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  1. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Bean, This is an interesting post. And I'm curious as to what you're basing these trade scenarios on... The Dodgers would trade Hernandez for Wallner? Why? The Yankees have been trying to dump Stanton for the last 3+ years so that isn't necessarily an endorsement of Wallner as much an indictment on Stanton. The Mets and Red Sox might have the two worst RF situations in baseball, so again, I'm not finding that to be a glowing endorsement of Wallner.
  2. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Seems like 'more of the same' is a recurring theme not just with Wallner but several young Twins' hitters and in the case of players like Julien and Miranda, you get worse than that. Payroll issues are what they are but a team like the Twins can't compete when player development is lacking as much as it has been over the last several years.
  3. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Ryan / Ober / SWR / Bradley / Abel That's the rotation, IMHO. Excited (or curious) to see how the latter three do - especially Bradley and Abel.
  4. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Tom P. continues to double down on the Valdez and contention talk. Pablo's injury is a fork in the road for the Twins and Tom's narrative. Maybe he can now justify a full-blown rebuild - 'well, our ace is out for the season and we don't see a path to winning baseball without him', or, maybe he tries to slap some lipstick on this pig and pursues someone like Giolito in the name of making a move for the sake of it.
  5. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    If the Twins are ever going to make their way back to contention, it would have to be on the shoulders (literally) of SWR, Bradley, Abel, and Matthews. They're about to find out exactly what they have there. Side note, I didn't include Joe Ryan in that list because I'm hard pressed to find any scenario where he is on the roster beyond this season.
  6. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    That is absolutely brutal for the Twins and for Pablo.
  7. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Yeah, Ober is a concern. I have more faith in SWR at this point than Ober...
  8. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    RE Giolito... Meh. Not seeing the appeal other than that he's a 'name' and one that is likely on the downside of his career. Would be better off going with Matthews or Abel and giving them a full season's look. The Twins' young players have to take that next step eventually or things are going to get much worse.
  9. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    I tend to agree with this.
  10. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Falvey was the kind of word salads - he said so much without saying anything at all. Tom P. puffs out his chest and marches around with the false bravado but I have a feeling it will be mostly bluster and empty promises. Until the leadership changes, the Twins are what they are - a bad to mediocre baseball team.
  11. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Well, this stinks. Hopefully it isn't anything serious. Not a coincidence that last year's spiral started when he got hurt.
  12. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Roster construction has been problem for a while now. Falvey wasn't done any favors with the payroll limitations but the moves he did make were usually head scratchers. We'll see if it is any different under Zoll and Joe P long-term but I'm not holding my breath.
  13. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    I'm too lazy to look but I wonder if any of the lefties have splits which indicate they're equally effective against right handed hitters.
  14. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Yeah I'm surprised he did get an MLB deal. This and the Banda trade are potentially good moves.
  15. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Can put Andrew Chafin in here now. Twins signed him to a minor league deal.
  16. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    In no particular order... Banda / Sands / Rogers / Topa / Funderburk / Orze... Those appear to be locks or as close to locks as you can get. That leaves two spots. Do they go with some combination of Festa, Zebby, Raya, Morris, Rojas or Adams? Or, do they find room for the likes of Bash, Hartwig, Altavilla, Hendricks, Bowman, Merryweather?
  17. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    I don't hate it. Probably the best move they made this off-season.
  18. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    If you look at it in a vacuum, there's nothing inherently wrong with signing Liam Hendriks to a minor league deal. But, there is something inherently wrong with this current iteration of the roster and ownership's complete unwillingness to make changes and moves that will result in a better team and on field product.
  19. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    I would have been happy with Nick Martinez. Could have stabilized the bullpen either by being a full time reliever or settling in at the back of the rotation and freeing up another young starter to make the transition to the bullpen. Rays got him for $13M. But, alas, Liam Hendricks, welcome back.
  20. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Twins are too focused on 'playoff caliber starting pitchers' to worry about the bullpen.
  21. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    More tea leaves that the 'serious interest' in Valdez and Peralta was nothing more than the Twins pushing a narrative.
  22. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    And one that wasn't very good in the first place!
  23. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Different sport but I think there's a lot of similarities - in 2009, after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fired Jon Gruden and cut long-time franchise icons like Derrick Brooks and Warrick Dunn, there was a report from ESPN that the Bucs made an offer to Albert Haynesworth who at the time was the marquee free agent in the NFL - then the story changed and it came out that the Bucs' offer came in AFTER Haynesworth signed with Washington. So teams will use the media for misinformation and furthering narratives - that's all that is happening here. The Twins were 'interested' - of course they were - who wouldn't be interested in that kind of pitcher? Interest doesn't equate to made a legitimate offer.
  24. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Dodgers don't make a lot of personnel mistakes. If they dumped him, then he's likely about to hit the end of his shelf life as a reliable reliever.
  25. Twins_Fan_in_NJ
    Clearly this is the kind of a move a team makes when they had their sights set on Valdez and Peralta.
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