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Is Mason Miller getable?


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Twins could obviously use a weapon like Miller in the bullpen. His rookie scale contract and controllable years make him affordable (financially) for the Twins. An Elite bullpen arm is a luxury teams not in contention now or the foreseeable future do not really need. All of this adds up to a perfect match for the Twins to go big, but will they?

The twins have the propsects to get it done: Twins have some redundancies in a couple areas. with overlapping timelines.

First lets look forward a bit.

CF: assuming Buxton can reman even relatively healthy over even the next 2 years, which should be the window for when Jenkins/Rodriguez should be ready to man CF. Then that makes one of them "expendable" along with Gabriel Gonzalez.

RF: We have Kepler this year then he is off the books. Twins could trade him to move salary, btu that would be kinda cruel, but his salary clears next year. Could he return on a lower deal? possibly... if he wants to be a Twins lifer. But if we assume Twins dont trade Wallner at this deadline, then he could be heir apparent in RF.

LF: larnach?? if not traded? Castro? Martin? someone else moving forward next year, possibly a Keaschall?  Being potentially weak here should nto prevent us from trading from our young OF depth.

INFIELD:

Again assuming health a potential IF of Lewis 3B  Correa SS  Lee 2B Miranda 1B would be very solid over the next 6-10 years (minus Correa)

That opens up trade potential for Julien, 

So with just a cursory review some potential trade assets the Twins have to send to a rebuilding As team are:

Julien, Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Larnach.

You usually also nee to give up something to get something in the pitching department, so if we have to give up a high end pitcher with potential to get a PROVEN high end MLB arm then we have to.

Zebby  seems to be a fast riser, can we live without him? Charlee Soto? - we have given up recent highly drafting pitching in the past (Chase Petty).

And how about making a bigger combo deal to help balance our lineup L/R.

Say we give up Zebby, Soto, Julien, Rodriguez (could try it with Gonzalez first), and Larnach for Miller and bring back Rooker?

Larnach decent, but not a corner stone player.  the Rooker/Larnach swap is nto only an offensive upgrade but balances lineup, Rodriguez/Gonzalez is a top prospect but potentially blocked,  Julien, at this point doesnt seem to be much room for going forward.  Zebby & Soto both have potential, but how many young pitchers with potential actually live up to their potential? and we would be getting a proven arm, for this year and going forward.

Would the Twins give that much up? and woul the As take that in return for BOTH Miller/Rooker? or coudl they get more in 2 separate trades?

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KBJ1

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For a rookie reliever? You can't be serious. Blake Snell would cost less.

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