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  1. Morland
    The problem with a team with a limited payroll like the Twins is that there is little depth and just one or two injuries to important players (Lopez and Keaschall) can derail your season. When you need perfect health to compete, you're not likely to achieve it.
  2. Morland
    I have to point out that Kelly "only" had the Twins in the playoffs two years, not multiple playoff runs as you stated. Since they won the World Series both years Kelly is clearly the best manager. I also remember lots of fans wanting to fire Kelly in the late 90's when they had little talent and were losing a lot, just like fans want to fire Rocco now. I also remember that when Kelly left, he said the Twins were going to win. I guess he had a pretty good eye for talent.
  3. Morland
    The claim is that the $400M is all Twins/ballpark related debt. I don't know whether that's true since the Pohlads have given us no reason to trust them. I fully expect that when the debt is paid down in a few years the team will be up for sale again.
  4. Morland
    Yes, the Pohlads should sign Jenkins to a long-term contract. Will they? No. The Pohlads were so cheap that they dumped Dobnak on the Tigers, taking a lesser prospect in return, so that they could save $3 million. They aren't going to commit $80-100 million to a prospect, no matter how much baseball sense it makes. The commentator who said they might keep him in the minors until 2028 is probably closer to the truth. Anything to save a buck.
  5. Morland
    I fully expect that after the Pohlads have paid down their debt over the next few years that they will put the team up for sale again. With an agreement with the players and much less debt, the Pohlads will receive the ego boost of getting their asking price for the team. I think they were afraid that if they took less than their asking price that Grandpa Carl would roll over in his grave.
  6. Morland
    I agree. The Twins have first base open and Wallner's slowness wouldn't hurt as much there, and his size and long reach could help. He probably has another year or so for the Twins to hope he improves at the plate but I doubt he gets much more time than that.
  7. Morland
    I think this is as much about the Pohlads ego as anything else. They couldn't get the price they wanted for the Twins so they're not going to sell. I expect that this winter they'll sell (ooops, trade) Ryan, Lopez, and anyone else who makes more than the minimum salary. With the new minor partners and several years worth of profits the debt should be greatly reduced. Then the Pohlads will put the Twins up for sale again. And they hope they will receive the ego boost of being able to say we got the price we wanted. Which means Twins fans are sc***** for years. Go ahead Pohlads, prove me wrong!
  8. Morland
    Let's not forget the inclusion of Randy Dobnak in the trade along with Paddack. That didn't make baseball sense. It only made sense as a salary dump and it meant that the Twins were going to get a MUCH lesser prospect back from the Tigers. The rumor is that four teams were interested in Paddack. It's clear the reason the Twins traded with Detroit was because they were the only team willing to take Dobnak.
  9. Morland
    Misalignment is what happens when Pohlads don't live up to their promise to try and build a winning team around Correa. The chilling part of this article is the possibility that the Pohlads won't sell and will keep driving the Twins and their fans down the toilet.
  10. Morland
    Probably more accurate than we'd like to think.
  11. Morland
    Is the front office confident? More likely they're just doing the best that they can while under a mandate from the Pohlads to cut payroll. If the Pohlads still own the team this winter I'm sure the front office will be told to trade Ryan, Ober, and anyone else who might get a raise in the next year or two. They clearly would have traded Buxton as well if he hadn't made it clear to them that he was staying. Right now the Pohlads are doing their best to compete for the worst owner in MLB.
  12. Morland
    The Twins got a low level prospect because they forced the Tigers to take Dobnak as part of the trade.
  13. Morland
    As reasonable as some of these trades might be from a baseball perspective, the very first trade announced what this is all about. Once the Twins forced the Tigers to take Dobnak, which meant that the Twins got a much lower prospect in return, you knew that this was going to be all about saving money. It had nothing to do with making the team better in 2026, 2027, etc. because the Pohlads could care less. They can't sell the team fast enough as far as I'm concerned. I'd like to think anyone would be better but that might be too optimistic.
  14. Morland
    These deals would be good for Jax. Remember, Jax has only had one great year. The rest of the time, including this year, he's been a good middle reliever. His peripherals suggest greatness, but he has not been consistent. Duran on the other hand, has been great every year but one. And that one "down" year, he was still pretty good. So, Duran should command a higher price than any of the suggested deals. As for trading Ryan, that would be stupid. If they did, four top one hundred prospects would be about right. Near ace level pitching is a rare commodity and should command an extraordinary price.
  15. Morland
    To the player seasons you mentioned I have to add one more. Though we don't like to remember him due to his attitude, Knoblauch had one of the great seasons in Twins history in 1996, earning 8.7 WAR for the season. Voters ignored him too, as he finished 16th in MVP voting. Buxton should finish considerably higher in MVP voting if he maintains his current pace.
  16. Morland
    I suspect they could be included in any mid-season trades as a change of scenery candidate, but we couldn't get much for either on their own. I agree that there's more hope for Miranda as his problems might be injury related. As for Julien he has to figure out that he's not Ted Williams and umpires aren't going to give the benefit of the doubt on close pitches and that he's going to have to learn to hit them. I'm not optimistic that he can adjust.
  17. Morland
    Johan?
  18. Morland
    I've hoped that he would pitch well enough that we could trade him for something decent as we're clearly not going to sign him for next year. Both Festa and Matthews show enough promise that they could replace him.
  19. Morland
    Actually, people have been talking about him for at least two years. And the Twins said that in most of their trade talks last year Morris was the "throw-in" that everyone wanted.
  20. Morland
    Hopefully he pitches well enough that they can trade him for someone decent and promote Festa or Matthews or Morris, whosever pitching the best.
  21. Morland
    Cheap Pohlads wouldn't pay Santana or get him seem help. There's an alternate world where the Pohlads do that; where Corey, Justin and Joe don't suffer debilitating concussions. In that alternate world several world series banners hang in Target Field.
  22. Morland
    That's a ridiculous trade. If the Twins were stupid enough to offer it the Yankees would fall over themselves to accept before the Twins changed their minds.
  23. Morland
    Nathan belongs in the HOF. His case has always been hampered by the fact that he was second best to Mariano Rivera during his career. Also, by the lack of the Twins winning more post season games or a World Series. I think he'll get in via the era committee, hopefully when he's still alive. Hunter does not belong in the HOF. He is the very definition of the Hall of Very Good. Santana's case depends on what you think of Peak Value vs long-term counting stats. Koufax is a tough comp to use because his peak was so high, and he had several highly visible world series performances. I don't know if he will make it. Using the worst HOF selections, particularly the Frankie Frisch era of the old timer's committee, to justify anyone's selection is a bad idea.
  24. Morland
    Game 163 was one of the most exciting Twins games ever but you really couldn't call it one of the best in terms of play (That's reserved for Game 7 of the 1991 World Series). Both the Twins and Detroit made a lot of errors, both physical and mental in that game.
  25. Morland
    No to trading Lopez. The return isn't high to get rid of a hard to find ace pitcher. There's other ways to get rid of Vazquez. Yes to trading for Alcantara if the Marlins are stupid enough to trade him. The price in prospects (which is still what Lee is), is worth it. Would love to have Verlander/Scherzer here but why would they come here? They don't need money, they want rings. The twins aren't nearly as close to rings as other teams that need pitching.
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