There’s No Room for Royce Lewis

[tony&rodney]

1 hour ago, Twodogs said:

It would be interesting to see what Royce can do in a different organization?

Let's hope he gets the opportunity. Royce finding success elsewhere would never bother me. It hasn't happened for him as a Twin.

[Peter Gravett]

11 hours ago, Coach said:

Off the subject, Peter did you grow up on Berkman Ct.?

I did through age 3...

[Peter Gravett]

3 minutes ago, Peter Gravett said:

I did through age 3...

Coach, got some Berkman Ct. roots? That was about years ago!

[SE23]

1 hour ago, darin617 said:

What free agent are they going to find for the same money?

They will gain two things:

1. $5+ million to improve the roster

2. The absence of Royce Lewis going forward

 

[IndianaTwin]

9 hours ago, Eris said:

According to FanGraphs Lewis’ 2026 salary was 2.85 million. He projected to get a 2.3 million dollar raise in arbitration for being 20% below league average. Not sure if arbitration is really helping Lewis as a likely outcome is DFA. 

Which makes me wonder how accurate the $5.1M is. I get that MLBTR is often pretty good and we don’t have a better reference point, but I’m struck with how many people are treating this salary as gospel. 

I’m also struck with how similar this was to a year ago when the discussion was about Larnach, who was coming off a 0.2 bWAR year. The TD braintrust seemed to be about 90 percent on non-tendering.

Now much of the discussion seems to be trending that way on a guy with a 0.8 bWAR and who has always been considered more talented.