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I'd be pretty pleased if we got McGreevy. Jonathan Mayo has us picking Gavin Williams from East Carolina, and I think I could get behind that pick pretty easily as well.

How about something like this? Dodgers get Rogers and Berrios Twins get Josiah Gray, Bobby Miller, Clayton Beeter, Kendall Williams, and Nick Robertson All of the guys coming to MN have 50+ control and at least two 55+ pitches per MLB.com. Baseball Trade Values rates the value going both ways as almost equal.

Sign me up for the Dodgers deal.

To say the cupboards were bare coming in is an insult to bare cupboards. We were relying on the likes of Kyle Gibson, Tommy Milone, and Ricky Nolasco three days out of five, and the best we had in the pipeline were now-noted MLB players JT Chargois, Adelberto Mejia, Alex Meyer, and Alex Wimmers. I think people forget how bleak the outlook really was when Falvey and Levine came in. Sure, the guys we're all waiting on now might go the way of Wimmers, but it sure looks more likely than not that at least a couple of them will stick near the top of the next several years' rotations and you just couldn't reasonably think the same about what Falvey and Levine inherited.

Even though he's been one of my favorite players for years, it's time to trade him. If you can turn him into another Jhoan Duran type, you have to do it. Larnach is the RF moving forward in my view.

Trading Donaldson would be a pretty big mistake, in my view. Better to let him start the season at 3B next year, then move him to DH once you're ready to call up Miranda.

No. I can think of at least an entire lineup of players from the Gardyball Era that I dislike more than Donaldson. Probably at least a lineup full of players from the TK Era, too.

I would hope the Dodgers are on our radar right now. If we are seriously considering a Berrios trade, I would rather get their young players back than those of just about any of the other teams mentioned here.

Depends on how many teams come calling for Berrios, and how serious the FO can make those calls sound to the Jays. Callis has been talking about Pearson for Berrios. I would hope for more given Pearson's injury history, myself.

If I'm trading Berrios to the Jays, I would want Pearson and Woods Richardson.

Is it too early to wonder if Winder and Miranda are being evaluated as post-trading deadline options this year? A strong AAA showing from Winder in particular might make it easier to stomach trading a Berrios.

Letting Baldelli go because of one disappointing year after two very good years is how you eventually end up stuck with bottom-of-the-barrel managers like Gardenhire and Molitor. No thanks. He's not without fault, to be sure, but I'd rather ride it out with Baldelli and see how he rebounds from this mostly disappointing year.

Ken Griffey Jr.

Um. No. No, it is not time to fire either of them. This year is a huge disappointment at the major league level, no question, but it is important to note that players like Larnach, Ober, Jeffers, Kirilloff, and Alcala have been acquired by Falvey and Levine and/or come up through the development system that Falvey and Levine implemented, and they all look awfully competent. That's more good young players this year than the previous FO produced during their last ten years. They took Byron Buxton and turned him from a strikeout machine full of wasted potential and turned him into a guy who is outpacing Mike Freaking Trout this year. They haven't hit on all of their free agents and trades, especially this year, but they did go get Nelson Cruz and ride him to almost 60 home runs and two playoff berths in his first two years. They did turn Eduardo Escobar into a solid pitching prospect during a dead-end year, and then develop said prospect into what sure looks like an ace in the making. They did turn a middling shortstop prospect into Jake Odorizzi and then get the best year of Odorizzi's career out of him, and then they got the middling shortstop back for nothing and have turned him into what looks like a pretty solid young player. They've taken a minor league system that was completely bereft of talent and turned it totally on its head. They now have a minor league system with at least a rotation and a half worth of guys who might legitimately be #1s or strong #2 MLB starters sooner than later. There are a handful of quality middle infield prospects and more outfielders than we know what to do with. No, Falvey and Levine aren't perfect. This year sucks noodles for the most part at the major league level. They're playing the long game, though, and the team is clearly much better off with them than without.