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  1. NYCTK
    OR, trade him and you can still try to sign him. If you're good at people management a trade to a contender won't have any adverse effect on your efforts to bring him back as a free agent. Especially since he gets a 500K bonus if traded! His option is mutual so there's very little chance it's exercised.
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    Mets just traded for a LHRP and probably aren't that interested in Coulombe, but could get something like Vientos AND Gilbert, plus an arm like Dohm for Jax and Bader. I will say, Gilbert seems like he's a bit lacking in defense so I don't expect him to be over a 2 WAR player at any point. Is that intriguing? Otherwise, if you don't want to do a package, Gilbert for Bader is likely a close swap.
  3. NYCTK
    It's really too bad he isn't just SLIGHTLY better this year. The Yankees have grown incredibly impatient with Volpe and had no 3B a week ago. Correa would have been a great match for them.
  4. NYCTK
    And as we all know the Twins are the only team to ever experience injuries. Depth has never been discussed because injuries never happen and it's never needed. Have the Twins been one of the healthier teams the last couple seasons? Sure. But there were some injuries and no team can ever overcome that.
  5. NYCTK
    OK but he's a free agent (almost certainly). This is a bad team and he likely would prefer to sign with a good team. You can't just say you want to keep and sign him when there's no guarantee of that, and nothing to really suggest trading precludes you from signing him if that's what you really want to do.
  6. NYCTK
    Not really hindsight cause I said this at the time, but trading Lee before the 2024 season for major league help was very clearly the best way for him to improve the team. Sadly we now know he's another slow as hell Twin that plays a bad defense. So even if he does improve to become a 115 OPS+ type the Twins just have another Jose Miranda on their hands.
  7. NYCTK
    Great point. Of the three players playing multiple positions, two are playing exceptionally well. Add in Clemens and the argument keeps falling apart. So, we're just using this as a Brooks Lee excuse? Maybe he's just not good enough, or just not mature enough at 24?
  8. NYCTK
    It's been obvious since March 2024. The longer they wait the bigger the sell off has to be.
  9. NYCTK
    Ironically, their franchise is in a much better position. So I wouldn't be throwing stones in this glass house we're sitting in.
  10. NYCTK
    Maybe he just is weak defensively? His skills aren't lateral movement. He's a solid glove with a solid arm. Nothing special. Mets have been playing their 3B Bret Baty at 2B and he's worked out great. They also moved their adequate 2B McNeil to CF and he's likewise been adequate. This idea of moving players down (or around!) the defensive spectrum is not new and not particularly challenging to talented baseball players. It's not like they're asking him to put on the gear and catch.
  11. NYCTK
    This potential roster shake up, while probably a worse team, is way more interesting than this squad.
  12. NYCTK
    You aren't getting much for Bader. If they're MLB ready, they'll be role players, #7 starter or a weak RP. From my Mets, someone like Dom Hamel. Maybe someone like Drew Gilbert. The alternative is keep Bader, win 78 games and see him go elsewhere anyways.
  13. NYCTK
    I am. They are one of the slowest and worst fielding teams. Fans like to ignore that type of baseball talent in favor of some offensive promise, but the Twins don't really even have that.
  14. NYCTK
    Fair. It wasn't a bad decision to let him leave. But the point is they didn't replace him. They thought a DH playing a bad RF that strikes out in a third of his trips to the plate would make up for it. Turns out that's bad!
  15. NYCTK
    I just fundamentally disagree with this comment, a comment repeated a lot around here. It was obvious this team didn't have the talent ever since Sonny Gray left. That 2023 team was pretty good and they haven't replaced the talent that has departed. Some swaps were fine, Solano with Santana or France (meh) Taylor with Bader. But then Gray was replaced with Woods Richardson, Polanco replaced with Brooks Lee, Kepler replaced with...DaShawn? They counted on their internal options to all make steps forward and almost none of them did. This team isn't nearly talented enough. Falvey is more at fault than Rocco. But both should be **** canned.
  16. NYCTK
    Twins commentary crew, without Plouffe, is in the argument for worst in all of baseball. Think it was the Jomboy guys that instantly answered for Twins as the worst just recently. And part of the reason is this intense company man schtick. It's nauseating when they're playing poorly. Will always laugh at Cory for how excited he got when the Twins won an ugly extra inning game against the Red Sox late last season. You'd have thought they won the division with his overreaction.
  17. NYCTK
    Which is why the failsons are trying to sell. Always makes me laugh when people come out to defend against people being mean to a billionaire. But to the Pohlad's credit I doubt they were besties with Epstein.
  18. NYCTK
    That's a really terrible bar to set. Minnesota Twins! We're #22! Not the worst!
  19. NYCTK
    Penny pinching, home foreclosure Carl told every single Twins fan to go **** themselves 25 years ago, and yet the Pohlads still own the team. So that's just obviously not true. If you don't like the ****** product they're producing, and I don't, you can stop consuming it and that doesn't make you a worse person. The new owner is going to get an opportunity to win people like me back. Until then, I view the Twins as a fun, ongoing case study that gets absolutely none of my money (outside of the shared revenue from other teams or MLB.TV).
  20. NYCTK
    It's a product man. You're under no obligation to scarf down **** just because you liked that same brand at the age of 12. Loyalty to a billionaire's investment vehicle doesn't make you noble. Just like your employer, it's important to remember the Twins don't care about you.
  21. NYCTK
    I'm happy for the guy, but don't have any disillusionment about him being a savior. Best case scenario, he goes into the season next year gets 450-500 PAs, and comes out a 1.0-1.5 WAR player. Fine player. I take him over Martin since he's proven way more capable with the glove. But I won't be purchasing a Clemens jersey anytime soon. He's the exact same player that was DFAd by the Phillies and I can promise you they don't miss him.
  22. NYCTK
    Speaking of hindsight...the Twins chose Matt LeCroy over David Ortiz lol. Anyways, what were we talking about again?
  23. NYCTK
    It really is incredible roster construction to carry for nearly the entire season a player that the manager recognizes should never hold a bat. Not good, but still, incredible. DaShawn so bad that I'm a massive fan. Each of his hapless ABs is must watch television.
  24. NYCTK
    He had a really great month, no doubt. And since then he's reverted to being a replacement level player. If Martin were healthy at the time, Clemens wouldn't have been claimed, and if Martin were a decent fielder I don't think Clemens would have stayed on the roster. His sub 700 OPS in his last 120 PAs isn't really unexpected nor helpful. He's just good enough to be a major leaguer, but that could change within a week's time. If he's a Twin against next season I would expect them to be a sub 500 team.
  25. NYCTK
    That's not what we saw in the 2024. He looks like a good athlete that should be a decent fielder, but was just flat out bad. And it seems like the Twins still believe that assessment. If he were a decent fielder he would have been on the major league roster instead of keeping Clemens around. Or Keirsey lol.
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