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  1. yarnivek1972
    It’s happened before. The most recent time the owners were caught attempting to restrict player movement, the result was Jack Morris coming to the Twins. Do I know it is happening now? Of curse not. Just wondering if there are any rumblings about it, from agents or the MLBPA.
  2. yarnivek1972
    So, regarding the “ice cold” hot stove. Anyone hearing the “C” word? As in “ Collusion”?
  3. yarnivek1972
    Any theory that Buxton kinda being a ball hog might negatively impact Rosario’s range metrics?
  4. yarnivek1972
    Shortstop has been a black hole since day one for the franchise. There have been maybe 5 guys that have started the majority of games for 3 consecutive years: Zoilo, Smalley, Gagne, Meares and Guzman. Coming up on 60 years of the Twins and those 5 manned the spot for maybe 25 of them.
  5. yarnivek1972
    I don’t see what Zach Duke brings to the table that Ryan O’Rourke (whom the Twins released) didn’t already have. “Experience”? Translation: he’s old and likely due to regress. Sure, coming off TJS, O’Rourke is a bit unknown. But it would seem that a loogy role would be pretty easy to come back to after.
  6. yarnivek1972
    The voters clearly value tenure over greatness. Greg Gagne is in. Chuck Knoblauch is not. One was way better, relative to his peers, than the other.
  7. yarnivek1972
    I would say there was a very clear line in the AL this past year. The Twins were not nearly as good as the other 4 teams in the playoffs. Not nearly. And even further behind the top two. So, yeah, if no one else in the AL gets better they can make the playoffs with Gibson in the rotation. Didn’t say they couldn’t. But making the playoffs doesn’t make a team a legitimate title contender. The pretenders are pretty quickly dismissed in the current playoff format.
  8. yarnivek1972
    Johan Santana isn’t even a gimme to make the Twins Hall of Fame. I’m pretty sure his Twins career was shorter than anyone else in the Twins HOF. Much like Justin Morneau probably won’t be a Twins HOFer, despite winning an MVP. Right now, Zoilo Versalles is the shortest tenured Twin in the Twins HOF. He spent 7 full seasons plus 2 partial seasons with the Senators. Johan had 6 full seasons and 2 partial seasons in a Twins uniform.
  9. yarnivek1972
    If the Twins don’t have 5 pitchers better than Kyle Gibson, they aren’t legitimate title contenders IMO.
  10. yarnivek1972
    This. Exactly. If you are expecting better results, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. I’m sure those are what Falvine’s expectations are. He’s still very tradeable. Any healthy pitcher is a tradeable commodity.
  11. yarnivek1972
    I don’t think average age of a particular minor league level is a meaningful evaluation. The guys that are prospects are generally younger than “org fill” players at each level. They have to be otherwise they would be completely overmatched.
  12. yarnivek1972
    In the mid 80s, half of all teams were playing on turf. Maybe more. It was a speed era.
  13. yarnivek1972
    A better, more obvious comparison is Sandy Koufax. Of course, one thing Koufax has (and so did Puckett actually) is multiple World Series rings. Not saying that no one without that can get in, but when a guy is borderline, that matters. It did with Bert. It may still with Morris.
  14. yarnivek1972
    I’m not sure if it makes sense to say that O’Rourke likely has several years ahead of him at the MLB level and then rate him below Turley, who still has to prove he can get outs at the MLB level.
  15. yarnivek1972
    Correct me if I am wrong, but I seem to recall part of rule 5 being once you lost a guy, you could protect some more. Is that something I imagined or an actual rule? If true, the gamble is lessened because you really only risk losing one of them. So, say someone takes a flier on Burdi, knowing they can stash him on the DL for at least a couple months. You still would retain other guys you really would like to get a further look at. Unless, I am just remembering wrong.
  16. yarnivek1972
    It’s all about putting players in position to succeed, something Tom Kelly and Andy MacPhail did very well. In this day and age, part of that equation is analytics. That part of the game passed Terry Ryan and Ron Gardenhire by IMO.
  17. yarnivek1972
    FWIW, Lackey is by far the active leader in HBP with 133. Next is CC Sabathia with 109. Bronson Aroyo and Ervin Santana are the only other actives over 100. That said, I have no problem with a guy pitching hard inside to make hitters uncomfortable. That is part of the game. A part Twins pitchers have never done enough of IMO.
  18. yarnivek1972
    Hughes is signed through 2019.
  19. yarnivek1972
    Asking your third place hitter to sacrifice is beyond dumb IMO. There is a reason that guy is hitting third. It usually means he’s one of your best (if not THE BEST) hitters.
  20. yarnivek1972
    I suspect that is why, at the end of the season, the Twins had Robbie Grossman and his obp in the 9 hole. So Dozier had a better chance to hit with runners on.
  21. yarnivek1972
    Cody Allen is Cleveland's closer. In the playoffs, at home, winning or losing or tied, your closer is going to pitch the 9th inning.
  22. yarnivek1972
    After 2018, Rosario, Buxton and Sano will still be 3 years away from FA. That’s an awful long time to stay healthy. Especially for Buxton and Sano, who both already have rather extended inury history.
  23. yarnivek1972
    In two of the last four seasons, Bryce Harper has had a bWAR under 2 and in only one season in his career is it higher than 5.1. Buyer beware. And like I said, nothing stops the Twins from making an offer in June of next year, long before the free agency season.
  24. yarnivek1972
    Why? Puckett wasn’t. He posted 3 seasons of fWAR of 4.7 or higher in his first 6. They made him MLB’s first $3 mil per year player. Sure, salaries are higher now. So is revenue. Tom Kelly’s last year as manager was 2001. Twins revenue was $75 mil that year. It was $249 mil in 2016. Who knows where revenue will be in 6 years. $300 mil? Not unrealistic IMO. Will the Twins still need to make wise secisions? Yep. Will they need to choose between Buxton and maybe Sano or Rosario? Probably. Can they make Buxton one of the highest paid players in MLB and still field a championship level team? I think so.
  25. yarnivek1972
    Let’s step into the shoes of Derek Falvey for a minute. Are you really prepared to bank the rest of your career on 2 guys that have never posted fWARs above 2.5 and another who posted a 3.5 and never before above 1.7? It’s real easy to say “extend them all” when it isn’t your job on the line if they don’t pan out.
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