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  1. 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?
  2. 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.
  3. sweetmusicviola16
    Wow, yeah.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. sweetmusicviola16
    Once we get Roch in June he will become the top 21 year old.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. sweetmusicviola16
    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.
  11. 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.
  12. sweetmusicviola16
    Nope.
  13. sweetmusicviola16
    Meant Tong. Something went wong typing
  14. 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.
  16. sweetmusicviola16
    Me too, that'd be a very good package for Ryan.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. sweetmusicviola16
    So we traded in July one of the best relievers in the ML's, Duran, for ML ready Abel and Abel will be in AAA. Makes sense.
  22. sweetmusicviola16
    Falvey has made it clear that Clemens is our 1B. Julien is also in the mix at 1B. Gasper- though he hasn't mentioned him will also play 1B is my bet. I may not trust much of what Falvey says, but when he does bring up things like Clemens playing 1B I usually find it to be the case. Clemens and Julien will be our 1B in 2026 for the most part.
  23. sweetmusicviola16
    Who wants their wages capped? I don't want mine to be. Broadcast revenue does need to be evenly split among all teams. The books of all of the teams need to be more honest too. I know, right. The rich owners need to tell the ones crying super poor to spend the money they give them. As far as the players go, more money and a better living to those who are toiling in the minors. Much more. If you're a guy making 15mil a season you would have never gotten it were it not for the guys in AA etc who never made it to ML but gave you someone to play against and prove yourself.
  24. sweetmusicviola16
    I would love to see a Larnach for Steer trade as has been thrown around. Steer looks more versatile and could play LF on occasion too.
  25. sweetmusicviola16
    This is not a competitive team. The team that finished the 2025 season was a 55 win team. The team that finished the season didn't have Lopez. A full season of Lopez and I'll bump it up to 58. Some improvement by Wallner. 60. Lewis gets somewhere to back on track. 64. Shelton giving improvement over Rocco. 66. Some halfway decent additions to the Pen that pan out. 68-70. No regression from the guys who were performing, Buxton, Jeffers, Ryan, Martin, Lopez when healthy, 68-70. The rest of these guys you cannot count on to be better. imo. This is not a competitive team. Now if everyone of the guys that you can't count on were better that puts us at major league ready's assessment of 75. Staying the course to win optimistically 75 in 2026 only hurts the future years when we just might be better. I guess I fail to see the clamor to keep a 75 win team, at best, together. And lose the potential and value that some pieces truly hold.
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