Cory Engelhardt

Here is an exact quote from Dan Hayes in his article today. I won't give the whole article away, but I found it interesting. Published at 5:15am. "It's conceivable the Twins could trade one of their talented team-controlled relievers, Duran, Jax or Stewart. However, it would be shocking if they traded any for prospects unless they received a massive overpay. The likelier path to parting with one of their relievers is by adding a major-league bat they think could immediately help the team. Essentially, they'd be trading from a strength to fill a weakness." Take that for what you will.

Ugh. Dumb :)

I agree with you, and HOW the table is laid out in the link before you hit submit, it does list Pablo in the dead money area and counts towards the total. You can't edit that portion, or at least I couldn't figure out how to edit that portion. So the numbers looked different before and after I hit submit. It very likely could be user error. But I intentionally listed Pablo at 0.80 in what looks like the spreadsheet because his 21.8 number was listed elsewhere in the link already. THAT felt like doubling up to me.

I now even see I missed Danny Coulombe and removing him from the list. Dumb. Also, I did list Pablo as minimum because he was listed ALSO on there as dead money. I didn't think that would pull over this way? When I hit submit it said I was 11% under budget, but after I hit save it was I was 29.14% under budget.

Here is what I would do for the deadline, as of today. If they truly go on a winning streak maybe they both buy and sell, but for now I think they'll focus on selling at the end of July. That said, I think they'll only truly trade their free agents to be and one of Duran and Jax, along with possibly Larnach. I don't see any enormous moves (like Joe Ryan) and I also don't see us truly buying unless they like a catcher or 1B that is undervalued elsewhere. Here are the moves I'd make... 1) Trade Chris Paddack to the Padres for a couple of low level arms. Paddack can give the Padres innings, and he would also be making a homecoming of sorts. 2) Combine Willi Castro and Danny Coulombe in a deal to the Yankees for a couple of prospects in the 10-20 range. Maybe one of them in their 10-15 range, and another closer to 20. Both of them would help the Yankees and be free agents by the end of the year. 3) Trade Trevor Larnach to Houston. Larnach I THINK has hit his ceiling here, and he is having a decent season against righties. I'd be aggressive here in giving a shot (frankly) to ERod (if he is healthy for more than 3 games at a time) or even taking the leap with Jenkins if he is ready in August. Or, truly, they could just play Bader a lot of the time. All of this depends on health and player development, of course. 5) Trade Duran to either Toronto or Philadelphia, whoever gives you the best return. I'd want a package built around Trey Yesavage from Toronto or Eduardo Tait from Philadelphia. I'd also just move Varland to the "closer" role as I think he has the mentality to be fine there. Keaschall and Zebby and Pablo should all be back in the next month. They can do a quasi-sell off and still actually make some noise IF their pitching stays relatively AND Lewis/Correa/Wallner start to hit like their baseline should be. What do you think? C: Ryan Jeffers ($4.70M) 1B: Ty France ($1.00M) 2B: Brooks Lee ($0.80M) 3B: Royce Lewis ($2.30M) SS: Carlos Correa ($36.00M) LF: Trevor Larnach ($2.10M) CF: Byron Buxton ($15.00M) RF: Matt Wallner ($0.80M) DH: Luke Keaschall ($0.80M) 4th OF: Dashawn Keirsey Jr ($0.80M) Utility: Harrison Bader ($6.25M) Utility: Kody Clemens ($0.80M) Backup C: Christian Vazquez ($10.00M) NA: Dead Money Here ($0.00M) SP1: Pablo Lopez ($0.80M) SP2: Joe Ryan ($3.80M) SP3: Bailey Ober ($4.30M) SP4: Zebby Matthews ($0.80M) SP5: Simeon Woods Richardson ($0.80M) RP: David Festa ($0.80M) RP: Brock Stewart ($0.80M) RP: Griffin Jax ($2.60M) RP: Danny Coulombe ($3.00M) RP: Cole Sands ($0.80M) RP: Justin Topa ($1.30M) RP: Louie Varland ($0.80M) RP: Joey Wentz ($0.80M) NA: Dead Money Here ($0.00M) Payroll is 29.14% under budget

I think the headline should say that it's the 2025 mlb draft day 2 thread.

Matt Barr is VERY exciting. What he showed at the draft combine was electric. It seems like the Twins are drafting more for stuff this year compared to in the past when it FELT like they were drafting more for pitchability and would add stuff later. It'll be fun to see these arms grow over the coming years.

Isn't Gage Wood the exact definition of a pitcher that is injury prone? Glad they got Quick. He looks to have really good stuff.

Also, the live feed was awesome. Thank you for doing that!

I’d be open to it if it is truly an overpay. Not naming players involved, but if you think they would accept equal value on the baseballtradevalues site you are kidding yourselves.

Larnach and one of the relievers actually make a lot of sense. If they are truly selling and want a big haul, maybe they also look at one of their starting pitchers too?

Seeing Bremner next to the Twins certainly would be exciting. Would LOVE to see what their pitching development plan could do with a 1st round caliber talent. I'm not sold on Taylor, but I do believe in their drafting ability. If that's who they take at 36, I trust they have a good plan for him. Thanks!

I mean, I'm all for making smart deals, and I agree player changes should be made.

This horse has been dead for 15 years. But still, should we continue to hit it?

I guess I see as close to zero chance that Wallner is traded as just about anyone in the organization. I'd be open to being wrong, but being a MN native and able to carry enormous ops's for long stretches of time, I don't see him getting moved.

I did read he was taking grounders at 2nd a week or so ago, but wasn't yet throwing or even hitting. Not certain if that's changed. Hopefully getting closer to a rehab assignment at some point, maybe back soon after all star break if everything goes ok?

Paddack would be way higher

Nothing on Toyotathon either. But I do think it was a good article:

Walker JenkinsLuke KeaschallEmmanuel RodriguezKaelen CulpepperConnor PrielippDasan HillCharlee SotoAndrew MorrisBrandon WinokurKyle DeBargeMarco RayaBilly AmickEduardo BeltreGabriel GonzalezKhadim DiawDanny De AndradeCJ CulpepperRicardo OlivarCole PeschlJeferson Morales

Walker JenkinsLuke KeaschallEmmanuel RodriguezKaelen CulpepperConnor PrielippDasan HillCharlee SotoAndrew MorrisBrandon WinokurKyle DeBargeMarco RayaBilly AmickEduardo BeltreGabriel GonzalezKhadim DiawDanny De AndradeCJ CulpepperRicardo OlivarCole PeschlJeferson Morales

Came here because I am an optimist by choice. But getting Keaschall back SHOULD help the offense right? Also unrelated; Walker Jenkins is finally back to AA Wichita. Not saying that for this season necessarily, but that is another point to add on the optimism side. Generally though, they have to have a good rest of June. At least like you said, tread water. IF that is the case, then that's a good thing. I hope they can.

I really like the first 2 picks quite a lot. Thanks for putting this altogether

Agreed on this. It's really hard to believe that any manager would prefer their ace get injured so they can give a shot to a long-man instead.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/06/jerry-reinsdorf-justin-ishbia-reach-agreement-for-ishbia-to-obtain-future-majority-stake-in-white-sox.html The dream we used to have of the Ishbia's buying the Twins is OFFICIALLY officially dead. Sounds like this process will be over the course of the next 5-8 years or so too.

Even with Bregman’s contract uncertainty? That’s hard to deal with.