SonofaRoache

What front line starters will be available? I looked a few months back and saw Bauer, Q, Lester, Big Jake, and a few others in that class of arm. I think a trade is possible, but who would we trade? I'm not being cynical, I'd really like to hear what our realistic options are.

We may buy because the next 6 years will be a nice window, but we shall see. Who could we realistically pay that will make sense? Rookie is gonna want too much money. Mazara can be replaced and maybe GioG, but who else?

Yep. I think since the season is short, those tanking teams will give it a shot as well. In a typical season, you will see teams start hot and flame out. If Seattle starts 13 and 2 for instance, I think their mindset will be different this year. It is important to note when considering SOS that teams will be trying this year, so there will be few gimmie series. I think you have to treat this like an NBA season were every game you try to win, and when a blowout is taking place, you rest folks. I don't think good teams will have the bad stretches we see from them because of the lack of travel, fans, and "Sunday Lineups".

I mentioned the time change in my earlier post. This post was about difficulties of rescheduling already rained out games.

9 games this season is drastic. Won't be too many dual off days and teams only have 6 days off as is.

No fans at the game anyway, so just adjust the schedule to accommodate bad weather.

Yeah everyone is panicking about the last stretch but the Twins last 4 series is just as tough as ours is. And we get them for 4 at home.

We have a top 5 weak SOS, the Twins series is in our favor from a location perspective, we have about 24 games against Tigers, Royals, and Pirates. We will be okay.

Most teams schedules are gonna look rough.

Yeah that is the point of taking two tests days apart. Just in case there is a false negative.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2892419-power-ranking-every-al-mvp-season-since-2000 https://www.mlb.com/news/21st-century-most-valuable-players-awards-ranked Both of these articles mention that AROID and Pedro are basically next in line. These aren't I articles I read, that one mentioned that Frank was 10th in WAR and just other stats that made me feel like maybe Frank wasn't as robbed as I once thought.

I don't remember exactly, but I think it was a spring MLB.com article about re-ranking MVP races. I'll see if I can find it.

Thanks. That means he will probably start 4 games this year. Rich Hill coming back will help them big time, but us getting a potential full year of Kopech (hopefully) and Rodon is just as good.

I would prefer this schedule if it evens out next year, which it should. Off topic, what is the status of the Twins 2and best pitcher Michael Pineda? Will he have to miss nearly this entire season since it is only 60 games?

The article I read explained things in depth and it made it sense. It should be retroactively given to Thomas because Giambi was a cheater, but the rules are the rules. Big Frank got the best award of them all by entering the Hall.