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  1. Topa and Stewart being effective would eliminate the need to trade for a right handed reliever.. They really can’t make a trade to replace Lewis. Kirilloff may be replaced by Wallner as a LHB. That leaves Martin. As they trade for a RHB for the outfield. Since the FO got Margot, I don’t see them making a trade, unless any of these players are trade bait in a trade for a frontline starter or LH reliever
  2. Which of these starting pitchers is going to be a stopper in the post season and with giving up a couple of top prospects?
  3. Maybe the team can trade an underperforming reliever that will blossom once he quits using his slider so much and a future depth starter to go get this Mets pitcher. A career year at this point. What could go wrong?
  4. Royce Lewis will be the Twins representative. Of course he still may be injured but then the manager can take another Oriole. Maybe Cano ti rub it ib
  5. Jansen would likely cost a highly rated prospect That is not happening The Reds are poised for contention long before 2028. That trade isn’t happening Texas with that pitching staff is probably looking to bolster their hitting. Sure, they might trade Yates for Jose Miranda Miami. Giving up a pitcher with 2 years of control left after this year and left handed. Even with a poor season ERA wise, the cost would not be low. Given Miami’s trade history, a couple of midlevel prospect might do it An injured pitcher and the Twins. . Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results Chargois came off the injury list, perhaps he should be on the list, too Yet Another pitcher with bad results and better peripheral numbers. This time a team that rarely sells at the deadline
  6. One would think that a Twins fan would know that the Twins did not draft Johan
  7. But not a third, year, nor did any other JPL team sign him.. yup he set a record for strikeouts in the Mexican league. That is as significant as Joey Gallo not striking out in t ball
  8. The team in Japan did not want him back?
  9. Cano was probably a throw in as he did not do well in his time on the big league club. He appears not to use his slider as much and has a better outcome. Shame on the Twins for not recognizing that. Povich was likely the main piece in the trade. A potential major league starter for a reliever is not a good trade unless you think they are not going to make it as a mlb starter. There are things they can be wrong about. Future starters is not. One of them.
  10. With this regime later first round picks by the Twins that were bats areRooker, Larnach, Wallner, Cavacao,, Sabato and Miller. The results suggest they can identify a college bat better than a high school bat.. the results also show they haven’t yet found the diamond in the rough
  11. The process did not evaluate what Baltimore did to make a mediocre pitcher into an effective closer. Lopez reverted back to mediocrity, where he has remained. He is one of the reasons I wouldn’t trade for the older player having a career year without a real deep dive.
  12. My point was the haul they got for Arráez with 2 seasons of control left was large in number but on the surface looks weak, this regime may take a haul of players they like that are suspect. Arraez is similar in years of control left. With a bat he is a much better player than Luzardo is as a pitcher. That suspect pitcher occasionally learns control and doesn’t walk a batter an inning and becomes a Luis Gil 6 years later. That is probably why they take the high risk, high reward players. discount rate warm bodies, retail rate 3 players with perceived upside and a warm body
  13. Luzardo is on a $$m contract. Even if it is saving some money. Miami is not going to trade him at a discount rate. Obtaining better prospects by other means would cost more . They took 3 lottery tickets and a decent a level prospect for Arraez.. it isn’t like giving up something similar to that would be all that difficult if the Twins wanted Luzardo.
  14. “The moment that Joe Ryan was acquired for a shell of Nelson Cruz,” Joe Ryan as a prospect at that time was not as highly thought of as Festa. Tampa had 5 other starting pitchers rated higher than Ryan . Would they trade their 6th highest rated pitcher this year for such a hitter? In a heartbeat. Twins needs for pitching is greater than their need for a hitter would be why that kind of trade would not happen
  15. Cruz had an OPS of .907. That is not a shell. I know you people don’t claim to be journalists, but really? How hard is it t be a little closer to accurate.. He did nosedive afterwards, but not before the trade
  16. Of course he did. There were 3 out of four good trades. Robles for a prospect now in Indy baseball was the only trade that was about equall. For a worn out Happ they got a couple games out of Grant and a prospect they used in part t get a season of Taylor. Everybody should remember the other 2 trades.
  17. Mahle pitched in 33 games the year before he was traded, Dyson 74 the year before he was traded. About the last player to not have issues was Cal Ripken
  18. Hindsight is such a wonderful thing. Mahle and Dyson. How could you know they were or going to be injured.? Lopez. Mediocre career now having a lights out year. F for thinking about trading for him. F for having Cano throw more sliders than he should have. I can’t fault them for trading him but they shouldn’t have included Povich So what did they lose by trading? 2 designated hitters,, 2 6th starters, a reliever that didn’t fir the Twins way and suspects. How can it be failing when you did not lose much?
  19. Anemic, by your definition then is 1/3 of the batters who are qualified statically.. Anemic would be 66% of anybody who has swung a bat in a game before today . Don’t like the numbers I post you can look them up
  20. Snell, 30 million player option for next year. The FO can’t trade for that. Blackburn only makes sense if his trade value is a low minor league reliever with a high era. Cobb might be a good add
  21. Good luck finding a 30 something pitcher on a bad team that is good. Maybe Chargois, but this is the front office that waived him
  22. Farmer has been hitting just below league average by WOBA since May1. He isn’t going anywhere.
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