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Rocco is managing to get higher draft picks. Hopefully the new minority owners know how to draft in the first round. Rocco is also going a fine job of putting bad relievers in a position to fail. They just are not quite good enough. Topa is another example of not buying into an outlier season.
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Whom Could Minnesota Twins Trade This Offseason?
old nurse replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Lewis has not played a full season of games since 2019. He is suddenly going to be healthy and speedy again? He is core and doesn’t play a full season. That would be a stretch to call him core. Be careful when you stretch Royce. You might hear a pop. Larnach is below average in hitting for a starter, and does not play defense well. He has a career bwar of 3.5. A career fwar of 2.9. Why would anyone think he is going to get a 5 million contract? What comparable player has received that? As far as trade value, maybe a little something in spring training if another team’s outfielder gets injured and the prospects are too far away from ready. Ryan and Lopez are in the same boat. 2 years of team control. Falvey wanted a lot for Ryan at the deadline. Nothing has changed. There may be more players lost at the end of the year due to DFA and minor trades than trades off this list -
The value of the franchises are tied to their ability to make money. The big market teams are not going to lose the value of their franchise without some compensation. The 8 teams making over 100 million are not going to give that many millions out of benevolence.
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So why would a swing change help a player who has shot legs for speed? A swing change would be trying to make yourself into the next Dave Kingman. I don’t think that would be prudent mid season. Lewis has the wrong agent or the Twins are more than happy to take a wait and see attitude with a player that has spent significant time on the DL for 5 years in a row, Now were ne a pitcher….. As far as greedy goes, fans complain the Pohlads are cheep and Lewis is greedy. That is just awesome.
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There was a guy playing for Texas named Joey Gallo if Wallner turned into that guy I don’t think people would mind. Then there was the Joey Gallo who bounced around to different teams. I think teams thought they were getting their guy who played for Texas named Joey.
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Four triple a bats are in the lineup getting their more than an irregular sample size shot for their future. Martin, Outman. Julian and Gasper
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Larnach had about a league average bat for a starter in 2024. So is that season the outlier or is 2025 the outlier? If 2025 is the outlier then he is a useful bat. If 2024 is the outlier then the question is who is ready? So far the fall auditions are not a large enough sample to identify a replacement
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Has anyone seen Will Ragatz and Cody in the same room together so people will know they are not the same person?
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The haul might be 5 A, A+, and AA players. They might not be players high on anyone’s list of prospects.
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First thing people have to realize is that Jim Pohlad still runs the team. He is still controlling the money. Second thing is, Falvey is his guy. How the trade deadline played out should make that clear. Joe Pohlad is just the press secretary and the face for the franchise so Jim doesn’t have to hear the things people say. What is next year’s payroll? Revenue-expenses+ maybe whatever tax money they get back from what they can deduct- benefits and payroll taxes= the player payroll. What are expenses? Atlanta had expenses on their financial statement of 505 million with a 235 million payroll There is the high end. Those numbers were cited by Baseball America. Dejan Kovacevic’s numbers for the Pittsburgh Pirates Pirates, a team he has covered for 21 years, were 171.7 million. https://dkpittsburghsports.com/team/site-stuff/feed?page=0&content=pirates-losing-money-bob-nutting-investigation-mlb-dk The Twins’ number is likely somewhere in between. Likely closer to the 171.7 than 270. The MLB.com site list a lot more front office people for the Twins than the Pirates. The benefit costs last year according to Cots was 30 million. Revenue in 2024 for the Twins was 324 million. A couple hundred thousand less fans and very little local TV revenue will decrease the revenue for 2025. Best case scenarios No drop in other revenue, FO is as cheap as Pittsburg’s would leave about 120 million for payroll. More likely, the bloat in the FO is 10-20% higher and payroll will be about 100 million.
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Able, Festa, and Mathews really have nothing left to prove in the minor leagues. As starting pitchers in the majors they have proved nothing. Festa’s numbers on first time through the order are buoyed by his ability to get the bottom of the order out. SWR after 47 games is what he is. 4-5 innings, generally keeps you in the game Bradley is an expensive lottery ticket. 5 pitchers, 2 spots. 4 or 6 more starts to prove themselves Spring training has arrived early. No matter the outcome, they will get their 80-90 pitches in.
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League average OPS for a DH is 773. League average would be higher except Larnach is at .725 and Pittsburgh is giving McCutchen (OPS .711) a farewell tour since he is the last of their winning teams’ players and they have nothing better to do.
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The butcher may have sold you a slice of rump roast.
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It is always the coach’s fault when the player can’t leave?
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They fans eyed to quit thinking a salary dump of a player not performing up to the contract
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In terms of fielding and baserunning, the players should have figured that out long before they reach the majors. Hitting is adjusting and learning the pitching. The Twins developed Castro, they didn’t Rooker. Anybody else make it after they left the Twins with say a couple of over a 5 war over a couple year stretch? Wade had 2 very bad years before 2 OK years before faltering.
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https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/which-orgs-are-the-best-and-worst-at-drafting-hitters/ Yet by runs created by drafted players they are not performing poorly
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Not trying to hijack or anything, but an iterating set of articles https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/what-the-pirates-twins-finances-reveal-about-mlbs-revenue-divide/ What The Pirates & Twins Finances Reveal About MLB’s Revenue Divide That is the name of the article. This is in case the link doesn’t work. In the article click on the link about what the guy for DTSports had to say on Pittsburgh. The article they liked on the Twins is on the Athletic. Sometimes when an article is linked and you haven’t read a NYTimes publication for a month they let you read an Athletic article that is behind the paywall What BaseballAmerica missed is that DT sports said that the Pittsburgh front office had somewhere around 140 employees. (The exact number escapes me, one too many numbers to remember The Twins have 329 listed on MLB.com. The non player expenditures for the Twins is likely far more than the 171 million that Pittsburgh spent, but not near the 270 million Atlanta spent. All of this may give some light as to why the payroll is going down.
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It is the same setup as with mlb tv only with ESPN added. If so few are watching now, less will watch when it costs more.
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You show no respect. Sorry I do not have footnoted timeline for you. Yes the Pohlads closed the deal. What part of when it comes to spending over the budget goes to the owner was too hard for you to understand? The same scenario owner to GM played out in Houston. That is how it works. The groundwork to make the trade was Falvey’s conversations with Houston, which started as nothing serious When Ryan was running the team he once stated that GM talk together all the time about players. Sorry, that was a long time ago for Ryan’s tenure so I don’t have which sportswriter for you. Do you think that the Griffin Jax or Varland trades happened in less than a day?
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You missed the intent of both sentences. It is not worth explaining either statement
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So it is all about you?
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Feel free to do so
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Offense pays the bills. Being of sound defense left with Tom Kelly’s retirement I would have no idea if Baldelli inspires the players, tries to inspire the player or fails to inspire the players. Apathy is on the players.
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One would think that if you are complaining about he is swinging at pitcher’s pitched and low barrel, hard contact and needs to tighten up his zone one should be offering up which pitches they hit and where the poor contact is at.
