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Replace Clement and Olmedo with Doumit and Plouffe, you could be looking at your opening day lineup.

I guess we are scraping the bottom of the barrel if we have been relegated to complaining about the potential of a $2 million vesting option on a fringe starting middle infielder.

Can we...

Here is how the Twins offseason has gone so far:

Write a Twins article bashing the Twins approach.
Write a Twins article bashing the Correia signing.
Repeat.
Can something please happen so we...

Other incentives I heard that are in his contract:

$250k if he goes the whole season without throwing a bat at an umpire
$100k if he goes the entire season without doing a pirouette in the...

Look, I truly am not a fan of the Correia signing. I have said many times that I thought it was a gross overpayment. But nobody here seems to be able to answer my question.

There has been lot of...

Why would it be stretching it? Is it so hard to believe that the intention may have been to do as was said initially, but as the winter went on things did not go according to plan? Every beat...

Based off of USA Today, the Twins payroll last year was somewhere around $74 million. Add in your claimed profit of $26.6 million (where did that come from by the way?), that would allow them to go...

It also appears that some of the more "insensitive" comments have been deleted.

Agreed. I've never understood all the hating for Carroll.

What inside information do you have to prove this?

And here is where the circular argument comes in to play. What if the GM truly believes that the pitchers available are not worth the money? What if he truly feels that there are no logical trades...

Assuming the intention is to sell in the near future...

Compact Powers in Michigan got $150 million to build Volt batteries (instead of outsourcing). A few years back Target got an insane check to keep their headquarters in MN.

Let's not get into...

Agreed. That is part of the problem with being in Minnesota. No huge TV contract, no huge advertising income. They actually rely on fans in the stands to meet the bottom line. The team walks a...

Seriously? Big businesses get huge tax breaks and concessions all the time from cities and states looking to bring them in or have them build in a specific spot. The only thing about the Twins is...

The "spending just to spend" theory is contingent on the belief that the funds will be saved for future use. We all know that is not the case. That being said, throwing copious amounts of money...

I heard he was pitching wiffle balls to his 4 yr old nephew, and wrenched his right shoulder when he turned quick to watch a 250 ft tater...

What about Joe Mauer? He makes way to much money, can't stay on the field, doesn't hit homeruns, and...

Wait a minute...

What thread am I on?

Not sure how that slipped in. I have corrected the posting. It's still pretty impressive to have 3 "1st rounders" out of one draft.

Mel Kiper has an article up redoing the 2007 draft (sorry, it's an insider). I was surprised at how well the Vikings drafted that year. In the redraft, Kiper has:

Adrian Peterson at 2 (Vikes...

Sid Hartman is still alive? Wasn't he at the Alamo? I thought Barrerio was ghost writing for him for the extra paycheck...

I agree with you Seth, but I have an extremely difficult time believing that to be the case. There is absolutely no reason not to vote Biggio, arguably one of the best 2B ever to play the game with...

Are you reading my mind now? How did we go from crapshoot to "complete waste of time"?

Are you honestly going to tell me that picking the scraps of other teams minor league systems will get you...

So many wrong things, I don't even know where to begin...

Rule 5 picks rarely work out to the good, especially pitchers. I don't have the numbers, but can anybody name one pitcher picked in all...

If the numbers last year were worse than his career averages, how can he "regress to the mean"?

I know you meant league averages, but there really is no reason to believe he will do that. His...