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  1. Danchat
    I had taken a look a while back and I believe Gil wasn't on any top 20/30 prospect lists of ours. When's the last pitching prospect we traded to really burn us, though? We haven't traded many, but Falvey did trade away most of his highest drafted pitchers of the 2021 class in Petty, Hajjar, and Povich and none of them have done anything in the majors to make us regret it. Pitching prospects have such low odds of succeeding, I'd be more liberal in trading them away when possible. The only example I can think of is Brusdar Graterol, who became a solid reliever but certainly didn't make us regret landing Maeda.
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    When I argued against this trade last year, I saw some claim that the "Twins didn't think Varland would maintain his level of play"... and now he's gotten even better. Kinda reminds me of the Pressly trade. Oh, and the whole "you guys don't like this trade because he's a Minnesota native" was also a load of BS. Personally, I'm a fan of good pitchers no matter where they come from, and I think the vast majority of Twins fans would agree with that sentiment. At the very least, the Duran and Jax trades are looking good, so going 2/3 on fairly major trades is solid... but that could have been 2/2. It's not that Varland would single-handedly salvage the season for us, but the return didn't justify moving on from 5 affordable seasons of control. Not to mention that they should have asked for a prospect other than Roden (not because of his talent level, because of the mismatch of LH OFs and all the other prospects on similar timelines).
  3. Danchat
    I've said this before, but I'd gladly trade a lottery ticket (Gil was not a top 20 prospect or anything) for a couple years of a pretty good outfielder. As stated above, the issue with Cave was that the team believed so much in him when his play fell off. A 6 year gap between Cave and Gil's first big contributions to their teams is not nothing.
  4. Danchat
    Yup, 3 for 12 and the Mariners went 3 for 5. Failing to hit in RISP situations seems to be a constant with the team for the past few years.
  5. Danchat
    Orze was the team's best reliever coming into this game... of course, with only 11 innings pitched. There was probably a reason why the Rays traded him to us for very cheap.
  6. Danchat
    Why is Banda pitching in a tie game in the 8th inning? I thought he was down to be used for low leverage outings. Seems pretty obvious to use Orze here.
  7. Danchat
    And only 7 RBIs on the whole season, I'm sure he doesn't see a ton of RISP situations but this is getting ridiculous. He simply doesn't hit runners in.
  8. Danchat
    I didn't realize he was 39... kinda crazy how old this pen is for a team that should be going with a youth movement.
  9. Danchat
    Follow-up on an earlier move, Wagaman was claimed by the Mets on waivers.
  10. Danchat
    Stringer bell already sniped me on this one, but Fedko is absolutely a guy I'm fine with lightly using. I don't see him as much of a prospect so it doesn't matter if he gets limited ABs, of which he's already being limited in AAA.
  11. Danchat
    Baldelli nor Shelton, nor any other manager in the league is going to make bad hitters hit well. Not to mention we already have a 5 year sample size of Shelton not changing how the poor Pirates hitters hit. A manager can only do so much with so little talent.
  12. Danchat
    And they finish by going with a guy I've never heard of, a center out of Cincinnati. Basically the same thing they did with Jurgens a couple years ago, so they've failed to draft a demonstrably better backup center than him.
  13. Danchat
    They flipped a future 6th and a this year 7th to go get Claiborne. He's a small back with blazing speed, will KOC actually use him? He never used simiarly speedy backs Nwangwu and avoided Chandler when possible.
  14. Danchat
    Drafting a FB in the 5th round is certainly a choice, and he's not even the best FB in this class. Not wise use of draft capital there when you can find them in the UDFA signings. I like the CB pick, they needed to add some young talent to that room.
  15. Danchat
    Kwesi might have been fired more for putting the cap in bad shape rather than the JJM selection...
  16. Danchat
    Time for an update through Day 2 of the draft:
  17. Danchat
    They outbid the Bills on T Ryan van Demark on a 1/$4.2M deal, so I imagine he's the one playing LT if/when Darrisaw misses games in 2026. My guess is Tiernan is going to start out as a weekly inactive.
  18. Danchat
    Not particularly fast, not a good tackler, only a one year starter (plus a second year at Middle Tennessee), though that one year was really good. Doesn't look like the profile of a future starter to me. Safeties I have rated above him include Kamari Ramsey, Genesis Smith, Zakee Wheatley, Michael Taaffe, Javon Kilgore, and VJ Payne.
  19. Danchat
    Tiernan is a good value in the late 3rd, seems to imply they are planning on letting RT O'Neill leave in FA next year. They just gave Ryan van Demark 1/$4.2M deal to be the swing tackle, so I thought tackle wouldn't be an option yet. Interesting. I don't like the Thomas pick, there were at least 5 better safeties on the board. I need to do more homework on him, but they missed out on some good DBs in this class.
  20. Danchat
    They spent a 2024 4th on Isaac Guerendo, who had something like 5.5 YPC in 2024 and then inexplicably didn't use him in 2025 (traded for Brian Robinson!). It's comical how much RB talent they squander (look up Trey Sermon, Ty Davis-Price, Joe Williams, etc).
  21. Danchat
    He's #327 on my board, legitimately a kick return-only player. Not even a good college WR. And then the 49ers blow yet another mid-round pick on a bad RB prospect in a bad RB class, maybe RB10-12 in this class. Every year they spend a significant pick on RB in round 3-5 and never use the guy. It's so bizarre.
  22. Danchat
    And there you go, the Vikings go for a NT and have 3 starters in Redmond, Banks, and Orange. I had Big Citrus in Round 3 so I'm fine with that... but they've passed on some guys I really would have liked to take.
  23. Danchat
    So we moved Greenard for what is essentially a high 4th round pick and a next year 3rd. Not good value there... I was hoping for a 2nd rounder this year.
  24. Danchat
    He's a good 5 inches taller and 20 pounds heavier (6'4 240 lbs). I had him at the end of Round 2, another top tier athlete who needs development time. Probably backs up in 2026 and takes over for Cashman in 2027. I think it's a fine pick, but CB/S had better values and players who can contribute now.
  25. Danchat
    We still could use a nose tackle so Hunter might have made sense to us (Banks is going to lose some weight and won't be a NT). Essentially Banks is taking Jonathan Allen's role and Hargrave's role is still wide open. Looks like they flipped 196 for 159, so essentially upgrading a 6th to a 5th rounder. That's fine for moving down 2 spots in the 2nd round.
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