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  1. NYCTK
    I think they would do this deal. Dinges is on the peripheral of their top 30 prospects according to Fangraphs and MLB. The fan scouting report ranking him higher could very well be in line with how they view him internally, but I'm guessing the 2024 4th rounder isn't exactly prized by their front office. Especially with them getting 4 picks in the top 70 next week. No one's trading for him until deadline day, making very sure that he's healthy before committing to him. But this is potentially a great deal for both teams.
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    Not an issue once they're traded too 🤞
  3. NYCTK
    If you have an athletic, flexible roster this sort of player is pretty useful. But if half of your roster are similarly immobile, bat only players his value really is minimized. He's in the 10th percentile of range and 6th percentile in arm strength. 2025 is done, and I have zero faith in this roster, wanting to see the Twins aim for 2027, ie, when Jenkins and/or Jenkins are ready to be contributors. So I really see no value in Larnach on this team. He can be a mediocre player on a mediocre team, or he can be traded away for a middling prospect. Neither is a great option but I'd still take the latter. A bit, not a lot. I can see him traded for a single prospect in the organizational #10-15 range.
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    I agree he shouldn't be hitting against LHP but that doesn't suddenly make him a good player. There's also the unfortunate fact that he's a bad athlete that plays a poor outfield and is a poor baserunner. He's a perennial 1.5 WAR ceiling player making him a good bench player, not a core player.
  5. NYCTK
    I think this shows why a rebuild is necessary. They had timed this to be their peak. The height of this group of player's windows. Tear it down. Sell, sell, sell.
  6. NYCTK
    You want the Twins to be buyers? Oh boy. OK. We'll just not agree on strategy then.
  7. NYCTK
    Minnesota Nice™️
  8. NYCTK
    Just to completely refute this article, would you believe Matt Wallner had a 182 plate appearance stretch just last season where he hit: .169 / .275 / .338? And if you want to be cheeky and include exhibition stats, that is actually over 226 PAs with a 0.614 OPS. Seems relevant if you're going to claim this is his first real slump.
  9. NYCTK
    Feel like it's pretty self explanatory.
  10. NYCTK
    He also has a career 102 RBI. In over 700 PAs and 219 games. Not what you'd expect from one of the very best hitters in baseball...
  11. NYCTK
    I mean...this is just not true, considering we all saw him striking out in half of his plate appearances at the start of the 2024 season, coming out of a spring training where he was similarly struggling. And he continued to struggle for weeks at AAA until he got his swagger back. I don't know what we call that couple month stretch if it wasn't an "awful streak". You can't just pretend that didn't happen just because it didn't meet a particular MLB PA minimum that you've arbitrarily put in place. And I just am not overly impressed by someone with a relatively minimal number of plate appearances appearing in a rate stats leaderboard until they've put up full time work. That top 10? Well, he's 24th now, which is cool, but not showing how he's "established himself as one of the very best hitters in baseball".
  12. NYCTK
    Here's an example from my primary team, the Mets. Billy Eppler wasn't viewed real great as a front office executive by Mets fans. The 2023 season was a complete disaster and everyone knew that Steve Cohen was eyeing the hiring of David Stearns in the offseason. Come late June the lame duck GM nonetheless started selling off players, trading away 7 players, including some high payroll players with multiple years remaining. In return he was able to acquire a prospect that was then flipped for their current CF, their #1 Setup man, and #6, #9, #10, #13, #25 prospects in addition to the previous years #3 prospect that's been fairly effective as a sparkplug utility man. If you're going to sell, sell with purpose.
  13. NYCTK
    This question just makes no sense to me. It keeps getting repeated as if it's some sort of brilliant point. Sure, I don't like Falvey, but that doesn't mean I want to see the Twins just refuse to make any move at all for the remainder of his tenure, however long that might be. This organization already sucks, and trying to improve it is better than not trying to improve it.
  14. NYCTK
    The thing is, given the state of the organization, this SHOULD be the signal. And the fans are already acting accordingly. They drew under 18K on Saturday? That's pretty darn awful.
  15. NYCTK
    Too expensive to extend Duran now. Jeffers, could go either way, but the allure of free agency is a strong one. Why sit around on a mediocre team when a team like the Phillies might throw something like 4yr/$60M your way?
  16. NYCTK
    Jeffers is a free agent after 2026. And many, like myself, think 2026 isn't really the next window of opportunity, instead looking towards 2027 at this point. Obviously the Twins have an exclusive window to try to extend him, but that hasn't happened yet, and there's no guarantee that does happen. I keep thinking this with people on this site saying the Twins should extend Bader instead of all this talk of trading him. The players have agency and the Twins aren't necessarily their desired home. And why should it be, given the ownership situation leading to the apathetic fanbase and the, IMO, terrible leadership in the Front Office?
  17. NYCTK
    Torkelson is a great comparison, because I don't think anyone in baseball would say he's established himself as one of the league's best hitters.
  18. NYCTK
    In 27 plate appearances he had a 1.330 OPS. This wasn't like royce down in AAA. Agreed. Someone that had established themselves as one of the best hitters wouldn't have been demoted to AAA just last season
  19. NYCTK
    He's just not very good. He's fine but not good. That's why I've been calling him a non tender candidate all year for that reason. 4-5 million next season? Eh, I guess. But I'd rather see him traded away for any mid tier prospect at this point.
  20. NYCTK
    Yeah. The Twins don't suck because they hired Bader to be their 4th OF. They suck because two of those three presumed starters are terrible defensive outfielders and have combined for a 101 OPS+ and 0.6 WAR. Same with France. He'd be fine as a bench bat or occasional player. But if your team composition asks him to be an everyday player, well, things aren't going to go well.
  21. NYCTK
    ❤️BADER❤️
  22. NYCTK
    Nothing done with the roster is going to have any effect on the sales price. Unless they take on Xander Boegarts contract I guess. That is a healthy additional debt.
  23. NYCTK
    No no no. Every single piece of writen word on the internet should be tailored specifically to me, my ideals, and my interests. And God knows that any single sentence fragment in an article I don't agree with will be reported for breaking this social agreement!
  24. NYCTK
    Nah. Not even close to enough. 2 top 100 plus another legitimate prospect minimum.
  25. NYCTK
    No denying the 2019-2020 seasons were a big success for the Twins. But since then they've gone 361-374. The big success in that time was a 2 out of 3 series victory at home against another mediocre Blue Jays team that ended up selling big in 2024 and is in a much better position in 2025. Sell. Sell. Sell.
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