Jeffers is more likely to get traded by the Twins than getting an extension from them. With the potential trade suitors for Jeffers they would all be in a spot to give him that extension barring whatever comes from the new CBA this winter.
I don’t mind any of these hypotheticals except for the third one. I don't really think an Arraez reunion will help out this team very much, especially with the amount of lefties we have on the 40-man roster. IF we were going to trade for inf help I would rather have it be someone with some power upside.
IMO the Twins need to act like the Rays and do some kind of hybrid buy/sell like where we sell off some of the surplus of LH OFers we have and try to buy in on controllable SP/BP arms.
Has anyone seen the ads on TwinsTV for the new CBA? Seems to me that it's some kind of ploy to get the fans to turn on the MLBPA, so the owners can gain some leverage.
I hope the new CBA will give more incentive for teams to fast-track players up to the bigs because it's so hard to be excited and patient about all of this new talent the Twins acquired just for us to not see them until 2-4 years in the future.
I would think Tinney will end up making the switch to 1B/3B in the near future, and Tait, with his age, is still very much a wild card to me. The Twins have lots of talent behind the dish in the minors right now.
I thought people were just saying Lackey was the Twins’ highest drafted catcher since Mauer. They profile out as completely different players, so any of those headlines don't make any sense.