Slim Tubby

Bumgarner, Cole, Wheeler, Ryu and Keuchel are all FA's in the offseason. The question is whether or not the Pohlad family will be willing to spend big money on top tier starting pitching. Your point is still valid, though.

It seems to me like this year is a lot harder to pin down trading partners with all of the parity in the league right now and multiple teams still in the running for the playoffs. I just hope we don't make a trade just for the sake of making one. Trust your evaluations and business model. It's not a one-year window for the Twins. Hopefully we're looking at a window of 5-7 years with all of our young talent.

There will be plenty of competition for Thor but sending out BOTH Lewis and Kiriloff? Absolutely not. I understand the cost will be steep but what other teams are going to offer two (2) of the Top 10 prospects in all of baseball? What other teams even have two (2) Top 10 prospects to offer of the teams after him? Lewis and Alex have the chance to be transformational players for this organization. I'd offer Graterol, Gordon and Rooker/Larnach at the most. If that's not enough for the Mets, change course and go after Stroman who should be less expensive than Thor. What really upsets me the most is that the Pohlad's have consistently refused to open up their checkbook for quality free agents without losing talent from our farm system. Instead, we sit until we have a decent product on the field that's only a player or two away and it costs us very talented prospects in a trade. This club has always taken a very reactive approach to running the organization instead of being proactive and aggressive. It's frustrating...sorry for the rant.