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I could very much see a Desclafani type trade with Paddack. Where we send our middle tier payroll burden for some other teams albatross in an effort to save 4 million dollars. Woo hoo!

It really will be. I don't like the position this organization is in, from a front office standpoint. Mediocre team with huge needs and massive restraints. And very few of the farm system are likely to actually be ready to improve the team within 2 seasons. Emmanuel Rodriguez and...

Pablo López $21,750,000 Joe Ryan $3,500,000 Bailey Ober $3,500,000 Simeon Woods Richardson $790,000 Chris Paddack $7,500,000 Jhoan Duran $3,500,000 Griffin Jax $2,500,000 Brock Stewart $2,000,000 Jorge Alcala $1,500,000 Justin Topa $2,000,000 Cole Sands $790,000 Josh Winder $790,000 Louie Varland $790,000 Ryan Jeffers $5,000,000 Christian Vazquez $10,000,000 Edouard Julien $790,000 Carlos Correa $37,333,333 Royce Lewis $3,000,000 Brooks Lee $790,000 Trevor Larnach $2,000,000 Byron Buxton $15,142,857 Matt Wallner $790,000 Keirsey $790,000 Austin Martin $790,000 Willi Castro $5,000,000 José Miranda $790,000

Well, you're kind of right. We, the community, gave the billionaires about $350 million for their new little home. But in true capitalist fashion, only the Pohlad family gets to see the benefits of that donation out of our pockets. Eat The Rich.

Outside of the fantastic season opening the stadium, the Twins largely haven't provided a product worth consuming. They followed up that season with 6 years of pretty lousy baseball, and in general to be honest averaging a 77 win squad after 2010. And that's including the 101 win fluke, which people showed up to watch! Scolding folks for not lapping up slop isn't a great way to grow your brand.

At approximately $75 per head, if we think the bozos budgeted an increase in attendance since they went to the playoffs last year, as would be normally expected with a competent organization, I think the Twins are probably about $20 million short in game day revenue from what they likely expected. Looks like we'll have to trade Pablo.

Racists are generally pretty stupid and can justify showing to respect to someone they view as "one of the good ones". And people often find it hard to believe people in their life, that have treated them with respect, could be so racist towards others. So, I will take Calvin at his word.

Jax and Duran have thrown a combined 28 pitches in the last 5 days. That's just hilarious. Blowouts happen with a lack of urgency from the manager. And, well, here we are.

Holy ****, I was completely unaware of what he said. So the Minnesota Twins have been a trash organization their entire existence in Minnesota? That tracks I guess.

We don't hate our billionaire overlords enough actually. Eat The Rich.

Maybe! We'll see. As is, I have the Twins payroll at about $133 million next season with arbitration estimates and guessing at non tenders. This is already a slight increase on this season without addressing any of the team's holes. And with attendance down and a laughable collapse, I don't think anyone expects payroll to increase, at least not significantly. We're going to see some unexpected moves, and I'm going to put a call on the Twins moving their closer. And at $3.5 mil, I don't think that's necessarily a bad baseball move.

My god man. How you're still here arguing for something you have already said you wouldn't do is just mind blowing. We all agree Manuel Margot shouldn't be hitting leadoff but you insist on making a fool of yourself all in defense of the manager that does it. For some unknown reason. Yeah, Manuel Margot isn't the singular reason the Twins lost or collapsed in the last 6 weeks. I don't think anyone thinks that's the case. But it's emblematic of the problems of the organization. But you just crying "well akshually". It's almost like Carlos Correa has more of a track record than the 0.687 career OPS veteran. It's almost as if Margot being bad or on a cooler is reason enough not to lean on him in a must win game, and both being true makes it laughable. You weirdly demanded a lineup from me last night, so fine, here you go. With this team, I would also hit Correa leadoff against lefties.

You're mistaken on the timeline. If you want to look at bWAR, Williams had been worth 5.0 and Duran has been worth 4.7. Like I said, they're pretty decent comps. Hard to find 1 to 1, but I can guarantee you that both the Twins and Duran's agent are thinking this as well. $3.3, two years later, with inflation I wouldn't be surprised to see his agent ask for $4m. I think ultimately they'll come in around 3.5M. We'll see!

Yes, I'm very confident he'll get more than $3 million actually. Devin Williams is a fairly decent comp and he made $3.3 in the 22-23 offseason. A good agent would actually push for more, seeing as Duran has been pretty vital in his career, finishing 96 games for the Twins compared to the (significantly better) Williams 29 at that point.

Yeah, I think Twins fans are in for a rude awakening on this contract. His body is seemingly a ticking time bomb at this point and the first 2 years of the contract should be the best outcomes. And we paid $12 mil per win. That's bad! And it's likely going to get worse! I am BAFFLED by the defense of the Pohlads I've seen by...anyone really. The fact that Carl's statue is able to exist without constantly getting smeared with feces is an indictment of Twins fans.

You're not wrong. How you sign Correa to that contract is baffling. $200 Million dollars guaranteed for a player that failed multiple physicals just weeks prior. You're a third of the way through the contract, paid $12 Million per win, and now he's on the wrong side of 30 with $130 Million still owed to him. Even if he wanted a trade, even if the Twins wanted to move him, there aren't more than a couple teams in baseball that would even consider taking on that contract.

Will need him in the bullpen after the twins trade away Duran due to his quadrupling salary next season.

The team run for 40 years by nepo babies and the mustache twirling evil billionaire archetype has a bad culture... I wonder the root of the problem?

No. I don't think I care to do that actually. Werido, looking at other people's reactions and demanding responses. I'd simply not lead off with a player that isn't a good hitter. But that's just me, being all judgemental of the infallible Twins Front Office and Rocco in an evening their 0.632 ops leadoff hitter went 0 for 3. Good night!

He doesn't have a singular skill. You've been duped by a sample of results into believing he has skill for some reason. His career ops leading off? Right around 700, not significantly different from his career ops. Unless you believe Rocco or Popkins or whomever suddenly taught him how to hit leadoff successfully while still sucking at hitting in every other situation.

Neither of us even want him on the team, yet here you are defending Rocco putting him in the leadoff spot? I'm not going to go through a full batting order when, again, you and I agree that Margot shouldn't be on the team. What's the point of me wasting my time on that nonsense?

Fun Fact: The person at the top of the order should be good because they will be receiving the most plate appeances. Who should be at the top of the order? Not the guy we both agree shouldn't even be on the team.

I don't care about the 100 PA sample size. He's not even that good against lefties. Something like career 0.750 ops. He's trash and only a bad manager would have him hitting leadoff in a meaningful game.

Throw the Twins in the NL, they might have 99 losses too.

He's a career 0.670 OPS guy. That line is a complete mirage.