Twins Trade Mitch Garver to Rangers for Shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa

[bighat]

15 hours ago, USAFChief said:

IKF is going to bat 4, 5 or 6?

MLB Network thinks so.

[twinfan]

I don't like this trade for several reasons. Garver, when healthy, is a darn good hitter with very good power and an improved catcher who could have even played first had we dealt Sano. We get no pitching help at all which is what we need. We give up on Lewis (whom I'm not crazy about anyway but is our top prospect if you believe the press). We get a decent short stop who has no power (this is not the 1950s- shortstops today can hit). Yuck!

[Twins33]

Not a fan

[Nine of twelve]

9 hours ago, bighat said:

MLB Network thinks so.

I'd swap Kepler and Kirilloff. I'd also put Polanco at 2B and Arraez at DH.

[Riverbrian]

On 3/12/2022 at 8:30 PM, Riverbrian said:

Yeah... I don't like this trade much either. 

But... I'm going to agree with you by disagreeing with you. 

This isn't a trade that is made by losing teams. Losing teams wouldn't have traded two years of one of the top hitting performers at a hitting scarce position like catcher for two years of a defensive performer at a defensively scarce position like shortstop. Losing teams would have gotten a fairly decent prospect or two. 

Falvey mentioned that they had "Some Depth" at the catcher position. They HAD some depth with Garver and Jeffers... they don't have depth at catcher anymore and the funny thing is... with the edition of Kiner-Falefa... they still don't have depth at SS either.... so now you don't have depth at two positions instead of one.

This trade is like pumping half the water that seeped into the northwest corner of your basement into the dry southwest corner of your basement. If I did that... my wife would ask me why I wrecked a dry corner trying to fix the wet corner and answering "for balance" would not satisfy her. 

The last time we moved a player from a position of "depth" to shore up a "thin" position... it was Aaron Hicks for John Ryan Murphy. By May we were desperately shoring up that OF depth with Robbie Grossman off the scrap heap plus we got to enjoy Juan Centeno at catcher to boot. 

Yep... We just did it again. 

 

Dear Front Office,

 

I apologize for the post above. Clearly you hadn't finished yet. I have my popcorn now and I'll sit back and watch. 

 

Sincerly,

 

Riverbrian

[dex8425]

On 3/12/2022 at 2:17 PM, Mike Sixel said:

Really? Who? I'm genuinely curious which free agents you think put up 2 war next year.

Well, Andrelton Simmons, Trevor Story, Jonathan Villar, Freddy Galvis, perhaps even Jose Iglesias and Niko Goodrum too. Twins also could've signed Baez or Chris Taylor. How many of these are options now? I think just Story, Villar, Iglesias, Galvis?