BREAKING: Harrison Bader Traded to Philadelphia Phillies

Can't wait to see who we get back

He's the one Free Agent I would hope to stay with us into next season.  Great in the field as a back-up plan to Buxton who has excelled in left.

According to "The Sporting News"

In return, the Twins get outfielder Hendry Mendez and right-handed pitcher Geremy Villoria. Neither player was highly regarded in the farm system.

21 year old bat in AA, hitting well - Good

16 year old pitcher - definition of a lottery ticket

Good trade for the Twins. Bundle it up with the Duran trade so people are less annoyed by that trade's immediate return. 

The return is pretty disappointing.  Hopefully we can convince him to return next season. 

The FO lets us down again.  Bader was really the only player we could count on every night.  Sad that the ownership has given up so soon this season.  While they are stripping the team, trade Rocco.  His moves in the 9th inning yesterday were redic.  Very sad.

It's a reasonable return for a rental player like Bader. As someone mentioned above Mendez is 21 & hitting at AA so that's a positive. A lottery ticket pitcher along with him seems about right for Bader.

Wishing Bader nothing but the best in Philadelphia. Solid dude and really played well for the Twins. He'll be missed.

It's whatever about this trade as Bader is a rental.

However, still pissed about the return for Duran. See what Mason Miller got? Yeah, I understand he has 4 years of additional control compared to Duran's 2, but the A's clearly got more than double the value the Twins did, and Duran is even better. Even Tyler Rogers, a rental, got more value in return than we did according to Baseball Trade Values (not a super reputable source but something to go off of). Falvey is probably trying to work his way into the Phillies FO after he gets fired here.

12 minutes ago, NYCTK said:

21 year old bat in AA, hitting well - Good

16 year old pitcher - definition of a lottery ticket

Good trade for the Twins. Bundle it up with the Duran trade so people are less annoyed by that trade's immediate return. 

Good luck on that.

Brock Stewart traded to Dodgers

Not sure what we expected to get for Bader. This team can't be sold soon enough and Rocco and Falvey both fired. This organization needs to complete reset.

The biggest question mark is are our young players overrated or just managed horribly. They should have fired Rocco after last years collapse so by know we would know.

At this point we still have no idea but I think it's a combination of both.

Would love to be privy to conversations the next owners are having regarding spending on free agency and retaining talent. Re-stocking the farm system this way is a good foundation. Good luck to Bader, enjoyed his hustle this year, would like to see him return, too.

Whatever... All I know is if you had  7 other players in the field that gave the effort, played defense and understood the fundamentals like he did we would be fighting for first place. 

34 minutes ago, Spiritualized said:

Can't wait to see who we get back

Ham sandwich 

Really liked Bader. Gonna miss him. This whole thing sucks. Wish we could just dump ownership, F.O., and manager. 

1 minute ago, CRF said:

Really liked Bader. Gonna miss him. This whole thing sucks. Wish we could just dump ownership, F.O., and manager. 

It's coming. Something has to give.

25 minutes ago, exeoud said:

It's whatever about this trade as Bader is a rental.

However, still pissed about the return for Duran. See what Mason Miller got? Yeah, I understand he has 4 years of additional control compared to Duran's 2, but the A's clearly got more than double the value the Twins did, and Duran is even better. Even Tyler Rogers, a rental, got more value in return than we did according to Baseball Trade Values (not a super reputable source but something to go off of). Falvey is probably trying to work his way into the Phillies FO after he gets fired here.

Makes sense, Duran & Bader were good fits for PHI, but what MN got back were underwhelming, overvalued, far less valuable & won't help MN much if any at all or any time. Just what MN needs another LH OLFer. Falvey helped out PHI lot more than MN. Falvey is long overdue to be out the door. They probably worked out a post MN deal while they were finalizing.

Just a warning that Reading (Phillies AA) is a hitter's paradise and stats are misleading.  That's on one hand.  On the other, Mendez is 21 with a good slash and really low K rate.  He stands a decent chance of reaching MLB.  He's striking out an absurd 14% while young-ish for AA.  He sort of feels like a lh 4th OF, which is sort of an oxymoron with the limited space (due to 13 pitchers).  

I don't know his exit velocities, but from the basic stats, especially K rate, he looks like a guy who can make it to the bigs.

We've talked about lottery tickets, and pitcher Villoria is the face used on the lottery ticket advertisements.  It's a smart get by Falvey, as Dombrowski wasn't going to hold up a deal for a guy like that.

As for the value for Bader, yeah, Mendez was about what you could expect, Villoria provides a tiny amount of hope.

Should have added him in the conversation with Duran deal itself to get better prospect haul...seems like ALL MN teams are pretty awful when it comes to landing decent returns.