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  1. Not a chance. There's a greater chance they trade Pablo than there is they sign ANOTHER $20 Million arm.
  2. This is a good rule. It limits the manipulation a team can do with their roster. If you don't have depth, making up for it by just having a constant merry-go-round for your bullpen to get fresh arms in there is a strategy, but with limitations.
  3. The man whose fastball has a 0.504 xwoba? The man with a 50+% hard hit rate? That Ronny Henriquez? Is that man, like, really good now? No.
  4. Kyle Farmer's option was always a good pickup as insurance against Julien and Lewis. The criticism levied towards him just because he had a minimal contract on a terribly constructed roster was never fair to him and was actually an indictment of ownership and the front office. Can he sustain it? Of course not. He didn't suddenly become an mvp caliber hitter at the tail of his career. But happy to see a good player have a good stretch and have people get off his back for something that wasn't ever his fault.
  5. Honestly, this feels like the new Moneyball angle. Some injuries are completely freaky and random, but a lot of injuries are not. The Twins injuries fall more in the latter category. Brock, Paddack, Buxton, Lewis, and the guy that had two contracts ripped up due to health concerns getting injured seems entirely unsympathetic at an organizational level. I am absolutely sympathic towards the players and their individual plight, but no one is actually surprised. But to your point, some teams hyperfocus on velocity and RPM in pitchers doesn't seem to be all that beneficial towards the players. But if you're an organization, do you care? If every pitcher is just an asset, it makes sense to treat them like a VC. What does it matter to them if 9 nothing pitchers have severe injury if one can become an ace? The Dodgers are on that list towards the top and I've heard folks saying basically exactly this about them specifically.
  6. Have you seen the rest of the bullpen?
  7. No Twin has drove in 70 since 2021. This...is bad.
  8. With Zebby it's most definitely a bad thing. He's very clearly not ready for the bigs quite yet. Not that anyone starting the season in A should be expected to be.
  9. He's been pretty unlucky. His fip is sub 4. His babip at home is above 400. Meaning I expect him to go 7.2 with like 2 hits tonight.
  10. He's probably tired, poor guy. Can't expect a professional athlete to finish strong in Roccos clubhouse.
  11. Well, it's good they've got the hot hand up. Opponents only hitting 1.000 ops against him in his last 5 starts.
  12. I don't know if that's even possible. They would need to trade Pablo or Correa. Trading Correa seems pretty difficult, so...that would require trading away Pablo Lopez.
  13. I think it's more looking to next season. Next year, all three of those are likely on the opening day roster. Which...isn't good. And if a college bat is going to be an impact player, they're likely going to advance quickly. Case in point, Brooks Lee was in AA by the end of the season he was drafted. Which isn't rare or unexpected. Another example, Paul Skenes might win ROY the season after he was drafted. He's obviously exceptional, but college players, if impactful, should be ready for high level minors basically instantly.
  14. I'm gonna a curmudgeon old timer and say that pitchers are too soft these days, and every third time out they should expect to need to pitch more than 1 inning.
  15. This is why the Mets have the best broadcast booth in the league. Plenty of appreciation of the past from the old guard from Keith and Ron, but no sense of smugness about the old way being better. Able to criticize the team in any capacity when they deserve it. And able to call the game fairly without any sense of insulting homerism, as if the employer are the Good Guys and the opponent is in the wrong.
  16. Well, they won't WANT to, but the fans didn't support them enough so they'll have no choice...
  17. C: Vazquez and Jeffers - $15 Million 1B: Julien - $800K 2B: Lewis - $3 Million 3B: Lee - $800K SS: Correa - $37 Million LF: Larnach - $2 Million CF: Buxton - $15 Million RF: Wallner - $800K DH: Miranda - $800K 4OF: Keirsey - $800K MIF: Castro - $5 Million Util: Martin - $800K This right here is a roster with no depth and worthy of about 74 Wins. Eventually, they'll depend on Rodriguez to come up and perform well, and he falters because he's a rookie expected to perform well.
  18. Front office says they can't afford it... But seriously, I don't know what this team is going to do. Not only is Pablo due a big raise, with him, Paddack, Ryan, Ober, Duran, Jax, Stewart, Alcala, Jeffers, Lewis, Larnach, and Castro all due significant raises, that's about $40 Million additional dollars tied up. $40 Million extra just to retain the current, struggling roster.
  19. I don't even see him getting that much. But even if it's a half million over league minimum, when you're the Twins, every half million matters. As pathetic as that is. I think it'd be pretty foolish to non-tender him, but we'll see what the Twins do.
  20. Topa COULD be nontendered. But let's say he's due 1.2 million and his health looks OK in the winter...is it really wise to? But Paddack...man, idk. This roster is just such a poorly constructed mess at this point with the self inflicted restrictions.
  21. Jarren Duran is the exception to that rule this season, became a starter last year at 26 before he got hurt. This, his age 27 season being his first full season in the majors.
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