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  1. Jocko87
    It is a very good question. It would look from the outside that a player already on the 40 would have been the easy choice. My guess is that they thought they needed middle infield versatility as a higher priority in that case. Severino is an emergency middle infielder at best. Diego has already been on waivers multiple times and maybe they think they can sneak him through. He's a minor league depth piece as indicated by multiple organizations. They also may not have to waiver him, depending on how the injured list works out. Eventually it will happen though.
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    The legend of Nick Anderson is not the miss you may think. He's never been a two K an inning guy. Decent major leaguer, but we need to get used to our former friends making the bigs. You are stretching here, bringing up names like Helman and Holland and Kiersey would mean them leaping over Martin and Lee and Miranda. If you have a vet who isn't playing well, you don't replace him with a kid you know won't play well and who might take out someone's knee. No deserving player is losing out on playing time for any of these vets. Including Farmer. Injuries have only helped push off hard decisions.
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    Agree on both being well below Zebby. Performance at higher levels, especially high performance is far more important than projections. No idea why everyone is down on Festa all of a sudden. What else would you expect for his first taste of the bigs?
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    But where oh where would he play?
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    My general response would be that they see things, that we are not privy to, that lead them to believe even giving a shot is not a realistic idea. They know very well Diego A (and B) is not an option, he's here because they can afford to lose him on waivers. For the Carmargo example, his 750 OPS in a very hitter friendly AAA environment probably does translate to a 500ish MLB OPS, but without Vazquez defense. That's a break glass in emergency only option. And frankly, try something else is for the White Sox and As. They aren't searching for a nugget.
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    Yes it would. The depth of the Twins makes the demotion possible. It means nothing. Now that the stupid trade values thing is behind a paywall I'm begging everyone to look at actual trades for comps to what might actually happen. GMs don't use that chart, no reason we should. I almost forgot to mention that Julien for a reliever and a top 25 (TEAM!) prospect would be the worst trade in the history of baseball, maybe all of organized team sport. Please use some actual comps for these articles. I've been on board with trading Julien longer than most but I ain't giving him away.
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    It will. He may not be that guy this year but it could certainly get a Joe Ryan type. The demotion has nothing to do with it. Other teams have prospects too. They know how it works.
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    Sure, but we could add that disclaimer to every post on the site. We don't know what they saw in only 23 at bats for Wallner at the start of the year. It wasn't playing well, I'm pretty sure. I have a pretty good idea why Martin went down, back when he almost took out Keplers and Juliens knees in the same week. That can cancel out a lot of playing well if I'm in Rocco's shoes. It's pretty obvious why Miranda didn't break camp but when he got his chance he played well, and was instantly a regular. None of the names you mentioned really qualify, as none would be expected to make a contribution, absent emergency injuries. Festa maybe. Zebby if we are going off the 40 man but neither are ready. Had Festa thrown 12 innings of 1 run ball, I bet he would still be up. Like that other guy who's name I can't spell but was off everyone's radar, SWR. It's very much a prove it organization. The best guy get playing time. The framing should be that "fill in the blank youngster is not outplaying xyz veteran, even if the veteran is looking bad, that we can tell." Our minds dont work that way but it's the proper way to look at it. They have dozens of coaches and analysts for a reason. When we scream for the rookie, what we are really saying is we think we know better with less information. Quite dumb, actually.
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    Had Miranda made the team out of camp because they had no one else is different from Santana keeping him from playing. His .566 OPS in 2023 and .360 slug in the spring are far more to blame than Santana. I say again, nobody playing well is losing time to any of these vets (platoon rants in another thread please).
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    But Santana isn't keeping Miranda from playing. It's the wrong comparison. None of these are binary comparisons.
  11. Jocko87
    Everyone smart predicted that, they just didn't know which name to insert. The roster isn't the question, the playing time is. Nobody playing well is losing out to any of the vets. They do force the kids to play well to get on the field, which seems pretty wise to me.
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    Plenty of action here, regardless. https://www.mlb.com/twins/roster/transactions
  13. Jocko87
    But that's what they did. Including the money factors that have been beaten to death, it was the most important factor in the offseason. Nothing they did prevented any young player from an opportunity for playing time. Santana, Margot, Farmer were all selected as free agents that the kids could steal playing time from without much concern for money wasted or playing time lost. They were floor moves, always with the intention that one of 20 youngsters plays them off the stage. In the AK/Miranda example, many of us would have been half right. Santana was insurance for both halves.
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    It probably is for me, but I specifically said it's a different equation for everyone. I chose to enjoy the game at a certain level, but I do it less at the higher spend. When the same experience is twice the cost, everyone cuts back. And a $250 excursion for a family of 4 is a lot. Like special treat a lot. Once a year, on your birthday, a lot. It a huge factor.
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    Regarding the attendance issue, this is the only acceptable answer. It's flipping expensive to do a lot of things all of a sudden. I spent $150 at the last Wind Surge game I went to on a $20 ticket, by myself. I'd probably be looking at $6-700 to go to a big boy game. Granted, I like good seats and beer so I get no joy out of the upper deck but it's a different equation for everyone. I'd struggle to see how a family of 4 could do a game enjoyably for less than a couple hundred bucks. Considering the headwinds, the attendance is actually probably pretty decent. Activities like these are down all over. I thought they should have done something crazy when the Comcast news dropped like the Falcons concession model. Dollar dogs, two dollar brats, three dollar beers. All concessions no ballpark markup. Big marketing campaign from the best marketing team in baseball....err, wait. Regarding the original question, it might be a factor in the trade deadline but several rungs down the ladder of importance. I don't think it plays enough of a factor to change anything they would normally do in the first place. So many of the trade deadline suggestions are so far out of the realm of the way we know they operate that they shouldn't even be discussed. Vlady? Pfffft. Frankly, from a baseball standpoint, there aren't a ton of clear upgrades out there that make sense.
  16. Jocko87
    Dadgumit! I never made it out to see him in Wichita! Love the aggressive move though. 99 with control plays up, I guess.
  17. Jocko87
    If they draft anything other than a SS or pitcher/catcher/CF I will have questions. The SS all fill at other spots, even if they change names. Draft up the middle, the corners will take care of themselves.
  18. Jocko87
    They aren't drafting players, they are collecting assets. The payback will be someone with a different name and probably position.
  19. Jocko87
    Another shortstop type, as expected. Trade deadline permutations hardest hit.
  20. Jocko87
    It will continue this way. I believe strongly their philosophy is draft up the middle talented hitters and let them fall down the defensive spectrum as needed. You can never have too many shortstop prospects. A pick like Sobato better hit, as he has no other option. I fear/hope it will cause a reckoning on the Twins beat one day. They are no longer a draft and develop organization. They are asset development based, which will include a lot of trades. Eventually "the one who got away" articles will dry up. I hope. I wish them all well, but not too well, in their new organizations.
  21. Jocko87
    Wait, Prielipp just miraculously appears on rehab and strikes out 6 in 2 innings? Tendons, don't fail me now!
  22. Jocko87
    Home run at 23 parks. Welcome to San Fran, kid.
  23. Jocko87
    No jurisdiction on out of state plates.
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    Tarik Skubal is a knock off Max Scherzer, year by year. Not that Tarik is bad, Max was just that much better, earlier. Skubal is about to turn 28, Max had about 1000 ace level innings by then. Don't trade for guys the year after they put it together. We may not even know the name of the guy they grab, which doesn't necessarily help this year and I'm fine with that. I think it's more important to send away the right hitters for a guy they think will be an ace than any move focused on this year. Scherzer was traded at 24 after 225+ innings for a relative song. Find that guy.
  25. Jocko87
    For Jenkins, Soto and another guy you could get a minority owner stake in the Tigers. Again, Max Scherzer and 24m cost a single top 50ish prospect last year.
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