Why Didn't the Twins Go Full Sell-Off?

[Cody Pirkl]

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The Twins entered the offseason with everything on the table. It felt very possible that they would trade their few remaining star players, Joe Ryan, Pablo López, and Byron Buxton. Instead, they chose to keep these players, to the delight of fans, as they announced their intention to contend in 2026. As we look at the roster as February approaches, it may be time to ask why they chose this path.

The Twins should make every effort to contend every season. They play in the AL Central, which has long been one of baseball's less competitive and lower-spending divisions. They also have a handful of star-caliber players to build a successful roster around. They had a clear path to contention, with a handful of additions to bolster the roster. As spring training approaches, though, it’s unclear whether they’ve made a reasonable effort to build a contender.

 

Minnesota's offseason has moved them forward, rather than backward, but has it pushed them back to the front of the underwhelming pack? Context is key: Several of their decisions are understandable in a vacuum, but eyebrow-raising in the context of their situation. Tendering Trevor Larnach a $4.475-million contract yields reasonable value. So does bringing in Josh Bell for $7 million. Carrying two players who are best-served in a DH role on a team with strict financial limitations seems excessive.

 

Adding Alex Jackson via trade to back up Ryan Jeffers, who is expected to take on a bigger role, was reasonable. So was signing Victor Caratini to a multi-year deal last week. Carrying three catchers on this already disjointed roster doesn’t make a lot of sense, though, so now, either Jackson or Jeffers seems likely to be headed out the door. Meanwhile, as the Twins continue to invest their limited payroll in adding to logjams across the roster, they’ve made just two modest additions to the bullpen (Eric Orze and Taylor Rogers), after parting with several cost-controlled, high-leverage relievers at last year’s trade deadline.

After preaching athleticism and defense at the end of another disappointing 2025 season, the roster has arguably gone in the other direction, looking likely to be one of the slowest and worst defensive squads in baseball once again. Their logjam of left-handed bats has not been resolved, and even their additions to the offense, such as Bell and Caratini, who are switch-hitters, are better from the left side. The bullpen, which should have been priority number one going into the offseason, has been only lightly reinforced and projects to be one of the worst in baseball in 2026.

 

The offseason may not yet be complete, but the current roster is so flawed that it’s difficult to see how the issues will be resolved without a historic flurry of moves. No matter what the Twins say, this is not a championship-caliber roster. So why didn’t they just sell off their star players, if the current roster is anything close to the final product?

 

It’s possible that the decision to keep all of their stars earlier this offseason was made to appease fans, rather than to compete in 2026. They said all the right things about the fanbase's cratering interest in their product, and then announced they wouldn’t tear the roster down any further. Trading away their remaining valuable veterans and fan favorites would have alienated the fans even further, before the season even started. Given a payroll that will already be significantly lower than last season’s, they could afford to keep these players and try to regain fans' trust.

 

For now, though, the offseason has been insufficient to meet that objective. Perhaps there are more moves to be made, but it’s impossible to envision a functional roster on the field for Opening Day with anything less than a complete overhaul. They may have kept their star players for now, but they’re headed for another major trade deadline selloff in July, based on how they’ve handled the offseason thus far.

It’s possible this was the intention all along—that Ryan, Lopez, and Buxton weren’t kept to build a competitor for 2026, but rather to temporarily hit pause on the free-falling interest of their fanbase, with knowledge that they could still bring a haul at the trade deadline. It’s either that, or they genuinely believe that the roster as currently constructed can compete in 2026. At the moment, neither option inspires confidence.

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[Dman]

Yeah I agree.  It's a long shot, but they might be able to compete with this roster.  I think selling all the way would have killed any interest in the team for this coming year.  If they are bad at the deadline they can complete the tear down then and at least say they tried.  

Sometimes some hope is better than no hope.  This should be an interesting season.  With all the flaws and holes they still could tank pretty badly.  Getting off to a solid start is going to be more important than ever this year.

[bunsen82]

1. Making broad strokes before all the ingredients have been put in seems foolish.   

2. Modest additions do not necessarily have modest impacts.   This bullpen will be clearly be a whole is greater than the sum of its parts situation this year.    That is ok.   They will not be one of the worst bullpens.   They know how not to put players in bad positions, and they will have ample depth from selling AAA invitees,  signing potentially 1 more releiver or trades,  with potentially converted starters for more leverage positions - the end product will be much better than most have been moaning about.  

3.  Flaws -  not sure what you are getting at.   We have some pieces that currently we don't see how the twins plan to fit them together,  As of now we need 2 spots on the 40 man,  and due to a delay in the announcement,  my guess is a trade is incoming.  Jackson,  Larnach, Wallner,  one of the fringe 40 man prospects,  I don't know.  We want to talk about a lack of athleticism,  but the athleticism will be coming from new prospects coming up.  Jenkins, Rodriguez, Culpepper.   This won't be a perfect roster - I still think for some reason we are going to keep outman around (ugh).  But that you have a pretty decent 1st baseman option if we choose to move Clemens to second,  Keaschall to outfield,  or a DH in Bell,  that Caratini is an excellent secondary option for this year and next year.   We seem to be filling the holes this team had.    

4.  If you want to look at this from a glass 1/2 full you have that option.  All things considered,  to me they have the makings of a pretty decent team.  Now I thought they would have to spend more to build the bullpen I would have preferred, but I am starting to see the potential vision on a bullpen that so many including yourself seem to bemoan.   

[Rhyno006]

Quote

...the Twins this year is that the rotation and offense are good enough to build leads for the bullpen to regularly blow.

This is exactly how I see many games playing out this season. 

[LastOnePicked]

"Instead, they chose to keep these players, to the delight of fans, as they announced their intention to contend in 2026."

I'm fine if I'm in the minority on this, but I'm a fan, and I am not delighted.

I want ownership that can make hard, unpopular decisions for the good of the team. Not for the good of their finances. Not for their short-term positive PR. For the good of their ability to win a championship. Keeping Ryan, Buxton and Lopez hurts that goal. They will almost certainly receive less in trade returns at the deadline than they would have received in the offseason. And with this team's injury luck, they may get nothing at all.

Nibbling along the fringes of the 40-man roster is not a winning strategy for a 90-loss club. Cleveland and Detroit are far better organizations with better farm systems. This was the time to rebuild everything and emerge from the CBA year leaner, smarter and with a clearer vision for winning in '28 and beyond.

Plus, I'm not delighted for Lopez, Buxton or Ryan. I like these guys a lot, and I want them to have a chance to compete while they have something to offer. They have no chance for that here this year.

[Hubie29]

How can the construction of this roster so far not be considered a "half measure"? If it's not a half measure, it's below half. 

[LastOnePicked]

22 minutes ago, bunsen82 said:

 They will not be one of the worst bullpens. 

They had the 23rd ranked bullpen last year, and that was including the pre-deadline contributions of Duran and others. They have added only Rogers thus far. There is every chance they will have one of the worst bullpens again in 2026.

[LastOnePicked]

25 minutes ago, Rhyno006 said:

This is exactly how I see many games playing out this season. 

Not me. This offense isn't nearly good enough to build consistent leads.

[The Great Hambino]

Why didn't they go full sell-off?  Because they're operating under the misguided notion that merely retaining the big names from last year's failure constituted "doing something for the fans."  They had Buxton, Lopez, and Ryan on the team last year and drew poorly from the beginning.   But simply keeping them around will bring fans back?  It makes zero sense.

The team on paper at the beginning of last year was much better than the team on paper now.   I would've much rather they finished the rebuild they began last year so that we could believe that there was some semblance of a plan - that 2028 was truly go time.

And for the deadline sell-off that we were told was going to provide short-term as well as long-term impact?  If everyone is healthy, there's a good chance that the only player acquired on the position player side on the opening day roster is James Outman.  And if they're not willing to start converting starters to the bullpen immediately, then the only impact on the pitching side may be whomever they choose between Bradley and Abel to fill the last spot in the rotation - or potentially neither if Zebby is the choice (SWR and his lack of options will be in the rotation).

Short-term impact indeed.

[bunsen82]

20 minutes ago, LastOnePicked said:

They had the 23rd ranked bullpen last year, and that was including the pre-deadline contributions of Duran and others. They have added only Rogers thus far. There is every chance they will have one of the worst bullpens again in 2026.

We have consistently had a bullpen that has performed better than expectations.   Taking 1 year,  that included a bullpen that wasn't fully stocked for 2 months doesn't seem fair.   

[rv78]

23 minutes ago, LastOnePicked said:

"Instead, they chose to keep these players, to the delight of fans, as they announced their intention to contend in 2026."

I'm fine if I'm in the minority on this, but I'm a fan, and I am not delighted.

I want ownership that can make hard, unpopular decisions for the good of the team. Not for the good of their finances. Not for their short-term positive PR. For the good of their ability to win a championship. Keeping Ryan, Buxton and Lopez hurts that goal. They will almost certainly receive less in trade returns at the deadline than they would have received in the offseason. And with this team's injury luck, they may get nothing at all.

Nibbling along the fringes of the 40-man roster is not a winning strategy for a 90-loss club. Cleveland and Detroit are far better organizations with better farm systems. This was the time to rebuild everything and emerge from the CBA year leaner, smarter and with a clearer vision for winning in '28 and beyond.

Plus, I'm not delighted for Lopez, Buxton or Ryan. I like these guys a lot, and I want them to have a chance to compete while they have something to offer. They have no chance for that here this year.

Agree completely. There was no point in keeping any of these 3 plus Jeffers if all you are going to do is add fringe players that make no difference. If I was any of the 3 or 4 especially Buxton and I am watching what kind of crap Falvey is bringing in to try to help this team get better, I'm asking for a trade ASAP. 

Joe says he doesn't do half measures, and he says he doesn't think not going full rebuild and at the same time not spending to add significant pieces are half measures. That kinda proves he doesn't know what half measures are.

[bunsen82]

20 minutes ago, The Great Hambino said:

Why didn't they go full sell-off?  Because they're operating under the misguided notion that merely retaining the big names from last year's failure constituted "doing something for the fans."  They had Buxton, Lopez, and Ryan on the team last year and drew poorly from the beginning.   But simply keeping them around will bring fans back?  It makes zero sense.

The team on paper at the beginning of last year was much better than the team on paper now.   I would've much rather they finished the rebuild they began last year so that we could believe that there was some semblance of a plan - that 2028 was truly go time.

And for the deadline sell-off that we were told was going to provide short-term as well as long-term impact?  If everyone is healthy, there's a good chance that the only player acquired on the position player side on the opening day roster is James Outman.  And if they're not willing to start converting starters to the bullpen immediately, then the only impact on the pitching side may be whomever they choose between Bradley and Abel to fill the last spot in the rotation - or potentially neither if Zebby is the choice (SWR and his lack of options will be in the rotation).

Short-term impact indeed.

Huh,  by every indication Bradley is a starter this year and Abel is as well if SWR is in the bullpen.  Abel will battle Matthews for the last spot.   Roden is also likely in the outfield, especially if we trade Larnach.  

[The Great Hambino]

2 minutes ago, bunsen82 said:

Huh,  by every indication Bradley is a starter this year and Abel is as well if SWR is in the bullpen.  Abel will battle Matthews for the last spot.   Roden is also likely in the outfield, especially if we trade Larnach.  

You have a source for these indications?  I can't find anything about SWR moving to the bullpen. 

Trading Larnach would be the only way Roden makes the opening day roster.  He has options, Outman doesn't.  That's how they operate.  And even if they do choose Roden over Outman, it's only one trade acquisition making the team on opening day on the position player side.

[NYCTK]

Looking over at the Brewers and seeing how a well managed team trades away their "ace" in order to bring in talent to the organization. The Brewers adding two top 100 prospects from the Mets, they now arguably have the best farm system in baseball. 

What a concept! 

Seriously, this team blows and the fact that they held onto both Ryan and Lopez just tells me this organization has no interest in ever contending. A loser organization, top to bottom. 

[Cris E]

They didn't sell the names because they need to sell some tickets after a couple really bad years.  

They didn't sell back to the bare studs because then you'd need to trade something to get two more front of rotation starters just like the ones they have now. 

They didn't sell everything because you can get to the playoffs with a fairly pedestrian team in the AL Central. 

If the second and third year guys improve then they can compete, and if they don't then they will not be ready to compete in 2027 either. Lewis and Lee/Culpepper and Keashcal and some young pitching needs to establish in 2026 for anything to work in under 3-4 years. But if it does work then they can certainly hang with this division. 

There's some bizarre notion around these parts that the only acceptable goal is a World Series, and that's just wildly untrue. It's even less true when you're a couple years away and waiting on kids to make things possible. Ownership (especially the new non-Pohlads) knows that getting into a playoff hunt is winning, that excitement is winning, and positive energy on your way to a top team is winning. Doing a bad job of winning a little bit more is bad, but they aren't blocking the kids and they aren't trading away the future for mediocre parts of a .500 team they can afford.  They can't afford to win more than .500 via free agents, so raising your own top prospects must happen and they are working on it.

[Major League Ready]

48 minutes ago, LastOnePicked said:

"Instead, they chose to keep these players, to the delight of fans, as they announced their intention to contend in 2026."

I'm fine if I'm in the minority on this, but I'm a fan, and I am not delighted.

I want ownership that can make hard, unpopular decisions for the good of the team. Not for the good of their finances. Not for their short-term positive PR. For the good of their ability to win a championship. Keeping Ryan, Buxton and Lopez hurts that goal. They will almost certainly receive less in trade returns at the deadline than they would have received in the offseason. And with this team's injury luck, they may get nothing at all.

Nibbling along the fringes of the 40-man roster is not a winning strategy for a 90-loss club. Cleveland and Detroit are far better organizations with better farm systems. This was the time to rebuild everything and emerge from the CBA year leaner, smarter and with a clearer vision for winning in '28 and beyond.

Plus, I'm not delighted for Lopez, Buxton or Ryan. I like these guys a lot, and I want them to have a chance to compete while they have something to offer. They have no chance for that here this year.

Milwaukee just got Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat for 1 year of Peralta.  You would have to believe the return would be really significant for 2 years of Ryan.  Maybe those guys bomb out but this is how a team with Milwaukee's budget competes.  6-7 years from these players can be an enormous boost to a franchise.   If the twins are a 500 team they don't really give up much for the opportunity this type of trade provides.  

[Nashvilletwin]

15 minutes ago, NYCTK said:

Looking over at the Brewers and seeing how a well managed team trades away their "ace" in order to bring in talent to the organization. The Brewers adding two top 100 prospects from the Mets arguably have the best farm system in baseball. 

What a concept! 

Seriously, this team blows and the fact that they held onto both Ryan and Lopez just tells me this organization has no interest in ever contending. A loser organization, top to bottom. 

Exactly.  The Brewers are more than contenders and they move their top starter whom they know they could never resign for two top 100 prospects, both of whom are likely to contribute this season. So they lose one year of Peralta and get TWELVE years from the other two.  Smart move by a smart, much, much better run organization.

The Nationals also traded their top starter to the Rangers for a haul which included their #2 prospect - a highly regarded 3B who was the #12 overall pick last year.

Meanwhile the completely brain dead, misguided Twins who for some reason think they can contend with what is arguably one of the bottom three rosters in MLB sit on their hands.  Five innings of two run ball twice a week from Ryan and Lopez isn’t going to cut it.

Let’s all wait and see if their gamble turns out or if they end up blowing the value of Ryan and Lopez.  Sadly, my money is on the latter, especially with the work stoppage coming next year.

[minman1982]

I would be interested to see how much the end of the current CBA after the 2026 season is playing a role in what appears to be a lack of strategy. Maybe the FO feels there are too many unknowns and they want to see how the new CBA shakes out (or least have some idea of how it might end up) before making any huge decisions. This might not be a purely baseball decision.

[NYCTK]

2 minutes ago, Major League Ready said:

Milwaukee just got Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat for 1 year of Peralta.  You would have to believe the return would be really significant for 2 years of Ryan.  Maybe those guys bomb out but this is how a team with Milwaukee's budget competes.  6-7 years from these players can be an enormous boost to a franchise.   If the twins are a 500 team they don't really give up much for the opportunity this type of trade provides.  

As a Twins AND Mets fan, I was trying to will Jett for Ryan into existence. Jett on the Twins would have been such a shot in the arm to the franchise that is pretty lacking in MLB ready talent. Top tier positional flexibility, probably good enough to the be starting day SS for the Twins and ability to move off of it when pushed.

But sure, having Ryan for a 72 win season with what will probably be near a 4.00 ERA thanks to the Twins horseshit defense, that's pretty cool too. I'm sure the fans will really show up for that. 

[NYCTK]

1 hour ago, minman1982 said:

I would be interested to see how much the end of the current CBA after the 2026 season is playing a role in what appears to be a lack of strategy. Maybe the FO feels there are too many unknowns and they want to see how the new CBA shakes out (or least have some idea of how it might end up) before making any huge decisions. This might not be a purely baseball decision.

Ryan and Lopez are free agents before the next CBA negotiation begins, so it seems like they're just all without any sort of strategy regardless of that agreement. 

Edit: Or not? I think my timeline is messed up. 

[bunsen82]

4 minutes ago, The Great Hambino said:

You have a source for these indications?  I can't find anything about SWR moving to the bullpen. 

Trading Larnach would be the only way Roden makes the opening day roster.  He has options, Outman doesn't.  That's how they operate.  And even if they do choose Roden over Outman, it's only one trade acquisition making the team on opening day on the position player side.

I think at this point you are coming at this from anyway I can remain pissed off point of view.   

The players of value in the trade deadline in my viewpoint - 1. Tait 2. Bradley  3. Abel 4. Rojas 5. Mendez 6. Roden 7. Gallagher 8. Jimenez (with a massive up arrow).    Then a bunch of garbage including Outman.   

The players that can help the big league team are Bradley and Abel.  Roden maybe but I am not confident.   Roden also seems redundant so its not imperative that he hits.   If you want to be mad so be it.  

Here is where I am at, We have drafts picks and prospects that have the potential to become players or we can utilize as trade bait.  I don't think we could win a championship in 25, 26 or 27.  You seem to be on the same page,  so trading those relievers seems like a prudent idea.  I think you should rip the bandaid off and traded Buxton, and Ryan,  see if Lopez could regain his form then trade at the deadline.  

Now that Gore trade - woof.   I would tell you to be pissed off if we were on that side of a trade.   I take the Peralta return everyday of the week.    

I think Im just going to sit back and continue to be the fan I am.  If people are beyond frustrated there is nothing that I can say that will change their opinion.   

[bunsen82]

18 minutes ago, Nashvilletwin said:

 

The Nationals also traded their top starter to the Rangers for a haul which included their #2 prospect - a highly regarded 3B who was the #12 overall pick last year.

Meanwhile the completely brain dead, misguided Twins who for some reason think they can contend with what is arguably one of the bottom three rosters in MLB sit on their hands.  Five innings of two run ball twice a week from Ryan and Lopez isn’t going to cut it.

 

That Nationals trade is awful.  I don't see anyone defending that trade.  They have the 26th best farm system.  Now they traded their #2 player who wasn't even a top 100 prospect.    There is no way you can defend that trade.  None.  Then proceed to rip the Twins.    If you want to utilize the Brewers trade fine, I could agree with the rational.    

[Blyleven2011]

If you were to ask falvey a question at twins fest ...

I would ask him if the twins team is more athletic going into this season ???

His answer would be ( our players are definitely more athletic than ME ) ...

[Eris]

The Twins did not do a total selloff last year because Lewis, Lee, Larnach, Julien and Wallner did not have a lot of value.  I understand the point of the article which is that starting pitchers and Jeffers have a lot of value. Literally there would be no position players to build around except Buxton and possibly Keaschall.  Everyone else is just “hope”. You think a team 5 or 6 player who can not hit and whose best position is DH is bad, try a team full of non-hitting DH types with no starting pitching. At some level they need to sell tickets. There is hope the Lewis, Wallner, Martin, Keaschall and Jeffers can approach a 3 WAR season in which case the Twins will have a decent team.  Also, to have an impact on the Twins outlook, they would have needed to trade each SP for  Walker Jenkins type prospect as the Twins are many position players away from having a competitive post season team. 

[old nurse]

1 hour ago, Major League Ready said:

Milwaukee just got Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat for 1 year of Peralta.  You would have to believe the return would be really significant for 2 years of Ryan.  Maybe those guys bomb out but this is how a team with Milwaukee's budget competes.  6-7 years from these players can be an enormous boost to a franchise.   If the twins are a 500 team they don't really give up much for the opportunity this type of trade provides.  

Maybe the owners are not planning for much of a 27. 

[Richie the Rally Goat]

1 hour ago, bunsen82 said:

We have consistently had a bullpen that has performed better than expectations.   Taking 1 year,  that included a bullpen that wasn't fully stocked for 2 months doesn't seem fair.   

The two months not stocked are what they have now. If this bullpen exceeds expectations it will be the 29th bullpen in the MLB even after Rogers.

This team was 23rd in runs scored last year. No Correa, no Bader, and the husk of Josh Bell and his .1 WAR backfills Ty France and his .7 WAR.

its absolutely baffling why they didn’t go scorched earth.

[LA Vikes Fan]

While this offseason has been a snoozefest, can we jettison the overhyped and incorrect notion that we traded away "a great, cost-controlled bullpen"? We traded away 1, maybe 2, good relievers - Johan Duran and maaybe Danny Coulombe depending on your definition of great or even "good". By the way, Coulombe is so coveted that no one has signed him yet for 2026. For Duran we got arguably our 2nd or 3rd best starting pitching prospect in Abel (behind Matthews and Bradley maybe), and a catching prospect who's top 5 in our system. What? What about all those other great guys we traded? Well . . .

Griffin Jax, he of the 4.50 ERA with an 0 for 5 save record with the Twins in 2025 who "improved" to a 3.60 ERA with Tampa. "Great"? Not a chance. Good? In 2024, yes, he was. Other than that, in 2022 and 2023, he was mediocre at best and in 2025 he was bad. For him we got Taj Bradley who may actually be an MLB starting pitcher, but a real crapshoot. Both Jax and Bradley are crapshoots for 2026 and beyond. 

Louie Varland? Hmm, ERAs of 7.61 (2024), 4.63 (2023), and 3.81 (2022), but a very good first half 2.02 in 2025 in 49 innings for the Twins, followed by a robust and more in line with previous norms 4.94 ERA in 24 innings with the Jays. "Great". NO. "Good"? Yes for half a season in 2025, but mediocre to lousy for the other 3.5 full MLB seasons. For him we got a top LH starting pitcher prospect in Rojas and a flyer with potential OF in Roden. Hmmm, seems like a good deal.   

Ah, what about Brock Stewart? Let's see. 2020-2022, injured, not in MLB. In 2023, 27 innings very good innings (0.65 ERA), arm trouble, gone for the season. In 2024, 15 lousy innings (5.17 ERA), arm trouble, gone for the season. In 2025, now we're talking, 34 innings of 2.38 ERA, traded, 4 innings of 4.91 ERA for the Dodgers (who think we traded them an injured guy), arm trouble, gone for the season, shoulder surgery, "might" be back by August. That's probably good since Brock is only good for about 25-35 innings a season so why have him before August anyway. Got James Outman, not good, but hey, you trade not good you get not good.  

That's it. So let's stop whining that we had a great bullpen that management traded away and now we're building off the scrap heap because they are so stupid. We didn't trade away a great bullpen in 2025 - we didn't have a great bullpen in 2025. We had an OK bullpen in 2025 that looked better than it was because of Duran (and to a certain extent, Sands and Coulombe). Watch, this year's bullpen will be pretty much how last year's would have looked without Duran.  Let's retire the mindless trope that we traded away a great bullpen. We didn't because we didn't have one to trade away. 

[twinstalker]

I thought one reason they didn't trade Ryan is because they'd obviously get more in the offseason.  I'm guessing that hasn't happened.  These trades for Peralta and Gore are, imo, not being won by the team getting the prospects.  

Still, there are two seasons of team control left, and as soon as a team is willing to offer an incredible prospect, the Twins need to pull the trigger.  I'm just not sure the Twins can identify an incredible prospect.  I have no doubt they know one when one is offered to them, but I also have little doubt that they think some who are not incredible are incredible.

After BA's top 9 (Griffin, McGonigle, Wetherholt, Made, Jenkins, Clark, Emerson, McLean, Basallo) and the two others: 12 De Vries and 16 Walcott, a team really has to understand what to look for, because these ranking services absolutely do not get it right when they really should.

Milwaukee got 71 Jett Williams and 81 Brandon Sproat, good prospects for sure, not great, but you really want more for Ryan or a healthy Lopez  You want to get someone special who's a much higher ranked prospect or a seriously underrated prospect like 86 Nate George with 72 Trey Gibson from the Orioles.

George > Jett

Gibson > Sproat

Or a big time solo prospect like 25 Kade Anderson with a lesser one like Seattle's #7 prospect C Luke Stevenson, the 35th player taken in 2025 (out of UNC).

[Drtwins]

1 hour ago, NYCTK said:

Ryan and Lopez are free agents before the next CBA negotiation begins, so it seems like they're just all without any sort of strategy regardless of that agreement. 

You might want to check where you get your information, cba expires in December.

[NYCTK]

1 minute ago, Drtwins said:

You might want to check where you get your information, cba expires in December.

Ha, I realized this about 5 minutes ago and just edited my comment. My bad!