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  1. ALessKosherScott
    Always listen. But don't be surprised if you're nonplused by the offers for a 1B/DH coming off a 104 OPS+ season.
  2. ALessKosherScott
    I like that somehow defying logic this team has a winning record now.
  3. ALessKosherScott
    I believe it was based on my comment where Covington handles the defensive aspects of the hole Butler leaving creates but it's going to fall to Wiggins to handle the ball-in-hands offensive responsibilities. But I think more reasonably Covington is an elite defensive piece, and love it or hate it Thibs is always going to be a tough-minded defensive coach. You hope you can get back to the playoffs based on that. And if not, well, it's not a bad year to be in the lottery. Right now, the guy who's going to be in the 8-10 range looks like a 4/5 overall pick most years.
  4. ALessKosherScott
    I see Saric playing the Bjellica role at first, where Taj is the starter but Saric sees just as many minutes.
  5. ALessKosherScott
    I think my comment to that article is Joe Smith was the biggest bungle in T-Wolves history, and it wasn't even close. I think Thibs gets graded from this point forward on how Okogie evolves and how well his new lineup works out. Covington can fill Butler's defensive duties, but the next step has to be restarting Wiggins offensively and getting him back to the levels he was at in his age 20 and 21 seasons, pre-Butler. He's never going to have Butler's all-around game, but he and Towns have to shoulder the offensive responsibility while Taj and Covington shore up the defense.
  6. ALessKosherScott
    I will admit I thought a Jimmy Butler trade was going to end way worse for the Timberwolves than it did. They were never going to win a Butler trade, but they did better than I thought they would. And four 20-something first picks from Houston was never a good offer. I'd trade Lavine for Covington, knowing full well that Lavine and Wiggins are pretty much the same pieces. I'm not as sure on Markannen for Saric and Dunn for Bayless and a second. And as an added bonus, you put Butler in the worst possible situation for him where Simmons already plays the point forward role for Philadelphia.
  7. ALessKosherScott
    What I'm saying is don't make a bad situation worse by taking other team's bad contracts for marginally good players.
  8. ALessKosherScott
    Trading a short-term, treatable cancer for something that's a longer lasting variety of cancer isn't a win. If the Wolves pay Jimmy Butler $20 million dollars this year to not play, it's better than dealing him for Dragic and Whiteside. At least the Butler cancer is gone at the end of the season.
  9. ALessKosherScott
    I think Thibs has the right to expect a good player who doesn't kill your team long-term in return for a second-team All-NBA player. If Miami doesn't want to part with Josh Richardson for Butler, the Timberwolves shouldn't trade Butler to Miami. If the Clippers don't want to deal Tobias Harris for Butler, the Timberwolves shouldn't trade Butler to the Clippers. If the Bucks don't want to deal Khris Middleton for Butler, the Timberwolves shouldn't trade Butler to the Bucks. Every trade of what's "officially" been offered on that tweet from a couple of days ago makes the Timberwolves worse. The only one that offers anything revolving around a young talent is the Milwaukee one, and Tyus Jones > Brogdon.
  10. ALessKosherScott
    Maybe. But then there has to be good pieces of value coming back from Miami to do it. Dragic is essentially the better scoring/worse shooting version of Teague. Whiteside is the better shot blocking/worse shooting version of Dieng. The version of the trade floating around of Butler and Dieng for Whiteside and Dragic sets the franchise back.
  11. ALessKosherScott
    You don't unload Dieng's contract to pay Whiteside more money to play the same position as KAT, albeit over two years instead of three.
  12. ALessKosherScott
    At some point if you're the Wolves, you have to realize it's okay to choose "None of the above."
  13. ALessKosherScott
    Reasonably, draft picks, young defensive-oriented wings (Thornwell, Shai Gilgerious-Alexander, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Caris LeVert, really no one from the Knicks) and salary relief in getting rid of the $48 million they still owe Dieng. I wouldn't hang up if the Nets called up with a package around RHJ.
  14. ALessKosherScott
    Not a bad draft. If one of Okogie or Diop can be a three-and-D type, that's a piece the Wolves are missing.
  15. ALessKosherScott
    Rooker had one season in college where he had anything resembling plate discipline. More often than not, he was a free swinger, including a 37-5 K/BB ratio in the Cape Cod League. Larnach has somewhat consistently drawn walks and Jeffers has more walks than strikeouts the last two seasons and a run in a summer league where his K/BB was 29/26.
  16. ALessKosherScott
    The inner-SABR nerd in me likes that they're going after hitters that control the strike zone.
  17. ALessKosherScott
    Pretty safe pick. I'm not a fan of banking on left-handed power in Target Field, and probably would've gone McClanahan. But this is the good kind of risk averse pick.
  18. ALessKosherScott
    Brenda Tracy's opinions don't matter. What does matter is how Oregon State fans have jumped down her throat openly for questioning the logic of keeping Heimlich on the team this season. And the simple and fair question is "Would Heimlich still be on the team if he were merely a middle reliever?" This is the future for the team that drafts Heimlich. The issue is never going to disappear. You can plead rehabilitation or questions of guilt all you want, but there are always going to be a mass of people who will question whether he should be there. And the more successful Heimlich becomes as a pitcher, the more the team's fans are going to have to defend his actions. The question becomes who do you want to marginalize: Heimlich or the victim? And for the SI article, this was the quote that made my stomach turn the most: "What's the kid supposed to do now? Kill himself?" says a Division I head coach who has watched Heimlich closely. As if a college baseball player with a college degree only has the option of playing baseball with his life. No one is saying put Heimlich in jail. But at the same time, he can prove himself to be rehabilitated just the same by doing anything else. He can become a lawyer and give better legal advice to teen boys in similar situations. He can become a counselor and help survivors of sexual abuse. He can go to Wall Street and make millions on the stock market. Maybe taking a mound for a major league baseball team where people are going to debate whether or not he should be there isn't the right career choice.
  19. ALessKosherScott
    The "pesky truth" is he admitted guilt in a court of law to avoid a trial. So yes, I support the victim unconditionally.
  20. ALessKosherScott
    I think if you want to see the lynch mob mentality in full effect, I'd head to Brenda Tracy's twitter page. For the back story, she survived a gang rape by members of the Oregon State football team to become an advocate for victim's rights. The wormhole of hate she gets on this Tweet is phenomenally bad. And this one. And this one. Even if Heimlich wins them game 7 of the World Series, there's nothing good that comes from the team drafting Luke Heimlich.
  21. ALessKosherScott
    I went to Oregon State's rival, and most of the people I know who went to OSU are pretty insufferable on the topic of Heimlich. The truth is he wouldn't be on the team if he were a utility infielder or if the team weren't aiming for another College World Series title. What he admitted guilt for is sickening and the fact that he's trying to pawn off that he received "bad legal advice" is even more revolting. The kid took an easy way out by avoiding trial and is playing the victim when what he did became public. I couldn't in good conscience put my daughter in a Twins shirt if the organization chose willing to stand behind Heimlich. So I'd walk away.
  22. ALessKosherScott
    As a father of a five-year-old girl, I'd actively stop rooting for the Twins if they gave it to him. He can go have a second chance as an accountant or whatever.
  23. ALessKosherScott
    It feels weird not discussing what we'll do if the lottery gods smile in our favor.
  24. ALessKosherScott
    Every decade or so a prospect like Ward turns into Matt Lawton. But more often than not they turn into Brent Brede. Throw in that he's a left-handed hitter coming into a park that kills left-handed power, and I'm not optimistic. At least if he remains a Twin.
  25. ALessKosherScott
    See, the Rockets can be beat...if you shoot better than 50% from three.
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