The Quickie Response Thread to the Question: Should the Twins Trade Liriano?

[jorgenswest]

Yes.

As long as they get an offer clearly better than a comp pick.

[Top Gun]

No, you don't even have a offer yet!

[TheLeviathan]

Well if Lev says so we all know it must be true, thanks for the insight into the mind of a major league pitcher! Also your tl;dr gibberish was much longer then the 3 sentance maximum discussed earlier in the thread.

It was in response to a reply, my three sentencer is already up - but you completely missed the point. I have no idea what Liriano is thinking about his future, but the notion that he would take 3/24 is built on ignoring the team's struggles, his past struggles with the organization, and the value of being a free agent pitcher AND making assumptions about what Liriano would think makes sense. As Chief walked into - it's always been built, at least in part, on the notion that Liriano has been a poor pitcher lately and that he will recognize that. While it makes sense from our perspective to speculate on including that data in an offer - Liriano has no reason to do any such thing. He can believe whatever he wants. So it's really the "Offer him 3/20-whatever" crowd that is making assumptions about Liriano's train of thought.

I'll stick to his stats from the last few seasons for my argument. He's been bad, I'd rather not invest any firm money into that - toss major incentives in, but save the guarantees for another player.

[DPJ]

Like everyone on this roster, SELL SELL SELL!

[MWLFan]

yes. The odds are we will have buyers remorse if he gets a big contract. I guess I don't believe that he can maintain the current performance. But this comes with risk that he might I know.

[Boom Boom]

Yes.

If the Twins sign Liriano to a 3-year deal... do you think the Twins will be a division contender in the next three years? I don't, so I'd like to get something for Liriano now.

[Jeremy Nygaard]

No. Unless blown away by trade offer (Top 50 prospect), offer him arbitration and go from there.