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  1. sweetmusicviola16
    I'm not an advocate of a full all out rebuild. I'm not even suggesting it. What I do suggest however is a trade of Joe Ryan, He is very unlikely to ever be worth more than he is right now. Pablo would soon follow. Shortly into the season, sooner if the deal was right. Trading these guys for the very most top close to ML ready players you can get will enhance the competitive window of this team when it arrives. It isn't that I don't like Ryan and what he brings. Quite the opposite. This isn't tearing the entire team down. Without trading Ryan and Lopez it actually leaves me very confused. Why acquire Abel, Rojas and even Bradley along with holding onto Matthews and Festa? I get it, injuries happen. But if Ryan and Lopez go down then what? What value will they be then? If everything in 2026 goes right with Ryan and Lopez we're an 80 win team. I for one am willing to gamble and deal them for a package that will allow us to be a true contending team in 3 years. And I'm not naive, I know it's a gamble. But I assess that it is just as much a gamble signing a handful of players to build around them for 3-4mil each is even more of one.
  2. sweetmusicviola16
    Jorge Polanco signed with the NYM today for 2 years and 40mil. So we have 20mil to spend on additions. Guess what? 20mil to sign on 3 BP guys, a 1B and a middle infielder. We'll see 5 guys in here with no future who no contending team wants. This is just plain stupid. Round and round we go and no sense enough to stop.
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    I have said for over a year now that this is the off season to move one of Ryan, Lopez or Ober. We now know it isn't Ober, not if you value the return. I concur on Pablo, but if he shows out of the gate that he is good I would be shopping him to every team by mid May. So it is Ryan. Why? Because the return will never be greater than it is now. The return is worth more than the wins he will get in 2026. As you stated for this team to contend it needs an influx of millions of dollars of talent. That talent continues to slowly drop off of the board and the reality is the Twins can't afford it anyway. Move Ryan sooner than later. As for the kind of prospects you suggest the teams that have them would very much like a Joe Ryan I can assure you. Arias from Boston. Lombard from the NYY. Miller from the Phils. Even Rainer from Detroit, though he's a little further out he'd still fit. Rainer might actually be the guy I like the most of those I listed. Yes I'd expect other additions to one of those guys but each would make an adequate center piece for us. Just my opinion on moving Joe Ryan. Not moving him now is actually doing an injustice to the future of the team. Again my opinion.
  4. sweetmusicviola16
    Julien, Gasper, Outman remain untouchable. So yeah it's close to set up.
  5. sweetmusicviola16
    From what I can tell it's a solid trade to pick up a prospect that we wouldn't otherwise have had. I would like to have seen us pick a pitcher in round 2 that we could have had in camp and gotten a look at for essentially 50k. As the old saying goes you can't have too many pitchers.
  6. sweetmusicviola16
    My thoughts when I heard that Falvey is now spending his time advising these new minority owners is, here he is adding another duty to his job instead of spending his time trying to improve the Twins team. How many hats this guy must be wearing. Why does this team not learn?
  7. sweetmusicviola16
    The Twins won't be signing any 12 or 13 million dollar players. O'Hearn is probably the kind of player they should sign but they won't.
  8. sweetmusicviola16
    Wow, yeah.
  9. sweetmusicviola16
    Jeffers will walk after 2026. Ryan and Lopez will walk after 2027. We will get absolutely nothing in return. This so we can finish in 5th place but get 5 -10 more wins in those last place seasons. Falvey is a disaster that we can no longer afford to keep.
  10. sweetmusicviola16
    The Nats acquire Harry Ford for a LHRP. Falvey couldn't pull this off. But he thinks he can compete. He's failed over and over again. He's over his head. Destroyed the team in July and received back redundant pieces. This team isn't close to competing.
  11. sweetmusicviola16
    Once we get Roch in June he will become the top 21 year old.
  12. sweetmusicviola16
    Platooning was never something strived for in the past. It was more of a last resort. Bench players filled in when and where were necessary to rest a starter. Hrbek was going to play 140 games at 1B. Puckett was going out to CF for 150. Same with Gaetti at 3B and Gagne at SS. Leave guys alone and let them play and grow into their position.
  13. sweetmusicviola16
    The team that finished out the season was a 55 win team, and I feel like that bunch played hard overall and did well to win as many as they did. This team would need to spend 50mil to become a "contender" and they aren't going to do that. I expect they will spend 10-12mil and be maybe a 60 win team. And they aren't going to trade the pieces which will make them an actual competitive team in the future. They will squander the value of those pieces. Welcome to the LAA of the past decade.
  14. sweetmusicviola16
    I hadn't thought of that angle DJ. Mainly because it would be out of the Twins norm. But the Mets want a Lopez or Ryan type. They want Buxton. Not only do they want them but they need them. The window for the Twins competing is not open in 2026. As much as it may grieve to lose our best players it maybe necessary to have a team that is beyond competitive in the future. Now is the time to take on a Manaea type. In a trade you get a haul of Tong, Sproat, Benge. etc. Trading away Lopez, Ryan, etc doesn't mean you have to be terrible. You can then sign guys like Littel, Severino, even take a roll of the dice on a Montgomery. These guys can be flipped in July too. We're a 70 win team. Banking on these guys to be a 85-90 win team and competing for the Central is unrealistic imo.
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    I conjecture that that is a strategy that could well happen. If payroll is scaled back to bare bones they will need to reinvest or have the Players Association be filing grievance. If this strategy worked, replace one salary with another, they could very well be as close to as good as they are anyway if the new signings panned out. And have a nice batch of prospects to build around or trade at a later date.
  16. sweetmusicviola16
    Hartwig reminds me of the carousel they did in August with the RP's. I think anyone who thinks the Twins will be signing BP guys for 3-6mil is living in fantasy land. Not much chance. Or a 1B for 6-8mil either. The only chance of the Twins spending any significant dollars on FA's is if they do trade Lopez, Buxton, Ryan, Jeffers and Ober. They might then spend so they fall in place with the CBA for the revenue sharing check.
  17. sweetmusicviola16
    Nope.
  18. sweetmusicviola16
    Meant Tong. Something went wong typing
  19. sweetmusicviola16
    Ryan and Buxton to NYM for Tong, Sproat, Reimer and a couple of high upside prospects. Another C Yovanny Rodriguez interests me as one of those. Maybe if we have 3 or 4 C prospects in the system we can hit on one or two.
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    For Buxton I feel you can eliminate the top 4 in the Mets system. Sproat? Maybe.
  21. sweetmusicviola16
    Me too, that'd be a very good package for Ryan.
  22. sweetmusicviola16
    Joe Ryan is good no doubt. He's a #2 SP and not many of those around. He's not Skubal or Skenes good though. But he's also on the older side of being a #2. McLean has it all ahead of him and could even be #1 good. No one makes that trade is right without additional pieces and they would need to be really good ones at that. McLean could indeed bust, but the Mets can't afford to risk that he does for Joe Ryan.
  23. sweetmusicviola16
    I like the statement he made, "so they can afford it." Any deal with the Mets has to include Tong or Sproat. My personal preference is Tong. And agree about the 3rd prospect with high upside. I mean Johan Duran netted Tait and Abel. Starting pitching not cheap.
  24. sweetmusicviola16
    I would say Tong and Reimer would be close to a deal that would work. I don't know why anyone brings up McLean, that's a definite no. No one on here would trade Jenkins for Ryan, so why would the Mets trade McLean for Ryan? Right now McLean is ahead of Jenkins imo. He's already hit the ML and performed. Unlike Jenkins. If the Twins do a deal with the Mets it has to include Tong and I think that is the best they can do with the Mets. That doesn't mean that you can't get a better deal elsewhere. I like Benge too, but I'm not so sure the Mets would part with him either for Ryan.
  25. sweetmusicviola16
    I just don't think the return that Buxton will net would be worth trading Buxton. I'd say the LAD would matchup fairly well. Maybe someone like Emil Morales and another decent A ball type. Is this really going to help the Twins? I don't see it. Maybe I'm wrong and the top 100 prospect, Morales, will become a star. But yes, if the Twins are trying to trade Buxton then he will want something significant to do so. Yeah probably tear up the old contract and a new one for 90-100mil in its place for four years. Therefore bringing his value down. Besides he is 32 y/o and oft injured. If it ends up being Buxton who requests to be moved I still don't think the team benefits by trading him for what it will get back. 32 years old and a long injury history does not bring back two top flight prospects I don't think.
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