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I was thinking the same thing that Buxton had leverage in waiving his no trade clause and restructuring his contract for more money , he signed a friendly contract with the twins to remain a twin , he didn't sign a friendly contract to play for another team ,.. It makes sense that he would want more money to play for another team, its his right to ask for money to waive his NTC ...

1 out of 26 are capable of claiming to be a major leaguers from our position players , thats bad , very bad but our starting pitchers are a team strength as of now ... besides buxton , someone should be able to find their upside and perform to an above average ... Keaschall , lewis and maybe Martin on the current 26 man roster ... If buxton wants to go play for Atlanta or a winner , I wouldn't blame him one bit , but it's going to be alot worse than 2021 -22 and 2024 - 25 without him even if he was injured alot during those seasons , he brought value to the team ... Will anyone go to the twins and watch them play at Target field , the diehards fans probably won't unless these players currently on the 26 man roster spark new life in their careers and our AAA and AA prospects live up to all the hype and can adjust to the major leagues ... I have a good feeling that our new coaches will have better results with the players in a new happier environment without baldelli ... If buxton wants out , we'll probably hear something more conclusive during the winter meetings , than just rumors , meetings are in florida , i suggest buxton goes down there with his family for some fun in the sun and also have a heart to heart talk with our FO personal ...

OKOverall grade on the trades is a D- because not much major league ready prospects to help in 2025 to finish the season ... Roden got injured and Outman showed very little on a consistent basis , Abel had one good start so there is that , Bradley was Bradley , a move to bullpen makes sense ... Correa strictly a salary dump and it cost the team 33 million to do it ... Mendez for Bader is just a prospect maybe a year away , maybe less from making his debut and a lottery ticket ... Duran for Abel a starting pitching prospect that has high upside and a prospect catcher that is a few years away ... Paddack and dobnak , salary relief and a prospect catcher in return ... Castro for 2 minor pitchers , can always use pitchers but there also a few years away ... Columbe for horn , lefty starter and everyone needs lefty starters ... Jax for Bradley , coukd be a good return as I see him replacing Jax in the bullpen ... Stewart for Outman never made sense , outfielders we don't need , arms we do .. Varland for Roden and a high prospect of Rojas , but Roden an outfielder isn't really needed and he hasn't shown anything in 110 major league at bats ... Did we win , in my opinion trading our quality arms for prospects that were not quite major league ready wasn't the return that I would expect ... Teams are desperate to add quality arms and they seem to overpay , but I did not see falvey getting any teams to over pay ... Time will tell , just hope we give all these prospects a chance instead of hoarding them ...

The twins have relied on prospects talent in past years at the major league level , that minor league hype hasn't proven to be productive at the major league level ... In baseball i don't live on hope , I live for production , maybe our new coaching staff can turn this around and they can coach these talented players at the major league level to be more successful ... It's wait and see for me , will new coaching help first rounders like Lewis , larnach and Lee turn it around in 2026 , can keaschall continue developing ... Im banking on a new livelier atmosphere helping these players perform better than under Rocco ...

I know our TD writers love our twins and I do too ... Compete , ha .... Competitive , ha , ha ... Contend , ha , ha , ha .... They first have to find a team of Consistency ... Let's hope a change in coaching will help them achieve all this ... You may not believe what the owners or FO says but I speak the truth ... You want a change up pitcher bring back La tuga ...

Imagine that , falvey behind on the curve ... The smartest man in the room behind on the curve , imagine that ...

Yep , pretty lame , almost as lame as the twins played under Rocco , I sure hope shelton sparks the players to play like professional baseball players , would be nice to see improvements , something , anything , I'd also like to see improvement on TD , lame subjects that yes suckers us in ... I've been watching past twins baseball games since the season ended and I'm impressed with the way they used to play ,, even if it was a 500 team , they still played with heart and knowledge of the situation ...

Everyone hopes it changes before the season starts but realistically we will just be non-contenders again and again , year after year until new ownership and FO personal are gone ...

We don't need anymore strikeout kings in this lineup , we already broke the single season record for strikeouts , do we still hold that misfortune ... Hes playing winter ball not mlb ball , he proved he's not a major leaguer anymore with the twins and angels and couldn't make adjustments , stay in shape or play decent defense ... Please Cody , stop using the words contender in your articles , the Twins first have to be competitive before being contenders .

Martin has earned more playing time , we need hitters and he would fit in nicely at the top of the order , so what if he doesn't hit homeruns , make a career of playing solid defense , hitting , stealing bases and scoring runs I'll take ... Roden hasn't proved anything with the bat yet with Toronto or the twins ( AAA stats are good , but you cant live on hope from AAA ) , defense with an arm , to bad he was injured so it was just a small sample with the twins .... Roden will be on the opening day roster and given a chance , I'm sure he has options available ...

I was actually at the game for his major league debut , he pitched a couple of innings against Baltimore in relief , we cheered him on , what did he do after his baseball career ????

With Manfred running the show for the owners , I have to agree , it will be more of a mess ...

Alot of fans that go to the games are probably not hard core baseball fans watching the game ... There isn't enough of us passionate fans left and the numbers decrease year by year ... My point , WHY HAVE WE PUT UP NETTING ALL THE WAY DOWN THE RIGHT AND LEFT FIELD LINES , BECAUSE PEOPLE AREN'T THERE TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE GAME , so we have to protect them from injury because there are other things that are distracting them , watchingthe game isnt their priority ...

Im thankful for the Twins and vikings weren't playing today to ruin our Thanksgiving day ... I would be more thankful if we had new owners and FO personal ... Or at least a plan going forward a month after baseball was completed , the total system failure continues ... Im stuffed and need to go for a walk ...

We have had a mess on the 40 man roster for quite sometime , with 2023 an unusual exception ... We have wanted righthanded hitting outfielders and really just have Martin , we traded for Margot , signed gallo , and a few other dumpster diving players i can't recall their names ... we have needed a first baseman for years since mauer retired , arraez did have a few years there but coukd hit homeruns so traded and we have only signed one year rentals since ... We had at one time an abundance of second baseman's , what has happened , they have either regressed or were traded , keaschall for now is out second baseman .... Now we need a more up the middle shortstop for better defense , Correa was given away ( if you want to say traded , thats okay too ) ... Third base is manned by Lewis for 2026 ... Utility , Gonzales was very good , Castro capable but now we are regressing in that area to allow players some rest ... Find a permanent position for each player and let them play there , utility players are the ones that should be at least capable of playing other positions ... Im not even going to mention our pitching staff of starters and bullpen arms other to say some of our starters could be traded for payroll relief this winter and we have a mess in the bullpen because we traded off our best and with years of control at the deadline and really got nothing back that was major league ready other than the Tampa Bay pitcher and the Phillies pitcher , Roden and Outman haven't proved a thing yet , did i miss anyone from the deadline trades that debuted with the twins after the deadline ...

Interesting discussion and enjoyed the analysis ... Prospects are usually traded early in their professional career for positions of need for a team , not usually Prospects for Prospects , the sonny gray and chase petty is a good example , sonny had good years for twins , chase hasn't established himself yet , it was a good trade for the twins Or it Could be It's always the other guys fault 🤣 ...

Agree , take that contract on but get Atlanta to pay down on the salary , won't happen though but a very good take on Murphy , also white Sox and Brewers both have two solid catchers each to try and pry away with lower salaries but higher trade value ...

Does adding jackson really solidify our catching , I'm not so sure , jackson could be traded just like kiner Falefa was a day after we acquired him ... Catcher is a position of need and I don't think he will be given an extension , it would have been done way before this season if they had any intention of keeping us from this bad catchers situation , organization is very telling , it wants to win with a lesser payroll like Cleveland has been doing ... Still lots of off season left , winter meetings in a few weeks hopefully we will be given a direction they have planned ... HOPEFULLY ...

Frustration , Frustration and more Frustration ... The owners are still the voice of the team and the minority owners should have no reflection on the direction the organization should go ... Excuses , excuses and more excuses ... Falvey says he wants to add , that maybe so but if he does add it will be cheap minor league deals with maybe a average player from free agency , thats all I can speculate ... Crazy how ownership can not know what the payroll can be , they know , it's more purging and trading away salaries of Lopez, Ryan , jeffers and Buxton , this is just speculation on my part because I'm not in the loop , it's because of what they have done to this organization of the years they have owned it ... The pohlads are the cause along with FO that we are in a total system failure and they have no respect for the fans ... I wish I could be thankful on Thanksgiving for a organization ( twins ) that has pride and wants to win , ( NOT ) ...

Great bonus for keaschall , as others have said , he was one of the few highlights of the team ... He's a fun player to watch and hope it continues , he dreams baseball every waking minute ...

On the fringes of contention , come on Cody , I wish i could be that positive , and as far as depth we have Culpepper and the 2025 draft choice highly likely to stick at the shortstop position , SO I'VE HEARD ... I don't expect the team to be contenders in 2026 , I would like them to play more exciting games win or lose .... We play more of an exciting game in 2026 with better fundamentals , defense and consistent hitting and I would be very comfortable with that in 2026 ....

The blues brothers to the rescue , I'm in town till Friday but I'm sure they are closed for Thanksgiving holidays ... Busy packing thinks up , I sold my home west of the cities , will take another load up to lake home on Friday and be back next Wednesday for a few days again ... I'll go if it works for you , I'll behave , it could be fun , anyone else that wants to join us , they'd have a harder time escorting us out of the building ... Let's go twins diehards , time to demand some straight answers ...

I've decided to go younger and I posted it in another thread about raya and Prielipp this morning ... And I got a thumbs down , imagine that ... Why am I going younger , Because the organization hasn't given us any direction on what direction we are going and I still believe trades are coming ( Lopez , Ryan , jeffers and then buxton if he opts out , be nice to keep Lopez to pass along his knowledge of pitching , Hawkins is here to help with that , trade lopez at deadline after half a season of mentoring ) ... I'm done with the speculating and wasting my time of who we should sign and who we shouldn't at least until we know the direction , it's out of my hands unless ( riverbrian and me ) go down to twins way and ask someone of authority what direction is the TWINS WAY ...

Agreed , a change of scenery is what larnach needs and he would definitely benefit in a hitters ballpark ... Steer has better speed , plays a position of need for us and more has more versatility , Steer is a gamer and could have a couple of good seasons here as a twin , hits right handed ... This probably would be a trade that makes sense for both clubs ... Will it happen , probably not ...