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  1. Danchat
    I'm not convinced Kirk will have a lot of options to be a starter, I think teams will view him as a bridge QB or a good backup. He's going to be 38 and his completion rate and Y/A took a massive drop-off down from his already questionable 2024 season.
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    Yup, it one of the biggest under-the-radar Twins stories that haven't been talked about enough. It's been only Arraez since the big Sano/Polanco/Kepler crop and that needs to change.
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    They have quite a few good players to build around and a quality coach could flip that team around rather quickly. I'd argue it is easily the best job available.
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    It's very common for at least one player on a minor league deal to make the club and a corresponding move is made. DFA'ing Kreidler would be a very easy move to make given that in this scenario Arcia has won the backup SS job over him. They probably want Kreidler off the 40 man roster and in AAA anyways, they're probably just waiting until the right time to do so.
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    Fair, I didn't like that pick either but part of the complaint was they moved 3 third round picks to move up to take him, and at least he has looked really good when on the field. And he actually forces them to put him on the field, especially in the redzone. #154 is around where I had him... but getting reps in blowouts isn't what I had in mind. I was thinking more like "Felton is playing so well in practice that he forces KOC to come up with some 4WR packages to put him on the field". He got on the field against the Packers today and drew a DPI, but also dropped an easy pass that was negated due to penalty. He looks more like a late Day 3 guy rather than a budding playmaker who is close to breaking out like TeSlaa.
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    They locked up the #9 pick, good on them to lose all their games after the Mahomes ACL tear. Correct, he only missed 1 game in the past month.
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    Yeah, it's a stretch to come up with any other names... Jay Ward got more playing time and looked decent. Not sure if he'll be trusted to start next year, but they really need 2 starting safeties (one to push Metellus back to his unique role as he isn't close to as good as a traditional safety).
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    Same here, I can't believe they went over 8.5 wins after falling to 4-8. What a strange season.
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    Huh? With better QB play, Thielen would have stayed on the roster and Felton wouldn't see the field. Once they cut AT, they've played Felton an average of 5 snaps per game. Better QB play has nothing to do with Felton getting on the field more, he was stuck with the 3rd team in training camp because he struggles to run routes and had a hard time catching the ball. He was at best a 5th round caliber prospect that they reached on because they wanted a guy who could return kicks and be a good gunner, which is a waste of a 3rd round pick when there were plenty of quality options that went after that pick. Heck, the Titans found two starting WRs in Round 4. Instead we took a project who was raw enough they felt they had to trade picks for Thielen, and barring a massive step up is not going to replace Nailor in 2026.
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    We're going to learn this year that playing that kind of player was not just a Baldelli thing.
  11. Danchat
    Seattle's defense is the real deal... it might be enough to win the NFC. Their offense doesn't need to be all that good with how much the defense is carrying them.
  12. Danchat
    They probably want him in AAA and don't envision him as anything more than emergency depth. I guess they see Kreidler as marginally better. Fitzgerald's September in the majors probably didn't change how they see him. Would it be that surprising for this team to fill the major league lineups with placeholders over prospects? I think Martin will get plenty of chances, Roden less likely even though he has nothing more to establish in the minors. I still bet that Larnach gets moved but it's even more puzzling if he stays.
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    Fangraphs says he has 3 options.
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    Can't say I get this one... seems like they have enough mediocre 1B/corner OF hitters in the majors, but why not add another. If he sticks it would seem like Bell is going to be DH'ing more often than not, which as already mentioned dampens the value he brings. A Clemens/Wagaman platoon at 1B is incredibly underwhelming but I guess that's the Twins for you. Feels like Julien might not be long for the 40 man roster.
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    Somehow, the Vikings might just be able to clear the initial 8.5 wins Vegas had on us. Which is wild given how much hope we lost when we hit 4-8.
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    That's a very good point. I still see Matthews long-term in the rotation but I will bet that the other three end up as relievers.
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    His job was already safe when he executed the trade deadline, it would be strange for them to can Falvey after trusting him to make so many consequential moves at the deadline. You don't entrust those moves to a GM on a boiling hot seat, and Falvey's moves didn't come off as someone desperate to save their job in 2026.
  18. Danchat
    Game winning drive, not a 4th quarter comeback. They are two different stats, we weren't trailing in the 4th quarter.
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    I agree, but heading into the year with Sands, Topa, and Funderburk by far the best relievers on your roster is a disaster waiting to happen.
  20. Danchat
    Well there you go. It was fairly clear this was going to happen when Christian said he couldn't answer whether he would play again. That's now Greenard, Metellus, and Darrisaw hitting the IR in the past week.
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    It's been a bizarre situation, he was on the active roster (not on PUP list) when training camp started in late July only 8 months after the ACL tear... and now Matthew Coller on his blog stated that Kevin O'Connell heavily implied that Darrisaw had a "much worse than usual ACL tear". If that was actually true then he should have been on ice until November or the like. Really stupid management whether it be Darrisaw pushing to play or the Vikings being reckless. Well I got news for you, Rouse was a healthy scratch last week despite Darrisaw being inactive. Brandel was the gameday backup LT and RT... they have zero faith in Rouse and he's probably not on the roster next year. It looks like Rouse and Jurgens are flops, not exactly surprising for 6th/7th round picks.
  22. Danchat
    A major league deal, wow. That is a name that I would have never guessed would resurface to this degree in the majors.
  23. Danchat
    I love me some Arraez, but as has already been stated the 2021-23 version of him vs the 2024-25 version has been very different. I appreciate the deep dive into the analytics to explain the regression between those two versions. His warts (lack of defensive ability, slow running speed) were a lot easier to defend when he was an elite hitter at the plate, but now it's a lot harder to justify. He's only 29 and if a coaching staff can get his bat speed up and get him to be a little more aggressive at the plate, you might get the better version of him. I wouldn't say no to a gamble like that, but once again with him stuck at 1B/DH at makes him hard to pen into a lineup... hence why he's already played for 3 different teams at this point.
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    There is no way he's getting released, he's tradable with the cap hit of $22.3M with $0M guaranteed money. I'd earmark we could get a 2nd rounder for him or you just restructure the cap hit. That is assuming the shoulder injury is not a career-altering one. It would be cool if Turner could, but he's had 1 pressure the past two games despite playing nearly the same number of snaps as Greenard (9 pressures in that span). Greenard has done a poor job getting sacks, but he's still getting pressures like you'd expect out of a #1 edge rusher and Turner is playing alright, but he's not at that level. I'm down for the team getting younger and getting a draft pick for Greenard, but the issue is that I think an edge room of Van Ginkel and Turner is going to be underwhelming. Seeing how Flores has groomed Turner to be AVG's replacement given how often he drops back into coverage, it'd be more ideal for the pairing to be Greenard and Turner, but they gave AVG a 1/$23M extension so he'll be back in 2026.
  25. Danchat
    Roden has 2 option years remaining. I don't believe that France's $300K had to be offloaded in the deal, I think he was just a throw-in that the Jays took for depth. The deal was Varland for Rojas and Roden. I know people don't like Roden close to as much as Rojas, but I think it's silly to think they were willing to part with Varland for Rojas alone. France wasn't worth Roden.
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