3 Free Agents-To-Be With Something to Prove in 2020

All three are quality, valuable players in their own right. Just a few comments/opinions:

1] Adrianza: Unless a losing/non-contending comes along with a fairly substantial offer as they feel he can help them advance forward...as good as he is...he's not going to move a needle and is probably better off re-signing with the Twins.

2] May is good. Time to accept that. I am not saying the Twins should break the bank for a RP...we all know how volitle that market can be...but they need him and should extend him IMO. The budget should allow for it.

3] Odorizzi: I really like Oddo and think some undervalue him. He's not a #1 and never going to be, but he is very, very good for 5+ innings. No matter how much I like him, and want him to stay, he is not Wheeler with a 95MPH FB that teams hoped would help him take another step up and reach another level. Maybe I'm just lost, but there is no way he would have received $23-25M offers the way Wheeler did. $20M maybe?? But if so, that's only a couple $M than he's signed for this season. Arguements that he made a mistake or his agent is inept are just ridiculous. His salary is very fair and in line with market value the past couple of years, including this one. If not, he's only slightly below.

I think all three can be re-signed/extended without any harm to the overall payroll.

This is a real change from the ST stories we have been reading and it fun as a change of pace, but of course it is way too early.  They could all be injured and not make it out of ST.  As the season moves on the real question for each is who replaces them?

If the Twins think that Balazovic or Thorpe can take Odorizzi's place they are less likely to pursue him, although I think Bailey would be the next one removed from the rotation. I hope Odo really shows improvement and fines a way to get to inning seven.

Ehire has a waiting list behind him - Lewis, Gordon, and Blankenhorn will push him or Gonzalez off the roster.

May has had a nice couple years - will he have another.  I have such a hard time judging RP and we do seem to have Duran ready to push him and excess like Smeltzer who I think will be gone in a year, Stashak, Ober, Poppen, Sands, and Jax and Dobnak.  If May shines and accepts the Twins offer we will be fine, if he hesitates or we get a good offer he is gone and so are some of the other alternatives that I listed..

It's not ridiculous at all to say he would be better off with a 3-5 year deal averaging 15-20 million than a 1 year 17.8 million deal. If he regresses or has a bad injury, he won't likely see anything near that. He could put up another year like 2019 and make more too. Just saying the logic isn't that he's being underpaid this year, but that he likely could have locked in long term security this offseason had he not signed with QO.

Agree 100%. There have been rumors ever since he signed the QO that both he and the Twins were interested in an extension. In fact, I'm a little surprised we haven't heard anything about one yet. Maybe the FO has just been too busy working on others right now???

When the other FA options were signed, there were a few that commented Oddo would regret signing as the market had ramped up versus what we saw the past couple of years. While a longer term deal is something Jake wants, and I'd like to see, my argument was simply that the yearly value was in line.