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  1. Blyleven2011
    Trivino for relief help , coming back from Tommy John surgery , pay him a base salary with incentives if he produces ... Same could be said about woodruff , no way your going to pay him 11 million recuperating from surgery but a low base salary to sit in 2024 to rehab his surgery and then for 2025 the same base salary and if he can pitch as an ace , give him incentives to work hard for ... It was mentioned by another , Dakota Hudson for the bullpen and that makes very good sense ... Nobody else on the list is needed in a twins uniform ... You can never have to much pitching ...
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    Yes it's that time of year again for the wheel of fortune ... Most teams are looking for the right players to Let's make a deal , some front offices press there luck ... Some front offices would like to deal but end up with no deal because the price wasn't right ... Free agency is all about beating the clock and it puts teams in jeopardy of spending over the value of players ... Is it a match game , yes I think it is , offer the most money and it just turned into a match for the players to sign ....
  3. Blyleven2011
    I agree , you never have too much pitching ...
  4. Blyleven2011
    So basically they dfa'd Moran and henrique , so they are on waivers and any team can claim them , resigning them to minor league deals might work in our favor ...
  5. Blyleven2011
    They probably didn't think it was a position of need , When they do think it is a position of need , they over spend and get an injured player .... Deadline in 2023 with no activity and now the mentioned payroll reduction , says we were tapped out on payroll on acquiring players at 2023 deadline ... I kinda wish falvey would have accepted an interview with Boston , and then he could have been disappointed when he lost out for the position , them he maybe could finally know how the fans feel when they are disappointed ... Have you ever heard falvey say , I love this game , I love putting together a team to win it all ... I haven't , so it's just business for him ...
  6. Blyleven2011
    I would think our FO is working on trading him before the deadline , if they can't swing one , they nontender him , whÿ would they tender him and then dfa him in spring training and then have tò eat the small contract , the fo said they need to cut payroll ... I'd like to give him another year but sometimes a better player is after your job ... We'll find out tomorrow if he's worth anything ...
  7. Blyleven2011
    I like Polanco , I like Farmer, which one will be here come spring is everyone's guess ... Castro over the energetic Gordon , really both haven't proved who they really are but the defense and versatility by Castro is better than Gordon ... Kiriloff , Jeffers and theibar will definitely be on the roster come april if healthy ... Acala I'm sure will be tendered since he has options and we need drpth if hes pitching well in AAA ... Two players need to go , 1 could be non tendered ( Castro , Gordon ) or 1 of these two could be tendered but traded ( Farmer, Polanco ) ... Stay tuned for Friday's deadline ...
  8. Blyleven2011
    Thanks for the final summary on the players at the AFL ... Twins players in the fall league didn't put up all that spectacular stats , but they got to play baseball ... game talk will rest till spring training ... The withdrawals are now just beginning ...
  9. Blyleven2011
    A right-handed bat ... Yes I question the move ...
  10. Blyleven2011
    I've also have said the same , and if it is his last chance I think it would be encouraging for him to go to driveline this winter and get someone to help him with the offspeed pitches and also identifying the pitches would help , This is definitely his last chance with the twins in 2024 and I would like to see him capitalize on it ... Remember he was leading the Twins in rbi's and has some pop in his bat that the front office likes ... he needs help and it's up to him ...
  11. Blyleven2011
    Polanco has been a steady hitter during his career and has good value as a switch hitter ... All teams trading for Kepler , if they believe Kepler is a late bloomer then they get a bargain if Kepler proves them right ....
  12. Blyleven2011
    This is true of Lewis but what about the other batters in the line up ,,, If the lineup had better discipline and hit with runners on base we could score 900 plus runs per season and be a team to be reckoned with ... If they don't make adjustments or change some philosophy of their game , the Twins lineup will not be respected by the other teams ... Other teams know how to make adjustments to our hitters , we seem alittle slow in making the adjustments back ...
  13. Blyleven2011
    Roster rating seems high ... Starting pitching would rate high , the bullpen at the end of the season rates better than the beginning of the season ... The batting roster just doesn't have me believing it rates high , boom or bust , no disciplined clutch hitting with runners on base , to many strikeouts , baserunning has issues as well ... Twins defense is decent but again are flawed , failure to throw to the right base or completely missing cut off man ... I like my Twins but my eye test analysis above rates higher than the metrics ...
  14. Blyleven2011
    Lots of options for severino ... Play him or trade him ... If he can hit doubles and homeruns and drive in over 100 rbi's with a decent batting average , that is a player we have been searching for some years now ... Let him start in AAA this spring and see if he is still hitting like 2023 and if he is , bring the kid up to the show .... We don't need players that think they are homerun hitters and don't make contact , we need homerun hitters that can be productive and be in the running for mvp at the conclusion of each year ...
  15. Blyleven2011
    I'll just sit back and wait for the off season to commence ... Will I be happy if they trade the longest tenured Twins in Polanco , NO ... But it could happen , the FO is in control and I am not ... I just hope the FO gets it right ...
  16. Blyleven2011
    Vazquez is a better defensive catcher ... So get off his back ... Hitting has always been a plus when you can get it from the catchers position ... I had no problems with Vazquez but I do hope he does improve his hitting in 2024 ...
  17. Blyleven2011
    Good article and centerfield is a important position ... But who the heck knows what our front office will do to get creative ... I liked Taylor in centerfield , he made great plays and was fun to watch , Bader may be just as good defensively but a platoon guy is not what we need ... Who the heck knows , I sure don't ... Just stay out of the dumpster please ...
  18. Blyleven2011
    I've thought the same thing for many years now , they have no idea on how to market the team to fill the seats full ... If I was in charge of marketing I would honor our history and have a killebrew day , Oliva , Carew, blyleven , Puckett and kaat day ,,, Do it during the dog days of summer and us old timers would show up and fill the seat to honor our heroes of our youth ... Could you see a grandson asking who killebrew was and grandpa replying to grandson , Harmon was our most prolific homerun hitter the Twins have ever had , he hit 573 homeruns in his career , couldn't you just see the grandson eyes get huge and then he's hooked on baseball ... Let the kids learn our history of the Twins and senator's ... I for one would go to more games if they promoted our past players and history ...
  19. Blyleven2011
    I still believe but I'm always disappointed ...
  20. Blyleven2011
    What pitchers won in the playoffs ... Lopez and gray ... Losing gray will hurt us in the playoffs if we make the 2024 playoffs , finding a pitcher for the playoffs is a must ... Don't add just a pitcher that can help win during the season , that is not the goal of the fans , sign or trade for a playoff caliber winner ... we can't go backwards , it's up to the front office to charge forward and get creative , don't close the window ... Payroll reduction , so the FO says , i hope it isn't a substantial reduction so we can add the pieces we need ... Pitching wins and our starters kept us in alot of games ...
  21. Blyleven2011
    Stay healthy Lewis , you have definitely shown us you can be a game changer we desperately need ... Go Lewis, go Twins ...
  22. Blyleven2011
    I think that pitcher was drawing 2 salaries ...
  23. Blyleven2011
    We had a very good draft this year , there are others to dangle , and I would only dangle position player , no pitchers like Soto , not yet anyway, haven't seen him in pro ball yet ...
  24. Blyleven2011
    Since Stearns and counsell left the Brewers are the Brewers in a fire sale , if so wouldn't it be cheaper trading for a pitcher with Milwaukee if they want to dump salary ????
  25. Blyleven2011
    Won't happen but could have been a nice fit for a short term deal , see payroll .... Good player but as mentioned his defensive liabilities are diminishing ... We have a DH already ...
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