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  1. Danchat
    That's what the scouting report has read as, but over the past few weeks it's been pretty clear he's a poor leader (his post-game comments after the Patriots game had his teammates livid). I was responding more to gunnarthor's comment, while it's true that QBs need more time, they shouldn't look this horrible when thrust into action. The Brees comparison is an anomaly (which is why it's being used other than another QB move that happened within the past 15 years), it's pretty rare for a QB to look this rotten in Year 2 and then turn things around completely. I'd be down for him as a backup.
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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.
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    Eh, I dunno, Wilson looks so bad this year I think he's going down the path of Josh Rosen... and he still netted a 2nd round pick in a trade! There's just too many red flags for me. This was from a scouting report pre-draft 2021: I'm not gambling on a low-character player, the fact that he played in New York isn't an excuse for me. Is he going to have a panic attack whenever he plays on the road against NY? What about Philly?
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    This deal mystifies me, Varsho was a 4 WAR player at both CF & C? Was he really worth that much?
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    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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    Streveler was a backup QB at Minnesota in college, and never started a game! That's insane, most Gopher starting QBs have no business being on a practice squad.
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    Well, I guess I’d rather be right than optimistic… I blame Minnesota sports for crushing any hope I ever build up!
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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!!
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    Minneapolis Miracle -> next week lose 38-7 Improbable win over Bills -> next week lose 40-3 Greatest comeback of all time -> ??? Maybe we don’t get crushed by 30+, but I still think we lose.
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    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.
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    This is the worst coached Belichick team I’ve ever seen. Dude must be ready to blow a gasket.
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    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.
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    Knowing how the Vikings work, they're going to get killed next week by the Giants. After a long and exhausting game against the Colts, they're probably going to come out flat.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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…
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    This has certainly been one of the most entertaining Vikings teams in a long time…
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    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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    Well, I guess it's time to start rooting against the Twins! Well, whomever told Hayes about Gallo was right... they had a backup plan, it just turns out to be a really bad one!
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    Wow, I hate it. They've basically just re-signed Sano for too much money, except this version of him can handle himself in the outfield. The Twins have already proven that they couldn't coach strikeouts out of Sano, how are they going to do it with Gallo? If Vazquez and Gallo are the two main additions to the lineup, this is going to be a bottom 10 lineup. We lost Correa and Urshela, guys you could stick in at the #2 and #5 spots respectively, and now have a catcher to stash at #9 and a hot-and-cold bat who is going to hit #4/5 too often when he'll be better off hitting #7/8. I'd much rather be saddled with a great player on a bad contract than scrounge for scraps, and at a bad price. Feels like Logan Morrison all over again! Maybe CJ Cron if we're lucky. Hopefully a terrible move like this and the Pagan one ensures that this front office gets sacked by the end of the year.
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    Good thing Verdugo has been solid for the Red Sox, or they would have gotten nothing out of the Betts trade.
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    I love this meme, it’s an annual tradition. Fans: “They’re not going to spend more than they did last year, they won’t sign any FAs” - then suddenly they sign Josh Donaldson, Carlos Correa, Lance Lynn and they set a new record of payroll. Happens every year but some just don’t seem to realize it. This approach isn’t exactly leading to any more wins, but they’re going to sign more players. That isn’t up for debate.
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    I think Zimmer was more of a shelf life coach, he was doing a great job and the players loved him 2014-2017, but it was around the signing of Kirk that Zimmer got grumpier and grated on the players more, until he became unbearable. There were red flags in that good stretch (2016 stands out with Zimmer undermining Norv Turner, which we now know during that point he was consulting with Hue Jackson of all people for advice on offense). The real blunder was extending him and Spielman after thinking the 2019 was something worth celebrating, while trouble was clearly brewing in the background.
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    It's mostly indifferent to this. My confidence in this front office was lost over the second half of the 2022 season, and this offseason is just a sign that more is to come. Yeah, they'll spend more than $135M+, but it's going to be another 'eh' offseason. My issue with them has been their inability to turn prospects into MLB players, can't coach players up, and their inability to keep anybody healthy. We were promised a pitching pipeline, still hasn't panned out, and now the lineup looks like a liability for the first time in years.
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    Yeah, I think the window was 2016-2019 but a few things got in the way during 2016 & 2018. 2020 is when the reboot should have happened, if not 2021. A huge factor in all this is that the Vikings' drafting has gone downhill. 2017-2019 they got one average or better starter in each draft (which is bad, 3 starters in 3 drafts is terrible), 2020 was a big success, 2021 looks like another one prospect class and 2022 so far looks terrible on paper. They've been coasting on the core of the roster that was built in 2014-2018 and its time in the sun is nearing its end. They've done a solid job hiding the faults of the team to get wins - I think we found our long term HC - but the cracks in the foundation need to be addressed, but it doesn't look like that is going to be the focus in the 2023 offseason.
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