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He was beaned on July 28, 2024. Here are his stats in 2024 in 139 AB's after the beaning. They do not support the beaning as the issue for his decline since he continued to play well. It was a good thought though - more likely its his shoulder (or just simple regression). Batting Average (AVG) .288 On-Base Percentage (OBP) .318 Slugging Percentage (SLG) .424

Not sure why anyone would suggest trading for ANOTHER LH outfielder.......................

Well if they trade Correa away, as someone suggested above, they would certainly lessen the infield crunch. Have Miranda at first, Willi at 2nd, Lee at short, and Rolls Royce at third - and shade Lee towards third to make up for Royce's deficiency in the field. Then you sign a cheap UI who can play third half the season when Royce is out and wait for another infield prospect to coming knocking on the door.

I was replying to the article's assertion that he would bring a ML player and a Top 25 prospect. "IF THAT WERE TRUE", then he would probably bring a better starting pitcher if we deleted the prospect.

If Julien has so much value, why wouldn't we just trade him one-for-one for a starter rather than getting an average ML player and a Top 25 prospect especially when the ML guy we are getting has had middling success the previous two years between a serviceable K rate which doesn't make up for his high walk rate. And his walk and K rate have gone in opposite directions this year which implies some of his success is luck. Sure he hasn't had a walk since June 12, but he's also only had 1 K (11 games and only 1K!). Not only does he not profile as a pitcher the Twins FA would target, seems like the only upside is that he isn't eligible for Free Agency until 2030 and he's left handed. Pass....

Apparently you skipped over the parts of the article where he talked about Vazquez sucking at the beginning of the season.....

Pass - he has one of those projectable flabby bodies that do not age well. I give him one or two more All Star years before he turns into a liability.

Its amazing how many World Series over the years were won by players who clearly needed a day off to rest their owies. Imagine how much better all those Yankees teams of yore would have been if only they knew their players should only be playing 4 days out of 5 rather than hitting homeruns EVERY day.... <tongue firmly planted in cheek> The whole idea of workload management has been pushed as a requirement by the union to make sure players play to their full ability. What its really been doing is keeping good players off of the diamond for no reason at all. If workload management was really an actual thing, we would see players who are "properly rested" perform beyond expectations when they are allowed to play. We don't. The whole idea is idiotic...

COME ON!!!! These people aren't playing for a 5th Grade participation medal because their FEEWWWINGS will be hurt if they don't win. These people are playing a professional sport for billions of dollars. If a player comes hard into 2nd base and avoids the tag, but the fielder gets knocked back, loses the ball, and there are no other infielders nearby, is the "right thing to do" to have the runner call himself out or go back to first???? NO! He runs like hell to 3rd. That's called playing the sport. Grow up Matthew............

"blah blah blah" Point is the Twins picked up another broken starter. You can parse it anyway you want, but the facts still remain.

Think its time for us to do some major praying for Lewis - clearly he is the current Twins "hex" recipient in the long line of stellar Twins players since 2000 cut down by injuries. Jason Kubel, Justin Morneau, Joe Mauer, Byron Buxton, Miguel Sano...

"Snarky writer lampoons readers who are simply pointing out Twins Front Office's track record of trading for starting pitchers who immediately get hurt"

April being Correa's "theoretically most healthy month" is of course a misnomer. Similar to all recent Twins injuries, Correa stated that he had been struggling with the foot issue for awhile - I'm betting he suffered the injury in spring training and decided to see if he could tough it out. That's not excusing his pedestrian season last year or discounting signs of decline, but saying he should have played better in April is not really fair.

Thank you - I was going to say the exact thing - Julien is praised for power in the article and Kirillof is tanked, but their Homerun rates are very similar. Kirillof has 22 HR's in 706 PA while Julien has 16 homeruns in 408 PA. If you extrapolate Julien's number to the same 706 PA, Julien has 27 HR. So what's the difference? Kirilloff has been hurting for half his ML career and has been unable to pull the ball while in Julien's one partial season, he had zero issues affecting his swing. I have a suggestion - lets just let Kirillof play and see what he does. Don't judge his career projection off bad data.

I agree with everything except the end of the article - Polanco was going to be moved this year whether the Twins had cut salary or not - his contract was just too valuable to not move to another team especially when the Twins have several IF options who are younger and cheaper. I don't really like the return on the trade - it seems to me they could have done a 1 for 1 and gotten a GOOD starter - but you can't fault the Twins FO for getting four players including a Top 100 prospect for him. If the Twins were the Yankees or Dodgers, we wouldn't be sitting here talking about this, but they aren't.