Ryan Jeffers Open to Twins Reunion

25 minutes ago, Hawkeye Bean Counter said:

This is the biggest question of the offseason.  Are the Twins willing to offer the qualifying offer, or a significant extension?  Then if its offered does Jeffers turn it down.   It is clear they view Jackson as a 3rd catcher and not a true backup catcher on the big league team.   Jackson will be hitting free agency in the minor leagues - however all in all the Twins treated him pretty well so I would not be surprised at all if he were to sign a minor league deal with the Twins and maybe a slightly lower rate than last year.    So if no Jeffers who will be the other Catcher?  

Based on the quotes I saw from the end of the season press conference, Tom Pohlad has given Zoll the green light to extend a QO to Jeffers.  It's now up to Zoll to decide if the late season struggles muddy those waters a bit.  I still think it's prudent to extend a QO.   

50 minutes ago, Chembry said:

Based on the quotes I saw from the end of the season press conference, Tom Pohlad has given Zoll the green light to extend a QO to Jeffers.  It's now up to Zoll to decide if the late season struggles muddy those waters a bit.  I still think it's prudent to extend a QO.   

I think it's prudent but I also don't believe he will accept it. 

I also think it's prudent to make a strong 3 or 4 year offer to him. I view him as a premium option at his position and those are exactly the types of players that a team that wants to be a contender should target. We have lots of cheap guys on our 2027 roster. We can afford to splurge for Jeffers.

But at the end of the day, the Twins don't really have the final say. Jeffers does. I hope he's back, but I feel like the realistic chances of that are about 20%

3 hours ago, Chembry said:

Based on the quotes I saw from the end of the season press conference, Tom Pohlad has given Zoll the green light to extend a QO to Jeffers.  It's now up to Zoll to decide if the late season struggles muddy those waters a bit.  I still think it's prudent to extend a QO.   

I read that too. I'd go a step further and suggest that means they've already decided to extend the QO. In the context of what they were trying to communicate in the press conference, I don't think they'd put themselves in the position of Tom saying, "Yeah, you can do it if you want to," and then having Zoll later say, "Nah, I don't want to." If the plan is not to make the offer, I think they would have said less on Monday. 

But hey, I'm not in the meetings and I'm not staying at a Holiday Inn until Saturday. 

7 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

If so, and I'm OK with that, the plan has to be to move him to first base in 2 years or so....

The nice thing about doing it with catcher is that it can be done in a gradual way. You can go from being the guy who gets 2/3 of the catcher starts one year and then be the 1/3 guy the next year while getting another 80-90 starts at 1B/DH, followed by being the full-time 1B.