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I don't see it. This draft has 5 or 6 (with Mitchell) potentially elite college prospects sitting at the top. We're in a very good position sitting 5th. I don't see a need to complicate things and pass up one of those players, especially when the next "group" is filled with HS players who don't match up as well with our current timeline of contention. Normally I wouldn't say to factor in college vs. HS; but in this case I don't think it makes sense to pass up an elite college player who can help sooner to draft a lower tier HS player (or a lower tier college player) to save money.

The Little League World Series is a complete novelty event that is barely serious at all - its just fun to see a bunch of little kids get the spotlight on TV. At the end of the day all of those kids go to school and live a normal life like any other kid their age. The "sell" of female professional athletics is that it is a professional endeavor no different from men's athletics. The women are professional athletes whose job is to excel in their given sport. It's a little harder to take that "sell" seriously when you realize that in virtually all of those sports, the best women on the planet would, and DO, get beaten badly by teenage BOYS. Not "men" as you put it, but BOYS. The US Women's NATIONAL soccer team (the best women's team on the planet) lost against the FC Dallas Under-15 boys team. Not the "Under-15 National Team", but a regional team of what? 9th graders? The same is true for the Canadian Women's National Hockey team who have played, and routinely lose against random squads of boys barely past puberty. So this isn't even a question of comparing a top female athlete to a top male athlete - it's literally a situation wherein you can say with confidence that there are hundreds of 15 year olds in America alone who are better soccer players than Alex Morgan - or whoever the best professional female American soccer player is. This is what makes their ridiculous cries for "equal payment" even more ridiculous. Not only do their sports make next to no money, but the idea that they should be paid equivalent to their male counterparts is even harder to fathom when you consider that all of these women are at the equivalency of about a good high-school boy.

She wouldn't even be a Top 1000 player. He was actually being too kind, and when you have female "sports reporters" (and cuck-level beta male co-hosts) questioning that factual analysis, it actually makes people legitimately question ANY female who gets a similar job in sports, because how could anyone who is paid a salary to report on sports actually pose the question that Serena Williams is somehow the "best player in the world"?

This is a lame-ass comparison. Jonathan Elrichman was hired to an extremely specialized position (Process and Analytics Coach) and his qualifications - a degree in Mathematics from Princeton University - correlate perfectly and entirely to that position. KevinGregg's point was that her qualifications comparative to what the Giants are saying her role is going to be are muddled. It is entirely probable that she proved herself worthy of the position over her years spent within the organization, and she deserves that distinction, but throwing Jonathan Elrichman as some sort of counter argument is clown-s***, bro.

Yeah but you're a f***ing idiot, so who really cares what you'd rather have. Amirite?

Jansen sucked dick until the player development system was revamped by Shapiro, and pretending like Bryan Parker was the only person involved with selecting Bichette is comical. Who's the area scout that covers that region? I bet he still works here. Bryan Parker and AA couldn't draft position players worth s*** LMAO, so I seriously doubt that these were the lone geniuses involved in championing that pick. What, Tony LaCava had no input in that pick? I love how Law's Tweet there is basically insinuating that we "screwed up" by replacing Parker, when in reality Steve Sanders has killed the draft. Big whoop; a new management team came in and brought in their own guy. AA did the exact same f***ing thing in Atlanta LMAO, and the guy he canned was WAY more established than Parker.

How dare they like a player, amirite?

Sorry that I'm not dumb enough to buy after-the-fact claims by rivals teams that they supposedly made all these "much better" offers but are flabbergasted that we just wouldn't listen. Use your brain dumbass. The Twins F.O. is facing their own scrutiny. Its called deflecting.

No offense, but the fact that some you can't sniff out rival teams' BS is pretty puzzling. Use some common sense. These teams are facing their own heat for NOT making moves. The Twins needed starting pitching and were after starting pitching, and they came away with nothing. It is incredibly easy for them to, after the fact, state that "we really wanted Stroman and had an even better offer that we were willing to make! We can't believe they wouldn't let us beat the offer they ended up taking!" Its a horseshit attempt at spinning the narrative so that it looks like they wanted to get a deal done, but we somehow blew it by taking less. That way they absolve responsibility for not adding like they were expected to add, as if it was "out of their hands" LOL.

Kendall Williams alert in the GCL. Dasan Brown has also been added to the roster, but hasn't appeared yet.

The deadline passed. We obviously weren't going to sign anyone left for a few thousand over $125K lol.

Masson got just under $300K.

1.5 years of Stroman is worth MUCH more than this LMAO.

Orelvis Martinez 3 for 5 with a HR and a 3B today. Boy is looking good early.

So the legitimacy of his entire extension rests on one year's worth of performance, in a complete throwaway season wherein we will likely finish with a Top 5 draft pick (ie: it really makes no difference whether he provides -1 WAR or 5 WAR LOL). That is an interesting jump to conclusions you are making. To answer your question, it would still be a smart extension. His deal is front-loaded which means that he gets cheaper as we get closer to actually being in a position (competing) wherein what he makes has actual implications on the team's position. His salary in 2019 has literally no implication on the team's position as they are already in a reduced-payroll scenario.

Right, because Cashman has this nonexistent ability wherein he is ALWAYS right (like 100% of the time) on the future outcome of the players he trades away LOL? This is such a dumb narrative.

Pardinho would have been in Lansing but had an injury. That is why he is in extended.

Unexpected:

You could tell that the bonus wasn't going to be as extreme as most probably thought by how the rest of the draft went.

It looks like they signed two 17-year old pitchers from the Netherlands today.

He is in Low A.