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Obviously I have no idea what their plan is with Morris today, but I’m hoping it’s truly a 1 inning opener appearance. I like what I am seeing with him in that 1 inning roll. I’d hate to mess with the momentum he seems to be gathering with it.

Here’s my take… It’ll either be a Comp A pick or nothing. Because the only way Jeffers rejects the $23M is if his management team thinks he’ll get something like 4/70 or 3/60. If they think it’s looking more like 3/45, then they’ll accept it and hit the open market in 2027 free and clear of the QO stuff. I didn’t mention it in my first post, but a potential MLB payroll floor (and teams needing to spend) could play a part in this as well.

Scenario 1) We offer him the QO and he accepts it Scenario 2) We offer him the QO and prior to accepting or declining, we work out an extension. Scenario 3) We offer him the QO and he declines. This likely means we would get a compensatory pick in the low 30s of the 2027 draft. Though a potential lockout mucks up that picture a little. Scenario 4) He’s traded at the deadline, which would disallow the new team from giving him the QO - this would be Scott Boras’ favorite, so I think we can assume he’ll apply whatever leverage he can, to push this towards happening Scenario 5) He’s not traded at the deadline. Not offered the QO. And becomes a free agent at the end of the season. At the very least the QO becomes a factor in what we should be potentially asking for him at the trade deadline. If we think we will make him a QO, then the very least we should ask for in return, from another team should be the same value as a Compensitory pick. It will probably be difficult to know much more about the QO situation by the trade deadline because he just will not have been back from his injury for very long at that point. In the same way that it might be difficult for a team looking to trade for Jeffers to know exactly what he’s going to give them post-deadline and might be unwilling to fork over value in prospects that the Twins view as equivalent to a QO. Regardless of if the Twins think they will give him a QO, they should definitely make it known that they think it’s a strong possibility Ultimately, we just won’t know by the trade deadline, because when he comes back, if he plays like he did before his injury, then it feels like kind of an easy YES, but if he goes back to more average catcher performance it feels like an easy NO. In my mind this uncertainly really diminishes the chances he’s traded at the deadline.

Orlando Arcia in the 9th?

Shouldn't we have at least heard something by now on SWR? He went on waivers on Saturday. Isn't it 48 hours? It's been like 96.

The beauty of doing it in the minor leagues is that the results don't really matter, so you can do whatever the hell you want. Even though many people are calling 2026 a lost season, the results still DO matter and being able to schedule out exactly Mick Abel throwing 50 pitches, then 5 days later throwing 65 pitches it just more difficult to ensure and the MLB level. Doable? Yes. But more difficult.

Completely disagree on pitchers. Making an appearance or two in the minor leagues is the NBA equivalent of playing 10-15 minutes in a game. With let’s say Mick Abel specifically, he doesn’t do you a ton of good if his first two MLB appearances he can only go 2 or 3 innings. He needs to get stretched out “Able to throw” does not equal “ready to contribute” Minor league rehab assignments for pitchers tend to fall in one of two categories 1) Getting stretched out to a higher inning limit 2) Letting a guy, who was not performing all that great get some innings in before bringing them back up As for hitters, I mostly agree with you that rehab assignment are a waste of time. But also… I wouldn’t say the Twins have had many of their hitters go on rehab assignments. And certainly not for more than a couple days.

I haven't seen all the games, but I feel like he's been really solid in RF since he got moved there semi-permanently with Wallner's demotion.

I was basically trying to say what @ashbury said but it a little snarkier way. I believe you're falling into the confirmation bias trap. You saw something happen, remembered other times it might have happened and then declared that it always happens. But it doesn't always happen. You just choose to remember the times that it does.

Didn’t we beat up on the Red Sox guy making his MLB debut?

I know a lot of people have been down on Shohei Ohtani, but my hot take is that he would improve this Twins club.

Who’s been down on Jeffers?

Doesn’t really matter now… except for Buxton’s stats for my fantasy baseball team

Steelers and Vikings tied going into the 2Q

Cleared the riff raff out of this thread.