Not to mention the Twins have a superior defense by far over the Yankees. Garcia would have done well here, the equation for even moderate success is simple with this club as a pitcher: 1. Keep the ball in the park 2. Don't walk anyone The defense will bail you out more often than not. It was still a dumb trade that was caused because of a couple bad games against the two hottest teams in baseball (IIRC the Twins had their chances in a few of those games anyways), the Kintzler one was even more perplexing. The one good thing though is it clearly pissed off Mauer and Dozier and both have been on fire since then.
Yup. Nothing the new regime has done has inspired confidence in me. This is just another example of how they aren't pros, and aren't ready to run orgs. The Twins lose a couple tough games against the Dodgers and Astros and they hit the PANIC button and trade away our closer for NO reason. Now they don't even have the class to fire a long term manager in the org (not to mention a fan favorite!) Dougie M deserved much better than this. Hopefully it won't happen again in the future. These guys seem completely out of touch.
I think they trade some young position players for a front of the rotation type guys. May, Mejia, Santana, May, gibson aren't front rotation guys, and Berrios has a ways to go to be a #2 imo,
Yup, pretty much a no brainer. Kid has been awesome these last couple months. Question is; do you try to lock him up now for a couple years? I wouldn't be opposed to a 3 year, 21-24 mil deal. He has turned a corner, and if he does in 2018 what he has done in the second half of 2017 he will be very expensive on the open market.