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  1. Stew
    Question , if you resigned Santana, and he was the same as last year. And he turned out to be the worst hitter on the team with similar stats. Would the team have enough hitting? My point is Santana is steady. And almost over preformed his whole career. Get the other positions figured out, and we are ok.
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    It's still a little bit of a money thing. So, we should , when we trade players to lower our spending, consider getting extra bonus pool money. That way we will have more than other teams. And it will signal that we are serious.. plus it's a good year for international prospects.
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    I'm not willing to trade Lewis in his prime, , when we're not willing to do that with Buxton or Kepler a few years back. We got the most we could get out of there years. So trading Lewis this early when we aren't paying him a lot, makes no sense I worry about the second trade because we are losing Kepler and maybe Castro . Who will play outfield? So no to both.
  4. Stew
    No. I've never seen so many nutty ideas on one site . Trade Ryan and then pick up a broken down pitcher that we will pay more for and get nothing. It was Ryans first time in the majors with a injury of an seriousness. Let's see what happens in spring. Also making Jax a starter is another idea floated around. He is our best relief pitcher . What if Duran goes down for the season. Let's see what we do in the trade market first. Then we can look at f.a.'s.
  5. Stew
    No and no and hell no. He came off injury and had a so so year. Mark my words. He will be relief pitcher of the year next year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  6. Stew
    Lopez played all season. Our real problem is our c.f and s.s. 50 million between the two. Who would be our ace? We would spend more on starters then what he is being paid.
  7. Stew
    No!!!!!!
  8. Stew
    Usually if you take a thousand words to explain why something should or could happen, you're trying to hard to convince people. That said , the simple answer is no!
  9. Stew
    I wish we could trade him. But the only way to get a big haul would be to trade a good prospect with him. Or we could pay a portion of his salary. The Yankees and dodgers wont take him the way things are.. . So it's unlikely we could get any other team to take him.
  10. Stew
    Where does he play . Too many outfielders. Next year he will be up. Or if we have more injuries.
  11. Stew
    The other problem with the deal is we won't have funds to get anyone else. I still think a c.f is important. I think a better idea might be to take a page out of the Dodgers book. Offer a deal to him where we defer 5 or 6 million a year. Do that for 3 or 4 years of the contract. Pay that money at the end of his stay. I know that certain guys will not be there 3 or 4 years from now . Freeing up money to pay the balance.
  12. Stew
    Something tells me he will turn the corner this year. I think for awhile he will play at St. Paul, but he come up when someone's injured. Then I think he will have some moments like lewis had last year. Anyway he will start out the following year with the Twins. I also think Gordan will have better year than two years ago, when he was healthy. That would work out fine, since I think the Twins might look to trade Gordon.
  13. Stew
    Twins did fair. They need one of two things. Either a great outfield bat and or a true ace. Free agents would be hard to deal with because of cost. They probably won't spend more than 10 to 12 million more at most. There are only certain things that they could try. Trade away enough players we feel we don't need to free up cash for a high profile player. Or do like you say and wait till the trade deadline. Then we could see . But that means we lose half a season without that star. Too many things can happen by the deadline. A novel idea is to take a page out of the Dodgers book. Find the star we want and defer some money for the first few years of the contract . I know people will say where will the defered money come from? Do you really think both Buxton and Correa will both be on the team in 3 or 4 years? Very doubtful. With the right management we could have several million available at that time.
  14. Stew
    Quite a thesis. Anyway it may matter now, but soon it will all change. With the advancement of A . I. They will soon experiment with devises inside the umpires mask. That devise will cause catchers and pitchers to adopt changes. The reason I think they still have a home plate umpire., is they have union reps. Also they will still be needed to make calls. The best thing for a team to work on with catchers is to increase the speed of release and accuracy. Also half of base stealing is done on pitchers. Find one that are harder to steal on. Then it seams like you might go back to the old way of catching. That would allow for better blocking at the plate. And better position on throws.
  15. Stew
    Niether, they are our future and our present. Stop talking about things that won't happen. The Twins don't trade players when they are at there best . Sano 2019, or Kepler or Polanko. And many others. They hang on till there pay is 10 plusi million dollars. Then struggle to trade them and release them. If we would have offered Sonny gray 3 million more for three years , would he be here. And we still could have traded him to the same team or someone like the Yankees who have a great prospect list to choose from. Every other year the twins are afraid to pull the trigger. This time they use the excuse that we don't have enough money. We currently could spend about 25 million. But we have almost 40 we could lose of payroll. People who have been talked about trading: Polanko, Kepler, Vasquez, farmer, and others
  16. Stew
    If we get a 1st baseman via trade. We should go big or go home. There was an article I think on this site with the idea of Alonso coming to the twins. Don't think we have or would want to give up what's needed to make that trade. Besides the article stated that we would make the trade good enough for the Mets to pay his whole salary. That won't happen. But there are other teams that have what we need. I like the idea of platooning what players we have. Besides Salano is still a possibility. If he would take a little less money. We first need to solve the pitching issue. And it would be better served if we use our assets for a trade for that.
  17. Stew
    I agree with Tony and Rodney. We are so close. Trade the four players he mentioned ,and dobnak and larnach. That takes our roster to 79 million. If we spend 140 million. That gives us 61 million to spend. We could make a big splash on at least one pitcher and have room for all the other basic needs.
  18. Stew
    Yes bring back maeda. I think we should see if he will take 13 to 14 million a year. Offer three years with a club buy out option on the third year. Maybe 5 million. That should be attractive enough to get him back. Then bid heavy on Yamamoto the Japanese pitcher. In the mean time trade our number 3 prospect, Kepler, Polanko, Vasquez and what ever else we need to get Alonso from mets and a cheaper backup catcher. Oh, I should mention make the deal sweet enough for Cohen to pay most of not all of Alonso's 22 million. What does everyone think? Could we pull that off? Why or why not?
  19. Stew
    Like the trade for burnes . He should come back strong. Also Miranda is backup 3rd or 1 st. at best .
  20. Stew
    Why can't we get Taylor back? He could accept probably about 8 to 10 million. I've heard talk of kiermier being someone we are looking at. He will cost between 13 to 16 million. They are both equal fielders in my mind. Taylor has more power and more stolen bases. But less avg. And obp. The other guys mentioned are a step back in defense. We had a good formula great pitching, defense. We now need two good bats to make a real run at it.
  21. Stew
    Why do we only do a qualifying offer? Couldn't we see if we could offer sonny gray a 23 one year deal. We at least know what we are getting. And if you think every pitchers going to get hurt. You end up doing nothing. And if not him Maeda should have another good year in him. He can't be more than ten million a year. If we got Màeda back for 10 we would be about 127 million. Trade Polanko, and minor league players for either bullpen help or a big bat. If we play our cards right we could have enough for cf and 1st base.
  22. Stew
    This only an idea. I'm not even sure it should be done by any team. But I thought it would be fun to get comment. What about Trevor Bauer?
  23. Stew
    I think your making things too complicated. Ryan is picked out for game one. If he fails you can go with either maeda or paddock. But I also would prefer over instead of paddock. Let's face it if you use maeda in the first game as a starter he's done for games two and three. He might not be good for game four. Ryan would then be forced into game four start. And what do we do if we need long men in two or three. I like the combo of players they choose. I would still put over on the roster. Stevenson would be pulled off for buxton only.
  24. Stew
    5. What do we do with outfielders if they are all back? Do we put Gallow on playoff roster? If buxton comes back with just a handfull of games left, will he do any better than he did? He batted .207 this year. Do we leave him off the roster?
  25. Stew
    The the twins have injuries, I think we pay him and hope he. Stays healthy the early part of the season. We could then trade him. I see we could get good value in a trade. Besides I think we have room for him with buxton and kirloff going thru what they have with injuries.
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