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This is always a fun exercise and I know I’m gonna go over budget by at least a little. I’ll explain my rationale a little bit later. Here are my moves: Paddack salary dump. I’m texting the 29 another GM’s and whoever takes the $7.5 million and gives me the best prospects gets Paddack. Trade Vazquez for Diaz. This is a salary swap, and I’d give some prospects to make it more palatable for the Rays. Kala’i Rosario, Tanner Schobel, and Andrew Morris may get it done. Sign Matthew Boyd. Two years $24 million with $10 million in the first year and the second being a $14 million option. Hope is not a plan and we saw the results of that plan in 2024. Love what I saw from the rookies, but we still need pitching depth. Sign Amed Rosario to be the new Farm Dawg for $2 million. Sign James McCann as back up catcher for $1.5 million. This plan gives us better depth for the upcoming season, breathes a little life into the fan base, and makes the team more attractive for that potential buyer out there. LFG Twins! C: Ryan Jeffers ($4.70M) 1B: Diaz ($10.00M) 2B: Brooks Lee ($0.80M) 3B: Royce Lewis ($2.30M) SS: Carlos Correa ($36.00M) LF: Trevor Larnach ($2.10M) CF: Byron Buxton ($15.00M) RF: Matt Wallner ($0.80M) DH: Miranda ($0.80M) 4th OF: DaShawn Keirsey ($0.80M) Utility: Willi Castro ($6.20M) Utility: A Rosario ($2.00M) Backup C: McCann ($1.50M) NA: Dead Money Here ($0.00M) SP1: Pablo Lopez ($21.50M) SP2: Joe Ryan ($3.80M) SP3: Bailey Ober ($4.30M) SP4: Boyd ($10M) SP5: Simeon Woods Richardson ($0.80M) RP: Jhoan Duran ($3.70M) RP: Brock Stewart ($0.87M) RP: Griffin Jax ($2.60M) RP: Jorge Alcala ($1.50M) RP: Cole Sands ($0.80M) RP: Justin Topa ($1.23M) RP: Louie Varland ($0.80M) RP: Tonkin ($1.00M) NA: Dead Money Here ($0.00M) Payroll is 4.34% over budget

Zero non-tenders. 40 man is at 37

Severino and Blewett signed to minor league deals.

This was already mentioned a couple times but I have the same thought. Could Larnach play 1B?⚾️

Love to get some pitching depth. Some good rookie talent but they haven’t gone beyond 130 innings pitched (give or take a few). Gotta trade Paddack for the best offer we receive. Ryan has either been injured or his performance has slipped late since since acquired from the Rays. FO will have to get creative this offseason.

I like the idea of trading for Diaz as well. Maybe we could trade Vasquez and some prospects for him since the rays need a catcher? Jacob Stallings to back up Jeffers. Paddack for the best offer we can get. sign Boyd as a LH SP for some depth.

I’d like to see them be heathy enough to get there. It’s a great dream!

#freekeirsey

Falvey quote from a Bobby Nightingale piece - “It’s hard for me to envision a world where one catcher is catching 80-90 percent of your games,” Falvey said. “It’s just changed so much. I feel good about the tandem that we have.”

Maybe he can platoon with O’Hearn is he’s made available by the Os? Question 3 is the biggest one IMO. Can he hit well for the entire season? if they give him enough reps there in the off-season and spring training, he should be ready defensively.

Santana takes it himself! Great $5mil pick up in 2024.

Polo for 1B?

Lefty reliever for 1.5? Agree with Fatbat - stockpile the arms.

So many lefties. Twins still need to fill the righty masher void created when Cruz was traded.

Love to see Prielipp healthy. The future of Twins pitching is looking up. Maybe this is the year Canterino puts it together and stays healthy.

Okay add another mil to year two and year three. I guess my thought was give him a longer-term guaranteed deal and back weight it to give us financial flexibility for 2025.

Sign him now to a 3 yr deal. year one 4 mil year two 6 mil year three 8 mil Agree with the ToffDaily podcast in that he is not the primary CF backup. They need someone else for that

Can we start a Twins Daily GoFundMe to buy the Twins?

Seems like the third generation of the Pohlads aren’t very good at making “business decisions”. Half their net worth is tied up in this franchise that they don't seem to want. Not sure who’ll buy the Twins but I cannot imagine them being worse.

Good list! Any chance we see Canterino pitch in 2025?

Hopefully Martin is shagging fly balls right now and will continue to do so until spring training. ⚾️

Overall they were good but too streaky. Averaged just over 3 runs per game when they were losing (beginning and end of season) and over 5 runs per game when they had one of the best records in baseball.

Are we talking about team MVP Willi Castro? Find a way to keep him around.

Youth movement at Target Field!

Pitching depth? I have seen this reasoning in the articles for trading RP and SP. Did I watch a different team collapse in 2024? Pitching was a major problem in 2024.