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  1. Unwinder
    I think the no-injury scenario isn't even seriously worth planning for. A six-man rotation is always going to be a temporary luxury.
  2. Unwinder
    Considering how much the Twins have had to dip into depth starters, and how injury prone the opening-day rotation is, I don't think relegating Ober to depth is that big of a snub. It's pretty clear that the rotation moves have been more about stockpiling than upgrading. I'll bet Ober pitches more major-league innings than at least two opening-day starters.
  3. Unwinder
    Yeah I don't want to see Ober going to the pen, I feel like he's pretty obviously more valuable as starting depth and, you know, a starter who's still going to be here in two years. I like Winder, and would prefer to see him succeed as a starter but I'm pretty skeptical of his shoulder holding up to the workload.
  4. Unwinder
    I wonder, does this signal that they're thinking about moving guys like Winder or maybe even Ober to the pen?
  5. Unwinder
    Fair enough, guess ot can happen to anyone
  6. Unwinder
    I saw him play - I want to say the Rays - last year and he absolutely cruised through six scoreless innings, but they put him in for a 7th and he got immediately shelled. Pretty good example of how fragile his arsenal is. Hard not to root for a crafty lefty though.
  7. Unwinder
    Even if the injury risk of making Duran a starter isn't a factor, do we think he can go out and do his Duran thing for more than, say, five innings? "Ace" definitions range all over the place of course, but I've seen a lot of people on here define an ace as able to go deep into games. Do we have any indication that he can do that while throwing anything close to the obscene velocities that make him so good?
  8. Unwinder
    I don't know much about his health concerns a starter, but my worry as a totally ignorant layman is that under a starter's workload, he'd blow out his elbow and never be the same again. I'm gonna trust the Twins' coaching staff over my own gut as to how many golden eggs we can get without killing the goose.
  9. Unwinder
    Sorry but this ship has sailed
  10. Unwinder
    Ober is good and I like him, if he's your first line of depth at AAA that says good things about your depth, not bad things about Ober. I'm pretty high on Ober, and I think he may well out-pitch someone in the opening-day rotation this year, but he's less proven than the guys in the opening-day rotation, and you can't stash Maeda, Gray, Mahle, or Lopez in St Paul. I'd rather have six starters I trust than five, and one of them's gotta wait his turn, and it has to be either Ober or Ryan, and while I like Ober a lot, Ryan pretty obviously has the edge. (unless they try a six-man rotation again)
  11. Unwinder
    Checking out some Marlins fan reactions, and they're just as mad as we are, so maybe it was a good trade. It looks like Lopez is also a charismatic fan-favorite.
  12. Unwinder
    Is there a physical? Could Arraez still fail a physical? Fingers crossed...
  13. Unwinder
    He can want to be here while also preferring to go somewhere else for more money. I've been happy at jobs I've had despite them not being my dream job, and despite being willing to drop them for something that pays more.
  14. Unwinder
    NEXT STOP: WACHA!!!!!!!
  15. Unwinder
    I go to the mall and I go to the Dior store and I want something, I get it. I make an offer, it turns out to be too expensive, so I wait for two other people to buy it and return it because there's a hole in it, then it gets marked down and I buy it.
  16. Unwinder
    When the offseason started, I thought there was a good chance that the Twins would lock Correa down, but I never dreamed that it would somehow be a bigger stunner than last offseason's Correa signing.
  17. Unwinder
    I'm not excited about this because I really want the Twins to shell out for Correa, I'm excited about this because I really want something to happen.
  18. Unwinder
    I think the game only changes if Cohen's spending results in a salary cap. Otherwise, prices on free agents just go up, more owners have to bite the bullet and spend on them, and the eventual result is that every team ends up with the same free agents they would've signed anyway, but at three times the salary,
  19. Unwinder
    I am a lapsed D&D player, and I think it's no coincidence that me getting really into baseball happened around the same time that family obligations started making it impossible for me to keep a regular D&D campaign going. I have a lot of friends who are sports fans, and I was hoping that getting into baseball would give me something to talk to them about, but it turns out that the ones who like baseball are all nerds who I already had plenty of common interests with.
  20. Unwinder
    I would rather watch a losing Twins team. This is the only thing I can think of that would actually keep me away from Target Field.
  21. Unwinder
    It's pretty clear that the FO didn't drop Sano because they've lost their taste for all-or-nothing strikeout slugger guys, they just did it because they think he's cooked.
  22. Unwinder
    I think they got cocky after lowballing Buxton.
  23. Unwinder
    Yeah, I don't know if the doom and gloom is totally justified here. I'm very frustrated with the free agency situation and want to the FO to make a big splash, but the Twins' have had big FA names on big contracts for the last 2-3 mediocre years, and the last really good season the biggest free agent name was Nelson Cruz and he was getting paid 14 million. Different situation! Strong core! Career season for many players! Miguel Sano was competent! I know, I know, I'm just saying it's not inherently hopeless. We already have a better starting rotation than we did in 2019, an adequate if uninspiring plan B at shortstop, and we've figured out the catching situation. We're mostly free to look for upgrades wherever we can find them instead of desperately plugging holes, and we've got tons of spending money. Total optimism would be pretty silly right now, but total hopelessness is nearly as silly.
  24. Unwinder
    Nobody seems to be getting this reference, no Wolves fans on TD???
  25. Unwinder
    Yeah, this isn't merely a case of the haves beating out the have-nots, this is an absurdly long contract which could very well include more bad years than good. I feel like this deal would be controversial in Minnesota from the get-go. Long live Lewis, long live Lee. Thank you Farmer or maybe Swanson for being the bridge through hopefully only a few mediocre years.
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