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  1. SteveLV
    What big market team wants/needs him?
  2. SteveLV
    Mentioned on the Correa thread, but if they move Carlos they might as well trade Lopez too. Orioles want starting pitching, and they have some wonderful young, cheap players in their farm system and introduced to the majors: Targets would be obvious guys like Mayo, Basallo (package Vasquez too), Bradfield Jr., and Reilly. Good trade partner if they lose Burnes.
  3. SteveLV
    If they trade Correa they might as well trade Lopez too and blow it all up and go very young. Lopez to the Orioles makes sense with a loaded farm system to fill the cupboards with young, cheap talent. Correa to the Yankees makes sense. They have the deep pockets, and Correa can handle the market and would extract more $ to waive is no trade clause.
  4. SteveLV
    Football has 5 years for 1st round picks, 4 years for everyone else. That might make sense, possibly one year longer from MLB if player is drafted out of HS.
  5. SteveLV
    True revenue sharing, transparency from ownership, and guaranteeing players a certain percentage of the revenue pie are all keys. Anyone who suggests the NFL and MLB have equal parity are just simply, wrong. Newly drafted players should only sign contracts of limited length--say 5 or 6 years, or until a certain age is reached, like 25, then get to go to FA. In other words, I want the NFL system grafted to MLB.
  6. SteveLV
    Soto's deal is REDONKULOUS. Good for him, terrible for any resemblance of fairness in my favorite game. Gee, why weren't the Twins in on him? :) Salary Cap and Floor are REQUIRED for this sport to survive.
  7. SteveLV
    IMO, several of those are overpays by the Twins. I don't think I want to hire you to replace Falvey just yet....:)
  8. SteveLV
    The Dodger's trade embedded in this blueprint I find very interesting. Does anyone who knows the Dodgers well think this has any viability?
  9. SteveLV
    Bieber at $17M guaranteed in 2026 coming off elbow surgery at his age? No chance the Twins make that financial commitment. The rest of the moves are ok, but don't move the needle much for this year or next. I would prefer they either stick to their guns and essentially run it back praying for good health, or trade off the expensive salaries and go young and cheap and see who develops.
  10. SteveLV
    That compensation for Lopez ALONE seems light, much less adding Alcala and another prospect, too. Mayer is a nice prospect, but highest level is AA and, as noted above, has an injury history too. No way you give up Lopez for that package. For that package I would want Duran, Teel and someone like Perales as a lottery ticket. That's assuming the Twins like Teel, too.
  11. SteveLV
    No.
  12. SteveLV
    Correa is a wonderful player. The Twins can afford him, but they cannot afford to field a truly competitive team around him with his salary. However, it is dubious that the Twins can field a truly competitive team in any respect given the inherent inequities in MLB, so we might as well keep him and enjoy his play unless someone makes us a remarkably good offer and he agrees to the trade.
  13. SteveLV
    How about packaging Correa and Buxton and going young and cheap?
  14. SteveLV
    Mike Sixel and rv78 see it the same way I do. The Twins under their owner-imposed salary cap cannot afford to have Correa and Buxton on the roster. If they can be traded, you have to do it. I don't want to trade Lopez, but he is a very valuable piece. If Teel is your target from Boston, they have a number of other good prospects that could also potentially be gathered up. If you clear out Correa, Buxton, Lopez, Paddack and Vasquez, you essentially have a clean slate and can concentrate on the young guys. Payroll would drop to about $45-50M. I would actually find this a more interesting and fun team to watch play than the "almost good enough" squad they are currently rostering. This team as constituted is non-competitive against good teams. We were below .500 if we take out the White Sox last year, and there is not a whole lot of hope they will improve next year, with the exception of potentially more games from Correa.
  15. SteveLV
    Miranda playing 1B is the least of our worries on this roster. Lopez is an extremely valuable trade piece. One option to dump salary would be to package him with Vasquez and/or Paddack (or all 3) to a high revenue team for a slew of young, hopefully good players. If someone comes asking about Correa, and it is a market he would like to play in, pull the trigger. Same for Buxton. In other words: Tear it down to the studs and start playing all the young, inexpensive players to see who can play and who can't. We are stuck in the middle now and it isn't going to yield post-season success and is only frustrating for fans. Meanwhile, hope the Pohlads find a buyer who is interested in fielding a competitive team in the current MLB environment.
  16. SteveLV
    If the goal of the WS is to have the best players, why don't we just have an All Star game WS at the end of the year, with the best players in each league assembled for a final series? Will a NY/LA series get good ratings? Of course: they are the two largest market teams. Which just reinforces the whole point. MLB is a disparate league, and in the end it will destroy the game because teams in the rest of the country will grow tired of supporting their local team which is playing against a stacked deck year after year. Think the WS is getting good ratings in Pittsburgh?
  17. SteveLV
    Anyone who thinks MLB is a level playing field is burying their head in the sand. The major market teams have a HUGE advantage each and every year. Sure they miss on some big FA signings, but then they just go sign someone else instead. Being able to go get a Gerrit Cole for a total stud, Ace, without giving up any prospects is undeniably helpful to a team. Signing an Ohtani without giving up any assets, same thing. And wait until he starts pitching, too! MLB is circling the toilet as a competitive league. The gap between the Dodgers, Yanks and Mets of the world and the Pirates, Rockies and Rays is simply unfair. It would be like playing under the NFL system and one team gets $400M in cap money to build their roster and another team in the same division gets $75M. Sure, the underdog might win, but not in the long run, no frickin' way. The only thing I can think of is to get a truly strong League President who decides to get MLB's house in order and negotiate a fair deal with MLBPA that gets more money in their collective pockets but spreads the money equitably so there is parity instead of massive disparity. I am not watching a minute of the WS, could not care less which of these juggernauts beats the other one.
  18. SteveLV
    How about letting Eales come up if Lee is still rehabbing? Gotta be better than Julien in the field, and definition of a plucky player and a terrific story.
  19. SteveLV
    I don't think the Twins can mathematically be .5 games back at the end of this series. They will either be up .5 if they sweep, 1.5 if they split last 2, or down 3.5 if they drop the next 2.
  20. SteveLV
    Why? Yech.
  21. SteveLV
    It is strange to me in this "information age" that high-profile players like Jenkins can fail to start games with zero information as to their status. Are the Twins deliberately closed-mouthed, or is SOP these days? He sure has missed a lot of games for someone that young and spry.
  22. SteveLV
    I am OUT, folks. First, the built-in inequity of MLB is just terrible. Yankees, Dodgers, Rangers, etc., have too many inherent advantages and it is not a level playing field for mid and small market teams. Complete opposite of the NFL system. Second, the Pohlad's do not appear to be interested in fielding a top team. They want a decent team, not a championship team. Why should I support that? Third, this team is not competitive with the top teams. They have a .200 win percentage vs. the Yankees last 20 years, including multiple playoff sweeps. Fourth, I HATE watching losing teams. I invest too much emotionally. I know this is my flaw, but it is what it is. This team is going nowhere, even if they sneak into the playoffs. The 12 game streak gave me some hope, but they suck ever since. Good luck guys! I will monitor from afar but can't invest time and energy into this lousy and inequitable product. It just eats me up inside.
  23. SteveLV
    I think this is a lot of hand-wringing for not much real impact. It is not like the remaining Twins have been tearing the cover off the ball. And odds are someone is bound to get injured in the next couple weeks and Julien will be right back up.
  24. SteveLV
    Gopher ball has killed Ober this year. Is he tipping pitches, or just horse-bleep location?
  25. SteveLV
    This is an impending decision that the Twins FO made for themselves, hopefully with eyes wide open. I advocated this off-season that a smart FO should have made one of two decisions: 1) Trade Kepler this past off season for max value (no pun intended); or, 2) Extend Kepler then. To do neither puts them now in this situation. It is almost like they were betting he would not do well this year or something so they could let him walk. Weird. Now they can: 1) Let him walk for nada; 2) Extend an expensive QO which may or may not secure his services; 3) Trade him before the trade deadline as a "rental" (and, hence. likely less value than a trade last offseason); 4) Extend him now or re-sign him later. Option 1 is idiotic, 3 hurts the team's chances this year in all likelihood, and, if 4, why not do the deal last off season? I can't see the Twins FO choosing 2, the QO, given their professed budget constraints this year.
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