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Article: Extension Time?
sweetmusicviola16 replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
If this were part of the plan then 2020 and beyond would have no hope of us getting better either. Now if Kyle were replaced by a Gerrit Cole or a Zack Wheeler then we are making progress.- 62 replies
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Article: Extension Time?
sweetmusicviola16 replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I've read many state that we could QO Gibson after this season if we can't sign him to an extension. This year the QO was 17.9mil. I would guess it will be even more next season. Why would we pay Kyle 18mil or more if we are hardly even willing to pay him fair market value?- 62 replies
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Article: Extension Time?
sweetmusicviola16 replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
And if the performance isn't there does that mean a 50 mil payroll in 2020?- 62 replies
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Article: Extension Time?
sweetmusicviola16 replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I don't think Buxton extends coming off of a bad season and some ill will with the FO at this point. I believe Sano will walk and test the waters regardless. Rosario I'd like to see a 4 year deal. That would fix our costs and buy out his year 30 season, I wouldn't go further with him. Gibson, Yes, a 3 year with an option. W/o him we have a very thin rotation looking at next year. Berrios would be hard to guess. I'd guess he won't sign cheap. It would need to be an overpay of sorts.- 62 replies
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Actually 3/39 compared to 2/32 is a huge gap. 18mil guaranteed. I've read and heard that the Twins offer was 2/26 though and no way was that competitive.If we really wanted Grandal, which I would have greatly supported, then we would have needed to do more than Milwaukee on the AAV or added a year. Your aren't going to get the kind of quality that Grandal is by lowballing however. tbh 13mil AAV was lowballing. I can imagine Falvine received a very quick click when they made that offer.
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In the 2000's we were told "don't add better pieces because we are already good and winning divisions". 2011-2018 comes along and we are told that"since we are not good at this time and not in a position to compete don't add good pieces". Now 2019 comes along and we are told"that we need to see what our core has before we can add good pieces". There will forever be an excuse for this team not to add good to great pieces to our mix. The reason behind that excuse has been and remains that we are cheap.
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A deal headlined by Kiriloff? Nope, not this year. Not with only 2 seasons of control left. I've long wanted Realmuto, but not for Kiriloff. I'd deal Trevor Larnach as a headliner. Jorge Alcala as a 2nd piece and another low minors player. I hang onto Graterol also, or if he was included no Larnach and the 2nd piece would be less than Alcala. Marlins are overpricing realmuto imo. Similar to what Falvine did on Dozier a couple years back.
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Article: The Discard Pile
sweetmusicviola16 replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
The Cubs just sign Brad Brach for 3mil. I guess we don't have that kind of payroll flexibility.- 182 replies
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With the LAD signing AJ Pollock today that would likely take them out of the Harper Stakes I would think. One less competitor for somebody.
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Article: The Discard Pile
sweetmusicviola16 replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
What about Keuchel? I actually liked him more than Corbin coming into the off season myself. I agree with extending Gibson. Perhaps they have had talks, I'd assume they have since they did avoid arb with him. So they can't agree on dollars and length likely. If I were Kyle I'd likely be rolling the dice on a bigger FA deal myself. But yeah, with one SP signed up for 2020 that is a huge issue in my books. That does not bode well with 2020 being competitive. Frankly I'd do everything to extend Gibson and sign Keuchel. With Berrios that would at least make the front of our rotation a strong point heading into next season. I'd also trash the budget and woo Kimbrel here. Forget about Machado, not that they already haven't.- 182 replies
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Comparing Buxton to both Harper and Machado puts it into perspective just how disappointing Buxton has been. Obviously he is not being written off anytime soon but his career compared to both of their's is pathetic to say the least.
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Bonds will never get in the HOF, though he was the greatest player of his era. What he did on the field speaks for itself. Martinez is now a member of the HallofGood and that's OK. Since Mussina is in Schilling should soon follow.
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Article: The Discard Pile
sweetmusicviola16 replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
According to LEN III the Twins are viewing Perez as an SP. This makes me dislike this even more. If we aren't going all in for 2019, and this signing implies greatly that we aren't, then this would be a great chance to put one of the youngsters in at #5 and see what they have. We have a half dozen prospects that need to be evaluated so we know if we have something or if we should be moving on. The next wave is soon in need of evaluation and we still have little clue on the present group. The only way this is a good sign is if Perez happens to have a career year and the Twins win the Central b/c of it. If they dog their way to a .500 or just over record with Perez at #5 it's a very bad signing.- 182 replies
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I don't see Kohl making the team. He comes up if we have a couple of injuries or if someone else performs very badly. I'm liking this Perez signing less and less. We've got a half dozen guys that need evaluating and a chance and all of a sudden a bad Perez moves to the head of the class. The best chance the young guys may get is if we do use a couple of the rotation spots as stackers. Odorizzi stacked with Gonsalves Mejia stacked with Stewart
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Article: The Discard Pile
sweetmusicviola16 replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Fully agree, considering that we have already seen how volatile these players have been thus far in their young careers. As has also been pointed out, we only have 3 more seasons of Sano. What then?- 182 replies
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Article: The Discard Pile
sweetmusicviola16 replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Unless we are ever offered a knock your socks off offer, Sano, Buxton and Kepler stay on this team until their team control has come to an end.- 182 replies
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Article: The Discard Pile
sweetmusicviola16 replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
And lets be honest, Cron, Schoop, Parker, Torreas and Perez are all dipping into the discard pile.- 182 replies
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Article: The Discard Pile
sweetmusicviola16 replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
It hasn't really been hit on here, but imo part of why this team continues to struggle is this constant dipping into the discard pile for a huge % of it's pieces. Looking at the potential opening day roster half of the players haven't even played a full season of ML ball together. This is a huge problem and Falvey continues to magnify it. I'm a huge proponent of using the FA system. It is one of the pieces needed to put together a winning team and shouldn't be ignored. But it shouldn't be used as a revolving door system either. Focus in on a couple of guys needed to supplement those already in your system. Same thing with trades, which we seem to hardly use. Use some of the excess milb talent you have and bring in that final needed piece or two, Odorizzi is the type of trade I'd like to see more of. But lets find a way to stop this high turnover of the roster year after year please.- 182 replies
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Or Option C: Bring up some of the young players and bear with them in the growing pains. Sign an FA or two a season to a longer than a one season deal and trade some of the excess milb talent, for some ML depth, that isn't getting the same chance as the first group instead of sitting on these guys and seeing them be DFA'd in a short time. What's the stinking point of having this highly vaunted minor system if you don't use it?

