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Still have 3 catchers clogging up roster spots, still have a plethora of average hitters who suck defensively clogging roster spots and even with the acquisitions, Cleveland did better and Chicago who is a much better team did about the same as Minnesota.

Tom, Joe, Jim…maybe the Pohlad’s should be a little more creative with names. I’m bad enough with names lol

2 hours before?? Thought the deadline was 6pm EST

It’s less about Hoffman for Hill and more about “buying” actually meaning acquiring 3 pitchers who were way better in the past. and losing out on a haul for Jeffers in the meantime while watching the 2 teams ahead of you in the standings getting better than the Twins got. But that’s exactly how I figured “buying” would go lol

Assuming they are done, this is a very meh trade deadline for a team that said that they are buyers when they shouldn’t be. Jeffers and Larnach could’ve gotten back a really solid return but instead we get an older reliever who was very good three years ago, but has lost a lot on his fast ball, a starting pitcher who I still struggle to see having a fit on this team and a reliever with great strikeout numbers, but is about the least clutch closer in the league today. White Sox and Guardians both did better today and are still better teams. Just like I figured, this was a face saving exercise by Jim Pohlad. “We actually tried this time!”

He’s 20 years old and has a k/9 of 15.4 lol. Outside of some bumpy control cause he’s you know…20, he’s striking people out at a rate you just don’t see.

Zoll is not it lol Waited all day and this is the trade? A reliever who has sucked for 2 years and is still owed 15 million…and traded a borderline top 100 guy for him.

Detmers gone or NOT LOL

Please no on Neto Metrics hate him defensively. metrics think his bat is awful this year. This would be such a massive overpay it’s not funny.

Gómez walking a batter every other inning likely played into that choice

If they’re gonna keep Jeffers they should move Caratini. Shouldn’t be keeping 3 catchers and outside of June his bat has been poor and he’s just blocking ABs from other guys and AAA guys. This really depends on how many games they think Jeffers can catch the rest of the season. Jackson will come back down to earth, all the metrics point to a below average hitter but sending him through waivers would be a mistake. Jenkins is hitting, Culpepper will start again And even if the Twins don’t want to go that route- Mendez- .900 ops vs righties Sabato- 1.226 ops vs lefties Roden- should be playing more Wallner- 1.033 ops vs righties Going the rest of the way with Caratini and Bell playing 74% and 95% of games respectively is not it. Even if they hit league average they’re a near negative player. Bell- 0.4 bWAR, Caratini- -0.1 bWAR

Cause we didn’t wanna lose out on the chance to get the incomparable Dean Kremer of course

If true, I’m happy this was mixed. I’m all for removing Larnach, but even with his recent appearances being a lot better lately his stuff is not what it was last year.

He might now be the top lefty, but he’s not the top lefty against lefties. Reverse splits this year

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a walkoff grand slam, last out, last strike to win by 1