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  1. Brandon
    Depends on the cost. 2 year 16-18 million maybe assuming we get another reliever. But I would look elsewhere first.
  2. Brandon
    I figure the 3.5 million buyout. To be honest, I did forget he had a buyout. I think they could trade the salary. He is a pretty solid backup I think. not a good thrower but a good receiver. We will get a Carlos Correa type return for him.
  3. Brandon
    Killeroff was drafted under Terry Ryan.. and in the draft you take the best player available at the top of the draft period. Lackey was the best player at our pick. It wasn't even a contest. I don't think we would have to eat much of the contract either. A good backup C is hard to find
  4. Brandon
    Or let's hope he accepts the QO. If he stays the Larnarch will likely be traded and I bet they try to trade Cartini and keep Jackson for the backup C. Those moves cancel about 12 million of the 33 million and Roden gets moved to DH.
  5. Brandon
    The Twins made moves for next season during last season. Several relievers, a starter and promoting 2 OF and a SS so doing status quo moves puts the improvements on the three rookies, and not having the crap pitchers that cost us 10 wins or so early in the season. With a good C, and 1B and 2 releivers we should be an 87-92 win team with luck
  6. Brandon
    To keep the budget more inline you might try to lineup on a trade for a low cost reliever instead of FA. I figured Clemens can hold down second till Marek Houston pushes Culpepper over there. No need to trade Ryan for Ramirez. Also Ryan > Sirotka. Bauers doesn't have the track record for the contract you propose. I think you could get similar production much cheaper. Goldschmidt or Suarez come to mind or Run Lewis/ Roden/ Larnarch / or Clemens combo I'm not picking apart all your moves. Just giving you some lower cost options to rework the budget to be more realistic for next season. 135 or max 140 million. We are not willingly going to 150 million.
  7. Brandon
    We have a deep starting pitching rotation going into next season. We rebuilt most of the pen too. Next season we won't get 125 innings of 120 earned runs coming from the failures we cycled through last season on the way to finding some pen pitchers and Woods-Richardson implosion. We had the 2nd highest scoring offense in the league last season. And Buxton's health is key there and the only holes are C, 1B and possibly DH. So we deepen the pen and sign a C and 1B. I mean there are a bunch of depth moves to make and trade Ober for prospects or a releivers.... What am I missing?
  8. Brandon
    Let's see our OF options include Larnarch, Keaschall, Roden, Buxton, Clemens, Martin, Jenkins, and Rodriguez. I think we have back ups for the backups there. At SS we have Kreidler and Culpepper. I guess he better make it. Or Houston is the backup plan here. Maybe keep Lewis to be a backup 3B in case Lee needs to backup SS if Kreidler has to start there for an extended time. Not a lot of depth at SS at the moment.
  9. Brandon
    A sub 3 ERS is fine with me. I doubt any of the others are that much better. The improvements for next season come from a better bullpen from day 1. And health in the now deep rotation and improving youngsters in the lineup. At this point standing pat isn't status quo. For the off-season I expect 1 or two releivers, a C, and maybe a hitter like Suarez or Goldschmidt for 1B and DH
  10. Brandon
    They will offer a QO. It's either a 1 year deal or he signs elsewhere for 50+ million and we get an extra draft pick Either way we get a prize.
  11. Brandon
    I'm not operating above the norm until news breaks that we have a higher floor. There will also be more parity in revenue sharing if that happens. So the last 15-40 million can get spent after the lockout not before. And if payroll does need to go up. The Twins can frontload extensions to anyone, Lopez, Ryan, Jenkins, Culpepper, Keaschall. ....
  12. Brandon
    I like bringing Banda back on a split deal cause he was on a roll when he went down so he can get hitters out and be an effective 6th inning pitcher. Sabato because he was good in AAA last year, you still want to see if there is any more elevation in his game and see if he could be a DH or 1B for the Twins at some point. Especially if they bring Lewis back, I would want potential replacement options for mid season. He could just be a AAAA type player. On a minors deal neither player is a big loss by signing. It's no loss if they don't sign either though.
  13. Brandon
    I hope they resign Banda to a split contract. I also hope Sabato can be resigned to a minor league deal as well. Gray has a nice offensive burst and knocked in a lot of runs initially, but I feel he can move on and we'll be just fine I wonder who else gets chopped in the coming days?
  14. Brandon
    130-135 million payroll is pretty meaningful after spending around 100 million. We have more than 1 hole to address this off-season. Let's not spend it all on a reliever. Minter is just as good for around 9 million a season give or take.
  15. Brandon
    IFK...... Brandon Lowe or Jeffers or Arraez or Bednar or Minter or a lot of different relievers Bell, or Bauers.....
  16. Brandon
    The Twins need to get two quality relievers this off-season. I figure they will sign one and trade for one. I haven't figured what a good trade would be but we have Ober and we could include a prospect too. Find someone with 3-4 years of control and less than 2 million salary. The exercise for Twins daily is to find several fair trade ideas and vote for the best one.
  17. Brandon
    I'm fine with the no on Stephenson. But if we are spending more on Jeffers, we are definitely not going to be able to keep both Ober and Kramer. Even with meaningful spending next season, I doubt we go over 130-135 million next season. I think we sign a reliever and trade for one. Ober in that deal.
  18. Brandon
    On my off-season check list, I have the Twins signing a C, a reliever or two and possibly a 1B. I was thinking the Twins would keep Bell but I think Larnarch makes for a better DH next season. I think Larnarch gets 30-40 starts in the OF and 85-95 starts at DH. This way the OF gets moved around. I think the Twins sign a 1B too and I like the idea of Nathaniel Lowe who was written about the other day. He makes a lot of sense or just run with Lewis again, and Roden can probably get 20 starts there too. C is either Jeffers which I doubt or Stephenson from the Reds on a 2 year deal possibly 3. 3/33 or 3/36 maybe. Relievers would be Minter and someone low cost who we trade Ober for. I don't know here as I couldn't find a fair trade. I think it will be a low cost player cause now my payroll is in the 130-135 million with Correa"s 10 million included. But these moves cover the holes and we can still sign a few guys to long term extensions too.
  19. Brandon
    The Twins have 3 times more draft picks on their roster then the Brewers and 4+ times more than the Rays. The biggest difference I see is the Twins were forced into trading their pen and pairing down costs from budget mismanagement. And because they for some reason moved away from top tier defense to positional flexibility as the team value. The Twins scored 3 runs more than Tampa. If Lopez fronted the rotation and had 2025 bullpen, we likely would be in the playoffs as well. Here is the main reason we aren't in the playoffs. It mostly comes down o a group of pitchers who failed miserably, Topa, Woods-Richardson, Sands, Lawrence, Garcia, Woo-Suk Go, Voth. There was something like 125 innings with 120 earned runs given up that would change things up dramatically if we got league average from them.
  20. Brandon
    I think Preliepp needs to work on pitching from the stretch based on him not giving up to many base runners and homers last season. Rojas and Matthews could be used in the pen next season or start in AAA or the majors but in 2028 we want both well positioned to be successful #3 starters. Since we have 4 free agent starters next off-season.
  21. Brandon
    He is still pre-arbitration, we can keep him as a 5th OF and pinch runner. I would be disappointed if he gets more than 200AB and less than 15 SB next season.
  22. Brandon
    He is my pick too. He was not what I expected at all. Cartini was at least what we expected. The problem with him is he played too much. Wallner and Topa and Outman were cut short before too much more damage could occur. Gray at least drove in runs for the number of AB he received. Lewis is the LVP for players who played almost the entire season with the Twins. Or Cartini. But 0-7 record from SWR was hard to overcome. We were 77-78 outside of his decisions. We could have been a .500 team without him.
  23. Brandon
    Starting 3 of Lopez, Ryan, and Bradley followed by an improving Preliepp and Kramer. With depth in Matthews and Rojas. With how deep and good the 6th and 7th starters are, how can this not be a top 5 rotation in the AL next season? Name 6 rotations that would be better in the AL?
  24. Brandon
    They have a top 5 offense and average bullpen and a top 5 rotation. Fix the holes I listed and those get even better. I bet a team that good wins more than 90 games next year.
  25. Brandon
    Except that with good health we are well positioned to compete next year. We have holes at C, 1B, maybe DH and 2 relievers so why create another hole by trading him in a year to go for it?
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