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This is like asking if the sun should be made to rise in the west tomorrow. The insane deal that the Twins have given a slightly better than average player makes a trade impossible unless the Twins agreed to continue to pay the bulk of his contract. Correa has the Twins by their private parts and they have no say in the matter. Why even have a discussion about this? The other 29 GMs aren't dumb enough.

I believe they have lost the last 2 Berrios starts due to no faullt of his. If the Twins don't win today and win this White Sox series at home the season is over. I do believe that Baldelli's constant line up tinkering, over use of the bull pen and over reliance on all of the....metrics junk should have him on a very short leash.

There will always be players out there in the world of baseball that would be nice to have and the existing roster will always be less than perfect. Play ball.

Here is another rhetorical question. What team would not like to add another QUALITY, PROVEN starting pitcher? Just asking.

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"......How about Paul Goldschmidt, or how to pitch to him? That’ll impress the hell out of me, because I sure don’t.”...... At least Gardenhire is consistent. I'll never forget his "I know nothing about pitching" comment when asked about why one of his Twins pitchers pitched to a hitter in whatever way it was, quickly deflecting blame to his pitching coach. By the way, I thought baseball was a game and plenty of baseball games are on at night so those are night time game shows. At least the Tigers picked a perfect manager.

He has to actually do it for a whole season but Miguel and Byron both need to step up this year. If they do all the talk about what was not done in the off season will be forgotten. Football is almost done and baseball is just around the corner again. We will soon find out about the 2020 version.

Except Suzuki just finished a nice year for the World Series champs, had some huge hits for them and evidently wasn't too shabby behind the plate. The amazing thing about the Castro signing was that that was their big move for that off season and somehow he was supposed to turn pitchers like Gibson into Cy Young award winners because of his "framing" ability. Castro is a good solid Major League catcher and that is enough but he is not going to transform anybody. It was the Twins who got "framed".

All of the negativity is a result of 3 games against the Yankees after winning 101 games. What if the Twins had at least won that home playoff game after dropping the 2 in NY? What if they had gone on to win the second home game and forced a game 5? What if they had won that game and played Houston for the ALCS? Would that have made the "doomsdayer" sign every free agent on the market folks any happier? My guess is no. Are Houston fans happy? My guess is no. Signing Bailey and Hill is perfect. At least wait until its time to count wins and losses again in just a few months before being critical. Then there may be no reason to.

The window has been open since 1991 or 28 years going on 29. This year's Nationals are a classic example of why you simply play every game as hard as you can until it is "over". 30 teams, 162 games plus playoffs if you get there. Objective is to be good enough to contend and don't beat yourself. 2020 Yankees should be a lock to win it all but they still have to do it.

At least start counting wins and losses before complaining about off season performance. Nothing like having a great off season. Just ask the Washington Redskins.

Lost in all of this is whether or not Buxton and Sano, who I think are already on the Twins' roster, can finally stay active for an entire season and live up to their potential. That in itself would be a plus. In 2019 The Twins won 101 games as a team and simply did not perform against the Yankees. Looking for miracles on the free agent market would guarantee nothing and could possibly be a disruption. Its hard to improve over 101 wins and the idea of projecting a mythical roster into the playoffs is a mistake. It could also be a fact that this years Yankees really are unbeatable no matter what the Twins or any other team do so why bother. Just be happy you are not in the East and play ball.

Not only did the Washington Nationals not go "all in" in 2019, but they went "all out" when they let Harper go. The Phillies went "all in" and I don't think they made the playoffs. Or maybe they did win the World Series and the Nationals winning it was a mirage. I would be very happy to see the Twins win the Central again in 2020 and then not go into a coma just because a team has NY on its unis in the playoffs.

I think Bo Jackson would be better. Don't you love all the wanna be GMs?

And what did the Vikings do? I am pretty sure signed an over rated free agent named Cousins who has never/will never win a playoff game. The only decent move the Reskins have made in the last almost 2 decades or actually non move by not signing him. Great example of why you don't sign free agents to huge LONG TERM contracts.