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  1. NYCTK
    Which 1 big free agent are you getting for $10.5M? Max Kepler? Correct.
  2. NYCTK
    I've said this before about Jax. Has Duran expressed interest in starting? Or that just you being speculative? It's also worth mentioning that it's kind of a necessity for a team that isn't in the top echelon of payroll to trade away closers before free agency. Based on his ability and age, he might be in line for a 4 year 80 million dollar deal. So, yeah, Twins will trade Duran next offseason (or this all star break if they're out of it). Edit: wait! I'm jumping the gun a year. He'll get like 8 million next year in arb 2 though so it is possible they start to shop him next offseason though.
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  4. NYCTK
    Your points are just incredibly useless (relating to the 2025 Twins) then. Just, like, develop them. Wow. Genius. Why didn't anyone else ever think of this... Insert the photo of Paris Hilton telling others to just stop being poor.
  5. NYCTK
    I think it must just boil down to hometown fans, having heard about Player X for so long, unwilling to come to understand that X isn't nearly as good as the outsider.
  6. NYCTK
    Correct. Not without being very creative, and the Mets seem to have taken up the only real comparable option that was out there. Here are some other elite fielding CF and what they hit and are making in 2025: Siri - 88 OPS+ - $2.4M (arb1) Meyers - 86 OPS+ - $2.3M (arb1) Isbel - 80 OPS+ - $1.75M (arb1) Rafaela - 82 OPS+ - $50M/8yr Varsho - 98 OPS+ - $8.2M Yeah, David Stearns is better at his job than Falvey and successfully pounced on Siri before the close of November. But that's why Stearns is the highest paid executive in baseball and Falvey is likely going to get fired within a year or two by the incoming ownership. This fantastical idea that great fielding and average hitting CF are just out there for the Twins to pick is just not true. Twins fans, having watched Buxton with his part time playing yet still valuable presence should understand this as much as any fanbase.
  7. NYCTK
    They should have focused on bringing in the equivalent to a player that no one expects to make the major league roster? Yes, it's obviously preferable to develop young major league talent, no one disagrees with that, but they haven't so they need to do something else. Just getting mad at a free agent signing suggesting they should just be able to fill those spots internally is just ignoring the current state of the organization.
  8. NYCTK
    Fair. Looks like they started Castro in LF on opening day. Can't blame the Twins for the lack of confidence. If you're striking out in half your plate appearances and also suck on defense, yeah, you're gonna see less playing time.
  9. NYCTK
    Sure. You could. Your defense would be atrocious. If you're happy giving up a lot more runs that's fine.
  10. NYCTK
    So you're passing on the only two premium defense free agent outfielders but are so sure you can find one just as good and cheaper... This is why I'm saying you Bader haters are just objectively wrong.
  11. NYCTK
    So Michael A Taylor? You would have preferred the 2 mil to him?
  12. NYCTK
    Irrelevant when Martin can't play the OF. LET THE KIDS PLAY is a terrible strategy if they suck. Which people are happy to say about Julien but hesitant for Martin even though he's actually older and, I'd argue, much worse.
  13. NYCTK
    Look man. I'm not opposed to a rebuild. But don't think for a second that your desire to just let the kids play in order to see what you got and gain experience isn't a rebuild by a different name. A rebuild of one year is still a rebuild.
  14. NYCTK
    Oh. So a rebuild.
  15. NYCTK
    Agreed. How does that help this year?
  16. NYCTK
    When those cheaper guys are Nick Gordon, DaShawn Keirsey and Austin Martin it becomes entirely reasonable to stick with the underperforming guys.
  17. NYCTK
    If you're not making marginal improvements, nor spending big money, you're rebuilding.
  18. NYCTK
    I also want the Twins to spend hundreds of millions of dollars. I have been hating on the Pohalds, Falveys, and Rocco my entire time here. I'm just not so deranged enough to think that improving the team is bad actually.
  19. NYCTK
    If your barometer is "is this player good enough to be on the Steve Cohen Mets" then you should be hating on about 2/3 of the Twins.
  20. NYCTK
    Are you under the impression that a team should play bad players instead of better players just because they're cheaper? Oh no. The Twins hired the player that ended the season as the valuable 4th OF for arguably the second best team in the league. What a terrible turn of events! Let's say the Twins didn't completely choke...who do you think was going to start more in the playoffs? 2023 hints towards the answer!
  21. NYCTK
    Martin sucks, which is why he dropped off of top 100 prospect lists before he debuted and why failed to show any real skill in the major leagues. And Wallner was handed a starting job at the start of the season and proceeded to strike out in half his at bats. Yeah, he was kept down in AAA for a few weeks longer than he otherwise would have in AAA but he played himself into becoming the starter, thus proving he wasn't blocked.
  22. NYCTK
    Instead they should have played Nick Gordon...
  23. NYCTK
    OK. I don't agree that's it's useless, but it's clearly a shorthanded way of conveying a player's value. We can go through the specifics if you'd like. I know everyone hates Joey Gallo, but he did have a 300 OBP and 440 SLG while playing decent defense at 4 different positions so it's not difficult to understand why it portrays him as a positive value player, despite that massive K rate being no fun to watch. And did he really block anyone? Larnach a little bit, but Larnach was in his third season in the majors and wasn't performing. Wallner a little bit, but Wallner was an everyday starter the entirety of the second half essentially, so how much was he blocked? Pagan pitched 130 innings with a 1.149 WHIP so it's not hard to see value there. And Simmons is perhaps the best defensive SS in history, so it's not to imagine value there. And who was HE blocking? Nick Gordon? If we're being rational, Manuel Margot similarly wasn't really truly blocking anyone either, even if I do feel bad that Keirsey didn't get a true big league opportunity. I think we all agree that he deserved it more than Margot. But are we supposed to believe that they would have kept Margot over a player like Jenkins had he shown he was ready for a chance in the show? So, no I'm not at all worried about this front office holding onto a valuable major leaguer longer than the curmudgeon armchair GMs of Twins Daily would personally like.
  24. NYCTK
    0.5 WAR 1.0 WAR 1.5 WAR These aren't really disasters, and unless you can point to players that were blocked because of these decent players, you're kind of proving my point.
  25. NYCTK
    If one of the catchers is clearly the top of the depth chart, how is it ridiculous to point out the other guy is second? If you want to be pedantic and say 'actually he's 1b'...ok. He's still the #2 catcher.
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