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  1. Battle ur tail off
    Good move. I like this guy as a backup catcher. I am very curious though why more effort wasn't put into retaining Castro? Last year's catching situation was flat out, the best in baseball, offensively anyway.
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    I am extremely glad they got this done. I felt this is a move that simply had to be made. Happy they didn't wait around for other teams to get heavily involved and brought him back. I, like almost everyone else here though feel that now we are back at last years level for the rotation.(I do think Berrios turns the corner this year though). Add 1 more guy that is high end and we are looking pretty good. At worst, add 2 guys you feel can give you a chance.
  3. Battle ur tail off
    Thing is, the Vikings sure never have a problem getting the free agents they want. Regardless where they live or family lives etc. That's because if they decide they want someone, they pay top dollar and get them. Big difference when you are the top bidder vs someone halfway down the line.
  4. Battle ur tail off
    He's right. Liriano didn't pitch in the postseason for the Twins until 2009. By this time he had already blown out his arm and had TJ surgery.
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    You guys are correct. The Twins are a landing spot for FA's that don't have a ton of interest from anyone else. If we have to bid against someone else, or go above what we deem as fair value for a player, count them out. Look at it this way. When Bumgarner signs somewhere at least we will get to hear the Twins are "IN" on Strasburg and Cole for a couple weeks before they sign with one of the big boys. LOL
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    The thing is, you will have to overpay EVERY SINGLE TIME in free agency if you are looking for high end starting pitching. We all know that, the front office knows that. When you really NEED something and you identify a piece there that fits and you have determined it is the BEST piece for you, you need to go get it, no matter what it takes. Or, the alternative is to be left with what will end up happening, signing someone that is middling to average. There literally isn't another contending team in the league that needs starting pitching more than the Twins. They know that, everyone else knows it. The price will be steep. Either commit yourself to actually go get it, or tell everyone up front you are not looking to play that game and quit wasting time and work on trades and developing your guys. Don't come out and tell us how you are going to add impact pitching and come out with a token offer 20 million below what your prize actually signed for. Twins knew the market, they knew he wasn't signing for 5/100. Token, we tried offer is all it was.
  7. Battle ur tail off
    Yes, the same one that employed Jason Tyner at DH.
  8. Battle ur tail off
    LOL. I've just seen it for too many years. We all watched the last core of great Twins turn into nothing but a few division championships and playoff sweeps. We saw the core before that turn in one playoff series win. All the while they protected their pocketbooks and prospects and just ended up with a bunch of losing sandwiched between those division titles. I prefer to go for it. We all know the time is now. Why not us?
  9. Battle ur tail off
    Don't worry, most likely they won't get him anyway.
  10. Battle ur tail off
    "He was asking too much", "We tried", "He didn't want to play here", "He wanted to stay closer to home" Carl's ghost thanks you and is in your corner. What will they say when Madbum turns them down?
  11. Battle ur tail off
    Understand he will command 100 mill as well. Twins will value him well below that. Expect to hear they are "IN" on him for a week until he signs with someone else. Twins will "try" though. LOL
  12. Battle ur tail off
    Hamels is also gone now. Cole and Strasburg will go to east coast and west coast teams. Madbum and Ryu are there best chances, but with how many were in on Wheeler, I'd say Twins will get smoked on them as well. Thanks Dougie for the tweet backing up the Twins. I will wait to hear LaVelle's as well patting them on the back for "trying". LOL
  13. Battle ur tail off
    Yep, just like last season. When asked for prospects for high end pitching, Twins turn tail and run. They are just as stingy with those guys as they are with their money. Don't count on a blockbuster.
  14. Battle ur tail off
    I get where you are coming from, but don't the Twins, with the roster they have, owe it to their team and fans to get some high end pitching in here? We know it's going to be an overpay. But they have the money or prospects if needed. OVERPAY if you have to. Every ones of those teams you mention has, in their history went out and bought a stud. All of them. I'm not asking for the moon every season, but the position the Twins are in right now 100% warrants them spending big, or trading big to get over the hump. If not now, it will never happen.
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    Boy, what a lineup of studs there. A gaggle of #4 starters in the third tier of free agents. Bargain shopping. Yes, they overpaid for Nolasco, but at best he was a #3 starter. This doesn't do anything to make me confident they will go after someone real.
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    Why posturing? To make the fans feel as if they are actually gonna open the pocket books. Public relations. Some people eat it up that we are "IN" on someone. I didn't say it was a bad idea to not offer Darvish 6 years. That said, this is a recurring theme with our favorite team. If it takes so and so amount to sign these guys, we offer in just below that value and say "we tried".
  17. Battle ur tail off
    Didn't get it done as per usual with Twins in FA negotiations for players in the top 1/3 or so of the list. Token.
  18. Battle ur tail off
    And he signed for 126 million. Token offer me boy. I know some haven't been around for long, but until they do something different. It will always be the same old same old around this team. Johan Santana was offered a hefty contract also, so was Tori Hunter. Problem being it wasn't market value. Can a tiger change its stripes? Is this a new front office? Yep, it sure is and for that I will hold out hope. What I expect to happen and what I hope happen though are 2 different things.
  19. Battle ur tail off
    Don't hold your breath!!!
  20. Battle ur tail off
    Yep. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/12/zack-wheeler-bidding-already-in-nine-figures.html IMO, this takes the Twins out of the running. Just too many teams to overbid and we are too cheap. We wanted a tier 1 pitcher, would settle for a tier-2 guy, but get ready folks, tier 3 it is. One step up from the dumpster. That is my prediction. Hope I'm wrong.
  21. Battle ur tail off
    I think if you were going to go with Shaw, you should have just coughed up whatever it took to keep Cron here on a 1-year deal. That is, unless his hand is really not healing.
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    I get it, but it the history of this organization is to offer up deals like that they know won't be accepted. If Wheeler takes 110 and they offer 100, it won't be good enough and just another token offer. To be honest, he should be signed by us already. Quit postering and get a deal done.
  23. Battle ur tail off
    Pretty bold statement to say that a guy that finished in the top 10 of MVP voting 2 years running with an average OPS of about .850 and 30 bombs a year will be outhit by a couple of guys that are still in the minors. If they are that damn good, then we are in for a real treat. And they would also be able to net us guys in trades that could anchor our starting pitching staff right now today. As it is, it would take both of them in a trade to net us a #3 starter.
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    Yes, but the offer could also be looked at as not competitve. He signed for more than that. To me, that's the old "we tried" offer. They knew he would get more and didn't lay out what it took to get him. Wheeler probably signs for 5/110. Twins will probably offer 4/75.
  25. Battle ur tail off
    Losing Buxton hurt their defense. That is all. Offensively they were just as good if not better without him in the lineup. Against playoff caliber pitching, he is also mostly a black hole offensively. Pineda really killed them and to me, this was the biggest what if of the season. He was pitching extremely well at the time of his suspension, to be honest, he was likely our best starter going into the playoffs. Not bringing in a starter hurt them and was also extremely predictable. I have never in my years of being a Twins fan seen the front office take a high reward risk. Shouldn't have even been Stroman, they should have countered an offer including one of Lewis, Graterol or Kiriloff and brought in Syndergaard. Then we'd also be sitting here with Syndergaard, Berrios, Ordorizzi, likely FA(Bumgartner/Wheeler) and likely Pineda. Imagine the confidence you would have going into this season with that rotation.
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