Chris Paddack’s Injury Necessitates Action for Twins

1 hour ago, bean5302 said:

Reporter: Are you being told by ownership you cannot add any amount to the payroll at the deadline?

Falvey: We're looking at a lot of different options, and if we find the right fit, we'll be open to making a move. I haven't been given a specific number by ownership, but I think we're happy with our roster and our payroll situation if we're not able to find the right fit.

That's what a direct question/answer would look like. Dodge.

You have to actually ask the questions.  Then ask follow up questions.  

It's literally the job. 

It's another job to try and interpret it.

1 hour ago, Jocko87 said:

You have to actually ask the questions.  Then ask follow up questions.  

It's literally the job. 

It's another job to try and interpret it.

Okay. Lets stretch this out:
Reporter: Are you being told by ownership you cannot add any amount to the payroll at the deadline?

Falvey: We're looking at a lot of different options, and if we find the right fit, we'll be open to making a move. I haven't been given a specific number by ownership, but I think we're happy with our roster and our payroll situation if we're not able to find the right fit.

Reporter: Has ownership given you a ballpark number for you to add?

Falvey: We evaluate every player and opportunity on its own merit. We don't come into a trade deadline or offseason with a set budget range in mind that we're trying to find players to get to a certain dollar amount. Like, oh, we have an extra 10 million we still need to spend to hit our target. It doesn't work that way for us.

Reporter: Is there room to add an upper rotation arm like Max Scherzer or a Blake Snell at the deadline?

Falvey: I can't comment on specific players under contract with other teams. As I talked about, we look at tons of different guys and try to evaluate whether or not a player is a fit with us here, can they help us win games here, and whether or not we the player's existing team is a willing trade partner for that player.

Reporter: There's been a lot of speculation and reporting that ownership is set on the payroll and you'll have to subtract payroll to add even $5MM of remaining salary. Is that true?

Falvey: It's going to depend on the specific player involved whether or not they give us a clear advantage. If we're in agreement with ownership about something being a great opportunity to acquire a player who might require us to expand the budget somewhat, I expect ownership would support the move, but again, we're happy with our team as-is, we think it's a competitive team we can take into the playoffs so the bar to add value to the guys we already have is going to be high.

I hope you can see how this goes...

1 hour ago, CCHOF5yearstoolate said:

He sucks on and off the field, get over it.

Won the Cy Young in 2020. Career 3.79 ERA. Career 3.87 FIP. Both similar to Pablo Lopez. Was earning $38MM a year with the most desirable team in baseball.

Dominating his leagues the last two years he's been pitching, including leagues where the top pitchers signed this past couple seasons have:
2.92 ERA - Yoshinobu Yamamoto
2.84 ERA - Shota Imanaga
2.98 ERA - Kodai Senga 2023

A few other pretty decent pitchers who came out of Japan in the last decade or so. Yu Darvish. Shohei Ohtani. Kenta Maeda. 

Stick to virtue signaling, like I said. It makes you a bad person on the inside (where it counts), but it looks good on paper to the rest of the world when you need to pretend you're a good person.

1 hour ago, bean5302 said:

Okay. Lets stretch this out:
Reporter: Are you being told by ownership you cannot add any amount to the payroll at the deadline?

Falvey: We're looking at a lot of different options, and if we find the right fit, we'll be open to making a move. I haven't been given a specific number by ownership, but I think we're happy with our roster and our payroll situation if we're not able to find the right fit.

Reporter: Has ownership given you a ballpark number for you to add?

Falvey: We evaluate every player and opportunity on its own merit. We don't come into a trade deadline or offseason with a set budget range in mind that we're trying to find players to get to a certain dollar amount. Like, oh, we have an extra 10 million we still need to spend to hit our target. It doesn't work that way for us.

Reporter: Is there room to add an upper rotation arm like Max Scherzer or a Blake Snell at the deadline?

Falvey: I can't comment on specific players under contract with other teams. As I talked about, we look at tons of different guys and try to evaluate whether or not a player is a fit with us here, can they help us win games here, and whether or not we the player's existing team is a willing trade partner for that player.

Reporter: There's been a lot of speculation and reporting that ownership is set on the payroll and you'll have to subtract payroll to add even $5MM of remaining salary. Is that true?

Falvey: It's going to depend on the specific player involved whether or not they give us a clear advantage. If we're in agreement with ownership about something being a great opportunity to acquire a player who might require us to expand the budget somewhat, I expect ownership would support the move, but again, we're happy with our team as-is, we think it's a competitive team we can take into the playoffs so the bar to add value to the guys we already have is going to be high.

I hope you can see how this goes...

I hope you can see why asking the actual questions and getting the actual answers is more important than your fantasy land story.