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  1. Muppet
    The way things have been going, that is likely to be Arraez hitting .330 for the Mariners and Lopez spending 75% of the year on the IL.
  2. Muppet
    The best pitchers in the league will still lose games if their team can't score any runs. Last year the Twins were bad at pitching, which overshadowed the terrible hitting. They have not made themselves any better in the offseason. We can now be sure that Arraez will be a HOFer.
  3. Muppet
    Keep one or two of the healthy ones on the roster. Replace out with Polanco next year. Trade the others.
  4. Muppet
    I’d say 3 years for 40 million. If he’s still not injured, he can shoot for his big(ger) payday with some NY team.
  5. Muppet
    I think Gallo was signed to be part of a blockbuster multi-player trade that will bring over Correa from the Giants.
  6. Muppet
    Good thing the twins had a plan E
  7. Muppet
    As I mostly "watch" baseball by way of blue and red dots that appear in or near a square drawn next to a cartoon batter, I can't really see defensive plays happen. "In Play, Out(s)" can imply a fantastic diving summersault and throw to first, or a pop up. That said, the smell test of trading in our (likely) two best infield defenders for two that appear to be... bad, it doesn't look good. Miranda, Farmer, and Polanco will probably be letting a lot of balls through to the outfield this year.
  8. Muppet
    I'd go to more than twice the number of games I go to if they dropped the ticket price by 50%.
  9. Muppet
    I'll put money on 2022 being Correa's last year with solid numbers.
  10. Muppet
    If I ever see a Christian Dior store I’ll just go in and pretend I can afford whatever I want.
  11. Muppet
    Looking at Manaea's numbers. Looks like Twins dodged a bullet there. Same as last year when they didn't trade for him at the deadline.
  12. Muppet
    Not sure how they calculate those comparisons, but today you can win a batting title with a .315 average. Throughout most of baseball, that was a really good, but not great, hitter.
  13. Muppet
    The twins should trade him. They don’t deserve him. Year after year we complain that he isn’t good enough. He’s the best hitter on the team and gets better every year. Won a batting title. Not good enough. Just trade him for 2 years of an average hitter with average defense. Or a pitcher who will have an era of .425 before he blows out his shoulder. Arraez will peak in 6 years when he’s on the dodgers and reliably hits 20+ hrs per year. Arraez might be the only twin that ends up in the HOF.
  14. Muppet
    I'd trade him in a second if it seemed very likely that Buxton and Larnach were consistently playing in Center and Left. Without Buxton it is a lot more important to have those solid defensive corner outfielders. Especially if Celestino is getting time in CF.
  15. Muppet
    Call me a cynic, but ... do we really need starting pitching? I'd rather have Arreaz. First show me that the new trainer isn't going to magically make pitchers break their arms within their first five games as a Twin. For a lot of the season, when the pitchers were great, the offence wouldn't score. Twins have some decent starters already, but they need to give them run support. And innings.
  16. Muppet
    Ok... This is an answer to a question that maybe nobody asked, but it does make sense for the Twins to pour in a bunch of money on Correa (even if he is a tad overrated... just my opinion). Currently the franchise face is Buxton, who may or may not ever play more than a few dozen games per year. The old remaining 'franchise' squad of Polanco, Kepler, and Sano obviously wasn't enough to draw any interest among people who are just casual baseball fans. Correa would give us several years of another Mauer or Morneau caliber player ... which is currently sorely lacking.
  17. Muppet
    We have a new trainer. With almost everyone constantly spending time on the IL in 2022, this is perhaps the most significant move they could have made in the offseason. They would have been a much different team if they had half of the injury time they had last year. Maybe not Dodgers good, but possibly Phillies good. .... OK maybe Phillies good is a bit of a stretch... .but they would have been good enough to win the AL Central... probably.
  18. Muppet
    Looks like Larnach had a cannon and could be a really solid defensive LF. He might also end up a bit of an offensive liability too. It would be great to have two solid defending corner outfielders (especially if Buxton ever ends up actually playing CF), but it would be a shame if both (or all three) outfielders are unable to hit a combined .225.
  19. Muppet
    I half buy into this strategy. Add to that a new competent training staff, they cut injuries down at least in half, and relief pitchers that aren't overworked and it might be something. The problem is, I'm not sure that this team with everyone playing at their maximum potential and everything going as planned is still a WS caliber team... but it will be much more fun to watch.
  20. Muppet
    Looking deeper at his splits, he performs best when there is nearly nothing on the line. When the game isn't close, or when there are one or fewer people on base. He can't bat first or second, because then everyone is looking for him to provide that spark. If he bats third or forth, that's his sweet spot because he can hit in the first inning when almost nothing is on the line. All good for Max. Bad for the Twins.
  21. Muppet
    He looks like he has good numbers against lefties. So add him to the Kyles and Miranda and the Twins will have a unique ability to slaughter 25% of the pitchers out there.
  22. Muppet
    I guess the best case scenario is that we sign him for tons of money, he has 4-5 great years here, then leaves for the Yankees and starts to go south... We get his best years, then the Yankees get stuck with the ginormous salary of an overpaid has-been.
  23. Muppet
    Yeah, falling off the cliff isn't inevitable. I'm just worried that if he keeps it up, he'll just jettison the Twins for a better deal in 2-3 years. If he DOES start to drop off, we're stuck with him. Don't get me wrong. He's a great player and I hope he stays with the Twins... but I do think he's a tad overrated, but still a great player.
  24. Muppet
    How does a 10 year deal with a no trade clause and multiple opt-outs make any sense for the Twins. If Correa does really well, every few years he can go back and demand more money elsewhere. If he lays an egg and starts hitting in the low .200s, we are bound to pay him 30+ million per year. He is already only a borderline great player. He could easily go either way.
  25. Muppet
    This would put them in danger of losing every 5th game 1-0.
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