million per seems like it would be a bargain for a 24-year-old Kuroda.
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    Don't eat crow about Marcum, lot's of us were interested and he would have been a worthy gamble as he had a reasonable degree of upside. Had the Twins signed him and he failed, I would still be applauding the effort, just as I would if they'd acquired Jackson, Dempster or Haren. But it wouldn't only be like-minded fans who would have appreciated the effort, it would also have been the players on the roster who saw that management was trying to throw them a life-line. It would have been current and future free agents would see that the Twins were serious suitors.
  5. nicksaviking
    In my opinion the Twins could use a few more Jock and Jr Ewings. They have enough boyscouts like Bobby.
  6. nicksaviking
    I agree, but it isn't hard to change that perception. After all, Cleveland was in the same boat last year but they let it be known that they had money to spend and were looking to right the ship ASAP. Perhaps the Twins missed their chance as I think Cleveland's turn around happened when they brought in a new and accomplished, well respected, big-named manager. When they did, they had no problems getting interest from free agents. Bold statements can help change the perception I believe.
  7. nicksaviking
    Well as long as your interpretation of that interview is the accurate one. Is the zero inflection of hyperbole rule not in effect when one defends Terry Ryan? No other team was happy with their free agent starters? I still stand by the whining statement, he may have been laughing, but it was in frustration and the comment was not helping the cause or the perception of the Twins as a free agent destination. It sounded like childish grousing.
  8. nicksaviking
    It likes Crown Royal, but sometimes doesn't know when to stop.
  9. nicksaviking
    Yes, 100% yes. Agents aren't going to be able to raise their asking price just because the Twins show interest, you don't really think Ryan signs players and acts like he is doing them a favor and could care less if they wore his uniform? Even if for some reason they did have to pay a tiny bit more, Pohlad already threw out the welcome mat. Ryan pussyfoots around free agency year after year. Last year he played coy after the Cubs marked up the price of back end pitchers and by the end of December he was on MLB TV whining about how "sometimes you can't give your money away," while implying that free agents just don't want to come to Minnesota. Damn right they don't, it's the land of passive agression where the GM has a reputation of not making bold moves and former players and contemporaries tell the world that the Twins can't win because they will never "Go for it." That needs to change, if the Twins want to be players for quality free agents, they need to put out a big, bright neon sign saying "Open for business, and bring your friends!" Of course top guys don't want to come here when there is no evidence that the front office will do what it takes to win. Scream from the rooftop that things are different now and, yes damn it, we will pay you if you are talented and we will pay others like you, we are NOT your fathers Twins.
  10. nicksaviking
    I guess this is my issue. Ryan is absolutely correct, it is a good way to supplement a roster, but I think his interprtation is different than most fans and most GM's. From his tone and past forays into free agency, I think that he thinks, "supplementing" means only getting minor or modest pieces. There is no reason to think you can't "supplement" your roster with actual upgrades. Supplement definition from Mirriam Webster: "to add something to (something) in order to make it complete" I don't know why he thinks adding another league average pitcher would make the team more complete than adding one that would actually fill a need.
  11. nicksaviking
    Then you stab him in the heart with a wooden stake. Unless you're into this new age vampire BS that teen girls and my wife read about. I'm not sure how you kill those rediculous things.
  12. nicksaviking
    My bold and rediculous prediction: The Yankees, who will be intent on re-siging Cano and aiming to get Tanaka, will look to clear some money to fit under the luxery tax. They work out a deal to trade CC Sabathia to the Twins and eat $56 million of the $96 million still owed over the next four years. The Twins send two low to modest prospects, let's say Travis Harrison and Mason Melotakis, to the Yankees to complete the deal. Sabathia then fails his physical and the offer is nixed leaving the Twins without the pitcher and the Yankees over the luxery tax threshold.
  13. nicksaviking
    #1 I agree, though they could always put in a lowball offer just to say they tried. Rarely does anyone know what the losing teams bid. #2 I don't think so, it would signal the end of Mauer at catcher and even if Mauer is moved from the position, Ryan isn't going to be sending signals, it will be done quitely and smoothely internally. #3 Shouldn't be hard, but it shouldn't have been hard last year either. We might get a repeat of Ryan's exhasperated "We can't get them to take our money!" meltdown on MLB TV. #4 I agree, he will be the favorite, though in the end I think he'll be sent to Rochester. Of course if they do it at the last cut and the fans don't know it's coming, it might get ugly. #5 I think he stays. He seems to be a management favorite and his second half was pretty good. That K/9 came out of nowhere, they might have found something valuable in him.
  14. nicksaviking
    Yes, if the new bidding process takes place, the Twins will have zero chance of ever signing any big name Asian player. It will be big markets, or big Asian communities. St. Peter, the Pohlad's or whoever is representing the team in these kind of league-wide discusions better be strenuously arguing against this process. Of course on the surface it looks like a way to save some money, so they may not.
  15. nicksaviking
    I think it may be just the opposite, after all, the guys they are signing are already at their peak. In four years the Tigers would be the 2013 Yankees. They'd have huge unmovable contracts on five 34-35 year-olds who will undoubtedly be on the decline. And with those body types, a 35-year-old Prince Fielder and Miguel Cabrera might be a scary proposition.
  16. nicksaviking
    Jeter has been good, but I don't trust most middle infielder to age well. He's been extremely durable, but that also means he's played in a lot of games, and he's going to be 31 next week. I think if you're lucky you'll end up getting what you pay for the first 3 years, but then you're going to be on the hook for five more after that. I have a feeling that [(Cano + gray hairs) - Yankee Stadium] = (early peak + quick decline).
  17. nicksaviking
    Even though long term deals get panned by everyone the second they are signed, I still think Cano gets an 8 year deal. Down from the 10 years he is requesting, but still enough that he get's one of the elite contracts.
  18. nicksaviking
    The Twins didn't lose a 2nd round pick. They used it on Mason Melotakis. It was a different system back then, clubs didn't lose picks unless the free agent was designated in the A class. In Willingham's case, the league simply generated a free draft pick out of thin air to help the A's, the Twins lost nothing. Also, the Twins will not be losing their 1st pick. Any pick inside the top 10 is protected, they would simply lose their 2nd round pick, which I wouldn't like but would be forgivable if they got a high class free agent however unlikely that would be.
  19. nicksaviking
    As I see it, the only way Sano doesn't come up is if he is under-performing AND the Twins by some miracle are in the playoff hunt. He'll get the call at some point next year if for no other reason than to get the fans talking about something other than the poor product on the field. That and Trevor Plouffe will surely find himself in the doghouse at some point again.
  20. nicksaviking
    I too worry a bit about Jimenez, though it doesn't stop me from wanting him. Even the bad Jimenez is no worse than what the Twins have run out there the last three years. My concern with Ubaldo is that he looked totally lost until this year. This year just so happened to be when Terry Francona came aboard. While Francona has a history of having very good pitching talent, he also has a history of getting the best out of that talent. Considering how inconsistant Jimenez, Masterson and Kazmir were before this year, I think it may be a solid guess that Francona and his staff have a knowledge or ability that most teams don't. I am beyond confident that the Twins do not have this ability, so if Jimenez needs continued refinement and adjustments, whoever gets him is in trouble. If he has learned implicitly from his instruction in Cleveland, I guess he should be fine as he would take that knowledge with him.
  21. nicksaviking
    Very nice. That sir, is publishable and should be in Reader's Digest!
  22. nicksaviking
    I've used Bartman as an example before. The only way to prevent Bartman, seeing-eye-singles, Texas-Leaguers, check-swing infield hits, sac flies, moving runners over, come-backers off the pitchers face, Jose Canseco noggin homruns, right fielders tossing the ball to fans in the stands with only 2 outs or incorrect bang-bang plays at the plate is to strike the damn batter out. It always comes down to pitching and a strikeout takes out 99% of the variables a team couldn't or at least shouldn't have to plan for.
  23. nicksaviking
    The Twins had only one qualified pitcher this year. Just as they did in 2012 and 2011. Amont qualifers, the Twins single qualified pitcher had the 7th fewest strikeouts in 2011, 2nd fewest in 2012 and the fewest in 2013. These were never the same pitcher. To make these facts fun:
  24. nicksaviking
    If it is, is it even possible to find out without completely dismanteling one of those departments and then hoping they picked the right one as the culprit?
  25. nicksaviking
    Yes agreed. I was not trying to discount anything Brandon says, I simply wanted to point out where I believe the disconnect was.
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