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  1. Danchat
    But the point that Gonzalez was the most valuable asset of the trade still has yet to be refuted, and despite him currently tanking at AAA, he has previously had some value as a prospect these past couple seasons that could have been cashed in for something. Penciling in DeScalfani for the #5 starter position was stupid on Falvey's part and trusting in Topa's health wasn't very bright either, poor management around a mediocre trade. But it's not close to Falvey's top 5 worst trades let alone the franchise's, heck, even the Brock Stewart trade was worse. Outman was an obvious bad asset, meanwhile at the very worst Gonzalez could have been part of a package to acquire a MLB-caliber player. And to be clear, I don't consider Santana as part of the move. But I'm still waiting to hear the explanation of why you consider Polanco to be "an asset" when he didn't produce for the Mariners and evidently didn't have that much trade value.
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    Almost all of the younger pitchers on the team minus SWR are hitting or exceeding my expectations, the 4 relievers that are 32+ years old are the worst ones on the team. Until today, Ober's results have far exceeded my expectations for him... IMO the coaches are doing their jobs. They have the least talented group of veteran relievers in the league, that's not on them.
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    Since the Spielman departure, this front office hasn't signed a single passable UDFA RB, I'm not even talking the best available, they just don't seem to care about the UDFA RBs. Which is fine since Claiborne and Scott are good enough for RB3/4, but it's strange when they've been willing to pay higher bonuses at all other positions. It would be great if we could find the next Birk or Sullivan, but this comparing current longshots to past ones frankly isn't relevant. I don't see any reason to be excited about Gerhardt other than the Vikings spent a 7th rounder on him, he didn't have particularly good PFF grades in his 4 years as a starter at Cincinnati. He's the same as any other UDFA center we've brought in after the draft and has quickly been forgotten. Josh Sokol, Jake Lacina, Matt Cindric, anyone? Not to mention the last 7th round project center in Michael Jurgens who seems to be getting cast aside... I didn't think he was draftable either but he was a better prospect and now has some NFL experience under his belt. Even if it isn't very good experience.
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    Come on, they traded one year of Polanco who hit .213 (.651 OPS) and could have re-signed him after 2024 or 2025. As I said at the time of the trade, Gonzalez was the most valuable part of the trade and they could have chosen to use him as a trade chip (instead of continue to hoard OF prospects and not play them). We are talking about one year of control of turned out to be a 1.3 WAR 2B, it's hard for that to be a all-timer bad trade when we didn't give up very much.
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    I stepped out for the last 45 minutes... and when I saw the score, I assumed the crooked number was from a position player of ours pitching the 8th. But no, this bullpen knows no bounds of incompetence!
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    It felt like it was a matter of time until Ober started getting roughed up...
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    Geez, I didn't realize Bell was already down to .621 OPS. It's not shocking given he's a streaky hitter, but the highs were very high and the lows are bone dry.
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    Culpepper is doing fine for his first shot at AAA, "worse than Arcia/Kreidler" is true but doesn't accurately describe how he's hitting. .822 OPS ain't bad for a 23 year old. Gabriel Gonzalez is the one who is impressing nobody, hitting .188 BA / .241 OBP is rough.
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    Owens' profile is hilarious: The perfect combo, small and slow! They did this last year with a similar RB in Tre Stewart, who wasn't even good enough to see many carries during the preseason. I've seen a few people say that he is every bit the prospect that Jakobe Thomas (confusing names at the same position) is. I've also seen others claim that Jakobe Thomas is going to be a Day 1 starter... maybe let's pump the brakes on a late 3rd rounder who has 1 year of college experience starting Day 1 on the Flores defense. Kinda reminds me of people who claimed Tai Felton was going to push Nailor for the WR3 job. They've done this before, they probably gave this pick to one of the area scouts to take their favorite "diamond in the rough". Pretty similar process to how they took the current backup center Jurgens. I don't think Gerhardt is as good as some of the UDFA OL they signed like Delby Lemeiux, he's probably on the PS Week 1.
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    Fangraphs shows that Mendez has been promoted to AAA, that would certainly be the reasonable move here. He's hit well enough at the AA level for a promotion regardless of injury.
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    The Mets did that to select Vidal Brujan, who was a Twin for a very short amount of time. Ironic.
  12. Danchat
    Good call, but Shelton should have pulled SWR earlier.
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    SWR is giving up runs like I thought Ober would...
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    Martin now has 4 SBs to 4 CS....
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    I took a look back to last year, Keaschall was first called up for Gasper's spot (who was optioned). Notably they had put Wallner on the IL the previous day in exchange for activating Bride.
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    I'd keep Rojas on the starter track at AAA, no need to force him into a long relief role in the majors. He's already been aggressively promoted to AAA, give the kid some time. Just because the MLB squad is a disaster doesn't mean they should alter the plan on him. When it's a prospect like Andrew Morris or John Klein? Sure, move them to the pen and see what happens. Festa should return as a reliever. I haven't lost faith in Zebby as a starter quite yet, we need some options for starters because you know more injuries are coming to the rotation eventually. Maybe later in the season they can kick around moving him to the pen full-time if his numbers are a starter are still rough, but I think he's going to rebound from his current AAA stats.
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    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).
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    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.
  20. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
  24. 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.
  25. Danchat
    Follow-up on an earlier move, Wagaman was claimed by the Mets on waivers.
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