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  1. sweetmusicviola16
    Yes, Austin Hedges comes to my mind. OPS+ of 21 last season and Cleveland likes that enough to pay him 4mil next season, same as he got in 2024. Sandy Leon is a regular under 60 OPS+ guy. I will take Vazquez over either of these. Vazquez is overpaid, that is the doings of Falvey/Levine. As for Cartaya, his AA/AAA numbers translated to the ML will be Hedges like. And this is coming from someone who is very positive about acquiring Cartaya. But he is a project.
  2. sweetmusicviola16
    I totally agree. I'm not a huge WAR fan. Myles Straw is a good example of the value of WAR imo. I value Vazquez. I believe he is the best available catcher for this team for 2025. He is overpaid by my estimation. But that is due to our FO agreeing to this overpay. But we should not be trading Vazquez unless a very good secondary plan is put into action. How I see it, if Vazquez was getting paid 6-6.5 mil this season we would have a very good catcher at a good price.
  3. sweetmusicviola16
    Jeffers has shown over the course of his career that he should be limited to half time. Therefore the other catcher is going to need to play half the time as well.
  4. sweetmusicviola16
    In regard to the original title of the story, trading Vazquez would be catastrophic. If the backup/s were Camargo, Cartaya and Gasper and 50% of the catching time were given to them. If Vazquez were traded and either Diaz or McCann were signed I'm thinking it would be minimal damage. If this happened the catching situation might even be slightly better. Though I hold out that the pitching staff might be slightly worse off. I actually see trading Jeffers as a better idea than Vazquez. Trade Jeffers for one of the nearly ready milb C's and let Vazquez mentor the new catcher. Or you use Duran in trade for the future and soon to be present catcher.
  5. sweetmusicviola16
    I feel the same way. We have Joe Ryan coming back from injury. Is he ready to go full out yet? At the very least I suspect he'll be on a strict pitch count. But if he isn't ready our starting staff is Lopez, Ober, Richardson at # 3 and he has yet to prove he can consistently get into the fifth inning. Then we have Festa and Matthews. If Paddack is ever going to put it together then this is it. History also shows that guys are much better and stronger their second season after surgery. As for the trade proposals the 3rd one looks like it might have the best chance of flying, and if not the Padres another team offering a viable catching prospect like Valenzuela.
  6. sweetmusicviola16
    Vazquez was an -0,2 WAR last season. So was he the reason the team missed the PO's last season then?
  7. sweetmusicviola16
    Whatever he probably needs to work on is his conditioning. He's averaged like 4.2 IP for his whole career. That doesn't cut it. It taxes the BP big time even if his individual numbers are OK. Kick it up an inning would help.
  8. sweetmusicviola16
    Today LAD is signing Kirby Yates. Yesterday Tanner Scott. I guess they are signing a bunch of guys and seeing what works. Scavengers can't be as fussy though. Zoll needs to be ringing the phone off the hook and seeing who the Dodgers will be moving to make room for the three most recent signings, including Sasaki.
  9. sweetmusicviola16
    I'll propose a trade, that is no more ridiculus than considering playing Gasper and Cartaya. Jeffers to Seattle for Harry Ford. We throw in Julien and work any other pieces into a deal from either side to make it work. Then we expand the budget to sign Diaz or McCann to help this year. Dipota likes to deal and the Mariners need a bat. Jeffers does this for them. The Mariners still have Raleigh to catch a long with now Jeffers to catch and DH. We're going to lose Jeffers in two years anyway.
  10. sweetmusicviola16
    Yeah CWS. They're going to stink for a couple of more years. But if they ever get a good management team in place and the support of a good owner they will become a major force. Farm system is looking really good and they have no long term bad contracts. Whoever wants to be on top of the Central should take advantage of 2025 and 26 while they can.
  11. sweetmusicviola16
    Envision if you will a defense of Gasper at C. Miranda at 1B. Julien at 2B. Even Lewis at 3B. Larnach in LF. Kiersey in CF, the best of the bunch for D. We better be able to score 14 runs a game. Worse yet might even be is when Julien gets shifted to 1st and Miranda back to 3rd and Martin plays 2B. PU. Let's just trade Vazquez for salary relief and keep on regressing defensively.
  12. sweetmusicviola16
    Myles Straw is a 7 WAR career player. So maybe that says a little about WAR. Vazquez is worlds better than the 3 AAA depth players we have. If Vazquez is traded then the first thing to do is sign Diaz if he's still available by then. Camargo,Gasper or Cartaya in 2025 will kill the team imo.
  13. sweetmusicviola16
    I'm not against trading Jeffers. But yes the return would have to be a guy that is going to be ready by 2026. Hopefully late this season even. But if this was done we better darn well be right about the guy we acquire. Jeffers could be traded and we sign McCann or Diaz to tandem with Vazquez. I'm not suggesting or promoting this but it is a possible scenario. Vazquez could be traded and one of the aforementioned is signed to team with Jeffers. This could be done. But imo playing Camargo, Gasper or Cartaya in 2025 is not an option. We have a major problem actually if Feffers or Vazquez go down and we have to bring one of these up to play. Honestly we still have zero catching depth.
  14. sweetmusicviola16
    I'm very positive about Cartaya. But he's a project. We gave up next to nothing for him. But he should by no means be looked at as a Minnesota Twin for 2025. Maybe he can benefit by working with Vazquez. Which having Cartaya in St.Paul this can happen.
  15. sweetmusicviola16
    You don't trade Jeffers unless he brings back someone who is going to be able to catch and catch long-term. You don't trade Vazquez unless you can bring in someone who you feel will be able to fill his role adequately this season. The only FA's remaining who have any appeal at all would be McCann or Elias Diaz. You don't trade either with the idea that Gasper, Camargo or Cartaya are going to be relied on for 2025. If they are relied on we have left ourselves with a huge black hole. If they are then we are punting on 2025. I could care less about this stupid Budget scenario. Asa fan I care about winning not what kind of cheap player you can put on the roster that fits in budget.
  16. sweetmusicviola16
    They signed LHRP Anthony Misiewicz yesterday. What more could you want?
  17. sweetmusicviola16
    I don't see Mil doing that deal. Sea might. But we need Castro for 2025. How about if we spend even a little FA money and bring Coloumbe back? Yeah I know there is "budget," every TD article mentions it. If no money for a Coloumbe maybe we should not have resigned Topa and Tonkin.
  18. sweetmusicviola16
    Not to mention someone will be moved for Sasaki. Make gains where you can and be the team to take advantageous of their mass surplus.
  19. sweetmusicviola16
    Now that LAD has signed Tanner Scott for 4 years maybe Zoll could work out the next deal for who they have to move to make room for Scott.
  20. sweetmusicviola16
    My own opinion on a 6 man staff. No. It will make the bottom of the rotation weaker. It will take Lopez, Ryan and Ober from being in the 180's IP to probably in the 150's IP and make them less advantageous. The theory is that they'll pitch better and longer by having an extra day of rest. But my hunch is analytics will kick into its normal gear and state that they don't do as well after 3 times through the order and still get the early shower. Leave it alone. If they do switch to the 6 man the advantages of having TOR arms will be lost. If they did expand to the 6 man then imo trade Lopez and Ober, Ryan and replace them with top bats. Losing 80-90 IP's from these guys holds no appeal to me anyway. Just my opinions.
  21. sweetmusicviola16
    Like. I grew up on the farm and still do farm. The old sayings can be Golden. To sum up the ending of the Twins '24 with one would be, "everything's gone haywire." And "like a bump on a log" would sum up the Twins off-season thus far pretty well.
  22. sweetmusicviola16
    Maybe the new owners will open up the vault and sign Sasaki after he departs the Dodgers in 6 years. That looks like a good future move.
  23. sweetmusicviola16
    I would say with 37mil getting deposited in the bank this year that his mindset is pretty good.
  24. sweetmusicviola16
    Sano for sure had weight problems. Did he have a "lack of work ethic?" I didn't see that at all. What I did see was a guy that did what he was asked to do by the organization. I don't feel bad for Miguel. He made his millions. Now he's long gone. But what is left behind is the same organizational problems.
  25. sweetmusicviola16
    OK, what am I missing here? The Twins have improved by 1.2 WAR. But they've added nobody. So it must be that they are better by subtraction?
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