tony&rodney’s 2027 Payroll Blueprint: tony&rodney 2027 Twins Roster Guess

[tony&rodney]

More hope than reality. There are bound to be a number of trade opportunities, but I have no idea what they are. Zoll should.

Marek Houston should not be the plan but it seems unlikely that the Twins add Lowe, Bauers, Chisholm, or Arraez.

Houston seems like a possible Cooper Pratt addition. I would use everyone on the roster a fair amount. Buck is listed as DH until he is ready to roam in CF and adjustments are made from there.

If the budget goes to $160M, perhaps a signing of Lowe or Bauers, which I would prefer. I'm also interested in Carson Kelly - 2/$18M, if money is available. Add Lowe to bump Houston and Kelly for Davis = $158M roster. Hmmm?

1. Sign Bednar and Morejon for 4/$60M each. Perhaps that is low but would go 3/$60M.

2. Trade Ober, Larnach, Roden to ARI for Lawlar.

3. Sands, Martin, Wallner to PIT for Davis.

4. Kremer, Debarge, Quick to STL for Bernal.

The blueprints should be added in the next few days before trades and signings commence. I'm hoping that those who are frequent voices on Twins Daily participate. It's all just silly stuff. 

Go Twins.

• C: Victor Caratini ($7.50M)
• 1B: Royce Lewis ($5.10M)
• 2B: Marek Houston ($1.00M)
• 3B: Brooks Lee ($1.00M)
• SS: Kaelen Culpepper ($1.00M)
• LF: Emmanuel Rodriguez ($1.00M)
• CF: Walker Jenkins ($1.00M)
• RF: Luke Keaschall ($1.00M)
• DH: Byron Buxton ($15.00M)
• 4th OF: Jordan Lawlar ($1.00M)
• Utility: Kody Clemens ($3.50M)
• Utility: Ryan Kreidler ($1.00M)
• Backup C: Henry Davis ($1.40M)
• POS: Add Dead Money Here ($0.00M)
• SP1: Pablo Lopez ($21.75M)
• SP2: Joe Ryan ($9.75M)
• SP3: Taj Bradley ($4.50M)
• SP4: Connor Prielipp ($1.00M)
• SP5: Zebby Matthews ($1.00M)
• RP: David Bednar ($15.00M)
• RP: Adrian Morejon ($15.00M)
• RP: Jeff Hoffman ($7.50M)
• RP: Kendry Rojas ($1.00M)
• RP: Andrew Morris ($1.00M)
• RP: Kody Funderburk ($1.00M)
• RP: Travis Adams ($1.00M)
• RP: Yoendrys Gomez ($1.00M)
• POS: Add Dead Money Here ($0.00M)

Payroll is 10.37% under budget

[Whammy]

Love that bullpen.

In your scenario, given that you're under budget (not by the full 10% it says though), I'd wait out the Alec Bohm market and see if I can get him on a cheap "prove it" deal. That would make me feel a little better about your lineup.

I do agree that the lineup is just going to have to be a leap of faith with a bunch of the young guys. I'm ok with that as long as we can look at our rotation and bullpen and see a real strength (which it is, in your blueprint)