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  1. Whammy
    Based on what?
  2.    LA Vikes Fan reacted to a post in a topic: 3 Bold Predictions for Minnesota Twins’ Offseason
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  5. Whammy
    Sort of related, I'd wait out the Alec Bohm market. He's not going to excite anyone, but he'd be a good platoon pair with Clemens at 1B and some pinch hitability. Clemens could slide to 2B on days you wanted to play both. Bohm could also spell Lee occasionally at 3B. Even in what was a down year for him in 2026, he had over an 800 OPS against lefties. I think eventually you could get him for about what Josh Bell got and he obviously provides more flexibility than Bell.
  6.    Heiny reacted to a post in a topic: 3 Bold Predictions for Minnesota Twins’ Offseason
  7. Whammy
    1. There are people here that only read the articles? 95% of why I'm here is for the comments. The articles to me are just a conversation starter. 2. I agree, but I sympathize with the writers. It seems like the moment they get specific, there's a faction of commenters that tell them why it's unrealistic or a dumb idea. Those same commenters never seem to summon the courage to actually tell us the specifics of what THEY would do. 3. I disagree with you here. There we multiple playoff teams wanting to trade for Jeffers at the deadline. In my opinion, the bat plays up far more than the defense plays down.
  8.    Jack Pine reacted to a post in a topic: 3 Bold Predictions for Minnesota Twins’ Offseason
  9. Whammy
    - Twins trade for either Campusano or Fermin from the Padres, or Wong from the Red Sox - Twins sign two or more contract extensions for existing players - Twins commit over $12M of 2027 money to free agent relief pitchers
  10. Whammy
    Care to share any of your predictions?
  11.    Richie the Rally Goat reacted to a post in a topic: New Twins Pitching Coach Brain Reith Must Get These 3 Pitchers On Track
  12.    TheLeviathan reacted to a post in a topic: 3 Free-Agent Relievers Who Could Give the Twins a Lift
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    I think it depends on the year. We can certainly make do in 2027 with Zebby in the bullpen, but with where things sit right now, we might really need him to eat innings in 2028.
  14.    Vanimal46 reacted to a post in a topic: 3 Free-Agent Relievers Who Could Give the Twins a Lift
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    I removed the "qualified" filter from your fangraphs link and just sorted by WAR. There were (48) players who had an fWAR of 1.0 or higher. The 100th most valuable RP in 2026 was Taylor Clarke (Diamondbacks) who had a 0.5 fWAR (Eric Orze was 96th 🤮 ) Tommy Nance was 177th. If instead I sort by xFIP (and apply a 30IP minimum), then Jeff Hoffman is 14th and Tommy Nance is 34th What does this tell us? No idea. But probably at least something like RP small samples lead to funny results.
  16.    DJL44 reacted to a post in a topic: 3 Free-Agent Relievers Who Could Give the Twins a Lift
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  19. Whammy
    I'm curious what happens if you bump that out to Top 100 (roughly 3 per team).
  20. Whammy
    I'd rather wait out the Alex Bohm market. I'd much rather get the other Lowe, but that's far less realistic.
  21. Whammy
    I've always assumed that it was more (though not exclusively) about Falvey seeing value in trading relievers for desirable prospects more so that getting rid of relivers before they got expensive. Regardless of which side of that you believe is more correct, the Twins WERE shedding payroll at that point, whereas they are theoretically increasing payroll from 2026 to 2027. It's one thing to look at your roster with a bunch of holes to fill, $20M to spend, and decide resources can be used better than paying for relievers, but it's another thing to have $40M to spend (Yes, I'm assuming a payroll north of $140M), with big holes to fill in your bullpen, not a ton of other big holes, other than 1B, and then STILL not spend on the BP.
  22. Whammy
    I actually think we could have a really good bullpen if we stray from our normal methods and spend, let's say $25M, on free agents (that's 2027 salary - there would likely be some future year commitment as well) Bednar - 3/45 Vesia - 3/30 That gives us a bullpen of: Bednar Hoffman Vesia Morris Gomez Nance Funderburk Adams That's a total of about $38M in 2027 salary, which is obviously a departure from the Twins historic strategy of bullpen building, but when you have as many pre-arb guys on the hitting side as we do, splurging in other areas become possible. Then here are the guys with some injury questions, or some possible SP/RP conversions Banda Festa Rojas Raya Matthews I think Matthews and Rojas could very easily be top 5 bullpen guys and Banda was having a lot of success before his injury.
  23. Whammy
    Neither of them did it by signing free agents though
  24. Whammy
    Hoffman had a 173 ERA+ with the Twins and struck out 13.5 per 9 innings. Over his last 4 years his ERA+ is around 145 and has struck out 344 batters in 252 innings, good for 12.3 K/9, with a 3.17 ERA I'm sorry, but if you view that as "middle relief at best" then you just don't know ball.
  25. Whammy
    I almost never down-thumb posts, but this one is incredibly worthy of a downthumb.
  26.    Whammy reacted to a post in a topic: Jeff Hoffman Should Get First Crack at Minnesota Twins’ 2027 Closer Job
  27. Whammy
    His first draft when he snagged Bailey Ober and his 10.9 career bWAR in the 12th round?
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