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Everything doesn't have to go right from the outset, but we're gonna need to make quick, correct assessments from Spring Training forward. Prescient calls like "Pineda is ready out of Spring Training" will be at least as necessary this year.
The M's truly have a Billy Beane situation this year, trim-the-flaps while in flight. ... you pretty confident in them to do that? They picked out Doogie, Wilhelmsen, Vargas etc. Maybe not so much in the lineup.
Your Pineda remark is why, if I'm Jay-Z, I'm thinking Paxton and Hultzen as soon as possible. Those are the two marquee talents who could, in theory, provide a Hansen Brothers factor in 2012.
This past week he mentioned, as a possibility, their coming north out of ST again.