Steve J

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What else is there to spend that money on?

Since no one else seemed to be talking about this, I thought I might be crazy.

After a healthy start, his WAR now sits at a dismal -0.8. His hitting has been poor and defense grades out even worse than Brooks Lee's, but he's still seeing a lot of time at shortstop. Unless the service time rules have changed, we should have cleared the expected super-two cut-off. We have 23 year old Kaelen Culpepper is doing well at AAA as the logical replacement. I'm just wondering what I'm missing here...

His stock is at it's lowest, but it's not like there isn't other dead weight on the 40 so I see no reason to trade him, as if one-tool players have value anyway. Twins are one four game losing streak away from calling it a season and he'll get another opportunity to play, I'm sure. However, he's in a position where he'll have to work his way back into the Team's plans else he's a likely cut in spring. No decisions have to be made now.

No. Not worried, though this looks more like a trend than anything given his high end arm was down into the mediocre territory last year too. He's getting older, some skills are going to start to decline, some possibly by choice (maybe he's holding his own arm back over shoulder concerns?) If his range collapsed or he found himself with a beleaguered hamstring again, I would be worried.

What does this plan do with Clemens? He's hitting better than anyone in that config.

Think he's going to finish his top 30 twins of all time list? He left off like twenty years ago.

welp!

Ah yes, coastal baseball journalism's favorite pastime: making up rumors under the expectation that the Twins' greatest organizational ambition is to solve some big market teams' problems. Don't worry Twins fans! you can replace him with a platoon of guys so marginal that no other team wanted them! Of course, it never occurs to them that the Twins might not be so crummy after all and Boston may just suck.

I like how they're sitting the Ice cold Tristan Gray.

I'm not sure our pitcher is ready and willing. Any thoughts?

The Twins bought Caratini at a good value. If we just pretended he was a right-hand hitting first basemen that kept Bell off the field, we'd think it was a decent signing at two years and less than 15 million total. We were looking at Ryan O'Hearn for twice that amount, and while he's the better hitter, we shouldn't doubt that there are a lot of clubs more appealing to free agents even if we offer lots of money. Caratini may have simply been about the best right handed hitter we could sign at the time with the money available. Of course, it also is possible that the front office was thinking about trading Jeffers prior to his walk year. Under that plan they would still having catching figured out through '27 with Caratini and Jackson and probably get a decent return, but it fizzed out for one reason or another.

He depends on two very poor pitches, a fastball that tops out at 90mph and a changeup that he lobs down the middle at 85 that is easy for everything but the radar gun to differentiate.