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  1. Brandon
    and its fun to play arm chair GM and or building a consensus in the process.
  2. Brandon
    most baseball revenue comes from TV, internet and other such broadcasting. not from attendance like it used to be back in the day. but to offset fewer attendies you will have higher game ticket prices. especially in concessions. Also when using streaming services baseball is a less expensive luxury then so many others. Are you going to cancel cable? Also I guess I should also qualify the higher contract of say 50 million per year may be less total dollars then today comparatively speaking. the average salary could be significantly higher as a result of inflation too. its all relative....
  3. Brandon
    With inflation where it is now. a 30 -35 million in year 10 will not be worth as much as you think. maybe Correa decides he would rather see what happens with inflation as a 50 million contract may be what the average starter is making by then,
  4. Brandon
    I think your grading is a little harsh. Endow is more of an incomplete with all the time missed. Anyone who is a MLB regular starter should be at least a B. Maybe give Jeffers a B - for being a crappy hitter but strong defender. The entire 2020 draft and Cavaco are the only decisions that were absolutely regrettable. overall great article I give it a A-
  5. Brandon
    I think we could do the contract. I think an 8 year 280 million or 9 year 300 million is the ballpark of a solid contract. Remember to add 1 year and 35.1 million to your contracts to get to where he was trying to get to last offseason. Now for the fun part. We have lots of cheap talent so we can afford his salary. What about 4-6 seasons in when everyone else gets expensive. We could bow the contract so we have more money during those years. season 1 - 42.5 million season 2 - 42.5 million Season 3 - 40 million season 4 - 25 million Season 5 - 20 million season 6 - 30 million season 7 - 40 million season 8 - 40 million season 9 - 20 million 9 year 300,000,000 contract. Opt out after season 5 and 8.
  6. Brandon
    I’m in the don’t trade Correa camp. I would like to see an 8 year 280 million extension for him. Or 9 year 300 million if that 300 number is that important. They could get creative and frontload the contract while these rookies are pre arbitration and go down in years 5-7 when everyone salary rises, then go back up at the end…. Kepler and Urshala are high floor guys who contribute. I would rather they be on the roster and rotated to a platoon/ bench role if someone can consistently outplay them. We can trade them in the offseason. I am sad about Sano. I really wanted to see him, Kepler and Polanco combine to hit 1000 HRs for the Twins in their careers. They are close to 400 right now. Just a couple of big years from everyone and we are almost there….. we could trade Duffey and Theilbar as change of scenery trade. I am not opposed to trading anyone just that we are in contention and you go with the team you have and try to supplement the roster.
  7. Brandon
    I doubt he will spend his whole career in Minnesota.
  8. Brandon
    Gordon was taken with a high floor low ceiling outlook but with the ability to likely remain at SS. Greg Gagne was a comp. I think Gordon was viewed as a future SS with a .270 ave 10 HRs and 10-15 SB. It seems likely Gordon will have a 5-10 year run and accumulate 2000-3000 plate appearances. That is my guess anyways.
  9. Brandon
    I think if Maeda comes back this season it will be in relief. He can set himself up to be back in the rotation over the offseason. If he is back by late August/ Early September then he would have time to build up in relief for the playoffs and show he is ready for that. I think we will have to wait and see if he can contribute in the postseason therefore it makes sense to not count on him at this time. So at the trade deadline we should make moves as if he will not be here this year. But he could be our World Series Closer too.
  10. Brandon
    In the playoffs we should have Maeda back and he will likely be in the pen as a lights out reliever. Also if we can acquire a starter like Montas or Castillo then Archer will be in the pen too if he is not the 4th starter which I doubt. So I would focus on getting a playoff caliber starter then maybe a playoff caliber reliever. As long as we don’t have any more major injuries, we shouldn’t need anything else.
  11. Brandon
    You could write an article on our bench. Our bench has been light years ahead of what other teams benches are doing. Compare OPS+ from our bench to others.
  12. Brandon
    And because of this the Twins can go ahead and sign Correa to an 8 year 290 million contract extension. They will have plenty of money in the budget for the first half of the contract and they shouldn’t have to juggle too much the 2nd half of it. And if we can win the World Series so what
  13. Brandon
    If we trade for Montas, I doubt we trade anyone on the current roster who is contributing. I think a package of Steer, Martin, and Balazovich would be a good start. Steer and Martin are good prospects that don’t have a spot on our team. And Balazovich is a good prospect but struggling this season. We might add another prospect and get Trevino in the trade.
  14. Brandon
    I think if Bundy has 4 innings and 2 ER or 5 innings and 3 ER against the Yankees, I would consider his night a success.
  15. Brandon
    Let’s be accurate on Bundy. He had 9 starts with 3 awful ones. 4/29 6 innings with 6 ER. 5/4 3.2 innings with 9 ER 6/4 2.1 innings with 5 ER 12 innings with 20 ER. His other 6 starts are for 30 innings and 6 ER. While Bundy is walking a tight rope he is decent more starts then not. The implosion starts are a problem but if he can keep it to one per month and be solid the rest of the month, we will come out ok on his signing. While I do think he is the 5th starter at this point, he hasn’t pitched himself out yet. His start against the Yankees needs to be watched closely by Rocco and a quick hook like the one he gave Smeltzer in his last start may be needed. I expect Bundy should be able to go 5-6 innings against the Mariners. I expect Bundy to get more starts unles both Yanks and Mariners clobber him before 3 innings. Health and the ability to go 5 innings will buy you an extra 5-6 starts into July. I don’t expect Bundy to finish the season in the rotation.
  16. Brandon
    Also I think there will be some playing time opening up at 2B for Arreaz to get some games if Polanco doesn’t improve his results soon.
  17. Brandon
    I think a demotion to low leverage only situations is in order.. I don’t see the Twins releasing him either but there are better options internally at the moment.
  18. Brandon
    If the Twins get in as a wild card they will not be playing the Yankees thus improving their odds of ending their playoff loosing streak. I prefer the win the division but just sayin.
  19. Brandon
    If we still had Berrios we would probably still have Rogers too. The thing of it though is we followed Berrios since he was drafted as an 18 year old. It would be fun to have him spend his career in Minnesota. It looks as though Martin is on track to being a super sub player. The question will be can he hit enough for average or will he develop enough power to be productive? He gets lots of walks now but when he comes up and hits .250 how many walks will he get? a .315 OBP is not good enough to start if you do not hit 25+ HRs. Richardson-Woods seems like he will be a good starting pitcher for us. Rosterman is right in that Berrios won the trade. I think we lost it a little because we would have qualifying offers on Rogers and Berrios and would get draft pick compensation for them when they left this offseason and we would probably be a better team with them on it. But the final outcome is to be determined.....
  20. Brandon
    I agree with the rankings.
  21. Brandon
    Who would be an honorable mention? Schoop? Wells (with Baltimore) .....usually we get a few who missed the countdown.....
  22. Brandon
    An 80+OPS hitting good defensive player on the bench who can play many positions including SS is valuable. Think Nick Punto. I can see a nice 3-6 year run with him as a backup. I do hope he improves with the bat a little more but I think he has done enough to keep his spot on the team.
  23. Brandon
    I imagine he is on an innings limit. I doubt they let him go much more than 100 innings this year. Or they probably have a more complicated pitch limit. Either way as a starter he should have a handful of 5-6 inning starts this year. If he does that and we want him on this team, he would need to come up as a reliever. The minor league season ends the last week of August maybe first week of September.
  24. Brandon
    I think Canterino should stay in AA until he has several games of 5-6 innings then he can go to AAA. After the trade deadline the Twins could promote him to finish out the season in the pen as a 2-3 inning pitcher pitching at most once every three days. This would allow the Twins to bring him up and limit innings while giving him time to build up his arm strength.
  25. Brandon
    I hope to see Miranda come in and add some intrigue to this discussion. He did hit better this last week. His strikeout rate is solid for a hitter. I think he is close now.
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