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Buxton will take majority of his at bats at DH position coming off another surgery/injury year. Twins will be cautious with him again. I don’t think he is a good DH option though. No to full time DH.

We will know his decision soon enough as the window is open and pretty sure Boras will get him long term deal before CBA lockout which is 28 days and counting. There should be a lot of action for the FA’s, teams and agents coming up with GM meetings next week. What will Twins do in the space?

Interesting article on MLB rumors website for top 50 FA’s and their predictions on each player $$’s and Years. They believe he could get $75MM over 4 years. Nice write up for each of the 50 guys.

Free Agents ( position / Name / Age. / previous team SP / Hiromi Itoh / 29 / Japan posting RP / Adrian Morejon / 28 / padres RP/ Garret Whitlock / 30 / Red Sox 2B / Brandon Lowe / 32 / Pirates (move Clemens to 1st Base Utility) Trades Royce Lewis to Cubs for Matt Shaw (Shaw is your Utility Guy -Keaschall learns LF/RF only) if your are serious about the future of your team, Martin isn’t on this club, so Shaw takes his spot. I saw Shaw play at University of Maryland many of games, all infield minus 1st base positional flexibility. Cubs pushed him to OF with their infielders being set with Bregman addition. I feel like Mgmt will run Caratini and Jackson out there, don’t like it but that looks like what they will do

If the twins are serious about building a competitive roster , then Martin isn't on this team. Super utility or utility guys mean they aren’t good at any position, they just aren’t. If ownership group wants us to believe they are spending/building the future competitive team than guys like Martin aren’t needed. DFA candidate most likely, bottom barrel teams we would be lucky to make a trade, nothing meaningful though. I don’t believe in our team senior leadership to build via trade or free agency, 2027 might be brutal compared to this year

Damn if you do Damn if you don’t offer the QO. A lot of comments are presuming it is a one year gap for Lackey be called up in 2028. I’m or so sure he gets that call in 2028. He has 3 levels to jump past and I don’t see that happening in 2027 year

The qualifying offer does not guarantee a draft pick. The offer gets extended with 5 days of season ending after World Series. The player has 10 days to decide to accept or reject offer. In those 15 days timeline he can sign FA deal and twins are not guaranteed any compensation from what I am reading. if a team who wants him bad enough and doesn’t want to lose a draft pick will push for any player to not accept or decline while negotiating in the time frame. Now I could be wrong on what I’m reading and interpretating

I don’t think the trade thing was for the whole post trade deadline, but when I read in an interview he just wanted the deadline to be over with, I think does weigh on a player. He has wife, two young kids and would have to break from the norm and plan for all scenarios, now he did come out firing a bit post deadline but then team bottoms out. Tough final month or so for sure

All, have enjoyed the banter, whether I have added comments or not. Will not be watching tonight from pirates country. Celebrating an our daughters birthday with a family date night instead. Enjoy the game and go twins

NFL 3rd string who is active cashing checks. This is classic Twins Front Office having no idea how to run a roster Zoll and staff need to go Sunday right after the final games ends. You want fans to believe you have the right poeople, jettison the amateur hour practices we have going on and get new hires who know what they hell they are doing. They have no plan, just wake up daily and hope they win some games. Then we question long term extensions, free agents spends. No one in their right mind comes here unless we are dumpster diving and overpaying veterans beyond their worth.

I’m going to give him a pass on the back half of his season for a couple reasons. Probably won’t be popular, but that is fine. Coming off hamate bone injury isn’t a quick recovery. Look at Ramirez with guardians. He hasn’t been his normal self since he came back and in sept he is hitting below .200 in a pennant chance. Holiday with o’s has been awful If you watch Jeffers he doesn’t celebrate with his left hand at all. Rehab and getting ready post injury he can only do so much to get baseball ready. Off season work starts all over again as a catcher, where you may be doing running and throwing but he isn’t catching or hitting for weeks on end. I like Jeffers a lot, unfortunate he got hurt Now imagine you are hearing your name for months being traded to Yankees, rays, other playoff contenders and then poof you are not and you are on a rudderless ship to no where. He was energized upon return from injury, deadline was mental toughness and the jolt of I’m still here and let see how this goes chasing playoffs was exciting. It hasn’t worked out. Only one playoff season the whole time he is here, doesn’t bode well for let’s sign long term deal to play for an organization that isn’t serious about contending anytime soon. He will be missed but good for him to earn and make a choice to be competitive the back end of his career

So Mr happy feet Lewis with golden sombrero night at the plate, not surprised by it. Everyone who pays attention to his at bats knows he is sucker for low and away. Solid base starts with feet, legs , hips. He has none of it. Occasional fast ball he gets to but another guy the front office wants to be the next face of organization is not a good baseball player. In his career he has had about 50 games of high level success. Rest of his career is a bench level player. I don’t slump sure hasn’t aged well

The “chase” for playoffs is the fat lady singing the 1st verse, throw Jackson in there everyday as we know what Caratini brings to the table (which is really nothing). Like me some Jeffers but he has proven his worth already on this sinking ship

Our pitching staff will differ on that opinion. He will need to sprint at least once an inning. Laughing at myself for the comment

Agree but teams that have a well oiled machine that aren’t the big spenders know how to maximize their player values and payroll. Twins on,y know how to maximize dumpster diving for value which makes missing playoff last 5 out 6 years the norm. Give me Brewers (19th in payroll), Rays (23rd in payroll) model all day long. Obviously it’s more than just payroll, you need skill set of making trades, drafting and player development. Twins mgmt group lack in all phases