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  1. Brandon
    Raley?
  2. Brandon
    Polanco is a good doubles hitter whether he hits home runs it not. I see Polanco as a 30-40 2Bs a season player depending on ABs. He also can be counted on for a solid average .270-.290. as far as HRs go I see a consistant 10-15 with 20 a possibility. Even without the HRs he provides value by being available and good OBP. With all the power on our team I would think OBP would be more important moving forward. That's why Arreaz is so valuable to us.
  3. Brandon
    Gibson is worth 3/30 to be a 4th starter. I would have been happy for the Twins to sign him for that. I was against going higher than a 3/45 deal.
  4. Brandon
    This is a trade to circle back to if we don't fix the rotation and need another starter. I think we have better internal options at this point. I do think he will pitch better outside of the AL East and Baltimore but at best he looks like a low to mid 4 ERA. Let's see if we can do better first.
  5. Brandon
    I have to agree 1 good season shouldn't net 4 coaching losses.
  6. Brandon
    I'm fine with either option. But I think it makes sense to bring him back. Now if we get Donaldson at 3B.....
  7. Brandon
    Schoop didn't get as much playing time as anticipated but I feel he slightly outperformed expectations. I was hoping for a .750 OPS and he did better. Was fine defensively and we knew about the low obp. That was baked into the cake. I am happy with what he did and he was also a great sport about Arreaz taking playing time away from him. That speaks volumes of his character and him as a team mate and team player.
  8. Brandon
    That is a savings around 20 million and some inexpensive parts that could play next season.
  9. Brandon
    I wonder if we could get Gray with less prospect haul by taking on a reliever contract? They have 3 I'm sure they want to get rid of. Gray, Davis, and $3-5 million for Rooker, Romero, and Harper or another fringe prospect
  10. Brandon
    Cron is likely to earn 7.7 million in arbitration. I'm sure he would like to come back. I can see the Twins offering an incentive based contract. Like 6 million base with 2 million based on games played/ plate appearances. I think the Twins would like to keep Gonzales as a supersub to fill in for injuries and resting others. If you are set o. Releasing Cron we need a replacement 3rd baseman. Also I thought Sano was not good at digging out bad throws at 1B making him a bad 1B defensively. This in itself is a long debate to be had here on Twinsdaily complete with video and in depth Parker Hageman analysis (nudge, nudge).
  11. Brandon
    I meant Moustakas for 3 years not 4.
  12. Brandon
    As it stands our team really doesn't have many holes. 2 rotation spots and a bullpen spot. So I wouldn't want to trade from the major league team. I can see us trading prospects for a starter or a reliever and that's about it we will sign a backup C for a season it looks like. Someone who can compete with Astudillo and there is the Cron decision. I think we offer a lower guarantee with incentives to slightly more as insurance maybe 7 million with 1 million incentives or 6.5 million with 1 million.... Or sign Moustakas for 4 year 39-45 million. I think Cron is a safer low cost gamble. We have in house options and 3 hitters who could be ready at some point next season so why spend more there. So after looking at it, we will likely trade for a SP if we get rebuffed in FA. And if we do that it will cost prospects.
  13. Brandon
    If we trade for Betts we have to win the World Series or it's all for naught trading Killeroff....could we trade a different prospect instead?
  14. Brandon
    Let's leave off one of Pineda or Gibson, Martin, and School and bring in Wheeler.
  15. Brandon
    Since I can't like this post on my phone, I will just state it. And while I agree with this statement, I was only pointing out why we would trade Eddie. If we can get enough pitching from him to justify going down to 20 HR and 80 RBI at a fraction of the cost it could be justified...I imagine there would be more to a trade like this...
  16. Brandon
    I think the reasons you hear trade Eddie has more to do with other factors like 2 years if control at a price of 22-25 million. We have several strong prospects on the way and several solid players who can hold the position till the prospects are ready at a fraction of the price. And I only hear we should trade for pitching. So if.trading Eddy helps us get better pitching either through trade or cost savings, the we should do it. Otherwise we can wait.
  17. Brandon
    I like it. Kind of like when the Twins signed Morneau to his front loaded extension way back in the day.
  18. Brandon
    also John Gray from Colorado would be a good trade option. Colorado will want groundball pitchers back in a trade. So which Minor Leaguers do we have that do that? Enlow? Balazovich? And Tyler Wells maybe?
  19. Brandon
    Kershaw isn't going anywhere. But another ace who could be available is David Price. He has three years left on his contract and spent most of his career in the AL East. Since Boston would welcome the trade the Twins wouldn't have to give up too much. But Boston would need to pay some of the remainder of the contract maybe $21 million making his remaining contract a three year $25 million per year which is a fair salary for him at this stage.
  20. Brandon
    I think a 2 year 12 million is what he is worth. If he can get 550-650 PA during the 2 years, wouldn't be too far off if he was starting somewhere else. 750-850. Plus the lighter load may allow him to go an extra year or two. He has already made close to 40 million for his career and a 2 year deal will push him past 50. Also with the Twins likely going to the playoffs that has to be a factor to consider. If I were him, I would at least be interested in a 40-50% playing time here on a 2 year deal if the money was right.
  21. Brandon
    There is a pitcher with a large 3 year commitment remaining on a team that wants to cut payroll. If Boston would pay down Price's contact a little we probably wouldn't have to give up too much talent to get him. Have us responsible for 4 years 60-75 million of the 96 million and Boston gets to lower their payroll.
  22. Brandon
    Don't forget Wells is coming back from injury and I think he was Twins Daily pitcher of the year last year....
  23. Brandon
    Cron hit well before his injury. If he is good to go by Spring training then I say bring him back for 1 more year. Castro. I would sign him to a 2 year contract at around 6-7 million per season to be the 40-45% of the time Catcher. Romo a 1 year 3-4 million is fine. more than that probably not. Schoop and Perez are definitely not coming back. though Schoop did a good job so he should get offers this offseason. Gibson, Odorizzi. and Pineda. I am fine with bringing back 1, 2, or all 3. Once a player like Gibson has been around a long time, I like to see them stick around even past their shelf life so I will leave that decision to management but I am fine with bringing Gibson back because I think he can be a solid 4th starter for us. One who could win 12-15 games in a season. It all depends on costs and other moves made.
  24. Brandon
    There is a Starting Pitcher out there we could get who had 11.5 k/9 and has a career 11.1 k/9 He also had 2.8 bb/9 and he comes at a decent rate for a starting pitcher. 4 years and 81 million. This is already pre-negotiated. All we need to get him is send some talent over to the Cubs for Yu Darvish.... Now is the perfect time to get him. He has shown he is past his injury. The Cubs are looking to cut cash (though maybe not as much of a need with several players off the books) but we could send several prospects including pitching. We could send from: Stashak, Thorpe, Romero, Poppen, Littell, Alcala, Kohl Stewart, and we have lots of other pitchers in the minors... Wells is coming back from surgery.... I'm assuming Graterol and Dobnak are not on the market. Once we have him we can go after another pitcher on a short term contract. we would probably want some money thrown in but the Redsox would probably like to trade Price to save some cash moving forward. If we can get them to include 7-12 million a year cash He becomes a pitcher on a 20-25 million starter a year on a 3 year contract. I dont think we would have to give up too much to make this deal happen either. now we still have 15-20 million left for another starting pitcher. We could resign Odorizzi? or Pineda? or Bumgarner should be in this price range. I don't know how old the Twins want to make their rotation. but going the trade route could bring us the arms we need on shorter term deals than FA.
  25. Brandon
    Well at least this disaster will be over soon. The Yanks are coming to sweep and we are going to let them .....then off to the off-season.
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