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  1. Old fox
    A good trade is who you get back and if the player preforms above expectations. I prefer to keep Jeffers, Rortvedt then Garver because he can play 1b or DH. Physically catcher is hell on the body.
  2. Old fox
    It looks like the dog is chasing his tail again for the Twins again. Or are the Pohlads taking a lot cash out of the Twins and selling the Twins? The Twins sure didn’t learn any about what happened in 2021. However. If the lockout isn’t solved it won’t matter. I was under the impression that ownership couldn’t have communication with each other during the lockout?
  3. Old fox
    There are only 4 medians of currency in baseball (1) cash, (2) trading active mlb player (3) prospects, (4) any combination of above three for new players. Where the buyer and seller agree on a price is the pure market. If the buyer’s offer isn’t acceptable to the seller then no market is established. Two things seem to happen to the Twins (1) they under value the players they try to obtain, (2) they overvalue as sellers the player there trying to trade to. This seems to indicate that ownership or management isn’t currently aware of the market current values. Ownership is involved in the final decision. Mr. St. Peter is married into Pohlad family. I view him as being on both sides of ownership & management teams. Therefore, Falvey & Lavine being 2nd & 3rd in command on the management team really serve at the wills of ownership including Mr. St. Peter. In bank jargon the F O has “credit Limits” of certain value. Anything over the “credit limit” must be acted on by ownership before the transaction can become official. Apparently doesn’t want to increase the credit limits of Falvey & Lavine.
  4. Old fox
    What about Martin in left as he has more potential than Larnach. Kirilloff in left and put Donaldson at 1b, move San’o to DH., & try Miranda at 3b.
  5. Old fox
    You want to trade Lewis with out giving him a chance to prove himself? Is wrong! He needs to be given a chance to prove himself at the mlb level orAAA. I am willing to trade anyone providing the return is more than adequate. The market place would most likely soft on Lewis because of the uncertainty about him and most teams that need ss have fixed their need for a ss. Those teams who will be in need of a ss in 23 and beyond have similar prospects as Lewis. Let’s exercise patience with Lewis. If Lewis has to be traded then to the Marlins for Alcantara or T. Rogers.
  6. Old fox
    My questions are; will these players count against the 26 man roster or the 40 man roster or clearing waivers to be sent to the minors, who pays these long term years remaining which have to be paid after the player retires. If a older high priced player can’t preform well then what makes him perform better for a weaker or poorer team. The giving up of a prospect doesn’t seem like much of a “loss or penalty” for reckless financial management. Do I have a solution; no.
  7. Old fox
    Prospects are like baking cinnamon rolls; if under bake the rolls they taste doughy, if you over bake them there burnt but when you take out the oven at the right time they are darn good. If you make too many rolls then old, stale & hard & non-editable . The Twins seem to go through stages of drafting too many corner outfielders, then too many infielders, etc. The Twins always put up the lame duck argument that they won’t “sign”. Thats bogus because winning teams have less trouble signing their draft choices. The Twins better start shimming up to the bar and pay the going market value, this goes for FA & trades too or get left out in the cold.
  8. Old fox
    The Twins will do 1 of 3; get better, get worse or stay the same. The only way the Twins get better is; trade for better players or sign better FAs. The ownership has been in the “hoping stage” and this doesn’t work forever and generally leads to demise. The Twins by finishing at the bottom of the central division & bottom 20% of the AL, and bottom 25% of all major league teams are at a critical point of existence. The changing of players or FO will not change the situation until ownership changes it’s philosophy, direction, decision making process. This ownership team tried to dissolve the Twins once before. It appears they are on the trail to doing it again.
  9. Old fox
    I am very Leary of this idea. (1) the big spenders will continue to be irresistible for spending badly with no remorse because the less spending teams will be the financial relief for poor financial decisions. I admire Tampa Bay and their style of management. T.B. until this year has no sacred cow players as the Twins model does believe in. (2) MLB can’t take on the financial sins of the big spenders & poor decision & management. There is already a built in relief mechanism either sell the team or bankruptcy. (3) How about going to the Atlanta plan where all teams have to become a public entity form and have to show financial records.
  10. Old fox
    remember a catcher and pitcher are just pitch away from the injury list. The life span is relatively short and the regression turn down curve starts sooner. I prefer to to keep Jeffers & Rortvedt let Garver split time between catching, 1b, pinch hitter off the bench. I prefer trading some 1 & lower 2 skilled players like Sano, Arraez, Larnach, Sabal, Sands, Vallimont to “A” for Bassitt, Chapman, Manaea & Pisscoty. Sano & Pisscoty would be a salary dump as both are in the last year of their contract. Twins would save $2m.
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