My Off-season Outline - Trade for Manaea, Sign Eduardo Rodriguez

[Ian23]

This is my blueprint as to what a very successful off-season would consist of. It would add several strong players but not trade away any of the core.

 

40 man moves 
 

Free Agents following WS

Simmons 

Pineda 

Colome 

 

Remove 

Kyle Garlick

Lewis Thorpe 

Devin Smeltzer

Juan Minaya

Ralph Garza

 

Non tender

Jake Cave

John Gant

Willians Austudillo 

Danny Columbe

 

Thorpe, Smeltzer, cave, Austudillo have all had several chances and it’s time for the Twins to move on. Coulumbe Gant Garza Minaya and Garlick are all replaced by superior options

 

40 man at 29

 

Add for Rule V 

Lewis

Sands

Miranda

Winder

Enlow

 

All are easy protections except for Blayne Enlow whom I think will be a Bailey Ober type slight surprise add that will turn out well. 

 

Trade

Drew Strotman Keoni Canvaco and Jermaine Palacios to the Oakland A’s for Elvis Andrus and Sean Manea 

 

This trade proposal kills two birds with one stone for the Twins. It gives them their starting shortstop for next season at a reasonable price of roughly $7 million and also gives them another starter to fill in the rotation. As for the A’s this also is a reasonable deal as they are looking to cut payroll this trade would save them roughly $18 million. In addition it also gives them three lottery ticket prospects. 

 

Free Agent moves

Sign Eduardo Rodriguez to a 2 year $30 million dollar deal 

Sign John Gray to a 3 year $30 million dollar deal

Sign Mychal Givens to a 1 year $5 million dollar deal

Sign Carlos Martinez to a 1 year $3 million dollar deal

Sign Joc Pederson to a 1 year $4 million dollar deal 

 

Rodriguez and Gray are both looking for a decent payday but also might improve on their numbers with a change of scenery which is why they could be added for fairly cheap. Martinez is added as either competing for a rotation spot or bullpen long reliever type role. Givens is a solid reliever for the backend of the bullpen. Peterson enters as the leftfielder while Kirilloff moves to first and Sano takes over the DH spot.

 

40 man is full

 

Bonus Prediction

This leaves the twins payroll lower than last season up until spring training when the twins finally come to an agreement with Byron Buxton on a large extension to keep the star in the Twin Cities resulting in a 5%bump in payroll for this year. 5 Year $90 million dollar deal

 

[Brandon]

The trade for Oaklands SS and Manea is creative, but You need to include better prospects.  Oakland will want 2 top 20 prospects at minimum.  maybe a & 4-8 and a 12-15 level prospect and even then I could be off.  Manea is valuable.  

Good guesses on the contracts.  They are close to what I would give as well.  Though Buxton's will be more of a split contract.  Half guaranteed and the rest incentives.  not sure how the incentives will break out but you can take a guess.  That's half the fun.  

[Ian23]

12 hours ago, Brandon said:

The trade for Oaklands SS and Manea is creative, but You need to include better prospects.  Oakland will want 2 top 20 prospects at minimum.  maybe a & 4-8 and a 12-15 level prospect and even then I could be off.  Manea is valuable.  

Good guesses on the contracts.  They are close to what I would give as well.  Though Buxton's will be more of a split contract.  Half guaranteed and the rest incentives.  not sure how the incentives will break out but you can take a guess.  That's half the fun.  

I thought the Andrus/Manea trade was too cheap also but according to mlb trade simulator it’s a slight overpay by the Twins. They have Andrus has a near -5 points player, I would probably add in another decent prospect too. Maybe Johan Duran to include with Cavaco and Strotman as they are top 20 team prospects. 

[Major League Ready]

Gray is going to get a QA so no way does he take 3/30.  My guess is 3/40.  He might even get 4 years from someone.  Next year is his age 30 season and a lot of the better FAs are quite old.  

That package won't land Manaea, IMO.  I would hope the Twins FO would not trade away any meaningful prospects for 1 year of control.  Therefore, I don't see the Twins trading for Manaea.  The only time you see teams making that kind of trade is when they are already a serious contender.  

[Doctor Gast]

Really like your blueprint! The only difference I'd do is an upgrade at SP, probably  some one like Lopez from MIA. Headlining Arraez and Jeffers  in a trade.

Also like you showed what your 40 man roster would look like. That means you're conscience and take responsibility for it

[Brandon]

4 hours ago, Ian23 said:

I thought the Andrus/Manea trade was too cheap also but according to mlb trade simulator it’s a slight overpay by the Twins. They have Andrus has a near -5 points player, I would probably add in another decent prospect too. Maybe Johan Duran to include with Cavaco and Strotman as they are top 20 team prospects. 

Andrus at 7 million The A's are paying vs the 18 or so million he will end up getting are 2 different things.  I don't know what his defense is like either and that could be a huge negative.  especially since we could resign Simmons for around that 7-9 million and he is a huge plus on defense if not a blackhole on offense..... I bet Simmons rebounds some with a better season offensively next year.  probably an 85 to 90 OPS type of season.  so if we are getting Andrus as part of a salary dump we probably want to make sure he won't kill us as the everyday SS since we wont have a replacement for a while.  But if you think he can be a 90 OPS hitter and at least league average defender with speed then.... but I think the package will still require at least one better prospect if not 2.