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  1. Danchat
    Wasn’t Arraez considerably better defensively at 1B than Sano? And if they need a lefty hitter (someone who can hit LHP) who is positionless, just bring Garlick back. As MILB depth, sure.
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    Urshela had a 3 WAR season last year, you think Farmer is doing to top that? I don’t see him slotting in as a starter like Gio was, he probably plays the Adrianza / Marwin G role. That’ll still get him a lot of ABs since nobody on this team can stay healthy, but I don’t see him in the #4-6 spots in the lineup and hitting like Gio did.
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    Not sure why they bother to trade a young international prospect for a guy they are probably going to DFA soon, but whatever. Seems like another guy who should have been in the pen full-time last year, yet was starting games for Texas' AAA team. Moving failed starters to the pen is a rather fruitful strategy and it's worth a shot, I just don't know if it makes sense to keep him on the 40 man roster.
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    Martin doesn’t deserve to be in the same conversation as Arraez, Luis hit .318 at AA (.298 in his first couple months), and Martin couldn’t hit well even in his second go-around at AA! There are few players who pan out like Arraez and Merrifield do. Nick Gordon is a solid comparison, I could see Martin taking the late bloomer route as a backup OF who has a decent season or two in the majors. But if he wants to be more than that, he needs to be more than a prospect whose only strengths are stealing bases and taking a ton of walks.
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    B-B-But they were never serious about signing him, or so it went from so many people. Turns out Kyle Farmer was not plan A for the starting SS job. 6/200 is fine, I highly prefer the shorter term. I give the deal an A+, with the only concern being the injuries. Turns out the Twins we’re willing to spend again this year, just like how they set a new payroll record every past year. Still don’t like the Gallo move, but ‘cheap Pohlads’ whiners be damned. And can we stop acting like Boras is some sort of genius? He didn’t end up getting Correa that big of a deal and it turned out Carlos was open to playing here long term. We just needed to pony up the most cash, and while it took some MRIs to get there, in the end the Twins are risking it. I will laid them for that over signing mediocre FAs.
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    I don't think the FO has ever DFA'd a guy and he turned into something... sure, I reacted poorly when we DFA'd Travis Blankenhorn and Edwar Colina, but I trust the FO knows what they're doing when it comes to that.
  7. Danchat
    So what’s the allegory for the two failed physicals / upset potential boyfriends?
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    For me the real story is Enlow, they must be pretty low on him to DFA him now, as I have to think with his pedigree he gets claimed. I would have liked to see him as a full time reliever and see if he could make it to the bigs by the end of the year. Another pitching prospect goes down the drain… Ortega’s profile reminds me of Megill, high fastball speeds but too hittable. That BB/9 is not going to fly here.
  9. Danchat
    I'm surprised 2 RandBalls Stu articles made the top 5, not that I'm complaining, but the initial Correa signing wasn't in the top 5? That's a shock. I guess we could use another satire writer here, clearly there is demand for it!
  10. Danchat
    I don’t think the Twins would be moving him for a lottery ticket, it sounds like there is some demand for him. I’d guess he gets one #11-20 prospect or a MLB reliever.
  11. Danchat
    At least 4 sources have reported the same offer from what I’ve seen, it would be hard to believe that it was some sort of fabrication at this point. The offer fits the FO’s MO of coming up short to a top tier FA, so I don’t see reason to doubt it.
  12. Danchat
    Maybe Correa can get Kirk Cousins contracts every other year or so? Just keep taking short deals high on APY and keep betting on yourself.
  13. Danchat
    We have the payroll, and since we're not landing Correa, why not splurge a little on the bullpen? We shouldn't make assumptions with so many question marks in the pen (Pagan, Lopez, Alcala to start), and the FO already blundered the pen in the first half last year by making Joe Smith the only FA acquisition. They shouldn't let the ghost of Addison Reed haunt them forever.
  14. Danchat
    If Joe had some playoff success, then he'd have better chances. The Yankees would certainly give him more chances for that... instead, 0 playoff wins with Mauer in the lineup.
  15. Danchat
    The drama never ends! What happens next, nobody knows! I think there’s still a chance he ends up a Twin, but would he pass a physical here?
  16. Danchat
    Jason Castro, Marwin Gonazlez, Nelson Cruz was technically a two year deal if you include the option. Maybe 'love' is too strong of a term, but it seems like every offseason they spend 60%+ of the available cash on hitting.
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    They love spending FA cash on hitters, but avoid paying pitching like the plague. They rarely pay FA starters anything more than a one year deal, and despise paying relievers. I understand why with how often they bust, but the alternative approach also isn't working. Imagine if Correa inked the deal they offered, the Falvine regime's spending on pitching compared to hitting would be something like 80% to 20%. Darren Wolfson had reported that they were nowhere close to matching Michael Fulmer's price on the market, so it looks like they are nickeling and dimeing the relieving market again.
  18. Danchat
    If Kyle Farmer is as good as people are saying he is, why did he only cost a non-top 30 prospect to acquire while IFK cost Mitch Garver?
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    I'm still trying to understand what's going on with the Giants here... on the Twins side, this reads to me like Falvine did want Correa back, but ownership wouldn't let them go past $285M and/or 10 years. If the offer was still on the table, I don't see why they wouldn't bump it up a little bit if they really wanted him... but keeping the offer on the table makes it sound like they did want him back. Confusing situation!!
  20. Danchat
    I may mostly be in doom-and-gloom mode this year, but I think Gordon could be up for another solid year at the plate. He flashed a little power and perhaps he could step his game up a little more. I appreciate his durability.
  21. Danchat
    That's why I stated this: To me, pipeline == minor league development of starting pitchers. If you're talking about acquiring starters of all kinds, they've done plenty of that with mixed results. My complaints are with the inability to convert our homegrown prospects into MLB starters, which is something that was hyped up with Falvey/Levine rolling into town. Our minor league pipeline hasn't been close to what Cleveland's has been.
  22. Danchat
    That is true, but then where are the Falvine pitching prospects being developed in the minor leagues? The new regime has had 6 drafts to build depth, and yet they still have zero arms in the top 100 prospects. It's true that the previous regime had overhyped pitching prospects, but the current regime isn't doing much better. Ryan isn't part of the pipeline because he spend zero/minimal time in our minors. He still counts as an acquisition of the front office in a bank robbery of a trade, but our minor league development should get zero credit for him. That's what I mean by 'pipeline', so your interpretation of that word may be different. Great point. Plus, a true starting pitcher pipeline wouldn't have a year where a team has to acquire 5 starters over a single year (Bundy, Archer, Paddack, Gray, Mahle). And yes, the pandemic hurt prospect development, but other organizations have recovered and are successfully converting prospects into MLB starters, and we aren't.
  23. Danchat
    I was just going off the 2019 prospect list, and I don’t consider Ryan as part of the pipeline as hisminor league development was complete before he got here. Ober is nice but has been a 5 inning starter / hurt, and Varland & SWR are still unknowns. We’re in year 7 and only one starter is native to our pipeline (and if we add another starter, Ober is getting bumped out). Every year it’s been “this is the year the prospects break through” just to see Gonsalves, Thorpe, Romero, Duran, Balazovic, Sands, Winder and others fail to break into the rotation. I hope Varland and SWR can stick, but I’d bet against it with the history of our pitching prospects.
  24. Danchat
    It’s a mixed bag… they’ve developed hitting and relievers, but it’s telling that zero of these guys have made an impact as a starting pitcher, and it seems more likely than not that Enlow and Balazovic will not be effective starters in the bigs. Still waiting for the pitching pipeline…
  25. Danchat
    I am fascinated by how that is humanly possible, Even Sano had 11 sacrifice flies in about the same at bats! Nelson Cruz hit 18 in that same stretch of about 2500 ABs. Don't blame Rocco for failing to coach his guys to knock in runs when the FO is signing guys who are innately bad at it. Only 47 RBIs in 410 PAs...
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