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Ish, I wouldn't trade anything more than Arcia and a low level prospect who's name I have never heard of. I have no faith that Lucroy will have a healthy season again, concussions as a catcher....all you need is a foul tip off the mask to re-aggravate the symptoms...and getting hit in the mask is an every game event. No way would I trade anything significant for him.

Unless that player is Ricky Nolasco, that might add 1 or 2 to the W column.

8th inning, Twins down by 6...intentional walk Kipnis to get to him...Flip that bat to the moon and do a few cartwheels. There is no reason to intentionally walk someone down that much in the 8th inning with 2 outs already, I don't care how many short throws and force outs you want to talk about. Molitor was trying to get to cute with in-game strategy and trying to get to a weak hitter...that hitter burned you. Isn't intentionally walking a batter when down by that much an unwritten rule as well....kind of like stealing bases when you are up or down by a lot. These unwritten rules need to go away....

How bout the deal that sounded like it was going to happen on the deadline? Shield/Norris/XXX for Nolasco/Meyer/Arcia/Stewart

lol, nice On another subject, sounds like the Padres held firm because Preller thinks they can make the playoffs See what I did there

Heard earlier that the Padres were insisting that Mateo be included in the Kimbrel deal....then is sounds like the Yankees included him, but the Padres thought they could do better....yikes no wonder the Padres didn't deal anybody (as of now, I know stuff could still be rolling in).

Sooo, will the big losers of the day be the Padres? Holding on to just about everybody because they thought they were holding all the chips.

I don't think I would throw Berrios & Kepler at the Brewers for a catcher OPS'ing .648 and has been declining production wise the past 2 or 3 years. Lucroy is what, in his 6th year catching in the major's. The decline of Lucroy will get very Joe Mauer like way faster because Lucroy was no where near the hitter Mauer was (and I like Joe Mauer). I would be up for the Tulo trade, just because he is probably my favorite SS in the game. But I think a middle releiver is the safe route.

I think the off-season blue print is very well laid out, and very realistic...except for one part, I do question that the payroll will be much north of $90M let alone over $100M...especially with how bad season ticket renewals are to be expected.

I have a really hard time thinking about trading Suzuki and not extending him on a 3yr/$7m deal like Salty got last year. The Twins have and will have flexibility with payroll when all of the young prospect come up playing on the cheap. If all signs that people within the organization say about how he handles the pitching staff, I think it might possibly stunt the growth of young pitchers that are going to pitch in the majors. But if he isn't willing to take that kind of deal that I mentioned above before the deadline, then I think he kind of forces your hand to move him for something.

Well... that pitcher can't pitch a complete game unless a hitter puts up a run to win the game.

Wow, I was all for Gardy coming back, thinking that the only way he would come back was with some reassurance on getting a better ball club through FA...but TR just killed that hope. Now I don't know what to think, this is just kind of brutal. Here is to hoping they get Tanaka because they are not getting anyone through FA.

Didn't you hear? They don't go with what the stats say, only if they pass the eye test/smell test/ Ouiji board test. That said, I am fine with Gardy coming back for 2 years. Only wish they would start looking at statistics and not being so reactive (I/E they are about 5 years behind the times everyone started to draft power pitchers).

Only if it doesn't take a huge amount over $21m over 3 years to sign him.

Maybe he is not underperforming. With the roster he has, maybe this is all he can get out of it. If he had something that resembled a MLB starting rotation, maybe he would be back in the Playoffs.